Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1867 — Page 1

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VOL. 10.

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i and the aggregate number of their votes; is 4,924. Let gentlernee of the rnajor- ! ity contrast theta two districts. ■ Adams and Wills, 4.9?.a roles, one j Representative. Mcrgan aod Johnston,: I 34.5 votes, one representative. What is it? The answer is plain. Adams and Wells are strong Democratic ■ counties. Morgan and Johnston, jointly, Republican. The gentlemen inquires if we are not, j otherwise compensated? Yes, we are? j |in this manner—too many Democrats are ! thrown in ono district for a Represents--1 tire; enough Republican counties are at- ' tacked to constitute a Republican dis- | tricl for senator. You call that compensation, and if we complain, you refer us to the fact that in that matter we are , i compensated iu a congressional appor-1 I tionmenl which gives yet; ten Congress- 1 1 men upon 169,000 votes, and us one 1; Congressman upon 155,000 votes. In ' the face of theso tacts, we are told that . I the bill is fair and constitutional. Some gentlemen of the majority are exceedingly particular about their rights under' this bill; they want their own they say,' ' even to the 90th part of a hair. Well,; now sir, in my opinion, if they force thia biil through, as it now ie, they never: ' will cel their own in this world, and if the Uaivcrsalist’s theology is correct, 1 | they never will in the next. They say ' the bill is fair, not that tt is an equal ap ! portiunment, but that Democrats have I under this bill all they deserve. Tin re has been talk of disloyalty of treason connected with the Democratic party. Let me say, sir, that there has not been a battle fought, from the firing | ol the first gun to the surrender ol the I last reble army, in which brave Demo-J ci.v. officers did not lead and in which ; brave Democrat soldiers did not pour j out their blood freely. Go to every I : Cemetery in the South in which a Union , soldier rests, and you will find there the ; Republican and Democrat sleeping side < by side in that sleep which knows no waking. Go to our firesides made des-1 iolate bv the war, and you will fiud the j ' Democrat’s widow and orphans mourn | mg the husband and father, whose life, ‘was off red <;p on the altar of his country. ; ; Sir, the aidow of Democrat and Re-; | publican, walk together in weeds, woe j and sympathy. Criminations and char- j ires of disloyalty come onl v from polit- ■ ieans who have fruits to pluck j Whatever of glory appertains to the . I war. is 11-« common property of all; ' whatever of woe snd misery is shared by-, I a'l. Then talk no more of the disloyalt v ■ of the great Democratic party, as «reason i for violating the constitution and dfefran- >. Rising them. By this bill, you disfran- ~ elhse 1600 voters in the (ounties of , Adams and Wells. It is true that;

a large majority ara of tuem Democrats; it is also true that a arg®' (number of them are soldiers who have | ' cervod four years. Yon give *be ne S™ < a vote bemuse ho i» a negro—J on take ’ away, virtually, th* ’ fcite man ’’ '°' e because he is a Democrat. notwubsUn-, <lin< he may have served (our year, in ! the Union army. You give Morgan and ' Johnson a Representative ™ 3 46 ™t«. because a Republican will be cleete 1 .there You take away the rights of my U* V-Z nS: will be your action il )«« P« | without an amendment. Sir, i any ! don of mine could defeat the bill, . H"**7,V*■’“» whatever might be the one ■oument under the Hughes bill. Gen F&ESj nn appo'^ 1 ’ n State is only, , t When your majority iu ' 4 U by this bill you take over twothirds of both houses, anJ you , pXutionupon the of your prty f D the most radical cou “ !ieß - * L L ■ <„ nf both branches of the g | t ‘o.«o „ -a.half th® numb-rot . iLa than vu. ’ .-.mesns.®’®" ' tnupb lr» c v tUI , 40,001), votes in lb* S ‘ Democ.at’o by intiment ji

• Our Ccuntry’3 Good shall ever be our Aim-Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAR II 22,1867.

