Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1866 — Page 1

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“Why shouldn’t I? She has one more child than you, and as much to do, yet her house always looks neat.” L's a pity you hadn’t married Mrs. ' Furbush,” exclaimed Mrs. Cordner, bitI terly. I “I shall have no disposition to ex- - change you for her or any one else, if I you will only make my bouse a little I more orderly. It don’t seem that it ' would take long to improve the looks of things.” “Oh, no, of course not—a woman’s work is nothing.” Meanwhile Mr. Cordner had been I moving about quietly, putting the furniture into place, putting the scattered ' n -wspsp.-rs into a pile by themselves, the ‘ books togeih. r, pi- king up the articles of apparel, and carrying them out into the entry, collecting the children’s playthings and storing them where they belong. It I t>ok not mere than five minutes, and ef- ' fueled a decided improvement. “There, Ellen,” said he, “it seems to me that the roc-io looks much feeder than before.” Mrs. Cordner looked around her, and while she could rot help secretly admitting that it did, she maintained a dignified silence. Sl.e got up and wml out to p spare stioper, which in due time was on ; ■>• table. Unfortunati-'v her hu bind’s remonstrances produce 1 no lasting change. The ■■ condi'ion o’ things was slightly improved ahenixt day, but not mncii. Alter a time Mr. Cordner, despairing of r-- • ly ing matters, got in the habit of straying I away after supper,—sometimes into a neighbor’s, bu' more frequently into the I ( tav- in, to which >ll were welcome a', all I tint. s. Mrs. Cordner soon • o ic.-.l the c'ringe. [She loved her liitsbuid, though .-he to-k ' little puns logiorti y what Mia knew io ' be his tastes till 1 the evening sectuslong [ and l»i>< ly wid: ut him. “Won't yon stop al home this evening, j James?” she said on one occasion. I He looked .round him. Things were i in pretty much Hie s >nw c, r. ii ion as dei scribed al th ■ comineneemi-ui to oui story. “I have an e<igng>.--.i nt this i-y.-ni [sail be evasively. “i s'r.ii be lo.bgid to go out.” “You stem to have engagements every - evening?” “1 really b. li<v<> lie > o-.ddj-irs ste more ol you ttreii 1 do. I >u. -r bow often votl are in ■>' the b’urbu ■' ? ’ “W. II it’s p' -sant ' •- to ill — everything looks neat and comfortable.” < y r y W e|l,—goo lev trig.” said Mrs 1 [Cordm-r, s.-nnowh it shiny,ly. Another i.-.t.<>i- <•>■.-tiiri.? awaited her.. By eight o'clock all her Ir ii w. r ■ in [ [b-d, end she was left on her own reflve-1 [ lions. “So James finds everything neat nnd (comfortable at the Furbush’s” she muted i r ither bitterly, Involuntarily she raised her eves an I glanced around the room in which sbe w h now seat d. She could noth.dp confess! <g that th »e words would by to tn aus apply to it. Then—fir a better spirit was awakened within her—she thought, “I wonder whether it would le v- ry much extr > tumble to keep things properly arrangtd. ” She determined to m ike the trial the next (lay, will; unacltnowledg'd h 1 ,>■ that she miglit thus keep her hit ‘n.nd at hotm . ■"he found at first constant vigilance was required, and a sharp lookout alter the children who hr.d b»< n brought up to be indifferent to orderly habits. When Willie and Clara came in from j school, cap and bonnets were thrown down, one on a .chair, one on the floor, i anti both exclaimed with a breath: “Mother I’m hungry; I want some gingerbread.” “First put away your cap and boanit, ' said the mother. “Where shall we put them?” inquired I the children in some supprije. ‘ You will find some nails in the entry.” I “A r c’ybu going to have company, i molltei ?” asked Cl <ra, ua ibic to account | for this new d recti m. “Now; why do you ask?” “Because you’ve got year hair com I hed, nnd a clean dress. B -sides, you Idon.t usually care where we put our ‘ things.’, Mrs. Cordner blushed involuntarily at [ the rcmirk, whin i she felt to be unin tentionolly severe. I “Well, Ido core now, said she. “1 wraat you tq always remember to put ( your things a-vty whe t yo i cons ia They don’t look well litt-riug up the chairs and tables.” "Hive you got any gingerbread, mother! ’ asked Wii'ie. I’.n awial hull"Yes, I will get you a piece.” Wille was abou to cany his gingerbread io the siuing-i oom, and his moth- ; er stopped him. | "You niusn’t go in there with your gir.gctbßtwL The carpet has beeu

