Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1865 — Page 1

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTV, INDIANA. NOVEMBER 24, 1865.

> \ - r « r ■r- - A *IT -* - —* — - ■ -WJ— 1 ■ >'■ * and sat turning the matter over in his mind. He bad once been a poor boy, with a mother in feeble health, anil he remembered how hard it was for him to I get along—how many privations his 1; mother bad to endure, and yet his income i was nearly double .the amount lie thought |of givihg Frank. Mr. Hickman had always beloved bis mother, and the mempry of her softened his feeling still more towards the pour wiuvw, iur wnoni fin I appeal had come to him so unexpectedly. r "Frank is an unusually bright boy,” said Mr. Hickman. “He has an aptness for business; is prompt and faithful. I can afford to make his salary Ifef tai —for 1 ; a boy it shall be liberal. pav |jm j j six dollars now, and if K-goes oil nnI ' proving as fast us ho has done so far, it ■ will not be long before I can do something more for i im.” Mr. Hickman arose, and g ing to the counting room door, called the lad, who came immediately. "How do you like our business Frank? ’ asked Mr. Hickman, in ft kind way. "Very well sir,” replied the little fellow, promptly. _ . "And you would like to remain? "T ea, sir, if I could give satisfaction.” | "You have done very well so far,” re- : plied Mr. Hickman; "so well that 1 Lave concluded to put you on wages now, instead of waiting until the six months of have expired. The boy started and a quick flush of surprise and pleasure went over fiis face. "I did not expect it, str,” he said, gratefully. "You are very good.” "Your mother is not so well, I hear," said Mr. Hickman. Frank’s eye glistened as lie answered, | “No, sir, she has been quite sick for a ; good while, and I’m so glad to be put on wa; es, for now I can help her.” “Will you give all your wages to your mother, Frank?” "Oh, yes, indeed, sir; every cent, if it was ten dollars a week.” "I see you are a good boy, Frank said Mr. Hickman, his heart still softening, and your wages shall be six dollars.” The boy suddenly struck bis hands together with sudden joy, exclaiming: "Oh! mother will be so glad—so glad!” As he went back into the store, Mr. Hickman sat quietly in his chair, feeling happier than lie had for a long time. When the sun went down and Frank came in to shut the windows of the counting room, Mr. Hickman handed him a sealed envelope, saying: “Take this to your mother. It contains thirty-six dollars, as your wages at three dollars a week for twelve weeks, the time you have been in my store. Tell your mother that you have been a good, industrious boy, and well earned the money.” Frank took the little package in silence; his feelings were so much over-1 come by bis additional good fortune, that i he could not speak his gratitude. But his eyes toll what was in his heart, and Mr. Hickman understood it. There are many ways to catch sunbeams, if wa would only set traps for ! them. Nay, there is no occasion for that trouble. The air is full of sunbeams, and have to only open the doors and windows of our hearts, and they will enter in countless multitudes. But the | doOrs and windows of most people's i hearts are shut and barred, as was the i heart of Mr. Hickman’s. How are they to be opened? Just as the doors and windows of his heart were opened—by generous kindness to others. When Mr. Hickman took his way homeward, his step was lighter and hi’ ’ feelings more buoyant than they had ; been for a long time. Though conscious : of this, and of the sense of pleasure that | was new to him, bis thoughts did not go directly to the cause. Not that he had | forgotten Frank and his sick mother, nor the glad face that had looked into his when he told the boy of his generous dej cision in his favor, all this was present I to him, though he had not yet connected the kind act and pleasant feeling in his consciousness cause and effect. There was no sound of pattering feet ! on the stairs as Mr. Hickman came in. I Time was when his first step in the pasI sage awoke the echoes with laughing i voices and the rain of eager footfalls, j But that time had passed long ago. The I father came so often in a cold, repellent j i mood, that his children bad sensed to be glad at his return, and no longer bounded , Ito meet him. Sitting on the stairs were i a little boy and girl, of the ages of fivej I and six years. As ho advanced along i ; I tbe passage, they neither stirred nor' j spoke, nor smiled though their eyes were ■ steadily fixed on his face. I. Mr. Hickman etood still when he camo ; near to where they were sitting, and ! looked at them with a new feeling of t; tenderness in his heart. He held out a r: hand to each of the children, and each II laid a hand in his; but with an air of doubt as to whether this condescension , uu tbe part of their father was to be

