POLK DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER L 1869, VOL. ............ TUE POLK t mm TIMES «sued Every Saturday Afternoon at Dalla«, Polk county, Oregon. In every contest that has occurred betweeu labor and capital, the former has been ever first attacked, and what- F. R. STUART, EDITOR \\D PROPRIETOR. evcr resistance it has made has been _____ j purely defensive. Incorporated capital OFFICE- Main street, between Court and the old proverb properly characterizes Mill etreet?, two d ■ rs south o f the Postoffiee. as soulless. Greed o f pain, deaf to every consideration except money, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. grows e.tactiug and tyrannical with ac­ SINGLE COPIES—One Year. $.1 00; Six cumulation. Hearts harden and scrup­ SI oath*. $2 tit); Threa Month*. $1 Ou. les vanish into air as money bags dis­ OLFWS will bo ruppInVl at the following ra te * :—Five Copie*, one year, $13 75; Ten ten d ; religion becomes hypocrisy; and »Copie*. one year, $2:» oo, and for any greater j Courts o f Law and Legislatures become number at J 2 >' per annum. j corrupt ju st in proportion that the rich S c r i p t !,.a ma.t l< ,,„ui in wiener, become richer and the poor poorer. The San Jose Patriot thus describes the Humboldt salt mine, about eighty miles north west of Austin aud not far from the railroad lin e : ’ « < *• -V ~ . ■■f T t ï,r’ NEWS IN BRIEF. Mr. Beecher’s farm consists o f thirty- six acres, and is carried on on strict scientific principles. H e never puts in any part o f a crop without consulting his book. Hft plows and reaps and digs and sows according to the best author­ ities— and the authorities cost more thau the rest of the farming implements do. As soon as the library is complete the farttf will begin to be a profitable investment. But book-farming has its drawbacks Upon one occasion, when it seemed morally certain that the hay ought to be cut, the hay book could not be found--and before it was found it was too late and tho hay was spoiled. Mr. Beecher raises some o f tho finest crops o f wheat iu the country, but the unfavorable difference between the cost o f producing it and its market price after producing it has interfered con­ siderably with its success as a commer­ cial enterprise. His special weakness is hogs, however. H q considers hogs the best game a farm produces. He buys the original pig at a dollar and a half, and feeds him forty dollars’ worth o f corn and then sells him for about nine dollars. This is the only crop he ever makes any money on. He loses on the corn but he makes seveu dollars and a half on the hog. He does not mind this, because he does not expect to make anything on corn, any way. And any way it turns out, he has the excitement o f raising the hog, any how, whether he gets the worth o f him or not. Ills strawberries would be a com fortable success if the robins would cat turnips, but they won’ t, and hence the difficulty. One o f Mr. Beecher’s most harassing o difficulties in his farming operations comes o f the close resemblance o f dif­ ferent seeds and plauts to each other. Two years ago his far-sightedness warned him there was goiug to be a great scarcity ot water-melons and there­ fore he put in a crop o f twenty-seven acres o f that fruit. B ut when they came up they turned out to be pump­ kins, and a dead loss was the conse­ quence. Sometimes a portion o f his crop goes into the ground the most pro­ mising sweet potatoes, -and comes out the inforualest carrots— though I have never heard him express it just in that way. When he bought his farm he found an egg in every hen’s nest on the place. He said that here was just the reason why so many farmers failed— they scattered their forces too much ; concentration was the idea. So he ga­ thered these eggs together and placed them under an experienced old lien. That hen roosted over that contract night and day for eleven weeks, under the anxious personal supervision o f Mr. Beecher himself, but she could not “ phase” those eggs. W h y ? Because they were those infamous porcelain things which arc used by fraudulent and ingeuious farmers as “ nest, eggs.” But, perhaps, Mr. Beecher’s most dis­ astrous experience was the timo when he tried to raise an immense crop of dried apples. lie planted fifteen hun­ dred dollars’ worth, but never a one o f them sprouted. He has never been able to understand to this day what was the matter with those apples. The surface o f this salt plain looks exactly like that o f a lake frozen over. The salt is hard and smooth as ice. Were it not for fine particles which are condensed from vapors arising from be­ neath, aud which cover the crystalline salt to the depth o f perhaps one eighth o f an inch, it would make an excellent -kating rink at all times o f the year, except during the very infrequent occa­ sions when covered with water. This ADVERTISING RATES. i For the first time in the history o f j magnificent expanse o f crystalizcd salt our government, legislative grants of 'Oneaqin re no line* or less), first in9erfn,?s oo ■ tj,e pUbfic monies and property have * is no less than twenty miles in width, bach subsequent insertion..................... ,11 1 1 r r . ................ 