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jsWi pt, and you would get crumbs I I about.” j Hie children sat down v ry content-[ jelly in the kitqlien and »t« iheir lunch. , C ;r.i wiS r • | quit ,-.i to sweep up. i “AYw, c I-i n, I want you lo go and ' I wash your laces and hands, and brush ' , your hair. Your ia her likee to have . 1 y" l 'looking n;.t, Aul, VViilie, your jacket needs dusting, Get tae brush, and II will biu-h you.” Wiihedid as icqnest d, with a very little p.ins bo.li children looked neat I a,le ■ m. | Dining the day Mrs. Cordner had en 1 jg-ig.-d Biiidget K.iff-rty, an humble! ■I m* .(hbor, to come nnd snub the floor I r ( -m I some ol the paints. She look pari liculuily puns to aimnge the books and I rp«P’-isiii their pl <:-s, and while si.- , [ couiii the great improvement which ir . f l, t ii made, tbs lime expended in .11 ~>.:o it -i-e.iii-d ro by so iiisonsidor- ,]« >|e ns not t> Be taken into the account. ".Viter all,’’ ih- 'i-i.t Mrs. Cordr.t r, "it uoes seem pi.- nit lo have a m-;V. , ■ non -o. Ii lliad tbo light it look so li - * I-- i i'.nl , i w -al I h .ve m > le the attempt befine ” About the u.ual ime James Gardner ! retoim-d 1 ome. i 111, ife met him nt Hie door, nca'ly latiiii d m "ii all -moon dress, with her 'he -inp.y -- *i an o’-). Hr busband was n i , o. y suppri-n-d and smiied cheer- ; , iu 11 y. | Entering the house he at once saw the ( |imp>.".-d state ot things. Not ev. n : [Alts FuibuHi’s were neater. ‘ .\r<- you ' xp> --.ing company, Ellen?’ I h- n I, I in a i ltlo suoprise. ( •■ - ’m-.- bi.-b-od, ’ sho answere4 , , vid. . >n.iie. ■ j'l . 1-, ,k« pleasant,” he f-x I dine ', ';i / 'I s -in- ti mn you are |o ■. i iitiHsu illy well this aitcrnooli. El I A; sin Mrs. Ovrdjfer smih-d with se- [ i-it <■ oi-.iiifie.i't -a. 1 jii i-i'i 1 ..- w>s spread, and the family I ■ a down to supper. \V leo it was ov. i, - 'M. s. Co.- Lu r. , .i I “I suppose you are ■ n.’i; Olli as Us Ia! this evening, J limes. ; • A’.». 1 (hi;,!; I shall enjoy myself bet- i | ter a' h no-. ” M'S. Cordnel’ said nothirg, but was! jd. i,| ' ■ ii i m->t and v.’.-ll older - cd ii..;i-.i would Lip her hu bane all i:cm he slioir-.i in future have no good I 11- ,ons. i<; ‘I- I■ ■ g his even toys on*. 1 '•m hippy to > e that she nd In rued to i, i (II I- i min-.lion and at tliis d-ty no one [ i I as a pl ■ is-ur. r home than James Car ' !n r, and is r’- dnly no one priz.-s i; • m"te. Mr. Stevens’ Amendment. i The joint cotnmif : ee on rec nsiruction I is reporting at intervals, as it finishes the j ' branch of business up -n whi Hi it i< en [ Igagetl. This is a novel method of pro- | cedurc, but no one will b surprised thereat, ns it is the h ibit ol coiig'e.'S lat- j I terly to disri gird legist ..live precedents. [ The comm Uee has investigated the sub-! j -ets submitted to its consideration sufii I ciently to becorn ■ convinced that the con- ; stitution, if not as wicked nnd diabolical I as described by G-irrisen, is suflicien'ly [ s i as to need am m iaient, and out of the seven'y amendm-ti's proposed and now; b- fine congress, it. lias selected one to be immediately acted upon by that body. Its , view of the necessity for speed/ action! may be gathered from thn subjoined re-i marks by Mr. Stevens upon reporting the amendment from the committee: “Mr Stephens supposed that members hid been c m-i 1- ring tlrs question for six weeks. There were 22 states wl-.0-ej l -gis! dttres were in Session, s mie of wMch would adj iurtt in two or three weeks. It was, tIH-re'ore, viry ue '; ;bl . [it the proposed amendment was p-id at I all, that it should be passed nt once, so jis to be noted upon by the legislatures ~; ' tin ir r.dj itirniiieiii. Il is I" ',' d that if nny class ot persons were e:<- : chided, the s.attf to that, e.