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About The Polk County signal. (Dallas, Or.) 1868-1??? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1868)
IS ISSUED EVERT MONDAY MORNING i . H. UPTOM^ PuMlaher. Terms —On« year, $3 00; 100; three month*, $1 00. aix month*. TXftXS FOR CLUBS: Fire eopiea, one year, $13 7 5 ; Ten copies •a* year, $25 00, add for any greater numbet at $2 50 per annum. Smbteription m*»t be pa id vtrietly in advance. Ne w G o o c ls — O lie a p W O R D »» T H A T B U R N . A True Prophet. G O OD S. O d a certain occasion Daniel W e b ster, the great apostle o f the Constitn* j . I H. L E W tion and the I S S prepared to exhibit an excellent and carefully selected stock of Dry Good*. Groceries, Hardware, Cntlery Clothing, Nails, BOOTS If SHOES, And in fact everything in the line of S T A F L B and F A N C Y GOODS usually kept in a retail Store will be found on bands and for sale as CHEAP as the CHEAP* EST. 3tf N E W 0 0 0 1 ) 9 ! N E W GO O D S 1 have just received and now opened a new and fresh stook o f Spring and Summer GOODS all I G rades, Kinds, Styles, aud Varieties. Well adapted to this trade both as to price and quality. To those desiring to purchase a Spring supply, I will invite your attention, as 1 am determined to adapt the prices to suit the pres, t H ard T ime *, aud I ask you before purchasing to call at the OLD B R IC K C O R K E R And examine for yourselves. P R IN TS at 1 24 cents per yard. ____ cio«<d quality lour-fourthsBK0W X CAB0TT A SHEETING 16 cents- COFFEE bi the sack 23 cents per pound, retail 25 cents, and al/ other things in proper tiou. Come aud and he satisfied. JIVO. € . B E L L . J . E D A V I D * © .!, D , P H Y S IC IA N & S U R G E O N . IN D E P E N D E N C E - - - OREGON. N E W C O L f l i l B l A I V H O T E L . Main St.9 Corvallis, Oregon. E. S. A ltr e e , B : : P r o p 'r . oard and Dodging on reasonable Meals at all hours. terms. J. K. LEBO, RACTICAL R I R R K R and D K K 99EH . H A IR P I n d e p e d e n c c , O r e g o n . M . C A N T E R B U R Y ) M . D ., P H Y S IC IA N & S U R G E O N . M D IX IE , O REG O N , edical Examiner for Manhattan life In surance Co. o f N. Y. W O O L ! W O O L ! W O O L !! n * f \ OOO Pcunds o f WOOL wanted for the California market, at MITC11EL A ROSENDORF'A, INDEPEND* ENCE, who have the Agency for California, will pay a higher Cash price for it, than any other house in the county. MITCHEL A R 0SE N D 0R F . 8m3 JONE» THE J E W E L E R , State Street, Salem, Oregon, t the placa to go and get your watches, clocks and jewelry repaired in good style. 1 warrant all iny work for one y ea r; if it not right, 1 make it right. RE ME MB E R T H E SIIOP IN THE POST OFFICE BU ILDIN G. V. B. Fine watch«* repaiaed with the great eat cara. I tf. H r. W . D .J E F F R I E $. P H Y S IC IA N . & SU R G E O N . EOLA, OREGON. Special attertion given to Obstetrics and diseases of woman. Drs, M cC au H ey ALEXANDER, D E N T I S T S. FFICE on State street, over GUI*' Book Store, fie lam, Oregon. All operations performed by as are warranted to giro satisfaction. &tr~ One of the firm may be fom d in onr office from 8 o’clock a . m ., until 4 r. m ., of each *•7- 8. D. McCAULEY, l»ly E. V. U . ALEXANDBR. O WATSON If GRIS WELL, Architects and P ractical HOUSE 0 ARPENTE& 8 , TN BPEN DEN CE Uuion, speaking o f tho Abolition party, said; “ IP T H E IN F E R N A L F A N A T ICS A N D A B O L IT IO N IS T S E V E R G E T P O W E R IN T I I E I R H A N D S , T H E Y W IL L O V E R R ID E T H E C O N ST IT U T IO N , S E T T H E S U P R E M E C O U R T A T D E F IA N C E , C H A N G E A N D M A K E L A W S TO S U IT T H E M S E L V E S , L A Y V IO L E N T H A N D S ON T H O S E W H O D IF F E R W IT H T H E M IN T H E IR O P IN IO N S O R D A R E Q U ESTION T H E IR I N F A L L IB IL IT Y , AND F I N A L L Y B A N K R U PT THE COUNTRY A N D DELUGE I T W IT H B L O O D .” That party did, by dint o f sheerest jugglery, finally get into power, and the result is before the couutry. Take heed, Patriots! Grant, Jackson and Olay. The Rock Island Argus says : “ It is certainly not very respectful to the memory o f Jackson and Clay to asso ciate their names and memories with the name o f Gen. Grant, but, by way o f contrast, the apparent disrespect will, no