Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAB. C. BRANTAN. HOMXR J. RANSOM. BRANTAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John V. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind,, Hon. H. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. B^J-C. Bhaktas is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. D. HELLER, -A-ttorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vlOn-52tf. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, -A.jKTX> Pension & Bounty Agent, jDECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and 'collects Bounties and Pensio-s. OFFICE-—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnGtf. D. STU DARA KER, -Attorney a t Law, 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 pertaining to Real Estate Agency. lie's also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REALESTATE ACENTS? JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming ,UvU 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. vlOnGtf ~~~~ PHYSICIANS?" F • A • JELLEFF, Physician and. Surgeon, DECJITVR, IJVBIJSJWSOFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßn!stf. AN»REW~SO:RG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, IJTDrAJi'A. OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, M. 8., —RESIDENT— Eye and Ear Surgeort, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vlln9tf. ~~~ AUCTION E ER. C. Mr FRANCE Would announceto thepublicthat 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 Dowse, DECATUR, I JUD., 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. vll n9tf. MONROEBIOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, io: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. n,svlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A; FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. PORT H'.llWE, IJI'D. vllnllyl. HEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. . FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESMAN,Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE, MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDAEE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estat. and lasuraae. Agent. vllillyl.

decatur„ind., Friday, oct. is, 1867.

SMtA ifctfrg. Indian spmmer. An autumn sun, a golden haze, The first of bright October days In calm radiance shining: A meadow, stretching broad and green Andon its breast in silver sheen A ribbon streamlet twining. Swift rushing from its mountain source It leaps the downward rocky course. In haste to lease the shadow. It winds the valley dimly seen, i It threads the mountain’s wild ravine, And drops into the meadows. So softly taken to its breast What wonder that it lores the rest, Its ocean home forgeting? With dreary murmers sweeps the tide, And none who saw the spotcoul-i chide Its lingering and regretting, Nature lies quiet, with hushed breath: That life most glorious in its death Its hetic flesh is showing; A crimson tint on wood and hill, A golden light, and all so still, So wonderous in its glowing. In brighter robes than those of May The fair Year burns her life away, As if for Summer mourning, Like Eastern brides she sought the fire, And perished grandly on his pyre, Exulting in that burning. Calm skies above, fair fields below; The sunshine sleeps, the waters flow With effortless outgiving. And with a thousand happy things, My heart too lies at rest, and sings The joy, the joy of living! A Tunnel through a Volcano. English engineers have nearly completed a railway tunnel through a volcanic range in New Zealand. The plains of the Canterbury settlement, in the southern of the two great Islands of New Zealand, are divided from the port of Lyttleton by almost impracticable hills, and in May, 1861, the local government accepted an offer to complete a line of railway from Lyttleton to Christchurch in five years; the cost of a tunnel two thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight yards long, and called the Moorehouse Tunnel, being fixed at 195,000 pounds. The works were at first carried on under great disadvantages, on account of the Otago gold fever and other causes. The tunnel affords, it is believed, the first instance where a complete section of an extinct valcano has been opened out. The rock in the tunnel is a series of lava streams and beds of tufa, intersected by vertical dykes of phonolite. The lava, streams generally consist of scoria, overlaying a coarse pink trachyte, which passes gradually through shades of gray, purple and blue into a black finely-grained dolorite, intensely hard and tough; the lightest and softest rock being at the top, and the densest and blackest at the bottom. Regarded from an engineering point of view, the work is considered eminently successful. Wherever difficulties have been met they have been quickly and successfully overcome. A siphon six hundred yards long was employed for the drainage of the upper half of the tunnel. The system of ventilation has proved perfectly adapted to the requirements of the case, and has been not only effective but simple and comparatively inexpensive. The engineers of the Mount Cenis tunnel have found it necessary to adopt similar means of ventilation in that famous work. In the first instance air was driven in by fans worked by horse power, but this soon proved quite insufficient; and when the works extended some distance much time was lost owing to the difficulty of getting rid of the smoke. To obviate this on the Lyttleton side, the upper portion of the tunnel was partitioned off by a floor or brattice, about nine feet above rail level, forming a smoke flue connected with one of the shafts, at the bottom of which was placed a furnace, which, by ratifying the air, caused a steady current up the shaft, and drew the smoke away from the face of the workings.

