Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1867 — Page 1

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TRIP LIGHTLY.

Trip lightly over trouble, Trip lightly over wrong, Wo only make grief double, By dvr tiling on it long. Why clasp woe’s hands to tightly? Why High o’er blossoms dead? 1 Whjr cling to forms unsightly? Why not seek joy instead? Trij)lightly over sorrow, Though all the day be dark, ) The sun may shine to-morrow, 1 And gaily sing the lark; i Fair hopes have not departed, Though roses may have lied, Then never be down hearted, 1 But look for joy instead. Trip lightly ever sadness, Stand not to rail at doom; We’ve pearls to string of gladness, 1 On tins side of the tomb: i) Whilst stars are nightly shining, [) And the heaven h overhead, 1 Encourage not repining, But look for joy instead. A Conductor Caught. J “Hallow, Limpy the cars will start in s a minute; hurry up, or we shall leave you behind!” The cars were waiting at a station of one of our Western railroads. The bagr . o r gage master was busy with checks. The s men were hurrying to and fro with chests and valieses, packages and trunks —men, women and children were rushing fur the e cars and hastily securing their eeats, ' while the locomotive snorted »nd puffed and blowid. I A man carelessly dressed was standing • on the platform of the depot. He was looking around him, and seemingly paid ! little attention to what was passing. la : was easy lo see that he was lame At a 'nasty glance one might easily have supj posed that he was neither a m«n of wealth nor influeDCe. The conductor of the train gave him a contemptuous look, Land slapping him familiarly on the shoulder, called out—■•Halloa, Limpy, better get aboard, or the cars will leave yon behind! "Time enough, 1 reckon,” replied the 'individual addressed, and ho retained Lis seemingly listless position. The last trunk was tumbled into the baggage car. "All aboard!” cried <.he . conductor. "Go on, L'mpyl” sai Ihe , 'as be passed the lame, carelessly dressed i man. Just as the train was slowly moving , away, the lame man stepped on the platform of the last car, and walking in quietly, wok a seat. The train had moved en a few miles, when the conductor appeared at the door I 'of the oar where our friend was sitting i Passing along, ho soon discovered the I stranger whom he had seen nt the Sts-. I tion. "Hand out your money here.” “I don't pay,” replied the lame min, very quietly. "Don’t pay?” ‘ No sir.,’ | " We’ll =ee about that. I shall put; ! you out at the next station.” And he seised the valise which was on the rack over the head of our friend. "Better not be too rough, young man, returned tho stranger. I The conductor released the carpet bag ! for a moment, and seeing he could do n« more then, he passed on to Collect the | fare from the other passengers. As he ' stopped ata seat a few pace, off, a. gentoman who had heard the converse[L just mentioned looked up at the con- . ductor and asked him -Do you know to whom you were speaking just now* "No, sir.” . . .-That was Peter Warburton, the President of this rosd." , ni( , ' .. \,e you sare of that, eu?” replied ' the conductor, trying to conceal bts ng itaiion. ••I The color rose a little in the young man's face, but with astrong effort lie I controlled bio .elf. and went end rotdected his fare as usual. • Meanwhile. Mr. Warburton sat qmet1. in bis seat-none of those near u-m | J id unravel the expression of bis sac d 11 ..II «h.l ,l ” “LX *«•> h -’ f 7’‘h,b.< ll.b.ab«» »*J“*

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

DECATUR, AADMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 22,1867.

