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Year: 1871

The PLAGUE IN BUENos. AYREs.-We
publish to-day an interesting account by
our special correspondent of the terrible
rayages of the yellow fever in Buenos
Ayres. A city of two hundred thousand
inhabitants has been almost depopulated.
Twelve thousand have already fallen vic
Tins to the fell destroyer. All that could
leave have, left, and of the twenty-five
shousand remaining eight thousand at
least were down with the disease when the


mail left. The mortality reached. in one
cay the awful number of seven hundred
ana torty-nine. It has decreased since that
time bSreason Of the population having
fed to TIE country. Great distress and
suffering exist, and there is no knowing
what the end will be- Is not this q case
that calls for assistance? Is it not prop
er time for those of our people who are
charitably disposed to come forward in aid
of our plague-stficken and suffering breth-
rem of Buenos Ayres ?-M Y. Herald.
Year: 1871

The roses have come with the summer,
And the red and the white bloom fair,
And the scent of their balmy breathing
Is loading the drowsy air,
Their shcll-lilie leaves drop lightly
All through the long June hours,
And lie, like perfumed snowilakes,
In the gardens grassy bowers
Oh, sweet are the wild white roses
That cling to the garden wall,
But one that secs not the sunlight
Is sweeter and dearer than all
One white rose, locked and hidden
In dark still grave away,
That bloomed on that garden terrace,
One year ago to-day.
When the air was sweet and breezy,
And tho roses blushed in the sun,
And their pink leaves floated lightly,
On the west wind, ono by one.
Then, under the cool rose arbor,


Wo watched the summer storm
Gather and pass DER heaven,


And its sunlight clear and warm.
And under the sweet green shelter
l leaned on that shoulder tall,
While the thun der rolled above us,
And the drops began to fall.
And he plucked one white rose, dripping
With the rain on its petals fair,
And his hand swept over my forehead
AS he wove it in my hair.
Now again the June sun shineth
But last years flowers are gone;
Only that white rose, withered,
Lies i'll its grave forlorn.
In the warm rain, downward pattering,
have given it many tear,
Shed for the bloom and beauty


That died with the rose last year
And the love that went with the blossoms
AS lovely and frail rs they,
And the hand that plucked my white rose
Are dead, like the flower, to-day.
Year: 1871

Coupled with the news that the Supreme
Court of Ohio has decided the Cincinnati
tax levy of ten millions for its Southern
railroad constitutional, we see that Theo.
Cook, one Ofthe prominent members of the
Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting held
in Cincinnati on the 10Th, introduced the
following resolutions:


ResOIUed, That the proposition to build
the Cincinnati Southern Railway at the
cost of the city is dangerous in precedent,
and unsound in policy; and that any prob
able good to result from such act would
be more than counterbalanced by the de-
preciated credit of the city, loaded with
debt, and the OnerOus taxes thereby ne
cessarily imposed OH its cities.


(" ReSoEUed, That it is the sense of this
chamber that the effort now being made
to obtain a charter for the Cincinnati
Southern Railway from the State of Ken
lucky should be abandoned; and that the
Legislature of Ohio be memoralized to re-
peal all laws granting to cities of the first
class authority to build railroads.
Year: 1871

THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN CHARTER.
I had brief conversation yesterday with
Senator Sherman in regard to the Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad charter. This bill
will not be taken up until after the holi-
days, but of its passage the Senator has no
doubt whatever. The main difficulty is to
get it taken up, owing to the press of mat
ters of more general Importance. He has
received q note from the constitntioal Gar
rett Davis begging that it be not taken up
until January, as he is detained at home
by sickness in his family, and wants to be
on hand when the bill comes before the
Senate, so as to protest against its passage
in about twenty-five columns of fine type.
The best way to prevent it's passage by the
Senate is to get it through the kentucky
Legislature Il the erudite Garret wants
to get it out of Congress, he can best do SO
by throwing his influence in favor OF its
passage by the Legislature. There are
more ways than one to prevent despotlc
Congress from setting its tyrannical foot
upon strip of the sacred soil of Kentucky,
two hundred feet wide Wash. Cor. GIN
cinpdti Commercial &
Year: 1871

