Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1867 — Page 1

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eieno. When it was called, tlf oldest svr geant present stepped a pace tonv• end raising his ban.lto bis cap, said, proudly: •■Died on tho field of honor." For fourteen years Ila-' eastern w".« continued, nod only ceased when the re stored Bwur’ons, toplease their lon 1411 masters, forbade evei ything that was calculated to preserve the spirit ol the soldiers of France. La Tour d’Auvergne was not unworthy in life t'. 't honor tints paid him, alter his diUtii. He was educated for. the arm', entered in 1767, nrd in 171 u served under the Dulse de Crillon st 'be siege of Tort Mahon. Ho sirred alway with distinction, but cvr.str.ntly rifus-d offers of promotion, saying that he was oalv fit for the comma ,d of i» company of grenadiers; but, finally, the various grenadier companies being united, ne i found bims-lf in command ol 1 fc.-ny eight thousand men, while reU'-.uig only the rank of cap'ain. Hence he was known as the fiistgron-l adier es France. . 1 But it is of one particular exploit ot lie that we wish to write, more than his carter in general. . . When bo was forty years of age he went on a visit to a friend, not for ,rOn! a sictiou of the c«ur.f.y t’ at was »■ on to become the scene of a campaign. 'v:.il--there; he was bn-sy in acquainting himself with the country, thu king it not unlikely that this knowledge nvgnt be < f ' use (0 him, ard while here th ■ brave gienndier was a; '.onidied to learn t -.1 1 the war had suddenly shifted to quarter, and that a regiment of Austri-,' ans was pushing 00 lo occupy « narrow p*’s about ten miles from where 1 0 w-is staying, and the possession vfwbichj

* • Would give them an opportunity to prevent an important movement of toe French which was then cnfoo.. Ih J hoped to surprise this P"' ! - “ n * ’ Ter ' moving so rapidly upon it that they w<r< tot more than two hours distant (rm phicc where he was slaying.. an! they would have to pass in their mm'” 1 It matters net how he he'.rd the new* It is sufficient to say that he Je'.ermiu“d at once to aot upon it. H« had no idea of tring captn’ I”' the enemy in their advance. .t’.d he once set off for th** past. Ho brcw tu * t j ice pats was defended by » » lrut tower.

land a garrison of thirty men, and he jhoptd to ho iible to warn the men of their danger. He listened on, and arriving there lound the tower in a perfect condition. It had just hern vacated by Ihe who had heard of the apj roach of he I Austrians, and had been seized with a [panic thereat and bad fled, having their arms, consisting of thirty excellent n,usi kets. La Tour rt Auvergco gnashed his teeth with r»g» as he discovered this ■ Searching in the building ho found sevJcral boxes ol ammunition which the cowltj"“ Hot destroyed. For a moment ' lie was in d»sni ; r, but then, uitli a griirt j tenth , ht began to fasten U-C main door • and pile against it such uiticlt® as he I could find. When he had done this, he loaded ill. [ the guns ha ooulii find and placed them js together with a good supply of ammunition, under the loop holes tha* commandI, ■<d the road by which me enemy must advance. >r ■r Then ho eat henrtly of tlie provision? be had brought with him, and sst down (to wait. He had absolutely formed the heroic resolution to defend the tower a4 , . e lone against the enemy. lt j There were some things in his favor . ir. such an undertaking. The pass was strep and '.arrow, end the enemy’s trueps could enter it only iu double file?, and in doing tbjs would be fully txfosed to the fir. .'.om '.Lt' tower. The original gar .lison of thirty men could easily have ■ hold it against a division, and now one man was about to hold it against a reg . (intent. It was dark when La Tour d'Aurergne . ranched the tower, and he Inti to wait i some time for the enemy. Th y were

