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3, 1874. "OHEEK." What a pity it is tbat mcn uavc 80 little assurance, nud that women bavo so much Only the other day ono of these over-modest men said to us, concerning the women engaged in the temperance crusade, "They must have a good deal of cheek!" Cheek to do what To go where men go? To go where thte same shrinking critic acknowledged that Ac went? "We thought to ourself, "young man, that is a pretty commentary on the places you frequent, that it requires so much as surance to enter there." "What an ac knowledgment that you are not at all times to be found in proper places or proper Pursuits. Wbcnyoucotonlaces that requiro ''a good deal of cheek" for a company of women to enter, engaged In God's work, and imploring God's protection and God's blessing on their work, forthe contrary purpose, as your criticism acknowledges, yon do not manifest any cheek, we presume? Cheek, indeed! "Who ever heard of its being "cheeky" for men to entr the vilest haunts of their own, or the other sex? TJ'at is only "seeing the sights," informing themselves of what there is in the "world, etc No contagion clings to their immaculate garments. A mother, a wife, or a sweetheart may not go with them to "see life," but they can go reeking with the filth of partlc Jpation in this "life" straight to tbo presence of the purest woman iu the land yes, and criticise her every word and action, too. Oh, no! Men havn't a bit of "cheek!" There are other things about which meu have no assurance not a particle! Who ever heard of a man, even though he had been steeped in every vice, who thought himself not good enough for the best of women? To be sure, he tells her she is an angel, and all that that Is a part of the programme of courtship.

But is ho not worthy of an angel if ho fancies having one; and ought not the angol to be Immensely flattered by his honoring her with his preference? It does not require any assurance to tell a woman yon regard her as very greatly your superior in moral purity, and then to ask her to "come rest in this bosom," aud when she has, like a fool, accepted the. position of your reformer, to show by your jealousy and suspicion that you Judge her by your own standard, and think she will bear watching. If it should happen that women in despair of their husbands and sons should undertake to wrestle with God for their salvation, even In the very haunts of vice, let some man, who is en tirely lacking in assurance, hold up his hamU in horrorand cry out against such evidence? of cheek. By his own confes sion, he knows the places he is not ashamed to frequent to be too vile for woman's, and too lost for God's holy presence. These clteeky women are inspired as was to save her people.

She, too, violated custom even law. She, too, wliilo men were powerless to avert thfir common danger, bade them go gather together all the people and fast for her three days and nights; aud she. too, would fast with her maidens; "and so I will go in unto the King, which is not according to the late, and if I perish, I perish." Such a sentiment as this will hardly be appreciated by the unassuming and modest critics spoken of above. THE WOELD MOVES. The Republicans of Lane county, iu convention, have nominated, imam mously, Miss Ella Sabin for School Su perinlcndont.

We havo the names of the gentlemen who presented Miss Sa- bin's name to the convention, and of the gentleman who decided the legality of the nomination; and wc shall bear them in mind when it will be pleasant for them to be remembered, whether or not we fight the battles of the Republl can party. Lane county has shown that her people believe that mcn can vote for women, whether women can vote for men or not. They will discern the remainder of this truth before long. is triumph to have a woman's name presented for any office in a man's con veution. It will be a signficant event.

should the people's vote show their ap proval of the nomination. Had the Republicans of tho State, as well as of Lano county, seen the point to be male sooner, they would have helped themselves as well as the Woman Suffrage cause. They will have to come to it yet. "A VEEY PBESEHT HELP." Can It be that the Almighty is coming to our help in the temperance movement? Truly, it would seem so. The answer of men to our petitions for suffrage have always been that the polls were noplaces for women, because drunk and disorderly men abounded there that politics was a "filthy pool," etc Suppose we put an end to drunkenness aud disorder? Suppose the "filthy Pol" Is cleansed of alcohol? Where would be the impropriety of Woman Suffrage then We do not believe men are willing to say of themselves in their that they are too brutal for general as- Sweet, Pension Agent at Chicago a very important and responsible noYl tlon.