-ii-n. .. . . ro. , cntiiled to r: pr- .-eoi.'i-i iU in congress. It [did not d-iiy to stales the right to regiiilats the clec-ive franchise; b i', it did [ ■sav, if you eat out naturalized ’..srsous , lor native-born iro.n any state ia the l * u ' I ■ ion from voting, th’.t class of persons can- ! no; form n p u t of your basis ot repre- , seutation.” , , | "R presentation and direct taxes shall! be ar portioned among the several states; I tdiirl'may be included within this union, ; according to their respeclico numbers, 1 counting the wlmle number of persons in ' each slate, excluding Indi mr, not taxed, provid, d that wh rover the elective fr mcbise shall be denied or abridged in hny ! state, on ascount of race or color, ail persons of such race or color shall ba excluded from the basis of representation.” "it does not deny to stales the right to regulate the elective franchise,” i-.tya the constitution revering Stevens. He is backing down. He ia getting weak in the knees. His backbone is softening, ! , his (ae; be?omiog dough, and he is geoi

Icrally in th. ’: a'.j >ct s’ate imagim-d h .-; | abolitionists in :’;j employment of the! I above terms. How Img is it since he I | declared the right of congress to regu- I bta the • lecdve franchise in the states' which the amendment is designed to ( all. o'.! Hi.-.v figis it since he decl ired that it would be criminal in congress not ■ to rt'jJ J<- it fm- the protection of the : negro: Did ho not say in his late speech on reconstruction that Judge Taney “was (darnin'e'd to everl-isiing fame, nnd he [ feared to everlasting fire,” for holding I this to be n white mail’s government?: Now, when he, as the radical leader in the house, can any measure he may [choose to propose, may by the in’roducI tion of a simple bill, without the delay, j risk or formality of a constitutional amend ; raent, declare Chis to be “a government j for till mid enforce the declaration, d >es be do it? lie denies the existence of the atatea whom the amendment proposes to reach. 1 He asserts the absolute control of congress over them. He declares his puri pose to bring in territorial hills for their ! governtn-’nt. He declares it to be the highest and most imp. rative duly of the government to protect the negro by exI ten ling lo him the privilege of voting. Dots th;.' amen latent <xt-nd Co him dm privileg. ? D es he b.-lu-ve that should it be r. ...id by the requisite number of, stales to make it a part ol iTie conitiiu- | i.ioo, the south, under its pressure would I is, enlarge its suil'r>gelaws as to include t.i fie .dm. u? The s .ulh would be off , i erod simply the choice of a reduction of: i about om-fuurih of the represent alien in I congress to which it is now c-ntitk d, or I the onfranchi emeat of the blacks. Oily! , IJU'ce fifths of them now are c unted >n ' apportioning H-pres.-nUti'iii. Dms Mr.' Silevi ns, or docs a radical m> mber in congress, doubt wi.it choice the s .ulliern people would m ike should the alternative named be pr s. tiled to them? He , knows w a their choice would be. lie knows tli.it tin-a I. ption of the amend [ [ uient would not i.tiecl tl.e blacks. | It is a mea.ure of vengance, and alsoi one designed fur the increase of the in[tluer.ee mid poiy t -r of the eastern states! i,n congress. Mr'Stevens and his asso-I ! elites arc- we!! aw,ire that the quesli-m of j slayery being settled southera and wesr * tern ini r s.s are so nearly allied that the ; memb r.< as cong-ess from these sei-ti m-- ■ would acl tog ther. Our Irstoty at- ! tests the pow.i. ful influence which ha , been exerted on .