• .- -—— - - -- - - -— ——— —i f r ,rrr ... eve ' - s taken as a token of love. A moment , | he stood holding their bands, then stoopc j ing, he drew ar; arm around each, and r I lilted them ;o his breast. "Has not Eds die a kiss for papa?” said Mr. Hickman, 2 ’ with so much warmth iu his voice that t- tba little boy uudeistood that all was in -. earnest. -j "Yes, a hundred kisses!” answered r! Eddie, flinging his arms around his lai tlier's neef, and kissing him over and . i over again in childish loudness. ’ j At the head of the first landing opened j i the sitting fooin. Into this Mr. Hickman 11 came with the two’children qq.jjis arms;’ r | both of them bugging and, kissmg-him in i !*• ■'f’.'J.d, way. "liless me! what’s the meaning of ail 1 this?” exclaimed Mr*, llickmau, riling • and coming forward, her face aglow with sudden pleasure et the sight, and sounds ■ so new, yet all welcome to her heart. . These little rogues are hugging and kisring the very breath away from me?’ said Mr. Hiektaan laughing and struggling with the happy children. "He a.ked mo for one kiss,” replied ; Eldie, “and I’m going to give him a hun- ■ dred.” Mr. Hickman sat down with a child on ’each knee, and Mrs. Hickman came and I stood by him, with a band resting on his shoulder. , » “And you must kiss him too,” Said Eddie, looking up at ids mother. “Airs. Hickman did not wait for a second invitation. The old pleasant face of her husband i was leaping with the old loving impulses. 6he bent d>wu and laid a warm kiss on bis lips, which he I'eit us a sweet glow through all his being. Chat was an evening long to be remembered in the household of Mr. Hickman, lie caught a sunbeam and brought it home with him, and light and warmth were all around them, all were happy, aud jflr. Hickman the happiest of them .ill, for he bad the sweet consciousness iu his heart ol having made another and humbler home happy also. The Present Held of Gold. We have been making our final studies of the mining business of ths Pacific ’ States here among the mines and mills at the famous Mariposa estate of Col. Fremont. And tbo occasion is a proper one to sum up my various notes and observations in California on that subject, and, so far as possible, represent the state of the business in the whole region west of the Jiocky Mountains. The gross production of gold and silver of all these States was probably never greater than now' There are no very exact figures to ' be bad; those of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s 1 Express and the San Francisco Mint fur-' 1 nisti tbe best data, and are before me in' detail. They indicate a total yield for ■ ‘ ■ 1861, of about £60,000,000, and for this ; 1 ; year at least an equal, probably h greater, j c ! sum, perhaps £65,000,000 or 870,000,-H 000. California litrself produces now P but about one-third of this amount; she! 1 has fallen oil' from forty and fifty mil- f lions a year to twenty and twenty five; 1 while Nevada now offers from fifteen to s twenty millions a year, mainly of silver; s Idaho and eastern Oregon sent forward ’ nine millions last year, and will priiba- I bly increase this to twelve or fifteen mil- 1 lions this year; and the British Provinces and Arizona furnish perhaps five millions. The gold of Montana mainly I ‘ finds Its way east through Colorado; but! 1 this is the first season of any large pro | duction there. But the production of all j 1 the States and Territories this side of ’ the Rocky Mountains ccmes to San Fran- ‘ cisco; one-third of it, or about twenty ' millions, is coined at the United States 1 Mint there, and the rest is exported n) bars or dust, mainly in bars, to New 1 York, China, and England, but chiefly 1 now to England. The western or California slopes of the Sierra Nevada yield no silver ore—here 1 the mining is of gold alone, and it is di- 1 vided into two general classes; that which 11 seeks the metal from the solid rock, or ‘ quartz, and that which finds it in sand, 1 gravel, or soil. The former process is the ; universal and familiar one of all rock 1 mining, following the rich veins into tbo bowels of the earth with pick and powder, crushing the lock, and seducing the infinitesimal atoms of me al from the dusty, powdered mass.— Editorial Correspond\ence of the Springfield Republican. The Republican Bout. Tbe game ia up with lite South until they can get into the Republican boat,” i said a Southern gentleman acWaauHig- | ton, on hearing of the overwhelming defeat of the Copperheads iu the elections on Tueslav. He was right. The Republican boat is large enough | to accommodate the South as well as the ;i North, its timbers are strong, its officers i ’ and crew are equal to their reeponsibil-1 fi ities, and if the people of the South want; liasafe passage .find pleasant sailing, they | ,'will hasten on board.— Journal.