doubt, be excused I d his letter accepting the radical nomination for President, Grant says : “ I »hall have no policy o f my own to inter fere against the people.” U. S. G rant . Now, i f you want to see the great difl’oronce between this man and the immortal Jackson, who was a statesman as well as a soldier, read : « I nay again, fellow citizen*, remember the fate ol ancient Home, and vote Jor no candidate who will not tell you with the frankness of an independent freeman the principles upon which, if elected, he will admiuistor your gov eminent.” *• That man deserves to be a slave who wjuld vote for a mum candidate when his lib erties arc at stake. Annaxw J ackson . Henry Clay was not, like Jackson, a warrior, but he was, like Jackson, a great statesman. Do you suppose lieu ry Clay would vote lor Grant, if be wore alive to d a y ? I f so, undeceive yourself by reading the following: *• If my suffrage is asked for the highest eivil office o f my couutry, the candidate, how ever illustrious and successful be may be, must present some other title than laurels however aloriounly gathered an the bluodiatained bat tle-field. H enht C lay .” N ew S tate — S outhern C alifor n i a .— The proposition to divide the State o f Califoruia is growing in favor every day, end it is now only a question of time when the division will be accom plished. It is proposed to divide on the southern line o f Monterey and Fres no ctfuutics, and this would give two States, each o f which would have an area equal to the whole of New England. Population is flowing rapidly into Southern California, and in a few years the preponderance will be in her favor. The great distance to Sacramento and to San Fraucisco, with the meager means o f communication, particularly isolates our people, and imposes a grievious burden upon them. But a few years will pass ere we have a branch, at least, o f the Southern Pacific road, tapping the main trunk at Point o f Rocks, or some feasible point on the is Mojave river, and connecting with tho ocean through the fertile valleys o f the San Bernardino and Los Angeles.— Los Angeles will be the conceded cap ital o f Southern California. Publie ineu will be called upon at an early day to take ground upon this question, though we do not expect any serious opposition to the plan from any source. Politically, the Pacific oast should have her just weight in the 'U n ited States Senate .— Los Angeles News. B a s h f u l M e n . — Are there any ?— Not among the rising generation of “ Young America,” most sorely. Per haps, such may exist in the fo rm ’ o f some antiquarian or library-man, who, when dragged from his lair, may be covered with confusion, trying to make a bow, or frame a compliment, after the latest approved mode. Bnt let the etiquette-lover meet such on hia own “ hunting ground,” and it would be he who would be the bashful man. W e are inclined to the opinion, which will no doubt, be comforting to the diffident and blushing o f bo)h sexes, that bath- fulness and brains are generally found in company. Your self-confident per son is generally the one who has the least ballast. OREGON. Blank Mortgages at TIT ILL take Contracts for Building Boases f f of every dMeriptieu and kind, la town ! Office. | M n aakp. SaSefaetsea gaeeanteed. h f j NO. 20. DALLAS, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST .3, 1868. VOL. I. the S iokal Our Dead. A ,people who forget the memory o f their dead, deserve, themselves, to be forgotten. Yes, they deserve to be branded with the brand o f infamy while living, and go down to their nar row graves unwept, unhonored and un- sung. There is not in roan's nature a nobler sentiment than that whieh ch er ishes and reveres the memory of the dead, who die in a just and ri^»teoua cause. T hough the iron hand or pow er aud oppression may trample ou the rights o f the living, and thereby re strain public demonstration in commem oration o f those who laid down their lives for us, the sentiments of uuiver- sal love and refined affection cannot be torn from the privacy o f the family circle and the recesses o f the heart.— There, at least, these memories can be held sacred and cherished till the dawn o f a new era, in.whioh it shall not be deemed treasonable to pay homage to the names of the gallant dead, who went down to death because they were not afraid to defend their rights and die in defense o f their native land.