A similar plan was adopted at the north end, the chimney of a forge being led into the shaft, and answering the purpose of a furnace, but the brattice was only continued for a short distance beyond the upcast shaft. On the Lyttleton side this system answered perfectly well, and the ventila•tion has continued good ever since; but on tne Heathcote side, where the work for the last quarter of a mile has been driven by a top heading, (the temporary floor being left above the permanent railrevel for drainage purposes), the ventilation at the close of the work became sluggish, and recourse was had to driving air on to the face by means of four fans driven by an eight-horse steam engine. This proved perfectly successful.

The system employed to. secure the correctness of the alignment of the two ends of the tunnel was very simple. A permanent mark was fixed in the centre line of the tunnel, on a tower built on the dividing range, nearly midway between the two ends. A transit instrument being placed on the meridian of the tunnel, as well as of the tower on the hill, it could be seen at once whether the flame of a candle in the centre line of the work inside the tunnel was in a vertical plane with the mark on the towe:. But it was also desirable, in case of error, to have the means not only of correcting, but of calculating the amount of such error, and this could be readily done. The permanent mark on the central tower consisted of a batten six inches wide, with a black stripe one inch wide down the centre. The eye-piece of the transit instrument being furnished with five vertical wires placed at equal distances apart, the value of the space between any two wires at a distance equal to that of the mark on the tower could be ascertained by reference to the width of the batten, which thus gave a scale by which the error in the position of a light placed in the tunnel under the tower could be rated with great exactness. It has been by this means that the alignment has been tested from time to time, and the proof of the correctness of the system has been established by the present result. In spite of the peculiar character of the work, the health of the men has been generally good. Accidents have been of rare occurrence, and of comparative unimportance. Dakotah Correspondence of the St. Louis Bopublican. Costumes of Indian Chiefs. We landed at the reservation of the Ponca tribe, having left the Yankton agency at daybreak. The wind, which blew furiously the previous day and night, had somewhat abated, but at Ponca the gale again freshened up, and we were obliged to lay by until it slackened, and undergo the infliction of a counsel with the Indian chiefs who came on board in solemn pomp. They were dressed in all the extravagant costumes of their race, outdoing in this respect the wildest tribes we have yet seen. Hard Walker, the head chief, who had a grave, immobile expression, with one eye half shut, wore a cast off uniform of a British army officer, with heavy epualetts on his shoulders. His beaver skin chapeau was ornamented with a tall plume made of eagle feathers, and besides the tawdry embellishment of beads and porcupine quills were worked in all sorts of figures on his garments and buckskin leggins. Three large silver medals, two with the head of Buchanan, and one of Lincoln, were worn on his breast. Another chief, known as “The Drum,” was still more ridiculously accoutred, and his “make up” ex- , cited a smile from the commission- ' ers. He was a stalwart chieftain, i standing over six feet in his moccasins. On his head was a tall beaver skin chapeau of the style ;

