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A 1 f ' vm J 0 VOL. 1. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. 1871. NO. 46. BMP to Zi Xssaad Every Saturday Morning, at Sail, Folk County, Oregon. i BY SULLIVAN & TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the Court Qoum. j . SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE COPIES-One Year, $2 50; Six XXonths,$l 75; Three Months, $1 00. For Clubs of ten or more $2 per annum. fterjtton mutt be paid ttrictly in advance . a . ' ; aj)Vestisinq bates. Oas square (10 lines or less), firstinsert'n, $3 00 Haea subsequent insertion i. 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per an nam. Transient adTertisenients must be paid for itt advance to insure publication. All other ttTerusing bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. ' Blanks and Job Work of every description famished at low rates on short notice. A Spleudld Chance. We will send the Dallas Republican and 'DeiORSSt's Mosthlt, which is itself $3 for one .year, to any persoa? who pays us $1 Dskokbst's Monthly stands unrivalled as a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its superior Music, its large amount of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to the fashions, and artistic illustrations, give it a Just claim to its well-earned title, " The Model .Magazine of America." -The Rights of Children. ' "(From the Philadelphia Daily Chronicle. Thia is the age when, for the first time in human history, the rights of all ' living things are, iu some way, recog nized aa existing. We arc far enough jet from according to all their rights, bat we talk about them, we see them, .and thought is busy to determine how they should be best secured. , Even the dumb animal have their advocates, .The bird flies, and the ho rue labors, exempt from many a former abuse, danger or ill. Mao with hi superior muscle and pluck, has secured tfor himself a recognition that forbids others to trample upon privileges which he calls his own. And woman, too, is rising with her demand that whatever is man's right', should also be conceded as her right as well. It is an age of rights ; we wish to give everyone their due; and those who cannot speak for themselves, must be spoken for. Jo regard to women, our idea is that their present condition is neither as bad as has been, nor as good as it will be. There has been already so much thought and said about her rights, as to receive some modification, and a fairer degree of common justice. But in regard to the rights of children, very little has . boen thought, or said, or done. They 1 cannot 8 peak for themselves. There are few. to SDeak for them. They are fitill looked' upon very much as pro . perty. It is still conceded that their f areata have an exclusive right to them, f these parents wish to send them out to beg day after day, it is thought that they have an undoubted right to do so. If .they desire to send their children forth as boot-blacks at six or eight jears of age, there are few interested or disposed to dispute their right to do so. f Or, if they will that their children 'should stand all day at the loom, or by j the spindles, or do some kind of manual rfork, instead of going to school, it is ,' usually regarded as right that they . should do even this. Nobody, perhaps, ' regards it as wisdom for them to do any of these things, but there are enough 6 frho regard it as an undoubted parental prerogative. , Now it is just this which we wish to v ttoatly and emphatically deny. The . children have rights of their own rights in which society ought to protect them in all case where parental wisdom ... fails to do it. Children are not property. They are not the born servants and .Blaresof their parents. They belong to . " themselves, and it is their inalienable right to be, in an age like this, fitted for taking some useful and self-supporting j place in the world's works. It is their right to receive an education according ; to their capacity, just as good as our V public schools can provide. No parental i authority haa any right to intervene 1; between them and those advantages 'J'-. which shall make their experience and ; influence in life the best possible. It is really of less consequence that the home ; of to-day be uncomfortable, than that both it and the homes of its children should be without promise. And parents should not be allowed to sacrifice the future of their children to their own 1 desire to get on a little further in the world. Children ought to be protected against this short-sighted avarice on the part of their fathers and mothers. Children are not to blame for the igpo ranee in which they are growing up. The fault is first parental, then social. If parents are poor and ignorant, gen eral laws ought to provide that every child should not suifer unnecessarily from