VOL. 2.
DALLAS; OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1871.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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IflAEUOft RAMSEY,
AU'y&CounscIlor-af-Law,
Lafayette, Oregon.
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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
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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
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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.
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