Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1866 — Page 1

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' Geroux fared ill at ease itt camp I Douglas, and made many strategcms to I escape. He finally succeeded in bribing 1 a raw sentinel to l"t him pass, and to I avoid pursuit a resort to deception beI camo necessary. A comrade of his was ■on the point of death. His mess dr-ss-<-d the dead soldier in the Major’s uniform land convoyed him to the dead house,! and gave his name as “Major Ghas | i Geo ox. 3 i Louisiana R-giment, C. S ■ A.” The next morning the body was j I taken away and buried, and the rank. nameTegini'nt and place of bnrial were, 'duly recorded in the register of Camp | D uglas dead, by C. H. Jordan, tbe : undertaker for the Government, at Chicago. That night Geroux escaped. i , His absence created no inquiry, as he was reported dead. For the purpose of , 1 avoiding publ’c mads and conveyances,] the took ahorse from a pasture n-ar . C .mp Douglas belonging to J. L. Ilan j cock, formely President of the board of; jTrade of Chicago, and by avoiding pub- j lie. roads as much as possible, reached ! Momence the next day. His action excited suspicion, and.ha was arrested on ; suspicion of having stolen the horse, and was lodged in tbe Kankakee jiil. He wax tarn out on n writ of habeas corpus and no proof b- ing found to hold him, lie i was discharged. Coming th- nee to this city he obtained a situ ition iua wholesale grocery] house. After lhe tisn-d delay in passing letters through lhe lines, he learned that his | two brothers were kill'd in the battle of the Wilderms’, that h s father's estate j had b'-en confiscated to the United States Governmen', and his father had volun-,-itarily exi'ed himself to M- i'm. Os bis] wife and c' iid, the only i« f ormati >n w.a-, ith it th vha 1 fought to get North, and took passage on the Suhana. since which they bad n**t h«-en Io ar I of, and no doubt rem -itv d that they had p'-rish t. His t I'ma po»ilio|V has been studiously con I eealod, and h- avoided lis former sc- ; quaiuisnce. Sfiortlv after h j received. \ liiis from the S iuth, Shermsn jst'iioe l on bis grand inarch from Atlanta and Grant masrhali-d his grand -winy bef>re Pel.-rsburg. and the Confederates, Strit'-s errny Vanished almost as a vision Duiinj the past simmer G roux return-d ito the Sou h. and w»s tuiiy confirmed l , tn the information hi' had | ri-ceived about j his lan i'y, and that his real < sta'e had also been confiscated. He gave Ins wife and child up as .last, and te.urned to' I Cini ir.n >ti. fl Alter his wifi - nd c’uiiil h J remanedin Memphis st: 1 t-sp’ipel the disaster of 11 the Sultana, she sorted iur Ci ieng ■ and ‘ reached Csinp D-ugtis. Imp itient at any delay she hss i-n- d there wi h ex p, clarions high to me t him who was] I dearer to her lh«n li'e The reader can | picture to l.imsill lhe hg-my ns 'lie sad j wife a strarg r, destitute < f money, carrying in her aims a weakly child notyet recover!'l from n severe il'n -ss, and ]'.he lierseV worn out with fatigue and. ; nnxietv, when she L-irned that her I us b ind was dead. Them w•« no doubt of I ! his death; the registry kept nt Camp Doug! ■«« showed i', and the grave was pointed out to her, which bore ibis in- ' inscription on a pino board: ‘ MAJOR CHARLES GEROX, THIRD LOUISIANA INFANTRT ” The some grave this day is neatly soiided over, and nt its head grows a rose- ; .bush. Broken-liearfi I and Unwed down with grief, she wended hi r way on fco’. to tbe great city of Chicago—not knowing why she went. A stranger among strangers, , with no one to aid or pity her, save the good God. who; in her inmost heart, she believed had forsnlen her. She was taken and eared for by th° Sisters of charity until she could hear from her friends in Ohio, from whom she had received no intelligence for tlm past lour years. A lett'-r was received, that immediately after the war her uncle I.nd , died, nn 1 that, soon after, bis widow had removed to Iroquois County, Illinois ,to live with her married son. Mrs. Gereux was supplied with money to] enable her to find her ftiegds in Iroquois : I County, where she has since resided. Geroux returned to his situational Cincinnati, and was sent by his firm to i collect a debt due in Iroquois County.' ‘While there, he siught out the attorney who had him discharged on the habeas ' corpus, to learn the whereabouts of the 1 horse that did him such good service.' ’and to secure his assistm-e in collecting | his debt. He Soon made himself known, and while they were discussing about trie stolen horse, a lady and child entered j the same office. There was amomentary : pause, nnd husband and wife were in I ;each others arms. We shall not attempt to describe tho scene which fol!■' owed. The husband found a wife and I I child, whom he firmlv believed to be dead, and the wife found a husband, over i whose grave she bad shed bitter tears of] woe I ’

Our Country's G-ood shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Elame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA, MAY 4,186 G.

