Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1867 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE.

VOL. 11.

DECATUR EAGLE, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY A. J. HILL. PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Monroe Street in the second story of the building, formerly occupied by •Jesse Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription: ■One copy one year, in advance, fl ,50 If paid within the year. 2,00 If not paid until the year has expired, 2,50 ETPapers delivered by carrier, twenty five •cents additional will be charged. ItFNo paper « ill be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the (publisher. Rates of Advertising: One column, one year, SOO,OO One-half column, one year 35,00 One-fourth column, one year, 20,00 Less than one-fourth column, proportional Tates will be charged. Legal Advertisements: One square [the spa-e of ten lines bre vier] one insertion, $2,00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 lUNo advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be coun ted and charged as two; over two ns three, <fcc. ETLocal notices fifteen cents a line for each insertion. iCFßeligious and Educational notices or adverti.icments, row he contracted for at lower rates, by application at the office. Bj’Deaths and Marriages published as news —free - JOB PRINTING. We are prepared to doall kinds of Plain and Fancy Job Printing, nt the most reasonable rates. Giv us a call, we feel confident that atisfaction can be given. A Georgia negro orator says down South they are going to “mix the races like rum and molasses.” • ■ I ! I I I I IM The Empress Carlotta is worse instead of better. Her fits of insanity are more violent and the lucid intervals more rare, One Richmond gentleman recently challenge d another, and the challenge was accepted. There was a Miss in the case. The parties shot at each other, and there were two misses in that case. The strike of the iron works at Pittsb urg, Penn., has terminated, the men resuming work at the old prices, Great loss has been entailed upon them, and they are now satisfied that employers could not pay the prices demanded without ruiniug themselves. Some of the employers are keeping their establish, mepts going without profits, simply to give employment to the workmen. A Steamer left Pittsburg, Penn., the 3d in st for the Missouri river, and the Montana mining regions,—distance of nearly 4,000 miles. -She carried a number of families designing to settle in that remote territory, and took on at Cincinnati fifty-fire Dakota Indians, on their way’ home from Washington.

The Fate of Dr. Livingstone.—lnformation had reached the British Admirality, •which dispels the last faint hope of the fate of Dr. Livingstone. The Times of India publishes additional evidence that the great explorer is dead. An Arab had brought intelligence which leaves hardly any room for hope. If the man is to be beleivod, he saw poor Livingstone receive his deathblow, -Queen Victoria has again appeared in the •public streets of London, which act callcd..forth the following from a journal circulating in the higher circles; ‘‘Notwithstanding 'the coldness of the day, on Thursday her Majesty passed up Regent street, in an open carriage. It need not be said that great gratification was felt at tvhat appeared something like a return to olden times. — * • I lll—♦ r / Morocco, formerly the terror of Christian - nations, on account of her piratical vessels, ■How has not a ship afloat, and some of the •’Christian,nations have combined to put up a light house at Cape Spartel, the Government •of Morocco refusing to do it on the ground that that nation has nothing to lose by shipwrecks. During the celebration at Richmond of the ■surrender of Lee’s army, a few nights since, a colored orator, named Fuller, advocated miscegeuation, and said “he had no use for -any white man who did not want him or any other colored man to marry his daughter. ’ Thereupon two white girls, Miss Carrington ■ and Miss Van Lew, made their way throngh the crowd and shook hands with the speaker in token of their approval of his lofty sentiments. Among the registrars appointed* by Major ..■General: Sheridan for the Second District of t New Orleans, appears the name as Mr. T. C. Thomas, a representative of the large and respectable class of free colored people in that city. He has passed the meridian of life, is a native of the*" city, and has been for many years a commission broker in Exchange alley. He-is a man of irreproachable character, and his appointment proves very popular to all •classes of citizens.