formerly worn by military officers, and on the sides were grafted two buffalo horns, studded with brassheaded nails. The tips of the horns were pointed upward like those of a steer. His face was ' screened behind a veil of strings strung with beads, which were suspended on the frontispiece of his 'chapeau. I The blanket, which was worn ' low down on his bare shoulders, a la abandon, was fringed with ! horse tails, tipped off with feathers of various brilliant hues. Bci sides the above named-chiefs, the i commission were honored with a visit from the Whip, the Pawnee Chief, Lone Chief and the Bull, all of whom were decked out in the most fantastic costumes. The ! group was sketched by our artist as theystood in the cabin. The Poncas are untutored, none of them can read or write. They have ceased to regard labor as dishonorable, and the chiefs go into the fields and plow all day. They own one hundred and fifty ponies and eight yoke of oxen. Not a case of drunkenness has occurred since the agent has dwelt in the ■ nation, and although polygamy prevails, very few cases of prosti- ■ tution are known to have occurred, no more than would be the case among the same number of whites. The Poncas have remained faithful to their treaty of obligations under circumstances that would have palliated a hostile attitude. In the fall of 1863, a small number of the tribe, while on their return from a friendly Visit to the Omahas, were attacked in a fiendish manner by a squad of drunken United States soldiers, and seven of their number lost their lives. Tito Buckets. A great deal of trouble is “borrowed” by the habit of looking at things “wrong end foremost “How disconsolate you look!” said a bucket to his fellow-bucket as they were going to the well. *’Ah!” replied the other, “I was reflecting on the uselessness of our being filled; we always come back empty.” “Dear me! how strange to look at it in that way,” said the bucket. “Now I enjoy the thought that however, empty we come, we always go away full. Only look at it in that light, and you’ll be as cheerful as I am.” lig'An elderly lady who had insisted on her minister’s praying for rain, had her cabbages cut up by a hail storm, and on viewing the wreck, remarked, that she “never knew him undertake anything without overdoing the matter.” /SfOna exceedingly warm day in July a neighbor met an old man, and remarked that it was very hot. “Yes,” says Joe, “if it wasn’t for one thing, I should say we were going to have a thaw.” “What is that?” inquired his friend. “There’s nothing froze,” says Joe. The man went his way much enlightened. insure everything in Hartford, from your own life to that of your dog, or the steam boiler that heats your house. Apropos of the recent rainy season, one of the insurance president's was asked, “why don't you start a company to insure against a deluge ?” “That was the first charter ever granted,” was the quick reply. The State Fair.—The average attendance of the State Fair is said to be 20,000. The number of entries are large, that of stock alone exceeding the entire entries of last year. Financially it is reported a succecs. JJ3TA bee tamer at the Michigan State Fair, using some chemical compound, with his head and , shoulders constantly covered with . bees, harangued a crowd and crea- , ted quite a sensation. Timid peo- ] pie gave him a wide berth. ;

it is well known, when taken fresh from the comb, is a clear yellow syrup, containing no trace of sugar. Upon straining, however it assumes a crystalline appearance, and finally becomes a solid lump of sugar. M. Scheibler has found that this change is due to photographic action, crystalizing only when exposed to the light. This explanation furnishes us the reason why bees are so careful to work in perfect darkness, always carefully obscuring the glass windows which mav be placed in their hives. The young bees can feed on the liquid honey only, and, if light were allowed access to it, the syrup would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency, sealing up the cells and, in'all probability, proving fatal to the inmates of the hive.— Scientific American. J3F*The semi annual report of the freedmen’s school for the first half of this year is just out, and shows the following for the first of July, 1867: Day schools, 1,416; night schools, 668: total, 2,084. Teachers, 2,442; pupils, 130,735 ; being an increase in six months of 908 schools, 784 teachers and 40,232 pupils. Os the whole number of pupils, 1,348 are whites. The total expenditures by the freedmen’s bureau, for educational purposes, in the six months, were §220,834; tuition paid by freedmen, §7,332; number of school buildings owned by freedmen, 391; furnished by the bureau, 428. About twofifths of the teachers are negroes. There are twenty-one normal schools, with 188 pupils, and 1,56% Sunday schools, with 105,707 pupils. JESTBrevet Rev. Miss Augusta Chapin is preaching universal salvation at lowa City, and the Chicago New Covenant says she is “very womanly, gentle and lovable,” and so “very modest and retiring” that “although a regularly ordained and settled minister, she needs to be drawn out before her abilities are fully recognized.” JtSFStick to that word “never .” It is worth its weight in gold. Cling to it as a drowning man clings to a rope. Grasp it firmly, as a soldier attacked on all sides grasps his sword. God has said, and will stand to it, “I will never leave thee.”

