Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1858 — Page 1

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THE EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDA? MORNING, BY PHILLIPS & SPENCEK, Office, on Main Stroat, in the old School House, ons Square North of J. & P Crabs' Store. Terms of Subscription: For one year. $1 50. in advance; $1 75, within the year, and $2 00 after the year has expired. rTNo paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the Publishers. Terms of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, 25 O"N<> advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be counted 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 the most reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, being new and of the latest styles, and we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. A KISS AT THE DOOR. BY AMINIDAB STIGGIN9. The clock struck ten: I seized my hat And bade good night to all. Except the lass I courted, who Came with me through the hall. She stood within the portal. And I gazed upon her charms. And, oh! I longed that moment To clasp her in my arms. She spoke about the moon and stars, How dear and bright they shone; I said I thought the crops would fail, Unless we had rain soon. 7 hen I edged a little closer, Put my anus around her waist, And gazed upon those rosy lips, I longed so much to taste. Said I. ‘ my dearest Susy, I'll never rest contented— Isl leave to-night without a kiss, I’ll surely grow demented.’ Then up she turned her rosy mouth. And everything was handy; Quick from her lips I seized a kiss— Oh. Yankee Doodle Dandy! Then off for home I started, I could no longer stay; With a light heart and breeches thir, I whistled all the way. Hence learn this truth, ye bashful youths. Who seek for wedded bliss, No lass will love until you move Her feelings with a kiss Sleep falls sweetly upon the virtuous. The young man who flew into a passion has had his wings clipped. In what ship have the greatest number of mtn been wrecked?— Courtship! Lightning rods take the mischief out of the clouds—en-ligbtening rods take it out of bad boys. The young widow who lately recovered heavy damages from a rich gentleman who hugged her some what rudelv, should take good care of her money, for she made it by tight squeeze.’ Riches.—There is, too often, a burden of care in getting them, a burden of anxiety in keeping them, a burden of temptation in using them, a burden of guilt in abusing them, a burden of sorrow in losing them, a burden of account at last to be given up for possessing and either improving or misimproving them. Another Coincidence —A correspondent of the Wheeling Intelligencer, brings to mind a fact th ton the 4 th of August 1492. Columbus bade adieu to the shores of the Old World to search for continent in the western hemisphere, and remarks the coincidence that on the 4th of August 1858, the continent discovered by Columbus was united with the Old World by a telegraphic cable. Governor Corw'n seems bent on mis-j chief, or at least to annoy seriously the 'rugged issue,’ branch of his surpporters. In his speech accepting the nomination, he contradicts the assertions of slavery encroached upon the North, which is constantly made in the Black Republican Journals. He says: If the North only exercised the confidence which belonged to power magnanimity which belonged to conquest, there would be no danger to the country. For, notwithstanding all that we had beard of the encroachments upon the North, freedom had encrouched upon slavery. After that great barrier between freedom and slavery had been broken down, freedom had rushed in and taken possession of a portion of the Louisiana Purchase. So it would always be with freedom and slavery.

