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VOL. 2. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1871. NO. 9 I Issued Every Sattirday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. BY R. II. TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the Court House. i SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six H&ntba, $1 -'5 Three Months, $1 00 For Clubs of :en or inore $2 per annum. Subierijation mutt be paid utrictly in advance ADVERTISING BATES. Oneaquare(10Unesorles9), firstinsert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion- 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertiser. 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 furnished at low rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Repcblicam and Ds rest's Monthly, which is itself $3 for one year, to any person who pays us $1 Demorbst's Moniiily stands unrivalled as a Tamily Magaiine. 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 Iasl Decade. From the New Jersey Mechanic The ten years recently closed present an array of political events, scientific achievements, and social convulsion, the like of which is not recorded in modern history. The old proverb that " the mills of the Gods grind slowly," would st-eui to have a ver limited ap plication in these latter days they grind exceedingly fast ; so fast that our heads swim if we try to watch the pro gress or follow the results, T.ie period of time stands unrivalled in the known account of time fur the importance of the results that make up the sum of its history. Since the beginning of the year 1861, there has hardly anything, happened which has not excited the wonder and moved the sympathies of mankind. Mighty empires have been overthrown, old dynasties have fallen, and great interests uprooted, the most ancient of temporal politics has ceased to exist, new nations have been created, wars have been waged on a scale of gigantic proportions and with weapons of new patterns and unheard of powers of destruetivenes?; continental railroads have been laid down, obstacles in the path of commerce have been cut through or removed j remote nations havs been brought into intimate inter course through the ?gency of electricity and steam, while great discoveries in science and mechanism have added vastly to the means at man's command to render the earth suoWrvicnt to his will. M To watch the seventh decade of our century," says a popular writer, "it id probable that we should have to take the greatest of modern centuries, even the sixteenth, to which belongs the reformation, and saw the beginning of those changes, the fruition ot which was reserved foT our own time, and for the next age. This statement cannot be overdrawn, jba any thinking man will admit, after a careful review-in his own mind of the rapid' progress of this period. In England a great social revolution, bloodless it is true, but just as niomen tous, has been effected, and is still in successful progress. English politics and .hugush institutions have been very nearly re modelled. To use the words of the Tory party, England is beinj; "Americanized." The most astonishing aspect of the great changes of politi cal opinion in England is that th . two great reforms were instituted by the Tory party. JJut this lory liberal ity bad its limit, and the country de manded more than the Ministry was willing to allow, and so it was left to a liberal Ministry under Mr. Gladstone to carry out these great reforms. The Irish church has been disestablished and other measures of equal benefit in ethuted for the eood of Ireland. An cssentiabchange in the English educa tional system has been effected, which will make education popular and more widely disseminated among the com mon people who most need it. Of the Continental changes, they are 80 familiar with the people-that to ex patiate on them would be needless. It 23 appropriate, however, to mention that" the last decade includes the rise aud consolidation of the Italian King dom, which has made Home its capital by a unanimous vote of the Chambers, the occupation of the city to take placo in July of the present year. Napoleon was essentially the father of this King dom ; but the overthrow of the father was necessary, that the child should fulfill its appointed mission. It was but ten days after Napoleon was taken a pri&oner at Sedan, that King Victor Emanuel marched upon Home with his army, and in less than a month the Papal States were united to the King dom by an almost unanimous vote of i he people