Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1866 — Page 1

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MU.JL - - tcmmibj ■■ DECATUR EAGLE, j HffJBD BVERY FRIDAY MORNING ' A. J. HILL, innLt«Hßn and proprietor. •Fries— Oil Monroe Street in the second -Uvy of the ■building, formerly occupied by 'fiblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription: •ax eopr one year, in advance, 'lf paid within the year. • , A net paid until the year has expired, 300 rr .so paper will be discontinue'! until inrrirAijes are paid, except at the option of the ‘-yublithurs. Terms of Advertising: •na Jynaro (the space of ten hues breTier] three insertions, ** gn I he considered W [ m'TonXare; over one square w.l he conn- | la i and charged as two; over two. a« thia .<t I FC I liberal dis ount from the above rates made on all advertisements inserted for a p« | mod longer than throe months. ... , rrh .cal Notices fifteen cents a line foreach j fefeirtion. Job Printing. arnrepai°<» n K i i y.’er Job Printing at the most ™on» h le fetes' Hive tts a call. 570 fccl confi<lenl 1 , aahtfsetion can i.e given. I Special Notice. TO IDVERTtSERS.- All advertisement sta nfor a soeei/ied time, and ordered out before lbe charged e re-iular "lies for the sameup tothetime Ary «ordered out. - —• ■ I ■' ——' I imeThy, _ ■ w» t - THE TWO VOICES. (AFTtB TKN’NYSOX —A LONG W*T« ) | Into thine ear, my dearest. J»*ninio, 1 tain won 14 br my tale of lure; o—“ John, I don’t believe there’s tny ; "Wood tut for the kitchen Rtove. | j When the? I tec. the fu 1 a fila-.ua Os Poesy—o glorious boon! Comes to me. and--John, them potatoes Oner be weed ed puny noon.” 1 The brtzea round my forhoad playing, Breathe thy dear num*. k<ve, as they paw, ■ Whispering—”o stop y‘VV r ’ Don’t we all knur that you’re an a<s. Thy fairy tread in like the zephyr, That bears the fragrance of the morn ; Thy form is like—“ That blasted heifer < ’sg me and got into the corn. J ( i• • 1 Then listen to my sad complaining, Hear, Jennie mine, thy lover’s lay. , —“John, it sorter look# like rainin , F’pose we go an d cock that hay. i Queen es Bov|fancy’u fair) sphere! bweet theme of all the pray, rs I utter Wilt thou, 0, Wilt thou—’ Johnny, dear, „ Come, take a hold and churn tins butter, .< —|| ,■ -!■— -T.--— ■ 1 «X—SISCELLAAEOUS. , i Amendment to the Constitution Touch- j lug Equal Representation in the seu»t»- , rT . As created by our fathers, the United Slates Government was a union of separato States in their State capacities. It was a federal union; not a consolidated union. The General Government pos-, seseed only the powers granted to it; the States in their capacities as such ar.d the people retained all the residue. We now propose to mention two of, the peculiarities of our General Govern- . tnent which prove it to be a confederalion, not a consolidation, 1. Each State has an equal represent-I ‘•lion in the Semite. Delaware and Rhode . Island have each two Senators, and i New York and Virginia have each no' 'more. The vote of the States in the Senate is severally equal, because each Is a State, was, at the formation of the j ■Constitution,a sovereign State; and,hence, •s independent Slates, as sovereigns,each ; was equal to the other—the sovereignty of each Was equal, and the Senators ot each represented that sovereignty, and' •while the Senate represented the several iftste sovereignties.the House represented

the severalpeoplet of the independent Stales This is manifest from the fact that the; voters of each State elected the representatives of each State; and the ratio of representation was established between the States as such, and no fraction of people , was passed over from one State to another nor were there any floating members, as there are b tween counties, in a. State Each State, s» a separate sovereignty, elected the representatives to which the State was entitled, to repre•ent the people of the State as a distinct people, a distinct government, in the Federal Union. The Union was formed, then, by States, with reserved State rights; but this doctrine is now •claimed to have been extinguished, and «be Slate right feature of the Union to set, therefore, now obliterated, Now,