THE POOR PRINTER. A True Tale. BY CAPT. HAWKSLRY. It was a cold evening in the month of December, that Judge Wright was sitting by a pleasant fire, at the residence of his brother, in Louisville, Ky. His little niece was sitting beside him, with her head gently resting on his arm, and her hair falling in ringlets over her snowy shoulders. ‘Tell us a story of a mechanic, uncle, if you please, for I often hear you speaking of them,’ spoke the little girl, looking up innocently into the face of the Judge. •I will tell you one of a poor printer 1 knew,’ replied the judge, ‘if you will only promise to pay attention to it.’ •Os course I will, uncle, for I always like to hear of printers. The judge seemed wrapped in study for some moments, and then began: ‘I once knew a young man,’ said he, ‘who lived in a little town in the western part of Virginia. He was of respectable family, but not very wealthy, and the youth, for a youth he was at the time our narrative commences, expressed a desire to learn the printing business. His parents having no objections to it, he enterI ed an office in the town ot W , which 1 was carried on by a young man of the name of M . He continued in the i office some two years, at the expiration l of which time the office was sold out to another firm. The former proprietors of the establishment immediately purchased another office in the interior of the State, and the young man, wishing to finish his trade with those he had commenced with, immediately left home and joined his old employers. Time rolled on, and his apprenticeship was finished, when he returned home. There he meets his old I friends and former associates, and particularly a young lady to whom he was verv much attached. His visits were very often, and in less than a year they ■ were engaged to be married. ‘He in the meantime bad purchased a printing office, and was publishing a weekly paper, and by applying himself closely to the office, he made many friends, and as is the case in publishing a paper, some enemies. Those who were bis enemies had sought every meaus within their power to injure him, but in spite of all i they could do be still prospered in business. ‘But although he was engaged, some of the ladies of the place, who had set themselves up as aristocracy, sought an interview with the young lady’s mother, and by falsehoods and misrepresentations, ' succeeded in winning the unsuspecting i parents over to their side, and by her in--1 terference with her daughter, the marI riage was broken otf. ‘This was more than the young man I could stand, and ar the end of the volume, he discontinued the publication of the i paper, and left for parts unkown. ‘Years rolled on and we find the young , printer a successful lawyer, residing in ! the city of New Orleans. He had there gained a name that will ever stand, not only as being an influential member of the bar, but a respectable and honored citizen of the ‘Crescent City.’ ‘As the young lawyer was sitting in his office one afternoon, reading, he was interrupted by a gentle rap at the door. The lawvei answered the knock with his pleasant ‘come in.’ The door opened, and the figure of a female entered. She seemed about thirty years of age; she had been one of the most handsome of her sex, although time had cast its shadow o v er the freshness of her features. ‘Are you not a lawyer?’ she inquired, in a sweet musical voice. ‘I have the honor to belong to that profession,’ replied he. I have a case I would be happy to have you attend to, if you will do so, she added, blushing. ‘What is the tenor of it? ‘lt is a divorce case. My husband, shortly after our marriage, took to drinking very hard, and having squandered our means, has now abandoned me altogether, and I am forced to take in sewing to support myself and child.’ ‘I will do what I can for you, madam, and I think there will be no difficulty in obtainig one.’ ‘The lady gave him her name as Mrs. Young, and said she was boarding with a friend at number —Chestnut street, and 1 then left the office. ‘After she had gone, the thought occurred to him that he had seen the face before, and the more he thought of it, the more he was convinced that such was the case, and to satisfy his curiosity, he resolved to visit her the following day. | The next afternoon he called at—Chest-1 nut street, and there found the person he was in search of. sitting in a nicely’ furnished apartment, with a sweet, rosycheeked boy by her. ‘After talking on the different topics ot the day, ha ventured to ask her if she j was a native of the State.

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

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPT. 3, 1858,

‘No, sir, I was raised in Virginia, and I resided there till shortly after my mar-1 riage,’ she answered. ‘Did you not at one time reside in the I village of M ? ‘I resided there several years, said the lady, as she scrutinized the features of the lawyer. ‘I suppose you were acquainted with the citizens generally, were you not?’ ‘Yes, I was partially acquainted with most of the inhabitants,’ said she. ‘Were you acquainted with a young man by the name of W , who put- ■ ■ lished a paper there?’ ~ I ‘I was very well acquainted with him, as we were engaged to be married, but upon the interference of my mother, and ' some others, it did not take place.’— Here a tear was seen to steal down her cheek. ‘Do you know what has become of him?’ asked the lawyer. ‘I do not,’ she replied,’ ‘but would to God I could find out where he is, for although I was forced to slight him, he would still be a friend to me,’ she said, trying to hide her tears with her handkerchief. ‘Then, madam,’ he replied, ‘you see that man in me—l am that printer, the one that loved you above all others, and the one that you would now trust as a friend. He is all he was. ‘She sprang to his arms, their lips met, I and the love they had for each other . years before, was kindled anew. ‘Ellen, my only love, nothing on earth i could give me more pleasure than this meeting. Often have I thought of you since we parted on Virginia’s lovely soil. ‘They talked over the times they bad when young. How they had taken moon-light walks in the garden, and exchanged pledges of love, and finally she j told him how she had been deceived in her husband, for instead of being a I wealthy Southern merchant, he proved to be a gambler and a drunkard. ‘He succeed in getting the divorce for her, and they passed many happy hours together, but they were not numerous, for the next spring she fell a victim to that terrible disease, yellow fever. The lawyer ever proving a friend, took the young boy and adopted him as his own; as he was never married, he had none. ‘I have finished this story, all But one thing.’ said the judge. ‘What is that?’ asked his niece. ‘lt is simply this, that the printer of whom I have been speaking, is none other than your uncle. It is myself that was the hero of this story, and the child I spoke of, you know, he is in my office, and bids fair to become a good lawyer.’ l ‘This a very nice story, uncle.’ ‘Yes, dear, it. is one you can profit by. Do not treat a person coldly because they happen to be a mechanic, least in the end I I he should turn out to be greater than you. Pettit’s Position. We are permitted to publish the fol- . lowing extract from a private letter, which I j shows the course Pettit is taking on the ! stump. — Huntington Dem. Noblesville, Aug. 16, 1858. “Pettit was in this County last Saturday and spoke in this place and Westfield. He took strong ground in favor of the Philadelphia Platform, and consequently pleased the Abolitionists very 1 well. He also charged the Democratic party with intending to bring forward the Lecompton Constitution next winter, and admitted Kansas under it, notwithstand- | ing the people have rejected it. What I arrant humbuggery! He also contended i that there was no difference between the I last Republican State Platform and the | one adopted at Philadelphia. This was i news to some of our Republicans—the Abolitionists having contended with truth that the Republicans, in their late State Convention, bad repudiated the Philadel- . phia concern; and the others admitting the fact’ but contending that the State Convention did right in doing so. From the foregoing you will see there is some dissatisfaction at present. Yours, &c., M. The mission of the Democratic party is to administer the Government so as to compel obedience to the will of the people at home and to cause it to be respected abroad. The factions who dispute its , supremacy, limits their patriotism and , statesmanship to a corrupt and unprincipled combination, to the control the pat--1 ronage of the Government. It is the partnership of Bifield and Black George. They are simply preachers.— Cin. Enq. I An editor in lowa has been fined two ' hundred dollars for hugging a young) ; girl in church.— Daily Argus' Cheap enough! We once hugged a ’ girl in church, some ten years ago, and I the scrape has cost us a thousand a year I ever since.— Chicago American. When you go to drown yourself, al-) ways put off your cloths, they may fit your wife’s second buiband.

