Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. D. Da HELLER, -A.ttorn.ey at Law, DEOATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vlons2tf. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, Pension & Bounty Agent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensio-is. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Offlce - vl’on6tf. D. STUDABAKER. -Attorney at ILaw, -A "NTT? Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. . Will 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 per taming 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 AGENTS. jamesTrTbobcl LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DEOATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming "w" land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm or wild land he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlOnStf ~~ PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELEEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DEC.ITLR, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßnlstf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, O EC-1 TUR, FJTDI.IJr-1. OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, Me De, —RESIDENT—JEye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vlln9tf. 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 9 Third St., Opposite the Court RoWee, OEC-ATUR, IJUV., 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, co: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nSvlltf. maTn street exchange, A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. JFiwt Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT wafae, IJTD. vllnllyl. HEDEKiy HOUSE t On Barr, between Columbia and Main Ste. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprleter. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESMAir, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT.WAIHB, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVEBDADE,PrevrIeMr. so: Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent, vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IISTD., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1867.

SMtcM f wtrxj. LABOR —— BYW. A. TAYLOR. Warm-hearted labor in the fields Is nobler than the courts of state, For she, at least, with truth can say, That all her ends are good and great. She mooves, a princes full of smiles, With ripened plenty in her arms, And casts about her gifts and sees Hillsides full of golden charms. She comes by belts of ripened corn, And vines that bend wiln purple wealth - By orchards dropping crimson fruits, I Blowing the golden airs of health. She wears a fourfold crown, begirt With the four seasons, flashing bright On all her children as they come, 1 . Gathering around her with delight. She goes by streams and dusty mills, By meadows full of purple bloom: All perfect in her godliness, With blessings for the humblest home. She walks on solid ground, and bares Her brow to feel the breath of morn, And hers the bugle breezes blow Among the emerald-bladed corn. She dots the sea with stately ships, And looks across the world to see Her harvests grow, and reapers reap The golden grain in harmony. She mooves, and all her steps are flush With starry flowersand healing balm, She looks on passion, and the storm Is hushed, and all is pure and calm. Red Tape Illustration. A Prussian officer, inspecting a military post, found a sentry leisurely walking his beat before a dilapidated and empty store-house. No one could give him any information as to why the sentinel was there except that it was “a custom of the post.” His curiosity being aroused, he examined the records of the war office, and in an old report, dated a hundered and thirty years before, found that once the door of that store-house had been painted, and a guard placed there to warn persons of the wet paint The officer in charge was ordered away, and the store-house guard became a traditonary and punctually performed duty of the post. This anecdote is matched by one that is told of the English service. Many years ago a detatchment of troops was ordered to some out of the way place in India, and a requisition was made for clothing and medicine for the use of the soldiers. Ina short time the post was broken up, but as the orders for supplies had not been countermanded, they were sent regularly every year for a good portion of a century in perfect official oblivion of the fact that there Were no troops there to wear uniforms or take medicines. . A Soldier’s Joke. During the late war, while the Army of Tennessee, under General Johnson, lay encamped near Dalton, the following rich scene occurred: There was a veryjjopular dealer in news papers there, a perfect Brobdignag in size, rivaling Daniel Lambert in rotundity of stomach. A regiment was there about to leave for Mobile, and our massive friend had some business to transact with the Colonel. So puffing and blowing he came up a few minutes before the train started. As he came up a soldier spied him and hollowed out, “Boys here he is.” Instantly the whole regiment were on the alert, and shout after shout went up. “Here he is, here he is.” Looking dumbfounded, the fat man said: “What’s up gentlemen? What have I done? “you’re the very man that stole our big bass drum and swallowed it”— he did not know whether to laugh or get mad, but finally said: “Well boys, if you’ll stay till evening Til treat you.” The New Orleans Picayune says, “we are under a screw, and Wilson turns on it as long as we can bear the agony and live. Stevens is for going one turn more.” No man ever did or ever will do his duty “by and by.”

