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VOL. 2. DALLAS; OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1871. m. 4 he rtpu "JpubUran It Issued Every Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. BY R. H. TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite tho Court House. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Sir M&aths, $1 15 .Three Months, 00' 4 , For Clubs of ten or more,, $2 per annum; Sbcriptio Ht 6 paid ttrictly in ltfoancts ADVERTISING SATES.' One square (10 lines or less), first insert'n,t3 00 Eaeh subsequent insertion- J.. I 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. ' Transient adrertisements must be paid for In advance to insure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description fnrnisbed at low rates on short notice, i A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Kepcblicax and Db bbst's MosthlT, which is itself $3 for one year, to any person who pays us $1 Dsmorkst'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 Magasine of America." The Elements of Power, From the New Jersey Mechanic Every day the newspapers bring us the news of some great discovery of mineral wealth in some section of the country not known to contain deposits of any value. Most of these discover ies are on a scale to strike every person with astonishment, and affords substan tial evidence that the teeming resources of the country are barely touched as yet. When we consider that in the far West there are thousands and thousands of square miles of country which as yet have hardly been trod by the foot of white nun, it becomes evident that there is no end to the mineral wealth of the country. The great industry of the coming generation will be raiuing, and it will be from American mines princi pally that the old world will derive the greater supplies oi minerals, ior in Eu rope every section of country has been mm maged, scoured, screened and wash cd for minerals for thousands of years. Coal is thousands of feet below the soil; all the rich scams of metallic ores, ex cept iron, were exhausted centuries ago by the wasteful barbarous smelting of old and mediaeval nations and the poor est lodes, which would leave to more refined processes a scanty margin of profit, have been chased downward into the, bowels of the earth, baoeath the sea, or into the cores of the mountains, where the pump can do no more, or where volcaic heat foretelfs the final barrier. Thus every century has in creased and will continue to increase, difficulties which have now become en ormous, and full of imminent peril. To conquer them requires the highest re sources of the engineer, the utmost in telligence of the geologist, and the best .skill of the mechanic. How different here in America? Our soal lies upon the surface, and the get ting it is scarcely more than quarrying it. The seams lie four times the thick ness of those in England, cropping out jot! tb mountain shies where we go up in get it, instead of down. Oar iron lies a the form of rich magnetites, and 98 fper cent, hematites in the bluffs over hanging the rivers and lakes which will float it to the blast furnace, and single eams will yield by surface, or gallery, or pit mining hundreds of millions of Jkons. ;Our copper is native within the reach of daylight; our galena has just earth .enough to cover it from the baneful in fluence of the air, and our silver is still .extracted without the aid of prop or xolumn. Gold, it is true, is an exception, and is now mined chiefly in shafts and sub terranean calleriea. The functions of our mining engineers are therefore less difficult, and of a widely different nature than those of the European. Our rain ing engineer is less uniform in hia methods, and is eroverned entirely. by circumstances, which vary with almost -- . w 4Bvery new alliferous deposit. Hence nis engineering requirements are of a lower order, less costly, with less of construe tion and more of mechanical appliances, less of skill and more of rude labor and the readiest adaptation. Our mineral deposits not only arc accessible and in inexhaustible quantity, but their rich ness is fahulous. Take for example 1,1 , . t i Kt t . . i i ' t -1 wnere incyiciu in many cases is as nign as $1,000 per ton, while quartz giving but $500 to the ton is considered poor. In Europe rock that yields but 50 to the ton is worked with profit. The newly opened silver mines of Lake Su perior give 1,000 to the ton, which is aitnply enormous, beings not Jess than 50 cents a pound for the ores. Many of our lead ores contain from 50 to 150 of