Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1857 — Page 1

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THE DECATUR EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. Office, on Main Street, in the old School Hoose, 1 one Square North of J. S P Crabs' Store. Terms of Subscription: For one year, $ I t- I ', in advance; $1 75, within six months; $2 00, after the year has expired, j KTNopaper will bo discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One Square, three Insertions, $1 00 . Each suh-cquen; in-rtion. =£ ! {□•No advertisement will be consi.leii’tl less than one square; over one square will be coun- I ted and charged as two; over two, as three, etc. ] JOB PRINTING. We are prepared to do all kinds of JOB] WORK, in a neat and workmanlike manner, on 1 the most reasonable terms. Our material tor the completion of Job-work, being new and of . the latest styles, we are confident that satisfaction can be given. I Law of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice 1 to the contrary, are considered as wishing to ■ continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the i slice they are held responsible , till they have settled the bill and ordered the : paper discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publisher, and the paper is j still sent to the former direction, they arc held i responsible. [□"The Court have decided that refusing of take a paper from the office, or removed and leaving it. uncalled foriseniMA facie evidence of Intentional fraud. j LITTLE WHITE LILLY. BY GEORGE M'DONALD. • Little white lilly Sat by a stone, Drooping and waiting Till the sun shone. Little white Lilly, Sunshine has fled; Little white Lilly Is lifting her head. Little white Lilly Said, ‘lt is good. Little w lute Lilly's Clothing and food, Little white Lilly Drest like a bride! Shining with whiteness. And crowned beside!' Little white Lilly Droopeth in pain. Waiting and waiting For the wet rain. Little white Lilly Holdeth her cup; Rain is fast falling, And filling it up. Little white Lilly Said, ‘Good again. When I am thirsty To hare nice rain! Now I am stronger. Now I am cool; My veins are so full!' Little white Lilly Smells very sweet: On head sunshine, Rain at her feet. ‘Thanks to the sunshine! Thanks to the rain! Little white Lilly Is happy again 1’ Ths entire cost of the new Court-House in Cincinnati will be §750,000. It will be finished in July, Those who believe that money can do everything, are frequently prepared to do everything, for money. An editor out in lowa says they don’t brag of the size of their babies, but they ar an uncommon sure crop. If the cost of rail roads were distrihut-j ed equally among the people, those of the ; United States would amount to a tax of 830, for each man, woman and child. The young man who ‘once saw the day’ when he would not associate with mechanics, is now acting as book keeper to a manure wagon. ‘Why didn’t you catch dat coon when you got so near him in the tree, Cuffee?” ‘Case, massa, one of us fell curthump on the ground; and when I look round, I found out ’twas dis nigger heself.* “Is Mrs. M. in?’ “No, sir, she’s not at home.’ “Sorry for that, as I owe her some money, and have called to pay it.— When—— ’ Voice from the ballistrade: “Oh! lam in! Tobe sure I am in! Why, Sally, you atupid girl, didn’t you know- that? Ask the gentleman to walk in. I’ll be down directly, sir,’

A Sad Caso. Several months since, a beautiful young' lady, the daughter of a wealthy retired I merchant, residing in this vicinity, won | the heart and hand of a gentleman in the 1 medical profession, living in New York city, and they were betrothed in marriage, j The wedding took place at the residence l of the bride’s father, and was attended with great pomp and ceremony, an im- ] ■ mense sum having been expended by her ■ parents to give zest to the occasion. The j 1 dress worn by the bride cost in itself, sev-' leral hundred dollars. She had in attend- i I ance upon her a troupe of bridesmaids ' and their attendants, all arrayed in robes j |of spotless satin. Her friends, who rank high in society, and among whom she ] was almost an idol, exercised the most {unbounded liberality