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THE POLK fO BTV TIMES 1 « Issued Every Saturday Afternoon at Nellas, Polk County, Oregon. F. E. i m R T , EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—Northeast corner of Main and Oak itreeU, fronting Academy Block. •U1 SCBIFTION BATES. 8INGLE COPIES— One Year, $3 00; Six Months. $3 00; Three Months, f l 00. CLUBS will be supplied at the following rates:—Five Copies, one year, $13 75; Teu Copies, one year, $-’ 3 00, and for any greater ' number at $3 30 per annum. Subscription must be paid strictly in advance. ADVERTISING BATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert’», $3 00 Each subsequent insertion......................... 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $13 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 tbeir current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. Folk County Official Directory. X — Polk county covers an area of about 1.230 'square miles. Number of voter*, 1.227. Acres "of land under cultivation, 03 270. Value of assessable property, $1.234.529. Tho Land Office for this District is located at Oregon City— Owen Wade, Register: Henry Warren, Receiver. Cor STY OFFICE KS. — Commissioners, E. C. Dice, R. Tatem: ./»dye, J. L Collins; Sheriff, J. W. Smith ; l'Irek, J. I Th> ■mpson ; Assessor, II. Davis : Trto surer, R. M. .May; Srhooi Su perintend- nt. J. II. M jer; Surveyor, L. Burch; Coroner, C. D. Kuibree. T erms ok C or rt .— Circuit Court. R. P. Boise •Judge, convene-* in Dallas on the 4th Monday in April and 3d Monday in November. County 'Court convenes on the 1st Monday in each month. N o ta r ie s P isljc .— T. Pearce, Kola: W. W. Boone. Independence; J. L. Collins, Dallas; 1H. N. George, Buena Vista. •P ost O ffic e T o w n s — Dallas (county seat), Eola, Independence, Monmouth. Buena Vista. Bethel, Bridgeport, Etna, Grand Koude, Lawn Arbor, Luckiauiute and Salt Creek. U. S. M a i l leaves Dallas for Salem on Mon day, Wednesday and Frvlay at 7 a m , return iug same days at ft p. in.; for Independence, each Tuesday morning at 6 ; f«r Salt Creek, each Tuesday at I p m.; for Lafayette, Mon day and Thursday at 3 p m , returning Wed- nesay and Saturday at 10 a. in.; for Corvallis. *Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a. in., returning .Monday and Thursday ut 3 p. m. W . D. J E F F R IE «. M. D., and Surgeon, Eola, Oregon. Special attention given to Obstetrics and Diseases of Women. Itf j . e . d a v i d s o n , n . d ., Physician ami Surgeon, Independence, Ogn. « 1 R. J E S SU P , M. I>„ Physician and .Surgeon, Dallas, Oregon. OFFICE— At residence, on Jefferson street •opposite Academy Block. 1 B O M I VTl & L A W S O N , Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law, S A L E M , OREGON. O FFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. 1 €. « . U R L , Attorney and Oounsellor-at-Law, SALEM, OREGON, IWill in all the Courts of Record and Inferior Courts of this State. 'O F F IC E —In Watkinds A Co’s Brick, up stairs. 1 H ayden .tlyer, A T T O R N E Y * -A T - L A W , Dallas, Oregon. OFFICE IN THE COURT IIOLFE. 1 SULLIVAN & WHIT80N, Attorneys fc Counsellors-at-Law, Dallas. Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts o f the State, LTCCKQrS V I M V A H D I i J A # - H- T O R I E S . V in e y a r d & T u r n e r , A T T O R N E Y « -A T - L X W , Dallas, Oregon. OFFICE—-On Main street, one door north of the Dallas Hotel. * J . [,. C e i i M N S , Attorney and Oounaellor-at-Law, Dallas. Oregon. Bfeeial attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to Real Estate. *__ J . A- APPLF.OATB. 1 J A S . MCCAIN. Applegate St JlcCnin, A T T O R N E Y S -IT - L A W , XROlgi. P olk C «««ty, Ogu. X T "CASTLE IN SPAIN." In the beauteous realms of dreamland, In the moonbeam’s silvery light, At the golden loom of fancy Sit 1, weaving visions bright; Rearing up ethereal structures, Thin as mist and light as air* Working on with kindling fervor, While I weave a fabric fair. Ab, my castle none may enter 1 Closed it is te mortal eyes; Yet amidst its wealth and splendor Write I, lost in strange surprise, That in all my haunts aud rambles Long I not for kindred miud, And alona aud unattended This solitude congenial find. Would you \ iew this phantom structure, Floating in the ether blue ? Idle dreamers long have reared them, They aic neither strange nor new; Old and young are busy working Ou these airy castles high, Sad delusions, these mirages In Imagination’s sky! Azure skies and golden sunshine In this land of dreams prevail; Silver moon and stars supplant them When the yellow suu grows pale; Crystal lakes in emeruld settings Glisten in the moonbeams fair; Silvery mists conceal the outlines Of my castle in the air. Clouds as light as foam-fiecked wavelets Steal across the azure sky; To enrich the sunset splendor With their gold and crimson d y e ; Founts of dew play mists of silver Up into the scented air, Throwing >prav like glistening crystals O’er the pearly petals rare. All about my airy castle Floats an atmosphere