The two Partings. The following is a tale from real life. The National Baptists from which it is copied, states that the incidents can be verified at the office of a gentleman, at 530, Arch street Phil-, adelphia.,—Eos.] On a winter evening many years ago, a fair young girl stood before the glass in her own pleasant little room, giving the last touches to her toilet. That night was the first party of the season, and, perhaps, Emma might be excused if she lingered a little longer than usual, smoothing once again her dark brown hair, and adjusting the soft folds of her beautiful dress. “Come Emma,” called her mother at length; “I am afraid you forget that Mr. B , is waiting for you.” No; Emma had not forgotten, as the rosy blush that stole across her cheeks Testified, Her last thought, as she stood smiling at her refection in the glass had been. “This is the color which he likes; I am.sure he will be pleased. Quickly she hurried down stairs, and after playfully excusing her delay, while the flush deepened at Mr. ’s evident admiration, turned to her mother saying, “I believe lam ready at lost.” “Take good care of yourself, darling,” said her mother, as she wrapped a warm shall around the slender form, “and don’t stay very late." Thcirdestination was soon reached, and as the young man moved through the brillianty lighted room many a glance of admiration was cast at his companion, and more than one of his friends whispered, “James is a lucky fellow; I’d give a good deal to monopolize Miss Emma as he does.” The evening sped joyous'y on, and at length toward its close, refreshments, were handed around. Mr. B was standing a little apart from Emma, who was the centre of a laughing group of young girls, when the lady of the house, with a smile, offered him a glass of wine. “No, I thank you, I do not drink it,” was the reply. “Pshaw! what nonsense,” she returned, “No one has refused it this evening, and I don’t intend to allow you to be the first. Come, just take one glass: it can’t hurt any one.” “I cannot do it, he answered gravely, “for I have determined never to taste a drop.” “Come here, Emma," called the lady, “I want you to coax this obstinate young man to take a glass of wine. I know he will not refuse you.” Emma took the glass in her little white hand and with a smile which few could resisted, said, “come James, you will take just this one glass.” 1 “No, Emma,” he answered, with a powerful effort. “I have made up my mind and you must not ask me to change it. “Then you shall not accompany me home ;to night, Mr. B ,” said Emma, with an ■ angry flash of her dark eye, “now take your ■ choice.”

“1 must bid you good-bye then Emma, if it comes to that,” he said sorrowfully, “I would gladly do anything else for you, but that I can not do. So saying he bowed and i turned away. j “Never mind, Emma, I’ll see you home,” said a young man standin g near, whose blush'ed face betokened that he had taken more than one glass. “Let him go, that ill natured fellow.” So saying, he offered his arm, which Emma accepted, and they movad off together. More than ten years had passed away. Mr. B was married aud established in a prosperous business, and by degrees the incidents of his parting with Emma were almost forgotten. One day, a man with whom he was slightly acquainted, came into his store and asked for employment. “I am afraid, I can’t give it to you, Norris” was the answer. “I make it a rule never to have any one in my employ who is intemperate.” “But I mean te stop all that, Mr, B ■ ■ ■■■” said the man earnestly. “I have made up my mind to quit drinking entirely. It’s rather hard not to give a man a chance when he wants to reform.” “Well,” said Mr. B , partially relenting. “I will try you, come into the back part of the store, and I will give you some work.” A bundle was soon’made up with which Norris departed. Several days elapsed; and the work not being returned, Mr. B—— sent to his residence to ask the reason,. Alas! it was the same old tale of sorrow. The husband and father had gone oh a drinking frolck, leaving a sick wife and three starving children. Mr. B ’s generous heart prompted him to go to their relief at once, He entered the miserable dwelling, and found the sick woman lying in a room almost bare of furniture; while thechildrjn silting on the floor .by the bedside, were crying for bread. A

