Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1867 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE.

VOL. 11.

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A town in Connecticut has a standing reward of S 3 per head for foxes killed within the town limit. A hunting party went out recently and killed thirteen foxes, and claimed the reward; but the selectmen refused payment because the animals were young ones. When is a fox a fox? is now the question. A law has recently taken effect in Missouri, making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for a man to abandon his wife or children under twelve years of age, or to neglect or refuse to maintain and provide for them. This is not in conformity with woman’s rights’ notions, so far as the support of the wife is concerned. Lines and Diamonds. — Enter rich heiress to Quaker Aunt.— “ Good morning, aunt, how does thae do?” “Verv. well.l thank thee. And how does thee do?” “Very well. Does thee .see my new diamond car-rings?” “Ah, are they real diamonds?” “Yes—they cost three thousand dollars. My love gave them to me. How does thee like them?" “Well, I must bear my testimoney according to my convictions, and I must say that I would rather know that thee wore clean linen, than to see thee withjhose diamonds in thine earsl” Curtain falls.”. Congressional Robbery.—lt is a most disgraceful fact that our Congressmen, after having contracted to render Congressional service for a salary of $3,000 per year, raised the *monnt to $5,000, and then made haste to re•duee the revenue upon income of $5,000 and upward from ten to five per cent. Such utter shamelessness and barefaced want of principle are not often witnessed —outside of Con■gress. This is the worst ns well as the meanest "kind of robbery. If men must rob, let them ■do it in the old way, and not degrade and prostitute the laws to their purposes. Steal, •“gentlemen,” if you must, but don’t defile the laws with your light and filthy fingers.— Louisville Journal.

A Paris correspondent thus describes Na poleon’s position at worship in his private chapel in the Tuileries: “Tho Emperor and Empress occupy large arm-chairs of crimson velvet and gold placed in front of the pulpit; the Archbishop and other dignitar-es seats to their right and left. The ministers and officers of state have smaller velvet chairs immediately behind .them, while the household have benches reserved for their use, separated by gilt balustrades. The walls are adorned with paintings of considerable merit, and the chapel is lighted by out glass girondoles of great size and elegance of form. Tickets of -admission to the galleries are given as a personal favor by of the household to their friends. On Good Friday ladies are only admitted to black dresses and wearing -black vails. Her Majesty’s cpstume on-ibis festi val invariably consists of black silk and .a Spanish laoe mantilla.”

THE MOTTO. BY JOHN G. SAXH. “Give me a motto!” said a youth To one whom years had rendered wise, “Some pleasant thought, or weighty truth, That briefest syllables comprise; Some words of warning or of cheer To grave upon, my signet here.” “And reverend father,” said the boy, “Since life, they say, is ever made A mingled web of grief and joy; Since cares may come and pleasures fade--Pray, let tho motto have a range Os meaning matching every change.” “Sooth!” said the sire “methinks you ask A labor something over'Tiioe, That well a finer brain might task,— . What think you, lad, of this advice? (Older than I—though I am gray,) ’Tie simple— ‘ This will pass away!’ When wafted on by Fortune’s breeze, In endless peace thou seem’st to glide, Prepare betimes for rougheY seas, And check the boast of foolish pride! Though smiling joy is thine to-day, Remember, ‘This will pass away!’ W hen all the sky is drapped in black, And, beaten by tempestuous gales, Thy shuddering ship seems all a wreck , Then trim again thy tattered sails: ‘ To grim Despair be not a prey; j. Bethink thee, ‘this will pass away!’ Thus, O my son, be not o’er proud. Nor yet cast down; judge thou aright When skies are clear expect the cloud; In darkness, wait the coming light: Whatever be thy fate to-day, Remember, ‘This will pass away!’ ” HOW I WAS DUPED.