so soft That it needs no firm foundation Tu support its weight aloft; Though its slender, fragile columns Are upheld by vapor fine, Yet no citadel or stronghold Is impregnable as mine. Never need I fear intrusion From a friend or foe without, _T /' No enemy can storm my lortress, Or c a n c a p t u r e its r e d o u b t ; In reveries alone I wander, Well assured that none would dare To invade the sacred precincts Of my castle in tde air. Jury, three-fourths ot which were against co ored persons. Three negroes were sent to the penitentiary for o*.e year .for grand larceny; two whipped, for petty larceny, and on*. for an at tempt to commit ra»e upon the person of a small white girl, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment— the full extent o f the law. — A. T. Stewart’s new model dwell- ing is rapidly going up in New York It is to be entirely o f iron aud brick, eight stories iu hight, inclosing a court 100 leet square. It is to contain an elevator, » steam-heating apparatus and a water-tank, and be furnished with sleeping apartments for 1,500. restaur ant. parlors, bath rooms, laundry, kit chens, etc. It will cost over 83.090.- 000, and, it is calculated, will afford the working women, for whose benefit it is erected, lodging, food and washing at a cost o f two dollars a week. — J eff Davis, in a private letter sais his hea th is excellent, and adds: ‘ It has been my purpose to return thi- Spring to what was my home, and if permitted to do so without injury or embarrassment to my friends, to engage in some business which may yield a support.” — A workman, while excavating in a gravel-pi' on the bank of the Wabash, near Vincennes, Ind., recently, un earthed considerable quantities o f silver plate, church ornaments, crucifixes, ceusers, silver candlesticks, etc. These articles bore the appearance of having been buried for a long tim e; and as the priests have given no explanation o f the matter, it is involved in mystery — The manufacturers of Cincinnati sold duting th • fiscal veareuduig April 1, 1869, 826.000,000 o f go*>ds. — O f the 13,602 immigrants that ar rived at New York during the month o f March. 0,683 were Germans. A Ligoninr, Ind., barber got a wig. called himself a Spaniard, and married a white woman o f Michigan, a few days ago. — A dispatch from Berlin mentions a rumor o f the expected marriage o f Mrs. Abraham Lincoln to tho Chamber lain or the Duke o f Baden. — The Providence (R l.,) Methodist Conference has resolved not to admit any man to membership who uses to bacco "except for medicinal purposes ” NEWS IN BRIEF. P R O F E <SIOXA L CA R DS. Physician NO. 5. DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1869. VOL. 1. I V — West Tennessee rejoices at the tide o f immigration now setting in. Rutter is one dollar and twenty five Q n^ town recently received an addition cents per pound at Salt Lake City. to its population o f two hundred per — Nine bodies o f persons mysterious sons from Pennsylvania. — A very curious railroad accident ly murdered were found in the streets and waters o f New York week before happened recently near Mirztpore, India. A large elephant, seeing the last. — All the United States army bands red light and the smoke, concluded the ure to be mustered out o f service ex noisy locomotive was an enemy to be summarily demolished lie accordingly cept that starioued ut West Point placed himself on the track, and met — A couple were recently married in the strange creature, head <>o, with Kansas City, Missouri, in less than one trunk and tusks. The result was, a hoar after being introduced. ¡dead elephant, 11 cars eapsized, and — I he anniversary o f the American one man killed, hqual Rights Association was held at — \ convention of person* interested Stemway Hall. New \ ork. on the 15th Jn conferring the right o f suffrage u,*on ult. They had a stormy session, enjoy, y*>ung men between theages of eighteen ing considerable of the "rights.” Khz- and twenty-one, wtfl be held in Man abeth Cady Stanton was President. chester, N H., on the 27lh iust. Lucy Stoue read a report showing the — It is n-*w clear that Mrs. Harriet efforts o f the socety to have Woman Beecher Stowe is not about to leave her suffrage introduced in Congress aud the Florida plantation because o f "rebel” vaiious Suites. Fred Douglass idvo- persecution, having, indeed, borne her cated negro suffrage and amalgamation - , , , “ 7 fi . testim ny to the good will and warm of the races first aud woman suffrage , . 3 . . n . , . • , . . ° heurtedness of her neighbors; neither a terwar s. j j8 that |_To«*le Tom has been found so — During the past seven months 14 incorrigibly idle as to render it itnpossi locomotives have exploded in the Uni- ^|e j,, vnuIco both ends meet *»y his labor ted States, killing tweuty persons aud 00 t.