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POLK THE POLK COIXTV TIMES I M iMued Every Saturday Afternoon at Dalle«, Polk County, Oregon. OUR FU TU RE. From an article headed, “ In N ine teen Hundred A . D .— W h a t?’ ’ which appeared in a late number o f Appleton’s F . ft. STTiftT, EDITOR AMD PROPRIETOR. Journal, we extract the follow in g: O F FIC E — Main street, between Court and Mill streets, two doors south o f the Postoffice. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SIN G LE COPIES— One Year, S3 00; Six Months, $2 00 ; Three Months, $1 00. CLUBS will be supplied at the following ra tes:— Five Copies, one year, $13 75; Ten Copies, one year, $25 00, and for any greater cum ber at $2 50 per annum. Subeerijition mmt be paid »triedy in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert’n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion......................... 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar- terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will he inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work o f every description furnished at low rates on short notice. T H E P O E T ' S CORNER. FATHER, TAKE MY HAND. The wav is dark, my Father!— Cloud on cloud I s gathering thickly o'er m3 bead, and loud The thunders roar above me. See, I stand Like one bewildered^ Father, take my hand, And through the gloom Lead safely home Thy child. The day goes fast, my Father! and the night Is drawing darkly down. My faithless sight ■Fees ghostly visions— Fears, a spectral band. ■Crowd on my weary brain. Father, take my hand. And from the night Lead up to light Thy child. My path is rough, my Father! Many a thorn lias pierced me, and mv weary feet, all torn And bleeding, mark the way: yet Thy command Bids me press forward. Father, take my Land, Then, safe and blest, Lead me to rest— Thy child. The thorn is great, my Father! Many a doubt And fear and danger compass me about. And foes press me, and I cannot stand Or go alone. 0 , Father, take my hand! And through the thr< ng Lead safe along Thy child. What will be the probable moral con dition o f the American people in the year 1900? I am afraid that the social philosopher cannot look at the future without a great deal of apprehension. Our wealth will bo secured under con ditions that certainly will uot favor a great moral development. I but echo a truism, when 1 -ay that the prevail* ing sentiment is not accompanied by a religion calculated to save society. Our churches are losing their hold on the public mind, and l consequently look for a gigantic increase o f c«»rrup tioo in every department o f government and industry. The development of fraud aud swindling in most o f our rail road and indu.-trial enterprises has reached our legislative bodies; purely selfish considerations eontrel our parties, elect our legislators, aud administer our government. Honesty is becoming the exception, fraud and knavery the rule. W e want some new condition or ph ase of religion to correct this growiug can cer in the body politie. But I can see no new evolution o f Christian life that is of a nature to grapple with this g i gantic evil o f the age; it must run its course, and is destined to be the occa sion o f great intestine commotion aud social disturbance. Manners and domestic morals will also probably decay. Our stage shows that our tendencies in dramatic repre sentation are towards the wildest license o f the Parisian capital. The looseness o f the marriage relation, evidenced by legislative enactments making divorce laws more lax every year, and the as tounding number ol divorces, point to a state o f society with regard to the rela tion o f the sex«**’ which is not pleasant to contemplate Many o f these evils will correct themselves. The sobstitu tion of individual for corporate manage ment will do something toward restoring p u rity to co m m e rcia l tran saction s. The children. The invention o f labor-saving ma chines in agricultural pursuits is driv ing the laborer aud peasant into the towns and villages; aud the extension o f the manufacturing and other indus tries— all help to swell the population o f our cities. W e shall have, 01 this continent, cities with a mightier popu lation than any o f the great centers o f population o f ancient or modern times. I f our present system o f industry ob tains until »he end o f the present cen tury, until the public lands are all ta ken up, and the price of land rises very greatly, then wc shall see a social war between the wage-receiving class and the capitalists, which will be full o f the most appalling results. It is probable, more than probable, that what will take place in Europe