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than men that they would not be capa-
BILE of self-government!
There is one poor fellow from The
Dalles incarcerated here who was sent
up for five years because accused of
swearing lie about somebody's prop
erty. Another fellow is out already
who was sent up for sic months for shoot
ing and very nearly killing a young
lady in Astoria who didn't want to
marry him. There is grave doubt about
the formers guilt, and no doubt at all
about the latter's, yet mems property is
of much more value in law than many
women, hence the difference in the two
sentences. Those persons who are rated
in law with "idiOts, insane persons,
criminals, and Indians not taxed" are
of but little consequence to law makers,
because they represent no political or
money value, but mems property is
quite another thing, you see.
The Commercial Hotel, where we
spent few days, is still kept going by
our good friends, the Graves, who, de-
spite the rude hand of affliction which
has been laid heavily upon them, rem
dering their fireside desOlate, are cater
ing daily to the wants of the multitude.
We are now at the Chemeketa, the
best hotel north of San Francisco, which
is we'll kept by Mr.. and Mrs. Matthews,
who are certainly meriting the patron
age of the travelling public. Hospital
ity, plenty, quiet, and cleanliness reign
here at rates far less expensive than
housekeeping.
Salem boasts three daily newspapers,
each claiming a larger circulation than
both the others. There is patronage
here for but one good daily, and in Port.
land for but two, but it isn't our fu'
neral. Let them all wave. There is al
ways room at the top for all enterprises
This afternoon we go to Dallas, where
the Record says we are to lecture OF
"Female ssedness''-whatever that is
Guess he must have mistaken the gen
der of the subject; but that isn't to b.
wondered at. Mems brains will g
, wool-gathering when they try to com
prehend the woman question.
The good people receive "David an,
Anna Matson" in a manner quite graft
flying to both our purse and feelings
and the NEW NORTHWEST is in con
stantly increasing demand. A. J. D.
Salem, May 10, 1877.
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NEWS ITEMS,
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Wheat is worth 81 go per bushel at
Hillsboro.
Columbia county will ship 100000
pounds of wool this year.
The wheat lands on the Snake River
are being rapidly taken up.
Newcomers are arriving at Snoho-
mish City on every steamer.
The Imperial Mills and other valuable
property at Oregon City will be sold on
June 11th.
Astoria has now thirty-two hotels and
restaurants, with as many private board
ing houses.
The allowance of fifty dollars to the
Capital Guards has been reduced to fif-
teen dollars per month.
Strawberries are ripening in Southern
Oregon. 1t is said the crop of wild ber-
ries will be immense.
The "City of Panama" brought 2S9
tons of railroad iron for the Puyallup
road on her last trip to Seattle.
A Chinaman who had served out ten
of twelve years sentence in the peni-
tentiary was recently pardoned by Gov
ernor Chadwick.
! w. r. Dunbar is labOring in the in
| tereSLS OF the L. u. G. Il. in Southern
Oregon, meeting, as usual, with well
come and success.
Should all the fishing establishments
on the Columbia run to the full limit of
their capacity, there will be "a, $4,000
cans ofsalmon put up.
The entire Republican ticket was
elected at the recent municipal election
in Oregon City. L. T. BARN, ESQ.,,
heads the list as Mayor.
Myriads of black crickets are doing
great deal of damage on the South Fork
and Main John Day Rivers. They can
clean an eighty acre wheat field in
twenty-fOur hours.
The seasonable rains have materially
improved the before excellent prospects
for good crops this year, and this, to-
gether with anticipated high prices,
renders farmers jubilant.
One ofthe largest establishments onthe
Columbia employs Chinese blacksmiths
to do their work. There is good deal
of jealousy exhibited by the white pro-
prietOrs on this account, and sensible
people think it an unwise and impolitic
move on the part of the proprietors.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Egyptian government will send
10000 troops to Turkey.
Works for defense of Constantinople
will be constructed by the inhabitants.
The papers announce that the Rus
slams have withdrawn from Kars, Arda-
han, Bayazid, and Kageaman.
The largest Turkish monitor on the
Danube, which anchored before Ibrail,
was sunk by fire from Russian batteries
on the 1lth.
A fierce battle, lasting eight hours, was
fought at Batoum on Friday. The Rus
slams were repulsed with loss of 1000
killed and wounded.
The Jews in Jassy have been warned
that if they continue prayers in their
synagogues for the success of the Turks
they will be severely punished.
The Russians attacked on Friday, in
great forces, the position occupied by
the vanguard of the Turks auxiliary
troops in the vicinity of Batoum. An
engagement ensued, lasting 81 hours, re-
sulting in complete rout of the Rus
SLAMS, who lost 5000. The Turkish loss
is considerable.
Intelligence has been received from
Sulina that on Wednesday the Russians
attempted to cross the Danube at Reni.
They threw bridge over the river, but
were met by the Turkish infantry and
artillery, assisted by three gunbOats.
The bridge was broken and a large
number of Russians killed and captured.
The Russians were completely defeated.
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RECENT EVENTS.