-nr I jislation brth-j [southern sta'es, whether for good or! ' mil ii is ret n-’L-e siry here to inquire. Itprov. d the ability of southern mem !, bers. an I Mr. Sl-vens and the m inufae- 1 1 tnie s <>t A’-'W E igl r.d wish to hare as ! few ol those members as possible arrayed agunst them. The negro and his i rights and wrongs are all fortrott.en in I, ; this purpose. “Unless we place in his i I [ h inds th? ballot ne will be reduced to i slavery again in fact if net in farm,” : I have solemnly asseverat-d the rad.cal i press and every abolition orator and [ member of eongre-s. The adopt!- n of the ; I amendment will no more contribute to ; itis enfrar.i:hi,etn-nt th in would the p ts- [ sage ofeongres-io .al resolution declar--1 ing -Ii -l his her! is short, his instep arch- . ;e l his tibia tough, and his skull tender. [, \V< en did. Air. Stevens conceive Mich J [a violent respect for “the right of the J ! states to regulate the elective franchise?” ! ( That he has been converted is plain.! [ AVho or what converted him! Did the [ order ofthe president to the heads of (department to make no more appoint-! ments on the reco.jir.endation ofradict! members induce “a change of heart”? . Why should he regard tl.is right in that la’-je portion of the union in which he , declares there are no »tates? Why I should he be swift to remand the n-’grues I to slavery—as he declares they will lu if not given the ballot—to gratify the pres-! ident in the entertainment of an opinion which, :j cording to radical theorists, cannot be applied without reducing to I nothingness the glorious results aacom- [ plished soy freedom in ihe late desperate ! I contest! Congreo need-,,irrigation Where ' ‘ sre ”r.i':ll|... and his watering-pot? — ' i (J/iidiyo Times. . " ——- r -tywr. —> — I Will“‘ Sli... : iIS. (i-’roni the Ne.’ii i> ■ ’ I There is a gsr.'.-i'i!: >..< uunt io secure a reduction ot the legal day lor labor to eight hours, and the M i.:iaetiusotts Legislature has appointed a committee to ; - investigate the subject. Reading are | port of the doings of this coinmissiou, in 1 a Boston paper, we Gad a curious pas- j • age: ••A. discussion h«ro arose among ihe • commissioners as to wLul-.c. the tus- - timony oi the parties Irom Ir’ali .'.ver [ ’ should be heard, since they had desired t that they should be heard. i i "The witne ’> were ’.wo men from Fall slriver, operatives inn factory. Eefcre i [ giving in their testimony they asked tiso , reporters to suppress their names as their -1 employers them out ofem-

( plnym mt, if they km-w !.!><■? had been | !b-fore the Ono of them ls-ii.l: _ j We work eleven hours during the day [ 1 have worked twenty years in the old ! ; country, and eight years here, had work- [ i-d htrder in the last eight years than in ■he other twenty; he hid to walk from twenty to twen'y seven miles a day, at-t-.i ling a spinning jick. And within, three months he had to Work all the j noon hard, cleaning up, and ha I to get I bit, sat inti rvals from bis dinner kettle, ' now this deanmg work was done on I Saturday. The operatives h ive to work | harder here than in England. If a reduction ofthe hours.’implied a reduction i of wages, he would suit go for ii heart and soul The m ichinery had to bo oded beforo starling up, in addition to! the eleven hours. In s.ime ol the mills on Fall river, little children were work-d ! eleven hours a day, and the law which ■ 1 prohih’s it was not etifiirced; peixins [ having gone to parents to get children: from school to work in lbs mills; old Mr. ' R.ibinson, naw und, would not allow , auch a thing in the mill, . i “The oilier gentlemen then Slid: J am a spinnor; have nq education, and am I sorry tori'! Ire Ind two 1 J.ie buys, one Seven years, mid th” o'hi-r nine, who work in the mill, getting ?2,iKJ a wi-ek, | working seventy hours wanted the hours i [shortened so tint he could send his i boys to school; bis condition here as a ; factory operative was hnrdei than in j | England j ‘ i’i'.e last two witness stated lhat men who had b,-en prominent in ir..'V..in-.