Y'ei, gentlemen of the .South, step in, tbe party is full of all nranuer of inconsistent elements now, and the addition of a few more will not mar tbe beautiful harmony of its proportions. There is no reason whv the advocates of negro suf•frage and. its opponents may not dwell together in unity, when their rancor is neutralized by tbe possession of public plunder; that is, if your consciences are as elastic, and yo’ui views of public policy are- asditeral as those of the mass of the liepublimm leaders. li.iy.ou‘can- only accommodate yourselves io’ Cl>As standard of public duty and private-necessity,*you will shortly find licit Aire Souuj’has ssc.-yH t.o be a stench in abolition nostrils, Chariest?**.til’ 1 °- come the Mecca of patriotism, and the tomb of Calhoun will dissolve beneath the tears ol Now England pilgrims. If they should be a little unreasonable, and desire to apply to you the Boston standard of faith and practice, why not consent to it. when they aro so much superior to you, mentally and morally, and willing ia tbe face ut the Constitution, and even propriety, to permit you to be represented in Congress by persons expressly sent for that purpose from New England?; They Lave been in. times past such just neighbors and generous liieuds, you ought to step in. How can you hesitate? The officers and crew are unee stionably equal to their responsifiilit. The fraud mid peculation of tbe past four ’ years, which have disgraced us in the eyes of the whole world, and well nigb sapped tire foundations of private virtue through the country, prove this conclusively. Their capacity is equal to the opportunity, however great. The South will have a sa<e passage and pleasant sailing, will they? But what is the destination? We are informed that tire road to destruction is broad and pleasant; that the destination of this boat is tire port of Destruction, is very evident, but that the voyage of tire South would be pleasant we are at this time unable to s-re. But to be more serious, the proposition of the Journal shows the partisan infamy ol the Republican party. It is simply this: we will keep tire country distracted, and ths South out es Rre Union Ul tlieij j apree to vote with the Republican party! ’ Noble, patriotic, disinterested stat snren, i these Republicans!—7nc/. Herald. An Indian Love Romance. The sorrespondeut of the Chicago Tribune, in giving an account of the recent treaty with the Sioux Indians, relates the following episode of love and marriage. z\ young Bruel warior, tall, strong of limb, whose swart features were not uncomely and whom his brothers in the chase called Four Bears,” diwpeared from our party the first evening we left Y’ankton Agency, where tbe steamer laid up at the bank for tire night. The others reported that he had been taken suddenly ill aud had returnotLho Yankton to see a native "medicine man.” We steamed on the next day without seeing j a sign of tbe missing brave, until, stop- ’ ping at Fort Kaudal, about seventeen! miles above, he solemnly walked on board, followed by the handsunest and J neatest dressed young Indian woman I had seen. He was cured aud there was i the medicine. She came of a distinguished family of the Yauktons, the daughters <jl which were all fair iu Lis eyes. He had long; before married her eldest sister, and with those people disposing of daughters HS WlUl UliCUoMCoi'o gvuds iu lots* you take “one with the privilege of all.” He had been smitten with tbo younger during bis brief visit to Yankton, from his home among the hills off toward tbe Rocky Mountains where tbe Brules roam and had found the tie so strong away that ho had determined to slip away from his pai ty on the boat, return and exercise his privilege. So they had a marriage in high hie, aud a great feast and dance, and the next morning the i newly married coup're girded themselves up, struck out over lire hills and overtook the steamboat before she had run twenty miles—a pretty good beginning for a honeymoon trip. When he reappeared be stood nn before Gen. Curtis, in the presence of ail, his squaw sitting nown modestly beside him, and asked that his new wife might have, passage witn him. Os course, permission was at once granted by so gallant a soldier as the hero of De.S'R.dgu. We had them with us all the way, and how fond they were. apitr of Indian stoicism! While tbo other chiefs, gath- 1 ered in a group, talked iu deep, stern gutterals, the bridegroom and his squaw the “Flying Frost,” sat apart in sorno sunny coiner, and murmured to each | other in low-spoken words of softest i Decot-ih. Lovo is timid, in'savage w I civilized breasts, and they tried to shun I the crowd, to whose gaze they bad been f ■ * _ J.. . w

