"13 J7 J 1 0 VOL. 2. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872. NO. 4G. at BY It. II. TYSON. N- OFFICE Bouse. Mill street, opposite the Court STJ33C3IPTI0N BATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $125 Ibree Mouths, fl 00 For Clubs of ;eu or more $1 7a per annum. Subucrtption must be paid utrictly in advance ADVEETISIIIS F.ATES. One square (10 Hues or less), first iiuert'n, $3 00 Each subsoqueat insertion 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar erly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for n advance to insure publication. All other advertising bills must.be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at i)cr current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low ra'e on short notice. Extra i22i:ccinets Clubbing! lor DEMOE.EST'3 ILLUSTRATED SIOHTHLY Contains Original Stories. New Ma?i. 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Send the amour. t to ihis oSi-.-i. tnd the Magazine and Chrooioa will bs pruap'..ly forward J. milK ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL J. JOMtNAL, is in cvs-ry lespt a Iir.t Class Magazine. It. articles are of the iiiht..-i ntefest to all. It tvuehea what we. arc and how to make the most of ourselves. The i:if.nm tion it contains on the L.-jws of Life and Health is well worth the j ri- e of the Magazine to every Family. It. is published at ?' 00 a year. I?y a special arrangement we arc enabled t offer the Phrenological Jokksai. a a I'retbtauiior f, ni'w tahscribt-rs to the Vn::(,X It KIM liUCAN. or will furnish the piiRK.f.:i.oGnAi. Joi pxai. and Okkgon Hmm-smcas together for St 00. We commend the good Magazine. Jucknai. to ail who want Compulsory SlducaJion. rom Puget Sound Courier. Tl e opinion that a failure to supply the rising generation with proper and adequate facilities to acquire a common school education is rapidly gaining ground, and we are glad to . learn that the legislature at its late session incor porated into tlie school law of the Ter ritory an article requiring parents, guardians and others, who have control of children between the ages of and to keep them at a public or private school at least months rin each year. The system of compulso y cducatiou is not new. It existed in a most ritriiland thorough form in the ancient Grand lie-publics, aod iucluded physical as well as mental culture. The high literary and intellectual eminence and the splendid physical development attained by them is attributed, by manj, to this system. It. has also for m:ny years teen the settled policy of Prussia and other European States. At first thought it may be regarded as an inter ference with the reserved rights of the people, as an unwarrantable exercise of power by the state or a nation. JSut the slightest reflection will, we think, satisfy everyone that legislative authority constitutionally and rightfully embraces this subject. Among the reasons that exist to sup port legislation of this character may be mentioned, that all governments pos sess the power not only to punish but to prevent the commission of crime. Jnorance is a fruitful source of crime. Criminals, in a large majority of cases, ure ignorant, and.it being one of the plainest duties of the government to punish crime, it must necessarily have the power to remove or destroy the cause by any means which will not infringe the inalienable rights 01 the citizen. If, 'therefore, ignorance produces crime, it is proper for the government to pro vide that ignorance shall no longer ex ist. Taxation is imposed on all for the support of free schools, whether the tax payer has children to be educated or not, on the frinciple that, the whole jgtato is one family, and that education should be provided for all alike. Tho Is Issued Every Saturday Morning, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. slate stands in loco parentis, so far as education is concerned, and if parents or guardians neglect or refuse to pro vide educational advantages, the govern ment, having regard for the interest and welfare of the whole people may compel the performance of an obligation rest ing upon those who have, by the laws ot nature or otherwise, the custody of the rising generation. The right of parents to keep their children in ignorance is subordinate to the rights of government to make them good and valuable citizens. In every well regulated government parents are compelled by Jaw to support and main- tain their children during minority if they have the ability to do so. If, then, government ean compel parents to pro vide food and