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few kind words and a promise of something to eat, soon dried up their tears; and hastening to the grocery, he returned with an ample supply, he broke among the famishing children. “While he stood smiling at their delight, the mother burst into tears; and exclaimed, “Oh, Mr, can you forgive me?” “What do you mean?” he asked in astonishment. “Don’t you remember Emma F ? Don’t you remember my offering you the wine at the party, and you refusing it?—God knows, I wish I could forget it; but it seems as if it were branded on my heart in letters of file.” It was some moments before Mr. B could realize that the miserable creature be- ! fore him was indeed the bright, fascinating girl from whom he had parted so many years before.” “Poor Emma, how you must have suffered," he said compassionately. “But do you forgive?” she asked anxiously. “Certainly say no more about it. You must not stay in this wretched place. Is your mother living?” “ Yessir, in the country.” “Would you not like to goback to her with the children?” “Yes, sir;” she answered sadly; “but I have no means.” “Do not trouble yourself,,’ said Mr. ; “as soon as you are sufficiently recovered, I will take care of thaUpart of the undertaking. Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. No thanks,” he added hastily as the poor woman commenced a grateful acknowledgment; “good bye.” This was the second parting. Young ladies, you who are accustomed to press your gentlemen friends to partake of wine pause now, and ask yourselves the question, whether you are prepared for the miserable fate of a drunkabd’s wife?

The Hew Theology. A clergyman went into one of our primary schools a tew days ago, says the Chirlstown Adoertiser and after hearing the pupils read, spell, etc., thought he would have a chapter of catecism. After sundry questions and satisfactory replies, he said: “Who is the father of lies?’' A six year older promptly replied “God.” “Why do you think God is the father of lies?” Six years older replied as promptly as before, “Because he is father bf us all.” The teacher hid her face and her smiles behind a primer, while the reverend gentleman was for the moment struck dumb with dismay by such logic. Recovering, however, he forthwith explained. Prospect or the Crops.—The accounts from almost every section of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, speaks of the prospects of a large crop of wheat. A Louisville paper says not only in Ohio and Kentucky, but in Tennessee also, the wheat crop is more extensive than is usually seen, and promises an abundant yield. The Watertown (Wis.) Democrat, April 11, says the winter wheat in that region has a fresh and vigorous appearance. The Illinois State Journal learns that the wheat in Sangamcn and adjoining counties looks finely, better than during the c orrasponding season for several years. Wheat and other cereal crops in Texas,-of which an unusually leargc breadth has been planted, are looking splendidly, and the Lone Star planters anticipate the biggest harvest they ever had. A congressional Buffalo Hurt.—Arrangements have been made for an extensive buffalo hunt on the Plains, during the comming summer, to be participated in by a number of members of both-Houses of Congress. Messrs. Wade, Yates, Chandler, Howard, Patterson, Morrill, Nye, Cameron, Poland, among Senators, are written down for the party; and of Representatives, Covode, B inghara, Williams, Orth, Baldwin, Hooper, McPherson, Marston, and Ketchum, constitute a portion. Dr. Burleigh, delegate from Dakota, is authority for these facts, which appear in The Herald of St. Jo. The national pic-nic party referred to are to meet in Yankton, Dakota, about the Ist of June, and thence proceed to the Prairies. Harper's Weekly says: “The amount of money lost by brokers and others since tho first of January, in consequence of the tumble in stocks, would pay for all the improvement which New York will require for twenty years. We can mention instances that come to our personal knowledge daily, which would of themselves astonish the uninitiated public. One popular and successful author has lost, within two months, his entire profits upon three books—the earnings of two years of toil. A. clergyman has nearly impoverished himself and family. An exchange says “an acquantance of ours, a mother, too, not long since was lamenting the loss of a child, (one of a family of. eight,) ‘because.’ said she, there wks just enough for a cotillion, and they did dance so prettily.’