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

i Congress can substitute National for 1 Slate banks, and exempt them from Stale ’ taxation. Now, Congress can substitute National railioads for State railroads, and exempt : them from State taxation. I Now. Congiess can assume the govJernmentof the negroes in a State. Now, indeed, the doctrine of the party in power is that Congress can do what it pleases in a State, and the State is helpless; that ihe-doctriue of State rights is extinguished. Os course, then, the General Government is a consolidated despotism. This bring so, we think, to be Consistent, the R-publicans, in amending the Constitution so as to base representation lon voters, should embrace the Senate, las well as the House, in the amendment I The doctrine of State Sovereignty, o I State Kights, is substituted by the doc j trine of consolidated sovereign power. I Then, why keep up the image of State j Sovereignty in the Senate, when the real j body and soul of it has been, as the ReI publicans assert, slain by the sword. The I reason why it is done is plain. It is be . cause the Republicans, all over the Union, i are carried in the pockets of t ho repre I sentatives from New England; and that I little corner of the Union, with less than double the population of Indi ma, has ! twelve Senators to vote a cotton tariff on j us, while we have but two to vote against ' it, even if they had independence enough , t> do it, which Republican Senators have 1 not, and never will have. Democratic Senators have. Then, when the amendment is proposed to base representation on voters, I t lit include the Senate also. As the Re--1 publicans have gon< • far in f ft', way, , I they may as well tumble the old Uonsti- ■ I tiltion and Union entirely down to the j | dust, while they are tink>. ring at them. — | Ind Herald. i ■ * ..I | A Beautiful Incident - ( In 1837, King William IV. expired about midnight at Windsor Palace. The i Archbishop of Cant rbury, with other i peers and high functionaries of the [ Kingdom, were in attendance at the so! j emn closing scene. As soon as ‘‘the ; scepter had departed' with the last breath ( of the King, the Archbishop quilted the 1 Castle, and made his way with a'l poss i ible speed to Kensington Palace, the res 1 idence at that lime of the Princess—al- j ready, by the law es succession, Queen r Victoria. He arrived Jong b,f-Te day J light, announced liims If, and requested , an immediate interview with the Prin- t cess. She hastily attired herself, and <i met the venerable pirlate in her ante- ( room. He informed her of ti e demise a of William, and formally announced io | hei that she was, in law and right, sue- , censor to the deceased no.arch. The 1 4 eoverign y of the must powerful ra ion ot [ the. e-irih lay at the feat of a girl of eigh- { teen! She was, y 'ire. Queen of ti e ■, only reslir, in fact or history, “on which t Ithesun novel sets.” i The young princes w.ts deeply agitated ( iat the formidable wnrds so fraught with , - blessings or calamity. The first words , ! she wan able to utter were, “I ask , [your prayers in my behalf" They knelt down togeihei, and Victoria inniigurated her reign, like the young ( King of Israel of the olden time, by as , king of the Most High, who ruleth in I the Kingdoms of men “an understandI ing heart to judge so great a people, who | could not be numbered nor counted for . multitude.” The sequel of her reign has been ' worthy of such a beginning. Every I throne in Europe has tottered since that , day. Most of them have for a lime been ' overtimed. That of England was never [so firmly settled in the loyalty and love [of the people as at the present hour, i Queen Victoria enjoys a personal in fluence, too —the homage paid to her as a wife, a mother and benefactor of the i poor, a Christian woman—incomparably wiser and greater than any monarch I now i eiguing. She is no less admired abroad than loved at home.— St. Louis Republican. lx — — Escape of a While Boy from the Indians—A Story of Captivity

Lieutenant Thomas E. Salles, of the ' thirteenth Missouri cavalry, communicates the following deeply interesting statement. Mound Station Colorado TerI ritorv, to the St. Louis Democrat. 1 "On the 27th oi November, 1865, a small boy, supposed to be about twelv I years ol age, of rather dark complexion, black hair and black eyes, come into a i ranche, near Mound Station of the overhand stage line running from Atchison, ' Kansas,"to Dover City, Colorado, about i one hundred and seventy miles east ol I Dover. He could speak verry little plain English, but by signs could easily be understood. I being in command of the I military at Mound Station, on hearing of his arrival, immediately brought him to I my station. i “1I« is npw here, and is learning !o