clothing for tho bodies of their children, by parity of reasoning, it can compel ihera to feed and clothe their minors : as the law referred to directly aGects a large majority of the citizens of the Territory and imposes penalties fur a non compliance with its provisions, we will publish the' amended school law in full, so soonas we can ob tain a full copy. , Itarbarlttu In Cuba. Havana Coerrspondent of the New York Sun. Perfecte Lopez, a patriot captured by the Spanish volunteers, was tried by court martial on the 2Gth ult., and grrr- roted on the morning of the 27th, at the Castle of Principe. He saluted the brutal crowd, showing the shackles which pinioned him, when at the foot of the steps leading to the platform, and the officers in charge of him vol unteers. of course fearing that he minlu address the people, hurried him up the s cps, wounded, as he was YVhtni he sat down on the bench, it wa? found to be too low to allow .is neck to come 'up to ihs fatal irpn collar. 'J he second time he sat it was too low. At last, after the: filth attempt, 'the garble was adju-ted round the throat. The brutal instrument, retained solely by modern Spain, was h badly arranged that it broke on th" first twist given to the screw by the executioner, aud then the victim h;id to be lilted up, whi e with his bend hanging in the collar, the "3i rote was repaired. When Lopez sat down the seventh tirue beseemed to .-train bis nerve for one supreme effirt, aud lifting his hands to heaven yelled forth, in a voice hoard by the whole ns- semblcd crowd, ' Death to Spain !" What followed is conceivable only of cannibal"?. Two volunteer officers as cended to the p'atform, and, to prove to the blood t hi sty volunteers, tji t their victim was really dead, they lifted him from the bench several times; they' made the executioner give several more twists to the sctew, and took the fae'e of the corpse which was an nndisfin guishable mass of bloody flesh, with the eyca protruding from tho sockets in their hand-, turning it toward the peo ple. A brutal yell in favor of the honor of Spain put an cud to the terrible scene. The report of thn horrible massacre of the whole Town Council of Jaguani committed by Canizalcs, by direct order received from Colonel Canizalcs, by di rect order received from Colonel Val- maseda, has been confirmed. Colonel Canizalcs, as soon as he took posssession of his new command in that town, had all the members of the Municipal Council brought to. him and told them to prepare to die, for they would all be shot withiu two hours; and, without any accusation being brought against them, or even the farce of a trial, they were all taken out and shot. From Manzanillo some three hundred persons have been sent in exile to Ja maica. Ihey were mostly old women from GO to 80 years of age, and young children. The majority havo been brought in from the town of Bavamo, and the sole crime imputed to them, was suspected sympathy with the pa triot. Apart from the dread which such barbarous measures prove 13 en tcrtained by tho Spaniards of the vital ity of the revolution, this wholesale dc portation of people looked upon as criminals by the Spaniards is likely to breed trouble. Jamaica has already loudly protested against being made a penal colony for the government of the volunteers. California contains 98,240,000 acres of laud. About one-third, say 33,000, 000 acres havo been surveyed. It is estimated that 89,000000 acres are suitable to gome kind of husbandry. Of these 40,000,000 acres are fit for the plow, and 49,000,000 acres for grazing, fruit-growing, and other purposes. The Commissioner of the General Land Office says the agricultural area of CaU ifornia exceeds that of Great Britain nnd Ireland., or tho Peninsula of Italy. Political Suggestions. "We call the attention of our readers to the following from the Pacific Count Advertiser, a journal published in the interests of advertisers, aud wholly in dependent in politics, n bile it is di rected mostly to the Legislature ot Cali fornia, yet it shows the feeling of many influential journals concerning the re election of President Grant: ' If the Republican party fails of success iu the coming Presidential con test, it will be .because of its own blunders. The great danger to the party arises from its own magnitude, which present the great possibility of errors in policy and in its selection of executive olliccrs. The remark applies to the party iu this State, as well as to National organizations. It is natural that there should be opponents to the President, as well