neglect, and humane individuals ought to see to it that in every neigh borhoxjd those laws take effect. These poor parents plead that they need the work of the children to help in the maintenance of the family, to buy the clothing and daily bread. In some cases, this plea is just. In a large number of cases it is groundless. Where it is just, it would be a better public economy to keep the family and pay lor the children's schooling, than to allow the parents to deprive the children of their early advantages, their rights to the privilege of educa tion. The better citizens they would thus become, would more than repuy the community in dollars and cents for its forethought and justice. It ought to be a recognized first prin ciple, that, every child boru into the bosom of society has a right to the best we can do for it. The welfare of the whole community is more or less in volved in its welfare. If it is so cared for as to be useful and productive, soci ety is the gainer. But if it be left in neglect, becomes a vagrant, a criminal or a sot, society is continually taxed for support, and has constantly a heavy bill of expenses to defend itself from its vicious depredations. If we do not secure the children their uiulicuable right., we suffer grieviously for our neglect. We make the public expense greater, the public safety less; the pub lie morality lower, and allow the public tone to fall far below the demands of a nominally Christian andenlightened age. There are many other considerations touching the rights of children which are a plicable to their treatment in the home. Brit to-day we had in view their treatment by society ; its duty to secure them protection against the enslaving desire of poor and ignorant parents. We have abundant occasion to consider the matter. Here stand these twenty thousand children who have no school ing, no wise provisions made for them j who are beggars, vagrants, little boot blacks, newsboys, and who are maturing every day. What are their prospects 't What are they likely to become ? What are all the Christians, all the philan thropists, all the wealthy and the wise doing to secure their higher rights 1 Inviting Death Some Startling Facts. The New York Tribune asserts that the cause of half the vice among us is the ignorance of parents of the fact that certain nervous and cerebral diseases transmitted from themselves, tend to make of their children from their birth criminals or drunkards, and that only incessant and skillful care can avert the danger. Tha editor then goes on to philosophise in this way : A man may drink moderately but steadily all his life, with no apparent harm to himself, but his daughters be come nervous weeks, his &ons epilep tics, libertines, or incurable drunkards, the hereditary tendency to crime hav ing its pathology and unvaried laws precisely as scrofula, consumption, or any other purely physical diseaee. These are stale truths to medical men, but the majority of parents, even those of average intelligence, are either igno rant or wiekedly regardless of them. There will be a chance of ridding our jails and almshouses of half their ten nants, when our people are brought to treat drunkenness as a disease of the stomach and blood, as well as -of the soul, to meet it with common sense and a physician, as well as with threats ot eternal dambation, and to remove gin shops and gin sellers for the same rea son that they would stagnant ponds or unclean sewers. Another fatal mistake is pointed out in the training of chil drenthe system of cramming hot house forcing of their brains, induced partly by the unhealthy, feverish am bition and struggle that mark every phase of our society, and partly by the short time allowed for education. The simplest physical laws that regulate the use and abuse of the brain are utterly disregarded by educated parents. To gratify a mother's silly vanity during a boy's school days, many a man is made incompetent and useless. If the boy shows any sign of unnatural ambition or power, instead of regarding it as a symp tom of an unhealthy condition of the blood vessels or other cerebral diseare, and treating it accordingly, it is accept ed as an evidence of genius, and the inflamed brain is taxed to the utter most, until it gives way exhausted. . Story of a Deserted Mansion: From the New Jersey Mechanic . Not far from Morristowo, N. J., and situated on what is knowu as the Mad ison road, may be seen a large and fine house, standing in the middle of exten sive pleasure grounds, bearing the marks of having been the abode of per sons of taste and wealth. The puce beautiful park now, however, presents the appearance of having been the pamping grounds of at least a regiment of demoralized soldiers, so numerous are the tracks everywhere of fires and wanton hacking atnoug tho trees, shrubs and evergreens. Where once were