| Wells and Adims Counties. By the terms c f the bill, Jay and Blackford Counties are put together for one district, with 3,981 votes. Wells and Adams one district, with marly 5,000 votes. The amend-uent will give Jay County one Representative, with 2,826 votes, and Welle and Blackford, one, with 3.700 votes, and will take the Representative from Morgan and Johnston Counties, I baaed upon 345 votes, and give it to I Adams County, where it ought to be. Who will be wronged by this chsrge? No one. There ia not. a man on this floor who cau stand up in his place and say that he will be injured. There is not a citizen of any county affected by the change, who cau or will complain of it. 1 There is not a man io the majority, but 1 must say in his own breast, that it ought jto be done. We have been told that it wss determined to put the bill through without change. Will you be driven by the party w l -ip to so outrageous an act aa this? 1 hope not. All we ask is to equalize the largest district in the State, containing 5,0(10 votes, and the smallest, containing 345, so that all may be fairly j represented, aud that ean be accomplish, jed only by the amendment. There is uo reason why the atnenlment should . not pass, unless it is the settled determination of the majority that Democrats J shall not be represented there. 1 am slow to believe tint the majority will adopt that policy and carry it to the extent proposed by this bill. It will take away rather than add political strength to your party. Make the change required by this amendment, and by | that act you will gain more than you wdl ;by passing ths bill as it is, in the (ace of ; all the facts. As “Truth crushed to the earth wiil rise again,” so the rights of a people tr.ken awsy will be recovered. It ie in your power now to do us justice. You are setting us an example, which we may, at some future daj , be at i liberty to follow. Therefore, set us an example to which you can point and say that you dealt farily with us. Half Price. I A playful Hibernian, just arrived in 'London, and wandering about, pnceiv-| led a blanket at a shop door with this; ! inscription on it: “This superior blaniket for half price.” Pel walked in and demanded the price. "Just five shilling',” replied smooth and polished shopkeeper. “By my sowl, an’ that’s chape enough!” and so folding the blanket up, and putting it under his erm, he laid down two shillings and sixpence and was walking off. The shopkeeper intercepted him, and demanded the other; two shillings and sixpence. “An - didn't i you say, you spalpeen, that the price ol die blanket wae five shillings, an’ sure, 1 haven't I give you that half of it? By J this and that, I won't give up tny bar- j gain.’ A scuffle ensued, and Pat was I taken to Bow street, but when there he ; pleaded his ca nse so well that the mag-j istrate dismissed the complaint, and advised the shopkeeper nsver again to ticket bis goods with half price.

M. Thiers, while Minister, was egregiously deceived by a yennggiri, the • dnus'lii'-r <>f a German diplomatic agent. ‘She'won the love of Thiers and his I daughter, end wss treated by them as one Os the family. All doors were open ' to her, since she waa so naive, so naturL) so innocent Since she wssaGerIm’an, they called he! Gretchen, and MiJ'uon The innocent Mignon used her ' position to read Thiers’ dispatches, open hia desk, and examine his private papers Blessed With a gooi memory, she took home to her father infoimat.on wb ieh he sent to the various couna whose secret agent she was. The old Catholic cathedral in San AnItonio, Texas, which has -braved (he bat'tleandihe brers.” tor over two hundred years, is to be torn down and a new one erected m its stead. FiTfi hundred y.ars ago not one man , thonssod could either read or .in tou 1 writ*-

A Romaatic.Courtship. Avery romantic courtslip, fallowed :by a happy marriage, is related to have i begun in one of those “ New Year” Ibonihs of Paris, once on a time, only about six years sgv. A lady, very ; young snd beautiful, was sudd -nly left a widow nod penniless with two children. The idea struck her that she as well as i fliers might succeed in obtaining money °nough to fee 1 and warm her little famj ily for the trying months of the year by i fitting up a atall. She obtained the nt-c---■essiry aitborization, bough', a quanti'y I of dolls, etc, and bravely took her place ■ behind her little counter. Her booth I was situated near a restaurant, and it ■ chanced—it always chances—that a genI tieman of fortune had lately selected this restaurant to taka his dinner. The lady remarked, several days in aucce asion, that the gentleman in question made a great many purchases that be ; must -have a number of little friends to pleas e. Tbs last day the genthman bought the whole remaining stock of the young widow, requested permission to go home with her to make presents tu her children, and the result of the visit ■ was friendship, acouitship and marriage, ; when the lady’s y ear of mourning had !transpired. The lady, wishing to perIpetuatetbe mtmory of the first meeting I with her husband, gives every year a magnificant children's fete at her hotel in the Avenue de L. linperatrice, the principal feature.’, of which ie a booth in gilded boards built in the middle of her saloon, and from whence she herself distributes New Year's gifts to a circle of happy children. This ia one of the bright picture* of Paris. Funny Namss for Children.—The Bufi falo Commercial saye that a gentleman | of that city who returned from San Francisco some months since on a steamer, | relates that among the passengers was a family named Brown. The husband and wife had lived in Net-rasl:*, rmigrato California and afterwards removed to Nevada. After having made his “pile” in Washoe silver mines, Mr. B. was returning to the home of his youth, Rhode Island The Browne were blessed with tliree daughters named respectively Nebraska Blown. Caliternia Brown and Nevada Brown. Mrs. Brown would frequently say to her eldest daughter, ••Come here, Nebraska, end bring California with you,” causing much mirth among the pn«s?r-gera. New Methedist Met ropoliran Church. Tbe Mothodists are building a large monumental church at Washington to cost 3206,1'00. It will be ore of thn largest and most imposing church cd fine on the continent. Pews will be set apart lor the President and hi* Cabinet, the Judges of our courts, Generals of our army, and other distinguished persons. Si ata, also, will be provided for the different States, so that strangers frnm every section cf our extended republic may feel that they hive a place to worship when visiting the metropolis. 8.-ing national in character, persons of every denomination have taken an interest in its completion. Chief Justice Chase and General Grant arc members of the Board of Trustees, and the first men of Hie nation are among th? contributors to this great monumental edrfioe, which is destined to stand forages Co come as a temple of truth and citadel of freedom,