as that he should have varm supporters iu his own party. General Giant evidently appreciates tins state of things, and is anticipating the danger, by the course pursued iu his annual message A more judicious document has rarely been presented to Congress, or laid before the people. The document cannot fail to meet the ap proval of clear-headed Republicans, and can but satisfy a large portion of the Democracy. It presents no issues that will produce dissension iu Con gress, and contains trB opinionated dog mas for party guidince. It is sugges tive rather than mandatory or even ad visory, and is calculated to inspire greater confidence in the administration throughout the country. It is to be hoped that the differences heretofore existing between the friend of Senator Sumner aud the Executive in ry be healed by ygt re-instating that gentle man as Chairman of the Committee oti Poreiirn Relations, which position he lad graced lor many years, with credit o the party and honor to the nation. This would be an important step that would greatly conduce to the harmony ot the partv even where. " The labors f the Ra lie il majority in our own li-gislaturd sliouM be li reeled to the end of h umo-iy and con centration of cllort. 'i he i.irtv bears a grave lespons'.bbity upon its shoulders. aid in its hands rests -the working of material narni or promotion ol luealeul- abe "Ou.j. i.iitier ciiuri will be lot rum one end of the -country to the other, an I at this lime, blunders will hv. criminal. It is to bo hoped that the administration both of the State and Country will take warning from the de mise of other grea.t parties, and so gov ru their actions as to inspire more ar leut support from their adherents, and t t t cucourage accessions tot be ranks ol tin: party from those who have been allied to its opponents. The re-election of General G rant is a uutional necessity. His defeat would be a calamity, ami all patriotic men of every party will rally to his support if tho blunders aud errors olluded to are avoided." tiling One's :kIiL From an Kastcm exchange we clip the following : 44 After hearing a most Munchausen- like story about a man who was blown into miuufe fragment, Charles Lamb thought it was a pity the man could not have been collected and preserved, he would have been such an ornament to society. What that 4 collected ' man would have looked like is possibly man ifest in a mutilated mariner now on oc casional exhibition in London, who is inscuiounly and elaborately tattooed from head to foot. The story rutis that this sailor is one of three similarly or namented and ornamental individuals who alone escaped after this tattooing, which was done by tho Chinese with poisonous coloring, calculated to produce a slow but terrible death. Tho question naturally arises why, when tho death of the sailors was the main object, such extraordinary efforts should have been made to convert them into elaborate works of art ? And it will be new to most travelers and readers that tho Chinese are given to tattooing for any purpose. But the surviving sailor is said to have shown himself to tho 1)U rectors of tho British Museum and to have sold his skin, to be taken off wheu he has uo further use for it, to that in stitution for tho delight and instruction of tho yonth of England. Meanwhile, with the privilege, probably, of private ly exhibiting his hide, for a considera tion, not for commiseration, the sailor enjoys tho annuity granted by tho Museum in return for the' skin to be delivered by-and-by. This, as a finan cial transaction, beats the closest shav ing, and this literal discounting of one's own skin is ahead even of the two per cent, or wore a month interest which is nietaphotioally said to take tho hide oil a man All Around. Guatemala is to have a railroad. The smallpox is reported in Chicago. The column Veudumc is to bo re built. Moscow is to have au Industrial Ex position next spring. Reuben Foster is elected speaker of the .Maine Senate. The coal mines of Newport, Pcnn , is still on fire. 31 rs. Lincoln is living in Chicago with her son Robert. Thi question of reuniting East and West Virginia is being agitated. The total Church property of New York City is valued at $200,000,000. The railroad bridge at Tehama, Cal ifornia, was swept away by the late high wate'r. A box of coin, containing 820,000 has been found a few feet uudcr grouud iu Chicago. A new car has becu invented for the transportation of grain, which is said to greatly facilitate handling. The Chinese to the number of 35 00U have becu enslaved by decree