lorioer in coming th in he expected, and i for a while be wan tempted to believe , tl.»v had ab-indem-il the expedition. About midnight, however, bis prac-j , ti.’cu <-ar caught th« tramp of feet. Livery n>otn«nt the sound came nearer, nnd at ' last he I’e heard tliem'cntering the defile, [immediately he discharged a couple of ■mu.kets into tic darkness to let them know that he knew of their presence end intci.'.tons, and h» hoard the quick, short. ; comtnamls of the officers, and, from the sounds, he supposed the troops were re iirihg from the p°’S. Until die morning j ho was undisturbed. Ihe Austrian 'commander, feeldc’ a«snred that 'ha, onrrison had been informed of his movement«. and whs prepared to receive him, saw that lie could net surprise the post ( as ho had hoped to do, and deemed it prudent to wait till daylight before making Ids attack A-■ nrise he summoned tho garriacn • -rii.der. A grenadier answered tbe, .summons. •‘Say to your commander,” he said, sn reply to the messenger, •‘that this garrisen will defend this pass to ’he last ex .remity.” The officer who had borne the fl <; of. truce re tied, and in about lea minutes a . piece of artillery was broacht into the pass and opened on the tower. But to ittect this, the piece ha tto be pbced | directly in from of tl.o tower, and withn. easy musket range of it. They had ; scarcely got tbe gun m posmon, when a rapid fire was opened on it from tho tow- i er. and con'ioutd with ru«li m»rke<! i effect that the piece was withdrawn ' the second discharge, with a loss of men. [' This was a bad beginning, so half an [ I • .r.. - erttn WMR ; i

I hour after the gun Austraiil colonel ordered an assault. , the troop* entered ll.e defile tuey were receive'! with a rapid »t.d aecurale fire, aoth t' .. hen they Jal parsed ov. r jt ;!• > distance they had to traverse. 'they had lost fifteen men. Dsheminned by this, they returned to tho month o i ?he <i» fiit*. . ’ Three more •«»•»>!” were repn er. 1 I this manner, nttd the enemy by suns < ‘ nd ' • i # UIVABSW"*-

’•Cur Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim-Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

BECATUII, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MARtH 8,1867.

’ commander had noticed this peculiarly | about it—every shot seemed to come ( from the rame place. For■» while this ' perplexed him, but at last he came to Ute conclusion that there was a number ■ of 'onph- |»e close tog tl.er in the tower, so constructed as to command the ravine i per'cctly. At sunset the last assault was made and repulsed, nnd at d irk the Austrain i commander sent a second summons to , (he garrison. This time the answer was favorable. 7 lie garrison eff-ree to surrender at sun ■ i ise the next morning if allowed to march out with their arms nnd return to tl.e iru.i ii i , ole,'e l. A ter some hesitation, th* terms were accepted. Meantime Lt Tour d’Attvergne had passed an anxious day in the lower. He had opened the fight with thirty loaded ; muskets but had net been able to dis I charge them ail lie had fired with surprising rapidity, but with surprised ' accuracy, for it was wi ll known in the

army that he had never thrown nwnr a ! shot. He had determined to stand to his post until I e bad accentl h’ s '[ end, which was to hold the place twen'y four hour- - , in order to allow the French ■ army time to complete its manoeuver. As" r that he knew the pass would be ol no conscqu nee to the enemy. When tlie demand for a surrender came to him after the last assault, he consented to it upon the conditions i named. The next diy at Rtinrise the Austrain i troops lined the pass in two files, ex'ending from the tn wth to the tower, : leaving a space between them for the gat riron to pass cut. The heavy do >r of the tower opened slowly and in a f«w mimites a bronzod and scarfed grenadier, literally loaded

-v-.. .■.. g-" - > J down with muskets, came cut and passed down the line of troops. He walked vi’li difficulty under Ids heavy load. I Toth? surpri-o of the Austrians no j one followed him from the tower. In astonishment the A 'retrain colonel | 1 rode up to him and nske.l in hreneit, why i ] the gvrison did not come out. • "I am the ga.'risoa, colonel,” said the ' (soldier proudly. “What!” exclaimed the colonel, ‘‘do j tcu mean to t< ll me that you alone have held that tower against me?" i "1 have bad the honor, colonel,” was ( ■ ; . the reply. i “What possessed you to make such an I attempt, grenadier?’’ “The honor of France was at stake.’’ The colonel gazed at him for a mom- ■ ent with undistinguished admitadon. I Tin-n, raising his cap. he said watm’y; I "Grenadier, I salute you. You have]

