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VOL. 2. DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY .27. 1871. NO. 12 She rtjjau UtpuMiran It Issued Every Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. BY II. II. TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the Court House. j SUBSCRIPTION SATES. SINGLE COPlES-One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 15' rhree Months, $1 00 Far Club of ten or more $2 per annum. Subscription mutt be paid etrictly in advance ADVEBTISING KATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion 1 00 A. liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to injure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. BUnks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Hepcblicax and Dem best's Moxtiily, which is itself $3 for one year, to any person who pays us$l Demobest's Monthly stands unrivalled as a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its superior Music, its large amouut of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to the fashions, and arti.-tic illustrations, give it a ast claim to its well-earned title, The Model JJag&zine of America." IKON PAPEH How a Yankee Iuvea tor Sets Iiilaud Agog "From tbo Tajlorsvillo (III.) Republican. We mentioned the other day the fact .that a letter had beep written upon a thia sheet of rolled iron and transmit 4ed from the Siio Iron works, I'itts burg, to Manchester, England. In an exchange, we have since found the .following very interesting rehearsal of facta in connection with that circum I stance: The maker challenged all England t surpass it fur strength and tenacity. J'h.s is no novelty ; fur at the Exhibi tion in 1851, a book-of this iron paper was shown. A lively competition in iron .rolling endued among Brifish iron manufacturers, excited by the above challenge from America as to the thinness to which steel could be rolled cold. Mr, Gillott rolled sheets the average thickness of which was the 1,800th part of an inch. In other words, 1.800 sheets piled upon each other would measure an inch in thick ness, while the thinnest tissue paper to Jbe purchased in the stationers' shops measures the 1.200th part of an inch. These very thin iron .sheets are per fectly pin oo th and easy to write on. although porous when held up to a good light. It may not be out of place, con sidering the great interest that is taken by tho?e connected with that great branch of industry, the iron trade, to give a few curious particulars relative to the extent that iron can be welded, :and the thin sheets that can be rolled out. Brother Jonathan little thought what a hubbub would be created in the ,old country when from Pittsburgh he sent that wonderful letter, written on a sheet made from iron, which took no less than 1,000 sheets to make 1 inch in thickness, the dimensions being 8 Inches by 5 J inches, or a surface of 44 inches, and weighing G9 grains. The fact had no sooner made its appear jarjee in print than Britannia's sons began to work, and soou we heard of a fiheet containing the same number of surface inches, but weighing only 40 grains, had been made at the Marsh $eld Iron Works. Llanelly, Carmar thenshire, being exactly one-third less ia weight. But soou the Welsh leek ave way to tho rose of England, for Staffordshire was anxious to take its wonted lead. The Hope Iron Works succeeded in making a sheet of 118 surface inches, weighing but 89 grains, which, reduced to the American and Welsh, standard of 44 inches, gives about 83 grains ; Messrs. It. Williams JSc Co., C9 inches, 49 grains; reduced to the same stat daid, about 31 grains. For a time Staffordshire wftirs the belt; but Wales becomes very restless, and is anxious for the honor of St. David, so farther attempts must yet bo made. Marshfield comes again into the field. They succeeded in making one sheet, 8 inches by bi inches, or a surtace ot 44 inches, of the astounding weight of 31 J grains only, which required no lets than 5.8G3 sheets to make 11 inch in thickness ; another sheet, 8 inches by r 6 inches, or 48 surface inches, weighed 25 grains; but brought to the standard of 44 inches, gives but 23 grains, and requires 2 950 sheets to make one inch in thickness. Tho Pontardawe Tin Works next come into the field with a sbcet of 143 inches by 7 5-lGths, or a surface of 115 17 inches, weighing GO grams; but being reduced to 44 inches, is 24J grains a trifle heavier than the Marshfield ; but Pontardawe claims 3,799 sheets -to make 1 inch in thick ness. We now come to the climax. The milt manager of Messrs. W. Ilal lum it Co., of the Upper Forest Tin Works, near Swansea, has succeeded in making a sheet