A Youmr Minister Hugged Against His Will. Amost ludicrous scene transpired in a place not a thousand miles from the city of Louisville, one night last week, which, though a little annoying to the parties immediately concerned, was yet so innocent and funny that we cannot refrain from giving the general outlines, surpressing names of course. Two sprightly and beautiful young ladies were visiting their cousin, another sprightly and beaut iful young lady, who, like her guests, was of that happy age , which turns everythig into fun and merriment. If the truth were told we fear that we would have to re? cord the fact these three misses were just a little bit fast They were fond of practical jokes, and • were continually playing all sorts of mad pranks with each other.— All three occupied a room on the ground floor, and huddled up together in one bed. Two of the young ladies attended a party on the night in question. and did not get home until half past twelve o’clock at night.— , As it was late they concluded not to disturb the household, so they quietly stepped into their room : through the low open window. In about half an hour after they ■ had left the party a young Methodist minister called at the house 1 where they were staying and craved a night’s lodging, which of 1 course was cherfully granted. As ministers always have the best of everything, the old lady put him 1 to sleep in the best room, and the young, lady (Fannie) who had not gone to the party was entrusted to the duty of sitting up for the absent ones and of imforming them of the change of rooms.— She took up her post in the parlor and as the night was sultry, sleep overcame her and she departed on an excursion to the land of dreams. We will now return to the young ladies who had gone into their room through the window. By the dim light of the moon beams as they struggled through the curtains, the young ladies were enabled to descry the outline of Fannie (as they supposed) ensconced in the middle of the bed. They saw more, to-wit— a pair of boots. The truth flashed upon them both at once. They saw it all. Fannie had set them in the room to give them a good scare. They put their heads together and determined to turn the tables on her. Presently they disrobed, and as stealthily as cats they took their positions at each side of the the bed.— At a given signal they both jumped into the bed, one on each side of the unconcious parson, laughing and screaming, “Oh, what a man! Oh, what a man!” They gave the bewildered minister such a promiscuous hugging and tousling as few persons are able to brag of in the course of a life time. The noise of this proceeding awoke the old lady, who was sleeping in an adjoining room. She comprehended the situation at once and rushing to the room, she opened the door and exclaimed: “My God, gals, it is a man; Hls a man sure enough!” There was one prolonged, consolidated scream; a flash of muslin through the door, and all was over. The best thing of the joke is that the minister took the whole thing in earnest He would listen to no apologies the lady could make for the girls. He would hear no excuse, but he solemly folded his clerical robes arond him and silently stole away. Query—Was he mad at the girls or—at the old woman?—Louisville Courier. At a fashionable wedding at Norfolk, Ct, a few weeks ago, the bridal presents were valued at 810,000. Among them was a $5,000 roll of greenbacks, two sets of diamonds, a camel’s hair shawl, and large quantities of silver plate.

