Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. ' D. D. HELLER, Attorney at Law, DECA TUR, INDIANA. ' Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibera’ Hardware Store. vlons2tf. JAMILS R. 8080, .Attorney at Law, ■ZXJXTZD Pension & Bounty Agent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensio-s. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office - vlon6tf. D. STEDARAKER, -Attorney at ZCaw, Atwn Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agency. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE ACE NTS. jamesALbobo, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECA TUR, INDIANA, "fi ACRES of good farming J J vj" land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm or wild Uu'l he will sell it to you. If you want yotli land sold he will sell it for you. Fo sale, Bo charge. vlOnfitf

PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, BEC.ITIS. OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bellman’s Store. vßnl6tf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, IJTOlJljrrf. office x>«» circct over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware S.ore. vSn42tf. S. C. AYERS, M. De, —RESIDENT— Eyc and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. rllnSHf. AUCTIONEER. C. M. FRANCE Would announce to the public that he is a regularly licensed auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire, Ohio. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Hawse, DECATUR, IJTD., I. J, MIESSE,::::::::::: Proprietor. This House is entirely new, neatly furnished, and is prepared to accommodate the public in the best style. Board by the day or week. vlln9tf. MONROE HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER, Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nfivlltf. MAIH STREET EXCHANGE, A. FREEM4A. Proprietor. ffest Main Street, near the Public Square. PORT WVf FA'E, IJVD. vllnllyl. HEBEKIV HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. 'PORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in co nnection with the House. vllnllyl. HAVER HOUSE. ts. LILS MAN, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORTjYAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana* MONROEVILLE “EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVEHDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, , Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllvl.

DECATUR, IND, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1867.

Mother, Watch the Little Feet. Mother, watch the little feet, Climbing o’er the garden wall, Rounding through the busy street. Ranging cellar, bed and hall; Never mind the moments lost, Never mind the time it costs; Lillie feet will go astray; Guide them, mother, while you may, Mother, watch the little hand, Picking berries by the way, Making houses in the sand, To fling up the fragrant hay; Never dare the question ask, “Why to me the weary task?" The same little hands may prove Meseng?rs of light and love; Mother, watch the little touuge, Prattling, eloquent and wild; What is said and what is sung, By the happy, joyous child. Catch the word while yet unspoken, Stop the vow before ’tis broken; The same tongue may yet proclaim Blessings in a savior’s name, Mother, watch tho little heart, Beating warm and soft for you; Wholcsom:lessons now impart, Keep, oh, keep that young heart true. Extracting every weed, Sowing good and precious seed Harvest rich then you may see, Ripening for eternity;

phrelhooisL From the New Orleans Picayune Wilkes Booth—The Wager Relative to Ills Existence. The reader will remember that two communications have appeared in the Picayune concerning the existence of J. Wilkes Booth, which detailed the terms of a bet made by commander Tolbert that the man was yet alive. We find in the Galveston Bulletin, of the 26th, the following remarkable letter, which gives a very circumstantial account of how the wager was won: Matamoras, Mexico,) June 18, 1867.) Editors Flake's Bulletin. Galveston, Texas. — Sirs —The question of Booth’s present existence having been agitated, I take pleasure in inclosing you a copy of a letter which I have just received from Mr- Francis W. Odell, whose acquaintance I formed while at Shanghai, some years since, at which time he was filling the position of Vice Consul of her Britannic Majesty, in that city. He is a very estimable gentleman, and one upon whose word the public may rely. The truly remarkable statements contained in this letter will throw aditional light upon one of the greatest tragedies of the present age. Respectfully, your humble servant, Aaron B. Crenshaw.

Calcutta, British India,) * - March 29, 1867, f Colonel, Aaron B. Crenshaw, Matamoras, Mexico: Dear Sib —Your communication. dated New York, January 15, has been received, and contents noted; and in response to your request, viz; “That I should make some inquiries here concerning the final disposition made of the money staked on the wager laid by Captain William M. Tolbert in June last, that J. Wilkes Booth was still living,” I take pleasure in forwarding you the result of my investigations. It so happens that the parties interested in this strange affair are all personally known to me; they are respectively W. Martin Tolbert captain of the ship Bird of the Ocean, and winner of the stakes; Dr. James F. Brown, formerly of Boston Massachusetts, the contestant and loser of the- same; Samuel L. Crawford, resident, holder of the stakes, and William Miller, resident of the city, and Theodore Cambell, of London, witnesses chosen by Brown to accompany Tolbert on a voyage by sea to some point or port unknown. I was not present when the bet was made and the articles drawn up, but was fully posted concerning the condition of the same, by Mr. Brown, on the following morning. They were substantially ns follows.

