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VOL. 1. DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1869. NO. 20.

tub folk mm times!■ l i t u i *r«ry Saturday Afternoon at

s Salina, Folk County, Oregon.

Yroung Muody was at last aroused, and while being carried off a prisoner, no word escaped his lips but *‘Sue ” when asked his name he repented “ Sue,’’ probably from the effects ot a disordor-

fc ft. STUART, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.1 ed brain II is linen being examined _____ i the indelible name of “ Mundy” was

OFFICE—Sortheaat corner of Main and touud. and ever alter he Was kuown as Oak streets, fronting Academy Block. I “ Sue Mundy,” the constant terror ot

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T H E P O E T 'S CORNER .

[ Written far tke Polk County Tims».]

r iA J X B ABB THANKSGIVING OF THE BSFV9UCAM PASTY.

O <»<»d of Battles ! once again,With banner, trump and drum,

A »d garments in Thy wine-press dyed,To give Thee thanks we come.

No goats or bullocks, garlanded,Unto thine altars go:

'With brothers* blood, by brothers shed, Our glad libations flow !

From pest-house and from dungeon foul, Where, maimed and torn, they die;

From gory trench and charnel-house, Where, heap on heap, they lie ;

In every groau that yields a soul;Each shruk u heart that rends ;

With every breath of tainted air Dux homage, Lord, ascends.

We thank Thee for the sabre’s gash,. The cannon's havoc wild ;We bless Tbee for the widow»" n-ars,

The want that starves her child.

We give Thee praise that Thou hast lit The torch, and funned the dame—

That hMt and rapine hunt their prey,Kind Father, in Thy name ;

That for the songs of idle joy False angels sang of y<>re.

Thou sendest war—on earth ill-will To men for evermore.

We know that wisdom, truth and right To us and ours are given--

That Thou hast clothed us with Tby wrath To do the work of Heaven.

adopt the wise «and hitherto successful policy o f their opponents, the liquor dealers ? why do they not devote themselves to extending and strength ening their organization, raise money, watch their chances and make the best use of their ballots by voiing for the most temperate men of the great politic cal parties, thus securing a political strength they can never hope to get on the independent plan, and compelling a deferpnee to their wishes, every time a party platform is made or a party can­didate nominated ”

v ✓ ---- _------------ :----S u r p r is e O a t s — These oats origin

ated in DeKalb county, Illinois, and are said to have yielded 133 bushels per acre. Mr. O. Dickinson has been testing them in his seed gardens near this city, and believes they will yield

acre than any of the oats now generally raised by our farmers, if sown as early on the same kind of ground and having in all respects the same treatment. On the 10th of May last year Mr. Dickin son sowed 3* ounces, which yielded 70 pounds and these 70 pounds sowed again this spring have yielded 3,600 pounds, or exactly 100 bushels. This he considers a great yield, when the quantity of seed sown and the exceed­ing dryness of the seas- n are taken info account. These oats weigh 45J pounds per strict bu-hc! measure.— Former.

world, he started for a camp of bushwhackers, or guerrillas, where he was received with open arms, and was soon promoted to the office of fr(,lu ten to twenty bushels more to the commander of the force, while Sue, dis guised. and passing by the name of ‘ Kit ’-an abbreviation of Kitteridg*— proved invaluable as a spy, a tearless rider, and of undoubted bravery. Kit. after serving two years as a spy and general planner for the hand, found her health failing. Disguised, and armed with the highest testimonials she sue ceeded in obtaining a position on the stall of Gen. Cleburne, the hardest fighting Irishman in the rebel army This position she held, doing her duty l.'kc a man. until the battle of Atlanta,July 12. 1864. in which Pat. Cleburne wa- kill d. Returning to her youthful hero and hi# hand, she again revelled in the earn val of blood, and. though her evil spirit was willing, the flesh w»8 weak, and Kit was transferred to duty at Andersonville. Prisoners who have shared the hospitality of that ccle brated camp will perhaps remember a short, stout and muscu'ar young Lieu­tenant with flashing black eves, a face smooth a* a in ddcu’s, and cruel a though a fiend incarnate lurked within.This was Sue Kitteridgc, the amiable voung boarding seliooi Miss, the cheer fill com pinion, the once wealth \ heiress, the beautiful maiden, and firm friend of young Mundy. Vhose life to her was dturcr than her own. Sue Mundy and a par* ot his band was captured and tried by a Court Martial. K i t was present during the whole trial, and used iter greatest influence, but of no avail.Sue Mundy was convicted and hung at fjoffsville, Kentucky, in March, 1865.The flowing hair s’ id hung about his shou ders, and when his youthful corpse was taken down and laid away in his narrow t-od, the bleeding and broken heart of Sue Kitteridgc was buri*<l with it; and now. a wanderer on the face of the earth, home'ess and friend le-s, she passes the remainder of her days.