silver to the too of lead, which is so much clear profit on the cost of reduction. In California, a great proportion of gold quartz mined there gives 400 to G0O per ton. In Wyoming, an iron mountain has been discovered near Cheyene City which is 95 per cent pure iron. With the raptd extension of our railroad facilities, these vast depos its of hidden wealth are being brought as it were to the very doors of our great cities. The rapid increase of our min eral products and their great cheapness must soon give us the monopoly in the markets of the world. llACltELOKS, IlliWAUK! A Few Remarks about Daugleis. There is a clas of men, says the Pall Mall Gazette who are danglers by pro fession ; and who find that profession by no means an unpleasant one to themselves. What it may be to tlioe whom it miy -concern is another matter, and one th.it does not disturb them. As it is, they are in the position of an intending purchaser the potential owner of all within their means the possible possessor of every pretty girl within their sphere. All they have to do is to make up their miod and choose. Danglers, pedtictivc and delusive, arc the bad investments of the matri. monial market : but the warvest may be taken tip by t.ie plausibility of their appearance, and niannLiinjr mother tbemaelvt'8, who are supposed to have an extra sense in such in titers, may be deluded by them into laying trap for a shadow, with small blame to their per spicuity.; What can bo thought of a man young enongh toljve, with enough to marry, and sufficiently interested to dangle, but that he is a good invest ment of one's hopes 1 Besides, where does the time of legitimate hesitation end, and that of insufferable dangling begin? The point is a fine one, and given to a few to hit exactly. Fathers, as a rule, have a horror of thrusting a girl on a man's hands whether he wants her or not, and our daughters, thank Heaven, have no need of that ! So, out of delicacy for the one, and the convic tion that Araminta is at a premium in the market for the other, danglers are 'suffered to abound, and if mischief comes of it, we make a row too late, and shut the stable door after the steed is stolen. ; .Taking society all around, the one who fails most signally in his duty is the bachelor dangler who could marry but does not. So, at lea?t,-women think, and a few fathers. With the multitude of nice girls waiting pensively for hus bands, it is really too bad to sec a whole class of men feeding hopes they do not mean to realize, and fanning fires by which they do not intend to warm them selves in comfortable domesticity. Be sides, is not a dangler a species of swindler, whose stock in trade is made up of dummies? What right had he to come day after day and dangle, if he meant nothing like business? He knew that he was standing in - the way of a better man, and that the bargain about which he was so fastidious, others would take with both hands if they only had the chance. And he knew, too, that he never intended to close on that bargain, and , that he was but a dangler, however much like taking hold he looked. These men are essentially English. A French mother, appraising things at their true commercial value, would make short work of the nrofea- ional dangler, if even the genius of T . . . ... rrencn society allowed him free access to the bouse, which it does not. Lin aetiue la Mlie a marier is much more carefully dealt with ; and no mother who knowaTher business and the iudi- cious guardianship of her daughter is part of the business of a mother would suffer them to become the snort of a dangler, the passive bait at which lip-tit minded fish make tentative nibbles, but never come frankly on the hook. Sometimes, however, the daughter goes so far towards consolidation as to be kept half engaged in a ceremony of the nature or an unuerstanaing rather than an avowed betrothal. It is a state of things which binds no one, and ho is j careful to point but its advantages in compromising neither of them. It gen erally ends, as might be expected, in being broken off; if, indeed, one can call that broken which was never fast. He somehow finds out that it will be better for her if he gives her up, and so he does ; talking parenthetically of his owu feelings, and quite nobly of his own unselfish resignation. .The poor girl, who is honestly in love with him, is usually a dupe, and assures him that she does" not -want her freedom, and would not marry anybody else for worlds. " Aut Cfesar, aut nemo;" his wife,, or spiosterhood for life ! . Poor little soul ! she is far from knowing that