Tolbert and Brown each staked five hundred pounds sterling in the hands of Crawford, to be held by him till the expiration of six months, and subject, at such time, to the order of whichever party should be declared fairly entitled to it by Judge Knowles. Miller and Cambell were chosen by Brown to go on a cruise with Tolbert, in his vessel, their sworn affidavits to be duly presented to Knowles upon their return; the loser to pay their expenses while on the voyage, and £2O each per month, additional. The bet was made and the money staked on tho 28th of June 1867, and two days hence the Bird of the Ocean sailed ostensibly for Hong Kong, Tolbert being in command, and the two gentlemen above referred to passengers.— The last seen or heard of the Bird of the Ocean was on the 17th of July, when she was spoken by the ship Winged Racer, Captain Hayes, off the coast of Java, bearing south. Weeks and months elapsed, and no tidings reached here of her having made a port, when friends finally grew uneasy and many suspected she had gone to the bottom. Bets were made ten, and even as high as twenty, to one that she. would never return to this city; and Dr. Brown felt certain of winning the stakes, when to the amazement of all parlies concerned, the announcement was made that the ship Bird of the Ocean hud arrived from San Francisco, in ballast. This was the evening of December 25. The notorious pirate, Tolbert, soon made his appearance, accompanied by Miller and Cambell, and wonderful to reflect, these two gentlemen swore “that Wilkes Booth was really alive; that they seen him,” etc. Judge Knowles rendered his decision in favor of Captain Tolbert, and th« latter, going io me notel of mr. Crawford, was made the recipient of £ 1,000 sterling. Dr. Brown expressed perfect satisfaction with the result; said “he now fully believed that the United States Treasury had been basely swindled out of SIOO.OOO by Colonel Baker and his accomplices in palming off a spurious body upon the government for that of Wilkes Booth, and claiming the reward offered for Booth’s capture- 1 ? The doctor cherfully complied with the full conditions of the agreement, and paid the two young men their salaries, viz: £ 120 each, and their expenses during the voyage which amounted to about £2OO additional. Dr Brown is a gentleman of good standing, and has amassed considerable wealth in the East Indies. He says he is satisfied that Booth is alive as he has known both Miller and Cambell for years, and has ever found theia high toned truthful men. He tried to induce Mr. Miller, ;/no has been his bosom friend, to divulge the grqat secret, viz: where he had been, and also Booth’s place of concealment; but Miller positively refused to do so, stating that “he had taken a solem oath never to betray Booth, and could not be tempted to violate it if the wealth of the Indies were laid at his feet” This singular affair has created quite a sensation in our city, and is being discussed in certain fashionable circles with considerable enthusiasm. It is the general opinion, entertained by all familiar with the circumstances, that Booth is certainly alive, and that the United States authorities at Washington were victimized by a set of cunning scoundrels. If such was the case God grant their villiany may be exposed. Captain W. Martin Tolbert, after rceiving the amount at issue, remained in the city but three days, then cleared again for Hong Kong in ballast. The vessel which he commands is certainly the most handsome ship I have ever seen on these waters. She is full rigged clipper, and judging from her model, should be capable