— That day will surely dawn in which it will be deemed an honor aud a duty by the American people to participate in ceremonies commemorative o f the “ Lost C ause/’ and the martyrs who marched so grandly and sublimely through the valley o f death in its de- fensé. It is ODly the good and true who hold fast, to the faith that is born o f virtue and valor when defeat and disaster is upon them. Thu mean and ignoble are cowards, and cowards are not far removed from traitorá, having no regard for God or couutry, but al. ways ready to fall down, and fawn, and cringe, and worship at the footstool of Dower. Aud so it is, alas! that our own bright, sunny land is sorely op. pressed and afflicted by those who were once the loudest lip-tongued braggarts in her defense, who, forgetful o f the past, and their own manhood, have ig noininiously sold their birthright for a mess o f pottage— insulting the memory o f the dead, and ignoring the presenoe o f the living. Wrongs are sometimes neglected even in our little world, and when righted thoso instrumental in inflicting them do not always escape that reward which is theirs by the laws o f retribu- tive justice. Other nations and other people, in other lands than ours, have passed un der the rod. Broken.hearted, heavy, burthened, foot-sore, and weary, they traveled as we are traveling now, exiled, as it were, in their own land; but in their sufferings and sorrows they clung to the past. J’ roud o f the history they had made aud reverencing the memo ries associated with it, and the men who died fer it. they preserved their honor aud their manhood* By the hallowed associations o f the past, and the hopes o f tho future, which will surely bring with it a plo. rious reward, let us never forget to hon or the men, who, wearing the gray, went down to death for us and posteri ty .— Banner o f trie South. Susan B. Anthony publishes a news paper iu New York, called The Revo . lulton , and here is what she say* about our nice men in Cougress— the success ors o f Webster, Clay and Douglas : O fficial C orruption . — The charges of bribery and corruption ho "led from all quarters against Congress, the leg islatures o f New Y ork,. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, aud the cominou’ councils o f this city aud Philadelphia, aud which everybody believes, and which the implicated parties do not even take the trouble to deny, prove that political virtue in our country is rapidly becoming an obsolete phrase. Leading members o f Congress raise in their places and charge each other with venal practices that would make a bur glar blu sh ; they write letters to the public journals denouncing one another for infamous crim es; they utter their allegations iu their own hull uuder the guise of “ personal explanations,” and there in the presence of the people, they place upon the enduring rcoords o f the nation, speeches that would disgrace the veriest dr&b&JbM ev<y cursed in a fish market, the whole cheering on the wranglers with shouts o f laughter, and entertaining with the keenest zest the final proposal o f the most vulgar o f the disputants, that they adjourn and “ take a drink ” at his expense. Gen tlemen o f the House o f Representatives: Yon do not expel such members from your h a ll; but be it known to yon that common decency spews them out o f its mouth. Steal from the treasury i f you must— your CQmtüjients expeot you to do that— but they entreat you, iu your official intercourse with each other, to exhibit that honorable bearing whioh proverbially prevails among thieve». The Mixture of Races. Grime. Agassiz, io his lately published work on Brazil, has the following on the mixture of race* : “ Let any one who doubts the evil o f this mixture o f races, and is inclined, from a mistaken phi lanthropy, to break down the barriers between them, come to Brazil. He cannot deny the deterioration conse* quent upon ¡an amalgamation o f races more widespread here than in any other country in the world, and which is rapidly effacing tho best qualities o f the white inau, the negro, and the Indian, leaving the mongrel monde^cript type, deficient iu physical an^ mental energy. At a time