the infirmity which had come, perhaps, through no fault of his. He could revenge himself as he chore. He qould tell ths directors the simple truth, and the young man would be deprived of his place at once. Should he do it? I And yet, why should be cate? He I knew what be was worth. He knew how he had risen by bis own exertions to Che position ho now held. When, a little orangs peddler, he stood by the street crossings, he bad many a rebuff. He I had outlived those days of hardships; Le I was respected now. Should be care for a stranger’s roughness or taunt? Those j who sat near him waited curiously to sea j the end. ! Presently the conductor came back. ■ With a steady energy he walked up to I Mr. Warbn rton's side. He took Lis book from his pocket, the bank bills, the tick ets which he Lad collected, and laid them in Mr. Warburton’s hand. i "I resign rny place, sir," be said. The President looked over the accounts | for a moment, then motioning the vacant seat as his side, said— I "Sit down, sir, I would like to talk with you." As the young man sai down, the 1 President turned to him a face in which there was no angry feeling, and spoke to him in an undertone. “My friend, I have no revengful feel- ! ings to gratify iu this matter, but you 1 have been very imprudent. Your man ner, had it been thus to a stranger, I would Lave been very injurious to the 1 interest of the company. I might tell ' them ol this, bill I will not. By doing so, I should throw you out of your situat'oo, and you might fin d it difficult to Sod another. But in future, remember 'to be polite to all you meet. You car.- ! not judge of a man by the coat he wears; and even the poorest should be treated with civility. Take your bmA, sir. I shall tell no one of what Las passed. If i you change your course, nothing that has happened shall injure you. Your 'situation is still continued. Good-morn-I ing, sir.” The train of ca r s swept on, as many a train has done before; but witbio it n lesson had been given and learned, nr.d ( tb» purport of the lesson r&n soniewlnt i thus—Don'f from appearances. Female Beauty in Washington—The Register ot the Speaker, j There is more of feminine beauty as sembled in Washington this winter than : has ever been known in the Capital be -. fore. This, I have been informed, is j attributed to the fact that since the in-; crease as compensation to members of Congress, these gentlemen have been , belter enabled lo bring their wives and ; daughters kere than heretofore, a d to i indulge in the gayaties and dissipation of . : the Capital. . Speaker Colfax’s Trcception on burs- j day evenings are very largely attended. The visitors are, however, almost wholly I from the North and east, but very few Washingtonians mingling with them, j Shoddy appears in all its glory nt these receptions of Speaker Colfax, Suttlers ' and contractors bummers and cotton thieves, accompanied by their wives and ! daughters, may be seen there. YankeeI school warms and successful peddlers, 1 the peripatetic book vender and the white cravated parson may be heard in she Speaker’s saloon, dilating bn the. sinfulness ol Southerners and the supe-j rior status of the people of the North and j of Yaakeodo® in particular. There, too may be seen the military men without morit-such as Bailer, Banks. Loan,; Schenck, and-the host ol Quixotic heroes who have disgraced their country ard enriched themselves by their doughty d-eds Thad. Stevens, with his saturnine the very impersonationof »n earthlv fiend, js there, too, always surrounded by . bury of puritanical miasee, wba looked upon tbe Fnn.ylvaemn I Apollo as their beau ideal of a sta’es- • man ’Tis worthy to remark that the • ... n«it is called, is never seen best society, asjlt IS oaiieu. there. Foreign Minwt.r. .or any of •heir families, or attaches even, make ieir appwrance among the mongrel ( group* who fill tho Speaker’* f.rlora- I

The Language of Animals. A wLitnscal French writer pretends I that bo has discovered that every animal I jbird, and even insect, to which voice is tj given, has its language; and that if great ; pains be taken, ho has no doubt that ! man could learn to interpret these lan- ’ gnages, and even converse with the idr ute creation his own tongue. He ;; cites the fact that nearly every animal, II bird and insect, when suffering, has a > peculiar cry denoting tho fact, "Who,” ’ says he, "ever doubts that a dog or a r cat suffers pain when they give tongue > to those peculiar cries familiar to all? : And, again, does not the growl of these j animals denote anger as plainly as does ■ the oaths and exclamations of men? The >; peculiar whins of a dog when he meets : a friend joy, as is well understood by any one who has owned one of 1 those faithful animals, and may not the ! caterwauling of an amorous Thomas, while watching his iaainorila from tie 1 til?s by night, be love songs which are . as iuttligibie to her ears as tlie serenades of men to some fair one behind the lattI ice? May not the carolling of mocking birds be songs celebrating some great i event ol their tribe? or the nightingales notes bi songs of love addressed to his : mate? Mora wonderful things than this have be*n discovered in nature, but man ■ his egotism claims that he alone can convey bis ideas to bis fellows, and never 'dreams ot iovesiiguting any theory which might upset bis boasted pre eminence, .' although he Las r.n enormous amount o! I date always within his reach.” “I ask, r I continues M. de Cannardon, "if a .'Frenchman who first hears German or , English can easily convince himself that . he ever could come to understand those tongues which sound so harsh, so gutluj ral to his ears? Yetto a Dutchman or an Englishman those sounds are familiar I and musical.” H The Crash C’omeing. The Hfetrapolit<>n Uecord. gives a fear.l ful picture of the present state of the ; country. That well informed journal ' says: J Every man doubts Lis neighbor; the , merchants complain more and mora ct accumulating stocks, with no buyers cotneing in from the country, and not the remotest indications of the spring trade; the foreign bankers are sending back by every steamer, Government bonds by the million; the mechanics and laborers are going about idle, and only j . living upon the surplu* earnings of last, , summer. The ship yards are silent;; most ot the great manufactories in tho country, that ordinarily employ huni dreds of operatives, have closed their 1 doors; there are no new buildings going up, uo railroads making, no canals digging, those who have gold held on t> it ' and people who have money are unwillling to lend it on stocks, bonds, or rail-j way shares, as they know that the only thing that imparts value to these proinI ises to pay is ths stability of the Government that guarnautces them and ns the radical* are now at work to revolution. , ige that Government, they are not fools I enough to part with a present something \ for a possible noMfnjr " Men of property and sndstance' stand aghst at the anarchical and rev ' olulionary aspect of the near future, as viewed through tho medium of things at Washington, Unless there be ft remarkI ° j ably sudden change of policy on the part of those who are aiming to subvert the Government, the rountry will experience a financial and commercial crash, compared with which ail previous collapses will seem but ripples on the wave—bury ing rich and poor alike in common rum and inflicting such a blow upon the ma terial welfare of the country as it will be unable to recover from for a quarter; of a centuary to come." Mr. Beecber thanks God be was never i able to smoke a wohole cigar, and thinks that any young uiau who does not use tobacco in any form has a right to say 1 have a badge of honor.” When is n young man’s arm like the gospel? When it makes glad tbe waist place..