R e v i v i n g D r o w n in g P e r s o n s .— As the bathing season has commenced, and persons are liable to drowning sev­eral times this Summer, the following hints will tell how to bring-them to:

I f the drowned person he a politician, whisper in his ear that he has just been appointed to a fat office.

I f a married woman, softly tell her that her husband is just cutting it fat with that woman she hates.

I f it he a young man. slyly tell him confidentially that another fellow is after his sweetheart.

I f a married man. slyly tell him that a handsome young lady called yesterday and is to call again to day at his office ou important private business.

It he be a carpet bagger, let biui drown !— /'omeroy.

TO T H E FAUM EH8 OP OREGON.• i

[From the Unionist.]Do not be deluded by inducements

being held out for high prices on wheat, but fatten your hogs ; fatten them early. Pork will be a fair price. Government informs me they wid again give us a call for meat-. They are well -pleased with meats received fro u Oregon last season. I may not su| pi them, hut if you fatten your hogs w. Il, and a good article of pork is in the vail y, some one else w il, and 1 shall purchase a reason­able quautity, and will pay more for pork than any farmer can make out of wheat. I think that is all you had ought to ask, but it was sa:d by parties last fall I got more for uiy meats, and unless I paid more than other- I e*>uld not buy their pork. I do not propose to nay more than other put chasers; those wauting more need not apply. In the full of *67 I tried to buy one hun­dred head of hogs near this city, but the owner made bacon of his hogs. Last fall, wheu be put his hugs up, he asked me if I was again going to buy; it so,1 what would be the price? my angtocr was “ about five cents.” l ie suid it was enough and he would bacon no more. I called upon him wheu he was ready to kill and off* red him .-ix cents for one hundred and thirty head, but no, be would again bacon. Well, I bought his bacou, and he then com plained he got less than I offered him for the hogs iu tlie fall. Now I am mentioning this with a view ot getting at rl»e question, what is the reason ti*at about harvest farmers allow themselves to be worked up to the idea that they

We know that p’ aiue anti cities wa.ste Are pleoeant in Thine eve?;

Thou lov’)>t a hearthstone desolate ; Thou lov’st a mourner's cries.

Let not our weakness fall below The measure of Thy will,

And while the press bath wine to bleed 0 tread it with us still.

Teach us to hate, as le*us taught food fools of yore to love ;

Grant us Thy vengeance as our own — Tby pity bide above.

Teach us to turn with reeking hands The pages ot Thy Word,

And hail the blessed curses there Of them that sheath the sword.

Where’er we tread may deserts spring TUI none are left to slay,

And when the last red drop is shed We’ll kneel again and prsy.

J ack Downixq.

O E N E R A L M is e EL L 1N Y

.» «JE WD N U Y — A N E V E N T F U L «1 IS - TOH V .___ •

p?roin the L<>uisville Journal.]Nearly every pleasant day, pedestri-

Times, who is making a tour

P O L IT IC A I . T E M P E R A N C E .