Foreign News by the Cable. Trinty Bay, Aug. 25. ) The following news has just been received from Valentia, and from its general interest, I forward it to the press for publication. Signed, DeSaunty. Valentia, Aug. 25.—Later and highly important intelligence has been received from China. A treaty of peace has been ■ concluded with China, by which England and France obtain all their demands, inj eluding the establishment of Embassies at I Pekin, and Indemnifications or the cx- • pense of the war. I Later.—lndian news is at hand. The dates from Bombay are to July 19th.— The accounts represent the mutiny was being rapidly quelled. To-days London papers have a long and interresting report, by Mr. Bright, the Atlantic Telegraph Compines Engineer. The R. M. Steamship Asia, with the mails for Halifax and Boston, is to be despatched from Liverpool on Saturday next The above despatch was received at Trinity Bay at about 9 o’clock last night, and would have been here in ample time ) for publication in the morning papers, had j the lines in Nova Scotia not closed at 9 o’clock. We understand, that after the Cable is opened for business, all the land lines will remain open night and day, and the speedy laying of a Cable from Placentia Bay, N. F., to Sidney, N. S., or Portland. We will obviate much of the delay and uncertainty to transact busiiness between New York and Trinity Bay. Signed, Reporter. ) London, England, Aug 27.—The Emperor of France returned to Paris on Sa- ; turday. The King of Prussia was too ill to visit Queen Victoria at Pottsdam. Her Majesty will return to England on the 30th of August. The news of the settlement of the Chinese question was received at St. Petersburgh on the 21st inst. Under the terms jof the Treaty of Peace the Chinese EmIpire is open to the trade of all foreign Ipowels. The Christian religion is allow■ed in all parts of the country. Foreign diplomatic agents are admitted, and ample indemnity is to be given England and 1 France. Those who left Us Coining Back. i Daily we hear of old Democrats, who ■ at some former period had left us, returning to their ancient faith and friends.— They say they have found the Republican party without any common principle ; shifting along from month to month uoI on any claptrap expedient that may hapI pen to suit demagogism for the hour —deI voted to nothing in common but obtsinl ing public plunder—their leaders steeped |in corruption till they are objects of moi ral disgust, and guilty of such monstrous fraudulent practices in attempting to carry elections as shock every man whose conscience is not seared as with a red-hot (iron. For such reasons they, who are I honest, leave them and return to that permanent, ever abiding old Democratic party, which has brought our country to greatness and glory upon the great doctrines of strict construction of the Constitution, the rights of the States, and the individual freedom from govermental control, as far as possible, of the individual citizen.— State Sentinel. Employment—Daniel Webster well says: ) I say it is employment that makes peo- ; pie happy. This great truth ought never ) to be forgotten, it ought to be placed upion the title page of every book on politii cal economy intended for America, and such countries as America. It ought to head the columns of every farmer’s magazine and mechanic’s magazine. It should be proclaimed everywhere,—notwithstanding of the usefulness of cheap food—notwithstanding that the great truth should be proclaimed should be made into a proverb, if it could, that -where there is work for hands of men there will bo work for theif teeth. Where there is employment there will be bread; i and in a country like our own, above all others will this truth hold good; in a country like ours where with a great deal of spirit and activity among the masses, if they can find employment, there is great willingness for labor. If they can obtain a fair compensation for their labor, they will have good houses, good clothing good food, and the means of educating their j children from their labor; that labor will )be cheerful, and they will be a contented I and happy people. «r ... j At Quebec, there is an exhibition of a ; human child which has four legs, two I bodies and three arms. Apart from the ; small extra or twin body and limbs proj ceeding from it, and which is connection ) with the child from above the right hip, i the infant is well formed, and has, besides, a most pleasant face. It is seven weeks old.