The interesting race between the two American clipper ship o , the Luis Walsh snd the Charlotte W. White, both of ■Belfast, Maine, from Calbo to Algesiras, attracts attention iu Europe. Tlieoe I two vessels sailed on the 26th of September, al the same hoar, and kept company fi f ty-four days, passing Cape Horn on the 26th day. They parted in la’-ti-tude 20, south, longitude 24, west, crossing the line in 65 days, losing lhe northeast trades in latitude 48. longitude 30 west, after which time they had light east winds for seventeen days, nnd eame in company again on the 30th of December, but parted the sama evening On the 6th of January they mot again off Grbralter, when the Luis Walsh won ; the race by twenty-five minutes, after a passage of One hundred nnj four days. (

Pause and Tnink. . When a few years a:;O conservative men protested against assumptions of unconstitutional power by the Pr- /elect, cr by Congress, the answer was that 'he exigency of the times jus ifieri thcourse, that the salvation of the life of the nation was the all important object, that arbitrary power was necessary, and its use pardonable for such a purpose, and that when the exigency was p iss-.-d 'be old rules would be aoa‘n rigidly observed. We do not intend renewing the discussion. Grant that tl.e reasons were ample and controlling, bnl let it be remembered that conservative men then s«id,“ We are afraid that when the ex';

i gency is passed you will not have stregth or courage left to rebifilJ and defend the old barriers.” It was argu»d, and forcibly argued, tbit breaking down constittitinna! immunities was a dangerous buisines’, establishing bad precedents, and cl.nt it would be very difficult nt the end of the war to stop the habit and custom of disregarding the superior force of the old character of liberty. The time has long since arrived when those who promised to stand by strict constitutional law after the cii.-is was passed J should redeem their promise. Thousands have followed blindly the lead of ambitious or artful men, far be yond the limit which they marked out when they joined these men. The present aspect of affairs in Congress is that of a body of men seeking to break the whole system cf governmet and conc-n trated in Congress held by the President, Judiciary and Legislature. Devices are every day brought to light for overcomeing the provisions of the Constitution, and destroying the checks which the fathers wisely provided. The tendency of every thing is toward a thoiougb revolution. Is it not time for men to pause and think? However thev

may have felt in time ol wr r, we aie persuaded that the present aspect of affairs is calculated to arrest the attention of thoughtful men end to remind them of the duty of standing by the Constitution as it is, ns the only Lope for the future. The do vrnward track isensv. It is more difficult to pause Mid turn back, But it is assurr’ly the moment now for wise cit-ffz'-ns to rifled, nnd if they have become accustomed to rtg-ird the Constitution as » myth or sn oi l jia;climent.it is time to look on it with something of the . u-i -Lt veneration. — New York Journal of Com- ' merce. Radical Morality. 1 Governor Stone, of lowa, is in a pretty fix Last year committee of lhe lo va Legislature was appointed to investigate a deficiency of £36,000 in the Governor Stone. Recently th. eame matter was brought before a referee, and the Governor again celled as a witn-ss when he swore to the contrary of what l,e had previously testified before the committee Being asked by counsel the renson of the discrepancy, Governor Sione replied that iriie regarded the investigation bj the General Assembly merely as a politics! investigation, and the present as a legal investigation, and benco the differ crence in his evidence.” If this be a fair sample of “ loyal” morality, says the New York it is suggested that all radicals certainly all such radicals, be put under oath. It might put an end to the fictitious tales of outrages at the South upon the freedmen and “loyal” white citizens J. B. was a stingy o'd creature, eager; for money; but he was a zealous memJerl of a church, ar.d ostentacious in bis rtdi ’ gious exercises: “ John,” ssid Catherine to her brother,” what could have made! that stingy old wretch a Christian?'' I “I can tell you,” eaid John, “he has read that the streets of the New Jerus-J l€m are paved with gold, and he is determined to gel there.” Death of Atemu» Ward.-— Charles F. Brown, better known as “ Artemus Ward,” author of a series of popular comic productions, and a successful lecturer, died Southampton England, ■ on the 6;h. i