I The Colorado River. In 1864 Mr. Samuel Adams, of San Francisco, floated down the I Colorado three hundred and fifty , miles on a small raft. He saw i enough of the river to induce him i to make a more thorough obser- ; vation. He has embodied the results in a letter to the Secretary of j War, which appears in the San > Francisco Times. It must be • premised that the question of the I navigability of the Colorado is not r one of pure science. Private in- ■ terests of great extent are involvr ed. If it is proved to be naviga- ; ble a railroad will be built from San Fracisco to the river, and the I ( California Navigation Company will lose monopoly of a very lui crative trade. ' Accordingly Mr. Adams and . his coadjutor, Captain Trueworthy i met with the most bitter and unscru- • pulous opposition at the hands of ! this company. Their endeavor to procure a suitable steamer for the expedition was thwarted again and again. The insurance companies were influenced to refuse their vessel insurance. At- • tempts were repeatedly made to ; injure the vessel’s boiler and ma- ' chinery; herboats were cut loose; i the timber, in the more sparslywooded parts of the river was cut down and floated away; the explorers were harassed on their rei turn with vexatious suits in the San Francisco courts. They made ’ their expolration, nevertheless and the results as reported by Mr. ’ Adams, are as follows: The party found that in the narrow canons, of which so much has been said, the river increased in depth, and the current was only two and a half miles an hour. The terrible bugaboo, the “Explorer’s Rock” turned ont to be a conical rock, two inches upon the surface one foot across the top with a channel on either side of from ninety to one hundred and fifty feet in width, and from three to fifteen feet in depth. The worst rapids were ascended in precisely seven minutes. At a trifling expense, says Mr. Adams, the’ river can be made perfectly navigable for six hundred and eighty miles from its mouth; that is to the point where it is crossed by the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. This information, if trustworthy is of great importance. The country along the river is very rich in ores, especially of copper. The valley at its mouth is of almost fabulous fertility. Among the banks are distributed forests of valuable timber. Judical Criticism. A queer scene is related as having taken place in the Court of Chancery between Lord Cambell and an eminent lawyer—a queen’s counsel, repeatedly called the vehicle in question a broug-ham, whereupon Lord Cambell, with considerable pomposity, observed: - l ßroom is the more usual pronunciation ; a carriage of the kind you mean is generally and not incorrectly called a broom— that pronounciation is open to no grave objection, and it has the advantage of saving the time consumed by uttering an extra syllable.”— Half an hour later in the same trial Lord Campbell, alluding to a similar action given said, “In that case, the carriage Which had sustained injury was an omnibus ” “Pardon me, my lord,” interupted the queen’s counsel with such promptitude that his lordship was startled into silence, “ a carriage of the kind to Which you draw at. tention is Usually termed a bubs; ; that pronunciation is open to no , grave objection, and has the great , advantage of saving the time con- 1 sumed by uttering the two extra syllables.” The interuption was followed by a roar of laughter, in which Lord Cambell joined more > heartily than any one else. In the beginning woman consisted of a single rib. Now she is all ribs, from her belt to the rim. of her petticoats.

What Can’t a Military Govs ernor Doi ; A military Governor, under the T re construction act, can—r Suppress newspapers. , Silence lecturers. Remove mayors of cities, Gov- . ernors of States, boards of comf missioners, etc. j Can exclude white aidermen and > appoint black in their places. ~ J- Can take possesion of savings t banks. Can enact laws and postpone . the payment of debts. Can prohibit the distillation of 1 corn and the sale of liquor. } Can rule down city stocks and r repudiate city currency. Can spend $500,000 for registering black voters, and ask for [ 8500,000 more. Can abolish local taxes and regulate the circulation of papers. ’ Can settle the rate of wages and . the price of commodites. . Can disobey the President and . insult the Cabinet. ► They can do all this, and far . more. What they can’t do, no one has ventured to say. , Yet an extra session of Con- . gress is called to give more power . to these military chieftains; to make them so absolute that for t even the President to question the . limits of their authority will be a . ground of impeachment. This is what the dog day Cons gress is to do. Is it not madness ? [ —Albany Argus. Good Joke—A “Copperhead Flank” in the lowa Platform. i The Democartic State Convcni tion of lowa, in session at Desmoines, Wednesday, adopted the following resolution: i Resolved, That the maintainance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the ■ right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its judgement, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends. The resolution drew out from the radical papers an outcry of accusation and obloquy, “copperhead,” “secessionist,” “rebel,” “old fogy,” were the mildest epithets let fly; but the joke comes in when it turns out that the resolution is copied literally from the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention which nominated Lincoln for the Presidency in 1860. It embraces sound Democratic doctrine, and Was originally adopted by the Republicans to conciliate Democrats to their movement —that is, to deceive and betray them.