New way of Paying a .Subscription. A correspondent of the Lagrange Whig gives the tollowing amusing account of the way a farmer was taught how cheaply be could take the papers. The lessou is worth pondering by a good many men ‘we wot of.’ ‘Yon have hens at home, of course.— Well, I will send you my paper one year, for the proceeds, of a single hen for one season; merely the proceeds. It seems trifling, preposterous, to imagine the products of a single hen will pay the subscription; perhaps it won’t but I make the offer. ‘Done!’ exclaimed Farmer B , ‘I agree to it,’ and appealed to me as a witness to the affair. The farmer went off. apparently much elated with bis conquest; the editor went on his way rejoicing. Time rolled around, and the world revolved on its axis, and the sun moved in its orbit as it formerly did; the farmer received his paper regularly, and regaled himself with the information from it, and said ‘he was surprised at the progress of himself and family in general information. Some time in the month of September, I happened up again in the office, when who should enter but our old friend, Farmer B . ‘How do you do, Mr. B ?* said the editor, extending his hand, and his countenance lit up with a bland smile; ‘take a chair, sir, and be seated; fine weather we have. •Yes, sir, quite fine indeed,’he answered, and then a short silence ensued, during which our friend B hitched his chair backward and forward, twirled his thumbs abstractedly, and spit profusely. Starting up quickly, he said, addressing the editor, ‘Mr. D . I have brought you the proceeds of that hen.’ It was amusing to see the peculiar expression of the editor, as he followed the farmer down to the wagon. I could hardly keep my risible* down. When at the wagon, the farmer commenced handing over to the editor the products of the hen, which, on being counted, amounted to eighteen pullets, worth a shilling each, and a number of dozen eggs, making, in the aggregate, at the least calculation, $2,50 —more than the price of the paper. ‘No need.’ said he, -of men not taking a family newspaper, and paying for it too. I don’t miss this from my roost, yet 1 have paid for a year’s subscription, and over. All fully, sir; there is no man but can take a newspaper; it’s charity, you know, commences at home. ‘But,’ resumed the editor. ‘I will pay for what is over the subscription. I did , not intend this as a means of profit, but rather to convince you. I will pay for—‘Not a bit of it, sir; a bargain is a bargain, and lam alread paid, sir—doubly paid, sir. And whenever a neighbor makes the complaint I did, I will relate to him the hen story. Good day, gen tieman. A Good Answer.—The lady who is ! the heroine of the following anecdote was a countess de Rechteren of whom the Duke de Lauzun became enamored at Spa, in 1787: ‘She was,’ says, Madame de Genlis, ‘a young Spanish lady, uniting beauty and great wit with much simplicity of manner, and married to a man who might have been her father, but whom she truly loved. As it was very difficult to approach her, the duke took up his stand behind her, among the gentlemen who had the courtesy to wait upon the ladies, and one morning, at breakfast, made her, in a low, rapid tone, a very open and explicit declaration of love.— Madame de Rechteren heard him out very quietly and then ieplied: ‘Monsieur le Due, I understand French but indifferently; mon ami, l(she designated her husband thus) is much better versed in it, however, and if you will repeat to him ail the pretty things you have just said, he will explain them to me clearly.’ Methodof Detecting Decay in Timber. —We learn from the Cosmos that a simple method has been adopted in the shipyards of Venice, from time immemorial for testing the soundness of the timber. A person applies his ear to the middle of one of the ends of the timber, while another strikes upon the opposite end. If the wood is sound and of good quality, the blow is very distinctly heard however long the beam may be. If the wood was disaggregated by decay or otherwise, the sound would be for the most part destroyed. A country newspaper, recording the running down of a cow on the railway, . said it was ‘cut into calves!’ An aston-1 ished naturalist waited on the editor for‘further information, and received it in the following form: ‘Erratum—for calves read halves!' Men enjoy mountains; women enjoy waterfalls. There is no saying why it is , but the fa n t is positive.