in the matter of • bridal presents, loading her table with 1 the most magnificent silver sets, suits of | table and of ermine, and trousseaus pro--4 cured at almost fabulous prices, Her i husband was a wealthy, intelligent, noble ! looking man, and proud of his newly ac-' | quired treasure. Everything looked. bright and promising on that happy wed-; ding night. After receiving the congratulations of I their friends, the new-made couple star- j I ted on a wedding tour, after which they . settled down at the residence of the hus- ■ band in New York. Here, all their I friends predicted for them a long life of' i happiness and prosperity, and indeed, ' there was much upon which to base the '< hopes that their predictions would’be re-! alized to the full extent. The bride was. I young intelligent, beautiful, well educa-i ted, and the picture of perfect health, the husband high minded, noble in char-' acter, rich in this world’s goods, praefis- I ing in a lucrative and honarabie profess-1 ion. Thus matters remained for several months. Letters received by the bride . from her friends in this city, breathed a most happy spirit, and expressed the utmost content with her position. But a few weeks since she returned home, as. she said, for a visit. She remained until' a few days since, but her presence no longer afforded joy to those who had once been happy—thrice—happy to meet her. The bloom upon her enetfU -fcnq i a qed; her ' eves were sunken and had a wild and] haggard expression; her language was no. longer characteristic of that high refinement which once had marked it. It was ■ all to evident that a ft rful vice was prey-I ing upon her system. When inquired of as to her husband, and whether she intended to return to New York, she evaded any reply. Her friends at last became alarmed and'wrote to her husband, asking him to come and take her with him home. He came not, but instead came a letter of fearful import. The injured mar. said his hopes Lad been blighted, the trust which he had reposed in his wife shamefully abused, and his family gods overthrown. She had sunk her love from a husband in the mania of the wine cup, and was a victim to habitual intoxication. He reproved her. She became an .'ry, quarreled with him and left his home for I that cf her parents, taking with her noth- ( ! ing save the clothing which she had upon I her at the time of her departure. Under ' such circumstances, he said, he could no! longer consent to a union with her, pain- ’ ful as a seperation must be. By express,j he forwarded to her her jewels, silver- ■ ware, piano, clothing—everything, in ! i fact, which belonged to her personally, i Thus be renounced her—and forever.— The last scene in this sad drama of real life closed yesterday. The once beautiful honored by all who knew her—the idolized wife, the noble woman,died at the residence of her parents of brain fever, induced by intoxication. Thus the curtain of death falls upon this sad scene. The father of this young lady has been | called upou within three months to morn I the death of a wife and a daughter of inI toxication, and a son, once noble and 1 manly, whose highest natut ‘ has been I prevented by the same cause - — Troy Times. , A Practical Joke A Crowd of hackmen, upon the arrival of the express train at this city yesterday noon, gathered a>ound a pessenger who was seemingly in great haste to be carried to some particular part of the city. It was with difficulty he retained his carpetbag which was taken hold of by several officious Jehus. At length, unable to eni dure the suspense any longer, he inquired . the charge for conveying a passenger to the City Hotel, and was immediately informed by a dozen coaches, that the charge was only a quarter. ‘1 thank you all, kindly,” said he.— : ‘l’m going to New Haven; but I tho’t I ■ wouid like to know your prices,’ and he coolly returned to the cars, took his seat at the window and looked at his dupes ! with a complaisant smile, and several .! heavy oaths flew around in the atmost phere of the Station Mouse, — Hartford | ’ Praia,

“Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame."

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAR. 27,1857.