-t’l- ' for fair wng.-s hid 1.--.-a discharge I wlnn ; the oilier r>jn- uives had be. n re-empl.iy-e.l, and traveling fr-nn place lo place • ; vO.tkl get no work; whin they did gel it, it was only for a few days, when they were discharged, without any apparent causes, unices f,om s >me seciet I , fil ters' anding among the own rs of the ! mid.. ’’ j Th's is Mrssachuaetls —"gl u-ious, fr e | republican Massachusetts,” where they ••-hri.kfor Iruedom,” fro.n Jin airy to • -December! And th'-e arc Maa-a:lin !s--its Ireedmeii—citizens of the Uom i 'mrinwealth where Phillips lives and , lectures; where Garrison continudly be [ wails the wrong? of the poor African; j whrre Whittier sings so sweetly ot liber- ■ [ty; where orators and poets and preach- [ : ers have fora quarter of a century ; [dwelt eloquently upon the “teirursof! slavery.” Why has it n ver occurred to them to «iv a word for the poor people who toil in their factories and are so nearly slaves t' -u they dare not allow Cher employers to know that they have said a word or [ ma le an effort for the alleviation of their j iwn condition? The negro is free now;, tl.eir standard subject for declamation . has been abolished; the plantation lard? | are prostrate; now let them give their , a tention, lo the lords of the cotton mills The Career of a Military Villain. : A correspondent of the New York Timet gives an account of the reasons for the removal of Brevet Brigadier Gen-! eral Wild, of Massachusetts, from the i superintendence of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Georgia, as given by Gen. Steedman, military commander of that departinent. He says: ‘He maliciously and mischeviously I went to work to educate and elavate the : black rain with an Ut'er disregard ol the ( (eelintrs and rights of tha white race, ! who, at least, had claims, if only as equals. He mounted a body of black men, who rods at large over the country and committed excesses ot the most infamous character. The people generally ,-offered at the expense of every loan i who had a black face. A perfect reign 'of terror was rife; everything became [unsettled; and imp! icable hatred be(tween the two races was the natural off- j i spring, lie net only dal not co operate ; with the commanding general, but zeal- I ! ously worked to clog his efforts in all 1 particulars. Two outrageous acts of G; neral Wild I are brought lo notice. For' some alleged I reason or other, l;e c : ;-’-ed an old rp-r.t.e-man wei;>hiog -ver two hundred yor: ds 'to be It-d up by tbo thumb until the entire llesh was torn from iim bones Ouly ti few days befcro Gen. V.’ild was (relieved he arrested two of the Crst laidles cl tha couutiy, and had tl c.ii stripped naked Bed examined by two colored womr.a, and indignity I have never heard I before during tho wr.:-. When Generoa’t Wilson took charge, tha direst disorder prevailed; and nearly sixty ; thcuaar.d indolent blacks wre bein'. . kept and supported Ly the Federal cami mission. I-ife in “i.-. ico. i Tha Memphis uAnpea?, of tha 4th, publishes r. private letter from General Joe r Shelby, written at Cordova, Mexico. The . following extract will be found oi interest: I

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I This i? the best country I ever saw. [The finest climate I was ever in. I am js-itiJied the ciiiuate here would entirely | restore your health, beside, I know tho I (’.'l w tld suit you. Everything under i the sun grows here lo perfeclion. ° I have seen c - '. >n, sugar, cuff e and tobacco, corn, rice, and every kind of vegetables tou Inv in M -souri growing to perfec- ; lion; lrui‘. of every variety that can ba found on c- >rlh, is to be found here; orI attgi-?, h-moiis, pine apples, in fact so j.nny varieties that, this sheet of paper : ,v uld not contain half their names. The land h.