’ proved yourself the bravest of the , brave.” The officer caused all tbe arms which La Tour d’A avergn 1 coul l not carry to be collected, and sent th. m ail, with the grenadier, into the Faench line.’, tygether with a no e rid ding the whole "ffatr. ! When the knowledge of It came io the ' ear? cf .Napoleon he offered to promote La Tour d’Auvergne but the latter de clined to accept the promotion, sayit-g , prefeired to rema'n where ne was. brave soldier met bis devth in an ] action «t Aberhausen in June, ICOD, and tl e simple and expressive scene at roll , ctli in his rcgiiueiit ws commence! an 1 1 continued ly the express commando! ibe h’roseh. There is an abandonee of multilatec and torn postal currency floating "boutj from hand to l and, which ought Io be gathered up as it is “fibred noil sent to

j the Treasury tor redemption. And the merchant, are lb- «nM to do this. It • iwill cost but a trifl-to gel io nturn ■ spbnttr-new currency ard would rid the Jwmmwnitr of a decided nuisance. It will bo .• f<e n-I by pre-enting it in ji„f SS.to the U.S. Treasury. Never, , wa, a country worse bored wih its money ' lfia3 :« ours at the present, with its frac currency. Th. orly hopeful r-m >.!;• we are io keep that which » tnut.Uted from circulating, is to strenuously j refuse it. We can see to surtr plan lor . ’ siting it seat in to be redeemed.

f 1 A Romance of the Peerage. ’ I A London correspondent, of die Bir- * tnieghatn Fort writes; ’ i The Counters of Fortescue, Whose tinr timely death has plunged her family in • | the deepest sorrow, will obtain a place in 1 ; some future edition of tlie” Romance of jsho Peerage.” About twenty years ago ‘ the beautiful and accoltip'isbed Miss 1 j Dawson was sought in marriage by two ‘ suitors—the one an exiled prince, heir to , the fortunes an I traditions of the French Empire; nnd the other » son and heir to mt English larldoni. She gave her hand i to tbe latter, ai d at the time every one i said tbe young ladv had made tbe better match, leaving out tbe moral considera’ior ;.| at the price- was < st< emed in so I cioty somewhat of a•“ mauvais sujet.” t j while the young viscount was one of the | I most amiable, rising and philanthropic 1 j among our j outhful nobility, The prince i was very much in love, and deeply I 1 chagrined at the lady's preference fir his , ■ tiva 1 , A year after the lady became]

■ Viscountess Ebiing'on, the succes-ful >, suitor became President of tite Fren;’; ■ Republic, and five years afterwards he ■ was proclaimed Emperor of the French, i! Th'- Viscountess Ebrington must Lave I been more or less of a woman, if site had ' not sometimes thought of the brilliant ! destiny of htr former suitor, and of tho .imperial diadem which might bare ' | graced her fair brow. About ibis time 1 i her husbaad, in the z»n’ous and courag—lous discharge rif bis offi i'd daubs, vi-it-[?d a public public building, the inmates iof which were suffering trona one of the forms of zymotic dis. a.e. He eaught the contagion, was prostrate J by fever, and lor many we.-ks his life was despaired of. He was nursed in all ‘womanly tcm’erncss by the countess, b.it - V- . .. M I«* . • I - 1' ZX rw VVT It * V

only emerged from his sck room wth I the loss of his eye sigtit. For months Ids eves, “ bereft of light, their seeing ■ had forgot," and al'hough time »nd the I skill of Lis physicians Lave brought some sl'eviation of his c damity, a faint glim- ■ mer of light ah ne remains, aad, by a (green shade over his eyes, Fortescue is ■scarcely able; without assistance, tn find i his way to his seat in the House of Peers. Thad.leus Stevens is thus pen pictured |.v tho Washington -correspondent of ’he[ . Charleston A/crcury; “ I bad a good i< ok at him. as he sat on one of the front [ ' with his leg thrown over the desk before him. His face does not indicate his de- •• • I ! monific possess! »n, txcopt k» its unna*ural pallor. His brow is high and well developed, in the region of th- perce.n.' live faculties. His high cheek bones aquiline nose, and sq»ate chin, indicate decision and force of character His mouth it his weakest feature, denting

ias it does, sensuallity in a high degree. , Th-- upper j iw bones appear to h ive been : mashed in by vi .lent bi r ws, "nd hence the impression of de ormity whieh h's !fice imparts to the casual observer ] Il s l.mbs are and hit 1.-ft foot IS distorted. He is sai l to be seventy- ' (lira years old. but his brown wig makes I ( him look much younger than that. He; laughs often, and, judging from his con- ■ slant spii.ing.is never without a chew lot tobacco tn his month. Such is th* [ American Robespierre, w!io-e unhappy destiny it H to reproduce in this country . the sanguinary horrors of the Frenchrevolution, unless he is checkmated by I a beneficent Providi ncn acting through an awakotled and aroused people.” i ■ [ Brevet Majer General Jefferson C Davis of the Twenty-third Infantry, assistant . - t. i i •. i 1

J cofpnii'sioner nf tne freedmen n buit-au . for the State as Kentucky, has been relieved from that duty and ordered to j >in his prop, r station. Permission to delay Ids dvparturejtcr ibiee months was granted Id'll. A. Yonkee girl, who wished to, hire h-raelf out. wastasked if she had any followers or sweetheart®. A'ter a J.ttle hesitation, she replied: “Well, now. eanii rxictlv say. Iba a sorter courted, and I a sorter not. Reckcn more a sorter yes ‘ (ban a sorter no.