Mrs. Goronx was visiting the same attorney, to find out about her busband’s confiscated property, and to apply to the Government to have his proper y restored lu her. The Twin Brothers. j A true incident of the siege of Port ] Hudson. ] That tact is stranger than fictions, is j i-xemplifl.-d in the following true story of itwo brothers twins, which occurred 'luring the memorable siege of Port ; Hud-on. Passing one day through lhe ; sireels of that little town we noticed two j corpses lying upon the gallery of the’ carpi liter's shop, awaiting their turn' ! lor '.he box-s dign'fied with the title, o’ ] I coffins, to consign them to their last resI ting place. Tiir-y were bodi sos tall sta- ] j lure, stout and well built, betokening tbe 1 I hardy u ck woods men of lhe South | Over the face of each whs thrown a cloth ■ through which the blood was ect'ng. i showing that they had received their' ! death wounds through the head. It was j no uncommon sight during the siege to! I see dea.h in every form, the body pier- > ;ced bv the single bullet to the one shat- , tered to atoms by U e canon b ill or mor- : tar shell. Yet there wan something in , 'the appearance of those bodies which rivited our attention and caused the in- ! qniry ns to who they were. A rough, grizzly Confederate soluiev was sitting by ■their side, whose arm, tied up, showed ; tliat for the picsent he was unfit for aci tive service. The teals were trickling jtioan hisjeheeks as he gazed monrnfiillv jupen the deid before him. while his quivering lip told better than words that | they had been more to him than simple I comrades of the tent and field. Uh related their s’ory in a few words: “They wire my sons,” said he* “and were tv ins. One o' them joined at the same lime I did. We come here with Gen. Bea].', and have dore our du'v to i the best of our knowledge, and I believe! to the s‘.ti-faction cl our officers “This morning, sir, while at the breastworks; one of my bovs, in order to get good aim at the sharpshooters ou'side, tic- .ig’i'P-My r dsed liims.-Jf too higli, ] when a ride ball pierced his brain, and 'he f- II dead at mv feet. Ilia brother, ■ seeing him fid', sprang forward to pick him up. but in so doing, exposed him s If above the line of defences, when he ton, received a b .11 through tbe brain, ! and he fell di ad npon the still quivering . corps of his broth*r. As they come into ” ’'. is the’’ went ou’ of it— 1 . t'ogethor. in rem<"ing th' ir bodies from ( the breastworks, I got this which has . shatter’d rny nrm Won! !thit I had ! ■lie! with them sir, for I have no one Io ' ] love new npon this earth.” "And ih’-ir mother—your wifi ?” “Died, sir, in giving them birth.” On n c< ffin I’l’ce'v .1 tho rem-.irs of t'.e ! twins, and a few d-ivs after, while sitting - in front <f bis tent, an exploding shell' ‘give a death-wound to the heart-broken ■ i father.— Ties/ Pas-n Rouge Sugar \ . Placer. Plagues Multiplied —There seems i to be no end to “plagues.” A b-lter ■ from Genoa announces that the birds are I ] dying oflbv thousands, owing to miaa- ' i malic vapors in the atmosphere. Tl.ev ! fail ex misted, nnd it is found that the roots of their feathers are decayed. An epidemic in the oyster bi ds of the coast I lof France has raised the price of these] 'biyHlves more than a third, and late news' from England gives reason to fear that sheep have be-n attacked with a similar maladv to that which has destroyed cat ] tie. More than a hundred thousand head ’ of cattle were bought in Fi ance last week for exportation to England, and there is 'every reason to anticipate a very great 1 rise in the price of h itchers' meat. Since ‘the fright about trichinae, the charcntiers] (the pork butchers) do not sell half their] usual quantity of swine flesh, The gov- 1 ernment has done, and is doing, all in its [ power to keep down the panic, but cannot succeed. Pork is decidedly at a dis-! ! count. — A Strong Room—A strong room re-1 | cen'ly constructed for a London bank is ! thus described: The walls, two feet thick ] i are formed of hard bricks laid in cement, i and with hoop iron worked in. The ' room is lined throughout with wrought iron half an inch thick. There are two i doors—the outer a strong iron one with [ two locks, and the inner one of combined steel nnd iron of extraordinary strength, | with two locks throwing ten bolts. A safe placed inside, weighing eight tons, an 1 throwing twenty bolts, contains the cash and securities. An alarm in the [resident clerk's bedroom is attached to I the inside of the strong room, so that if 1 the outer door is opened a gong is set ! going. A porter sleeps on a bin in ■ front of the outer door, and by pulling a > handle he can set tbe alarm off if necessary, end there is a watchmen always on , duty.