of the finest appear ance and thinnest that has ever yet been seen. The iron from which the sheet was rolled was made on the premises. It was worked in a finery with charcoal and the usual blast; it was afterwards taken to the hammer to be formed into a regular flat bottom ; from thence conveyed to the balling furnace, and when sufficiently heated taken to the rolls, lengthened, and cut by shears into proper lengths, piled up, and trans forred to the balling furnace auain ; when heated it was passed through the rolls, back again into the balliug fur nace, and when duly brought to the proper pitch, was taken io the rolls and made into a thorough good bar. Such is its history in -connection with the forge department. It was then takeu to the tin mills and rolled till it was sup posed to be thinner than 23 grains, and afterwards passed through the cold rolls to give it the ueeessary polish, and uow it stands on record as the thinnest sheet of iron ever rolled. The sheet in ques tion is 10 inches by 5J inches, or 55 inches in surface, and weighs but 20 grains, which, being brought to the standard of 8 inches by 51 inches, or 41 surface inches,, is but 1G grains, or 30 per cent less than any previous effort, and requires at leat 4,800 sheets to make one inch in thicliuetc. i:illlNt; A NCHSPAPER. S. W. SwiggUt, formerly editor of the Sioux City Eagle, now the editor of the Muuc (Ind.) Telegraph, prints the following sensible words in a recent issue of his journal : "Many people estimate the ab!ti?j of a newspaper, and the iudustrv and talents of its editor, by the quantity of editorial matter which it contain. It U comparatively an easy task for a frothy writer to pour out daily column of words words upon any and all sub jects. His ideas may fl.w in one weak, washy, ev rlastiug fljod, and his com maod of language may enable him to string tht'm together, like bunches of onions, and yet his paperabe a meagre, poor concern. But what is the labor and toil of such a man, who displays his leaded matter ever so largely, a that impost d on the judicious, well in formed editor, who exercises his voca tion with an hourly consciousness of responsibilities, and devotes him?ell to the conduct of his paper with the same care and assiduity that a sensible lawjer bestows on a suit, or a humane physician on a patient, without regard to show or display ? Indeed, the mere writing part ot editing a paper is but a small portion of the work. The core is the time employed in selecting far more important matter; and the fact of a good editor is better shown by his selec tion than anything else, and that we know is half the battla. But, as we have said, an editor ought to be csti mated, and his labors understood and appreciated, by the general conduct of his paper its tone its temper its uniform, consistent course its princi ples its aims manliness its dignity its propriety. To preserve theso as they should bo preserved, is enough to occupy fully the attention of any one man. . A Strange Fish. She Santa Cruz ("Cul.) Times of a late date relates the tollowing : "On Saturday last, the fishermen at the Soquel beach, while hauling their seine, caught a very strange fish. A gentleman who saw it informs m that it was 4 or 5 feet long, with a head somewhat resembling an al ligator. The mouth would open very wide, and a sort of hissing noise would proceed from it. It had two fiery-like eyes of a green-yellowish color, with two horns of a hard bony substance protruding from each side of the head. Tho body was slim and long, and it had four web feet, the legs being stout and short. Just below the two hiud feet tho body separated in two tails, and on the end of each wero two bunches of tassels, somewhat resembling seaweed or coarse hair. It was very spry and live ly, end the'men were at first afraid to touch it, but finally one of tho men approached it, and struck it oyer the head with an oar and killed it." We furnish tho Republican and Wood's Magazine for $2 50 per year Bridge Across the Mississippi ItlvdV. The great Bridge across the Missis sippi River at St. Louis promises to be, when complete J, ono ot the grandest monuments of engineering skill and geuius in the - world. Between the abutments it will consist of three steel arches, each of about 500 feet span, resting upon massive piers of solid ma sonry. Mr. James B. Eads, tho chief engineer, has issued a very interesting report of the progress which has been made on this great undertaking. Among those which most forcibly illas trate the power of science -to overcome difficulties which would seem almost insurmountable, are some relating to fhe construction of the, west abutment, which