SUGGESTIVE TO WHOM IT MAY Con
CERN.-A Warren merchant, who always
keeps an excellent stock of goods i'll his
line, remarked to us a few days since that
he had observed that there were some peo-
pie here who, if they can get from our
dealers as good goods ut as fair prices as in
any town in the State, will nevertheless
go off fifty or more miles to give another
place the benefit of their custom. This is
too true. There are people in every COM
munity who never can find anything,
either in quality or price, to suit them
at a home store, shop or printing office.
Sometimes our own dealers follow this
improbable system, and themselves pa
trOnize some interloping chap, who to steal
away trade from the town, will underbid
some of our merchants, mechanics or man.
ufacturers, small per cent: on regular
prices. We never noticed that the men
who bit at such small things ever made
much in the end out of it. Trade with
those who trade with you, if they can fur
nish what you want, and only with others
when you cannot well help it. That's our
home protection theory reduced 10 prac-
tice.-OhiO Paper.
Year: 1871

1t is really the eny illustrated chronicer of fashion
in the country It's supplements alone are worth the
subscription price of the paper While fully maintain
ing its position mirror of fashion it also contains
stories poems brilliant essays besides general and
personal gossip1Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.


There never was any paper published that so de-
lighted the heart of woman. Never mind if it does
cost you new bonnet; it will you ten times the
price in the household economy it teaches-I Proy-
dence Journal.


The young lady who buys a single number of Har-
pers Bazar is made a subscriber for hfe.-[New York
Evening Post.


The Bazaar is excellent. Like all the periodicals
which the Harpers publish it is almost ideally well
edited and the class Of readers for whom it is intended
not but profit by its good and good taste which
we have no doubt, to-day making very many homes
happier than they have been before the women began
taking lessons in personal and household and social
management from this good-natured mentor.-LThe
Nation, n. Y.
Year: 1871

HAVE LEASED THE H0TEL LATELY KNOWN
j as the Stacey House, and viii henceforth eondGe
it in the most approved style,


The patronage of the public generally and of my old
friends particularly who have stood by me so truly in
the past, respectfully solicited. I promise them
cordial reception and comfortable home at the Battle
House. JOEL A. BATTLE.


1t will be seen from the above that have leased the
Stacey House General Battle In retiring from the
osition which have occupied for several years in
this city, desire to tender my thanks and kind wishes
to old friends and to earnestly eLtreat continuation
of their patronage to my successor as who will
make their stay with him comfortable in every respect.


vile. Janl7-dts-W 2a4sNq ]. E, STACEY.
Year: 1871

We offer to the American public new and yalua
bic remedy for the aforementioned diseases. Fow-
Iers Compound Extract is composed of the best med
eines known to Materia Medica. 1t is perfectly
in all its Ingredients being composed of several we'll
known articles universally used by the best hysicans
each of which-in combination what exPer-
ence has shown to be wanting when singly employed
but the result of patient investigation requiring time,
labor and skill so as to give the public genuine
ticle which they can rely upon and in place of the
worthless and dangerous Patent Medicines flooding the
country and therefore enables to warrant FOwlers
Compound Extract to be the most perfect curative for
diseases Of the blood ever discovered.
Year: 1871

This compound is a never falling cure for this ter
riblc disease. How many diseases have their seat in
the blood-dseases which have been treated invain
for years. If the blood alone purified, in most
health and happiness will return. DR.. FOwler's
Compound acts especially upon the virus in the blood
causing in time the disappearance Of the hideous
sores. and restoring the skin beautiful appearance
the eye clear and sparkling and the whole human
ganizatiOn becomes healthy.
Year: 1871

\ eolored jury has been summoned
and will be impaneled at Cambridge,
Guernsey county, Ohio, TO try the case
of Robert Wright, colored, for shooting
with intent to kill. This is the second
occasion where a colored jury has been
impaneled in the United States.