1 1 00 without a break or flaw, or one particle been bestowed upon individuals and A liberal deduction will be made to quar- o f soil for the greater portion o f thatex corporations. Radicalism, patterning terly and yearly advertisers. after the example o f England, seeks to tent. The stratum o f solid salt, we had Professional cards will bo inserted at $12 00 almost said ice, which it continually establish priveleged classes here. An ,per annum. suggests to our mind, is about six or Transient advertisements must be paid for odious tariff taxes the poor laboring Con- seven inches thick, under which comes in advance to ui.-ure publication. All other suuior for the benefit of the wealthy advertising bills must be paid quarterly. manufacturer; the goods and chattels, a layer of sticky singular looking mud Legal tenders taken at their current value. tubs, flat irons and washboard o f a poor about two feet thick, and under this Blanks and .T.,b Work o f every description washerwoman are assessed and taxed, again another stratum o f solid salt as .furnished at low rates on short notice. while the man with a million o f gold hard as quartz and transparent as glass, interest-bearing bonds, is exempt from j o f uukuowu thickness to us \\ hen wc TIIE POET'S CORXER. | taxation, ami the general Governm ent! visited the mine about four years ago. ; subsidizes to the amount o f a half mil­ we found a hole which had been sunk DECEMBER. lion per annum, a steamship line from about six feet into its lower layer o f Not manv love thy name, \ California to China, especially to facili­ salt, near the edge of the deposit, with­ Cold, drear December: tate the importation of Chinese Coolies out goiug through it. in summer this Thj blasts that hurl the frantic leaves along to the end that labor may be degraded salt plain, glittering and scintillating in Savor not much of April’s »livery song, Or bright September. and cheapened. 'The Radicals tell us the light o f an almost tropica! sun, pre that the fiith o f the nation is pledged sents a most brilliant appearance. The Now ring* the parting knell to hold bonds free o f the burden o f tax­ frosty covering o f the solid salt is as Of Autumn's pleasures; The upturned faces of decaying il >wers ation ; but what right had Congress to white as driven snow, while that por­ Appeal to thee t > think of rosy hours. make such a pledge? Equality o f tax­ tion when exposed reflects dazzling pris­ And save their treasures. ation is a cardinal principl« of the Re­ matic colors. O f course there is salt And th'>u wilt h >ar their germs public, incorporated in all o f our State enough in this immense deposit tosup- On wings of fleetness. Constitutions. The power to exempt ply the world for untold ages. It is re­ And hide them for a while in Winter’* tomb, one sp cies of property from State tax- markably pure, being 95 per cent. salt, Again to burst the tod, again to bloom In fragrant sweetness. atin implies the right to prescribe the and five percent soda— purer than that amount of the levy: and is Radicalism wc use for our tables. As many tiny seeds ready to endorse this doctrine? I f so. As stars above thee A AVONDKKFUL STO R Y . it >h<»uld at once abolish State lines and Tía» nature trusted to thy tender care. And thou hast hid them safely here anil there establish a purely centralized govern­ W e find the following decidedly For that we love thea. ment. The whole legislation o f the party in •■wonderful” story iu an English e x ­ Thou art the herald bold Of joyous meetings. power is in favor o f capital nud against change o f a recent date : Of merry sleigh bells ringing loud and clear, labor. The New York Tribune pub­ It is said that in the tombs of the O f ¿lad reuní n* and good Christmas cheer. lished a statistical table sou ie tiiu o a go. Necropolis o f aueient Egypt, two kinds And New Year’ s greetings. ♦ • ♦ demonstrating that the cost of liv.ng o f mummies have been found. One is THE PATH OF INDEPENDENCE. had increased in a much larger