|ie p|aCC| Uncle 'j\)m working, in- injuring over fifty. deed, very well in Madam’s orange — The New York Post says the Union grove, carpet bag politicians being there Pacific Co. ptoposu to keep an account from denied ; but the truth is, that Mrs o f the through passengers this year who Stowe bought the land at a tax sale— intend simply a visit to the Pacific military necessity tax sale— and as this coast. From applications for passage does not hold good in law, the rightful already made they count over 15,600 owner is to come into his own. and Mrs vi-itors to this coast, most o f them "per S. to receive the dollar and a half paid s<*ns of leisure;” and a majority o f , at the tax sale. these havo named in their programme — In a printing office at Gosport is a a visit to Y use mite. blind compositor. Hi? average day’s! — On the Chicago and Northwestern work i* five thousand ems. and on sev railway, recently, a train ran 91 miles eral occasions he has set from seven to nine thousand His letter is distributed in 98 miuutee. — Typhoid fever of a type that baf- hi"» and his C017 is r™d d by bJ his his Pat perfect „ s U l . . e ^ s s s a i nmdic*l skill U r»r«va. uer, his memory being so perfect that ftes the g r e a t e s t medical skill is prevu he can retain from four to six lines; lent in Philadelphia. when this is finished he cries the last — Unity, N. H.. is evenly balanced. word set, when «mother sentence is read, It contains a population o f 459 males and so on. and 450 females. — A cow belonging to a Mr. White — A little boy near Quincy, 111, re o f Winneshiek county added three cently hung himself because his mother calves, a few days since, to hi« herd o f angered him by speaking sharply. young Btock. But twice as natural as — A o oyster was recently found in that, and much more to the interest o f New Haven haibor which contained the party o f "great moral ideas,” is the 293 pearls, varying in size from a urns announcement that a white woman of tard seed to a bird shot. Decatur county, has presented hsr rad ical husband with an “ American cit:zen — At the late term o f the Bourbon, Queer doings Ky., Circuit Court, there were forty- o f African descent.” r» • I• . _ r.___ I k.. A L ~ A __..,1 five indictments found by the Graud i now-a- days. — The Guernsey (O ) Times states that at the term o f the Common Pleas Court of that couqtv, Catharine Ducker obtained a verdict against Christian Lohunn o f 8525 aud costs, for selling ttquor to her husband The liquor law of that State provides, that if selling liquor to u person causes him to fail in providing for his family, or neglect his work, tbc wife or employer can institute a civil action against the vender of poison, aud if the case be sustained, a verdict must be rendered by the jury in favor of the plaintiff. — At «radical meeting in Richmond, Va., last Friday. Lewis Lindsay, negro, took the 8tund and made one o f the most inflammatory harangues He said the white man had the negro down for two hundred years; but that now the negro was on top. They had in their hun-is the chatus and manacles with *hich tne white man had kept the tie gro bound for so long, and they intend ed t<* put them on the white m n, and to make him groan, undsweat, and work, before they were done with him. He said Gen. Grant knew something about tainting, aud would help ttiem to tan the white man until his skin was us black and tough as theirs. T races of th e W ar — B ull R un — The evidences of the late war are abundunt. From a few miles south o f Alexandria ‘ ’on to Richmond” the "sa cred soil” is checkered with breastworks, redoubts, ditches aud rifle pits. The soil, by the way, was evidently manu factured by the same hand that fash ioned the foot-hills and red earth por tions of the Sierra; the exception to the sa?red soil is white sand, aud along the river bottoms more or less Joam. There is quite a resemblance between portions of Eastern Virginia and the Willamette Valley, Oregon— small prai ries and plains or table-lands, and red hills surrounded by thickets o f scrub oak, evergreen, and other varieties of shrubbery— l should think the easiest sort o f a place to defend when under stood. Bull Run is perhaps thirty feet wide, with high steep banks. The red redoubts d->t the scene on cither side, up and down hs tar as the eye can see. aud the fighting occurred both above ami below, though the heaviest part above the railroad. South o f the stream are hundreds of crumbling chimneys, where the rebels had their tents pitched behind the masked batteries of Quaker guns when all was "quiet on the Poto mac.” On ihe left o f the railroad, near Manassas Junction, are a Confed erate and National Cemetery, both neat ly kept. There is a uniformity about these institutions in striking contrast with cemeteries in general The head- boards are in regular rows, and all o f a size ; while those buried beneath aie all grown up people of the male sex No sons, daughters, wives, mothers, or infants; quite un exclu>ive way of doing, hut 1 suppose the only conven ient way they have in war .