Her father once held the oX miny-stx AnUover students havo scut iuuou uio Legislature praying that suffrage may bo granted to women on the same basis that Is now enjoyed by men. FRIDAY. I The present certainly offers a most-! favorable opportunity for persons having a genius in that line, to bring forward their peculiar and individual views upon the Bubjectof reform. And from the doleful and persistent outcry of these would-be reformers, we would suppose our entire system social, political and religious to bo in a condition deplorably bad, rapidly descending to worse, aud the worst only to be averted by their untiring and disinterested zeal in behalf of degenerate humanity. It is not a little amusing to note the fact that those who prate most loudly of the evil times upon which wo have fallen, are the samo who have for years connived at, aided and abetted this "corruption In high places," which they now feign to have for the first time discovered, while with a wcll-asSumed expression of holy horror they descant upon tho bribery and" political trickery which have for years placed themselves iu office, aud bountifully fed them there.

Let them labor with what zeal they will, render more "stale, flat and that were possible), tho leading reform newspapers, vex with speech-making the "drowsy ear of night," continue to beat and beat the "beaten track" to the manifest disgust of all true reformers and sensible per sous, aud they willyet surely fail to con- viuco any considerable number of the people that they are actuated by disin terested benevolence. Ou the contrary, perverse humanity will persist in the belief, that this noisy demonstration is naught but an escape valve for the petty grievances and sur plus spite whereby these disappointed office-seekers hopt! to revcugo them selves upon some political party or op ponent for personal injuiries, real or fan cied. The advocates of temperance reform, though not less noisy aud conspicuous, "nor or of renown less eager," still pos sess, to a mucli greater degree, the sympathies and confidence of the people, as they certainly should. An endless array of figures are brought forward toprovo the undisputed ravages of intemperance, and the theories, tine-spun and long drawn out, whereby the country may be rescued from tho blighting effects of this giant evil, are only limited by the number of theorists, each morally certain that his plan only is to be relied upon. Many of this class of reformers excel in the very solemn manner in which they assert an undisputed thing.

And while wo'hall with pleasure any and every auxiliary that can be made ef fective in tills war upon intemperance, we yet feel and know that many of these Ideas brought forward are Utopian, and very many of the theories impractica ble, albeit those who advance them are honest In purpose, correct in principle, and untiring in zeal. We are not of those who would discourage true reform; and while we do not believe that original sin and natural depravity are more frightfully prevalent than at any former period of our national history, we yet are assured that there is, as thero has ever been, ample room for improve ment. And when these bogus reformers havo had their day, and In tho progre of events are remembered no more, aud the better element shall overcome their fast diminishing prejudices and admit women to the councils of the State aud nation, then will the abuses now so loudly proclaimed be swept away; then will the reformation havo begun. VERY TBUE. When a buy Isjuit to farm labor hp i glien an old hoc, a fork with a broken tine, a round edited ax.aseythe thnt nolnxty el- will use, and Is expected to work more hours than a hired hand, to do nil the chore, to build llrcs In the morning, to run on nil errands, to turn the grindstone, and so to mectlns In cow-hide boots.

With thl experience hednegnot like fanning; nud lecturers, editor, members of Congress and petty lawyers mourn became so many young mcn go from the farm to the city Exchange. We have rarely seen more truth con tained in one paragraph than is given in the above. Aud yet, there is another side to the picture: When a girl is put to farm lubor she is given a cold, unsightly kitchen muddy door-steps, broken pump handle, leaky pans and pails, slovenly hired mcn aud burly brothers with muddy boots to wait upon; and her own wants tastes, conveniences and comforts gen erally arc considered as of no accoun whatever. She must care unceasingly for the teething baby, perform all the menial and repulsive offices for the two aud four-year-olds, collect wet and frosty chips to kindle kitchen fires, milk the cows iu a muddy barn-yard, run up stairs and down on errands for everybody, and go to meeting without artificials on her hat. With this experience she detests farming, and "lecturers, editors and members of Congress," and dainty, fine ladies iu silks and jewels mourn that so many young girls go from the farm to the city.

Tlie final settlement of the lifjuor traffic question is to be at the ballot box. If the men, after experimenting for a generation and a half to find out how to deal with It, have had to throw up the sponge and let the women take the case In hand, why do they not put all the weapons Into the hands of those who are to do tho fighting In other words, why not give woman the ballot, so she can make secure by legal enactment the victory she Is expected to gain by moral and religious influence? If any logical reason can be assured why this should not be done, a clear aud definite statement of it would bo In order at this time. Oregonian. In favor of the proposed reform Woman Suflrage we find some of the strotigest and brightest minds of the day, while many of our best men and women honestly oppose it. The writer who sneers at the question shows only th.at.he fttHs to comprehend It, while he who derides its most prominent advocate ia this city shows either that he ito "-yfi'reiiciiu ami appreciate her nw.Uocheeter Krpreit.