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY 19, 1866.

talk very fast. He informs me that the 1 Sioux Indians have had him captive for many years, but he don’t know anything I about iiis parents, but supposes that they were killed by lhe Indians at the time of his capture. He neither knows hie name nor where lie was captured. He left the Indians on the 24ih inst., eighty miles south of this place, on the Republican river, three thousand in number. He luckily made his escape on a pony, but running his pony to death the first night, be was then compelled to take it afoot for three days, arriving at the ranche on the evening of lhe 271 h. All that he had to eai after leaving the Indians, until he arrived at the ranche, was one crow that he found dead, and a piece of a dead ox He says the Sioux Indians, have two white women and several negroes, captive now. He is a good looking and intelligent youth. A Conimical Ebipemen—A Married Woman Runs Away with Two Men, Thire have been of late so many painful and disgusting disclosures all pointing to a widespread immortality, which seems to prevade a number of domestic circles, that one is almost led to doubt the existence of virtue or pur ity io the city. Every other day we h ar of some abominable disclosure, tell ing of infidelity and vice, till it sometimes suggests itself that the once honored injunction was reversed, and was now made to read, “cheat thy neighbor, and love thy neig bor’s wife,” and that the woild “not” had b en dropped from the Seventh Commandment - On Thur* day last three individuals, two men and a woman, acted upon the modern read-. inge of these injunction and disappeared ' from the city, leaving a formidable ar , ray of creditors, and their own respec ; live families to mourn for their sudden ' departure. Richard Burke, a man of about forty ye-irs of age, kept a grocery store at No. 5G5 D.vision street. He had a wife and four chddren. and was regarded as a prosperous and properly conducted man, all who knew him having tlieutmist confidence injhis integrity and worth two bouses west of Barker’s lived Perry Cor’.n.oy, ftid in the same house with the latter w<_-te Mr. and Mrs. McCann. The latter is twenty five years of age, has married lor some time to the confiding Patrick, and has a child five years of age. See seems to have been a person of overpowering attractions. No’, only did she alienate the affections of Perry Courteny from his wife and family, but also effectually captivated those of B u ke leading him io forget utterly the claims of his own wife and children. Patrick saw him a frequent visitor at bis house, bit r o suspicion was excited inconsequence. His w.fe was toward him loving and attractive as she had ever been, and the respectable Mr. Burker appeared mo ein iho character of a father to her, than as an impassioned lover. Matters went on with perfect smoothness between the families, and nothing occurred to disturbe the harmony. Barker sometime since began to hoc row from his friends considerable sums of money, but he stood so well with all who knew him, that his credit was not affected in lhe least. From one he got J>SUO, and in various sums he managed to borrow about 810,000. He at the same time made an assignment of all his property to different individuals. Perry Courtney was also busy borrowing money and ho also raised a considerable sum. Mrs McCann, at the same time, was busy morning, noon and night increasing her wardrobe, but no one suspected that all three were bu-ily preparing for a journey to parts unknown. Al last, on Thursday evening, everyth'ng was in readiness. The too fascinahad everything prepared, her clothes packed up, and all the money in the house accrued. Burke had negotated his final loan, and Courteny was also ready. At this juncture, it seems, a difficulty had arisen. Mrs. McCann was perfectly ready to run away, but she hsd promised each of her infatuated admir-

«rs the preference, and found herself in the position of Captain McHeath, when he sings: “Ho v happy could I be with either. Where t’other dear charmer away.’ Each of her lovers insisted that she should keep her promise to him, and it was s>me time apparently before the difficulty could be adjusted. The woman at last suggested that she might keep! it to both, a proposal winch, was after some little hesitation, agreed 10. as the only feasible way by which matters could be arranged. Accarapained by her two lovers she proceeded to the Pittsburg and Fort vVayne depot, where the party took the oars, it is supposed, for Philadelphia. Burke took with him all the money he had in his possession, and has left his wifs and family perfectly destitute. Tho