We find the above going the rounds of
the newspapers, and proudly point to it
as the legitimate result of the liberties of
the ballot Can't women see that with
the right of suffrage will inevitably
come the right to be tried by jury of
their peers? We'd be ashamed to sit in
judgment, among a packed jury OF
women, over the case of an unfortunate
masculine malefactor, and we wonder
that men are not ashamed to try women
by jury who are not their peers. We
are waiting anxiously for the Herald to
speak its sentiments upon the jury ques-
tion as related to women who are male
factors, or suspected of being such. We
ask this of the Herald because it has
been magnanimous enough to lend lis
columns to a correspondent who sees the
injustice of trying a negro by a jury Of
white men who are not his peers.
Year: 1871

In the course of Mrs. GOrdon's lecture
on Friday evening she made telling
hit at the lords of creation, who persist
in calling politics 'filthy pool" to
which we desire to call the special atten-
ton of the Democratic Era.


She said that men were not consid-
cred good house-keepers; at least mems
housekeeping had not proved success
in California among the miners; that
thew were ashamed of the filth in their
ca bins, and feared that if women should
enter they would be contaminated. Men
had also made bad work of the national
keeping, hence their ''flthy pool"
And she was certain that aDife was at
present the most urgent need of our
bachelor Uncle Samuel.


Now, in Kindness and candOr we ask
the Democratic Era if its editor has no
desire to see woman cleanse "the filthy
pool of party politics. in which he
writhes daily? That man fails to make
the political arena anything else than a
"flthy pool" should be to him sufficient
evidence that he alone is not competent
70 take charge of it. Let our brethren
hereafter be ashamed to boast that they
wallow in a "filthy pool" which they
have no desire to cleanse or disposition
to yield in part to the purifying infiu-
enee of woman, whose skill in tidy
housekeeping has made her as deserv-
edly famous as her brothers lack of it
has made him politically infamous.
Let Uncle Samuel go to "courting at
the gate" The moral imfaenee will do
him good, and his speedy marriage with
thrift, economy and tidiness, which
form the embodiment of his waiting
bride, will result in such a moral and
political cleansing of the "filthy pool" 4"
which he has made while keeping
BACH" as will make him wonder how he
ever lived in the bachelor atmosphere
engendered by his own mismanagement.
We exhort our Uncle Samuel to take
unto himself a wife.
Year: 1871

RIGHTS VERSUS OBLIGATIoNS.-A
mans wife is very often the real pro-
mOter of his public actions, yet it is only
an extremely small minority of women
who have anything that deserves the
name of a conscience on public affairs


How could woman have n conscience
about public affairs if she were taught to
believe that they Were no concern of
hers? Give woman the same rights as
man, and the same obligations would
follow. Another reason is the vast
amount of brain power and practical
business talent which now lie waste for
want of outlet into that great field of
usefulness, in which no one would pre-
tend that such qualities were not very
much wanted. The whole movement of
modern society from the middle ages
until now, and which has been greatly
accelerated in the present century, points
in the direction of the political enfran-
chisement of women. Their exclusion is
the last remnant of the old state of
society. The regime of privileges and
disabilities, and of all monopolies, is
gone or going, and the whole spirit OF
the time is against predetermining by
law that one set of persons should be
allowed by right of birth to have and to
do what others are not by any amount
of eXertion or superiority of talent
allowed to retain.-JOlv' Stuart MI.
Year: 1871




This department of the NEW NORTH
WEST is TO be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding it praeti-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has question to ask, a
suggestion to make, or a scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
Column.