It is now many years since I first visited Paris, but if I lived to be a centenarian, I am certain I shallnot forget that firstjourrey from London while I remember anything. I was then young and inexperienced, but sufficiently vain to think myself a paragon of wisdom. Like most Londoners. I thought that wonderful city the very heart of the world, and all outside of it mere suburbs and comparatively small places, among which, of course, Paris was the most respectable. I had not been overburdened With education, and my reading had been principally confined to English history and English glory. Os course I was just the person who had yet a great deal to learn before I could know much. Well, one morning, which happened to be the twenty-first anniversary of my mortal existence, finding myself the lordly proprietor of a thousand pounds, I concluded to celebrate my freedom by running over to Paris and assuming the role ofa highly intelligent and enlightened traveler from foreign parts. So fi ting myself out in a style that would have made me the envy of a Pawnee chi ef—far more brilliant than a rainbow and with quite as many colors—l procured my passport and started forCalais, as full of confidence as a little cherub in his first pair of new boots. There were a great many more persons going over than I had expected to see; but I consoled myself with the probability that very few of them were desliireu-ror raris, antr tnat not nr single one of them was quite as well dressed as my worthy self. In all pompous importance of a conceited fool—for such I now honestly confess I was at that time—l was pacing the steamer, some two hours later, admiring the picturesque views on either hand as we glided swiftly down What I then re garded as tho mighty Thames, when I felt a light tap on my shoulder, and heard a very pleasant voice say. “Pardon me, my lord ! but may I venture to ask if you are destined for Paris?” Now I was in reality very far from being a lord, or the son of a lord, or oven the kin of a lord—my father in truth being only a respectable tradesman; but there was somthing so very agreeable in the title, that I felt no special anxiety to disown it. I turned to tho speaker, and beheld a rather handsome, well dressed young man, of per haps five-and-twenty with black hair and eyes, moustache and imperial, who smiled, and held out his hand, adding: „ I ’ll wager a champagne supper, Viscount you are at your old tricks again, traveling incognito, and leave it to yoar passport to decide. Well,” he continued, heartily shaking my hand, “well met, I trust, and how are my Lord and Lady Albyn?” Now although I should have been delighted at that time to have passed for a lord incognito, I saw the stranger knew too much of the family of the noblemen for which he had mistaken me, to make it safe for me to venture on that deception; and so, drawing myself up with an air intended to show a noble breeding, at least, I said, very stiffly: “You are mistaken, sir, Albyn is not my family name.” “A thousand pardons, my lord!” exclaimed the other; in surprise; “I see my mistake now; you are not my old friend, the discount; but so like him, that better eyes than, mine might have been deceived. Pardon me again if, I seem to trespass upon your good nature, my lord, by introducing myself to your notice as thq- Hon. Robert Beaufort, youngest son of Lord Cawdale.” "Very happy, sir, to make your acquain-

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tance!” returned I, with a very stiff bow, intended to be very dignified. “But why,” I pursued, feeling internally more flattered than I wished to have, appear, and really delighted that I had come in contact with one of England's profid'aristocraoy, “why do you address me as if you knew me to be one of the nobility?” ‘Because, my lord, your whole manner shows to an experienced eye you are not a commoner.” “Very well mistake my position in this respect, 1 see no reason why I should undeceive him.” "Yes,” he continued,'glancing admiringly .over my person, “even were your lordship to deny your rank, I should—pardon'mc forsaying so—still believeyou were only endeavoring to ebneeal your true position—though, of course I should have too much regard for good breeding to tell you so ? Do not think me over bold, my lord for again venturing the offer of a champagne supper, that you are down on your passport as a plain commoner!” “You are right!” said I with a smile, intended to qonyeyjthe impression that his shrewdness had penetrated my disguise. “I knew it, my lord!” he triumphantly exclaimed; “ I Knew it!” I did not caution him against adressing mo according to my supposed rank, for besides the flattering sound was very agreeable to my ears, I counted on its being disclosed to, or overheard, by others, and thus being mysteriously elevated in their estimation. Long before we had crossed the channel, the Hon. Mr. Beaufort and myself had became very intimate. We walked together, we