BEFOBM. EDITOBIAL OOBBESPONDENOE. Deak Headers okthkNew Northwest: I seize the first opportunity that pre sents itself to give you some hasty jot- tiugs of my works and wanderings. Those of you who have never tried the task of hurrying to and fro in the earth upon such a mission can have little Idea of tho difficulties attendant upon con necting editorial duties with the thous and other calls upon time, strength and ability. Arriving in San Francisco on the 18th I was waited upon by the Suffrage CommltteeoftheState Association, who immediately began act've preparations for work that will keep me till May 1st.

A temperance meetingwasbeld in the Presbyterian Tabernacle on tho 20th, which I addressed, by invitation, as did many others. The meeting was largely attended. Mrs. Sears, a lady who moves in the highest circles in society and tho churches, read an able address upon her experience in circulating temperance petitions among. the rum-sellers, supplementing this with an exhortation to those having control of the churches to utilize the great costly edifices that loom so uselessly in the atmosphere forso many idle hours each week, by opening the doors as constantly for the use of the homeless aud unoccupied as the saloon doors are kept open, thnt the stranger within our gates may be tempted from tho allurements of wickedness into the abodes of pleasantness and purity.

Sho urged that amusements of some kind arc necessary; and that every church In the city contained unoccupied rooms where light and warmth and books and music should be furnished constantly, and the the Christian women should not be ashamed to go out into the highways aud hedges, it necessary, to bid the wan derer, the tempted, the desolate, to come forth from the vicinity of the lurking places of evil and cuter the genial atmosphere of a grand domestic influ ence. After a three hours' session tho mect-ng adjourned to Union Hall for tho evening exercises. I was Invited to speak, but was too badly fatigued to at tend. Tho Clironiclc made merry grim aces over tho whole matter, but the reign of terror once exercised over the consciences of the people by the scurril-lity of the press has lost itsstingand the thunders of newspaper nonsense have no longer power to t'eter the onward march of the ages. On Sunday evening I had thepleasure of giving a temperance lecture before a largo audience in tho Powell street Methodist Church, Dr.

Wythe presiding. The meeting was one of those harmoni ous', genial, homc-liko seasons of song and speech aud supplication which are ever grateful to the -hearts of all who love their neighbors as themselves. Dr. Wythe looks older than when we knew him in Portland, but he low nothing in spirituality of face and geniality of manner as he treads the Master's highways on his way to the invisible bourne towards which we are nil hastening. On Monday evening I addressed a largeaudiencein thePresbyterianTaber- nacle, the subject chosen by a committee being "Woman's Duty, Capacity and Influence In Suppressing Intemper ance." Dr.

Cunningham, the pastor, was absent, but every needed arrangement was made to render the meeting a success. I shall not soon forget the busy, obliging sexton and tlte sunny faces of appreciative friends. Arriving in San Jose upon the 21th, I found that owing to the shortness of the notice given the appointment was not sufficiently circulated to make a successful meeting for that evening. The Santa Clara Woman Suffrage Society held a business session In the afternoon, which I attended, and was much gratified with tho interest and wide-awake enthusiasm of its members, who are composed of the first circles of society in the city. Mrs.

S. L. Knox, whose elegant hospitality I am enjoying during my sojourn, a lady of much wealth and influ ence, iias Mpcui, wiiu ner associates, a month in the Legislature, engineering a bill for making women eligible to ed ucational oflices in the State. The bill passed in spite of much opposition, and I wish that every reader of the Xkw Northwest could hear her read and comment, in her own peculiar, pleasant way, ujk)h the speeches of sundry "llou-orable" fossils who opposed Its passage, Had I time, I should dearly love to make copious extracts from her "journal." It is unique, taking aud splendid. Pity but every man who failed to do his duty as a freeman in his capacity of Legislator could have a chance to study It.