A Peep at English Domestic Life. I We find in the Washington (N. C.) I Journal the followingextractfromaletter written by one of the officers of the United States steam frigate Merrimac, dated Southampton, Oct, Btb We have been visited a great deal here, especially by navy men, and have created something of an excitement in the . naval world, judging by the pieces in the papers. Much attention has been paid ! us ashore, too, especially by two families ] one that of an old East India General, the ! other that ofLcA JleMwick. Gen. Fra- ' zier has passed most of his life in India, ■ ! and now lives in ease and comfort on the j Southamton Water. Ata dinner at his house we had an opportunity of seeing how the aristocracy live here.'Lord Hardwicke and family and several other guests were there to meet us, and every thing was in splendid style. One turbaned , Indian, with saveral other servants, wait-; ed at table. The plate was superb, and the dinner the most recherche. We sat! I down to the table at half past seven.— , These are always epualett and sword ocI casions. Lord Hardwicke’s family consists of his ■j countess, his eldest son (about 18 or 20, and Lord Royston by courtesy,) three of the finest looking daughters yon ever saw and several younger sons. The daughters—Lady Elizabeth, Lady Mary, and . Lady Agnita, are suppassingly beautiful; ; such development, such rosy cheeks, laughing eyes, and unaffected manners i you rarely see combined. They take a ! great deal of out-door exercise, and came ] aboard the Merrimac in a heavy rain, with Irish thicker-soled shoes than you or I ever wore, and cloakes and dresses alimpervious to water. They steer I their father’s yacht, walk the Lord knows ! how many miles, and don’t care cent about! rain; besides doing a host of other things i that would shock our ladies to death; and ! yet in the parlor are the most elegant- i ! looking women in their satin shoes and . diamonds I ever saw. I I The Confess, in her coronet of jewels,, |is an elegant lady, and looks like a fit | mother for three such women. His Lordship has given us three or four din- , iners. He lives here merely during the i I for bis country seat of Cambridge, where he spends his winter, as do ail English 1 gentlemen of means, hunting, <f-c., and i when Parliament is in session he lives in I | London in Ins town house. Here he has. a host of servants, and they wear the gaudiest livery white plush knee-breeches and vest, white silk stockings and low! shoes Lord Hardwicke’s brother is Dean of York, a high. Church dignitary, has two pretty daughters, and is himself a a jolly gentleman. After dinner the ladies play and sing for us, and the other night they got up a game of blindman’s buff, in which the ladies said we had the advantage, inasmuch as their petticoats rustled so that they were easily caught.’ They call things by their names here. In the course of the game Lord Hardwicke himself was blind-: ! folded, and trying to catch some one, fell j | over his daughter’s lap on the iloor, when j I two or three of the girls eaught him by the legs and dragged his lordship, ioar- j i ing with laughter, as we all were, on iiis j back into the middle of the floor. They I are perfectly respectfuly, but appear on i a perfect equality with each other. In ' fact, the English are great people. Two clubs here offered us the use of their rooms. At?'A gossipping club has been formed out west for the purpose of more effectually ascertaining the business of other people generally. It already has attained a large membership, and promises to become a flourishing institution. The following are some of its rules: ‘Any member of the society who shall be convicted of knowing more of his own business than another’s shall be expelled from the society without a hearing. ‘No member shall sit down to his own table, until be has ascertained to a certainty, what his neighbors within three doors of either side of'his bouse shall have to eat whether they have paid for the same, if not if they expect to. Every member who shall see two or three persons engaged in conversation, shall place himself between them until he has beard all they have to say, and report the same accordingly. ‘Every member who shall see a gentleman visiting a lady more than twice, shall circulate the news that they are going to be married, and said members are forthwith required to report all manner of things about the gentleman to the lady and ditto about the lady to 1 the gentlman. This will break up matches and afford much good gossio? There are twenty-six orphan asylums in the state of New York. In this insti- . tutions nearly nine thousand little ones ars fed, clothed and educated-