The Northern Capitalists will now use Negro Labor to Starve the Whitesoul ot the Kight Hour System. I Tao New York News, says that, “Forty Irishmen employed by the Cambridge Massachusetts, horse railroad, retused to work, on Monday, because two nfgrors had been employed to work in the stables. The consequence was that in a very short time filly colored men took the places of the forty strikers.” tSpoikingof the late strike In New York lhe Syracuse Union says: “These car drivers were only reaeivi ing two dollars per day for fourteen ( hours' work—a nun barely sufficient to keep a prudent and economical indjvidtl- ] al in that city, end utter ly inadequate for I a man of any family whatever, and yet : the stockholders in the companies which employed them were realizing fortunes ; for their labor, with perhaps one excep i lion. Sucb a system of wages only I tempts, provokes, and seduces into disj honesty m-n whose instincts would o'.h 'erwise prompt thrni to pn-fer and honest and honorable career, and dimoraliz-s j the community. i "But, in lieu of making fair nnd reas- ] enable concessions to their overworked I skilled drivers and conductors who are now unemployed, one at. least of the com- ' panic's, all or nearly all o' which having ‘ been chartered by a negrophilist L-gis-lature, and contioiled by their pnrii ans has hit upon the expedient of employing negro drivers. A R< publican paper of the city calmly informs us that ‘when it was positively ascertained that negroes had been employ - ' d by the Sixth aventie company, serious consequences Were in star.tly apprehended, end though nothing has as yet occurred, doubts are far from being dispelled.” Melancholy is the prospective condition of the white laboring men ot this country. A few years ago the Republicans determined the war of words, threats, insults, ■ abuse, thieving and John Brown skir ; mishing upon the South should be chan . gad into a gigantic struggle of blood lor . ( the negeo, and it was done. It has oc icasioned terrific tax tion to pay fpr lhe I actual expecoitur:-, and the amount pockI eted by the leaders and put into palaces, ] diamond head dresses and riotous living, j Indiana pays annually, tbe Fedaral GovI ernment, over and above the S ate and I ci y plunder, in round numbers, five millions o: internal revenu- tax. and three ] mil ions tariff tax, making eight millions extra to the Federal Government annually on account of the war f>r the negro [ This is all tliiown aw y. When it is ] paid, it is not like mo.: cy lent on interest jor Invest' d in property, that brings a rejturn in interest and finally comes back in [principal. It is lost to the accumulator iof it just as much as if, after toiling and I sweating to obtain it, it was taken frooi him arid thrown into White river. These eight onlllions a year ought 'o ‘be assessed upon Chandler, Morton. ; the Altoona meeting of Governors, etc., j upon those blood thirsty leaders who' [wr uld have no'hing but blood and de- ! strvelion, those, ns .Ti un-on calls them, North rn tr i'er", who caused and cari ried on the war, instead of upon the la ; boring men, who are no*, resposible lor it; [ j but. a*, present, this can not be done. These annually to bo thrown awav. ; : eight millions must be lost bv somebody in Indiana. An! the question is shall ] : thev he lost by the laboring men? I The capitalis*. from whom the money 1 1 will first be collected, will seek to throw ■ i this annual loss forever npon the labor-j ■ era, thus bringing them down to eternal [ serfdom—that condition in which they 1 cannot advance, ran not grt rich, in th<ir! lifetime, as used to be the case under Democratic administration, but can barely live in a half starved condition. Among ] the models rs doing this will be: I 1. Reducing wa yes. ?. Increasing the number of hours of 1 labor. [ 3. Working the laborer harder while [ he does work. ] 4. Bringing in foreign white laborers! [soas to produce that competition thnt.[ ! will bring it down. j As to this last me’bod, we may observe, it can scarcely be made a success, ; I because, as soon as white foreign laborers come in, they at. once associate with ' their relatives and friends here who post! them on the subject, take them, a', once, I into their eight hour leagues and trade associations, so tiiat they demand fair terms orre'use to work: hence. 5. The capitalists are already taking measures to import free negroes from Africa nnd coolies from Chin a. and to use the free negroes from the South, who will woik for any price, nnd be, though not in name, yet really slaws to c .pit isls. By these various processes there is great danger that capital will, at last, bring labor to the dust, and make it pay the deht contracted by tho Republican party in pursuance of ths great fnndamotra’ plank in their party platform!— that s public debt jj a public blessing,