— Letter to the Bulletin. /'W e n d e ll Phillips says: “ The hydra of the next generation is the po y r o f tnc rporated irealth. New York has no Legislature. Her laws are made in the counting room o f Van derbilt. Pennsylvania lias no Legisla Hu e. Her c-. pitol is the pockets of her monied men The North western Rail road rules Wi-consin.” Admiral Semmes com plains that the C "ontry sympathizes with the Cretuns, adding : “ But the devil o f it is we take care o f and admire everybody’s rebels but our own.” I f you are a wise man you will treat the world as the moon treats it. Show it only one side o f yourself, seldom show yourself too much at a time, and let what you show be calm. cool, and polished But look at every side of the woi Id. Enamored writing master to a young lady p u p il--"I can teach you nothing; your hand is alread» a very de-iralle • me. and your l ’s (eyes) are the most beautiful I ever saw ” The best bank ever known is a bank o f earth; it never refused to discount to honest lahor. And the best share is the plowshare; on which dividends are always liberul. A feeling of just dignity sometimes makes us refuse a benefit, but there are those who refuse because they have too narrow hearts to pledge themselves to be grateful. W e learn to climb by keeping onr eyes not on the hills behind, but on the mountains that rise before us. No one has ever been so good aud ao great, or has raised so high, as to be above the reach of troubles. T he R oad to P r o s p e r i t y . — The prime want o f Oregon is an intelligent, diversified and well developed industry Having this, the State would at once find a new life, infusing its animating power into all our relations and inter ests. Diversified industry can support itself at home. It can create wealth and establish a reciprocity of interests mutually advantageous to the whole people. Agriculture may be made « basis o f wealth, but it cannot be the sole reliance. In this State it langui-h- es for waut o f market, aud in our pres eut undeveloped condition there is noth ing else for our people to turn to. We want capital and enterprise to open the way. Water wheels must lie set at work, furnaces built, forge fi>es kindled and looms and spindles set in tnotion. Our farmers are apt to turn their attention too much to one department o f their business. O f late they have been de voting their efforts to the production of wheat and neglecting too much the rearing o f cattle and sheep. Wheat is now worth but very little while cattle and sheep bring good* prices. I f our farmers now had live stock to sell to meet the present demand the State would receive money enough to com pensate for the failure o f the grain market. We are too liable to forget that prosperity liesindiversified employ menta, and to devote ourselves to one industry to the exclusion o f all others — Oregonian. A C o l o r e d J u r y . — An “ uncon sfructed” traveler writes as follows from Jacksonville, F la, to the Savannah Republican: I have seeu evidence that Florida is in advance of Georgia in reconstruction. I visited the United States Court House and there 1 saw out o f the twelve jurymen on the trial be fore the United States Judge nine of them negroes. I had the curiosity to scan them closely. Two o f them were fast asleep; their heads thrown back, and mouths wide open. Two or three o f them looked wondrous wise, as if they were trying to evince great atten tion and astuteness. On the whole the thing looked very comical, and I could not help thinkingof the depth towhich liberty had brought ns. fla^The Selma (A la .) Times snys, as an evidence o f the increasing di-toosi tion on the part o f immigrants to settle on the fertile lands and under th*- sunny skies of the South, we are «ratified to learn that Col. B. M. W oosey, Super intendent ot Lands ami Immigration, has received probably the most exten sive order for lands ever sent to uny agent in the United States. The order is collossal iu its proportions, being for one million forty thousand acres. Is not this a convincing proof that the people o f Europe are awakening to the fact that we are in possession o f the finest country and the fiuest climate on the face of the earth ? W ork to be P ushed .— As thcflFen tral Pacific Railroad is now completed, we in-iy exp*ct u large number o f labor ers will *oon commence work on the Oregon extension. A correspondent o f the Bull-tin, writing from the "End of the track.” April 27th, says the "C en tral Pacific will also move men and teams to Marysville to commence the Oregon road. Governor Stanford says they will push the road north as quiekly us passible. The Central Company have bought the California end of the California and Oregon road, and will connect with Ben Holladay’s road on the east side o f the river south o f Port land .” — Afargsville Appeal, May 1. A Washington special to the Chicago Times says: "T h e Virginia press, with great unanimity, accept the reconstruction law reganiing their State, and call on the President to submit the obnoxious features of the new constitu tion to the people; declaring at the same time that the disfranchisement section will be voted down, and that they are opposed to the fifteenth consti tutional amendment us a condition pre i-edent to