The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-14
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


Where did we last part company L?
Let us see. we have a vivid recol-
lection of dark night, a stage coach
crowded with travellers, high water,
mud-holes, bad bridges, facetious
drivers, and-so-forth; and we also re-
member fetching up at A. NJ. with the
usual flourish of the whip, at the
brick hotel in Baker City, where, for
six consecutive hours, we were lost in
the sleep of the weary.
After bath and breakfast, we were so
fortunate as to become the guests of our
excellent friends, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Cleaver, who resided in Portland many
years ago, and who are now ensconsed
IN cozy cottage surrounded by wide
veranda and an irrigated garden, their
home overlooking the sere, bleak noun
tains of Powder River upon the one
hand, and the willowy- -bordered river
itself upon the other
Everybody complains of the unusual
dullness of the times at Baker City.
The environs are rich in auriferous
rock, but the necessary capital to suffi-
ciently operate the quartz mines is not
yet forthcoming, and the people are
quietly waiting for capitalists to become
interested; and, surely, if millionaires
could see and know the outlook, they
would not hesitate 10 invest largely.
There is no shadow of doubt out that
the Baker county mines are equal in
richness to the celebrated Virginia
lodes. There are also a number of pay
ing placer mines, but, as cleaning up
time will not come before July, every
body is waiting with empty pockets
till that time comes to pay up the
deficits in their current expenses.
The society at Baker City is especially
intellectual and social. Brother Ad-
ans, the good minister of the NJ. E..
Church, very kindly loaned us the
church for two lectures, even abdi-
eating the pulpit for US on Sunday
evening, an act of Christian courtesy so
unlike the dogmatic pomposity of many
professed teachers of the gospel of the
meek and lowly Master, that we are es-
pecially pleased to record it here.
Brother Adams, in addition to his du-
ties as pastor, is engaged in doing any
sort of physical labor that may present
itself. There had been a concert in the
church of Friday evening, and on Sat-
urday we were to lecture. Somebody
had agreed to take down the staging,
and put the church in order for Sun
day, but had failed to fulfill the agree
ment. Lecture time came, and Brother
Adams attacked that stage and fxings
in way that plainly meant business.
Would like to see Brother Butcher, of
The Dalles, or some of our soft-fingered
clergy in Portland handle an ak as he
did. And yet, he can preach as we'll as
any of them, or better. He has great
faith in God, too-so much faith, that
he believes the All Wise can hold His
OVID on an even race with a woman,
and he did not deem it Unnecessary to pro-
tect Him from us with lock and key.
Our first lecture was upon "Woman
and the Government" and the second
upon "WOman and the Bible" In
spite of the hard times, we materially
augmented our subscription list. The
interest of the good people in our
mission continually increases. The
bright eyes of earnest women will
kindle as they listen to the gospel of
freedom, and they will crowd around to
clasp hands and "God speed" US after
the lecture, while the men everywhere
we mean the broad-brained, honest
hearted, and philanthropic men-will
listen deferentially, applaud continu-
ously, and subscribe literally for the
Journal of Peace.
Mrs. Clara Stevens, at whose hotel we
were a guest last fall in La Grande, has
purchased a hotel in Baker City, and
fitted it up with her usual taste and en-
ergy. Her "help" (masculine) lays off
every little while without notice, and
she Will on such occasions shoulder a
double load, and worry through it with
a cheerful countenance. Her husband
is an honorary boarder, who believes in
mans rights. There! we've said it !!
and very likely she'll give US fits when
we see her again, but the truth must
sometimes come out to prove the soph-
istry of the accepted nonsense that
women are "supported and protected
by men," We cheerfully recommend
her hotel to the travelling public. The
"Western," across the way, is also a
good house, and both are much cheaper,
and quite as we'll kept as the more pre-
tentious "brick" where the stage stops,
which charges much higher rates.
Subscribers to the New NORTHWEST
will please take notice.
Lectures being over, and good-byes
being exchanged, we repair to the afOre-
said "brick," and take a room for the
two intervening hours between lecture
and stage time, where we vainIy strive
to lose ourselves in slumber. The tickle
god will not be wooed, and we are
aroused at A. NJ. to embark for Boise
City.
Away, away, and yet away we jour-
ney, our companions the stars of God,