To-day the leading and most power ful uation on" the Continent is formed by the union of Germany with Prussia into a homogeneous whole, under Wil liam as Emperor. The revolution in Spain has resulted in giving to that distracted country as much civil liberty and internal order as she is fairly capable of at preseut. In the persou of her King, a scion of the House of Savoy, which sits on the throne of United Italy, she has secured as capable and influential a sovereign as she could well expect to get. So far, he has certainly proved himself a capable and energetic ruler whose whole heart and t?oul is with his people, and whose every effort is to elevate them ahd improve their condition, morally, socially, politically aud financially. To this extent he is a success. In Russia, civilization has made the same wonderful strides of progress, in tensified, and on a scale of gratideur unexampled. The last decade has wit nessed the emancipation of the serfs, 25,000,000 in number, and the creation of a common free school system only excelled by that of this country in magnificent development. The iron roads connect distant parts of the vast empire, and telegraphs extend from the capital to the most distant outposts of the army on the desert of Toorkestan, or the foot hills of the Himalayas, or at the great wall of China, and every day those outposts are advanced further and further, assert inir the determination of the Cossaek to stop short at nothing but universal dominion. As an enlight ened ard intelligent nation, Russia now ranks second to Prussia, and as a civil izer for the wild hordes of Asia, she is doing incalculable good. Civilization and Christianity march hand in hand along to the occupation of the promised land. China and Japan have been partially opened to " outside barbarism, and will soon dicover the great benefit of the change. The Gov ernmcnt of Uritish India has instituted many reforms j Turkey, Egypt, and other semibarbarous powers are becom- ng somewhat liberalized; the great island of Madagascar has become highly civilized, and material improvements have greatly enlarge!! their borders on the continent of Africa. All this indi cates what the material progress of the teade has been. The completion of the Pacific Railroad, the Suez Canal, the ocean telegraph and the Mont Cenis tunnel through the Alps has given a prodigious impetus to the course of human progress, and enormously aug. mcntcd the aggressive power of man over the obstacles of nature. The pro gress in scientific discovery, arts aud learning has been equally great, Job No. Two. A certain coodnatured old Vermont farmer preserved his constant good na ture, let what would turn up. One day one of his men came in, brincrin? the news that one of his red oxen was dead. 14 Is he ?" said the old man, well, he always was a breechy cuss I Take his hide off and send it down to Fletcher's, it will bring the haid cash.J' An hour or so afterwards the man came back with the news that " Limeback and hi mate were both dead." " Arc thev ?" said the old man, well I took them of Ii. to save a bad debt that I never ex- K T mtCK? n tt,n ' the uiiuuicb. xiier me lapse oi another hour the man came back acain to tell him that the nigh brindle was dead. "Is he?" said the old man, well, he was a very old ox; take off his hi le and send it down to Fletcher's'; it's worth cash, and will bring more than any two of the others.". Hereupon his wife, who was a very pious woman, reprimanded her husband severely, and asked him if he was not "aware that that loss was a judgment of Heaven upon him for his wickedness. 'Is it?" said the old fellow, "well, if they will take the judgment in cattle, it is the easiest way I can pay it I" . "Is molasses good for a cough?" asks a youth with a heavy cold. It ought . i ... .ii : .? to De, it is eoia ior consumption. TOOLS TO WOltK WITH, fFrom the Journal of Education. No intelligent farmer, we opine, would send a hired man into the field to put in a crop or wneat without sup- jiriil the various imulcments needed lor the effective performance of the work. The farmer knows that upon the man ner in which the seed is planted will uepena tne question oi a promaoio re- . IT- . . . .1 -..ii. turn till Miu lilwi I rw it-1 f rr riAtrnrwi 11 the planting, beyond the growth, be- yond the harvest, he sees in imagina- tion, a bountiful store of his sustaining element, ana a repenisneu purse, pro- i - i i I phct-ic of added comfort, luxury, social consenuence and power. Such results as he desires can onlv