flower beds and rare plants, now browse stray cattle, and pigs by the score root to their noses' content on the eo(t turf of the lawn. On approaching the house, a still more terrible scene of ruin may be fouud. The hall doors stand wide open, and us the stranger enters, several cattle calmly survey him from their comfort able position on the drawing room floor. The house is three stories high, and surmounted with a cupola. The rooms ure spacious aud numerous, and were finished iu the best possible manner when built. Windows opening to the floor, and consisting of large and valu able panes of glass, oppose little or no obstruction to the cattle and pigs, the former generally taking sash and all with tlum, when leaving in haste. On the floor of what has evidently been the library, tramps or mischievous boys have lighted fires, who-e flames were fed, from appearances, by the doors of cupboards, stair railings, aud other small pieces of woodwork of the hou,-e. In many places the floor has been burnt almost through, and how the house has escaped from being burnt down is a wonder. With carbon ized ends of wood, hideous aud revolt ing pictures have been drawn upon the pure, white walls, together with words of indecent character. The plaster center ornaments of the rooms have been the mark for the intruders to shy empty bottles and stones at, and all are greatly damaged. Door-knobs, bel's, and their wires and pulls, Water faucets, the paraphernal of the bath-room, and everything of a like movable nature, have been wrench ed from their fstenings and carried away. Window shutters have also dis appeared, though probably burnt a fuel and not taken from the house. Such a scene of wri ck and demol ition can seldom be found within thirty miles of the city of New York. One might imagine such wreck among the desolation of the South, but in the prosperous North its history is unparal leled. This house has this sad story : Built but a few years ago, it passed into the possession of a wealthy New York mer chant, who used every endeavor to make it a home of beauty. No expense was spared ; and the house and grounds became noted for their appropriate be longing. The mistress of the house, tho wife of the owner, unfortunately there sickened and died. The friends gathered to attend the funeral, and the body was borne from its beautiful earthly home to the cemetery. The last to leave the house was its owner, and he, turning tho key in the lock, left it just as it was to its fate. The neighbors clamored for days for entrance, but no one was within, and all attempts to persuade its owner, who had gone to New York, to return to it, were un availing, Attempts were made to pur chase or rent it, but to neither plan would the owner accede. If sold at all, the ground should be sold for . a ceme tery. On their peril, he fbrbado the neighbors to enter the house. The thieves of tho neighborhood soon found out the rich field, and for nights pillaged it. The constables hearing of this, laid in wait in the house one night, and arrested three men as they were rolling up the fine carpets for the purpose of taking them away. The owner, when notified to appear and prosecute the thieves, not only refused to do so, but threatened to prosecnto the constables for entering his house, saying it was bad enough to have three thieves break into a house sacred to the memory of his wife, without having as many constables alsd therein. , ' Some friends, seeing the peculiar state of the owner, removed the balance of the furniture to a safe place; and the house remains open to tho world. Had persons congregate there, and the house at night is supposed to be the resort of thieves and robbers. I Some years ago a squatter settled himself in a little gardeuer's house on the property, and plows the land and reaps his crops as if the fee simple rested in him. Tho owner has refused to notico him or turn him out. Last i spring a certain General in the United States army offered to rent or buy the property, but not being himself a cem etery, or possessing any of the religious or soothing influence of that locality, his appeal was rejected. On all other subjects the owner is said to be most rational, and carries on a large business with great success. The property is valued at 835,000. Huxley on the Hypothesis of Special Creation. ,:""'',' : The arguments brought forward in its favor all take one form : If species were not supernaturully created, we cannot understand the fact, fcc ; we cannot understand the structure of ani mals or plants, unless we suppose they were contributed for special ends ; we cannot understand the structure of the eye, except by supposing it to have been made to see withj we canuot under stand instincts, unless we suppose ani mals to have been miraculously cudowed with them As a question of dialectics, it must be admitted