I neglected, iu beginning this letter, to state that my headquarters when iu San Francisco arc at the hospltablo home of Mrs. M. A. Lewis, President of the San Francisco County Woman Suffrage Association. This lady, though au invalid, a remarkable vigor of intellect, accompanied by decision of character and suavity of manner rarely blended iu one individual.

Her husband, a genial, whole-souled gentleman, is proud of his wife and the important position she holds. On tho evening of the 2.1th, I lectured in Sau Jose iu the Metiiodist church upon "Woman's Work in the Temperance Reform" to a fair audience, and have promised to give Monday nnd Tuesday evenings of next week to this place iu order that the appointments may be more widely circulated. The Temperance Reform is permeating every branch of social life. TbeWoiuau Movement Is assuming immense proportions. Men will be ashamed, hereafter, to use the old exploded arguments about "woman's sphere," for they forget them all in their present desire to urge the "protected sex" to go out Into the saloons which their own laws have fostered, to break down by their geutle Influence the strongholds of man's peculiar province.

I am very anxious about our work in Oregon. Dear readers, are you paying up your subscription fees? The paper cannot go on without them. We depend upon you to do yourduty. To-day I go to Sauta Cruz; to-morrow toGIIroy; next day to Watsonville.and so on. inteudinc to get uacK.to Francisco by the 13th proximo.

I forward two subscribers from San Jose, and am promised a goodly number in addition upon my return next Monday. A. J. D. San Jose, CaL, March 20, 1S74.

THE TEMPEBAKOE MOVEMENT. This noble work goes bravely on. The interest in it is not confined to the churches, or even to the classes usually most Interested In reforms thinkers, writers, speakers; but reaches to all classes from the most intelligent to the least so. While the very properly named crusaders continue to pray daily at tho churches and on tho streets, the ministry, so long silent on the giant evll.have wakened up to consider and present every phase of this great national slu nnd calamity to the minds of the immense congregations nightly assembled. Not only tho moral, but tho monetary, hygienic, the social, the political and economic phases are faithfully presented.

Aud the summing up Is trucly something startling. Hardly acrime but originates iu strong drink. Annually King Alcohol requires a holocaust of seventy thousand victims besides the hundreds of thousands he has in preparation for this death. Annually he draws into his treasury money enough to pay the expenses of the nation. Constantly he undermines every noble sentiment, aud corrupts tho best bra! ti3 of the land.

No wonder the Esthers of the American nation have re- solved to go In unto this kiug, to Inter- cede for the people, and to save them, i or If need be to perish. G0VEBH0E BOOTH. were, tor instance, is a new mat papers am tliilina mftrlit ifimtli tlinl litalli ami! their tongu upon for a long while without doing It harm: For lYesldent, Charles Franc! I Adorns of Massachusetts; ftir Vice President, "nd 'Tie can. les sir, out naught ns advocates can say ior uo guuu, unless iiuvernur ixjiii.i jxuvu the ugly report that he is a rum-seller. Democratic papers charge this boldly.

Republican papers maintain a discreet aud snspIciouBsileuee. Now, let us have the truth, gentlemen, and have it wo shall, for if such a thing be true, it can not be hid. It is of no use to say that Ciovernor Booth is sincuy lerapenue ami exemplary his habits. So much the worse, In one bciibc, ai icaau oucu i.m.i can pieaci ins appeuit ins nenei inai in-. toxicating drinks area good thing nor an obtuse moral nature that allows its possessor to sink to the same degrading level to which he drags his victims.