The Attorney General has retu rned
the papers to Tweed, and has declined
to release him.
Ben Butler appIauds Keys action in
removing George H. Butler, Ben's
nephew, for drunkenness and ungentle-
manly conduct.
Secretary Thompson, accompanied by
several heads of bureaus of the Navy
Department, inspected the condition of
things at Norfolk navy yard last week.
Grant has withdrawn from the Treas
ury apartment several valuable swords
held for him in the vaults for safe keep
ing. They were forwarded to Philadel-
phia.
The jury in the case of Rev. Mr.. Bolt,
of Philadelphia, charged with adultery,
having failed to agree, were discharged.
One of the jurors, A. H. Hodgson, was
held to answer on charge of declaring
mo difference what the evidence might
be, he would not convict"
Petitions are being circulated among
the people of Washington City for the
removal of Fred. Douglass from the po-
sition of the Marshal of the District,
because of the animadversions of the
people of Washington, alleged to have
been made in a recent lecture delivered
by Douglass in Baltimore.
Professor Barton, of the college of the
city of New York, committed suicide
at Hamburg, Sussex county, n. J.,
Wednesday. He leaves wife, son, and
two daughters. He was clergyman of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
had been instructor in the college of the
city of New York for long time.
The Times Washington special says
the smallness Of the appropriation for
the Postal Department threatens to be
the most serious of all those for which
the forty-fourth Congress is justly re-
sponsible, since it may result in seri-
ously crippling the postal service, and
perhaps in suspending that service en-
tirely in some branches.
Fred. Douglass publishes a card say
ing the attacks upon him on account of
remarks made by him in Baltimore are
both malicious and silly. Washington
is great city, not village, nor ham,
let. 1t is the capital of great nation,
and the manner and habits of it's vari-
Gus classes are proper subjects for pre-
sentation and criticism, and therefore he
is very much mistaken if this great city
can be thrown into tempest of passion
by any humorous reflections he may
take the liberty to utter.
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AN OPINION FROM SEATTLE.