t of the Captain-General of Cuba. The Japanese are rapidly adopting 14 Yankee notions," iucluding Greeu bacCs aud fractional currency. There are two daily and five weekly papers published at Olympia, a lijtie village of about 1,200 inhabitants. A petition has been presented to the Legislature of" the District of Columbia, declaring eo habitation to bt marriage. It is etiuiatcd that five hundred men, women and children l;o into the streets of New Vovk, every purpose of stealing. iiuo day, fur the The Republican State Convention of! XeW U am r hire met on the .'id itit. 1 They tdronly endorse the present ad- iuiui.stiatiou. Twenty-one inches of snow have f.ilien in San I'raneieo Kli-ha Cook, a prominent .b.iw)er of San ITaueisoo, and one of Mr, fair's compel, is dead. During the pa-t mouth, ?7 Ger man imm-;jir:iotH were landed in New York, being au increase of (V10 a- eonipjTed with " the corresponding mouth uf lat yeir. The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that special a.esMiueuts for widening, paviug" street, etc., irf uneon. Mitutional ; the re.-pousibiiity luut-bc assumed by property holders. Virginia papers ay that the powder tank s JouTid by the wr ekers in the Con federate irml clad liiehmond, now lying in thirty or forty ft et of water, are in good condition, and the powder as dry and ready for use as before its submer sion six years ago. A New Railway I'kecaution. A Michigan railroad compauy has attached to thirty.four of its locomotives a new style of alarm bell. The bell is m at tached that when the engine goes, the bell rings, being struck by the hammer once at each revolution ot the driving wheels. Being placed directly in front of the boiler, the sound of tho bell is seldom heard by the engineer or fire man on the engine, and cannot be heard ou the train; consequently it is no an noyance to passengers, while, it is claimed, its position causes the pound to be thrown forward, and conducted, by the earth and railroad track or rails, so that it can bo heard a considerable distance in advance of the train, thus giviDg timely warning. The General Superintendent of the road thinks some recent accidents would have been cer tainly prevcuted by the use of this in vention. How to Put the Children to Bed. Fanny Fern says: "Not with reproof for any of that day's sins of omission and commission, lake any other time but bed-time for that. If J you ever heard a little creature sighing and sobbing in its sleep, you could never do this. Seal their closing eye lids with a kiss and a blessing. The time will come." all too soon, wnen they will lay their heads upon their pillows lacking both, Let them at least have this sweet memory of a happy child hood, ol which no future sorrow or trouble can rob them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild hecusc. Tho judicious parent will not so mistake my meaning. If you have ever met tho man or woman whose eyes have suddenly filled when a little child has crept trustingly to its mother s breast, you may have seen ono in wnose childhood's homo dignity and severity stood whcrc.lovo and pity should have been. Too much indulgence ha3 ruined thousands of children ; too much love not one. 'PROFESSIONAL CARDS, iC. OCULIST, AUKLST, CATAKKil, THROAT AND LUNG r U YSLCIA Ttf . OFFICE: Corner of 3d and Mor risou streets, Poktlani, Oregon. BR. ABOUN'S PRACTICE- EMRRACES the moet modern scientific treatment for tho speedy and radical cure of chronic diseases. i ditf JJOIltf J. IAf,T, &Wy &; t'oiiiSKc! f er a Law, Will practice in tho Oourtg of Record arid In fviiur Court?. Collections attended to promptly. Office in Dr. J. E. Davidson's Building, MAIN STRi:i:T, IMl:ilN'I!2X12. 41-tf i. C. GRUOBS, f?1. D., v 1 1 v s i c i a ar a m sum; i:o s, OfTtr his Services to the Citizens of Dallas and Vicinity. OVl'lCK at NICHOLS' Drug Store. 34 -tf ihyici:m nsacl Surgeon. Ilola, Oregon. Special attention given to Diei-auM of Women. Obstetrics and ltf Attorney U Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. L.'COLIJLVS, Attprney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas. Oregnu. racial Rttntbn given to Collections and to mantra pertaining to Uta i.siaie. i MtiMa f rnwu r. til nrtrMSf !ll)n : ( ' i v , . if k i At ire 'iiin tr un 1 1. and Real E3tate 'Auctioneers, No. mo. FKONT sTur.irr, POHTL.ASIJ - - - - - UIUXON. i. a. x 5el:ate;, A H"y A- Counsellor at-Law, OFFICE IN COlTUT HOUSE, DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON". 2'.-If SM DOOR m mmtS BLIflD FACTORY. main sriti:i:r, ijallax. 