A Drummer’s Experience, j The stagnation of trada has been se- j I verely felt by all buisiness men and even r that enterprising class of our fellow t creatures known as “drummers,” or I travelling salesmen, deposite their al- • most inexhaustil le invention and re ! i sources, have been obliged occasionally ' ■ to yield to the presure of the times. I One of these gentlemen, who has re-j ' cently returned from s trip for This.b ' i Bros. & Co., of this city, did not show j a V"ry large exhibit of orders to balance , she liberal expenses account allowed him ' by the firm, and Mr. Thistl-, after lock , iog over his return, Baid—- . “Mr. Ratr.plan, I am afraid vou do , not approach tbe dealers in the right , way; I used to be very successful in tins! line. Now just suppose me to be Mr. j i- Brigher, of Sellout, 111., and show me I , . the way you introduce the bouse.” Accordingly Raliaplan stepped out of i . tha counting-room and re-entered, bat i , in hand inquiring, “Is Mr. Brigher in?" I i "That is my name," said Thistle, ur- . banidy. "Aly name is Rataplan, sir; I repre- . ; sent the bouse oi Thistle Bros. A Co., ! of Boston. (Thistle, in his character of . Western merchant, hero rose, offered the sidesman a chair, and expressed bis pleasure at seeing him ) I “I am stopping with Overcharge, at, ; the Stichem House, and have a fine un-' ; broken lot of samples which I should i like to show you; thinking we can offer ' you some specail advantages,” &c. And ; Rataplan delivered himself of a neat | speech in professional style. "Very well, very well," said Thistle;: "I don’t see but that vou understand i the way to get at customers." "Excuse me, Mr. Thistle,” sad Rat-! apian; ‘I am afraid you do not underisland the style of Western merchants . just now; suppose you exchange places with me, and we repeat this rehearsal.” , "Certaiidisaid 4 Thistle, and picking up his hat, he stepped out. Returning, he found Rataplan with bis chair tilled ■ back, hat cocked fiercely over his right ( eye, Lis heels planted on Thistle's pol- i . ished desk, and a lighted cigar between i his teeth. | Thistle looked a little staggered, but I nevertheless he commenced:— i "Is Mr. Bigber in?" < "Yes, be is,” responded Rataplan, t blowing a cloud of pure Connecticut in . Ito Thistle’s eyes. “Who in thunder are i i you?" I "I represent the house of Thistle t ; Bros. <fe Co "said the astonished em- j i ploy< r, - Vug out about a quart of 1 f smoke from bis throat. "The blazes you do; are you one of that concern?" “No, sir, I am not." said Thistle. "Well, it,s lucky for you that you are ‘ not, for I’ve had two drummers to one c (customer in my store for the last two 11 months, and if I could get hold of one ot ’ the blasted fools that send ’ein out here " . I at this time, I’m darned if I wouldn’t ; boot him clean out of the town of Sell ’ . » t ; out.” •That"!! do, that'll do, Mr. Ra'aplan,’ n I »aid Thistle; “I have no doubt you did ” ** w tbe best you could fur the inteiest of the house. Trade is a little dull.”— Com mercial Bulletin. | iT-eFThe Albs have the fine-t teith of pl any people in the world. They are ex- r-' ceedmgly white and strong. It is at-1:) tributable in a great measure to their’e food, but not altogether. They rinse : w their mouths several times at tbe begin- i p ning of each of their four daily ablutions, j f> and thereby any small alimentary par- ft tide that may have stuck between the a teeth is carried away. They also chew, ; about once a reek, a bit of bark of a tree Si I called sooat, and which seems to be akin v I to the walnut tree. | — I Jf-S-’A few drys since a farmer near ' Newark, N. J., was warted npon by a j respectable looking gentleman, who said he had come to pay for a basket of j c apples which he had taken from the o j orchard wheu a boy sixteen year* previously. He insisted upon paying not only tbe eriginal vain*, but the interact d<