of outstripping an ordinary sailvessel in swiftness. She has been suspected by the authorities here as a privateer, but nothing -was done to prevent her departure; her papers being apparently all right. As it may not be uninteresting to you to know something more of her captain, 1 will append a brief discription of him as he appeared while taking an evening promenade along one of the fashionable throughfares of this great Indian city. He was dressed from top to toe in a handsome suit of gray cloth; wore a black silk hat, a ponderous mustache, and an imperial of about twelve inches in length, which entirely concealed his mouth and chin, and gave him rather a ferocious appearance. He sported an immense gold headed cane of very curious workmanship; wore a large seal ring, a diamond pin of great brilliancy, and a beautiful gold chain, from which was suspended a few remarkably fine specimens of ocean shells. He is a man of symetrical proportions, about six feet in bight, and straight as an Indian; has rather fine features, light blue eyes, dark brown hair, and mustache black as jet; has a very stately strut, and an ai r of self sufficiency, which plainly stamps him a man who has been used to command; otherwise he has a gentlemanly bearing, and betrays in every action a familliarity with the usages of good society. Altogether he is an odity, and his whole make up is designed to attract attention wherever he may go. While promenading the streets here he was the apparently unconcious subject of universal comment by Hindoos, Mussulmans, Christans, and the various mongrel races which populate Calcutta. You are at liberty to have my letter published, if it is your wish to au ov, h ] ias no t been written with that care necessary to meet the eye of a criticising public. The statement herein contained I shall take pleasure in substantiating, whenever called upon to do so. 1 have the honor to remain, sir, Francis W. Odell, Ex Vice Consul for Her Brittanic Majesty, at Shanghai. ■ ... —a — ■ ■— Poisonous Threads.—A French journal of hygiene states that a number of seamstresses have suffered from violent colic, in consequence of pntting into their mouths the silk they use in sewing. This disease is attributed to the practice of mixing the silk with a preparation of lead (the sulphate) so as to increase its weight. A chemical analysis of many different samples of seeing ri iik has been made by Jones, of the Chemical Laboratory, Leadenhall street, i London, which resulted in almost every case, in the detection of acetate or sugar of lead. This admixture is even more dangerous than that of the sulphate, on account of the greater degree of solubility of the sugar of lead in the fluids of the stomach. A barrel of new beer, in a celler at Lockport, burst a few days since, hoisting the keeper, an Irish woman, to the ceiling, demolishing everything in range. The lady picked herself up and mildly remarked “Och bedad—bad luck to the man that put the torpedy in the barrel.” Pineapples made from turnips, in Paris, are said to be delicious; the turnips are saturated witji an appropriate syrup, which confectioners know very well how to manufacture, the pineapple “is destined to become a success.” Don’t live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. Why are people of short memories necessarily covetous? Because they’re always for-getting something.

A few Official Figures. The Tribune asks, “Is it true that but sixty-eight thousand peri sons are employed in the production of iron” in this country? We beg to refer it to page 737, of the volume on manufactures, in the last census report, where it will find under head of “number of hands employed Iron—east 26,940 Iron—rolled and wrought. .21,962 Iron—ore 3,206 Iron—pig 15,854 Which makes a total of “67,962 persons employed in the production of iron ore and cast, forged, wrought, and rolled iron in the United States,” as we wrote on Saturday. The last census report is generally supposed to have been made up in the interest of protectionists. Next the Tribune proceeds to cast doubt upon figures which we drew from the report of Mr. Colwell, another protectionist, who page 328 of his report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the revenue system of the United States, gives a statement of the - “total cost” of a ton of “American iron” at $lO4 30, and of “English iron” at $37 50, and adds: “Total difference $66 89. To the difference shown by the figures it is just to add the difference per ton caused by larger interest on the greater capital invested in the United States to operate an establishment capable of yielding ten thousand tuns per anumn. This difference of sl2 per tun, added to $55 89, makes S7B 89, the total amount that iron can he produced more cheaply in Great Britan thanin this country. That is to say, with free trade ■we could buy iron, according to this official protectionist report for $37 50, plus the cost of shipment ; with such full “protection” aS tllPiron man less will serve their d Have to pay at least sll6 39. These figures do not read well when they are set down nakedly; but they are official, by protectionists, and it remains for thera to prove to the American, people, who are tired of oppressively high prices that it is worth while, or sensible, to pay sll6 39 for iron, which we could get, upon their own acknowledgement, for $37 50 plus the cost of shipment.—A?cic York Post. Milk Sickness.—The AfedieuZ and Surgical Reporter states that the affection of cattle known as; milk sickness, is caused tjy eating the .white Snake x-oot, llupatorium This discovery seems co have been made by separate observers, at about the same time. One of them, Mr. William Jerry, of Edwardsville Illinois, in 1860, gathered this plant by mistake, for the nettle, and ate it as boiled greens. On the day following, he was suddenly seized with violent trembling, prostration, and faintness, and on the next day with - vomiting violent retching. He did not fully recover in five years, and in the meantime tried the plant on domestic animals with similar results. Dr. Amos Sawyer of Hillsboro, Illinois, Mr. R. N. Lee of Nokomis, Dr. McPheeters of St. Louis, Botanist, and Mr. Enno, chemist, all coincide in the opinion that milk sickness is caused by this hitherto unsuspected plant, which animals are said to like when it is in bloom. x _x ,p, . — A New Jersy paper thus pleasantly describes the rolling stock of street railroads in a city of that State: The cars themselves are simply exaggerated sardine boxes, placed on what the spinal column of any passenger must consider triangler wheels. The windows, which are shut, wißnot open, while those that are down a Sampson could not raise. There are no springs to the running gear, and the tracks have one thousad bounces, or jolting places, to the mile. A single hair casts a shadow.