The Pittsburg Dispatch takes the following sensible view of the question: “ Our temperance friends who met in Convention yesterday, ought to have taken a lesson from their enemies. The liquor men certainly understand their own interests. 4 hey are mainly shrewd men and manage to have su*-h laws as suit them and such tuen a- will cuaet and preserve these luws. Now it would be valuable for the temperance men to consider how they do this. Is it by organizing a spirituous party ami nominating independent whisky can didates on a ‘ fiec liquor” platform ? Not by any means. The ffqtior dealers know better than this. They know that such a paity could not poll more than a small minority of the voters ot the State. They know that by doing so t h ey would drive all the fiends not only o f total abstinence, but of temper- alter, rightly so called, all the moderate drinkers and many of the victimized hard drinkers, too, into the temperance pa»ty, and achieve for themselves an overwhelming defeat and tt>e enacting ot laws which wou d virUM^Iy extinguii-h

•ns on our principal avenues pass a ! the liquor trade. go about itdark eyed brunette, of medium size, a in a different and wiser way. Instead plump figure and richly dressed. In of attempting to breast and roll back the early spring of 1861, Sue Kittcr- the current, they float with it an 1 di- idgc, a lovely girl, just returned from rect it. They organize strong unions, boarding"school, lived upon her father’s raise plenty of money, and keenly watch

F anatics anTj M arplots — The traveling correspondent of the San Franciscoof the South, says:

No gentleman «holms not dismissed his reasoning faculties, can travel through the reconstructed States with

| out making the unfortunate discovery that there exist, scattered here and there all over this once beautiful coun­try, hundreds of fanatics and marplots of the most dangerous and unprincipled type. They belong respectively to two sec'ions— the North and tbe South, and are eqnal'y to be shunned and got­ten rid of. One would elevate tbe ne­gro at the expense of the white man, and nnpalatahly infringe upon the mor­als of intelligent society. Tn the ex­cess of his ardor, he would infuse all sorts o f impracticable, i f indeed not incendiary ideas into the poor Kthio pean’s mind. The terrible effects of such misguided teaching has nen rly transformed thousands of otherwise blameless black men into brutes, and transported as many more to kingdoms of everlasting trouble, disgrace, infamy, and death. Every officer in our army will bear me out in this statement.

are going to get big prices? It was su last full, and uow it is starting again; also about the time your purk is getting ready fur sale. I could mention a num­ber of instances of men offering me hogs at five cents, delivered in Salem; then they wanted six cents at home 100 miles away or would bacon them, and bacon some ot tie m did, and I leaic them to answer whether they got six cents aher losing all tlieiv time. Now, I propose to purchase your wheat at any mill between Springfield and Salem, and your stock lings, if I can get enough to Iced one thou-and head ut each place. I am fuby of the opiu- ion that more money can be made out ot wheat put into hogs than any shipper can realize and send it off. Put your wheat into as small a bulk as possible. Back from navigation put it into stock. Now. in coi elusion I say this, that if there is pork sufficient we shall have the relusal of putting up the whole ot the Government supplie- ; if not, a large portion wi t be let,as it was last seasca, in Sari Francisco. Farmers, I have done my parr— do yours. To any that doubt about getting a good price, think­ing I am tryiog to lead you on, I would say. 1 am ready to make contracts at reasonable figures, and make reasonable advances. 1 stmt this week, and will make a tour through the valley as far as Umpqua, and those 1 do not see can write me. Tnos. Cross

How d o es Mr B o u t w e l l . General Grant’s Secretary of the Treasury, re­duce the public debt? The interest hearing debt amounts $2 172,741,300 ; Mr. Boutwell has paid off several mil­lions— we think about seven— since his last Report. How he bos paid them off we have not been informed ; wheth er in coin at par, or in legal tender at par, or at the market price of about jive thousand dollars iu greenbacks for fair thousand dollars in bonds.

We are also informed by the by-au­thority printers for Grant’s administra­tion, that this payment of $7,O0U,000 by Mr. Boutwell ha* run upthe market value of the Bonds in Europe fully two per cent. The plain English of all this is, that this money has been screw ed from the necessities o f the people and paid to the holders of public secu­rities. and by paying them all these millions our dedt has been increased two per cent., or just. forty'three mil Haas four hundred and fifty f or than sand, eight hundred and ttcentij"ix dal* lars. This mode of managing affairs at Washington is good f >r the lenders o f greenbacks, however hard it may be on the taxpayers.