bo secured bv right beginning!, hence no care nor - Al expense is spared to get the seed depos ited in the well prepared soil, under the most favorable auspices. The Fame intelligent farmer, it may be, is a member of the district board the director iu a school district. He also has childreu to send to school who possess powers aud capacities that only need to be developed to insure intellec tual eminence. V et our intelligent farmer, the school district director, the father ! children whose mlant years arc full of promise, proceeds at the pro per time to make diligent search for a "cheap teacher," which having rc- cured, he considers his duty discharged and uimseii exonerated iroin limner care. The "hired man," whoe labors biing material prosperity, is set to work in a broad at d beautiful field made fer tile by agricultural art, given tools to vork with, and. subjected to careful and personal supervision, lest some part of his work should bs neglected. The teacher, on the contrary, whoie field of labor is the human soul, whose high mission is to plant in the heart of childreu the germs of intelligence, vir tue and truth, is suffered to toil on every aspect of which inspires disgust instead of hope, uuvisdtid, unless it be to mete out harh censure, unnoticed, savc in study-hating urchins, and with none of the implements f the teacher's art to aid in the operations of imparting in struction. What wonder that schools languish aud teacher's fail ! What wonder that the best talent seeks other and more Appreciative avenues of us fulness! The state of affairs above indicated n ay not exist, to the extent described in all our cchools, perhaps not iu many, ut it is undeniable that apathy, lack of interest and ill judged economy pre vails much too generally Whether viewed from a public or private Manpo.nt, tfiere is no subject that ought more earnestly to engage the attention of all than that of the common schools. It is there that the seed is planted which will cither take root and develop into a plant of beau- tiful proportions, bearing in profusion the fruit of civilization and progress, or dwarfeby barren and unwise culture. proauce out ragged thorns and bram annum making a total aouual expendi bles, yielding blasted and fitter fruit . of about S5.000.000, and showing ignorance, vice, crime. .Make the school-houses attractive, pleasant, home like; supply them with blackboards, maps, and other essentials ; visit the schools often, and interest yourselves in what you see ; encourage teachers and pupils, and be assured that in no other way can time and money Do expended " a a ft more uscluiiy. Carrots for Horses. . r ; . The value of carrots for horses w thus stated in Youatt and Spooncr's valuable work on the horse, and similar statements are made in the other horse woks : The Virtues of this root are not sufii- ciently known, whether of contributing to the Btrcngth and endurance of the value of public lands, of the develop sound hor&e, or the rapid recovery of tnentof the coal and iron mines of Wy- ihn ainlr nn(i TTnlP n Kiiotml mill Ka a fair, daily allowance. There is little prov rovender of which the horse is fonder, The following account of the value of the carrot is not exaggerated : " This root is held in much esteem. There is none better, nor perhaps so good, urn uibi. givun, it is siigniiy aiuretio and laxative, but as the horse becomes umifit-mirl in it tlmon nTnin in v. .,i..,i m i - .1.- uo muuuwu, xiiuv aiso improve niw ntato of tho akin Tl.se'fn m . mi substitute tor grass, and an alternative for horses out of condition. To sick and idle horses, they render grain unneces- sary. They are beneficial in all chronic diseases connected with breathing, and have a marked influence upon chronic cough and broken wind. They are ser- viceablo in rl ian no no nf tl,t elr.n mr1 In . 7 --. ".. " combination with oats, they restore a worn oat aorse sooner than oats alone ." csssaaawssswr? Senate Itenorton the Overland Railroad ; tiueatloii. rrura me aoove-namea report we learn that the price paid before the war for the transportation of tho maU over v i l -t A4 ii. - .. tr mt os ior every miles. ine highest price paid to the railroad for -.nsnnrtminn ia tint mnrAthn r . v-w w, - inn u t inn m i riA r Kill Ih.a far 111(1 nnlna clinn. ' ' ig a saving during the years 18G8, 'G9 aud '70 of about 17,551,000, which the committee claim would iav all arrears of interest now due unon bonds . , t . T1 .r .. ucd to the Pacific Railroad Company more than three times over. e ex- tract the following from the Report : 'The Secretary of War on the 15th of February, 1871, in answer to a reso lution of the feenate, estimates the cost of the military service, through the War Department, in guarding the over- laud route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, from the acquisition of California to 1804, a period of six teen year, at about $100,000,000. and states luui iiiis uiu is rattier uiuuw than above the true cost of the service." This sum would equal $0,250,000 per annum for the entire period. As this expen-c ws constantly increasing, the annual cost at the time of the opening of the Pacific Railroad must have been much greater. 