The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-31
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

DEAR READERS OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
A few days after having finished the
editorial letter we sent forth from the
Commercial Hotel in Salem some time
during the week before last, we gathered
courage while yet an invalid to go forth
unto Albany.
Reached the weIl-kept st. Charles
Hotel at the hour of 81 P. NJ, where a
cozy room with good fire in it was
placed at our disposal by the obliging
host, and here we dreamed away the
lingering effects of fever that had been
threatening for week to take on the
form of the prevailing typhoid.
The next day, feeling sufficiently re-
cruited for a walk, we sought the ever
hospitable abode of good Mrs. Foster,
where we enjoyed the genial and cheer
full atmosphere of home that nobody
could long remain i'll in. AS soon as we
were able to lecture, a meeting was an
nounced at the Courthouse, which was,
as usual, largely attended.
An equal rights reunion was held at
the residence of Mrs. DR.. Crawford, on
Friday, where it was resolved to invite
Mrs. H. A. Loughary to visit Albany to
hold meeting. We also spoke on Sat-
urday night before a large audience,
subject, "Men's Rights" the occasion
being one of unusual interest and en-
thusiasm in the cause of Freedom.
Among the many subscribers to the
New NORTHWEST which we have gath
cred this week, we are pleased to count
not only the old patrons, with scarcely
the loss of one, but large number of
new ones, to whom we are pleased to
make our bow of greeting as they unfold
the journal of peace on earth and good
will to men and women with a proud
consciousness that it is their property.
Albany is the most rapidly growing
town of the great Northwest. Elegant
mental door-yards, are f1anked by mas
sive churches, with spires pointing
heavenward long rows of wooden
sidewalks, bIeached to an eye-paining
whiteness by the winter rains, stretch
their straight lines in all directions,
crossing each other and forming right
angles at regular intervals like the rows
in a well-laid out corn-feld; stores, Of
fees, shops, markets, restaurants, and
what not, so new that they startle you,
greet you on the business streets; schools
flourish and children grow; the Santiam
ditch has settled itself into staid and
respectable river, with many branches,
one of which drives General Browns
new power press, and the others drive
many other mechanical contrivances
the half of which we have not yet Wis
tied; Mrs. Upham & Co. keep a well
patronized millinery store and dress
making establishment Mesdames
Stevens & Warren drive a thriving
trade in the same line; the mammoth
Touring mills do a mammoth business;
there is much sickness, and the doctors
are happy; the st. Charles Hotel is as
good as any in Portland, and much
cheaper; and, in short, Albany can feed
you, clothe you, warm you, preach you
furnish you, teach you, try you in the
courts, pull or plug your teeth, doctor
you, or bury you as cheaply and scien.
tifically as you can be accommodated
anywhere else under the sun.
DR.. Sophronia Nichols, late of Bos.
ton, Homeopathic physician of much
skill and practice, has decided to locate
here, and will add another to the regu-
larly increasing number of professional
ladies who are making Oregon famous
What with canvassing, lecturing, anC
visiting, we are too busy to write 8
long letter, for which you, kind reader
will doubtless be thankful, as we bic
you adieu till next week. A.. D.
Albany, March 81, 1876.
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