3 woman took everything she could carry | r i off, and has left her husband and child I r to do the best they could. Courteny t earned off all the money he could sue-1 f ceed in borrowing, and has lelt his cred-1 s itors lo blaspheme about his conduct, at t their leisure. It might not be prepost terous to anticipate that the triple knot - which has been tied under such cireum- . stances will either prove somewhat slip- , p«ry and loose, or else that the harmony t which reigned al the commencement of L the union in ay not grove particularly 5 permanent.— Chicago Post. 1 On Twins. [ A correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser has been to see the ! I Siamese “fellers,” what are spliced I together, and the following the re- , ■ suit: “Eng’s base of operation is on the right, while Chung's is on the left Eng is slightly taller than Chang thougi there ‘ is nothing in his conversation or deinenor from which it could bo inferred that he “feels above" the brother to whom he is so firmly attached. Chang is fifty four years old; wc did not inquire th i age o eng. “In contemplating these singular be ings, many curious reflections arise in one’s mind. We endeavor to imagine how it would be in case Eng should get mad at Chang, and challenge him to mortal combat, at ten paces. Os course Chang couldn’t ‘see it,’ or except the terms and then his character for pluck might be called in question. Suppose Eng should ‘lam’ somebody, and be convicted of assault and battery, and sentenced to a term ol imprisonment they could not be separated very conI veiiientiv, and the justice woud commit jCiang wh .-n Eng alone was guilty of ' I the offence. In case the wives ot the two should go out visiting, and leave [their husband to tend the babies, and 1 [ one baby should fall into the fire an 1 the other into the cistern. Os course, Ching would wish to rescue his offspring first, ' while Eng would insist that his was en titled to prior consideration, an I then I there would be a row. If Eng, in a fit of ceaslcss’.iess, should insist upon eating ' something that did not agree with Cnang, of course Chang would have [ sufficient ground for a disagreement with Eng and then there would be trouble ag ain - [ Troubles ol au American Lady who Went , to Europe to Get Enamelled. At the Malborough Street Police Court, I London, December 12, a well dressed j woman made application to Mr. Tyr- | white. She said she had coma to this country to consult Madams Riohel, having seen wberi in America, and also , since she had been in London, certain ( advertisements addressed to ladies. She had called on Ma lame Rachel, and had given her a diamond ring worth twenty . pounds,ami thirty three pounds in money; ( but nothing had been done for her, and , Madame Rachel refused to return her properly. She was to obliterate all mark-. ; on the applicant's face left by small pox. She gave her a bottle of something lik<whitewash, which had no effect. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Why did you give Madame Rachel so much money? Applicant—l paid what was demanded of me. The agreement was that lhe ms ney should be pail in advance. The papers were full of recommendations of Madame Rachel, and I thought every thin"’ was right, bo I came to England. jfr. Tyrwhitt directed thet the applicant should have a summons. Shortly before the magistrate quitted the bench, Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. El ward Lewis, entered the court, and said he was informed a summons had been granted against Madame Rachel, and as it was not unlikely some notice of the matter would appear in the public papers, he hoped he might be allowed io say a few words for the purpose of putting the matter in a more correct light. He would only state that I the applicant was a lady who represented herself to be the wife of the American

Consul. She had recovered from an attack of small pox, and applied to Madame Rachel to remove the marks. She was to pay £IOO, but bad only paid five Napoleons on account. Madame Rachel had attended her for eight days, and the lady had also three or four “Arabian” baths at Madame Rachel’s house, and Madame Rachel sent in her bill; and last Thursday the lady called on Madame i Rachal in such a state of excitement that it was necessary to call in the assistance of the police.

Mr. Tyrwbitt remarked that sometimes very large sums were obtained from persons who put themselves in the hands ol advertisers. A sum of £7OO had been obtained, he believed, in one instance. He had no control over the press, and he thought it would be b°tter to avoid discussion until the summons was heard.

