The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-24

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Communications.
the high-sounding titles they use in
naming them. Every church has its
secret society, and the expense entailed
by levies for regalia, carriage hire. mu-
SIC etc. Is enormous. 1t is proposed to
devote these funds to the creation Of an
industrial school, aud hereafter avoid
and diseountenanee the extravaganza Of
the past by giving means Of support to
/ their necessities. Could this object he
obtained, and the tendency OF the col
ored people in the country to flock into
the city be changed, few years hence
would find the race as successful. pe-
cuniarily, as the whites.
Our shad fisheries were a failure this
year, for the catch did not pay expenses.
The fish commission has just planted
100000 young shal, hoping thereby to
re-stock the Potomac and bring back
the abundance of old times. But unless
Congress interdicts the use of gill nets
in the future, we fear this addition Of
young shad will prove of little avail,
because the gill net will soon aDnihilate
them.
We must express our qualification at
the passage Of the bills repeating the
bankrupt acts, and funding the Union
Pacific Railroads Indebtedness. Our
bankrupt laws are simply odious, not in
Driuef ,Ta lint in fiat f,r % NJ T---o
said in the debate in the House, the men
charged with their execution have made
them infamous everywhere, and the
vote of POS ayes to 80 nayes evinced
clearly how nearly unanimously the
House shared his views. Ben Butler
and Mr.. Lynde had the honor of casting
the only nay votes on the funding bill;
the yeas were 24S. Now we must go to
the court before we can reach a dollar
of our dues, for Jay Gould will never
eoncede mite so long as money will
enable him to avoid payment.
Fitz John Porter is here vigorously
pushing the re-hearing Of his case, bav-
ing at last secured from Congress its re-
/ opening and the appointment of board
of inquiry, composed of prominent Off
GERS Of the army. Our sympathies GER
tainly go with him, not that we think
him innocent Of the charge that he dis
obeyed orders whereby General Pope
was defeated, but because other prom
inent officers at the same time disobeyed
equally peremptory orders to fight, and
We're equally responsible with Porter
for Pope's disaster. One Of these Cen
erals laid at Alexandra with some 25,-
600 men, and was ordered on Friday,
Saturday, and Tuesday by the President,
in the most positive manner, to move
out 10 Bull Run and assist Pope, and
yet did not move a man until the fol-
lowing Friday, a week after receiving
his first order, assigning as a reason for
/ his iuaction the want of shoes among
his men. This deprivation of support
and willful disObedencs of orders an
initiated Pope. Porter was tried and
cashiered for his share Of the great dis
aster, and yet the other General never
was even Teprimanded. Porter was not
/ surpassed as a fighting man, and his
I record prior to Bull Run battle is peeu-
liarly brilliant, and we, as an admirer
Of his undoubted ability and general
ship, believe that the country has no
right to make him the scape goat, or
rather the exception, in matter Of pun
/ ishment. 1t is time that the mantle of
charity should be thrown over his ac-
tions, no matter how much he erred.
/ With scores Of Confederate officers max
ing laws for US, and with those as guilty
as Porter holding high places Of honor
aud trust, it does seem to US unworthy
that he should be made the exception.
Let him go free.
Our women lawyers are not disposed
to give up the fight for admission into
the Supreme Court Another bill has
been introduced into the Senate, which
declares they shall be admitted as men
are, and Senator Sargent, their princi-
pal advocate, is making a gallant fight
to secure its passage, Notwithstanding
I the recent adverse report of the judiciary
1DtA lA tAtGSs AZ TIE ueau OF luls move
ment is Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, who
is as persistent and tenacious in it as
she is for her client before the lower
courts. Mrs. Lockwood is a very sue
cessful practitioner in a pecuniary point,
and asaccumulated quite a competency
here by business in prosecuting govern
ment matters before the department,
: and il is but natural she should fight
for admission to the Supreme Court, as
many Of her cases go there for fiual ad-
judication, and she considers her ability
to plead her cause there as good as
many Of the masculine fraternity who
bar her. FELIX.
Washington, D. c., April %, 1873.
4 The Carson Tribune declares: at Is .
a lie "A hnga fahrfaoffDr,