New York Evening Gazette says of the Antietam dedication : “What should have been a solemn affair, was really but a partisan display. The people who shouted for Geary disgraced themselves, and Geary did the same by responding to their call. His speech, unexceptionable for a political party meeting, was utterly out of place at a grave-yard dedication.” Mr. Travillick, orator of the Union Associations, spoke at Milwaukie recently, and in the course of his speech said there were in Milwaukie “one hundred young men studying for the law who had not brains enough to wheel a wheelbarrow straight.” Miss Chapman, of Decatur, Illinois, lately recovered 85,000 from one Isaac Vantrees for breach of promise. Vantrees has paid the damage with a wedding ring. The felicity of that marriage must be enviable. The work of removing the rock from the Rock Island Rapids, in the Mississppi River has commenced. The powerful chisels were tested a few days ago, and at one drop sank four feet into the solid rock. The chisel weighs over eight thousand pounds, and drops thirty feet. pair of pretty eyes,” said Coxcomb, “are the best mirmorS to shave by.” “Yes,” replied old Hunx, the bachelor, “and I have known many a man shaved 1 by them.”

Price of Woolen Clothing. The Milwaukee News says: A friend has handed us a business circular from a New York firm dealing in woolen goods, in which the following paragraph appears. In calling attention'to our very complete stock for the autumn and , winter trade, we desire to remark that the increased tariff on woolen fabrics, which particularly af- ’ sects materials of heavy weight, combined with the continued high premium on gold, has a tendency to a decided increase in the cost of all the articles we pur- , chase. . This statement is made strictly in the way of business, and having no intended reference to po- • litical issues, will be readily crcd- . ited. The winter is coming on and i there are nearly one million peo- > pie in the State of Wisconsin I for whom more or less woolen - clothing must be purchased this I fall, to guard them from the cold. ; On every article of woolen fabric > to be purchased, these men tell us, there is “a decided increase” in >. the cost “because of the increased tariff on woolen fabrics.” This “decided increase” in the cost of woolen fabrics will equal ‘ or exceed fifty per cent, on the actual value of the fabrics, and every man, woman or child in Wisconsin who buys a woolen ’ garment this fall or winter must ’ pay one half more than he or she would be asked to pay if the tariff law were repealed. The ag- ' gregate amount of money thus taken from the pockets of our people in a single year, no man can 1 correctly estimate. It is suffici--1 ent to say that it amounts to some milions of dollars. Who gets the money ? Not the i Government, because the bulk of the woolen fabrics worn do not come through the custom house.— I Not our own citizens, for the money is paid to merchants and sent • abroad. If a farmer will trace a dollar thus paid, to the end of its > journy, he will find it safely de- ; posited in the pocket of some Eastern capitalist who owns stock in a mamoth New England factory. It is the money that makes millionares of men who clamor for more tariff and a military government to subdue the people of soverign States to their sort of “civilization.” It is money which never comes back to Wisconsin until it is re-earned by our farmers or sent here in honwepathic doses to persuade our voters to defeat Democratic candidates for Congress. i From tho Louisville Journal. A Mistake Perhaps. A young friend of ours—do you want to know his name? —well, you can’t—told us a little joke on himself yesterday. He sleeps at a hotel “not far about here,” and yesterday, after having taken perhaps, one too many “whirligig punches,” went to his room, divested himself of his apparel, unmentionables and all and laid down on the bed outside of the covering, and was soon in a state of sweet obliviousness. Shortly, a beautiful young lady, deeply interested in a copy of the Jour~ nal walked into the room, totally unconscious that it was already occupied by our hero. She sat down on the floor, leaned against a chair, her mind and eye still bent upon the paper. Presently our hero awoke, and as he did so his blood curdled. He was in a fix. There sat our heroine as composedly as if all was right. He soliloquized somewhat thusly: “What am I doing here ? What is she doing here ? Old boy you was tight when you came here; are you dreaming now, or have you got into the wrong pew ?” All this time the lady read. To move was to attract her attention, and to lie there was dreadfull suspense. He very quietly drew the bed-clothes over his denuded form, and ‘began to snore. She, as softly as possible, rose from her rather peculiar sitting posture, and sloped. The ruse was a success. Our fellow-creatures can only judge what we are by what we do; but in the eye of our Maker what we do is of no worth, except as it flows from that we are.

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