From away back in Missouri comes to
US the following Endorsement and in
quiry: 'Dear Mrs Duniway: l have
seen several copies of your paper and I
like it very much; but wish to know if
you would be willing if there should be
war to take your stand on the field of
battle and help protect the laws you are
so anxious TO help make. Truly, your
friend, Annie D.n We sincerely thank
our unknown friend for the above 'Gead-
ing" question, which gives us opportu-
nifty to come right TO the point on the
fighting question. We do not believe
that it is woman's place or sphere to
fight and kill and MAIN. Hers is the
greater work to mold the mass of man
hood i'll its infancy; to give life rather
destroy it; therefore it is her right, con-
sidering that she imperils her life when
man is born, to enjoy immunity from
peril on the field of battle. Yet, woman
has never been known to shrink from
should be war; when women vote we
say candidly that we should be "willing
to take our stand on the field of battle;"
but we believe that with the advent of
woman's political era will also come the
advent of "Peace on earth, good will to
men,"


o. NJ, Oregon City: The Home Shut
tie Sewing Machine is furnished with or
without table, according to the choice of
the purchaser.


Mary A. c.. We know of no such
work. Cannot find it in the Library.


Julia G. H.: Your idea that there is
something indelicate or immodest con-
nected with the inherent right of suf-
frage is founded upon prejudice, without
the least foundation i'm sound reason or
common sense. If there is anything in
delicate in American politics the men
have created and fostered that indeli-
cacy, and it is time that woman, with
her refinement and purity, should come
to the rescue before mans very presence
becomes a source of contamination to
the divinity" whom he effects to nor
ship in her youth, beauty and prosper
ity, but whom he too often spurns as a
reptile in her age, poverty and helpless
ness.


Other letters will be answered next
week.
Year: 1871

A lady friend of ours incidentally
informed us, few days since, that the
editor of the Portland NORTHWEST
sometime ago published nearly column
for our especial benefit; and our fair
friend wondered why we had never
replied. Weanswer that Mrs. Duniway
did not send us the number containing
her attack. Was that fair? We think
not. We are fully aware that men
should exhibit magnanimity and gal
lantry to true ladies'; but we know of no
conventional law which justifies a
woman in showing a stiletto into mans
gizzard, i'm the dark, without at least
entering a solemn protest. The next
time our sweet editorial sister fires a
broadside into us we trust she will not
be so wanting in editorial courtesy as
not TO send us the NORTHWEST for our
inspection and delectatiOn. If she
pushes us right hard she will get her
hair pulled-''yOu bet."-BodrOck Dem
Ocrdf


We are sorry that our brother did not
receive our ''reply." If the fault was
ours it was an unintentional one. We
have wondered that we heard no more
from Bro. Abbott, but the above is, we
suppose, a solution of the mystery. We'd
dread the threatened "hair-pullingr il
we had the least idea that our friend was
in earnest, but we have never found ouI
brethren half as pugnaciOus as they pre-
tend, SO we venture at this late day to
send the paper with the politest bow
and most benevolent smile at our COM
mand, hoping that our sturdy editorial
brother will launch hard argument al
US in substantial broadsides whenever
he has anything to say in his own be-
half or that of his mans rights brethren
Year: 1871

We think that the friends of woman
suffrage will agree with us that the time
has arrived when the organization of a
suffrage association has become Reces-
sary. We ask any and all such persons
to confer with us personally or by letter
in regard TO this matter, and we trust
that they will see the necessity Of speedy
action in a cause so vitally related to the
best interests of the people of America.
Year: 1871