A Couple Sold A few days since we chanced to stum I ble into an auction sale of damaged drygoods, where the bids were spirited, and the laige crowds of males and females were viewing with each other in their offers, when a pair of bed blankets were up. and a dozen bids were raised for them. The puzzled auctioneer, however, caught the highest bid, which was we think, one dollar, from a female, who seemed deI termined to have them at any price, when ere he could say ‘going,’ a male voice from the opposite side of the room cried out: ‘Dollar fifty.’ ‘Two dollars,’echoed the woman, elbowing her way through the dense mass of females who were seperated from the males by a long counter, upon which the glib-tongued functionary walked to and fro with the goods. Turning to the olh er side, he commenced anew his stereotyped vocabulary of choice of speech, till he touched the finale. I ‘Two fifty,’nodded the man. ‘Thank ye, sir. Going at two fifty. ‘Three screamed the woman. ‘Four, replied the man. ‘Go the fifty? said tne auctioneer turn ing to woman, with a half suppressed smile on his small, sober visage. A nod from the woman, ‘Four fifty I’m offered: go me the five Come, don’t be afraid; they are worth double the money, go the five?’ ‘Yes, and that’s nil.’ ‘Sold to Capt. Smith for five dollars, cried the kight of the hammer, almost bursting with uncontrollable laughter. ‘Smith!’ exGamed the woman raising herself on tiptoe to catch a glance, ‘Captain Smith! what, my husband! Why, you good for nothing man, you’ve been bidding against your own wife! Oh, you impudence! but! won’t have them in the house! ■I Did as the Rest Did.’ ‘This tame yielding spirit, this doing ‘as the rest did,’ has i uined thousands. •A young man is invited by vicious ) companions to visit the theatre, or (gambling room, or other haunts of licentiousness. He becomes dissipated, spends ) his time, loses his credit, squanders, pro- | perty, and last sinks into an untimely grave. What ruined him? Simply ‘doing as the rest did.’ A father has family of sons. He is wealthy. Other children iu the same situation of life do so and so, are indulged in this thing and that. He indulges his own in the same way. Thev grow up idlers, triflers, and fops. The father w onders why his children do not succeed better. He has spent so much money on their education—has given them great advantages—alas! they are only a source of vexation and trouble. Foor man; he is just paving the penalty of ‘doing as the rest did.’ This pool mother strives hard to bring up her daughters gentee'.y. They learn what others do, to paint to sing, to play to dance, and several useful matters.— In time they marry; their husband’s are unable to support their extravagance, and they are soon reduced to poverty and wretchednes. The good woman is astonished. ‘Truly,’ says she, ‘I did as the rest did.’ The sinner, following the example of others, puts off repentance, and, neglects to prepare for death. He passes along through life, till unawares, death strikes the fatal blow. He has no time left now to prepare. And he goes down to destruction, because be was so foolish as to ‘do as the rest did.* A Canal Through the Rocky Mountains. During the late Debate in the British House of Commons on the subject of the renewal of the Hudson Bay Company’s priviledges, Lord Bury affirmed that a communication might readily be established between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean, by means of a ship canal connecting the head waters nf the Saskatchewan and Columbia rivers. Both rivers take their rise in the Rocky’ Mountains, the Columbia flowing west to the Pacific, and | the Saskatchewan running east to Lake Winnipeg, a little to the north-west of Lake Superior. With the exception of a single rapid,) which might be avoided by a canal, his lordship stated that the navigation of the Saskatchewan offers no difficulty. With that one exception, a vessel ot considerable size can be taken up to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and at this point there is a gap in the mountains, which would interpose no great obstacle to a junnetion of the Columbia and Saskatchewan, whose sources, are but a little distance apart. Thus a direct water communication would be established with the Pacific. Want of Loyality.—The Hamilton (C.W.) Times, complains, that the A- - flag was hoisted in the village of Elmira C. W.) on the 4th of July, while on the birth-day of Queen Victoria not one British flag was to be sien in the place.

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