propor­ incomplete— that is to say, all organs tion than the advance in the price o f necessary to life have been separated An easy task it is to tread labor, and yet we are constantly told from them ; the other, on the contrary, The path the multitude will take; But iudependenee dares the stake, that capital must be protected by pro­ is quite complete. Having observed If but by lair cunvivti >n led. hibitory tariffs to enable it to advance this, a Swedish chemist, Dr. Grussel- the price o f labor. bach, who has the reputation o f being Then baste, truth-seeker, on thy way, Nor heed the worldling's -mile or trown; All political economists agree that both great and learned, Professor o f the The brave alone shall wear the crown, celibacy is demoralizing and the mar­ University at Upsal, lias come to the The noble only clasp the buy. riage relation essential to the well-being conclusion that the Egyptian mummies O o, worker » f the public w eal; o f the individual and the State; and are not all, as has been said and be When knave* combine, and plot and plan, domestic ties with the prospect o f an lieved for some thousands of years, Aseert the dignity of man, old age o f ease after a life o f toil has bodies embalmed by any process o f pre Teach the dishonest hearts to feel. been boasted as tin; glory of America. serration whatever, but that they are Still keep thy independence whole; Rut with all this; with Massachusetts really the bodies o f individuals whose Let nothing warp thee from thy course. lamenting over her excess of 60,000 life has been momentarily suspended, And thou »halt wield a giant's force, females, and with an army of old bat with the intention o f restoring them at And wrong before thy foot shall roll. ♦ • ♦ chelors and maids in the land con some future time, only the secret of BEAUTY IN OLD AGE. detuned by necessity to celibacy, the preservation has been lost. Meanwhile * ____ cry is heard everywhere that our great Professor Grusselbach adduces many How to be beautiful when old? I can tell you. maiden fair— need, the panacea for whatever is wrong, proofs in support o f his id e a ; among Not by lotions, dyes und pigment», is cheap labor. Capital is making an others, his experiments during the last Not by washes for your hair. organized effort to reduce the wages o f ton years, which he says have always TVli ilo you're young be pure and gentle, Keep your passions well controll'd, the white men here to a rate o f com­ proved successful. He took a suake Walk, and work, and do your duty. pensation that will barely afford the and treated it in such a manner as to You'll be haud*ouie when you're old. means o f living, and the leaders o f the benumb it as though it were carved in Radical party, to a man, support the marble, and it was so brittle that had Snow-white lock* are fair as golden, Grey as lovely us the brown. policy. It is both natural and right, he allowed it to fall, it would have bro­ And the smile of age more pleasant that the laboring classes should oppose ken into fragments. In this state he Thau a youthful beauty's frown. this attempt to lower their earnings to kept it for one or several years, then ’ Tis the soul that shapes the features, Fires the eye, attunes tho voice ; the Chinese standard by every legiti­ restored it to life by sprinkling it with Sweet sixteen! be these your maxims, mate means. I f the national debt is a stimulative fluid, the composition o f Whep you’re sixty you'll rejoice! ever repudiated, the avarice o f the which is his secret. For fifteen years bondholders will be to blame. The in­ fhe snake has been undergoing an ex G EXER A L MI SC EL L .4 X Y ordinate thirst for wealth is demoraliz­ | isfenoe composed o f successive deaths Money is converting and resurrections, apparently without T bf . a s u r f . F o u n d — The Panama ing the nation. .correspondent o f the N. Y. Sun gives religion into hypocrisy and making the sustaining any harm. The Professor is an account of the recent discovery o f law » farce— everything, honor, home reported to have sent a petition to his buried treasure at Cocos Island to tho country, yields to its sovereignty, its government, requesting that a criminal .amount o f ten million dollars. Thir- possession is the prime object o f a large who has been condemned to death may teen vears ago a dying sailor in San P »rtion o f Americans in this life, and be given to him, to treat in the same "Francisco stated to his attending phy-1 their hope to attain Heaven hereafter manner as the snake, promising to re- •ician that, ten years before, he had is* inspired by having