A Tight Flace i The following story is well known to ; many of the cariy settlnrs of Wisconsin haveingbeen related io them by the Indians, who were eye witnesses to the tranI sactionIn the year 1819, the hero of the adventure was trading with (he Indians, lat a place calk’d Bay de Noquet, on the west side of Green Bay. While sitting in his cabin one day, he was surprsed ftt the entrance of fifteen strapping Indians, with their faces blackened,( which is never done except some mom. ntous business is cn hand, and always in case of a fun-re!,)Wuh slow and solemn trade they entered the room which contained tlie goods used in Indian trade, and after ' seating tin n-s-Ives around fl it on the : floor and lighting their pipes in silence | the spokesman lor tha company coid- ! me.iced his barrngue in the fullowing I words: — "We have come to mike a dt-tnand (there followed a silence of several seonds ' nndwe don’t expect to be rifused. (An- ; other silence.) These young men around me are brave men and great warriors, i I am a great warrior and n very hrava man. I was at the battle of Frenchtown, !and killed many of your countrymen. , I led on the warriors who attacked Fort I Stevenson; the scalp- of men have been ! smoke-dried in my lodge, We have come to demand a keg of good na-toss ■ (good spirit, and worth 840 per k<g.) and we don’t expect to Lo refused.” At the conclusion of this speech, ; which was delivered with all the dignity and authority of those who accustomed :to dictate terms turns to a weaker party the gentleman to whom it was addressed stepped round some packs of furs which served as a counter, and brought forth a keg about the same size as the one bo desired whon a smile of evidest satisfaction lighted up the laces of the audience. Ho then took a candle and lighted i’, replied to the last speech in the sama boasting and bombastic style, and concluded by saying that if they were us brave men and as great warrios as they pretended to be, to sit where the? were, and sinoka with him until that candle burnt out; nt the same time, removing the cover of the k< g, he placed the candle deep in the loose powder (of which the k<g contained twenty five pounds,) and seited himself for asmoke with hi* vi-itors, which he had hardly time to do before the room was empty, oad after can fully taking out the candle, he finished his smoke alone, and was never after troubled by Indians. Wedding in Switzerland I learned yesterday a bridal custom cf this region, so sensible and proper that I shall mention it to you for the benefit of the young folks at home. Tlie custom of makeing gifts IO ths bride prevails here as everywhere, but it is better regulated- The bride makes out a list of things that she will require in beginning to keep house, tspecially those thing* that are over and above what would nnturalliy bo furnished by her friends, and marks that as provided for; another will give her that, and sometimes two or three more will combine and fuinisha more expensive present then any one would give alone. After the wedding, ;he couple usually start off on an excur. lion, anil on their return find their dwellng fii'ed with these presents, each mark'd wi'h (he giver's name. At the hotel where I lodged, in St. Callen, a bridal party ol the town had the wedding brakfast when I was there, all the relatives -.nd friends making n larger party than v private house could entertain. "Pa how long does Thad’s Congress set?" “ Three or four months, my son 1A ky, what a set of geese they must be.our geese only set five or six A Colorado woman eluptd from her husband »nd thieo children. Adding’ 1 insult to injury," she left a note behind nforming her husband that none of ilia hildrea” were his! Sixteen hundred divorces have been ecrced ia Massachusetts in six years

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