that this sort of reasoning is not very formidable to those who are not to be frightened by consequences. It is an argumeutum ad ignorantum take this explanation or be ignorant. But suppose we prefer to admit our iguorancn; rather than adopt a hy pot he sis at variance with all the teachings of nature; or suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then scri ously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain H Is it any more th in a grand iloqucnt way of announcing the fact that we really know uothiug about the matter? A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of nature ; but the super natural interposition of the Creator can, by the nature of the rase, exemplify no law, and if species have really arisen iu thi.4 way, it is absurd to attempt to dis cuss their origin. Or lastly, let us ask ourselves whe ther anv-amouut of evidence which the y nature of our faculties permits us to attain, can justify us in asserting that any phenomenon is out of the reach of auy causation ? To this end it is obvi ously necessary that we should know'all the consequences to which all possible combinations continued thrftngh unlim ited time can give rise, If we know these, and found none competent to originate species, we should have good ground for deuyiug their origin by nat ural causation. Till we know them, any hypothesis is better than one that in volves u iu such miserable presumption. But the hypothesis of special crea tion is not only a mere specious mask for oar ignorance, its existence in biol ogy marks the yonth and imperfection of the science. For what is the history of every science but the history of the elimination of the notion of creative, or other interferences with the natural order of the phenomena, which are the subject matters of that science T When astronomy was young, the morning stars sang together for joy, and the planets were guided in their courses by celestial hands. Here the harmony of the stars has resolved itself into gravitations according to the inverse square of the distance, and the orbits of the pl.inets are dedueiblc from the laws of the forces which allow a schoolboy's stone to break a window. The lightning was tho angel of the Lord; but it has pleased Providence in these modern times, that science should make it the humble messenger of man, and we know that every flash which simmers about the horizon on a summer's evening is determined by ascertainable condi tions, and that its direction and bright ness might, if our knowledge of these were great enough, have been calculat ed. Lay Sermons, Addresses and He views, pp. 281-3. Be Social' at IIomk Let parents talk much and talk well at homo. A father who is habitually silent in hi own house, may be in , many respects a J wise man, but he is not wise in his' silence. We sometimes see parents who are tne life of every company they en ter, dull, silent and uninteresting at homo among the children. If they have not mental activity and mental stores sufficient for both, let them first pro vide for their own household. Ireland exports beef and wheat, and lives upon potatoes ; and they fare as poorly who reserve their social oharms for compan ions abroad, and keep their dullness for home consumption. It is better to instruct children and make them happy at home, than it is to charm strangers or amuse friends. A silcut? house is a dull: place, for young peoploa place from which they will escape if they can. They will talk or think of being 'shut up" there j and tho youth who docs not love homo is in danger. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC. JOIl J. DALY, ATTORNEY. AT-LAW, i Notary Public, &c, ISUENA VISTA. 41-tf J. H. MYE R, Atf,yAc Counsel lor-at-Lavs, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon OFFICE in the Court House. 3My ""jTcTgrubbs, m.d. PHYSICIAN AND 8UKGBON. Offer a his Services to the Cituens of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE i NICHOLS' Drng Store. i ; 34-tf P. A. Fkksch. J J. MeMAHon. NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP, Kola, Polk Couuty. All Kinds of IJlackmIthlug done on Short Notice, and to the Satisfaction of Customers, and at Reasonable Kates. Special attention paid to Ilorse-Shoetllg. Oct. 27, 1870. FKENCII k McMAlION. 34-ly It li M K N II E It t THAT TnE independence: hotel lias been IlE-FITTED, and no pains Is now (red to uak all who may call Comfortable aud Happy. A good Stable t kept in connection with the Hu. Call and see us. Ocl27, 170. JEREMIAH OALWICK. 3-ly H'hvsician and Surgeon, Dallas, Ogn. Having resumed practice, will gire special attention to Obstetrics, and the treatment of the diseases of Women and Children flrOfflce at his residence. W. D. JEFFKIISS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, I Eola, Oregon. Special attention given to Obstetrics and Dvael of Women. iltf J. E. DAVIDSON, M. D.t Physician and Surgeon, Independent e Ogn. I T. V. II. Einhree. rilYSICIArV&SUROEOX AMITY, YAMUILL CO., OREGON. -tr- Office at resilience. 