(A Young Tobacco Chewer Cured ( On hoard a ship, one day when one of the boys came with his hammock or. his shoulders, as lie passed, the lieutenant perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his mouth. ‘What have you got there?’ asked the 'lieutenant, ‘a gumboil? Your cheek is much swollen.’ ‘No, sir,’replied the boy,’ there’s nothing the matter.’ ‘Oh, there must be, perhaps it is a bad I oot.h. Open your mouth and let me see.’ Very reluctantly the boy opened his mouth, which contained a large roll of . tobacco leaf. ‘I see,’ said the lieutenant, ‘poor fellow! i you must suffer! Your mouth wants I overhauling and your teeth cleaning.— ' I wish we had a dentist on board, but as we have not, I will operate as well as I , can. Send the armorer up here with his i tongs. When the armorer made his appeari ance with l.is longs, the boy was compelled to open his mouth, while the tobacco was extracted with this rough treatment. ‘There now, ’said the lieutenant.' ‘l’m sure that you must feel better al- ‘ ready. You never could have an appetite with such stuff in your mouth.— Now. Captain of the afterguard, bring a piece of old canvas and some sand, and clean his teeth nicely., The Captain of the afterguard came forward and grinning from ear to ear, put ' bis boy’s bead between his knees, and scrubbing Lis teeth well with canvas and | sand for two or three minutes. ‘There that will do.” said the lieuten I ant. ‘Now, my little fellow, take some wa- ' ter and rinse your mouth, and you will i enjoy your breakfast. Lt was impossible ■ for you to have eaten anything with your mouth in such a filthy condition. When I you are troubled in the same way again, ! come to me and I’ll be your dentist.’ i The lad was completely cured, by the ( ridicule of this occurence, of the habit of tobacco chewers.— Capl ifarryatt. The First .’.iarrietge—Adam’s Wedding. | AflJSßfrib ib ß ¥lWfift nl uit •Adam’s Wedding.’ The editor says that be Lked short courtships, and in this acted like a sensible man — he fell asleep ia bachel ir, and awoke to find himself a married man. He appears to have ‘popi ped the question’ immediately after meeting Mademoiselle, Eve, nud she without ! ili.rtation or shyness gave him a kiss and herself.- Os that first kiss in this world we have had, however; our own thoughts, and sometimes in a poetical mood we wish we were done; the chance was Adam’s and he improved it. We like the notion of getting married in a garden; it is in good taste. We like a private marraige, and Adam’s was strictly private. No envious Beaux were there, no croaking old maids, no chattering aunts, and grumi bling grandmothers. The birds of Heaven the minstrels, and the glad sky shed ! its light upon the scene Oh, speaking about the first wedding, brings queer ' ideas into our heads, in spite of the scripture truth. Adam and his wife were ■ rather young to be married—some two or three years, according to the sagest speculations of theologist—mere babies—larger but not older—without a house, without a pot or kettle—nothing but love and Eden. No Mother, —‘She has no mother!’ What a volume of sorrowful truth is comprised in that single utterance —no mother! We must go down the hard, rough, path of life, and become inured to care and sorrow in their sternest forms before we can take home to our own experience the dread reality—no mother—without a struggle and a tear. But when it is said of a frail, young girl, just passing from childhood towards the life of a woman, how sad is the story summed up in that short sentence! Who now shall administer the much needed counsel? Who now shall check the wayward fancies—who now shall bear with the errors and failings of the motherless daughter? Deal gently with the child. Let not the cup of sorrow be overflowed by the harshness of your bearing, or your unsympathizing coolness. Is she heededss of her doings? Is she forgetful of duty? Is she careless in her movements? Remember, oh, remember, she has no mother! Absconded. —John Snyder (red headed John) has made tracksfrom Maysville, in this State, with a Helen of Troy,’leaving bis wife to look out for number one. John told his wife he was going to Pennsylvania, to be gone a ‘Few days,’ and we suppose considering the inclemency Ot the weather, and the danger of catching cold injudiciously concluded to take a bifurcatec comforter with him. He magnanimously left his wife and children the sum of 85, for their comfortable sub- ' port and maintainance.— ’Louitville Courier.