at the date of the report had been completed from tho bedrock of the river to a point 31 feet above low water mark, a height of 44 feet alto gether. Although the bedrock of the site of this abutment is 78 feet higher than at the cast pier, the diffi culties encountered in building its foun dation were wore serious thau at either of the others. Its site has beeu for over sixty years a part of the steamboat landing of the city, and as such had re ceived every kind of useless material thrown overboard from the various steamers lying over it during that time. The old sheet-iron enveloping their furnaces, worn-out grate bars, old fire bricks, parts of smoke stacks, with coal, cinders, clinker, and a mass of hctero gencous substances, formed a deposit' averaging 12 feet in depth over the rock. Not only were those miscellane ous obstructions iu tho way, but the coffer dam constructed to enclose the site had to be put down through. the wrecks of no less than three steamboats which were embedded in the sand, the bulk of cither of which was not pro bably of less than 400 tons measurs mc'nt. From the enclosure within the dam were taken parts of several oM and burnt steamboat engines, the iron part of some of which had to bo cut off; four wrecks of barge", soma of them probably iu use before the era of steam; likewise several oak saw logs, some an chors, chains, and a variety of smaller articles. This incongruous deposit made it exceedingly difficult to main tain the integrity of the d:tm, and fre quent flooding occurred which delayed and increased the cost tf the work ; but all difficulties were surmounted, and the bedrock within was finally exposed to view. The piers were sunk by means of caissons, compressed air, and sand pumps, similar in many mpects to those in u for the East Hiver bridge. The cas-t pier of the St. Louis bridge had on the 1st of October, been curried up to the height of 117 feet above the bedrock on which it rest.-, about 20 fect above the level of the water at that time. It measures at its base, in the direction of the current, 82 feet, and transversely, GO feet. This pier was p'accd on tho rock in I2G days after the laying of the first stone, work being stifpended on it' twenty days during this time on account of bad weather. The west abutment of the bridge when completed to tho carriage way will be 115 feet high above the bedrock of the river, and will contain 11.800 cubic yards of masonry. New York San. Truth lit Opera. One night when Car'otta Patti was in Brooklyn she sang with Ferranti. Just as the buffo singer was leading her out through the door to tho plat form, some one in the room behind him cried out that his coat had burst at the team of tho back. It was too late to recede, for the audience had seen him, and the two singers advanced to the footlights. But tho knowledge of this mishap took all the humor out of Fer ranti, and the duct (which was sung in Italian) was so dolefully devoid of the usual humor that Patti noticed it be fore they were half through,- and drop ping the text of tho song, she fitted the following words to it in Italian: What is the matter with you to- night 1 I don't understand your ner vousness. Nobody laughs at you." Whereupon Ferranti, in mellifluous barritono and Italian, responded : ' By the virgin, I have burstcd my coat. Everybody will laugh at ma when I am going off At this unexpected interchange of personal feelings, Max Maretzek and his orchestra began to laugh immedi ately. Then tho people in the front scats, Beeinji tho orchestra anch the artists laughing, joined in themselves, and the merriment presently broke out in applauses all over the house. . " Ah," said one of tho Brooklyn papers, " there .is , always something tmijestio in Ferranti V singing of that song. People burst into sympathetic laughter without being able to telj why." .ms,jisiirvu THICKS OF CONJUKOItS The Itisks They Run. Bobcrt Iloudin used to say that if il t a . . tne puuuc Knew wnat passes througti the mind of a conjurer when he sees the barrel of a pistol turned towards him in the course of a ''fire-arm trick," they would perhaps give him credit for as much nervo and courage as the bravest soldier shows iu battle. Au omission in some trifling point, the breaking off of a small part of the false ramrod, or of tho real bullet as it is being withdrawn, may make the dis charge fatal. Often, too, the trick is a new one, and some miscalculation may make the plan a failure, where failure may mean death. Au unfortunate event which took place at the Cirque Napoleon, at Paris, strikingly illustrates Houdin's words. Dr. Upstcin, the conjurer, had offered a gun to a