-s ns pretty as in Lafayette [or Sdine. The Govejnm<-nt is very liberal; it offers to foreign colonists six hun!red and forty acres near here, to each man of family, at one dollar per acre, <>u five years' ti ne, Tjie l.inds arenot more Hi in five or ten rilles from the railroad, wl ;.''i wdl be completed in twelve months Ito th s p! ce. 1 ata fully satisfied that any good farmer can m iKe a fortune here in six or ten years. If our people emi- ' grate at all, this is tho place for them, in:,! not Brazil. Anyplace but Braz 1. I'iiey m ike two crops of corn a year here. The seasons are regular and fine, abunHance of rain, an-i, unlike the most of M- xi.there is no irrigation here; corn glows i.x- uTuily; pk-nj us tinibtr and tine wakr. It is ne.’er col ler here than in September in Mi s.iuri, and never warmer than your May weather. We have ice here, [nn.I neverout of sight of snow. You | will ask, how is thi-,? I will answer that the mountains ten miles eff nfford ice, il l the r tops arc al ways covered with snow. 1! our people had this country it would be a paradise. A farmer, ten i miles from here, a G.-rm in, told me he - sold his coffee crop last year, the proicreds i sixty -icres, for sixteen thousand -dollars. Ha only worked ten hands, exIc- pt while- gathering, and then double [tha numb-.-r. L .bor here is from twenty- : !i■ to fifty cents per day; they board th-inselves, and only get paid for the ; d >ys they wet k. Daniel IVlbsthr on Paper Money.— I “Tile very man,” said Daniel Webster, "ot all others, who has the deepest in- ! lerest in a sound currency, and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in : money matters, is the man wl.o earns his (daily bread by his daily toil. A depreciated currency, changes of price, piper . money falling between morning nnd noon, (and falling still lower between noon ans night—th”se things constitute the very harvest time of speculators, and of the whole raco of those wi.o pre at once id,l<s sod crafty; and of that other race, too, i the Catalines of all times, marked so as ibe known forever by one stroke of tho historian’s pen, men greedy of other men’s property, and prodigal of theic own. Capitalists may outlive such times. They may cither prey on the earnings of labor by their cent per cent., or they may hoard. But the laboring man —what can ibe hoard? Preying on nobody, he becomes the prey of all. His property ia in bis hands. His reliance, his fund, hia productive freehold, his all, in his labor.. Whet er be work on his own small capital or another’s, his living is still earned by bis industry; and when the money iU ne country becomes deoreciated and debased, whether it be adulterated coin or I paper without credit, that industry is. I robbed of its reward. He then labor*. for a country whose laws cheat him of his. ! bread.” ST-An honest old farmer by the name? of Bowman, who resid<s near the town of Branchvi I-, in Sussex County, New J v. on a late occasion was at a neighboring town when a well dreesed stranger asked lor a ride to Branchville, which w>s willingly granted. The stranger* p.ii i . >i ~ b:>g ia the wagon, and then comfortably fi-ted hiracell on the seat. Wli ■ 'lie honest farmer was wat- ; eiing his iiorser., the stranger hailed a, returned soldier, and the following dialogue ensued: Stranger -‘So you have been to tho. W’U .’ Soldier —‘Yes, sir.’ i . er—-’’tell, you have done <u .. i ■: you have banished injustice, a I al! men, of whatever nation or color, equai in this country.’ F'-.im-.-r—•Ml:-it is that you say, stran- - ger. .s ice negro the equal of the white man?’ jtriu r—‘Yes, sir, that is wl-at L say.’ • r —‘T hen get out of my wagon; n? .. :..>e m•at who does not think him- -- ;i bv.l. than a negro shall ride with ms? .—’■Rul' I '.. ill pay you for thw ride.’ I’:.. mer—No yon can’t no man of yov principlescan ride in my wagon; so r - out. If you were a black ner/ro I sh? f e know what I bad; but a white nee such an unnatural wretch tfittt J . -fey t . endure lr re.