when the new social status o f the negro is a subject o f vital im portance in our statesmanship, we should profit by the experience ot a country whore, though slavery exists, there is far more liberality towards the free negro than he has ever enjoyed in the United States. Let us learn a double lesson ; open all the advantages o f education to the negro, aud give him every chauce o f success which culture gives to the man who knows how to use it ; but respect the laws o f nature, and let all our dealings with the black man tend to preserve, as far as possible, the distinctness o f his national character ¡sties, and the integrity of onr own ” W e scarcely take up an exchange paper thfft does not contain one or more accounts o f some tragedy having been enacted— a murder, or rpbbbery; .an incendiary fire, or elopement, o f ah at tempted assassination— some one Of the many crimes graven on the criminal culeudar, all o f which is undeniable evi dence o f the rapid increase o f crime in our. Uiidst. Ilow feai fully it strides sending it« poisoned arrowa.»4nto all classes and conditions o f society, fill ing with its foiil pollution the very air we breathe. Is not this a fact to be deplored ?— A fact that speaks very little in favor of the rigid administration o f our laws. Nay we fear, aud charge this rapid growth o f crime, to the laxity with which tho law is in a majority ofinstan* ces meted out to the criminal. W e ad mit, that io these day of money-makiDg and political notority, it requires some stamina for a jurist to faithfully and impartially administer the laws— to avoid offending the feeling and earning the enmity o f those who in a measure elevated him to power. But is he a true man, aud honest administrator o f the law, who will thus thwart its good meaning by pandering to the desires of its would.be.violaters ? W e think not. For the obligation assumed by a jurist should be sufficiently weighty to influ ence him to a firm and faithful perform ance of his duties. Yet do facts justify us in the belief that this is always the case ? W e are afraid not, i f history records a true tale upon its pages, fur do we not very often read o f some great ariininal escaping the penalty o f the law he violated, by means o f outside influ ence brought to bear in his case. J u s tice, we fear, is too often bought with a price, and crime rewarded instead o f punished. Let us draw a comparison. A poor wretch, to save himself from starvation, steals a loaf o f bread, or something else of light value ; he is ar rested, tried and committed perhaps to an imprisonment iu some penitentiary; having no friend, he is thus compelled to yield to the decree o f fate, and shat •ut from the world, his breath iV drawn within the walls o f his narrow dwelling. On the other hand, au embezzlement, to a large amount is committed, or some other overt act, whereby the law is broken But the criminal being in possession of means, and capable of ob taining influence, fails to receive the reward he so justly merits. But is he not as great a transgressor as his poorer brother? W e think so. Both ar« vi olators o f the law, and both should atone tbereior, It is this distinction iu inctiug out justice, that has tended to the growth o f crime, apparent to every one, aud which blights the prospects o f the thousands who are drawn into its mesh38. Do we not see it in the numerous gambling hells and dens o f infamy that are constantly springing up around us? and can we not read it in plain and unmistakable language in the ribald jests and blasphemous oaths o f the bar-room loafer or the corner-loung er? To such an extent has its influence been fostered, that it has even been urged as an excuse for a man not serv ing upon a jury. Verily, justice 18 blind.