her constancy is just the thing he did not want, and however flattering her love may be to his vanity, it is de cidedly embarrassing to bis calcula tions. He gets rid of her, nevertheless, unless her relations interfere, when sometimes our freetrader gets put under the matrimonial hatches before he kuows where he is, and made a prisoner for life. As a rule, he rarely makes a satisfac tory marriage when the time really comes. Moreover, the propensities of his bachelorhood reproduce themselves after marriage, and the unsettled dan gler becomes the inconstant husband, lie cannot give up old habits because of new conditions. He has been carried off by some dashing eonp de main, or more subtly stalked and run down; even then he cannot give up, but still carries on the old game, and dangles to less purpose yet to more danger. If he is not caught moderately young, the chance- are that he will not be caught till quite old. And then he generally hU into strong hand., which give him cause to repent. If he does not fall a victim to one, he still remains dieur iivc among many, dissipating his affec tions and ins eucrgics till the time comes when he has neither to give- when he creeps about the world a pad- led, broken down old beau, at whose pretensions pretty women jeer, and whom none but the cook would marry now ; and hc only on the security of h r settlements, and the chance of his dying before the .year is out, leaving her a handsome jointure and the more congenial companionship of John Tho mas, watting round the corner. Tin: iikw itciiinc; clock. About half-past 11 o'clock on Satur day night, a lium in W, enveloped in broadcloth, might have been seen en tering Cephas JJarberry s kitchen win low. The leg was followed, finally, by the entire person of a lively Yankee. attired in hisSunday go mcctingclothcs It was, m short, .Joe M ly weed, who thus burglariously, in the dead of niydit, won his way to the deacon's kitchen. " Wonder how much the old dcacou made by ordcriu' me not to darken his door again V soliloquised the young" man. " I'rotuiscd him I wouldn t, but didn't say nothing about winders. Winders is just as good as doors, if there ain't no nails to tear your trousers onto; Wonder if Sall'II come down ? The critter promised me. I'm afraid to move here, cause 1 uiiHit break my shins over somethin or other, and wake the old folks. Cold enough to freeze a Polar bear here. Oh, here comes Sally?" The beautiful maiden descended with a pleasant smile, a tallow candle, and a box ot matches. After rcceivinjra runturous crcctini?. she made up a roaring fire in the cook ing stove, and the happy couple sat down to enjoy the sweet interchange of views and hopes. Jiut the course or true love ran no smoother in Barber ry's kitchen than it did elsewhere, and Joe, who was making tin his mind to u a, treat himself to a kiss, was startled by the twice of the deacon, her father shouting from her chamber door : " Sally, what are you getting up in the middle of the night for?" "Tell hitn it's most morning" whis pered Joe. " I can't tell a fib," said Sally. " I'll make it truth, then " said Joe. and, running to the huge old-fashioned ciock mat stood in the comer, he set it at five. The lovers sat down again and resum ed the conversation. Suddenly the stairs began to creak. " Good gracious 1 it's father." "The deacon, by thunder!" cried Joe! hide me, Sal I" " Where can I hide you ?" cried the distracted girl. " Oh, I know," said he, "I'll aqucczo into me ciocK-case. ' And, without another word, he eon cealed himself in the case, and drew the door behind him. The deacon was dressed, and sitting nimsoir down by the cooking-stove pulled out his pipe, lighted it, and com inenced smoking very deliberately and calmly. " Five o'clock, eh!" said he, Well, I shall have time to smoke three or four pipesthen I'll go and feed the critters. ' Hadn't you better go and feed the critters v first, sir, and smoke after wards?" suggested the dutiful Sally. " No, smoking clears my head and wakes me up," answered the deacon, who seemed not a whit disposed. to hur ry his enjoymont. Bur r-r-r r whiz-z ding ! went the clock. . "Tormented lightning!" cried the deacon, starting up and dropping his pipe on the stove. " What in creation is that?" ' " It's only the clock striking five," said Sally tremulously. Whiz! ding! ding! ding! went the old clock furiously. " Powers of mercy 1" cried the dea con, "Striking five!" It's struck a hundred already." " Deacon Barberry," cried the dea con's better half, who had hastily robed herself, and cow came plunging down the