in the next twenty five years may teach us many and great les sons, The problem of modern indus- trial society, which in this country will probably be postponed to the close o f the present century, will practically force a solution in Western Europe within the next ten or fifteen years. W e shall have it3 lessons and exper ienee to guide us, but. take it for all in all, this glance at the future o f the nineteenth century is not entirely reas suring. W e can very clearly see that the great extension o f wealth, the wide spread o f education, the filling up o f our vacant territories, the enormous in crease o f population, and, we hope, the growth of noble social feelings, may wi den the conception o f the duties be tween mm and man, and may help to mitigate the excesses o f the commercial and industrial forces now in operation. adven tu re . a d ic a l Adminititrator’« Sale. NEWS IN BRIEF. Once upon a time a traveler stopped into a stage eoach. He was a young man starting in life. H e found six pas sengers about him, all grey headed, and extremely aged men. The youngest appeared to have seen at least eight winters. Our yoang traveler, struc with the singularly wild and happy as pect whiek distinguished all his fellow passengers, determined to ascertain the secret of a long life, and the art o f ma king old age comfortable. He addressed the one who was ap parently the eldest, who told h i « he had always led a regular and abstem ious life, eating vegetables and drinking water. The young uian was rather daunted at this, inasmuch as he liked the good things o f this life. He ad dress.-d the second, who astonished him by saying he hid always eaten roast beef and gone to bed regularly fuddled for the last seventy years, addiog, that all depended on regularity. The third prolonged his days by never seeking or accepting office; the fourth by resolute ly abstaining from all political and re ligious controversies; and the fifth by going to bed at sunset and rising at dawn. The sixth was apparently much younger than the other five— his hair was less grey, and there wus more o f it, a placid smile, denoting a perfectly easy conscience mantled his face, and his voice was jocund and strong. They were all surprised to learn that he was by ten years the oldest man io the coach. “ How is it you have preserved the freshness o f life ? " exclaimed the young traveler. “ I have drauk water and wine— I have eaten meat and vegetables— I have dabbled in politics aud written religious pamphlets— I have sometimes gone to bed at midnight, and got up at sunrise aud at noon he then fixed his eyes iutently on the young man, and concluded with this remark, “ but I al ways pay promptly for my uewspaper.” Then the other ufil w c b chimed in with— “ O f course we always pay promptly, and in advance, for our newspapers. No tnan deserves long life who does not do that." Then the young man resolved that he would render himself deserving of long life, and immediately subscribed for five newspapers, paying for them in advance. lie is still living. I re ports show that the national debt was larger on September 1st, 1869. than it was on the same date four years ago; and yet during that time the govern menf has collected from the people about two thousand million dollars. So it appears that the government, as now run, costs the people five hundred mil lion dollars a year, or just what it took to run it ten yearn under a Democratic a d m in istra tion . Just w h at would run it ten years now if honest men were in office. When the business man detects his servast in the act o f stealing he dis charges him at once. Government o f ficers are as much the servants of the people as is the man whom any individ ual employs to plow his field or sell his goods, and yet thev are allowed to steal at the rate of four hundred and fifty R E P U D IA T IO N . million dollars a year for four years, and are continued in office. How long will Radical editors grow indignant over this last? W hat say you, tax-payers? the mention of repudiation. The na tional honor is so sacred in their esti T iik New York Herald says o f Sir mation they cannot even bear the idea that the bondholder shall receive the Samuel Baker’s Nile Expedition : same kind o f money the laboring man “ This important expedition, compris ing a well equipped army o f five thou has to take. Their talk about the sa sand men and several steel steamers, cred obligations o f the government is The Federal built in England, constructed so as to the merest clap-trap. government is to-day repudiating its di be taken to pieces at the rapids, and put together again in the river above rect promises, its pledges, its faith, as