played together, we talked much, and commented on everything, He had travled a great deal, and of course I was in luck to fail in with him on this account, to say nothing of his being the son ofa lord. He was a-going to show me Paris and French life and I must leave all to him. He knew how to save me all trouble and bother froiq the police officer at Calais, and he would look at my passport-, to see that it was in perfect order, and also overhauled my trunk and tell me the exact amount of duty I should have to pay. This he did, andthen observed: “Oh, a matter often guineas will see you through cllright, my lord!—Yours is a mere trifle—it will cost me a cool hundred; but I suppose you left at home all except absolute necessaries, as I ought to have done. By-the-by, as we are nearing Calais now, you may just hand me the amount, and I will arrange it without givingyour lordshipany trouble whatever. Yet stay?” he immediately added, with a vexed expression; “confound it what Rm I thinking about! talking money affairs to your lordship, as if you were a mere commoner! A good joke, though, in its way—ha! hatha!,—only you must not tell it on me in the -‘saloons of fashions, my lord ! No I’ll tell you what, my lord! I understand these things, and I’ll arrange all, put your baggage with mine, and we’ll make it all right at the end of the journey. I began to think it was going to cost me something to keep up my title; butthen it was high life, might not last long, and perhaps never come again, and so I resolved to see it ‘through while my money lasted. As we drew near Calais, all was excitement and bustle on board our steamer, each one anxious to look out and get possession of his baggage and otherwise arranged for getting ashore at the earliest possible moment. As my friend had so kindly volunteered to take all trouble and rebponsibilitv off my hands, I felt very easy and contented, and was amusing myself with the fleet of little boats that had gathered around us, filled with curiously dressed persons, all eager to gain the patronage of the passengers for themselves or employers, when the Hon. Mr. Be aufort hurrying up and drew me apart from the others. “I find.” he said, “I have not gold enough to pay the duties and get us to Paris. Could you oblige me with change for a five-hundred pound note?” “Unfortunately,” I replied, “I have not more than fifty guineas in my possession, the rest of my funds being in a draft on De!ess<>rt & Co., Paris.” “How unfortunate! what is to bo done? By the bye, will you let mo see your draft, my-lord!” I produced it. “Stay a minute, till I speak to the captain!” he said, “I think I can arrange it.” He hurried away, with the draft in his hand. For the first time I felt a little suspicious of some trick, and waited his return with some anxiety. He came back, however, in about ten minutes, and asked me for my passport, saying he thought he could get through without any trouble. As we had not reached the pier, I handed him that, but with the resolve of having it back before going ashore. When, som ten minutes later, he returned with a cheerful smile, and, folding up my papers, put them in my hand, with the'remark that all was right, I was so ashamed of my late suspicions that I felt myself blush. “The clerk,” he said; “has changed my note

at a fair discount, giving me half gold, and the rest in bills on the Bank of France. By,-the-by, my lord, supose you take a few—you may want to use them before you get your smalVdraft cashtcL" 1 declined at first; buthe insisted so strongly on my taking and carrying them, even though I thought- I might not want to use them, that at last, fearing longer refusal would hurt his feelings I consented to put them in my pocket-book. Under the management of my friend, who spoke French as fluently as, English, everything get on smoothly, and I soon found myself transported from the steamer to a fine hotel—without, as he said, having any trouble whatever. —Our passports, meantime, bud been given us and sent on to Paris,and temporary ones, as is the custom, had been furnished, in the place of them. We spent one merry night in Calais, and took the diligence for the capital. ■I will pass over the remainder of my journey, with the simple remark that every moment more and more endeared me to my agreeable and aristocratic friend, and the only regret I had was in the fact of being in a false position, which sooner or later he might discover to my grief and shame. I concluded, however, I would enjoy life for once, and trust to luck for finally cscap ing from a disagreeable denouncement: On finally arriving at Paris, our passports were again demanded; and no sooner was mine examined than the officers informed me that I was under arrest and must come with him. My French was none of the best: but in my surprise and consternation, I made the best use of it I could, and demanded what was meant by such proceedings. “You will find that out at your examination,” was his sharp reply, as he dragged me from the diligence and conducted me into a close carriage, where a couple of officers took their seats beside me. When away we were whirled to the office of a magistrate; and I was unceremoniously hurled into a small, close room, half filled with police officers, sergeants, and lawyers. On the bench sat a small; withered specimen of humanity, with a wig on his head and spectacles on his forehead, quietly engaged in the undignified employment of- seeing how much snuff he could get up his little nose in tho shortest possible time. “Well,” he said, jerking down his spectacles and taking a good stare at me, “what now?”

As I could understand French much better than I could speak it, I was able to make out what was said;- and -to my great astonishment, I now heard myself accused of being a notorious swindler and counterfeiter. ‘•What is your name?” demanded the Commissary. “Ralph Hodge,” said I. “An alias,” said one of the police officers; on his passport is, Robert Beaufort.” “A mistake then!” cried I; “that is the name of the gentleman that came over from ■ London with mo; he took my passport, and must have changed it by mistake.” The officers smiled incredulously, and exchanged glances with each other and themagistrateand the latter shaking his head, sail it wouldn’t do. “My draft on Delesscrt & Co., will prove it!” exclaimed 1, bethinking myself of that and producing it with trembling eagerness. The Commissary glanced over Hand frowned. “Another mistake, perhaps!” he said, with ironical bitterness, pointing out the name of Robert Beaufort. The truth now flashed upon me with such sudden force that I was obliged to grasp something to keep myself from falling. My companion was then no other than a professional villain, who had played upon my foolish vanity and made me his dupe and scape-goat. He had got my passport and draft, and saddled me with his own name and iniquities. Secretly cursing my foolish stupidity, I tried to make the magistrate comprehend the true state of the case but he either did not or would not understand me. A search of my person brought to light the bills on the Bank of France, which were pronounced counterfeits; and after this, an angel from Heaven might have pleaded my innocence in vain. And so I, who had come over to Paris to astonish the natives, and who all the way hither had been hugging myself with the idea of creating a fashionable sensation, found myself, on the very first day of may arrival, lodged in prison, among thieves and murderers, aecused of a crime which would probably send mc v tor’Ac‘galleys. After a good deal of trouble and delay, however, I managed to get the British Embassy interested in my case, and in course of time the truth came out, and I was set at liberty. My money had all been drawn though long before; and the villain who had robbed and gulled me, was safe ocross the frontier, chuckling over the cunning arts by which he I had defrauded a fool. As soon as I could, I got-buck toJxmdoßi to find myself a general laughing stock