It every payment on Mr. Boutwell’s p'an enhances the value of the bonds still in circulation, we’ ll likely have a jolly time. The bondholders will own us all. and the railroad corporations will be euchred

Now suppose the Democratic plan was adopted. The Treasury could re deem in greenbacks at par, say once iu six months; using its surplus for that purpose. In this way the whole debt could be wiped out withiu five or six years without adding a penny to our taxation. Many people sustain Mr. Bout well’s course of action who would be very loth to introduce it iuto their individual business— to pay gold for depreciated paper borrowed, after hav- ing paid high interest upon it for sev era! years.— Pittsburg Post.

M r? Cross, of Salem, is building over still more ground, with the oxpec tatinn of fattening and putting up 85,- 600 hogs, if he can succeed in purchas­ing them. In view of an increase of h'S business, he is having 5 large tanks built, ten feet in diameter and about five feflt high, in which the treat will he salted. The extent and capacity of ♦ he-e may be estimated from the fact that each will contain 2.040 gallons At the present time all bands are r.» work killing hogs, o f which Mr. Cross

■h is about 500 that ore either fat nr rap* * idly becoming so Mr. Cross b;,s hc-

itation in one of the rural districts . ¡ng parti* s and men they throw their r f ’Kentucky, that hung in a balance.j votes and influence in such a way as to uncertain whether to risk her fate with give them the most strength in the State fh f new “ Confederacy” or hang back councils. In this way they always se

cure a large minority representation pledged to their interests, and some-

tween 700 and 800 hogs now- being fed,, . _ , „ . „ many of them being of the breed he

pUntation in one of the rural districts j jng parti* s and men they throw their has raised and perfected by fifteen years • thzit hung in n biilnnoo. vnios and influence in such u whv <is to of experience nnd careful hrecdinfr

lie is so much impressed with the val- ne of his stock, that he says he's wil. ling to pay one dollar more a head for stock hogs of thaTbreed than for any other in Oregon He ofers thpm for sale at a low figure, for the purpose of improving the stock of hogs in the county, but. the farmers seem tube gen-

^ rode down qpop me piaue, pmnaerea polities to tne manifest ujury or tne erallv'indifferent to the question He the premises, earned off valuables, party which sympathizes most with the pays they are principally Irish Grnz'ers burned the residence, and finally slaugh- temperance people and tho man West and BvfiHd. a cross that has no superior, tcred the parents, who were defending advantage of the party which has voted j if we judge by the animals he has their own fire side, laying waste the polid at all time- against temperance , there in good order, and which be is country in their̂ track, and leaving instead of indulging in this suicidal willing to put on exhibition against

jiue wa$ seventeen, and a frequent visi­tor at tbe adjoining plantation of Mr.Mundy, an old gentleman whose wife, time's even a majority. Now why will end aon. the latter a young man, coin- not the temperance men take the hint, posed a happy | Instead of organizing a party and

One day e company of Union oaval- thrusting the temperance question into ^ rode down npoP ibe place, plundered polities to the manifest iijury ot the tne premise*», oarned off the valuable*, party whic"

T he Massachusetts c> mpellii'g people, by act of assembly, to drink nothing but cold water, does not appear to be succes-ful. 4 he Bos ton Advertiser, a radical paper, speaks of it in discouraging terms: “ The saleof spirituous liquors a t ^ t f ^ bars has been much iuteifvnvd But. outhe other hand, dr nkm^crubs have been revived or all sides ; concealment and hypocrisy have taken the place of • he efirout« ry of public drinking; the hotels and eating houses continue to supply their guests \\ ithout interruption; gr> eers and druggists find their trade stimulated by the change in the current; and the friend.- of the law have the sat isfaction of seeing a fierce and angry commotion precipitated upon the ¡St ite without approaching, as yet.the results they confidently promised themselves.” Such is ever the result of sumptuary legislation—it increa-es the number oi hypocrites whilst it effects no reform. — Ex.