stairs in the wildest Mate of alarm. " What is the matter with the clock ? ' "Goodness only knows," replied the old man. "It's been in the family these hun dred years, and neve did I know it to carry on so before." Whiz ! baog! bang ! bang ! went the clock. "It'll burst itself!" cried the old lady shedding a flood of tears, " and there won't be nothing left of it." " It's bewitched," said the deacon, who retained a leaven of New England (superstition in his nature. " Anyhow," he said, after a pause, advancing reo. iutely toward the clock. " I'll sec what's got into it." "Oh, don't," cried the daughter, affectionately seizing one of his coat tails, while bis faithful wife hung to the other. " Dont!" chorused both the womcu together. Jctoff ray raiment!" shouted the deacon, I ain't afraid of the power of darkness." -f But the women would not let go, so the deacon slipped oil his coat, and while, from the sudden cessation of re sistance, they fell heavily on the floor. he darted forward and laid his hand on the door of the clock-case. But no hu man power could ojen it, Joe was hold ing injidewith a death grap. The dea con began to be dreadfully frightened. He gave one more tug. and an unearth ly yell, as of a fieud in distress, came from the inside, and the clock case pitched head foremost on the floor, smashed its face, and wrecked its pro portions. The current of air extinguished the light, the deacon, the old lady and Sally fled upstairs, and Joe Mayweed, extri- a - m eating htmscll lrom the clock, atlectcd his retreat in the same way that he en tered. The next day all Appleton was alive with the story of how Deaeon Barberry s clock . had been bewitched ; and though many believed its version, mine, and especially Joe Mayweed, affected to discredit the whole affair, hinting that the deacon had been trying the experiment of tasting frozen cider, and that the vegarie of the clock-case only existed in a distempered imagina tion. . - - United States Internal Reve nue. By the Act of June 30, 1804; as amended by the first section of the Act of March 2d. 18(37, it is made the duty of any person liable to annual tax, on or before the 1st day of March io each year, to give a return to the Assist ant Assessor of the District wherein he resides Every person failing to make such return by the day specified shall be liable to be kssescd by the Assistant As sessor according to the best information which he can obtain ; and io such case the Assistant Assessor will add 50 per cent, to the amount of the tax. and from the valuation and enumeration so made there can be no appeal. Blanks for de tailed statements of incomes, gains profits, etc, eto., havo been left (or will be) by the Assistant Assessor of this Division, and these must be returned to the office within ten days from the date that notice was served, or penalties may be added. It is a very complete way of making assessments. OnEaoN'8 Direct Tax. -The offi cial report of the Sscrctary of the Treas ury shows that of the direct tax levied upon the respective States, August 6th 1861, Oregon has never paid her share. It is taed to be 835.140. The total due from all the delinquent States and Territories 84,016,732. Subscribe for tho Republican. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, AC. WHOLESALE DEALERS IX XXR,Y GOOO5 Etc. MOOUE'8 BLOCK, 8A1-KM. 100,000 lbs Wool Wanted For which tb Highest Market Price will . be paid... 3-3m joiirv j. fi&xY, ATTORNEY-AT -LAW, . IVotary Public, &c, I1UGNA VISTA. 41-tt J. C. GRU3BS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SUIt(;i:ON, Offer bit Services to the Citizens of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE i NICHOLS' Drug Store. - 34-tf P. A. Fhbsch. I J. AIcMahoh. MEW BLACKSMITH SHOP, liola. Polk County All Kinds of Itlark Dilt hingr done on Short Notice, and to tbe Satifactiou of Customers, and at Heasonable KaUs. Kpevial attention pai l to IIrse-$hoeIng. Oct. 27, mo. FKKNC1I i, McMAHON. it iL m i-;m licit: THAT THE H INDEPENDENCE HOTEL Has been HK FITTHI), and no pains is now reared to ifcake ail wbo may call Comfortable and Happy. A rood Stable is kept in connection with tbe Houne. Call and see u. Oct. 27, 1&70. JKUEMIAII UALWICK. 34-ly PliVMician ami Surgeon, Dallas, n Maring renamed practice, will gire special attention to Ohatetrics, and tbe treatment ot tbe dit-ars of Women and Children JC4Office at his residence. w. ! J lit' FHICS, M. Physician and Surgeon, I I-Ula, Oregon. Special attention given DineaMii of Women. to Obstetrics and ltf . ii. CURL, Attorney and Coimsellor-at-Lav, HAI.IvM, OUISGOK, Will practice in all tbe Courts of Record and Inferior Courts of this State. OFFICE tair. In Watkinds A Co's Brick, up 1 I C. Sill. 3,1 VAX, Attorney I & Counsellor-At-Law. Dalla. Oregon, Will practice in all tbe Courts of Che State. 