because it bring! down the laboring tn».n to that dependence on the capitalist that i enables the latter to control the Government without fear of that resistance th .t is generally made by an independent, well to do bod. - oi yeomanry. J lhe It -public ips have got the debt and taxes on to u.s. The next step is to .subjugate labor; and here now comes the struggle. Will the working men meet, it ias becomes them? Will they stand for the right? TVill they consent to suffer as ■ revolu'ionary patriots suffered in the . Struggle for liberty? Will they divide ] their bread, shelter and clothing while ,' standing out for fair living wages? Were lit not tliat, the negro has b'-en brought . ] among us, and that more of them, with the coolies, are coming, the victory would be easy. But under existing circumstat> . ces, the battle may linger long, through weary days and weary years — Indiana? olis Herald. i — • *♦< ir~ ——.— Perpetual Session of Congress. It vvrs und» rstood at Washington that , if the Republicans could get no comprom ise out of the President, they would maks tbe session of Congress perpetual [so as to prevent his appointees obtain- , I their offices. We were told this by leading Republicans. We suggested lothem - the question of individual expense. Thev ■ replied that the Senate could and would const nt that the House might adjourn . j for long periods of time, while a quorum lof the Sena e could be kept in session - without a great deal of inconvenience; , ] the members interchanging in visits , home, etc. This appeared to be the set tied Republican programme, and we have no doubt it will be carried out, as we are quite confident the President has determined upon no compromise with traitors, as he holds the leadin'.' Republicans to be. The R publicans ; admit the President can remove officers ] without the consent of tbe Senate, thus ■ vacating the offices, bvt he can not, as i ail know, appoint successors while lhe ,] Senate is in session, in case where the j I appointments have to be confirmed by i that body. He can only make such ap ] pointments in tho vacation of the Se ate i session. Hence the spiteful ■hj *ct of the j continuous session. i The R publicans assign one other [reason. They say if the Rump Con [ gre.ss should adjourn the President might 1 invite up the Southern members and the . j Democrats from the North, who, getting ■ | possession of the Halls, the two bodi* s ; [thus formed might recognize each other! 1 1 and be recoj nized by the President as i , [the Congress, and thus put an end jto the Rump. We have heard this ground ! urged by’ the Republicans — lndianapolis ] . i Herold. i As TiiEit Joke at “Man’s Victim.'’— : A Paris letter Hays. There is b ing a ! gri nt fancy now for Clubs, the wags a e declaring that a number of the lady-lea > I ders of tbe gay world, having determ j . ined to reveng themselves on the gentlemen for their < xclusion from the favorite “circles” of ti e day. have held var [ 'Oils meetings with a view to the form , l atiou of a I-Vmalo Club, from which all males should be rigidly excluded; but ] .that, owing to the prrdimlnarv adoption 1 [of a resolution, declaring that the office I of the President should be held by the l oldest member, and that of Secretary bv the youngest, tbe project has at last been : : abandoned, it having been found impo's ible to find a President, and every one o'} die members claiming the right to be ‘ ■ the Secretary. gj-Jn the town of ,in Connetticut,' lived an eccentric character, Squire j S , noted for his oddity and singular speeches. The town hearse having, bylong use, got into a dilapidated condition,! it was determined to get up a subscription and repair it. In due time the I committee called on S and asked him to subscribe for the object. “No,”] i -aid tho Squire, “I won’t give a single , I cent. Twenty years "go I subscriled i five dollars to build the old thing, and ] neither myself nor my family ever had i

any use for it from that day tn this, and I won't give a cent to repair it.” tgr An Ingbniovs Swindler.—The French pohece lately captured an ingen- ■ ious rogue. He employed a voting draughtsman to make drawings for him of the newest article exposed for sale in jewelers’shop windows, ami immediatelyhad close imitation made of br.se metal. | He would then pretend to wish to purchase the articles, and have them sent to | his hotel, ostensibly for the purpose of showing them to his wife; when he had only to change them for the counterfeits which he would send back. S^~ A buisness man in Williamsburg, whose safe has been blown open three ! times by burgiars, now pursues the plan I1 of leaving the key in the lock. He is 11 tired of paying for repair* t