A R O M A N T IC S T O R Y .

For the past three days there baa beeu staying in our city a Cuban gen­tleman whose history, properly written, would be more romantic than any nicre novel o f the day. He was born in Mantanzas. in 1824, and from childhood has been a bitter hater o f 8pain His father was a Spanish nobleman, but for suspected treason when a youth was ar rested and condemned to death. He fled, and ultimately came to America, residing in New Orleans for several years. He finally went to M*ntunzaz under an assunx’d name.where he mar­ried. In 1830, Senor Mend* «, for that was his name, was re-arrested, serif fa Spain. *»nd after a time was excuted. IKs wife died soon after, leaving the child, Carlos, in the charge Of his un­cle, a merchant in Havana. A t the age of \&. young Mendez was sent to Spain to b® educated. Here he remain­ed f r nearly two years, continually in trouble with his tea*-hers and fellow pupils on account of his political views.IIis career culminated in a duel with the son of a Spanish Cabinet Miu'ster, whom he ran through the body, killing him instintlv. He escaped almost by u miracle, aud shipped as a common sailor on hoard an East Indiaman. then lying temporarily for repairs at Cadiz. Leaving the vessel at Calcutta, he ob­tained a position in a Spanish commer­cial house, but soon tiring of that, he enlisted into the British army, several regiments of which were then stationed in and near Calcutta. A year later his regiment was sent to England, aud from there to Canada.

44red of the army, he deserted and made his way over the line into Maine, and in December. 1844, he reached the city o f Boston. Finding several of his Countrymen he concluded to remain there, and assisted by them, he com­menced as a teacher of the French and Spanish languages in a young ladies1 academy in JVmbertpn square. Having an altercation one night in front o f the Trcmont House with a Spanish hair* dresser, he stabbed h m, and learning the consequences, he fled to New York. IU're he was arrested, but when b* ing taken b-iek he sprang from - the ear platform in the pitchy darkness o f » rainy night, breaking an arm and two ribs. He managed to escape, however, and by means of a fi.-hing schooner uot to Nantucket, where he stayed until be- h.-*d recovered from his injuri'S.— Shortly alter the Cuban excitement Lroke out, and allying himself to a parly o f li Hi busters, he at last landed on his native soil, after an absence o f nearly ten years. In a skirmish in a

stead of sympathizing with aud loving L̂‘ 'v *10urs “ iter lie was taken prisoner, these black “ robbers and iudiscriiuiu- i :," d wi,h several O’ hers was shot down ate plunderers,” the unreconstructed vvithmu ceremony. With two bullets rebels of the South actually hate them |in his l,ollV a,,d onc imbedded in bis more and more, the more they “ rob aud ■ ,e'-r he )'.et »etuiued sufficient lifeplunder.” to crawl out of the heap of dead where

There has been nothing like their ,,p W:,s C:,st «be night, and withfiendi.-hne.-s since the case of the Alii- ' ,he :,id <)f “ sympathizer, found refuge can sea wolves, of whom the com pan and-“belter u**til his wounds were healed

T he Hapless Black Brother.— It* ally the ferocity of the rebel element at the South towards truly loyal Amer ¡cans of African decent is perfectly ap­palling! 4’he 7ribune assures us, on the authority o f philanthropi-t Howard (who hopes to get half a million or so of “ abandoned property” by playing informer), that in Texas “ many of the feefdmen have been compelled to resort to robbery and .’ndi criminate plunder t<) Sustain life, and that the result is an increase >j the bitterness of the feelings of the white population towards them.” Do we nut recognize here the dreadful and brutalizing influences of slavery and secession in their worst form? lu-

ions of Ya?co di Gama tells us : These experiment of animals are extraordinarily savage.

When they are attacked they defend themselves.” 1ir 11

y o u n g Mundy and Sue orphans indeed. > folly, why do not the temperance men ^ny 0f their fancy breeds.