— —a -1— tr.fi Ml I A Sharp Clergyman. I Emigration to the State of Michigan was so great during the years 1836, that I every house was filled every night with I travelers wanting lodging. Every traveler there al that lime will remember the plfficuity of obtaining a bed in the hotel, even if he had two or three “strange bed fellows.” The Rev. Hosea Brown, an eccentric Methodist minister, stopped one night at one hotel in Ann Arbor and inquired if he could have a room and bed to himself. The bar keeper told him he could unless they should became so full as lo render it neoessary lo put another with him. At an early hour! the reverend gentlemen went to his room locked the door, retired to his bed, and j ■ 'on sunk into a comfortable sleep i Along toward mid.fight he was roused from his slumbers by a loud knocking at lhe door. “Hallo! you there,” he exclaimed, “what do you want now?” particular stress on the last word. “You must take another lodger, sir, in with you,” said thu voice of the laudlord. “What! another yet?" “Why, yes, there’s only one in here, isn’t there?” “One! why, here’s Mr. Brown, and a Methodist preacher, and myself, already and I should think that enough for one bed, even in Michigan.” The landlord seemed to think SO, too, and left lhe trio to their repose. Tbc Tarriff Plunderers at Work. The tarriff plunders at the labor of the country for the benefit of a few are again at work. A Washington .correspondent hus hints at some of their shemes: Despite the enormous protection given to New England and other tnanufao urers varying (torn ninety lo three huu dred per cent., never were greater efforts making than now to increase prohibition, under the pretense of protection. Mr. Bigelow, of Massachusetts, who has the control of about the whole carpet trade of the country, under wtiicb, generally, we ' pay from fifty to one hundred cents per 1 yard more for carpets than we should pay if we lived over the line in Canada, has b.en recently devising a wool manufacturing and a wool growing convention, the report of which, from Syracuse, New York, has been sent to all the members of Congress. Mr. Bigelow is pulling wool over the wool raisers’ eyes by persuading them that the more a monopoly is mad ■ of csrpets and wool fabrics in gen- ' eral, by prohibitory “protection,” the better for the wool growers, who have to pay fifty or one hundred per cent for '.he products they make for them to consume. The London Times.—lt is stated that this leading journal circulates sixty thou sand copies daily. It was established January 1, 1785, by John Walter; in 1803, his son, John Walter, jr., succeeded to the management, and iu 1837 be in ' turn was followed by his son, John Wai- 1 ter, the third, the present publisher. The Times has secured its immense influence 1 by literary merit, accuracy and enter prise, and now confines itself lo business, 1 to lowing, instead ot leading, public sentiment. It yields its proprietors a net profit of about 8225,00*) a year. Its present editor is John Delane, who has associated with him Mowbray Morris, the business manager. Both of these gentlemen are interested in the proprietorship of the paper. Mr. Delane, who is really the chief of lhe concern, goes much int i society, where he is generally received. II is sail of him, in the fashionable world, that these drawing-room influences have tjeir effect upon him, and that the Tunes 'leafs more leniently now with the sins and follies of upper-tendotn than in former days, when lha editor could lose nothing by an h nest independence. Mr. Delatie was always iu the habit, during the life ot Lord Palmerston, when matters of importance were before the Cabinet, of visiting him every night when be was in town, for the purpose of obtaining from him confidential information as to the orobable course of lhe Government. This enabled the Times to give the pub

lie sentiment apparently the lead, while, z in fact, it was but allowing a course al- I ready laid down. It has been, in truth, of late years the Government organ. Besides a host of reporters, there are numerous departments, with a sub-editor at the head of etch.