them, has left Lower Egypt en route recorded upon each and every one of its for the great lakes from which flow the millions o f greenbacks, bearing upon head streams o f the Nile. The objects themselves the guarantee that they are are the annexatioa of the whole Nile convertible into government bonds at valley to its head iu the great elevated the will of the holder, and that thpy are basin of the Equator to the vice royalty receivable for all debts, except import o f Egypt and to put all those wild duties, ten forty bonds and interest on tribes of the upper valley and batria to the five-twenty bonds, and yet the go vernment does not permit their conver the cultivation o f cotton." sion into bonds or let them be received iu paymeat of the principal o f the five- T h e New York Independent, a poli- twenties. Every day the government litico-religious journal, on which Henry is acting the repudiator o» a large scale, Ward Beecher was formerly a writer, closes an article on the Byron scandal and yet these Radical champions grow furious over the bare mention o f a re with the following beautiful and strik ing sentences : “ It. is a rude act in any pudiation by the people o f the galling human hand to jar the dust o f graves. burden which is being used to make In opening the sealed lips o f Lady B y them and their posterity slaves for ron in her sepulchre, and plucking from ever. When the government repudi them a nine-years buried secret. Mrs. ates in favor o f the bondholder it is all When th« Secretary of the Stowe has committed the unhallowed right. Treasury pays a bondholder 81 25 in act o f making the dead revile the greenbacks for a bond which cost the dead." bondholdcr only forty cents io gold, A young lady created a sensation on then Radical champions cry out he is Montgomery street, San Francisco, last reducing the public debt. This is as week, by appearing with a hat trimmed ridiculous as it is monstrous. When the people become fully alive so as to look as if a sea-gull had alight ed upon it. The plumage o f these to this fact, and when thev get sick and birds, the wings excepted, is a snowy tired o f heing ground down for the be white. The wings are a magnificient nefit o f the bondholders, and shall be mauve. The birds are skinned, the gin to consider the possibility o f repu brain is extracted, artificial eyes are in diation as a last resort, how can the serted, and the skin is drawn over the bondholder or his allies utter the word crown o f a jockey hat. The style is “ repudiation" as a term o f reproach or stunning, and will doubtless soon be the odium when they remember the stupen dous repudiation being practiced upon rage. ______________ the people this very day.— Louisiana An exchange sa ys: “ The Grant (M o.,) Journal. family would no doubt be glad to give all the gold they got by the Wall street ~'T “ What is the difference between swindle to get rid o f the “ G ould" they charity and a tailor? The first covers got in the same truBsaction." a multitude o f sins; the latter a multi R E c o n o m y . - -Official A s in g u l a r proper solution to the riilway difficulty will rid ns o f the control which these corporations now have over government. The railroads must be owned by the State, and the «are run by individuals My cross is heavy. Father*! I have horn* or companies, That is to sav, the canal It long, and still do hear it. Let mv worn system o f the State of New York must And fainting spirit rise to that blest land Where crowns are given. Father, take my hand. be the model for the future railway svs And. reaching down, tern o f the whole country, iustead o f the Lead to a crown few very rich men practically owning Thy child. all the railways o f the country, as is rapidly becoming the case. A cry will G E N E R A L M ISC E LLA N Y . go up from all quarters to take away F A T H E R 1 IY A C I N T H E . from these men the monopoly they will hold of the roads given by the people, The American press at this time is not for their benefit alone, but for the extensively engaged in discussing the good o f the whole community. case o f Father Charles Loyson Ilya- I am in hopes also that, contempora einthe, a bold and eloquent priest, neously with the inevitable growth of whose recent secession from the Catho an enormously wealthy class, will arise lic Church has caused much excitement a public opinion which may correct in Europe. It seems that Pere Ilya- many of the evils incident to the accu -einthe has for some time past attracted mulation o f property iu a few hands, attention and caused much comment by ; "V. “ **'" , . . , , . , . .. J and thus a conception of property, not his independent course; but the more . ,. . r • . . . • 1 ' , r ’ as an individual nght, but as a sacred recent origin o f his trouble arose from public trust, may become general, T o his attributing the victories of the secure great wealth, it is indispensable Prussian army to its superior educa that the community should work with tion, and to the fact that every soldier and for the capitalist. By his own la who marched in the ranks could read bor no man can earn more than a fair his testament and study for himself the living, with perhaps a little to spare. sources of eternal truth. He was re To obtain legal possession o f vast pro buked for this. .His answer was a sur perties requires the co-operation o f render o f his priestly functions and se thousands and tens of thousands of per cession from the Church. sons. W hen the rich realize this (and It is said that the Pope will excom they never will do so until public opin municate the refractory Father. Many ion instructs them), and see that they think that he has already made another hold their property only in trust, that Erasmus. Time will tell. they are simply administrators o f the W e are informed bv Paris corres wealth o f the community, they will pondents o f the American pres« that then, but not until then, realize their Father Hyacinthe was born at Orleans, great social obligations France, in 1827, and completed his ed The present conception o f property is ucation at Pau. In 1845 lie was or a totally different affair, and the way in dained at Sulpice. in which parish he w hich people regard it almost justifies •aubaeqaently officiated as priest, but in Proudhome’s famous apothegm, that >the meantime he studied theology four , . , . , . | “ property is robbery. It is a purely years and taught philosophy at Avienon, i* j • . J 7 .v vT ’ selfish, egotistical and unsocial concep- •and afterwards taught theology at Nan- . ’ . „ ., . , * J » “ i All is U mine, says * * • • , e 1/ tion. 1* M J . l I* l this l l l o IO J > I I V » Y v the llU V rich IL'Il 4 « . H .T in p passed ten years in »lody i o with ju8, M ,eas .. and a noviciate o f two year, in the ¡ ,,, hyJtnd.b í , Ba' v. ,.Ko. U o n . convent of C«rn.el.te Friar.. ho . . b , he ¿ aMon Jf hu„. became a member o f the order, and was 1 J K * . . . .. .. ’ dreds and thousands that you secured •first a preacher in that city >' hile thig weahh . we deratnd that use ;t •there his ,s sermons, delivered at the Ly- | n|)t for your Qwn beneflt a, J e but for cee, were considered remarkable. It the good of the community who gave it was during the summer o f 1864 that you. or who created those conditions by he made his first appearance in Paris, which vou could secure these vast ac preaching at the Church o f the Made cumulations.’' line, and afterwards »t Notre Dame, Tn a partial degree, some of our rich having prepared a course o f sermons men have realized this great social du for Advent. Here he at once, by the ty ; hence our Peabodys, Lawrences, eloquence and boldness o f his utter Coopers and Sheffields. W hat is now ances, attracted public attention and exceptional must, i f society is to be gained for himself a brilliant reputa saved in this country.be true o f the en tion. tude o f sinners. tire wealthy class. It will -probably be The Radical party a<nd Mrs. Parting . There have been sixteen cases o f sui a very long time before this conception ton agree in one tenet o f faith, namely, Babies are coupons attached to the cide in Lowell, Mass , within eight becomes general, but if it does not, the the doctrine o f total depravity is a good bonds o f matrimony. The interest is future is full of trouble for us and our one, if strictly lived up to. mostly of young girls. due at random. fib»- NO. 31. DALLAS. OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1869. VOL. 1. — A terrible outrage was committed recently by some negroes upon a white lady near Homer, La. Two o f the ne groes have been put to death, and a third has fled, a large reward beiog of fered for his apprehension. — Dr. Mary W alker has been lectur- iag in St Louis om the necessity o f a law compelling men to marry before they reach the age o f forty. — The Chicago Evening Journal «ays that most of the game seen along the line o f the Pacific railroad is the game of “ old sledge." — A Cincinnati girl horse-whipped a young man because he changed Iris mind and concluded not to. In the language o f the poet “ Hell hath uo fury like a woman" with her back up. — The San Francisco Call says that Chicago tailors, shoemakers and hatters are sending their agents to S a i Frau- cisco, to take the measures o f its citi zens and send them to Chicago, where the articles are made up, and in three