But I had learned one valuable lesson, at an expense of suffering and money, that I have not forgotton to this day; and if any other sharper flatters himself that he can make another foolish dupe of me, just lethim come and try it, that’s all!

Wendell Phillips on the politi- , cal Situation—The President , Impeachment—Andrew Johnson Dissected—The Radical , Reconstruction Programme— General Grant and tho Presidency. Mubcatinb, lowa, April 5, 1867. Dear Stanpard—lt is of course needless for me to tell you of my interest in your labors; yet I do not know that I have anything else to tell you. Thus far distant from the" centre of public affairs, I hardly dare to risk any conjectures before your readers. It seems to us off here that the Fortieth Congress dares not impeach the President. The patronage of the Executive has been too strong a temptation for Congressional virtue to resist. How gratefully the members pick up evey little crumb of comfort that can be got from any slight show of deference to their opinion on the part of Johnson! Again and agvin have I trembled lest the two parties should fraterniz”! they yielding nine-tenths and he yielding nothing except gracious phrases. Still, I think we may have great trust in the stolid obstinacy of Johnson. That is areliance whichhas never yet failed us, and the stock seems inexhaustible. Were he an ordinary man, simply mulish, I should be tempted to despair. A little compliance with the temper of the people, and a seeming submission to the military law, would largely reinstate him in public respect and sympathy. But with his sublime selfconceit, and his entire belief that the North is really with him, I think we may trust him so as to astound the public and exasperate Congress that in due time he will either be impeached or wholly stripped of his executive power. Tho Kentucky and Tennessee mules are the finest in the woi Id. If any man doubts itlet him watch our history the next five years. Without counting, therefore, much on the virtue or intelligence of Congress, I look for constant progress in the right direction, Lord John Russell, you remember, talked of the re- ! form bill of 1831 as a '• finality.” So some men seem to fancy the military bill a “fin&lity It is only a halfway home on the Congressional road from Lincoln to Stevens. The train stops there to wood and water; gets rid of some passengers and a large amount of baggage, to go forward at an increased speed. All our duty is to press constantly on the nation the absolute need of three things. 1. exercise of the whole police power of the government to hold-the South quiet while the seeds of republicanism get planted. 2. The constitutional amendment, secureing universal suffrage in spite of all State legislation.

3, A costitutional amendment authorizing Congress io establish common schools in any i State destitute of them, at the expense of the State. For these measures we must educate the public mind. These are the soil in which the seeds of good governmeet and equal rights can alone be trusted. But I think we must direct our care a little father ahead. Johnson is watched and will be impeached or crippled. The next important question is to whom shall the nation give the helm for tho next four years? Isa Democratgets it we shall lose two-thirds of the fruits of war. With radicalism at the helm, we may save twothirds of what we have earned. In the four years the pressu -e from business men for the Government to open in some way, and on some conditions, the old channels of business, will be irresistible. The Republican 1 eodershavingsecured(lftheydo secure) a party triumph, by keeping the South out of the Electoral College of 1868, will give way. The next Administration, therefore, must be expected to settle this q uestion. The bias of that man who occupies the White House, then, will be of immense importance. Now the country is drifting in to the Presidency ofGeneral Grant—a man of whose political ideas, if he has any, no man can tell us anything. The first assertion of liis friends is that he is a safe man because he has no political ideas, and will be in good hands. Next time we want a man with brains and a heart of his: ovfc, not one who depends on being girded and guided “whither ho will not.” Astounding madness! Republicans tell us they must nominate Grant, else tho Democrats will. In these hours, when the nation agonizes for existence, we take no man for our leader so lacking in principle that he will suit either party equally well. Two armies in deadly fight, one deliberately chooses for its leader such a perfect Swiss that the other will clutch him if the otherdoes not. Lincoln's fear of Kentucky did us infinite harm. I hope Grant's love for it will not be allowed to do us more. Memphis New Orleans and Baltimore are enough to show how Grant does his miltary duty. Do they encourage us to trust him with any civil ones? Wbndell Phillips. NFSubeoribe fqr the Eagle.