1 he expenses ot the Indian service for the same period, as shown by the report of .the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was over $500,000 per annum, and the mail service averaged a little less than $1,000,000 per annum for the whole tune ; but in the year lbUl it had reathed $1,290,000 per annum, and was increasing with the population . m r-t . of the 1'acihc coast. inese sums together make an average annual cost, from 1813 to 1801, of over $8,000,000. These statements" fully corroborate the statement of Secretary Stanton and of the Chairman of the Senate Commit- x hal he cmt of tUh oovcrn(l,cnt i hi'ri n r ul 111.11 liiiiii nd.i uuviui. ui .uui.- 000 per annum, sod that thai cost Was annuiUy increasing. The whole amount of the bond lsued in aid of all the Pacific railroad is 301,618,83:2 The annu il. interest 04i the same is $3,877,120 02. The cam inp thus far have paid about 30 ptT cent, of the interest, which, deducted from the annual interest, leaves the net annual expenditure for interest 2,- 7i:uui. The net result to the United States miy be thus stated : The cost of the overland service t Lh wJjole period from the acquisition of aorripo lor our pacifi? Coast poeion down to lhe cotn,slttton of tho Pacific Railroad, over 88,000,000 per annum, and .i . ...a Tlw, Pl.st :nce the comnjction of the roaJ u the annuai interest S3,877,- 20 to which must be added one-half f. for 8e, vices performed bv the colupanvt about $1,103,138 per a saving of at least $3,000,000 per annum. "This calculation is upon the basis I that none of the interest will ever be repaid to the United States, except what is psid by service-, and that tho excess of the interest advanced over I VAUOO v (rcifThts 9 a total loa. J jn this statetnent no account is made of the constant destruction of life and private property by Indians, of the large Lmnnilt, nf monev naid bv the Secre- tary 0f the Treasury as iudemnity for damaces by Indians to property in the Government service on the plains under the Act of March 3d 1819, of the in- creased mail facilities, of the preven tion of Indian wars, of the incfeascd I ...inrr n jiil fli.- irnlil nml uilunr tiinfS of Nevada and Utah, of the value of tho road in a commercial point of view in utilizing the interior of the continent, and in facilitating trade and commerce with the Pacific Coast and Asia, and above all in cementing the Union and turnisumg securuy iu iuo uvem w foreign war. 1 Home vears aero, a voanir aian ui , - " l culturoand good taste wenc to hear a 1 well known ranter. Getting disgusted ooiore imVBeriuou was imu t,.ruuS.., . left his scat and was going on tip-toe war? u,e ao?5 wnen 100 Pacuer rather go to hell than hear me preach?" Somewhat startled at first; the young man faced about, and, with a graceful , -nnnrl,! i fln tho wholp narson jow responded Un tno wtoole, parson M ""r'.. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC. f. LUVSEY mix, m. D.9 Physician &. Surgeon, , J1UENA VI ST A,. OH EG OS. Formerly Practiced with R. 0. 11 ILL, M. D., Albany. 8-tf BREYJlAtf BROS. WHOLESALE DEALERS 15 xxrc, GOODS, Etc. MOOR CM IlLOCK, HA I, CM. 100,000 Jlis Wool Wanted For which the Highest Market Price will be paid. 3 -3 in JOllX J. DALY, ATTORNEY-AT -LAW, Notary Public, &c, nUKXA VISTA. 41-tf J. C. GRUBBS, li. D.v II1Y1C1AN AM) HUHCi liON, Offcn hit Servico to the Citizent of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE NICHOLS Drug Store. 34 tf 1 A. Frkicu. I J. McMabux. HVN BLACKSMITH SHOP, liola. Polk County. AH Kinds of IXlacksmtthlnff lone on Short Notice, and to the Hatufactum of Custooicrs, and at IU neonal ls Halt. ft;eial attention paid to IIorKC-J'hoeliig. Oct. 27, IS70. 