— Cleaveland Plaindealer, The Salt Lake Vidette says a wayfarer went into the Occidental Hotel in that place a short time since, to get a square meal. Having planted himself in a chair at one of the tables, he was confronted by the waiter with, “What will you have ?” The hungry one fastened his eyes on the attache de soup, and said, “What have you got that’s good ?” “Oh, we’ve roast beef, corned beef, roast mutton, fried ham and broiled curlew.” “What the h—ll is curlew ?” said, the stranger. “Curlew—why curlew is a bird something like a snipe.” “Did it fly?” “Yes.” “Did it have wings ?” “Yes.” “Then I don’t want any curlew in mine. Anything that had wings and could fly, and didn’t leave this d—d country, I don’t want for dinner.” ■. ta . A vote Os the citizens of Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey, was recently taken on the proposition to license the sale of intoxicating drinks, resulting in a unanimous verdict against license. Jam ■ w How to correct a mistake in whiskey—rectify it,

Benito Juarez. Benito Juarez was born on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, of Indian parents, and managed when quite a boy, to get some menial employment in a store in the city of Oaxaca. Here he learned to read, and manifesting a great ardor for learning, his liberal and sagacious employer, a wealthy merchant of Oaxaca, sent him to college, where he devoted himself with such assiduity and ambittan that he soon became the first scholar in the college, and graduated with the highest honors. Returning to Oaxaca, he married the daughter of his employer, and removing to the City of Mexico, commenced the practice of law, and soon secured a large and lucrative business. After some years of great professional success, he= finally attained the highest judicial position in the country before he, ■ had reached middle age. His after career in public life, into which he= [ was drawn by events and not by hisown will and ambition, is alreadyknown to our readers. There is perhaps no Mexican of position now in that conntry, who is better informed in regard to our political and judicial systems than. Juarez. He may not be equal in. resources, in sagacity, and general accomplishments, to Almonte—now in Paris—who was also a long resident in this country, and served, his time at a mechanical trade in. Cincinnati, but in the combination, of moral aud intellectual qualities, in tenacity of purpose, honesty and. purity of personal character and habits, he is unquestionably th& first of the public men in Mexico. Those who conclude from the fact of his being an Indian of pure blood that he must necessarily possess, the craft, cruelty, vindictiveness, and savagery which are generally attributed to the aboriginal race, will, we think on a clearer view of his life and character, find nothing therein to justify their opinion. Indeed, the history of Mexico does, not support this idea of the aboriginal character. The best, most honorable, honest, and patriotic of . the chiefs who have figured in the= long train of bloody revolutions in. that country, have sprung from thei aboriginal stock, and from Cortez, down to Miramon and Marquez, the principal acters in the tragip scenes which have disgraced the country, have been of those who boasted of their Castilian blood.— JV. 0. Times. Just So.—The following is taken from the last number of the Winamat Democrat, and pretty clearly illustrates the position of the business man who does not advertise: “Why don’t yoh deal with me ?” said a close-fisted tradesman to a friend the other day. The reply was characteristic l “You have never invited me, sir. I have looked all through the Democrat for an invitation in the shape of an advertisement, ahd found none. I never go where I am not invited.” Well put »f~ w The Magnolia Star gives an account of one man shooting another in that region, because he refused to lend him his pipe to “take a smoke.” At the time the owner was using it himself, and told the. other chap he could have it when he was done. At the refusal, thedisappointed cuss pulled ant a revolver, fired it at the pipe missed him., jumped on his muleand broke for the hills. A gentleman who recently died im, California has left a lagacy of 820,000 to the United States, the interest to be applied to the reduction of the national debt. Twelve hundred dollars a year does not seem to be a very great sum; but proba bly the testator hoped to set an example which might be imitated by others. The New York ladies, according to the Home Journal (their organ) have adopted the French fashion of washing in wine, which is said to have a peculiarly softening effect upon the skin. One young lady uses two or three bottles of “green seal” every morning while performing her ablutions. Poorpapa! Why are hooks the best friends ? Because when they bore you, you can always shut them up without offense.

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