No no- He is an honorable, "high-toned," moral gentleman or refinement anil cul- lure, a fccholar, a writer, a thinker, a reformer, It Is said! Stationed on this lofty bight, liekinii our schools all over the caimyueais out ins inoiisaiiusoi ganons 1 A I 1 1 If of liquid death, and receives in return therefor the gold that belongs of right to toiling wives and mothers to ragged, hungry and homeless children. Gold, did I say Ah, it is blood-red, the very price of blood! God only knows how many broken hearts; how many blasted reputations; how many murders, suicides and robberies; how many crimes of every dye aud grado are locked up with the Governor's gold in the massive vaults. Do you ask why there? Be cause they all belong to him as truly as that gold; because they arc as truly produced by his liquor as the gold was. He has accumulated a largo fortune, it said, in this accursed traffic; aud now, because he is wealthy and honored; because he has risen so high that his friends forget the dreadful foutidatiou upon which his fortune is built, the people of theso United States are asked to ignore his murderous trade because of its magnitude aud joyfully hall him as the chieftain of reform, nud place him in the second, some say the first, place ln this enlightened Christian nation. God forbid! Is ho less guilty, think you, because a score or moro of men deal out this poison in ills stead, at his command? Because he has the power to send misery, disease nnd death into thousands of homes, shall wo look upon him in his elegant ease and leisure ns a superior being, who Is above criticism, and to wbogc actions wc must not venture to apply the rules by which we judge the mcn who retail lu hundreds of gay saloons nud vile wretched rum-holes tho body and soul-destroying poison they obtained of him? Wherein Is he bcttt-r in the sight of God than the man who is only able to buy of him a few hundred dollars' worth of liquor, aud who only causes a small number of crimes annually; only a few broken hearts aud lives; only a few lost, ruined souls? aii, uoveriior xuuin, uu juu ncui think of tho fearful balance footing up, against you above while complacently gazing at the eariiuy i.a.anco in rf flil tlmf fiii ivmilil nnaivrr tlio i prayers of the women or San rancIsco, and forsake your sinful business, and nr inflnnnnA and example on the side of the right as strongly as it has hitherto been given to the wrong! Will you do it? Of one thing these Presidential slate makers may rest assured: The women proposetohavesomethingtosayastoour next President, and even have hopes of voting for him.

Bo that as it may, we will most certainly defeat any man for that office or for Vice President who is guilty of the stupendous wrong o( de- grading and ruining thousands of his fellows in order to enrich himself. We havo suffered enough from the direful effects of intompcranco at the National Capitol, in the Legislative oven more than In theExpcntlvedepartments; aud we do not'propose to assist any man Lto office, however perfect he is thought oy. mstirionds, who has not moral principle enough to refrain from selling liquor.1 The. influence of such a man, however correct inJils deportment, and finished and elaborate iu his orations on reform, must be a hundred-fold worse than that of poor Dick Yates In his worst- days at Washington. He had a warm human heart, aud would have succeeded in his desperate attemps to free himself from the demon of drink Uiat enslaved and finally killed him, but for these omnipresent Hquor-sellers, who laid In wait for him at every turn nnd made him fall till hope loft him and despair seized him.

Can we hopo for prohibition legislation in Congress while ono of its most honored members is a leading rum-teller as well as a leading Senator? Wbnien aro not going to pray In the saloons' aud labor as they arc doing in every other way for the suppression of liquor-selling, and then turn right about and throw their influence for a man whoso high position alone saves him from the same selgo his subordi nates have to stand. No, we don't pro- prose to elect any person to any office, when we vote, whom we know to be un worthy, no matter what his belief, his talents or his genius. If there are indeed no men who unitcall the necessary qualifications as somo tell us we must look among tho women. Portia. WOMAN MAN'S EQUAL.

To the Editor or the New North west: Allow me to furnish a few thoughts under the above caption "And your sons and your daughters' shall nrophfwjv Arrs History gives us a sad picture of hu inanity. How degraded and wretched arc nine-teutli3 of the human race to- Umpire and Kingdoms rise and i fall. Jerusalem, ouce the great center of an(, lcarnIng ls now ln com parativo heathenism. The fact that a nation sways the universe to-day does not prove that she may not sink into ruin. As peoples and nations there Is no standing still we arc either ascend- or Ule scale of civlli MtioIK Christianity contains the ele- metit which, if cherished, will elevate nun and nations.

Sin possesses that which is a blight to both mcn and nations. The one serves to give woman I her proper sphere; the other, to degrade her. The Bible comes to her rescue, and gives her her proper position in society Read these cheering words: ''Yoursons nnd dauglllcni sllalI nr CIarko says as above. Tll0 won, ia 110t lo be umier9tood as the knowledge and of future events, but slcnifies to teacIl all(j proclaim the great truths of especially those which concern relomption by Jesus Christ." q'hese words refer First To the Gospel dispensation or thtf present lime, a period of great light, wUll foracquiringaknowledge of wiIl of Goil far beyond that of anv former in the history of man- cliabie tlle children of the present day, in the early dawn of life, to see and understand their privileges, as well as the danger to which they aro exposed. Second "This text alone, twice given by inspiration, even if thero were no oilier, would establish the right of women to all the Immunities and ordinances of the Christian Church." Then If Christ calls young men to the special work of "prophesying," or preaching the Gospel, may he not with the same propriety demand thescrvlcesof women? Third These words fix unmistakably tho fact that what he requires of theoue cspeola of tlle other.