Getting and Holding Honry. Ou this topic of general concern, Corry O'Lanns, the Erooklyn Eagle ssys. di»courses nidi his usual lucidity, si <•!- i lows: - Every man his own landlord is a c<p- , ital doctrino. J I should have adopted't ago, but for want of capital. This is- the difficulty with most t«n- ■ ante. A.ll the real estate I own is located Ist * d. fliywer pots, which Mrs. O'Lauus devotes to the cultivation of geranium*. , verbenas, cactuses and other oanamcntis I vegetables. There is not enough for a building lot, i and it c»n be only regarded as a niova- ) ble estate. The earth is man's inheri'ance, but I [ have not come in for any share of it yet borne capitalist has gut the title deed’ I to my estate, and won't give them «p ti‘l ; 1 can raise money enough to redeem them. My father neglected to leave me a for(tune, a hwbiL which runs in our family. from present appearances, 1 think 1 shall-hand it down to my posterity. As Shak'-spearo observes, some men are born poor, some a-quire poverty, and others have poverty thrust npon them. Tii“ O'Lanuses were always diatin guished for their ability to spend all they could get; ali tnv rich uncles died before they made their fortunes. Getting rich only involves two q ties ; llclis. Fiet, get money. Second, hold on to it. I understand the principle first rat*. As soon as I can accomplish the fit st condition, lam a going to try tny band at the second. When I got married. Mis. O'Lauu* and myself passed a joint resolution that we woul 1 get rich. Getting lhe furniture took all our capital in hand, but I I was to give Mrs. O'Lanus all ths money I got, she was to buy Only what we wae|ted, and put the rest in the Savings ] Bank. lhe first year we wanted more thnu we could buy. and the bank account cam* Out wi haul a balance. The next year mv sa'aiy was increased. So was the family. [ Likewise the expenses Bank account as > sar before. Third year, ditto. We continued to accumulate at lhe 'same rath fcr several years in success- | ion. Then the war broke out, ami we eon- . chided not to put money in the bank for ■ the I'iesen*, because things were then «o ' unc< rtain. I bince then, living Ins been high, and we have concluded to postpone the arcumulalion of a fortune until the income I tax is abol shed, and groceries become , ’0 tsonable Canadian Buggiißf and Ke<ulations. It appeim fr"i a circn'ar issued bv Iti e Canadian V. R Customs Depart- [ m-nt, that all b.agg"g° o' passenge sei- ' tering the provinces is to be thoroughly ' searched, nnd all arms weapons and munitions of war of all kinds th it mav ib» found in such bagoairo, or mav be i otherwise brought in or worn by pass[enges. nre to be retained. Express [ goods are to be closely compared with (the manifests, and packages which may > create reasonable suspicion are to be [opened and examined. Freight trains I are to be carefully examined, and no package rot mentioned on the manifest ! will be allowed to pass. Cars mint ba : securely locked or sealed before they • pa-s bevond the fron'ier. At the reI quest of the Minister of Finance, Secretary McCulloch has given permission to [the Canadian authorities to place custom [officers on all railway points on the American si le for the ourpoae of txam.ining baggage destined for the British I Pro»inces and of course, officers of the 1 V. R. Customs will be hereafter stationed ion tiie railway ferryboat at this point *— ' Detroit Free Press.

£*? The candle fish—a most cnrion* specimen of the finny tribe—is caught on the coast of British Columbia. It is of marvelous fatness, and the natives it as a lamp by drawing a rush pith through jit, when it will burn steadily until Conisumed, and give a good clear light for ■ reading or other purposes. CST.A new invention, paper socks, i« ■announced. The socks are made of paper and muslin combined. The inventors say shat thev will last as !■ ng as an ordinary pair would keep clean, and th»y can be made so cheaply that ; their cost will not equal the price of : washing. * — hi ui . . .... ,_ A westeru paptr suggests as gn improvement in Bibks, the preparation a leaf or two in the "family record” for divorce*

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