A correspondent writing from Seattle,
under date of May IS, says: 81 am de-
lighted with the way Yours Truly han
dies the giant I dn1-Dr. Brenan-in
your last issue. He came here as a
Catholic, gave several very good lee
lures, which were listened to by large
audiences. Most of whom, however,
thought his ideas too advanced for
Catholic sentiments. Even the Catho-
lies took this view of them. Although
his ideas were mostly on the superficial
plane to the mind accustomed to the
searching into the why's and wherefores'
of things or tracing the relations of
cause and effect, yet had he conducted
himself as a sober, respectable man
while here, bis first made friends-the
better portion of his audiences, both
liberal and Catholic-would have stood
by him. AS it was, they deserted him
to his boon companions, the whisky
men and the saloons. His seems to be
a sad example of that old adage, 1T is
easier to preach than to practice.' But
Yours Truly handled him without
gloves, to the great delight of very many
in this quarter"
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YOURS TRULY" STIRS UP A HOR-
NETS NEST,
CRICKET.
New Orleans, April 80, 1877.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
After perusing an article from the pen
of "YOurs Truly" 1 have decided to ex-
press mine and numerous other ladies'
regret that the columns of our "wom-
ans" paper should pass such severe and
indeed unjust criticism upon Dr. Bren-
ans last lecture, which was merely the
continuation and conclusions of the pre-
vious lecture to ladies'.
If "Yours Truly" had attended the
full course, she would not have thought
the one mentioned so discon nnected and
illogical. am thoroughly surprised at
the ignorance "Yours Truly" betrays
when writing of the peculiar pronun-
citation of the lecturers words, which
delightful popularity is only one dis
tinguishing mark of his universal popu-
larity over the entire continent. 1 con-
slider the assertion in regard to the
bushes of the young ladies as unfounded,
for never has the delicate subjects per-
tanning to woman been handled on the
ANSNA III 1hJ
and refined language than brought into
requisition by the learned gentleman,
and if young ladies or married ladies
attended the aforesaid lecture to hear
superficial remarks upon the subject,
why their expectations were disabused
and rightly, too.
No doubt "YOurs Truly" felt as net
tied as did DIR. Thompson at the Doctors
advanced theories in regard to certain
phenomena, and felt as though she must
wreck vengeance on him in some un-
answerable way, hence her remarks or
the gentleman's personal habits, which
L refute, as having an acquaintance with
him outside of his profession entitle:
me to.
"Yours Truly" doubts not but the
gentlemen could be sufficiently enter.
tained by the Doctor, but surely no
woman" Now how silly and incOn.
gruous; to be candid, do really think
that the gentlemen require as pleasant
and 9sthetical entertainments as W.
do, and that they should not be pleased
with impurity, and if the lecturer couIC
| please them and not us, why the fac
. speaks i'll of Portland's men.
The knowledge that the criticised lee
ture was given at the request of all the
ladies present on the previous afternoon
must be to the Doctor a fiattering ap
r probation of his talented efforts in be
half of all humanity, and sufficien
f guarantee of the interest and pleasur
, felt by all except "Yours Truly" Whel
"Yours Truly" wields her pen in criti
3 cism again, let US beg her to be just
e and to rather encourage all efforts, grea
| and small, in building up our futur
5 woman than endeavoring to strip bar
e grand achievements for some whim sica
q technicalities. JUSTICE.
g Portland, May Is, 1877.
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TO THE POINT.

"What shall girls read ?" is q ques-
ton that has been disturbing divers
and sundry correspondents of the Farmer
for several weeks, and the diversity of
opinion and the confidence which each
feels in his or her own capability to ad-
wise is quite amusing. When people
find out that girls are not manikins any
more than boys are puppets, they will
be saved considerable trouble concern
ing what they shall or shall not do, and
pay some respect to individual intellect.
While these discussions are going on,
the sprightly girls are reading all of the
current literature that is brought into
the house, and making selections from
the public and Sunday School libraries,
just as if disinterested people were not
trying to run the brains of others
through their own filter.
Girls, as well as boys, have brains
given them for use, and depend upon it
they will use them. Good associations,
correct example, and liberality and
sound judgment in the choice of home
literature, and there is small danger OF
young people seereting themselves in
the hay NOW to read stolen or borrowed
LedgerS and dime novels. One CORE
spondent thus comes to the point:
The writers themselves will probably derive
more benefit from the discussion than the
girls will, for girls, rule, do not care to read
anything except their big brothers love letters
until they are old enough to select their Owl
reading matter, and then every discreet
mother will give them that liberty.
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FAIRFIELD, Me-, April 2S, 1854.
Gentlemen-Seeing numerous certificates in
the "Maine Farmer" endorsing the merits of
the Great Lung Remedy, WIsTAR's BALsAM OF
WILD CHERRY, am induced and take great
pleasure in giving publicity to the great cure it
accomplished in my family in the year 1856.
During the summer of that year my son, Henry
a. Archer, now postmaster in this place, was
attacked with splitting of blood, cough, weak
ness of lungs, and general debility, so much SO
that our family physician declared him to
have seated consumption" He was under
medical treatment for a number of months,
but received no benefit from it. At length,
from the solicitation of himself and others,
was induced to purchase one bottle of WIS
TAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY, which bene-
flied him so much 1 obtained another, which
in a short time restored him to his usual state
of health. I can safely recommend this REM
edy to others in like condition. for it is Think,
all it purports to be-the Great Lung Remedy
for the timesl
The above statement, gentlemen, is my vol
untary offering to you in favor of your BALsAM
and is at your disposal. As ever, yours,
ANDREW ARCHER.
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DIVERSITY OF OPINION,