Cool Impudeuce. ' Yesterday afternoon, a rather genteel looking young mi'ii walked into the bar of the Woodruff’ House and called for whiskey toddy. He was served, and after he had drank the toddy, be obtained a cigar, sat down by the fire and leisurely j puffed it away. He then called for another ! toddy, and having placed it beneath his | vest, lie calmly buttoned up his coat, pulled on his gloves and turning to the j bar keeper, said: ‘l’m ready.’ •You are ready, are you?' replied Um bar keepei. ‘Well, sir, your bill is twen-ty-five cents.’ ‘I was aware of that fact,’ replied the patron, folding his arms and turning his! face toward the door, ‘and now 1 am ready.’ ‘ready for what?’ 'To be kicked out! Haint got a darned I cent—couldn’t do without the liquor— ‘ been served like a gent—aint ashamed of my poverty —take your pay sir— kick me out!l The bar keeper finding the chap was in i earnest, obliged him with several appliea- j tions of his boot toe, lustily administered. ] j The ‘diddler’ bore it in good part, and i after he had been kicked into the street, I turned around, made a polite bow to the ! bar keeper, and then, apparently in a meny mood, started down the street. An Irish Wager.—‘Nate hand you are this, my darling!'said one Irish bricklayer to another; ‘you mount the ladder, j wid your hod full o’stones, and scatter ; ’em on the heads iv us as you go. Ocli! ! blatheration, blood and ouns! I’d carry ; yourself up, from the flats to the roof,' and down again widout your being spilt. | ‘You don’t do it, sir!’ returned the fellow laborer; ‘l’d lay a trifle you couldn’t? ‘For a pint o’whiskey I would tho—is the likes o’you I might not lift? D'ye take • my, bet honey?’ ‘Faith I’!I bet my hide against yourpint and that’s a fair trade, that you can’t? ‘ln wid your dirty Larkas, and we’ll 1 try it? Fearful as the experiment may seem it I was successful. When two thirds up the ■ „a.. v ,... x i J spill yel’ ‘Sure, an’ isn’t, in that I’d be aither having ye do?’ returned Mac. When safe landed, he exclaimed—‘l didn’t think it was in- the likes o’ye As it happens ye’vo won—l’m bate, but just as you was cornin’ by the third story i I was in hopes? Professional Jurymen. —lt is notorious.that there is a number as loafers hanging about the Court house for the purpose of getting upon juries, and, as there is always one Court and mostof the time two Courts, they manage to be pretty constantly employed. Not many days since Mrs. M. called upon Mrs. H., with whom she had just become acquainted when the ; following conversation ensued: Mrs. M.—Pray Mrs 11. what business is your husband engaged in? Mrs- ll.—He is a juroi—sits on juries in the Courts. Mrs. M.—'Why! does he! Is it a profitable kind of buisiness? Mrs. ll.—Old yes! He's tried it for more n two years now, and manages to support us very comfortable —besides, I (in a low tone of voice, )he’s saved some-' thing out of the perquisites! The above is a veritable conversation, nearly verbatim as it occured. What the perquisites consist of our readers will be at a loss to guess. — Chicago Tribune. Parhelion. —The phenomenon termed parhelion, or mock sun, is not common . here; it occured, however, last evening. About 4 o’clock a black bank of clouds lay low in the Western horizon above which floated a light vapor, at a height ( about as far above the horizon as the sun was at that time, the latter being south of it. The vapor stopped the sun’s rars and a segment of a circle composed of the prismatic colors was seen, like a portion of a rainbow. In the centre of this segment was a pale, bright light shadowy, and the outline not entirely perfect—this was the mock sun, a reflection of the real one. The sight was a beautiful and interesting one. ‘Old salts’ call the phenomenon a ‘sun dog? and consider it a , sign of falling weather. —Cm. Cuz., )6th The Last Dodge.—The New Y’ork hotel keepers have just discovered how ihev hav been swindled for some time.— A youngsters would march up to the I clerk’s desk and present what purported to be a telegraphic dispatch, ami collect the cost of transmission, varying according to circumstances from 81 to 83 — These bogus dispatches were dated from I Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and ■ I more distant cities, ami read somewhat i as follows: " ‘Mr. Stetson: —I shall be in New York with my family to-morrow. Please keep a room for me. •HENRY M, PARKINS

