The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-12
EDITORIAL ,OoRRESPoNpENoR,

DEAR READERS OF THE New NORTHWEST:
We believe we left you last week en-
gagged in reading the order from Will
liam A. Luse, of Empire City, to "treat
his drunken associates to free whisky"
Let us now go back and resume our
jottings of Coos Bay journeyings, be-
ginning at the above leaving-of place.
Empire City boasts Custom-house.
Here our good friend Lowry Watson,
Esq, who, as we were informed by the
editor, politeIy(2) caRed us by an insult
ing nickname in the Coos Bay NetUs,
because We had beaten him in argument
in the literary society, but who is doubt
less, by this time, heartily ashamed of
himself over it-for he is generally a
gentleman-is officiating as Collector,
with Hon. Eugene Skinner as Deputy.
This Custom-house brings no direct rev.
enue to the general government, but it
is necessary to have it here to prevent
smuggling, which, without i, would be
largely carried on along the bay. There
are three or four hotels, of which Mrs.
Lockhart'sis deservedly the leading one;
also, any number of saloons and billiard
rooms, and several dry goods stores.
The town site is very beautiful, and the
climate all that any reasonable mortal
could desire. There is little mud in the
rainiest weather, the soil being sandy
loan that drinks the water as fast as it
falls, and yields it back to the air again
in the form Of exotic plants and tasteful
evergreens, with which many o. the
door-yards are handsomely decorated.
The principal export is lumber, and the
chief import whisky, Ship-building is
an important branch of business. Only
one church has as yet made its appear
auce, and that is a very unpretentious
one, under control of the Methodists.
The school is said by the citizens to be a
primitive one, in which the pupils occa-
sionally click" the master, an elderly
gentleman, whose acquaintance We
failed to make, though we sat opposite
him at the hotel table. n
On the morning following the raid ol
free whisky in the lecture-room, the
rain was falling in torrents, possibly tC
make the a0dter "high," SO it might
compete successfully with the former
element, or rather, its imbibers. -7r
Going aboard Satellite" We
think they called tive headed fol
Marshfield, the steamer cabin leaking
like riddle, and the rain falling in suct
copious sheets as shamed our usual de
sire to boast of the open windows o
heaven in the valley of the Willamette
Reached Marshfield, weary, be-drag
gled, and out of sorts, but were met a
the wharf by our good cousin, who's,
sallies soon solaced US, and set us t.
laughing over the discomforts of pio
neering in missionary work.
Here, in the evening, after having
rested for season, we met very large
respectable and intelligent audience, t.
whom we spoke for nearly two hour
upon "Courtship, Marriage and Di
vorcc." The skies had lifted their misty
veil, and the evening was serenely beau
tiful.
Bidding the many friends whose ac
quaintance we shall dearly love t,
cherish, regretful goodbye, we, th
next day, in company with Mrs. NJ. V
Johnson, started for Eastport, techni
cally termed the "Coal Bank" Whel
the captain of the "Coos," (Which look
so much like monster "goose," that W
almost spelled it with an eagain) came t
collect fare, he informed us that he coul,
not take us to Eastport that day, an,
hadn't time to take US back to Marsh
field. But he would land US at Mckay
W arf, where we would be obliged t
"trust to luck" for an open boat to carr,
US over to the lecture appointments.
: Quite crestfallen, but laughing heart
lily to keep our courage up, somewha
after the manner of the boy VIII
whistled at q funeral, we took refug
upon a long, narrow bridge, built upol
piles, and followed it to its terminus
where there was store, and beyond,
few dwellings. Further on, around
crescent-shapedp part of the bay, is Web
; ster's Point, where lives the honorabl
gentleman whose name it bears, WHOM
! suffragists delight to honor as a mem
ber of the Oregon Legislature who vote
right on the woman question. If ma
has a really bright, intelligent wife
you may always depend upon him t
vote for Woman Suffrage, unless he
Jealous of her talents because he know
himself to be her inferior mentally, an
consequently feels compelled to restrai
; her legally. Mr.. WIS wife is in ever
way morally and intellectually speak
: ing, his peer, and he very naturally dc
sires her to become so legally and polit
ically. @ ~ -if-- '
A gentlemanly clerk in the before
I; mentioned store kindly interested him
8 self in our behalf, and secured a row
a boat in which another gentleman too
e US over to Eastport, refusing fee or re
q ward for his services, although it. wa
i an hours hard pull against the It'd
q Here we took refuge in the well-kept in
n of Mr.. aud Mrs. Ward, hospitable an
communicative English couple, with
\ sensible daughter and obliging, INTEL
gent sons. f0 - srf Eu s