The Wool Tariff. The biil amending the present tariff on wools and woolens, which p iscd the Senate on Saturday, is the House tariff bill ■ of last session, being the b-11 indorsed by Uie wool growers at their National '! Convention at Cle-a'dand, last November, ■ and by the d iffs.l till State Wool Growers : Chnventio:’. held since tint ti ne. It is the joint produc ion of the wool growers and woolen manufacturers, and is reg r led as a bill furnishing lhe b'-st classifica- ; li.ni of these products, with n view tv / prevent dustom house frauds ar.d erai j sions, yet devised, except the proposed uniform specific duty on al! wools, which has been a favorite -n .ns-ue with manv

; Western m<n; r.d which hashed an eu- ■ Special champion ia Mr. Wont worth. ‘ But for the ch ince which the bill ass >rjs I for eva-inn by the third via ificati n, tho / bill is all 11:3'. the woo! growers duIshcl. ■ I II makes the duty on clothing wools /Merinos, Mes'iza, Metz, Metis wools, 1 and other wools o f M'-rino blood—of the ! 1 value at the last port whence exported, •i excluding charges in said pert, of 32 cents ui less pe.' pound, 10 cents' per I pound, end 10 per cent, ad valorem; of a va! ue excerding 32 cents, 12 cents per pound, and 10 per c.-nt.aff valorem. Thn duiy on combing w rols—Loire it er . Cotswold, Lincolnshire, down combing • wools, Canada long wools, e'e , etc. —of : the value of 32 cents pound or less as ■ above, is fixed et 10 cents per pound, and 10 per cent ad valorem of a value ex . ceedicg 32 emts per pound, 12 ce ts p r pound, and 10 per cent ad vil orem. The dn ; y on carpet wools—Don«ki na- ■ five, South America, Cordova, V.dp-.ra-iso native, Smyrna, etc , etc —of the v.,1of 12 cents per pound er 1-s -, ns :.b >ve. is fixed at 3 cents per pot: -fa v due exceeding 12 cents per pound, 6 c.-nts per dound. Sheepskins and Angrra goat slrias, raw or unmanufactured, imported w h wool on, washed or now .she !, the du'y ' is 30 per cent, ad valorem; and on «-«of!en rags, shoddy mongo, w;.. te an ! flocks 'll cents per pound. ' 1 A t Uxfii'J, ton.e twin y yeats a<?n, a ; tutor of one of the colirges Lmpe I iu his , walk. Stopping one day l ist summer at ! a railway station, lie was accos'cd bv a ■ well k.iown politic! m, who recogr/z-d | him, and asked if he was not the chap'lan of the colk'g; at sUc’i a 11 ie*. 11M11Jing the year. The doctor replied that be j was. “I was t’ere,” tail h's intern - 1 gator, “and I knew you by yovr limp.” I “Well,” eaid (lie doctor, “it teems my j limping male a deeper impression on you ; than my preaching.” “Ah, doctor,” was ,'l.c reply, with ready wit, “it is lhe high- : est compliment »e cau pay a minister to •s iy that he is known by his walk lather than Ins cobvi rsnti< n.” A man was recently bh-esed by an ad. dition tn Ins household, which cuno “like a thief ia the night.” The next morning the happy father took his tour-yenr-old boy to the upper loom, to see the little brother, v .0, hiving nev-r perused Catlin's work—“K ep Your Mouth Shut,” —-was quietly enj >ying I.is first morning nap with his little mnu’h onea. All were quietly watching the tl- ‘ drr, and desirous to cnteii hi-, first observation. With eyes firmly fixed al the new come:, nnd with n countenance showing trouble within, aft'-i n f«-w moments of silence, he defiantly exvlaimvd, “I should like to know who pullod out the I baby's tic h.” I A terrible accident occur. I in the wo.'ds in Wisconsin, by which a man was ■ thrown eighty feet into th.2 air. Tho j man killed was , in nding on a baHn»- | tico to fo e nnother tree come -’ ’ J' * ° ' '.'up tree, in i'.s faliin®' ’ L 'j other end ”» * bicb ,bc ,n! ‘ n . I -mnding, and the tremendous weight lefit, comeing on the spring lever, tlncw him like a shot into the air. A man in Portland, Me , ntten fe ’ a masquerade, dre.sed ns an ape. While passing through an entry a large New- ' foundlnnd dog attacked him. and (obliged io fly fpf np- life.

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