Warning to Mock Speculators. It is almost an idle work to warn people of the dangers and losses that result from gambling in stocks, yet we never see sinking examples of such losses without a desire to lay them before the public for their good. A few years ago the development of certain mining districts in Nevada set tho people on the Pacific coast wild for speculation. Claims were i made and divided off, and companies al- ■ most numberless were formed, just as they were here in the bight ol our oil

fever. Men who hn,[ taken np lands ty I the acre smd them out by the single foirt ' t 81 '"^P"? 68 , an ‘l Ibtfe feet were ng fits subdivided into inches of front ou some of the clam.s at larger prtces than the most desirable lots on Chestnut street would bring. For a while everything wenton atw.ld rates. “Ophir,” one of the most celebrated mines, was i a sctlvo demand at $4,500 a foat . otbers off at vanous prices, from *SO to #3.500 a fool. But the end soon eame, anJ at the ume when the last steamer sailed f rom Ban Fraamseo, “Ophir” was selling d ttll jat 8375, and many of the others had .sunk out of stght. W e wi n menlioo bul one of these cases as a samp | o o f lha reg( I L he narrator of iho story bought a hun-dn-d feel m one of th USB conipaulttß at 8100 a foot, with u,, asgurani;B b would go 1° IJH.OGO before this y ßßr was out. He held it. and after P a, ing addiUonal assessments on it to the'armmnt of §35 a foot, undertook to sell out, and could not get an offer of 85. In some ol these cases the mines were real and in others they we« mere paper schemes, i Not a dollar of the money invested in the latter class was used in the development of the country. It was a( | riskod in sheer speculation. The shares were bought, not for ths sake of encouraging the mining interest, but to sell again, in order to make money by advance in price, without anything to justify such advance. Os course many of the shrewd operators made a great deal of money, an d the credulous outsiders lost— Phil a d e!p M a Ledger. Trouble with the Indians i.y Nbw Mexico.—Felix Delgado, Superintendent of Indian Affairs lor the Territory of New Mexico, reports that the Indian uffaira in that Usrritory are not improving. Ad tho Apaches on the reservation have left, and troops are now in pursuit of them, lhe Navajoes (those remaining in the country formerly occupied by them) and the Gila and /Mimbres and tho Apaclies are completely overrunning the southern portion of the Territory; they even go into small towns in the daytime and drive off the stock with impunity. Previous lo the last two years these Indians have received an amount of goods sufficient to their wants, and conducted themselves very well; but since 1863 they h ive been very much dissatisfied in consequence of an insufficiency of goods being distributed by the Government. Tha Superintendent looks upon their hostile demonstrations, so far, as only a prelude to more serious disturbances, and to provide against any further trouble, says be must have enough for them to eat durii g lhe winter, and also a largo quantity ox blankets. It is highly important for the safety of the lives and property of that portion of the Territory that these Indians be kept quiet, as they are numerous, bold and daring; nearly all of them have guns, and know bow to use them, and do much damage before being checked, in consequence of the limited number of troops iu the Territory. The Superintendent also protest against tho further muster out of troops serving there.—National Intelligsncer. A Gigantic Tree. Some of the Brazillian journals toll astonishing stories of a wonderful trea they say it has lately been met wi ll in South America, and which, if their accounts are to be relied on, must bo in deed something remarkable. The discovery is said to have been made hy a German naturalist, who says that tha tree in qnest'on, which grows on tha banks of the Rio Beance, a tributary of the Amazon, belongs to the Malvaceous order, and that its branches from a canopy of verdure of sufficient extent to shelter 10,000 men. A gigantic bird, the tononydon “another wonder of tho basin of the Amazon,” perches itself on the branches of this tree, far beyond tha reach of the Indian arrows or the rifle which forms tho weapon of the more . civilized men. It is added that tbe [ tree is called by the Brazilians Souina, and that it is very common upon river

banks in the country of tho Upper Amazon where an equatorial temperature prevails. a person in Rochester, New York, hearing some one about bis house, listened a few minutes and came to the conclusion that somebody was trying to break in. Accordingly be armed himself with a pistol, and with weapon in band took his seat On the floor, with his back against the door. After he had braced lor a few minutes the burglar began to push, and the householder continued to push the other way. The man on the outside would got the door open : a little way, and the man on the inside I would push it back and in this way they c had it for a long time, until the dun 15 streaks of light in the east told of tnorning when the man on the outside went 8 away —and we iuppose the othef went to II bed. „

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