spectator, with direc tions to take good aim at the Doctor, who was to receive the discharge on the point of a sword. '1 he man rcfu-ed ; but another fired off theguu as directed. The moment after, the Doctor fell to the ground seriously wounded. -It was Tocud that a piece of the ramrod had broken off in the barrel, and this, fired off at so close a range, had penetrated the conjurer's right lung. A circumstance in Houdiu's life shows how daringly the conjurers who amu.c us will often play with danger, depend ing on their ready fingers to secure their safety. He had performed some startlir g fire-arm trtcks before a party tf Arabiaus, making use, of Course, of the ordinary fjrm of conjuring pistol, which is so contrived that the ramrod withdraws the bullet. While the re-t of the party Were expressing their admiration, a crafty old Marabout, who had some suspicion of the true nature ot the trick, said, 44 The stranger is, doubtless, a strong magician ; will he suffer mc to fire at him with my own pistols?" 44 Yes,' s;id Iloudin, unhesi tatingly, 44 but first I must make invo cation to those who assist me." The ocxtday he met the same party, and offered a sauc rful of bullets to the inspection of the Marabout. Sjtified that they were lead as indeed they wire the Arab handed his pistols to Iloudin, who loaded them, using the Arab's ramrod. His own friends were iu ti rror, and even h'.a wife, well as she knew his skill, was in perplexity when she saw him hand back to the Arab one of the loaded pistol.-. 41 Now fire," he said. The Arab did so, and Iloudin was seen with the. bullet between his teeth. 44 Bah he said, seizing the other pistol, " you cannot use your own weapons ! See here. You jiave been unable to draw blood from my flesh, and I will draw blood from yonder wall." He aimed at the wall, fired, and im mediately a stain of blood was seen. The Marquis went up to the wall, and when he had dipped his finger in the blood which was trickling - down, his awe and amazement wero so great that his features assumed a ghastly hue Yet the trick was simple enough; two prepared bullets having been skillfully substituted by Iloudin for the leaden bullets he took from the saucer-- But the experiment was quite new, and Houdin tells us that he trembled and conld scarcely control his terror as he saw the Marabout drawing the trigger of the pistol. -Exchange. There is nothing which aJJs so much to tho beauty and power ot nmu as a good moral character. It is his wealth, his influence, his life. It dignifies hiui in every station, exalts him in every condition, and glorifies him at every period of life. Such a character is more to be desired than everything else on earth. It makes a mau free and independent ; no servilo tool ; no crouching sycophant ; no treacherous honor-seeker ever bore such a charac ter Tho pure joys of truth and righteousness never spring in such a person. If young men only knew how much a good character would dignify and exalt them, how glorious it would make thei prospects, oven in this life U Never should we find them yielding to the groveling and base born purposes of human nature. Squire W was very fastidious in his-notions of propriety. At weddings and funerals he was quite officious, and very particular that everything should he dono decently and in order. In duo time he was taken ill fatally soand relatives and friends were gathered around his bed, sad and weeping. Ono of these, more thoughful than the rest, asked tho department squire if he rou.u iiko io mvuL-vit.uia. wm.cu in to pray With lum to which he re-j , : 1,1 i i. -1... plied 1 tnink it wonuld be appropriate., .tJt&mM&mmS wrvmmtasjsjmfJk. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, d-C. J. illfX, ill. D.9 Physician & Surgeon, IIUI3NA VISTA, OKEGOX. Formerly Practice'! with It. C. II ILL, M. X)., Albany. 8-tf JBIIJBYJIAIV imOS. WHOLESALE DKALEB8 IJT IR,Y GOODSj Etc. MOOHE'S llioCK, SALEM. 100,000 1Im Wool Wanted For which the Highest Market Price will be paid. 3-3m ATTORNEY-AT -LAW, iVotary Public, &c, HUEXA VISTA. 41-tf J. C. GRUB3S, M. D., physician AM) si!it(;i;o, Offers hii Sorviees to he Citizens of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE &t NICHOLS Drus Store. 31-tf w. d. Ji:n nii:s, m. d., Physician antl Surgeon. Cola, Oregon. Special attention giren to Obstetrics and Diiu-afes of Woireo. Itf c. a. win,, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, SALEM, OREGON, Will practice in all tho Courts of Record and lufcriur Court of this State. OFFICE In Watkiada 4 Co's Brick, np stairs. 