1 have constantly on haml and for Sale and Unlazcd. POORS OV ALL SIZLS. WINDOW A XI) DOOIl FRAMES, All of the Best Material ana Manufacture. ll.tf JAMES M. CAMPI1ELL. Or. CHAKLI2S WILSOIV, ocuiisrr, MALUM, - - - OUIXJOX. AU who require Surgical Operations on the Svc, or treatment, are iovitcd to give hitu a trial. Those who do not receive permanent benefit will not ho required to tav for treatment. He is amply provided with all the modern and ruiproved Instruments, and will ruak thorough Fxaiuination8 free tit charge. i2:w PALvr saop, Carriage, Wagon, AND in GRAINING & GLAZING, PAPER HANGING, &cM Done in the most Workrnauliko manner by XI. p. smtivr.K. Shop upstairs over llobart & Co'a Harness Shop. DALLAS, POIjK CO., OREGON. 27-tf E St iK A. COOK, BOOKBINDER, AND Blank Book Manufacturer, SALEM, OREGON, mr-j Having established a First Class JISi A Rookbindcry in Salenu is now 'flCV prepared to uo all manner of work kuown to tho trade. Magazines, Newspapers and Music Sound in any desired Style. Old Books Ro-Bound. BLANK BOOKS of every description, with or without Printed Headings, Manufactured to Order. BLANKS of every kirfH Ruled and Priuted to Order. PRICES REASONABLE In Or is wold's Block. 23 -Gin PROFESSIONAL CARDS, &C. I T r" H IM ' COHXI2U MAIN AND COURT STS. Pallas, Polk .. County, Oregon. The undersigned, having RE-FITTED the above HOTEL, now informs the- Public that he in prepared to Accommodate all who may favor him with a call, in a? good ftyle as can he found in any Hotel irf the Country. Give we a call, aud you shall not leave disappointed. 12-tf W. F. KENNEDY, Proprietor. GHEfrlEKETA KOUSE, SAbEM. PRICES OF BOARD REDUCED TO SUIT . THE TIMES. A share of Patronage of the People of Polk Every attention paid to Comfort of GuesU. 37-tf Sad cilery, Harness. S. C. STILES, ! Main i.t. ((.poitj thejCour House), Dallas, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Ilnrnt., Saddles, Undies, Whips. Collars, Chick Lisie, etc., t-tf.., of all Kind, which he is rt-parod t fell ot the lowest living rates. fc-iVREFAlUIXtj done on short notice. HADE EASY, LADY AGENTS. We want Smart and Energetic Agents to intriiime our rwnur &i:d lastly celebrated invention, iu every 'i!ij; Tutcu antl City im the World. In'fisprnaribfe to every Household) TlMy are highly approved f, endorsed and adopted lv Ltdic '.. a,id Diriut, and are now a GREAT FAVORITE with them. I ; I2vcry S'aniJlyi tvlll Purchase One or more of them. S.incthin that their merits are apparent. at a GLANCE. DRUGGISTS, MILLINERS, DRESSMAKERS and all who ker p FANCY STORES, will find our cxeciictt articles SELL VEHY RATIO- L V, trives per feet satisfaction and ucttine SMALL FO It TUNES to all Dealers and Agents. C O tJ X TV KKiflTS FREE to all who desire engaging in an Jvuomlltt !ii,f to!,lc end f'rojiohle Hnine, at the same lime doing good to their companions in life. Sample !? 00, pent free hy mail on receipt of price. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU LAR. ADDRESS, VICTORIA MANUFACTURING C0MPT., 17, PARK PL AC 12. Xew York. m nfiRE BiLLnay. J. II. KI XC AID has opened a . TJew Phatcgraphic Gallery In Dalla?, where he will he pleased to wait on Customers in hia line of Easiness at all hoars of the day. - Children' Pictures Taken without grumbling, at the same price as Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Price to suit the times. . Rooms at Lafollctt's Old Stand, Main Street, Dallas, Folk County, Oregon, April 27th, 1871 S-tf C. 8. SI L V E K, Uo. 13(i, First Street, PORTLAND, - - - - OREGON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DRY GOODS, CL0TIiLG, LAIUKS' DllESS CIOODS, hoots and -shoes; HATS j caps, OR O CFRIFS & PR O VISIONS, Highest Cash Price paid for all kinds of Oonxitivy 3Pi-olnee. ig-tf Hag Carpet Weaving. 4 LL PERSONS HAVING MATERIAL j, 'or aff Carpets, and wishing them Woven, can bo accommodated by calling oa the undersigned. Orders left at tho Store of R. Howe Bros, will be promptly attended to. 16 tf 1VM. SAULS BERRY. ESTA11LIS11ED IHl'J. , Ernest A. KStLAIVIISIOrV, GENERAL COMMISSION; HERCHANT, SAN FRANCISCO, ; riEALER lit '- .' . . Drugs. Chemicals, Essential Oils, V Dye StuflDj and 1 General Merchandise, Ky the Package Only. Cash Orders' fof this or any Foreign Market. will receive prompt and Faithful Attention. Miners, Mannlactnrers nnd Wholesale Trade Supplied for Cash. No notice It attention paid to Orders for Goods, if there "is no provision made for the payment of the same. Terms Not Cash, on Delivery, In U.S Geld .. I .Coin. , ;.; N, B. Consignments of Oregon Prodaco. Grain, Wlioat, Flour, &c, Swllciu : : :- 45tt