In India where a horse can and wid not draw, instead, of whipping or burning him, as is frequently the prac­tice in more civilized countries, they quietly get a rope, and attaching it to one of the fore feet, one or two men take hold o f it, and advancing paces ahead of the hors, best. No matter how -tubborn the uu imal may be. a few doses of such treat­ment effect a perfect cure.

“ That’s very singular.” said a ynimg lady to a gentleman who had just kiss­ed her. * ()h ! well, my dear miss,” was the reply, “ I w II soon make it plu­ral ;” nnd the villain did

4’o criticise a newspaper is an easy task, but to print one to please every­body is a difficult undertaking.

World

Six' months later we find liim »gain in this country", hut in New Orleans. From there he went to California, ami in 1853 "sailed for Japan, was ship­wrecked on the passage, and spent a little more th in n y«-ar among the bar­barians of a cluster of islands north of the Phillipines. known as the Ibis he« Islands After his rescue he returned

T he P ublic Debr.— The Cincinnati Enquirer, in answer to the request of u correspondent, a-kiug the amount of the public debt at various times since the war closed in April, 1803 furnishes ! to New Orleans, where he remained till the fullowinj*figures— the centsomitted: J 1861. at which time the wat broke out,

82.366.035.077 ' he went to'New Y’ork. raised a Compa* 2 757.680 5< l ! ny of Cubans and Frenchmen, wa-» 2.40l,504,4o0 commissioned as Captain and did good 2.527.126.532 service in thfe field, raising to a Colonel- 2.615.176,204

April 1. 1865.September 1, 1805.No» ember 1, 1S67,November 1, 1868,July 1, 1860,

4'he above tells the official story, a*‘d shows how false are the statements of the Radical press that the pubdc debt is being rapidly paid off It is larger now than it was on the 1st of N.iveni her, 1868, by over onc hundred million dollars By deducting the amount of means on hand it would appear to be fifty million dollars less, but that de­duction was not madcat the other times with which we make a comparison,and is therefore uniform. As it is evident that the d "bt is considerably larger now than is was when the war closed, if may be taken for granted that we are not paying it off very rapidly. Indeed, at that rate, it would besóme time after

a few eternity clu-cs before we should reduce it

pull their R o u g h on P ea u n e .— 4 he Nashville State Journal, a Stokes organ, thus pays its respects to the Rev. Thos. II Pearne. formerly of Oregon, but now editor of Brownlow’s old paper, the KnuxGHo Whig, a Seuter organ. It says: The

diabolical corruption of Pearne knows no bight, no depth, no width, no bread'll. In him is concentrated all the vile con laminations which in ike up a fiend in­carnate. Such is Pearne, of the Knox­ville Whig— a defumer, a blackguard, a slanderer.

cy before the close o f the war. He tasied of the horrors of Libby and An- dersonviMe, was shot twice— once through the right arm; lost two Cog. ers by a sabre cut ou a cavalry raid, besides having been blown up br the explosion of a mime near Richmond in 1865. One can well imagine that he ia ‘•one of the few. the immortal ones, who are -not born to die.” Since tho commencement o f hostilities in Cuba he has been exceedingly active in rais­ing men and money, and has actually visited Cuba twice with vessels hearing arms and volunteers.getting safely aw»v again; was with Colonel Ryan on tho last expedition which came to grief the fi St of the week. He lund*‘d in New London on Tuesday night with nearly one hundred men, who#culte»ed at one« — some returning to New \ ork, and others where their fancy led them.—_ Providence Ilcrahl.

Acute and.chronic rhemnati.-ra, a? well as gout, generally affect the joints, but other m**ra vulnerable pnnsare nlse »object In their attack?. They are generally causn l l»y vitiated bloo l, which is produced by derangement of tbe di- gestire organs. Th*> nm*t effective r*-modv thnt can be iiwd f*>r curing the?« painful atfectmni«. is Dr Walker’? Vkrktabi.c V iskcvu RiTTKns —a remedy »pcedy and efficacious, which will eradicate the disci*«', and remove the cauae.

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