1 J. fi. COLLINS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Orcirou. Special attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to Heal Estate. 1 OKO. B. CCRRBT. f . n. IICBLKT. CDeiaKY aV HURLEY, AUorneys-At-Siaw, LAFAYETTE - - - - OREGON. 3-tf IflAEUOft RAMSEY, AU'y&CounscIlor-af-Law, Lafayette, Oregon. i a tf E. O. SLOAT, Carriage antl Ornamental SHi.PAIHTEi:, Commercial f trset, Opposite Sttrkey's Block. 21-tf j SALEII. ItlJSSELL & FERRY, Real Estate Brokers antl Real Estate Auctioneers, 0FFICE.-St. Charles Hotel Building, PORTLAND - - - - - OH KG ON. WAGON AND CARRIAGE SHOP, ' Main Street, Dallas. Second door north of the Drug Store. The undersigned wishes to Inform the IfnbHc that he is prepared to do any kind of work in bis lino on the shortest notice, and in tho best style. ' Thankful to bin old eustomers and friends for former patronage, he respectfully solicits a continuance of the samel 39-tf 8. T. UARBISON. s ALT.CARMEN ISLAND AND LIV ERPOOL Salt in quantities to 'rait," at COX A EAUUART'S, Salctn. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, LC. J. -HI. BALTIMORE, POK1XAND - - - OHIiGON. General News Agent For Oregon and Adjacent Territories. Also SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kiuda of CLAIMS. AGENT for the Dallas Republican. COX & EAR II ART,- - WHOLESALE a RETAIL GROCERS SMITH'S BSICZ, 8ALSX. Goods by the Package at Reduced Rate tnylO 3tf Under wood, Barker & Co, WAGSOtf MAKERS, Commercial . street, Salem. Oregon, MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF WAG ONS after the most approved styles and tbe best of workmanship, on short notice, and AT PORTLAND PRICES 1 21-tf Saddlery Harness. S. C. STILES,; ' Main St. (opposite tbe Court House), "Dallas, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Hume, Saddles, Bridles, Whips. Collars, Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which be is prepared to sell at tbe lowet living rates. ERE PAIRING done on short notice. ' BAHK EXCHANGE SALOOB, Main s'reet, : : Dallas, Ogn., Yim'ES. LIQUORS, PORTER, ALE. If Hitters, Cigars, Candies, Ojsters and Sardines will be served to iren tie- men on the outside of the'CouHteT, by r?ntK man who has an eje to "bis" on tbe inside. go come along, boy s ; make no -delaj, anl we will soon hear what jou bare to 32 W. F. CLIN O AK. HURGREM & SHUJDLER, Importers and Dealers ia " FURNIT URE AND The Largest Stock and the Oldest Fur niture House In Portland. : K- WARER00MS AND FACTORY COBNEB SALMON AND FIRST STREET?, PORTLAND. ORT2GI TH?t i . iw.ti EDUCATION A I. LA CREOLE ACADEMY, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. " MR. M. M. OOLESRY ........pBisni'AU, MISS C. A. WATT. .....AsstsTAKt. This Institution was Re-opened on Mod day, the 31st of October.' The Teachers are determined to do evervthiog in their power to make this School second to none, of its grade, in the State. They earnestly so'ieit the hearty Co-operation of the Community, nnd a Liberal Patronage from the Public j EXT E"N B"E B. . PmMAnr, per Term t4 00 Common Egush, per Term... 6 00 Higher Exgmsh, per Term......... ......... S 00 Latin or French LsDgusge, Two -Dollars Extra, - These figures will be greatly reducedfby fbo Application of the Eadowaient Fund. All . Students entering the School will share equally . the benefit of this Fund. Students will not be admitted for a lest period than a Half Term. ? Charges w'fll ro , made from tbe time of Entering. No deduction made for Absence, except ia case of protracted Sickness. N. LEE, Chairman Ex. Com. I i WM. HOWE, -See. itf jioard. . For Snle. TEN ACRES OF LAND, with good Houso and Rarn, all fenced and under good Icu . provement, situated in the Town of Dal!, Polk County, an extraordinary opportunity. For particulars inquire of the Editor of Re publican. . - " 43 tf NOTICE 1 LL THOSE INDERTED TO Till? j. Common School Fund will plesse call at the Treasurer's Office in Dallas, Polk County, and settle the Interest due said Fund immedi ately -;:'v vt j R. M. MAY. Local AgtHt Polk Co. I .IVAATISDo INFORMATION CONCERNING A GFJU roan Oirl, 15 y'enrs of ege, named Anna Kau, who left her parents in Dallas, on tho let of August' last,; with the avowed purpose of going to Oregon City, and has not einco tee heard of. r Any 4nfMrmatien concern kig '-hot willbe thankfully recoived at litis lee. 1 11