Brick. Pomeroy on Labor and! Capital. j We should like to see ageneral move of the laboring men of the country, especially the 1 mechanics, resulting in a shortening of the , hours of labor and an increase of com-! pensation, and are more than willing to give our employees for eight hours the same wages ! we now give for ten we believe labor is too cheap 1 We thought so when an apprentice—when a journeyman; we think so as an employer,and in proof of this have but to state that we have always paid higher salaries than any other printer, editor or publisher in the State, and have always had better, more reliable men. Labor is poor. Capital is wealthy. Legislation protects capital, but enslaves labor. Legislation cares for capital. Legislation makes United States bonds exempt from all taxation—inflicts a tax of one hundred and eighty millions of dollart per year on the poor laboring men of the country, to support in ease, 1 uxury and id'eness. the aristocrats who have grown rich at the expense of labor during and since the war. Capital rides in cars, while labor sits by the track Capital rises to the roof, while labor toils on the earth below. Capital glistens iu varnish, while labor mixes the paintCapital rustles in silk, whtle labor, with aching arms and weary eyes, tends the loom. Capital rides in carriages, while labor is behiid cleaning theetabl es. Capital dines on silver ware, while labor waits behind the chair, or works in «the kitchen. Capital rides in the cabin, while labor eats in rags on the lower deck. Capital keeps a fat bank ac count while labor goes home Saturday night with half filled -baskets and empty pockets. They tell us that capital is master. Not a bit. Labor first. Labor made capitat Labor was originally king. It gave up to the creation of its own making, The created became greater than the creator, simply because labor was foolish and slept while capital was vigilant for its own protection. There is capital in the prairies of the West in the quartz rocks and gulches of mining districts, but it is worth nothing without labor. Labor makes this co untry great, then gives tho profits thereof to capital. There is no equal- ■ ity. The dividing line is too near the bottom, Labor is generous, honest and liberal. Capital is cold, selfish, cruel, tyrannical and usurious. If the mechanics of Ameri ca will bind them* elves together, decide to work fewer hours for the same compensation as now, then strive for higher education more sobriety more care and love for their homes and better intellect of apprentices, labor willrise to greater dignity and better compcnseation than now. And in all these matters the man of toil has our earnest sympathy and support.

A $180,000,000 Grab The stock of goods off hand in the possession of dealers and manufactureers of all kinds, which will be enchanced in price by theenaatment of the tariff bill before Congress, cannot be less than $600,000,000. This is a very modest estimate, perhaps too low by $200,000,000. Those stocks include all of the imported goods which have paid duty, as well as all ofthe fabrics and wares of domestic produticn, in“every State and Territory in the Union, from Maine to California; and Michigan to Texas. The present selling value of those goods is say $600,000,000. After the proposed tariff , bill is enactad, at least thirty per cent, will ■be added to their selling cost; for the whole- ! salers and retailers will each add their per cent, of profit to. the increase of the tariff, and I charged it on their goods. A piece of cloth I selling at $6 at present will have added to it by thetariff, say 20 per oent, oi $1,20, and the middleman will add 60c. more, making the piece of cloth the purchaser, after the bill passes, not less than $7 80, The $600,000,000 worth of goods in the possession of makers and dealers will have added to their selling price 30 per cent., or $180,000,000! The thirty millions of consumers will be obliged to pay this extra $180,000,000 and receive in return therefor not one cen; of consideration. It will be a clean steel out of their pockets. The Government will not get a dollar of the money, This tremendous tax on the people which would pay one-fourteenth part of the National debt, will be grasped by the speculators, and lost by the masses of tho American people.lt is this $130,000,000 which, is forcing the bill through Congress. Members are unable to resist this grand larceny on the part of their constituents, The Representative of this district, whose sands of official existence are drawing to a close, is working like a beaver to pass the bill before the close of the ses - sion. His.oonstiuents will be swindled outof a couple ofmillions threby, but what cures our maudlin Representative providing he secures a shilling a pound extra on his wool. Remove every stone from the track ia the highway. A single projection, which might have been removed in one' minute has battered and injured a-thousand wagons, at a damage equal to a hundred days' labor.