read and heard ! store him to life in two years. It is ’been ono o f a crew o f twenty who. go proclaimed the Scriptural metaphor undersnod that the inan who undergoes dog from Callao to Cadiz in a Spanish that the streets o f New Jerusalem are this experiment is to be pardoned. treasure ship, had mutinied. They paved with gold. The greatest danger 'NYhether the Swedish government has murdered the officers and passengers, j that capital has to encouuter is its own accepted or rejected the learned ohera- and changed their course for the west. ed. The working classes are a pow- ist’ s proposal is not known. T hree weeks later they were wrecked cr in this country, and if moneyed ty- A D u t c h m a n left Austin recently on an island in the Pacific and eight o f ™nny carries impositions too far. the for W hite Pine with about a mule load their number drowned. The remaining j divine r g h t o f capital, like the divine twelve buried the treasure and set sail right o f kings, may be overthrown for- o f provisions, tools and blankets on his’ back On his arrival, not finding a an boats for South America. One boat j cibly and suddenly.— Examiner. good lead come and meet him, he took was never hoard of. O f the other on a big disgust, aud left for Austin boat’ s crew but two reached the land, R o m a n tic I n c i d e n t . — A British with his effects. On his way a man one o f these died soon after and tho officer in India, saw a picture o f a Min- driving an empty wagon overtook him, survivor found it impossible to obtain nciJ&ta P*«**d , in s‘ ra* ' aD(1 af,er ln fr'“‘ 1', wntor ^?r hour or two they become just as lively as ever. A man may as well expect to be at case without wealth, as happy without virtue. o f the Fifth Cavalry, dated from F oit ----- j McPherson, Nov. 8 th, says : “ Three — The passenger aud freight business were recently found suspended from a o f the 1 acific 1 ad ^continues lar^c. tree and riddled with bullets. On the 1 he travel westward is about double body o f one was found a letter from a that eastward. | woman signed, “ your sister, Carrie W ar- — W e have now enough iron clads in ner,” and dated ‘ Morris, N. J., May 8, the neighborhood o f Cuba to blow the I8 6 0 .” A man named Warner be- whole ¡Spanish uavy out o f the water if longed to Buck’ s surveying party, which if was concentrated there. The object' is supposed to have been massacred; o f the administration is to have a large ' and the finding o f this letter under each force ou the West Indian station while j circumstances leaves little doubt regard- trouble exists between Spain and Cuba, ' ing the fate of the entire party. . so that should any emergency arise, j — A fisherman o f M onte»»«, F ra g j», whereby our government might become lately caught a fish within which v m involved, we could make short work o f found a breastpin, ornamented with the Spanish navy. thirty precious stones, diamonds cmer» — A t Lausing, Iowa, thirty young ald 9 , rubies and sapphires, the whole meu have formed themselves into a club, valued by Paris jewelers at 8300,000. and made a solemn vow that no mem­ — A Portland, Maine, paper has pre­ ber shall marry any one except a widow. pared the following matrimonial statis­ The husbands o f the place are making tics for that c it y : “ Bunaway wives. up clubs— chiefly hickory— against the 94 • runaway husbands, 1 9 5 ; married bachelors. ! persons legally divorced. 3 4 8 ; living in — Southern journalists sometimes j 0 pen warfare, 1,445 ; living in private adopt a style of writing which has the misunderstanding, 1,106 ; mutually in­ merit o f candor, if not o f studied cour- different, 4 603 ; regarded as happy, 9 tesy. Thus the Raleigh (N . C .) S ta n -I— total <8.803.” dard observes : “ The Milton Chronicle ; — Some boys in Cincinnati stole the says the hangman is waiting at our door. J insides of a hand organ from a deaf This is the first intimation we have had grinder’s machine, and the man grinds that the editor of that paper has called aWay ignorant o f his loss. He gets as upon us.” much money and tortures the ears o f — A female clergyman who married passers far less. a couple iu Iowa kissed the bridegroom. — The project o f a railroad from the — A company o f Eastern fishermen, who came out in their fishing smack from Massachusetts, last year, lately returned to Port Townsend, from the Alaskan coast, with a cargo o f codfish, aud sold cargo and vessel to a Port Townsend company for §7,500. They have started home, disappointed with the results o f their operations Atlantio-to the Pacific, across the con­ tinents of Europe