weeks sent to San Francisco and fur nished to the parties who gave the or ders at prices iu greenbacks tweuty per cent, below what the artirans of the Bay City would make them for in gold. That’s the way California tradesmen are being driven out o f iheir own mar ket. N PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF T M * I County Court of Polk County, Qregen, n u l« October Term. A. D. 1869, the undersigned, Ad ministrator of the estate of A. I . Thomas, de ceased, will, on Monday, the lit h day o f No vember, A. D. 1869, at the Court house door in Dallas, in said county, between the hours o f 9 oclock a in and 4 oclock p m o f said day, e v pose for public sale, for gold or silver coin, to the highest bidder, all the right, title and in terest, which the said A. J. Thomas bad »t his decease, in and to the following described pre mises, via : Beginning at the south west cor ner o f the donation land claim o f Geo. Gay« which is 2:00 chs west of the south east corner c f the north east i ®f cection 7, T # 8 , B S W, o f the Willamette meridian, ruoniag thence west 46.-00 chains; thence north 40:00 chains; theucc east 40.-00 chains; thence south 40:0# chains to the place of the beginning ; contain ing 160 acres. Also, six acres o f land bonght of David McDonald, adjoining the south west corner of said ;»remises.. All of said premise* being in Polk county, Oregon. Sale te com mence at one o’clock p in of said day- Terms of sale—cash down. B. F. McLEK'CR, Administrator o f said Estate. Sullivan A Whitson, Admr’s Att’ys. October 16, LS69. 2 4-tt — A Times’ special says a sufficient canvass o f the Senate has been made to show that Sickles cannot be confirmed. A report is received that Sickles has been guilty o f immoral conduct in Ma drid. — A fight recently occurred in Ham ilton county, Texas, between a party o f whites and a hand o f Indians, in which seven of the latter were killed. Two o f the whites were wounded, one, it is thought, mortally. After the fight one o f the redskins was discovered to be a “ squaw," and it is reported that she was by far the most valiant o f the en tire band. — A nigger wench bride, dressed in white satin, is the latest fashionable folly in the Radical gyaaticutwe line in Washington. She was as lovely as a box o f blue pills. — A current caricature is New York is described as follows: In an iron cage the bulls and bears are engaged in a deadly struggle, while Jim Fisk, dressed in his admiral’s uniform, the epaulettes represented by the .steamers “ Bristol*’ and “ Providence,’ ’ the sailor’s knot held by a pin and marked “ Opera House," and an Erie engine snorting from his pocket, goads the poor beast-« with a sharp pointed stick, labeled *100 for a million.” In the distance is seen the White House, and down a bill, on the keen jum p, comes General Grant, staggering under the weight o f a huge bag marked 85,000,000 in coin. — Wales has a railway o f only two feet guage. the engines and cars being correspondingly small, as well as the expense of running it. The experi ment is quite successful, and. is worthy o f general adoption on routes where roads on a more extensive scale would uot pay. — The Washington Chronicle figures up that, tweuty eight leading railway companies in the United States have in the last two years “ watered” their at >ck to the amount o f 8113,680,000. Erie stock was in that time raised front 825.. 100.000 to 857 000.000. and New York Central from 826.000.000 to 851.000,- 000. The figures do not iuclude either o f the Pacific companies. — To a recent Democratic procession in New 5 ork the Sixth ward carried a banner, on which was inscribed, “ Our National Disturbers— Past. Present, and Future.” represented as follow s: The y a maP an' t brother^ of the co- lored persuasion ; the second by a sharp and vinegar-vigagod wqman. typical o f the woman’s rights woman o f the per iod ; and the third by a Chinaman as the disturber o f the future. — The Virginia darkies are making a sensible move. They are going to the eotton fields further south where their labor is needed. Recently 75 o f them left Richmond in one gang tor Louisiana, having hired themselves at 818 and $20 per month to work on eot ton plantations. The exodus from Vir ginia southward o f the black clement of her population has recently been quite large, and, instead o f diminishing, seems to increase with the rigor of the season. n — Near Atwood, Indiana, recently, a hoy named Joseph Arnold struck his mother with his fist with such force that r.he fell over a large chair, break- inc her thigh and injuring her side so badly that she died a few days after wards. Summons. In the Circuit Coeurt f o r Polk County, State o f Oregon. Charles McDonald and M. J. McDonald, Plain tiff*, vs. James M. Haggard, by F. Shoe maker bis guardian, and Xathanial Haggard, Defendants. Suit iu Equity fur Parlilkm of Real property. O THE ABOVE NAMED D EFEN D AN TS: To all and each o f you, In the name of the State of Oreg<>*, you «re hereby cited aad summoned and required to be and appear ia the Circuit Court for Polk county, State of Or egon. within teu days from the date ot service of this summons upon you, if served in this county, and within twenty days, if served ia anv other couuty in this State, or if served without the State, by publication or otherwise, then on or before the 3d Monday in November. 