Destitution at the South. A letter from South Carolina says: “The truth is that people are so tortured with debt and poverty, that they hardly mind anything which has not a direct relation to getting daily’bread and necessary raiment. • • * • The widows of the men who fought against us ara turningprostitutes. Do you ask who pays them? It doesn’t take much. A pinch of meal Would be a tempiatien, and a bushel would be almost irresistible. Their children are growing ignorant vagabonds. There is a family within a mi le of this place living In a ‘brush house, a shanty of fresh pine blanches. It consists of a mother, who had a son kiiled a daughter of twenty, who had a husband killed, another daughter of thirteen, and a grand child of throe. The oldest daughter told me thatshe had bee n all over the village to get work and failed. I furnished them with clothing from the bureau store, but how they are to live through the yaar I can,t im -, agine. They were poor before the war, but not lik.e this, They had a family Bible once, and father thought ever so-much of it.’ A few words of pity brought the tear s rolling down the eldest girl’s sallow cheeks. “Ohl’ she said, ‘Z have been through a power in the last two years. She told me that she wasn’tused to going barefooted in the winter, and it made her sick which I consider very probable, as we have had three inches of snow. I hear that she is a ‘bad character.’ Well, who wouldn't bet” Power of women in Turkey. A man, meeting a women in the street, turns his head from her, as if it were forbidden to look on her; they seem to detect an impudent women, to shun, and to avoid her. Any one therefore, among the Christians, who may have dissensions or altercations with Turks, if he has a woman of spirit, or a virago for his wife sets her to revile and brow-beat them, and, by these means, not unfrequently gains his point. The highest disgrace and shame would attend a Turk who should rashly lift his hard against a woman; all he can venture to do is to treat her with harsh and contemptuous words, or to march off. The sex lay such stress on this privilege that they are frequently apt to indulge their passion to excess, to be most unreasonable in their claims, and violent and irregular in the pursuit of them. They will importune, tease, and insult a judge on the bench or even the Vizier at his divan; the officers of justice do not know how to resent their turbulence; and it is a general observation that, to get rid of them, they often let. them gain their cause.— Srr George Larpent' Turkey.

A Bad Singer.—After the battle of Get- ■ tysburg religious service was held in the field hospital, where some thousands of wounded lay partially protected by shelter tents. A clergyman from abroad made an excellent address and then gave out the hymn “Rock Os Ages,” relating as he did a touching incident of a clergyman who breathed his last while his wife sung to him the closing words of that most devotional of hymns. The “lead” in the singing was taken by a delegate of the Chris- . tian Commission and his wife. They sang execrably, horribly, gratingly—their discord only broken by the groans of a poor fellow who had just suffered amputation at the shoulder, and who, as those memorable words died away and gave place to a blessed silence, sighed out in misery, “I don't wonder that minister died, if his wife sung as badly as that. It would kill a well man!” Among the private soldiers now on duty at the Jackson Barracks, below the city of New Orleans, is one by the name of Schultz, who served during the late war as colonel of an Illinois regiment, aud upon leaving the service was breveted to the grade of brigadier. Finding no doubt a charm in military life, he re-entered the service and enlisted as a high private. But here’s the rub. By an act of Congress, all ex-officers of the United States are permitted, upon military occasions of importance to wear the insignia of their brevet rank. Therefore, upon the next parade, will be presented the curious anomaly of a brigadier’s star carried on the same shoulder with a musket. Will the inspected outrank the inspector? Salt Lake City.—A correspondent writing of Sult Lake City, says:—“This singular town covers an area of about nine square miles—that is, three miles each way. It is one of the most beautiful laid out cities in the world. The streets are very wide, with water running through nearly every one of them. Every block is surrounded with beautiful shade , I trees; and almost every house has its neat little orchard of apple, peach, apricot, and cherry trees. In fact, the whole nine square miles is almost one continuous orchard.” A close fellow remarked to a friend that he saw a pitiable sight when he took his morning walk, and he couldn’t help feeling for starving child. His friends inquired how much he was influenced by his feelings to give. He answered that he controlled his feelings.