, exposed all day and all night—their seats -a coil of rope, (heir couch a blanket, and I when the boat stopped for wood nt some 1; heavily timbered bank, away sped the >| lovers to tbe deepest recesses of the ■ t lioket for seclmion and quiet converse, l.tjlie leaped from one stone to another, i and from one fallen trunk t.o another, : with a motion as light as th.a frost from i, winch her nnetkal name was drawn. Sire ’ was tall, but her little foot was as dainty > as ever trod a brussels carpet, and her step as airv as any ever danced in quad- ■ rille. I I Chivalry Bendivivus—An Old Time Affair l ofllouor. . | [Mobile Cunespondouce. N. Y. Times.] of newspapers there was a . duel a boo Gciweo’i an editor and an 'S?i.'Mftiea^ri'’ ssi " n -J. The editor was Mr. E. 0. and the ex Colonel was Charm., v ;,yyih. While Charley was doing battle for the Conlederacv’ a dashing young Cuban, named Lc Vega, was doing the handsome for Charley’s wife, who was verry pretty but very chaste. When the Confederacy’s bottom fell out, Charley went ’ home, and heard some very haughty stories about the dashing young Cuban and his pretty young wife. In fact, some villainous lago touched strongly on the hankcrchief dodge, and Urged Chariy to believe that ‘ he’d rather be a dog, ; and feed upon the noisome vapors of a dungeon, then keep a corner,” etc. Iu other words, Charley believed an intimacy existed between the dashing young Cuban and bis pretty young wife, not countenanced by law, and he got infuriated—he got awfully infuriated — why, he got so infuria'ed that he purchased a knife —a great, big knife —and be rushed around alter the dashing young Cuban, whome he thought had been on too intimate terms with his pretty young wife, mid found him nt the theatre. Ho waxed angry as he eyed the supposed spoiler of liis domestic felicity; he made a cat-like bound and camo very near cutting his victim’s nose off. Mr. Hale, in n paragraph, the next day, characterized the performance ol Charley as contemptble, and unbecoming a high-toned southern gentleman. ! Charley again got in a rage, and in his ’ IchoJer attempted to collar Hale. In the! j columns ol his father’s newspaper he' called Hale a liar, a thief, and a coward; ’ but be found that the editor was a Hale J fellow well met, for the latter sent a; challenge, (this is the style of high-toned Southern gentlemen.) Forsyth accepted, and named as weapons double barrelled shot-guns, with sixteen buck shot in each gun—this is tire style of high-1 toned Southern gentlemen. Both circulated the facts that they were going to fight, and of course were arrested and put under bonds of five hundred dollars each to keep the peace. Both parties were accused by their friends of letting the cat out of the bag—they rallied their courage—this is the style of high-toned Southern gentlemen.—and proceded to tho Magnolia Park, and fired at each other from the hip at forty paces. Os | course, neither of them were hurt—; i neither of them could have hit a barn—'their wounds were healed, they shook Lands, resurrected their friendship,, started for Mobile, and drowned their sorrows in tbo flowing bowl—for this is the style of high-toned. Southern gentlemen. Why the Extra Session was Called. I We have, at different times, inquired, of tbe Journal why the extra session of tho Legislature was called, without re•seiving a satisfactory answer. It will be remembered that an extra session convenes upon tho call of the Governor, under the extraordinary power given him by the Constitution, to call together the representatives of the people when some groat public necessity requires legislation, that was omitted by the Legislature at its regular session, or is demanded by unforeseen circumstances. And it must be presumed that the call wosld not have been made, unless tho Executive thought immediate legislation necessary upon some subjects involving the substantial interests ol the great body of our people. What is that subject? It certainly is not very manifest to the persons most interested. Many o( them , join us injtho inquiry. Tbo Journal informs us that we will learn it in official from tbe Governor’s message we may, or we may nut; suob documents are ire. always the best sources of information of official purposes, but are as often used to mislead, as to indicate the writer’s policy. From the i mystery that enshrouds the ;policy of lire Etate administration, we have no couclu > sive evidence that wo will find the in i tormnticn we desire in the anticipated t message. ’ The Journa’ furnishes, however, three ” unofficial reasons for calling this session, s'and if the Governor is equally frank