Both are held equally bound to answer to the calls of God; and, If never before, womau now becomes man's equal, and the two are expected to do what they can to evangelize thu world as a part of their duty in life. Then does it not naturally follow that if women were the first to proclaim, tho resurrection of Christ, they were justifiable in so doing? And if women essay to preach the Gospel, and to lead sinners to tho cross, may they not do so? The reader, perhaps, is ready to inquire, in what sense is woman man's equal? Wc answer, in every respect. And yet this may strike some with horror. Let us look at this matter. Thero arc large men and small men-some aro strong and some are weak; and just so with women.

The stylo of: life lias much to do with both men and women ns to the development of the physical powers. For Instance, plants grown in the shade are much more tender than those grown iu the aunshine. Mcn and women subjected to equal hardships will havo equal powers of endurance. As proof, we cite you lo the statement of Frederick Hccker, the noted German, who writes as follows of the condition of women in Germany: The condition of women among the laboring oiawse in the country 1-t really revolting. I will not at the cltle where women carry up turee or rour htories.and work ln "I IU miiitr ratrwwra iil-.

i.wic a t. uare observed as well as mrir the worst or nil was a man cuidin" a plow to wiiUh his wikk and a cow to Pilier." But i If such be. true, whilst It sickens tho heart, It proves our theory, On longjnurneys women of nllclasses, In cold or hot climates, are fully equal i to tho opposite sex as to being able to staud fatigue. We therefore couclude than woman is man's equal physically, In point of intellect, surely thero need be no controversy. Lot us visit the schools and colleges, nnd we will find that, whether in mathematics, natural science, composition, tho languages, or anything else, she is not found wautiug.

As to oratory, whether in tho mass meeting, on the subject of temperance, ou tho rostrum, or In the prayer circle, nono are listened to with moro Interest than women; andI have no uoudi our, a3 the way opens, 03 will bo the case In will be equal to me average In this respect. As writers, they have only to mane IJie effort, and there Is nothing to ninuer them from reaching the topmost round of literary fame. We might cite you to thousands who have already distin guished themselves in this capacity. Antiquity furnishes the names oi some venerable women wuo uiauu-guished themselves as profound think ers and rulers, to wit: Eliza, who founded Carthage, one of the most noted nations of antiquity, over which she ruled for years. She was not only brave and capable, but excelled as a dipo- raatlst.

Hypalia was an accomplished scholar, as well as beautiful and amia ble. Sho ascended to tho very pinnacle of fame in consequeuco of her literary attainments; and yet she lost none of her love for home and friends. "Uhe record of tbo famous women of antiquity might be lengthened out Indefinitely," showing that, as thinkers and rulers, they were man's equal; and yet it can not be necessary. The Bible, from Gen esis to Revelation, sustains this view when properly rendered. Reason in the miuds of the thinking portiou of our race proves it.

The man wuo iooks upon her as au inferior being, in any sense of the word, has failed to investi gate tliis subject. As Christianity advances, so will civ ilization; aud as the two advance, so will woman come up to her proper sphere. Everybody must see that the present great national uprising on tho subject of temperance will greatly facil itate this great doctriuo of the Bible, that woman is man's equal. The Clergy of this city aro doing a pod work in the temperance cause, and I bid them God-speed. Now, will they go a little farther and suggest that our wives, daughtors and sisters go with us to the ballot-box Certainly, after the "crusade" in this place, which I think Is right, there can be no objection to Woman Suffrage.

If our wives aud daughters afford us so mucii pleasure in accompanying us to church, and to the social party, why not go with us to the vote with us, as here the great evils of our country may be made right? R. PEBSE0OTI0N OP ELECTION IN- SPE0T0ES. Two of the inspectors of the election district who received the votes of Miss Anthony and other ladles, in the Presidential election of 1S72, were last week arrested, by order of District Attorney Crowley, upon their neglect to pay the fine and costs imposed upon tlicm by Justice Hunt In the trial had before him, at Canandaigua, N. Y. Beverly Jones, one or the inspectors, is understood to have paid his fine since his arrest, and to have been released from custody.