1'IIECI1 WcilAUO. W. I). JfEl'I'ItlliS, M. I., 1'Iiyician ant! .Surgeon Cola, Oregon. Special attention giren to Obstetrics and Duvae) of Wojnen. ltr Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, MALUM, OIIRGOX, Will practice in all the Court of Itecord and Inferior Courts of this State. OFFICEIn Watkinds stairs. A Co's Brick, up 1 I C. SUkMVAX, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J, I,. COLMXS, Attorney and Counsellor -at -Law. Dallas. Oregou. Special attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to Real Estate. 1 cso. B. ct'Rnr.r. J h. hi rukt. CUR RE Y & I3URI-EY, Attorucj's-At-Lair, LAFAYETTE - - - - OREGON. 3 tf RUS$S2L.Li & TERRY, Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Auctioneers, OFFICE. St. Charles Hotel Building:, PORTLAND ----- OREGON. WAG0?l AHD CARRIAGE SHOP, Main Street, Dallas. Second door north of the Drug Store. The undersigned wishes to inform the Public that he is prepared to do any kind of work in i his line on the shortest notice, and in the best style. Thankful to his old customers and friends for former patronage, he respectfully solicits a continuance of the same. 3J-tf S. T. GARRISON. FURNITURE! Bureaus, . Xiouitgcs, Tables, Bedsteads. A Variety of CHAIRS for Parlor aud Kltciien use. RAW-X1IDS BOTTOM CHAIRS Of my own make. Shop near Waymirc's Mill I INVITE THE PUBLIC TO EXAMINE 'my stock. I shall be pleased to show you my goods, and better pleased when you buy. , NEW WORK put up to Order. . and RE PAIRING done at the lowest cash price. 4-tf v WM C. WILLS, DUa. S ALT. CARMEN ISLAND AND LIV ERPOOL Salt, in quantities to suit, at COX & KAKHART'S, Salem. A LL KISDS OP- SEWINQ DONE ON t 1. S1'" Notice by Mrs. m. Wajmlro,f m, balla. Short Notice by Mrs. Celicio Ellsberry, PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC. J. itlTjStXlORE, POUTIAKD - - OREGON. General News Agent For Oregon and Adjacent Territories. Also SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kiuda of CLAIMS. AGENT for the,I)allaa Republican. WOOL! WOOL!! 17KWJLL PAY THE niGHEST &IAB J ket Price in Cash for WOOL. Sacks and Twine Furnished, Wool received at any Shipping Point on the VV ittiunette Hirer. COX & F. AH EI ART, COMMIRCIAI SlUi;LT, SAL. CM. II. P. EISriVER House, Wason and Sign. ' rainier, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. IVKW WAGCKY AI) CAR ria;i: FACTOR V. ItlCH AHDSON CO. Inform the Publia that they are nn ready to do alt kinds of work in tleir line. CARUIAOES, WAGONS. Ac. Uuilt or Re- paired with Nealue aud Dispatch. WAUONS cotiftasily ou hand fur Sale. liLACKSsMlTHINU doue by au experienced Workman. One' door south tf Livery Stable Dallas, Ogn. f 8-tf 1 iitlcr wood, Barker & Co, WAOrV MAKERS Commercial street, Salem, Oregou, MANUFACTURE ALL KIXDS OF WAG OXS after the most approved styles and the best of workmanship, on short notice, and AT POHTJLAJ$I PKICI&S! 2i-tf Saddler, Harness, 8. C. STI LES, Main' at. (opposite the Coujt House), Dallas, MANUFACTURED AND DEALER IN Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, V'ollara, . Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he ift prepared to sell at the lowest living rates, &30-REPAIUING done ou short notice. HURGREN & SHIflDLER, ImportT8 and Dealers la FURNITURE AND BEDBilV Oft. The tartest Stock and tae Oldest I'ur uiture IItue iu Portia ltd. WAREROOMS AND FACTORY CORNER SALMON AND FIRST STREET! PORTLAND, OREGON 1 tf $75 EVERV WEI5K! 11ADE EASY, LADY AGENTS We want Smart and Energetic A cents te Introduce our popular and justly elhratcd intentions, in every Village, Tuu-h and City in tht World. Indispensable to every Household; They are highly approred of, endorsed an4 adopted by Lmliea. AXv t in"nr, and are now GREAT FAVORITE with them. Every Family will Purchase One or more of them. Something: that their tnertts are apparent at a GLANCE. DRUGGISTS, MILLINERS, DSESSSIAKES and all who kep FANCY STORES, will fin 4 our excellei t articles SELL VERY ItArlD L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting SMALL FORTUNES to all Dealers and Agents. COUNTY RIGHTS FBEE to all who desire engaging In an'Miorots i Jtenpeetttbh and fVoiable 7ntets. at the same time doing good to their companions in life. prine. SEND FOR WHOLESALE C1RCU LAR. ADDRESS, VICTORIA MAwUFACTTJRIIfG COIIFX IT, PARK PLACE, New York. NEW PICTliRB (iALLERV. . J. 11. KINCAII) has opened a New Photographic Gallery In Dallas, where he will be pleased to wait oa ' Customors ia his line of Business at all hour Taken without grumbling, at the same price as Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices t ' Rooms at Lafollott's Old Stand, Main Street. Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, April 27tb, 1S7L