congressional representation ; but say that uuiversal suffrage is a fixed fact, any way, in the South, and the peo: le o f Virginia are perfecUy willing to do anything n*iw that will force ne gro suffrage on the North and West— hence they take the fifteenth amend ment Candidates for Congress are already coming out in the State. W D. Wallach, late of the Washington Star, announces himself as one. aud modestly adds, in his letter, that to him is due all the credit of the passage of the new law. T he i atholics and S uffrage — The Cat’iolic World in its last issue contains a paper on the "W oman Ques tion,” taking the ground that the move ment in favor of extending the suffrage to women, is suited to d«* more hirm than good to both sexes. The writer admits the high intellectual and moral capacity of women ; he does not object to their political enfranchisementon the score o f their incompetency to either hold office or vote; hut on the ground • hat it would weaken and ultimately destroy the Christian family. He be lieves that the greatest danger to Amer ican society aries from the present ten dency to become a nation of isolated individuals, without family ties or »ffcc- tions. W c have in a great measure lost the pure associations o f the old homestead. Wc live in hotels and board ing houses, rath-r than at the domestic fireside. The family, to a fearful extent, lias become but the mere shidow o f what it was and o f what it should he. Hence, the writer argues, that if the •uffrage is conceded to women, what remains of the fainily union will soon be dissolved. Woman was created to be a wife and a mother; her proper function is the care of the household; and whatever draws her away from the domestic sphere, and places her in the turmoil o f political life, tends to rob her o f her true dignity and worth. A N a u o h t y G i r l — Ma*sachusetts each day develops more dnd more those attributes wh « h go »o prove her claim to be considered the centre o f civiliza tion to the wtirld. Iler papers give ait account of another white girl that ha* been most cruelly and brutally flogged in o e of the public schools in the town o f Me ¡ford. The victim was sofn iR - mered th >t "both arms were black and blue; both hands were blistered; there were bruises on her knees; her stomach was so swollen that her clothes had to be cut from her; and she was confined to the house f* o weeks in consequenoo •f the flogging.” Nevertheless, a judge "h* Id that the girl was naughty and deserved punishment, and therefore discharged the teacher from custody.” It is quite superfluous to tell how the Massachusetts moralists would have howled and the Massachusetts Sunday Schools would have screeched if a tithe of this flogging had been laid on tho back o f some bacon stealing negro down in Texas. 0 ® “ During the present year there will be two eclipses o f the sun. The first will take place on the 23d o f July, but will be only partial, and invisible in this country. On August 7th, a total ec'ipse of the sun occurs. Thi* will be ’ he most interesting that has been witnessed in the United States for years, and will not happen again until the last of the century. The shallow of the earth will commence cr"ssing tho sun’s disc about half past four in the afternoon, and will not entirely pass over it until half past six. teÿ* A lady correspondent writes that she entirely destroyed thein-ccts which infested her rose bushes by the use o f quassia, and that they thrived better a fe r its use than before. In the report of the Alton, Illinois, Horticultural Society, quassia is recommended for de stroying black rod green insects in cherries. Qua-sia may be found in any druggist’s establishment. Use two ounces to a gallon o f water; boil fifteen or twenty minutes. It will also be found effective in destroying many kinds o f insects which iufest the flower garden. tei»“* The State of Ohio, although she cast a majority for Grant o f over forty- one thousand, and o f course may be considered a Republican Sta»e, has vir tually ignored the Fifteenth Amend ment. The House, on Thursday, passed a bill to prevent the negroes from voting by punishing them for a violation o f th»- election laws. It also punishes all who aid them in doing so. even to offi cers o f election. Three cheers for Ohio aud a white man’s government. A western woman, who persist* >n -nil wearing a trailing dress through the streets to the disgust of sensibb ■eople, recently went to law to get damages for a nice dress that was trod den upon in the street. She claimed that the dress cost three hundred dol lars, and that it was ruined by a lout treading upon it. The jury brought in for defendant, aud on the ground that a w<»man had no right to leave her dress round on the sidewalk aud other public places. ----------------------------- iq ■■ H i that knows how to speak knew* ■one J udge thyself with a judgment of also wheu to be silent. W e use riches as children use toys sincerity, and thou wilt judge others — to amuse us till we fall asleep. with a judgment o f charity.