By reading a communication pub
lished elsewhere, and remembering GER
tain criticisms in "Yours Truly's' letter
published in our last issue, it will be
seen that ladies, as well as "doctors,"
will differ. We also give an extract
from letter from Seattle, giving facts
concerning the same subject from an
other PERSONS standpoint. We leave
the field to our correspondents for the
present, but assure our readers that we
have an opinion which we will express
in terms unmistakable when we get
ready. "Yours Truly will probably
send the "hornets" stirred up in her
path, "home to roost' in due time. We
wait in smiling serenity.
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The new Courthouse in process of
construction at Rockford, Ill.,, fell on
Friday, burying in its ruins and shock
ingly mutilating some twenty-five
workmen. The building was not yet
under roof, and the workmen were at
the time of the disaster engaged in put
ting in place the massive stone cornice.
The brick walls beneath gave way, and
the immense mass of iron, stone, NOR
tar, and brick came to the ground with
a deafening report. Thorough investi-
CATION as to the cause will be made, and
another incompetent architect will
probably be brought to the light.
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folks. Here verybody takes his time,
goes slow and steady, but never, neUer
hurries. Asa natural consequence, New
Orleans is far behind the age. Now,
however, that spring has made her
tardy annual appearance, and political
troubles have righted themselves, New
Orleans seems to be making new head
way, and few years more will see
her one of the first cities of the Union.
For what with the fertile soil, the genial
climate, and all the natural resources
Louisiana possesses, it is the fault of the
people if she does not soon play prom
inent part in the commercial interests of
the country. Ever thine,
CRICKET.
New Orleans, April 90. 1877
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The Sunday Welcome, with display
of unsophisticated innocence beautiful
to behold, says that DIR. Brennan "evi-
IDENTIFY must possess something more
than ordinary merit, or he would not be
the recipient of so much praise from the
press" VIII the Welcome please in
form the dear public whether it was the
Doctors extraordinary merit" or the
payment by that functionary of so
much "per square" that secured for him
space for the local notice furnished by
the "gifted man" himself, which ap-
peared in the last issue of that paper.
"Extraordinary pay" often induces
even that "great palladium of our liber-
ties" the press, to do extraordinary
things without regard to "merit," ''or-
dinary" or otherwise.
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LINES SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF MATTE
GRAVES CARDWELL BY A FRIEND WHO LOVED
HER.
. Mary calls me- mother dear,
And would go, at once, TO her.
Earthly life is full of woe,
Husband, mother, let me go.
j. From the beauteous realms Of light,
Where all is joy, serenely bright,
will return and visit you
In atmosphere OF love, so true
That you will feel my presence near,
Like breath of angels in the air.
' When all the earth is filled with gloom,
And silence broods within your room,
Close your dear eyes and think ofm
A ransomed soul, from sorrow free
" My father, husband, sisters, all,
To you in still, small voice Ieall,
AS with more love than tongue can tell,
I softly whisper, 1T is well.'
" Within the amaranthine dale,
Where joys supernal ne'er shall fail,
You, too, transformed shall shortly dwell,
When you have done life's duties WE'LL"
We have laid her away where the roses blow,
Our Matte, so tender and precious and true.
But she liveth no more under suffering's rod J.,
For she treadeth the evergreengardenso fGod.
Salem, May 10, 1877.
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A VALUABLE DIsCOvERY.-Dr. ]. P. Miller, q
practicing physician at 81 Spruce street, ,Phila-
delphia, has discovered that the extract of cram
berries and hemp combined cures headache,
either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous, or sick head
ache, neuralgia and nervousness. This is a tri-
umph in medical chemistry and sufferers all
over the country are ordering by mail. He
prepares it in pills, at 50 cents box. The Doc
tor is largely known and highly respected
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Tonic.