— Reading (P a .) Times. A Rich Scene. A correspondent gives tho following description of the closing scenes o f the North Carolina negro Convention : “ Just prior to adjournment, a ‘ dele gate ’ struck up 'J o h n Brown’s B ody,’ with great unction, liniug out the song from a Freedmeu’s Bureau Missionary hymn book. In joined the saints, up rose the chorus. At first the negroes in the gallery looked on in amazement, but pretty soon they too began to sing, and the uproar grew tremendous, * Old John Brown ’ gave way to ‘ Hail Ool- urubia,’ and that in turn to ‘ O ! say, yallar-gall, oan’t ycr come out to-night/ and then all were swamped in the roar ing o f 4 Ilog K y«,’ favorite negro corn- shucking melody, which begius, ' Sal’s in the garden siftin’ sand,’ and has for its second line a rhyme too indecent to repeat. Fired by this, the saints j ined hinds all around, and executed a war danee to chorus : “ And a roPy, sholly bool, A n ’ a hog eye. And a roily, sholly bool, A n ’ a hog eye, For Sal’s in the garden siftin’ sand. Seed “ And thus did the North Carolina Congressional destruction ‘ Convention’ lisport itself in its closing hour.” D eath W on ’ t S ave Y ou . — It has O f all thè party platforms which we have yet seen, there is none whieh so, clearly and conclusively ' meets onr view of the situation as that o f Frank Blair, given by * Washington corres- ndent o f the New York Herald o f une 25 : A ' j General Frank Blair, o f Missouri, is now in Washington; i m i is daily visited b y friend» who desk »h is momum < tion fbt the Presidency. ]*b<rmtih 'tn- * fiuences are being exerted t o this end, and his friend* profése, to-b e. papguine o f succesé. His views o f bublie~policy are expressed fréely,' an i are xx th e most emphatic and pronounced charac ter on the issues o f tho day. They are given with the point, terseness and .vjm of a positive and fearless nature, and are the application of fried opinions’ to the existing situation; The following is their substances* derived from per sonal conversation, and is entirely au thentic : « n sdT General Blair* now as always, scouts' the M etudLg iyiti*. Jtui ballot * negroes. . The question o f negro suffrage he regards as the cardinal issue in the canva-s.' In his judgem ent inflexible opposition to this radical duet rioe is the chief issue on which'the Conserva* tives must expect to triumph. He holds that the Reconstruction A cts establishing military despotism and negro suffrage in the South are unoon stitutional, noil and void, and that the Democratic National Convention should. so declare them, Just as the Supremo Court would have d ded in the case o f MeArdle had it adj nested. The laws o f Congress nohieing person* who were embrac in amnesty procla- «nations or special rdons, are illegal, arbitrary and void Test oaths for vo* ters are unconstitutional; aud this is why General Blair refused to take the Missouri test oeth. His appeal to the Supreme Court in that case onght to have been decided at the last term, and he regrets its postponement. The R e construction A cts establishing negro suffrage and governments based thereon, he holds to be usurpations, and declares they have bo basis excepting by the lawless violence and force o f the army, and the Federal Government most with-, draw this coercion, correct its own wrong and leave it to the white popula. tion o f each State to regulate the Ques tion o f suffrage. The bastard nod spurious governments set up at tfie South have no right to control this matter and must fall as soon ss the military despotism is withdrawn, H r asserts it is tho duty o f the incoming President to see that jnstioe is done and to restore the governments' which are the creation o f the white population to those to whom they belong: General Blair is not willing to accept or ac-< quiesce io anything done by the R ad ical Congress on this subject o f recon struction. He is for confining the government of the country exclusively to the white race. H o is very confi dent of an overwhelming defeat to radicalism if the issues o f the hour and future are boldly made by^the NeW York nominations and platfortn,'and dead issues ignored. H e predictssuoh> an uprising o f the people as has never been seon in America, and says this is felt by the Radicals. been decided that dying won’ t save A p p e a l in g for V o tes .