' • s.aud instruotive wa will be greatly en1, lightened. e| The reasons are as follows: First. T’lm Legislature of j;;63wasso * taken qp with mea -tires for revohi- . tionizing tim State, and deposing the •;Governor that necessary legisli.lm was , neglected.” 1 Second, lire Democratic members cl J tliat Legislatme obstructed legislation. IbirJ, 1 hat lejislatiun, rendered 1 necessary bv tbe rebellion, occupied, a ■: large portion of tbe time ol the regular i session. | II tbe anticipated message is filled with 1 reuch reasons as these, it will bo a valuable addition to the science of State ( cialt, and add greatly to the already r extended reputation of His Excellency. , As to tbe first two reasons, it will bo ' distinctly remembered that tire Legislature of 1863 was broken up by the ' Republican members bolting and leaving the city. H The third, whether true or untrue, . i still does not answer the questios what ’ measure or series of measures are of such I great importance as to justify the calling I of this extra session. ; The Republican organ has not nretour inquiry in the manner that we had n right to expect. In common with the mass of . the people we had a right to demand information on this subject, and we receive for response evasive and insulting epithets. Notwithstanding all this, wo think it the duty of our friends in the Legislature to meet their opponents with frankness, and pass al! laws demanded by the necessities of their constituents, if any such afe suggested. Wu hope, however, that this session is not called for the purpose ot passing partisan measures, and that our political opponents have nut cut and dried a series of bills having for their objects the promotion of mere party objects, to the sacrifice of the political rights of their opponents. if the session is lo be appropriated to the passage of mere partisan legislation, our friends will be expected to meet it at the threshold, and use such instrumentalities as they possess to defeat it.— Ind. Ilzrald. No Innovation! A good old Dutchman of our state i was in the habit ot sending his son I “Hans” to the mill every Saturday afternoon with a bsg of grain. This was slung across the back of old Rawbones, a sorrel end sorry-looking horse; and in order to make the bag maintain its bal- ’ nice, a large stone was put in one end of tho bag, while the grain was pendant in the other. One day Hana had the task ol getting the corn ready for mill, and by chance forgetting the stone; us he seized the bag the inclosed grain parted, and be found the load equally balanced on the buck of Riwbones. Turning, he spied the stone, and examining the burden discovered that the load went quite as well without it as with. In joy at his great discovery, Hans yelled al the old him, who was in the corn-house—• “Fader! fader come ’ ere!” “Vot’s you want, Hans?” said the old I farmer, coming out. “Looks here, fader! I’ve kot ter corn palanced in ter big mitout ttr sthone in one ent!” The old gentleman looked al H-ins’u s’range innovation, and in a voice choke 1 with wrath at the presumption of the youth, said—“Dake tat off! dake it off, nn’ but dal stbone in ter, nag, like it was peforel Y’ours grandfader went to mill mit a sthone in ter pag ter balance it, and j our old fader too, an’ now ycu goes an’ sets yourself up as you knows more dan both, of’umll whips you. Hans, duke it off, an’ but del’ sthone in tor pag!” Haus did as directed, am! with a monstrous pebble in one end of the bsg, and the grain in the other, old Rawbones• went ou his journey, aud tbe world moved on. Never Slept with that Regiment.-— Senator Wilson, ol Massachusetts, now stumping this State, went to Washington at the head of the twenty second Massachusetts, Volunteer* but it will be remembered turned tail at the capital ’ and let his men go on to battle while he II cultivated the arts of peace in the United J States Senate. In abusing the Detnoi cratic party: ‘I know them 1 have - slept with thoai, wintered with them, and, summered with them.’’ Just then r* o returned soldier in the audience celltnl 3 out at tbo top, of his vi.ice, "Welle e what if you have? Yon never dept with the Twenty second Massachusetts!”' , The roar of laughter which greeted, i j ' thia sully .completely abashed ’he eloquent gentleman, and when it rub-, e sided ho hadn't the he»il to go ov i with, his vituperation.— .’»<•? For k HWff.

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