Edwin T. Marsh, the other inspector, is now incarcerated in the Monroe county jail, having refused up to this time to satisfy the judgment against him. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle says: Wo regard this action on the part of uismci Attorney irowiey ns an out rage, in that these young men, who, at the worst, are but accessories in the vio- Iation of law, are made to feel its ter rors, while the chief criminal is allowed to defy tho law with Impunity. No effort, as we understand it, has been made to satisfy tho judgment of the court against Miss Anthony. She contemns the law which adjudged her guilty, and its duly appointed administrators aro either too timid, or too negligent of duty, to endeavor to enforco it.

The inspectors received her vote and those of her associates, after taking the best legal counsel obtainable at the time, 1 and after the votes had been sworn in upon challenge. It is doubtful whether they had the right to refuse these votes. In any event, their offense, is venial as compared witii hers. It I docs not look well for the District At- i toruey thus to proceed against tiie lesser offenders, while the chief offender snaps her tluger at the law, aud dares its miu- isters to make her a martyr. Of course, in this review, we have not touched upon the legal questions involved in the judgment against Miss Anthony.

Sho may be right in her interpretation of her prerogatives and Justice Hunt may iu his bo wrong. That she aud earnest in the cause, to which she has devoted many years of persistent is conscientious lu her interpretation, effort, we know. We write in uo spirit of vindictivencss, nor even in one of an tagouism, towards her; but, in the name of justice, wc aro called upon to protest against the unseemly proceeding, which persecutes two excellent young men, and hesitates to attack this woman who stands as the representative of what she regards as a great reform, and iu its advocacy shrinks not from any of the terrors the law may nave in store lor her. Mrs. District Attorney, It is your duty to arrest Miss Anthony to cross swords with au antagonist worthy of your steel.

Yonr present action looks ignoble aud is unworthy of you and of tue mucc you nil. The following is a copy of the com mitment: The President of the United States of America to tne Marshal oj the Northern District of New York. We command you that you take Bev erly v. jMiwin r. William B.

Hall Defendants, If they shall be round iu your district, and that you safely keep them so that you may have their uouies before- tho uircuit uourt oi the Uulted States of America for tho I I. uiirLiiHru mai rifTL til ut mini nui foro the judges of the same thlnl Tuesday, 17th day or 1 each tosatisry the Lnitci foro the judges of the same court, on the ft wt. IIATf nlfml States of 4 I Ir, tho mini nf twelltV-llVC UOl- imposed "on each of said defendants separate fine upon conviction on indictment and sentence by the court at the June term 1S73, for illegally registering cer aiu persons as voters and receiving So "votes anil also to satisfy the fur-thw sum of $57 50 adjusted by sa court against the said defendants Jointly. Awl that you also have then aud there "wYtncsa the non. Nathan Clifford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court or the Unite States of America at Tj ttca, In the wild northern district of New York, the 3d day of February, in the v.r nur Lord, one thousand oiRht hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence oi tue uaiu uuueu oiaies tho ninety-eighth.

RicHAitD Crowley, U. S. At t'y. CluBLKs Mason, Clerk. The officer did" not -find WilliamjB.

Hall, and lie Is consequently still at liberty. Beverly W. Jones was released last week on the payment of his fine by his father. The amouut was $25 and one third of the whole costs, which were in all $57 50. The other Inspectors will refuse to pay, as we aro informed.

Miss Anthony is, of course, indignant at the incarceration of the inspectors, and is prepared to move heaven and earth In their behalf. She has received the following letter from General Butler, in relation to tho subject, and has his promise to argue her case either in Congress or iu the courts: IIousu of Representatives, 1 Washington, Feb. 22, 1S74. My Deak Miss Anthony: In regard to tho Inspectors of election, I would not, if I were they, pay, but allow any process to be served; and I have no doubt tho President will remit tho fine If they arc pressed too far. I am yours truly, Benjamin F.

Bctlek. A reporter heard of the arrest and proceeded to the jail at once to see the prisoners. He found both of them at dinner and in good spirits. In the course of conversation they expressed far less regret over their incarceration than Mr. Jones does over the fact, that since he has paid his fine, he cannot share their confinement.