— T b r can man or woman from the payment o f didates on radical ticket, «. iw appealing raxes. Assessors are instructed that to all classes o f our citizens for votes, “ incomes o f persons who died after the are both proscription ¡sis. Grant issued 31st o f December, are taxable, and au insulting order expelling the Jewe should be returned by executors, and “ as a class ” from the Military Depart also all iucomcs whieh accrued in 1807, ment o f the Mississippi. Colfax roda to persons who died within that year. into Congress on the Know Nothing Incomes accruing after disease should ticket, in 1854 intermitted his smile be returned by heirs.” Thus it is seeo loug enough to take the solemn oath o f that the insatiate tax-gatherer follows that order, that he would never give a man in his coffin ; aits at the portals his “ vote or influence for aoy man, for o f the tomb, plants himseif by the side any office in the gift o f the people, un o f the grave digger as he drops the less he be an American born citizen, clods upon the mortal remains, and after nor if be be a Roman Catholic.” He dogging the carriages o f the mourners, T he E lectoral C ollege — The stalks home like a spectre, and enters following table shows the number o f iook as a Know Nothing the further upon his books the expected income Presidential electors to which each oath, that in any official position em powering him to do sO, he would “ re the Treasury is to dcrivo therefrom.— State is entitled : move all foreigners, aliens, or RotnaU W hat a blessing is a public d e b t!— California 5 1 Nebraska 3 Catholics” within bis official reach, and Connecticut 6 Nevada S would “ in no case appoint such to sqj T he G irl of the T imes — Accord Dataware 3 New llainshiro 5 1« New Jersey ing to the latest authorities, the “ girl Illinois 7 office or place ” in his gift, . Smiling Iu liana 13 New York 33 is Colfax’s forte, but he will hardly o f the times ” is a creature who dyes I owà 8 Ohio 21 smile at his old record .—‘■Nett YbtTc her hair; paiuts her face, flirts, dunces Kansas 3 Oregon 3 World. j- * 11 Pennsylvania 26 round dances, and is alw ays on the look Kentucky out for a rich husband. She drink* sherry coblers, takes her breakfast in bad, governs her “ ma ” and “ pa,” goes to all the balls and attends a fash ionablc church on Sundays. She is in more senses than one a “ dear creature/ as the happy man who secures her virgin affeotions will find to his “ cost.” Maine 7 Rhode Inland 4 Maryland 7 Tennessee 10 L o u i s i a n a .— The Legislature o f the Michigan • 8 Vermont 5 Minnesota 4 West Virginia b ‘‘ reconstructed ” State o f Louisiana or Massachusetts 12 Wisconsin 8 ganized a few days ago, and elected one* - Missouri 11 State* now represented 247 Sable, a negro, Speaker o f the H oto*. ; statkh NOT RKHRICSEVr*». AU the Democratic members Were ex Alabama 8 Mississippi , 7 pelled and their seats given to radicals, Arkansas 6 1 North Carolmna 9 although the Democrats were declared Florida 8 1 South Carotina « elected by General Buchanan, com Georgia y ! Texas 6 Louisiana I Virginia 10 mander o f that District. The election T yler , the uegro preacher, convicted o f rape, in Nevada county, Cal., has States not represented 7n been sentenced to five years imprison Total votes 817 159 ment in the State Prison, by Judge Necessary to a choice In case Colorado shall be admitted Niles., prior to the eleetion, the aggregate num ber o f electors will be increased to 320. N o ta b le A ccession .— Onr tele graphic dispatches announce the fact T he Sacrement.) Reporter contains that General Halieck has declared bis intention to support Seymour and Blair. an account o f one of the largest and This is a most notable accession. It most enthusiastic political meetings ev ia significant of tbs feeling o f the army er held on the Pacifio coast which was towards Graat. “ Old Brains,” as the soldiers delighted to call Halieck, will held by the Democracy o f California, now come in for his pbare o f radical in Sacremenfo City, July 11, 1808. abase. Unfortunate Halieck. Sensi* California is good for forty thousand ble Halleek.— Sac. Reporter. against Universal Suffrage Grant in Blank Deeds at this Office. Novembar. o f the negro was but proper, for it be safely set down that he up mere hon-, est than the set o f carpet-bag bummers who emigrated South for the sole pur pose o f getting into position so that they could plunder again an oTer>.plandared people.— Solano (G el.} Sentinel. K eep to t h e R ig h t — Tf people would observe the rule iu walking to always keep to the right, many side walk collisions and much annoyance would be avoided. The S ig n a l goes everywhere and ia read— advertisements and all. Get your Blanks at the SiGNALOffiee.