Horse Crawling through a Post. A story is told of tiie Rev. Mr. Sprague of Dublin, N. H., which sets the remarkable simplicity of the learned parson in a ludicrous light. Paying a visit tooneof his parishioners, he threw the bridle of ! his horse over the post of a rail-fence near I the house. During his stay the animal i contrived to disengage the bridle from tho ; post and get it under his feet; seeing which a servant girl drew the reigns through one of the mortices and over the top of the post, in the form of a noose. The parsuii, tS v * n js hio horcG was iu» describably astonished to find the bridle which he had simply thrown over the post, thus passed through one of the holaa, I ‘This beats all,’ ejaculated he to him'self; I never say .the like in my life be- ' fore. To be sure we read of a camel goI ing through the eye of a needle, but this ; was in days of miracles. No, no, I never 1 saw the like of this before!’ He examt- , tied it anew; he tried to get the bridle out ' but it surpassed his ingenuity. Yes, it ; must be? said he, ‘the horse has actually , crawled the post-hole; there is no other i way to account for it? ■ Full of this impression and despairing ; of making tiie animal retract his steps, he . whipped out bis knife and was about cut- ■ ting the rains, when the same girl, perceiving the quandary released the horse and explained the mystery. But if the simple parson had been astonished before, he was little less so nowJßo find his own perpetration surpased by that of a servant girl ‘Hey, girl;’said he, I believe j you are right but how in the name of wonder should a girl like you know more , than a man of ray learning. It’s aston- ' ishing! astonishing!—Miraculous! Mir- : aculuus!’ The Lawyer and the Sailor. — A sailor was called upon as a witness, when he was thus examined: ’Well, sir,’ said the lawyer, do you know the plaintiff and defendant!’ ‘ 1 don’t know the drift of them words* ■ answered the sailor. I ‘What! don’t know tho meaning of plaintiff' and defendant? continued the ’ lawyer—'a pretty fellow you to come lirfLiiY? jtKsjs the other one?’ ‘Abaft the binnacle? said the sailor. ‘Abaft the binnacle,’ said the lawyer ‘what do you mean by that?’ ‘A pretty fellow, you? responded the sailor, ‘to come here as a lawyer, and not ] know what abaft the binnacle means? i— - A juror’s name was called by the clerk. The man advanced to the Judge’s desk and said: ‘Judge, I should like to be excused? ‘lt is impossible,’ said the judge decidedly. ‘But, Judge, if you knew my reason? ‘Well, sir, what are they?’ ‘Why the fact is’—and the man paused. ‘Well, sir, proceed? continued the i judge. ‘Well, Judge, if I must say it, I Lave the itch? •Thejudge, who was a very sober man, ! solemnly and impressively exclaimed ‘Mr. Clerk, scratch that man out’? The New Orleans Picayune tells the following: A‘ few days since the captain of a ship i at anchor outside the Pass, threw overI board a shark hook baited, which was im- ; mediately swallowed by a shark of the spotted kind. The shark, which was got on board with much difficulty, measured 17 feet 11 inches in length, 9 feet in circumference, and his liver exactly filled a beef barrel, lie had seven row of teeth, and in his paunch was found the body of a man, partly decomposed. His jawbone was taken to the city, and was found to be large enough to take in a suI gar barrel. | A young British officer in India was so I shockingly mutilated and disfigured iu battle, after mature reflection, requested a comrade to write to Lisbetiothed in Engj land and release her from the bridal arrangeinent. Her noble answer was wor--1 thy of a true women: ‘Tell him if there is I enough of bis body left to contain his soul, I shall hold him to his engagement? ’ If we would have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of bis time to a multitude of tyrants. A Yankee lover, writing to his sweetheart says: ‘Delectable dear, you are so sweet that honey would blush In your • presence and molasses stand appalled? ‘I rise for information,’said a member of Congress. ‘I am very glad to hear it, cried one sitting by,‘for no oue Heeds is more. An old maid says that marriage is like any other disease—as long as there ie ! life t’ner* ia hope

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