Au Eventful Cnreer—History ofaHnnkrupt Conyrcssionul Millionaire* A Franklin, Peenvylvania, correspon dent of the Lewistown, Maine •Zourna?, ■gives the following li.story in the ease ol ■ Hon. Charles V. Cu.vcr, who has been released from imprisonment, in order to take his seat in Congress. The history of tbe late inmata of the jail of this town and count)- just released by a direct intervention of Congress, bv virtue of his privileges as M. C., is both romantic and of inteiest. Six years ago a young man of affable address nnd very agreeable appearance made Ids debur in Franklin, opening a- banking office on seemingly snail, and reported, borrowed capital. By letters of intro JuciivO from most honorable parties, by a suavity of deportment that at once won and retained a large circle ol ac quaintances, by an unobtrusive vet z- alotis interest in the M- thodist Church, and occasional exhibitions of chrwtv, ; magnificent when complied with the ..r ri.- .. ■

I gifts of hts ntig'uboie, tin's young man ramdly g 1( i I1P (j popularity and branched , [out into larger spheres of business. New ■ York city b‘Catne familiar wi ll his name . and Wall street always responded liberally and promptly to his oil lor s) ■ cie . and bonds. Ail at once the apeclative [rxcitement sprang up, and the Wali s n-et banker and Franklin banker drew j vivid pictures progresajand wealih. Indeed, he was elected to our National ! Congress from this District, aid ir. n ■>< a ! member of the Tl.ir'v ninth Congress, an honor given l.iia by an admired constituency. R-tio, a flourishing town in | the oil regions, wasfoundtd by him, and fits principal street now bears Ida name. ! 1A railroad costing 81.60C,000, was lat I out and built and equipped under bis control an! at ti.o expen.aof his pocket;

1 : General Burnside, ot Rhode Island, ac- '. ting hs civd enginee r. A private residence was fitted nnd furnished luxuriantly with ornaments of ! oil paintings and rare work’ of art. Wild lands of Illinois and Indiana were boujlit 1 up, and the deed’ thereof were at bargains in the broker's office, and S r Mor- , toil Peto, and a party were feted by him | with prodigality. Cjnfi lence in him ; and credit io him seemed without limit, until a few months ng > a heavy and stt.L j den diaft on bis New York house found •aol enough ol funds in his safe, nn I Cuiver Penn & Co. were reported as hiving failed to tbe amount of $6,000,000 inI ( debtcdnC’S. Mr. Culver, who was the financial agent and manager of tl.e concern, confessed to the indebtedness of ! -^4,000,000. In addition to several civil suits, ns many indictments are pending against 1 . him, charging him with embezzlenunt and fraudulent pretences, in that special deposits and temporary trust were appro-, printed by him to private ends. It is ' due to Mr. Culver, whom we had be-1 Heved to be of honest purposes, to say (bis neighbors here generally accredit him with no disposition to conccnlmr nt. i and helievc him to be t'.e victim of [wild an-1 visionary sclumcs that have, their first srigin in the atmosphere of tlie New Ymk stock markets, rather than a ; disposed swindler. At hu exhibit to h's 'creditors, Ids assets, valttol on origin d[ [costs, exceeded liis d-bts by #600,000 ( j but no tn >re than two thir ls of the first ( ( price coal I be realiz' d And while he might have availed him , self of hi’ Congressional privi’-ge to to. | ' cure release trom imprisonment long ago, j (ha preferred to meet hia wrong in <narif.il confession rs i'.duc reparation as far «s it was in his power, and p.tier.t sut •

mission to t! e punishment o' th* Courts, :a .d was only released last week on the 1 demand of the Sergeant-nt Anns o‘ thei Unit’d S'at.s floure of Representa'ives. • It is a Strange, ssd spectacle. The O.i f - ( lionier of yesleiday is p«-m>iJe*e to day, and »-v< n *i:s household eff-cis have been kno k’ f d >wo bv the nuc’imser. i /arOnr oi the lameose Twins was I f draned by the rebels daring the Lit* war , ’ but was at last declared exempt on sc-1 I count of having an only brother depen- n jdifg on him for support. j «