The Bewi, The Secretary of the Interior has received information that the third section of twenty miles of the central branch of the Union Pacific road former ly known as the Atchison Pikes Peak road has been completed. A fatal disease termed meningita prevailed sometime past on Long Island. It attacks persons in robust health and generally terminates fatally in forty-fivohours. The membranes of the brain and the whole muscular system is subjected to strong contraction. A reaction and stupor follows, under which the patient dies. The general agent of the Southern Famine ■ Relief Commishion states the cash receipt* np to the present timeat SICC,OCO, Os this sum he sends in gold $31;000, or increased to currency $40,000, New York, $1,300; the country West and East. $74,000. The distr< ss is authoritatively stated to bs very great, and is increasing. The relief through the freedmen’s bureau, under the recent act of Congress, is inadequate, Increased contributions are urgently solicited. In theSnprcme Court in the case of William O. Sanborn versus Lilly a verdict was rendered for defendant, The action was brought by plaint iff to recover $24,000 which had been stolen from a safe purshas d by him from defendant's agents at Chicago, under represent** tions that it was burglar proof. The safe was broken into by sledging the pindle of the knob on the outside of the chest.

Secretary Seward issued a circular to agents and ministers of the United S tates stationed at the ports likely to be visited by General Sher-, man’s expedition to the Holy Land, commending the General and his party to their consideration, and intimating that any attention paid to him by foreign States will be greatefqlly appreeiated by the Government. The Secretary of the Navy has given orders to supply tbo Quaker Cit’y the vessel in which the party sails with artillery and flags, to be used in saluting. The Herald's Matamoras, Mexico, correspondent gives further news from the vicinity nf Oranebc, of the 22d ultimo. No doubt at present exists that the recent engagement resulted in an Imperial defeat. The fighting was very stuborn, and the losses were admitted by Escobedo to be very heavy on both sides. The Imperial chiefs had issued a proclamation offering $lO to any soldiers who would join them with his arms, and $a for any one w’ho wouldjoin them without them. Itis probably intended as a bait for deserters from the Liberals . The Trihune’s special says several interpretationshave been given to the opinions of Solicitor Jordanon the civil tenure of office bill. I have made inquiry and fiud the following to be the correct versions. The Secretary of the Treasury having on several occasion asked the opinion of the Solicitor on certain appointments under the civil tenure of office bill, three decisions were rendered by the Solicitor. The first was in case where a vacancy in office occurred previous to the dateof the tenure ofoffice law such vacancy should be filled under the old law. Second—Where a vacancy under the tenure of office law occurs in the collectorship or assessorships, and where the Senate has failed to confirm a nominee, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to fill the office temporarily by the appointment of a deputy collector or assessor, as the case may be, although the law does not provide for such action.

Third—Secretary of the Treasury lias power at will to remove such deputy or appoint another to hold office until a regular collector or assessor shall be appointed and confirmed. These opinions received the approval of Attorney General Stanberry. Marshal Law in the South. Gen. Sickles, commandant of military district No. 2, embracing North and South Carolina, has issued orders under date of Charles* ton, South Carolina, April 11, setting forth, that the general destitution prevailing among the population of the district renders necessary for their relief the adoption of extraordinary measures. He therefore orders that no person shall be imprisoned for debt, except upon conviction of fraud; that judgement or decrees for the payment of money on causes of action arising between December 19, 1380, and May 15,1865, shall notbe enforced by execution against the property or persons of the defendant; that sheriffs. corners and constables shall suspend for twelve mqnths salesof property on liabilities contracted prior to December 19th, 1862. All proceedings for the recovery of money for the purchase of negroes are suspended. That in sales of property by execution, or order of court, there shall be reserved to defendants having families depending upon them, implements of husbandry, household goods, etc, to the value of five hundred dollars; and that the property of absent debtors shall not be taken under the foreign attachment protests. The order also prohibits the practice of carrying deadly weapons, except by officers and soldiers, and makes an offender amenable to trill and punishment by a military commission. The punishment by death, for burglary and larceny, is abolished. Authority is given the Governors of North and South Carolina to reprieve or pardon persons convicted and sentenced, and to remit finek and penalties. »

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