A great number of their friends, and friends of the cause for which they are suffering, called on them during the afternoon, and did everything in their power to lighten the burden that rests on them. As Mr. Marsh served ten months zs a prisoner of war in the pens of Anderson-ville, Salisbury and Florence, Monroa county jail cannot have many terrors for him. Miss Authony, who happens to be in the city, having been called home from her tour in Connecticut by the dangerous illness of her mother, is doing all in her power their behalf, aud it is not likely that their imprisonment will continue for any very great length of time, although they are determined to refuse to pay a fine, or in any way acknowledge that they have been guilty of a criminal offense. Mr.

Marsh sends the following letter lo the editor of the Democrat and Chron icle, from which it will be seen that he entertains a very hopeful viev of the situation: Celt. No. 0, Mont.oe County Jail, l'cbruary lbi-i. "In tho nrison cell I sit," and recall the memories, which come more forcibly to me now from surrounding circum stances, of that other "prison cell" in which, amid cold, hunger and death, I suffered ns cheerfully as possible, never falteriug my tievotion to my country. And now I am suffering an imprisonment as much in the cause of human rights as the ten dreary months which I spent at Andcrsonville, Salisbury and 1 Iorence.

Placed in a position where we were forced to mako a decision on a question unexpectedly brought before us under oath to act according to our best judgmentinstructed by tho law to receive the votes of all persons who claimed the right to vote and who took the prescribed oaths, and in opposition to a prejudice that we held iu common with most men on the question of Woman Suffrage, I took tho coarse that I did honestly, and as I believed then, and still believe, the right one. Prosecuted aud persecuted for the sake of fees, and from a determination to give the cause of Womau Suffrage a deatli blow, we have been unjustly dealt with from the first. A power controls us against which we are helpless to contend the power of might over right, but I havo learned to submit with good grace where I must, aud will stand for the right while I can. Our conviction was a shame, and tho fine imposed an injustice. The first cannot be recalled, but the fine we will not pay, aud proposo to "fight it out iu this line if it takes nil summer." Respectfully, Edwin T.

Marsh. A Pew Home Questions. A "Farmer's Wife" puts the following home questions to the readers of the American Agriculturist. Attention to these Iltltle matters would save many steps by weary feet, and the feeling that the men and boys of the household are indifferent and careless in making work, which is sometimes harder to bear than unnecessary work itself: "Do you, after having kindled tho fire, sweep away the shavings and ashes neatly, or leave them on or around the When, you bring in a pail of water, are you' careful not to spill It, or smc one use the mop after you I fveri' time? hen you (men and boys) leave the barn-yard, do you scrape tho dirt from your boots, or bring it to tho clean door steps, or, what is worse, into the house, aud scrape it on the nicely Eolishcd cooking stove, that has cost an our's hard scrubbing to make bright? Do you ever spit on the stove, floors, or carpets Do you leave hats and overcoats in the hall, or do you wear them in and lav them on tho table with books, papers, scattering hay seed and dust over the cloth and its contents, making it necessary to remove and replace them much oftener than would be required, if the rules of order were observed? Do you put your own clothes In their places, or leave them for some femalp member of the family to take care of? "I could ask many more questions or similar import about door-yards, gates, garden walls, fences, tool-houses, but I will not intrude. I insist that farmers homes ought to, and might be, as neat and beautiful as any others, if all would do their work in the best manner, or at the earliest opportunity, and not leave for another what they ou'ht to do themselves.

I know that habits are hard to overcome, but may I not hope that young mcn will heed advice? You would not like to have a slatternly wife; but it" you are slovenly in your habits, you could not be happy with a neat one, for she would be dissatisfied and unhappy, and uules3 she were uncommonly heroic, you would be likely Xo hear of it. Perhaps you think these thin res of very small moment, but I know of but few things that grieve aud Tret a woman more when sho Is weary and dispirited, than to have all her cflorts at order and neatness unappreciated; and I know, too, 'more offend from want of thought than from want of So let me say to farmers' boys, and girls too, if you wish to have pleasaut, happy homes, be not only virtuous, but orderly, industrious and neat." The report iu the Legislature of Rhode Island recommending Womau Suffrage is signed by four of the five members of tho Joint Special Committee on that subject. The othor member declines to sign, but will present no minority res port. J. i.