1 P. C-SUMjIVAX, Attorney & Counsallor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, MTH1 practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. JL. COLLINS, -Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Oregon. Special attention gircn to Collections and to matters pertaining to Ileal Eetate. 1 GEO. B. CCHRET. n. nCIlLET. CURXII2Y& HURLEY, ACforacys-At-I.aw, LAI'AYIITTE - - - -S-if on EG ON. KIMSKLL & PERRY, Real Etate Rroltcrs and Real Estate Auctioneers, OFFICE. St. Charles Ilotcl Building, PORTLAND - -'-OREGON. WAQ9H AMD CARRIAGE SHOP, Main Street, Dallas. Second door north of the Drug Store. The undersigned wishes to inform iheJ'uhlie that he is prepared to do.any kind of work in his line on the shortest notice, and in the best style.. Thankful to hi old customers and friends for former patronage, he respectfully solicits a continuance of-the same. 3'J -tf S. T. UAKRIS0NV a FURNITURE Rurcaus, Lounges, Tallies, ItcoNleails. A VTarl8ty of CHAIRS for Parlor and Kitchen use. RAW-II IDE BOTTOM CHAIRS Of my own make. Shop near Way mi re's mill L INVITE THE PUBLIC TO EXAMINE my stock. I shall he pleased to show yon my goods, and bettor pleased when you buy. NEW WORK put up to Order, and RE PAIRING done at the lowest cash price. 4-tf Witt. C WILLS, Dalla: mil AND DOOR FACTORY, MAIN STREET, DALLAS. 1 hare 'constantly on hand and for Sale WINDOW S'l&li, fsllazccl anil Unglazcri. - BOORS OF ALL SIZES. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, All of tho Best Material and Manufacture, ll-tf JAMES M. CAMPBELL. A LL KINDS ' OF SEWING DONE ON i. Short Notice by Mrs. Ceilcia Klliberry, wajmiw a Aim, iMiia z3t PROFESSIONAL CARLS, AC. jr. ill. RAintfiQ&E, PORTLAND - - - OR EGO!, General News Agent For Oregon and Adjacent Terrrltorlei. Alao SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kind of CLAIifS. AGENT for the Dallas Republican. WOOL! WOOLU "11TE WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MAU- ? ket Price in Cash for WOOL. Sacks and Twine Furnished. Wool received at any Shipping Point on the ' Willamette Hirer, COX & I2ARIIART, COMMERCIAL STREET, SAL, EM". I - - T - - - " II. P. SBI??IVI2K, Elonsc, Wagon and Sign rainier, Dallas, Polk Couuty, Oregon. 4-491 IV 12 XV W A G OX A IV D A U mA;E FACTOISV. RICHARDSON & CO. Inform the Pub!is that tbey are now ready "ta do all kinds of work in tteir Hue. CARRIAGES, WAtiOAS, Ac. Built or Re paired with Neatness and Dispatch. WAGONS constantly on baud for Sale. i ULACKSMI'l'llING done by au rporience&. Workman. One door south of Livtry Stable Dallas, Ogn, - 8-tf Umlerwoocl, Etaxter & Co WAGOX IAKERS Commercial street, Salem. Oregon, MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF WAG ONS after tbe most approved styles and the best of workinanebip, on short notiti,-JLal . AT PORTLAND PRICES'! 12-Sm Saddlery, Harness, S. C STILES, ; Slain st. (opposite the Court House), Dallam, "jl T" ANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN j)L Harness, Saddles, Bridies, Whips. Collars, Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he is prepared to sell at the lowest living rates. SstRE PAIRING done on short -orrtiira. HURGBEN &. SHINDLER, : Importers and Dealers in FURNITURE AND Jl E I 1 X G . The largest Stock and the Oldest Tut nlturc House Iu Portland. . WAREROOMS AND FACTORY CORNER SALMON AND FIBST STREETS PORTLAND, OREGOX.V 19-tf , i?7o E V E R Y. W E IS K ! HADE EASY, BY LADY AGENTS; We want Smart. and Energetic Afrents to introduce our popular and justly celebrated inventions, in every Vilhrye, Tvtrn nnd City t the HVW. ItuHspensaZle to every Household; ' They are hihly approved of, endorsed and adopted by Ladiet, and ZVri'iiri, , and are now a GREAT FAVORITE with them. - Every Family will Purchase One or more of them. Something; that their merits are apparent at GLANCE. DRUGGISTS, MILLINERS, DRESSMAKERS and all who keep FANCY STORES, will Bod our cxcellet t art icles ,SKL L VEH Y It A VID L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting SMAL FORTUNES to all Dealers and Agents. COUNTY RIGHTS FREE to all who desire engaging In an Ifonombfe, Hfpectable and Voyfooe Miar, at thesatne Sample $2 00, sent free "by mail on receipt of price, SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU LAR. ADDRESS, VICTORIA MANUFACTURING ; COHPY IT, PARK PI,ACI New York. KEW T IlTlJ R II Uii LL E Ely. J. II. KINCAID has opened a ----w, - Tn Dallas, where he will be pleased to wait on. Customers In bis line of Business at all hours of the day. Children's Picture ; Taken without grumbling, at the same prtco as Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. ; Pricea to suit tha tlraes. ' Rooms at Lafollett'a Old Stand, Main Street, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon; April 27th, 1871.