1869— the 1 st «.lay o f the next regeiar term of said Court, then and there to answer the complaint of the plaintitfs filed iu said Court praying for a division and partition o f a certain tract or parcel o f land in said couuty and State, des cribed as follows : Beginning at the N. E. cor ner of Elias Harper's donation land claim Not. 51, T. 6 S., K. C West, in sections 32, 33; thence running west 49 cbs. to a stake; theuc« south to Township line : thence east with said line 40 chs.: thence north to theplaesof begin ning; containing 240 acres, more or less, ex cepting 8(1 acres off the north end, as widow's dower. Now then, if you and each o f yoa (ail to appear and answer said complaint as above required, then thu plaintiffs will apply to Court lor the relief therein demanded, to-wiU the partition ami division of said premises, or sale thereof, and fur custs and disbursement* ot suit. Vineyard A Turner Attorneys for Plaintiffs. Dallas, Oregon, Oct. 2, 1869. 23-6 T Summons. In the Circuit Court o f the State o f Oregom fo r Polk Comity. Mary E. Cline, PlaintifT. vs. Henry Cline, De fendant. Suit fi»r a Divorce. m o HENRY CLINE, D E F E N D A N T: IN A the name o f the State o f Oregon, yea are hereby re«(uired to appear in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Polk county, within teu days from the date of the service o f this summons upon you, if served within thiscoanty. and within twenty days, if served within any other county of this State, or if served without the State, hy publication or otherwise, then <«* or before the 3d Monday in November, 1869— the first day of the next regular term o f lb* C«»urt aforesaid. You ure further notified that if 3'ou fail so to appear and answer the com plaint of the Plaintid, for want thereof tsbe, plaintiff, will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in complaint, to-wit: a Dissolution of the Boud o f Matrimony existing between Plaintiff and Defendant, and for the care aad custody o f the Minor child of Plaiutiff au«l Defendant, with costs and disbursements o f suit. H ayden .t My or Attorneys for Plaintiff. Dallas, Oregon. Oct. 2, 1869. 23-* Escciilor’s Sale. N PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF THB I Countv Court o f P«>lk county, Oregon, mad* August Term. A. D., 1869, the iimiersigiwd. Executor «>t tho Last Will ami Testament of M. M. .1 ones, deceased, will an Monday the 1st day of November. A. D., 1869,at the Court House door iu Dallas, in sai«l county, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. ami 4 o'clock P. Jt, of said day, expose for public sale, for g-14 or silver coin, to the highest bidder, all the right, title and interest which the said M. M. Joues bail at the time o f his decea-e, in and to the foUowitig described premises, viz: The donati«»* land claim ot George Masiker Not. No. “ 782V* and clkim No. *‘51'' containing 320 68 acres. Also, the donatiou laud claim of J«>hu Walla«-* N«»t. No. “ 7810” and claim No. “ 56'’ containing 32*1.91 acres. All o f said premises being ia T. 6 S. R. 7 W. of the Willaiuetu> Meridian, Polk county, Oregon. Sale to «ommeucc at one o ’clock P. M. of said day. Turin« o f sale: oo* third cash down, and U*« remainder in four months, secured by note and mortgage upon the premises. GEGEGE P. LITCHFIELD, Sept. C, 1869. Executor. Sullivan A Whitson. Attys for Ex. 22 Farm Tor Sale. Q / A ACRES OF EXCELLENT LAND IN O l# Linn county, 9 miles from Albany dod 5 miles from Corvallis. All under fence, good house, young orchard, fifty acre* in cultivation, improvements all ucw. Address, “ TIM ES,” Dallas. Oregon. To Whom it Hay Concern. VTO TICE IS HEREBY G IVEN TO ALL Xa not in any way to credit my wife, Nancy C. Simpson, an 1 will uot he responsible ia way for any debts »he may contract. K. W. SIMPSON, of Polk Co. Now. 11, 1869. 29 WELCH'S PREMIUM SALMON — BEET in market— — in in m bits or barrels. £OX A E A R H A K T ’ S, f or salo at Salea W A LL SORTS OF GOODS SOLD Cash or Maxkutablo Produce ut FOR J, H. LEWIS'S.