and Asia, is being re­ vived,' especially since the announce­ ment o f the opening of the Suez canal. The topographical difficulties o f this route are no greater, the prizes o f com­ merce arc as tempting, the countrio« j arc more densely populated than along the route o f our Pacific road, at the — A large apple buyer in Michigan same time that capital is abundant and estimates that a million barrels o f ap­ labor cheap. Tin* difficulties in the ples were frozen iu that ¡State, during way are antagonistic States, and wan,t of enterprise among the people in the the recent cold weather. — The sad news cuincs from W ash­ countries to he traversed. The prize ington that “ the iund for the traveling to be won, however, may overcome committees o f Congress has been ex­ these; and now it looks as i f the State* hausted,” and the Congressional frolics of Western and even Eastern Europe had determined upon the initiation o f must cease. this great undertaking. W hat effect it — Albert D. Richardson, war corres- nonacot, ana loug attached attacnea to tne ndcot, and the New York fork Tribune, was shot and mortally wounded in New York City on Nov. 26th by Paul McFarland, a lawyer, be­ tween whom and Richardson there had existed, for a considerable time past, an estrangement caused by au alleged in­ timacy between the latter and M cFar­ land’s wife. — A man locked his wife into an up­ per room, and not being satisfied with this punishment but wishing to aggra­ vate her still further, sent his sou up with a bone. The youth innocently ,‘ ave uPon our, ro,lte- a!ready pleteed River insurrection is in- missing and given up for lost. 1 l)e : creasing in importance. Besides the steamer was (lie Sierra Nevada ; the ^pulsion o f Governor McDongal, Furt ships were the Droadnanght, valued at M(.Garry has been seized and is in the 3250.000, bound from Liverpool to San i,an,]s 0f tho Provisional 1 G oreroor, Francisco, and tho Athlete, valued at Brouse. The Hudson Bay men do not. 850,000. bound from New York to A nt­ support Me Don «ral. The Kngli-h and werp. The total value o f property lost Scotch favor Brouse. American« are at sea during the first ten months of neutral. Business is not disturbed. 1869 is placed at 812.942,100, and the Six hundred Liberators have sworn not uumbor o f vessels at 328. to surrender. — The ‘«tory is related that while se­ — A Chicagoan, describing the sen­ veral men from the burning steamboat sation o f bathing in Lalt Lake, says it Stonewall were struggling for possession renders one uncertain whether he is a o f a bale of hay in the Mississippi river. Chicago traveler nr a big air bladder, one killed another with a knife. All o f A wicked California editor remarks, them are supposed to have been lost. “ W here’s the difference, anyhow ?” . — A woman has been poisoned at — The Bovleston Bank, o f Boston, Louisville while spinning rolls, by get­ has Won robbed bv u man who hired a ting some grease off the wool into a cut room adjoining, giving bis name as in her finger. Many of our aged read A. .Tudson, from t?Klif(»rnIa. lie open^ ers will know what spinning means, ed business as a dealer in wine bitter«« the girls won’ t. built a closet next the safe wall, and A prisoner in an Ohio penitentiary drilled through and extracted the val­ persuaded the son of the foreman to uables deposited fbr safekeeping by head him up in a barrel and roll him ; private parties, outside the prison walls, whore the con­ The India«« are omismg ^ousld' federates of the escaper received; liber eruble trouble on the line o f the Union ated and removed him as quickly as Pacific Railroad. A few days ago they possible. killed and scalped a man « t ( ’ ooprr — A"* an evidence o f the excessive Lake station, near Lsmmie, and have cold weather at Laramie, W yoming, we tw ee attacked Medicine Bow station., take the following from the Sentinel: on ono occasion wounding 11 woman at, “ An estimable young lady o f this town rh.;r pbvo. F m ur Sioux were confined got choked two days ago while drinking in the Omaha i *:l r e c e n t ! v for killing a glass of water, by ft piece o f ice stick- ; « white man. but one broke jail and ea- ing in her throat, where it still remains caped A council of eminent physicians deeid- — convicts at the Trenton State ed to-day that nothing could be doue to pri-on attempted to blow up the wall« remove the obstruction before next with powder on the 22 d ult. T h e ex* plosi.m oeeured. but the charge o f pf>ir spring. — A recent telegram irom Omaha dor being too light,-it failed to Mow Of says; A îetter from Culuuel Emory, the pi isuu walls.