Real Estate in Mew York. Real estate in this city tends upward with no apparent prospect of a rctrogration in prices. On Fifth avenue, Madison avenue. Broadway and the Boulevard, the advance has been very great, and is steadily increasing. A house No. 384 Fifth avenue, that sold last year for $22,9000, was sold a few days since for $70,000. The house and grounds, corner of Tenth street and Tenth avenue, with stable in the rear, sold for $149,000. Three lots on Fifth avenue, opposite Central Park, sold for $76,600. In Union Square the advance is enormous. Property that has been sold for SIOO,OOO has been sold for fifty per cent, advance within a month. On Broadway the advance is equally great. Some pieces of property have been sold for SIOO,OOO above the price that they were sold for a month before. One peice of property sold at $250,000; then at $335,000; and then at $400,000, all within six months. In 18-52 two lots on Fifth avenue, corner of Sixty-sixth street, were sold for S6OO and SBOO respectively. In 1865 bothlots were sold for $27,000, and last week ’a gentleman paid $55,000 for them. Lots of Eighth avenue, fronting on the Central Park, which were sold a? from SIOO to S2OO cash fifteen years ago, were sold at from SB,OOO to $15,000, and lots on the line of the new Boulevard have been elevated iu like rsitioThe number of dwelling houses in process of erection is very large. In the Ninth Ward many brick and brown stone dwelling, costing from SIO,OOO t 0520,000, are in course of construction. In the Seventeenth Ward ten brick tenement houses, to accommodate from eight to twenty families each are constructing. In the Eighteenth Ward twenty brick buildings are raising heavenward; in the {[Nineteenth Ward there are over a hundred buildings of various descriptions going up;‘ in the Twentieth Ward there are sixteen, and in the Twenty-second Ward twenty buildings that have been commenced.— New York Express.

Half an Acre Enough. A shoemaker over in Jersey bought a half acre lot. He was fond of fruit, and read the papers. The soil was wet clay, arid he selected fruit suited to the climate. He built a house and put his land in a condition to produce fruit. He had no manure bat a little gathered in the streets. In his leisure he brought from the woods bark, rotten wood, moss and leaf mold, which he mixed with the . soil three feet deep. This was done by degrees, and as fust as tho ground was prepared he planted fruit. He became so interested and succesful that he retired from the cobler’s bench. I was his near neighbor and knew him intimately. His half acre-sup-ported himself and wife comfortably, almost in elegance. She had a servant, and had plenty of time to cultivate flowers. Strangers nquirod about thei r beautiful home. Issabella grapes and cominon currants formed the bulk ofhis fruit. With a better selection his income would have been larger. Others have had the same success on small pieces of ground. One I knew, who supported his family en one acre. Half was in grapes, the crop of which in one season sold for SBOO, and he had no labor bills to pay. If concsntration will give success,lctus know it and practice it— Dr. Pecks,in Hcic York Tribune.

A Serious Charge. A clergyman in Slew York, at a late religious discourse, made the foliowin severe charge against the feminine . part of the creation thereabouts. He said: In relation to freedom from sin, he held that the desire, an uncontrollable desire to commit sin, was often the consequence of the education and habits of the parents qf the child who had it. It was well known that at the establishment of A. T. Stewart ther'e' were many bills made out, and went to husbands and ' fathers, for goods which had not been bought at all, but stolen from that store, by their wives and daughters; and stolen because they could not get money to buy what t'hey wanted, but because of an uncontrollable de- > sire to steal. The credit system is carried to a pretty fine point in some district, if we may judge from the following dialogue, said to ‘have recently occurred between a customer and .the proprietor. “Hoow’s trade, squire?” “Wall, cash trade is kinder dull naow, major.” “Dun anything ter-dayl” “Wall, only a leetle—on credit. Aunt Betsy Pushard has bort an egg’s worth of tea, and trusted for it till her specled pullet lays.”. A coach which General Cass bought in France, when he was Minister to that country is now in a livery stable at Saginaw, Michigan. Twice, before the era of railroads, General Cass journeyed from Detroit to Washington in it. During the past ten years it has been but little used, and five years ago it was bought for SIOO. It is a most commodious and serviceable vehicle.

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