Tlie Massacre of Maximilian. The New York Tribnne says of the massacre of Maximilian: “To America it is an insult. W e merely ask the poor boon of this 1 helpless, unfortunate young man’s 1 life, and it is denied. We gave Mexico national triumph, and in return it spurns even our counsels of mercy. “We feel this more keenly because of our treatment of Jefferson Davis. We had a class of people here who insisted that the war was not complete until ve had hanged a man—a poor old man of sixty. Like the cannibals of Africa, the only fruits of their victory were the wasted bodies of the enemies. The clamor was so loud even wise man bowed their heads and joined in it. At one time it was feared that our triumphant and glorious wars would be dishonored by the gallows. But the better sense of the ■people pervailed, and the leader of one of the greatest rebellions in. history was set free. How much, nobler in the eyes of the world wilL America appear with Davis freo than Mexico with this dead body of an amiable and unfortunate Prince. Is Davis living any more dangerous than Maximilian dead ? Is America weaker than Mexicobecause of this magnanimity ? Rather does not Maximilian’s name receive a glory from the circum - stances of his death which Davis, may have reason to envy ?” The Springfield Republican thus forcibly expressesitself upon the same subject: “Everywhere else but where one= was needed we have had a minister; but in Mexico the revolution from the rule of Maximilian to that of Juarez has been allowed to progress, without an attempt on ourpart to temper the barbarity of the conquerors, till now the nearlycomplete victory of the Liberals is crowned with the murder of" Maximilian, and we do not know how many of his associates. An. earnest protest on the part of the United States would have prevented this butchery, indefensible at; this age of the world on any theory and it will be a lasting disgrace to us that the protest was not made.’** rae <1 .... y. The art of duaing is not reckoned among the fine or polite arts. — Indeed, there are no rules on the subject, as each case must be tried, by itself, the success of various expedients being very much “as you light upon chaps.” At times, a lucky accident brings the money out of a slow debtor, after the manner following: One of our merchants, nervous and irritable, received a letter, from a customer in the country begging for more time. Turning to one of his counting clerks, he says, “Write to this mon immediately.” “Yes, sir. What shall I say ?” The merchant was pacing the office, and repeated the order. “Write to him at once.” “Certainly, sir: what do you wish me to say ?” The merchant was impatient, and broke out, “something or nothing” and that very quick.” The clerk waited for no further orders, but consulting his own judgement, wrote and despatched the letter. By the return of mail came a letter from the delinquent customer, enclosing the money in full of the account. The merchant’s eyes glistened when he oppened it; and hastening to his desk, he said to the clerk; “What sort of letter did you write to this man ? Here is the money iu full.” “I wrote just what you told me to sir. The letter is copied into the book,” The letter-book was -consulted, and there it stood, short and sweet and right to the point: “Dear Sir —Something or nothing ; and that very quick. Yours, &c, —•” And this letter brought the money, when a more elaborate dun would have failed of the happy effect ; At a 4th of July celebration in Marion county, 111, a young lady offered the following toast: “The young men of America; their arms our support; our arms their reward. Fall in, men—fall in.”

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