Miscegenation. Before Alderman Nichohon there came a short tune since a young and • handsome woman named Eiiza MontI I ‘.«oniery, b»«ring in her arms an infant it five weeks old, wide the most casual ob- > server would nut be a gr«at while in discovering was, to a certain eXUn', of hfyro parint'ige. The woman ncknowlI edged hersil'to be the mother of tho child, and d sired: tmk.t an informa- ■ tion against the father, a “bUck and t.n > for fornication and bastarday. Notwithetanding the character of the intimacy ' which must have existed between them r ilie woman unable to tell ihe name . of the blackamoor. Sue knew his name was Archie', and that was all, A warrant was record ugly issued for the apprehension of Archie. The Hbove, bad ]as it is, is not the worst feature of the ’ 1 case, “ by a jug fail-.” i.f'ir” Mnntguin-ry, a young, brauti■Jul and intelligent girl, resid'd in one of jour suburban villages, where a little ] more 'ban a year r.go, she was met, wo ;d and won by an > rtny officer of this [city, wl.o had hut recently been dis- ; clanged from tho service, nnd whoso [name we suppress from prudential mo’l lives. They were engaged to be married, and the 21 of June last was fixed for the consummation of the event. 5 During last spting she met tbe negro ' Arche, and foig. tting her vows of cons’.ar.ry to her sffimc-d husband, she ‘ tn lintifiued nn iirprop r intercourse with I I the negro—to her lasting infamy bo it (said — almost to the v*ry day o< her marj tinge. Tlie 2d of June came and with it the wedding, which was duly celebrated, i an I tho pair lived happily toge her lor a time. Theymuig wife soon discovered 1 nwvvcr, th t '- rtous consequences were ’ , about to result from her infamous conduct, and she made a“ clean breast ” to I her husband. The d“nounce:ncnt was of course followed by an immediate separation, and an appli-ation for divorce is now pending in court. On Wedoea- ' day last the wretqlird woman made application to the gu.ttdiar.s of the poor, and lo t S'lf <iii<l mnl dto child w-re Bent to the poor farm, where she wII probably .-nd h.r .’art> in misery aud dis grace — Pitlalurgh. Post. | A Wnshing'on correepn„deti‘. cava cf Horace Greek: “ II« has tl.o strangest fadiion of seeming to hear nothing in part'cnlar, yet ol seeing and hearing J everything. Ir, rn-mber once I thought [ l.im sound n sleep through I lie who ! e of one of Dr. Chapin's sermons. He cer[nodded, dropped bis bend, and made all the fearful lunges of a man in a profound nnp. But the tcomert it was ended ho arose, shook hints !', and in the aisle said: ‘A capital sermon! a cnp'tal ter- . tnon!’ And as he went on to talk, sure enough he did know all about it. Thus I lie will look ns if be did not recognize Iy ou and act as if lie bad nothing what. ever to say. And when you have con(eluded that lie regards you hr a n entire stranger, he will astonish you by suddenly making nn unnouncemerit, and r< ferri.ig to sotntthing bark in the past, which makes it per'ectly palpable that he knows all about yon, - >r 11T O' The Baton R, mge Comet gives an account es the death of negro, tinder circuiDS'nnciß of the most extraordinary Icharac er. T'm negro had been buntinff ( wild hogs, and shot one; but the wound i not proving mortal, a struggle took place. The Coto<t ««yv: “ Tbe negro «n 1 hog w>re both fonnd dead—ihe negro with his under jtw firmly Lel<f between tbe jaws ts his t'lrmi. ’ff'’ t*ul.ig.inist, whose upper <«ith had pen- ! etrand nithhute negro’s mourh* while i its under teet'l he’d fast, to the chin of .'the poor dark- y, who in this stra ce encounter proved both victor and victim ” The kiy to the motit-r's heart is the baby. K'p that vwlteied with pra-se. and you can unlock ail tbe pam tiies in tbe house. -j SV“I Lave not loved iign'ly,” at tha mtn said when he married a widow weighing tbre* hundred pousda

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