Every one, at times, feels the necessity OF
some restorative of the vital powers, depressed
by mental or bodily exhaustion. In such con-
ditions, let every one, instead of flying to the
alcoholic or medicinal stimulants, which must
be followed by depression equal to their excite
ment, reinvigorate his deranged system by the
natural tonic elements of the PERUVIAN
SYRUP. Sold by all druggists, 81
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TAKE NOTICE.

Mr.. Hendee is in town and is taking pictures
in all styles of the art, and has all the advant-
ages of easy access to his Gallery aud the best
light in the State, and takes as good pictures as
any other man and at as reasonable prices, and
is always ready and good-natured. Please call
and test his ability. Gallery in the middle OF
the block, First street, between Morrison and
Yamhill, Portland, Oregon. 6-A
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A correspondent writing from Pine
Creek, Wasco county, says that black
crickets are so thick in that region that
it is impossible to step without tread
ing upon them. They have as yet done
no damage to vegetation, and it is hoped
that "bunch grass will satisfy their
appetites.
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MARY FOSTER.

Commission Merchant and Purchasing Agent,
is prepared to make purchases in New York
and other cities, on order, of all goods, jewelry,
groceries, etc, on commission of per cent. for
S. of 1. and 10 per cent. for others outside of
the order. West India preserves and Mexican
conserves. Address p. o. Station 'D," New
York City.
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MRS. b. A. OWENS. NJ. D.

Office and residence, east side First street, be-
tween YamhilI and Taylor. Special attention
given to women and children's complaints.
Also, gives MEDICATED VAPOR BATHS, COM
bined with Electricity, in treating rheumatism
and chronic diseases. 5-S2
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The Salem Record saws:

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway lectures next
Monday night in Dallas. subject, "Female
Cussedness."
Mrs. Duniway had thought to lecture
upon "Male Cussedness," but an inter-
view with the editor of rhe Record con-
WINGED her that, owing to the poverty
of the English language, she ould be
unable to do the subject justice; hence
the change.
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B9- The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley & Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best in the world. 429 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
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Rattling volleys of Coughing tend as surely ,
Though more slowly, to fatal results, as vol
leys OF musketry. Quiet them with that sover-
eign balsam for the lungs and throat, HALE's
HONEY OF HoREHOUND AND TAR.
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums and they will confer great favor
by remitting to US through money orders or
registered letters.
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Theodore Tilton is lecturing in San
Francisco. 1t has been intimated that
he will visit Oregon before his return to
the East.
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Tweed has laid in new stock of liq-
uors for the entertainment of his friends
in Ludlow street Jail.
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During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1876, this country gained in gold S., ,5OO,-
600 and $50, 100000 in silver.
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A bill authorizing women to practice
law in all the courts in that State has
passed the Legislature of Minnesota.
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Hon. w. Carey Johnson has removed
to his elegant new residence in Oregon
City.
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The Russian fleet at New York is said
to be under orders to sail.
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Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute,
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IN MEMORIAM.

INES SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF MATTE
GRAVES CALDWELL BY A FRIEND WHO LOVED