14yl Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ! sam:m, OREGON, Will practice in all the Courts of Record and i Inferior Courts of this State. OFFICE In Watkinds it Co's Brick, op stairs. J ' I P. C. SULLIVAN, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. r,. COLLINS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Oregon. Special attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to Real Estate. 1 GEO. B. CCRRBY. H. IICRLRT. & HURLEY, Aitorneys-At-Law, LAFAYETTE - - - - OREGON. 3-tf . , . - MARION RAMSEY, Alt'y&oun8cIlor-at-Law, i Lafayette, Oregon. , 3-tf E. O. SLOAT, Carriage and Ornamental SlfiX PAINTER, Commercial ftraet, i Opposite SUrktj's Block, 21-tf - ; V .v y SALEM. A LL SORTS OF GOODS SOLD FOR TV Cash or Marketable Produce at ., , ; ; J. II. LEWIS'S YlfELCII'S PREMIUM SALMON BEST If , ! in market in kits or barrels. For sale at , COX 4 EARII ART'S, : .-'' - i ' '. Salem. ,t!RIJSSELL&, FERRY,; Real Estate VRrokers and ... ' ;, - j. , ... -,. Real Estate Auctioneers. OFFICE. St. Charles Hotel Building, PORTLAND m - - - OREGON. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, &C. COX & EAR HART, WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERS MOORE'S BLOCS, 8ALSSX. Goods by the Package at Reduced Rate mylO-Stf Underwood, Barker & Co, WAGOiV MAKERS, Commercial street Salem.- Oregon, MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OP VaO'1 ONS after the most approved styles and tha best of workmanship, on short notice, and AT PORTLAND PRICES I 21-tf Saddlery, Harness. S. C. STIPES, Main st. (opposite the Court Rouse), Dallas, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips. Collars, Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he is prepared to sell at the lowest living rates. ; -REPAIRING done on short notice. GAITERS. DO YOU WANT SOME Fine Cloth Gaiters? if so. supply jonr selves at J. JJ LEWIS'S. - Q UEENSWARE IN ABUNDANCE At J. H. LEWI'S. BANK EXCHANGE SALODfl, Main street, : i t Dallas, Ogn. WINES, LIQUORS, PORTER, ALEi Bitters, Cigars, Candies, Oysters. and Sardines will be served to - men on the outside of the counter, by a gentle man who has an eye to "bis" on the inside. . So come along, boys; make no delay, and we will soon bear what you here to say. 32 . W. P. CLIN OA N. HURGREfi 4 SHIfiDLER, Importers and Dealer! In ! FURNITURE ' and' " : v 'I BEDDINGr. The Largest Stock and the Oldest Fur niture House In Portland. . WAREROOMS AND FACTORY CORNER 8ALM0N AND FIRST STREETS , PORTLAND. OREGON. ' EDUCATIONAL. LA CREOLE ACADEMY, " Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. MR. M. M. OGLESBY... Principal MISS C. A. WATT..... .............. Assistast. This Institution was Re-opened on Mon day, the 31 st of October. The Teachers ara determined to do everything in their power to make this School second to none, of its grade, in the State. They earnestly so'icit the hearty Co-operation of the Community, and at Liberal Patronage from the Public. ;- expenses. ;:;il,!' Primary-, per Term ...........4 00 Commou Ekcush, per Term......... ..... 6 00 Higher English, per Term 8 00 Latin or French Language, Two Dollars Extra. These figures will be greatly reduced by tha application of the Endowment Fund. 'All Students entering the School will share equally the benefit of this Fund. Students will not be admitted for a less period than a Half Term. Charges will' be made from the tims of Entering, j , i . ; . No deduction made for Absence, except la case of protracted Sickness. , N. LEE,' Chairman Ex. Com. WM. nOWE, See. oBonrd. WOOI WAIVTEJLV ' ; ' - 1 1 1 -' -a TnE ELLENDALE MILL 1 COMPANY will give the highest market price for wool, delivered at their factory in Polk Co Their Store is also open, with a pea era! as sortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Harder re, ' ' 2-tf A JENNINGS LODGE No. O, l 4'A A. M., Dallas, holds iu regular elm. inunications on the Saturday preceding the Full Moon in each month, unless the moon fulls on Saturday then on that daj at ce o'clock. ' Also, on the second Friday in each month at 7 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of improve mt r the Craft in M IHVUV V j wmmm tm V W 1 V U other work as the Master may from time to time order. All Brethren In good standing are invited to attend By order of the V U Why will Men Die, : 4 ND LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES DE3 iV. titute, when $0 secures 12,500, and $10 secures $5,000 In the United States' Mutual Benefit Company, Of New York. ; , Send for a pamphlet, or call. upan..J. ! D Carey, Agent for Oregon, and obtain full Infor mation. ; v . ,(' . 4i-3m Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon. U A 4 1 ; ... i f o