The LAKE SUPERIOR SILVER MINES.
General Sibley received letter yester-
day from his brother, A. II. Sibley,
President of the Silver Island Mining
Company, on the north shore of Lake
superior, accompanied by specimen
of the Silver quartz from the mine.
The specimen sent, Represented as an
average of the mine, fully sustains the
almost fabulous reports concerning the
surprising richness of these mines; the
quartz is thickly impregnated with
silver, many particles of which are
solid silver of considerable size. Mr..
Sibley writes that the average yield of
the quartz is about $1,000 per ton, or 81
per pound, although they have taken
out quartz which yielded from $4,000
to $1,000 per ton. He says they
shipped Sl55, 600 worth of the ore to the
smelling works in New Jersey, on the
lst of May, and that they had about the
same amount awaiting shipment when he
wrote. The working of these mines is vet
i'm its infancy. From all the indications
the deposit of silver on the north shore
of Lake Superior is beyond all calcula-
ton. The farther the rock is quarried,
the richer becomes the deposit. We
learn that this marvellous discovery has
induced company to commence the
erection of smelling works at Detroit,
for the exclusive purpose of smelling
the ore from these mines. We have
heretofore been disposed to look upon
the reports concerning these mines as
] greatly exaggerated, but confess that
the facts are fast convincing us that


''the half hath not been told" regarding
their richness. The specimen sent to
General Sibley was examined with great


interest by large number of our citi-


zens, at the City Bank yesterCiay.-'H.
| Paul Pioneer.
Year: 1871

If words are feeble to express our
adherence for the abominable barbar-
titles of the Paris cOmbatants on both
sides, what shall we say of the young
tigers who lately in the public streets of
san FrancicO stoned a Chinaman to
death, while not a policeman nor a
citizen raised hand to defend the poor
foreigner? And what eXecratiOn Is deep
enough for the jury that brought in a
verdict of Death from cause unknown2''
Is this the civilization and is this the
Christianity which Mr.. Burlingama
would have US take with the shinino
cross to every hilltop of China =? Well,
there Is one comfort. California has
not quite gone to the bad. 1t is reported
that the press of the state generally
lament the murder and denounce the
verdict; II is, as the German says, quite
bad.-,S. r. Pioneer.
Year: 1871

That was beautiful idea in the mind
of a little girl, who, on beholding rose
bush, on the topmost stem of which a
rose was fading, whilst below and
around it three beautiful crimson buds
We're just unfolding their charms, at
once and earnestly exclaimed to her
brother, "See, William, these little buds
have awakened in time to kiss their
mother before she dies"
Year: 1871




the estimation of the people of the
NORTH there can no good come out of
this Southern Nazareth. The old
Wing party in the Southern States
were bitterly opposed to the old
Democratic party and Democratic
name. Very many southern Democrats,
at the conclusion on the war, entertained
unkind feelings for the Northern Democ-'
racy. but the whole intelligence of the
South, willing and unwilling, were by
the prescription and persecution of Rattis
calsm driven into the Democratic tenn
pie, ane there they must remain until
some other house of refuge is afforded
them. When new party is organized at
the North, embracing respectable por-
ton of those who have hiiher-
to acted with the Republican
party, based upon such principles of ad-
ministrstion as are indicated by Senator
Schurz, and willing to stand by their
in victory or defeat, ire
spective of other party organizations,
then may the people of the South give it
q more hopeful consideration than theL/
can now do. nI CT G
Year: 1871

Bay rum, which has become such an
indispensable luxury Of late years Is
lsrgely manufactured in New York from
imported bay leaves, those of the dwarf
bay bushes that grow 20 commonly on
our ses coast1 not being of sufficiently
good quality. Not many years ego bay
rum was to be had as sixty cents per
gallon.
Year: 1871

A case of economy occurred in Lowell,
Mass, recently. A child of few days
old dying, the father, acting as his own
undertaken, preserved the remains in a
tin dipper full of alcohol, waiting for tn
mother of the child to die, as she has
since done, in order that both might be
buried together.
Year: 1871

A letter from the Rev. William Wright,
missionary in the far west, speaks of the
immense tide of immigration that has set
in all along the liIe of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and states that the re-
ports hitherto current are by no means
exaggerated. The influx from Canada is
especially heavy.
Year: 1871

A British resident of Washington has
led off in the bill of damages against the
United States, under the new treaty, by
presenting his claim to the British agent
for large sum of money on account of
the seizure by the Government during
the war of his cane factory.