Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAS. C. BRANTAX. HOMBB J. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM, zVttornoys at Law, Claim & Insurance 4 gents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. 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. Brant an is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9t,f. D. D. HELLER, -A.ttorn.ey at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. v!ons2tf. 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-s. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlon6tf. D. STU D ABA KER, -Attorney at ILaw, -AuJNTJO 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 ami 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 AGENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED RFAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming . N r vF v 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. JELEEFF, Physician and. Surgeon, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßn!st.f. ANDREW - SORG, Physician and Surgeon, BECdTUR, IJVDLAJT.L OFFICE—On Seoond St reet over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, M. IK, —RESIDENT— I'ye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vllnOtf. AUCTIONEER. C. M. 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 Howse, DIA.ITIR, LYI)., I. J, MIESSE, ::::::::::: Proprietor. In connection with this House there is a Stage run to and from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which connects with trains running both ways. vlln9tf. MONROE HOUSE? MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER, ■■ ::::::: Proprietor, ——:o: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. mHIfETIEiW A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT U'drA'E, IAT). vllnllyl. HEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEABNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESAlAN,Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DKCA'TITR, IjSTD., FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1867.

BROKEN VOWS. Promises are lightly broken: Vows on which we blindly build, (Uttered only to be broken,) Go forever unfulfilled. Oft betrayed but still believing— Duped again and yet again— All our hoping, all our grieving, W arns us, but it warns in vain. From the cradle to the coral— From the sunny days of youth— We are taught the simple moral. Still we doubt the moral’s truth; When a boy they found me rather Loth to do as I was bid—“l shall buy a birch,” said father. Broken vows! He never did. Grown extravigant when youthful, In my tailor’s debt I run; He appeared about as truthful In his talk as any man. Let me tell you how he sold'me; “Look you, Mr. [What’s-Your-Name, I shall summon you," he told me— But the summons never came. Through te meadows, daisy-laiden, Once it was my lot to stray, Talking to a lovely maiden In a very spoony way; And I stole a kiss—another— Then another—then a lot; “Fie!” she said: “I'll tell my mother.” Ijllc words! She told her not. General Butler Writes Another Letter on the Finances—llls Reply to the New York. Tribune. The following letter to the editor of the New York Tribune appeared in that paper on the 2d instant : Sir : A friend has sent me a slip from your weekly, cotaining the Tribune’s reply to my letter on the subject of national finances. My high respect for the editor, the paper, and its readers prompts me to a rejoinder which may contain a little more clearly the exact statement of the question at issue between us. My most earnest desire is that the Government shall fully, honestly and exactly meet every one of its obligations, according to the exact and equitable condition of every contract it has made with its creditors. I would advocate nothing short of this, and justice and good faith requires nothing more. I asserted that the 5-20 bonds were payable as to their principal in currency, and not in gold.— This the Tribune denies, and insists that they are payable in gold. The whole question is, what was the contract between the Government and its creditors ?

The first 850,000,000 loan of August, 1861, was issued at 7-30 interest—principal and interest payable in gold—was so taken and so paid. When the 5-20 loan bill was passed,'it established the interest at six per cent., payaple in gold, but said nothing as to the currency in which the principal was to be paid. When the 5-20 loan was before Congress, Judge Spaulding, of Ohio/asked Mr. Stevens, chairman of the committee on appropriations, who reported it, if the principal of these bonds was paid in gold, as well as the interest ?— To which Mr. Stevens replied, that the principal was not payable in gold. At the same session, when the first 5-20 loan bill was passed, the legal tender act was also passed, providing for the issue of what are now known as “greenbacks.” It was therein provided, and so printed On the back of every note that it is legal tender for every debt public and private, except duties on imports and the interest on the public debt. If it was not to be received for principal of the public debt, why except the interest ? Besidesthe act made it recievable by the United States for all its loans, and specially convertible into 5-20 bonds. Again, in the following Congress, while a portion of the 5-20

loan was yet untaken, another 1040 loan was authorized, at 5 per cent, interest, both principal and interest of which, by the terms of the act, were made payable in gold. Now, if it was the contract of the Government that the 6 per cent, 5-20 bonds were, interest and principal, payable in gold, although directly the contrary was stated on their face, why was it that the Government offered a 10-40 loan at 5 per cent., interest and principal both payable in gold ? In other words, how could the Government expect the 5 per cent, gold payable and gold bearing loan to be taken up, when it had the 6 per cent, gold payable and gold bearing loan still before the country ? You say that the Tribune was largely, zealously instrumental, at the request of Government, thruogh its agents, in persuading the people to lot the Government have their money for these bonds. We assured them, day after day, that every one would be paid in full in coin—principal and interest. Now, the 10-40 loan was put upon the market by Jay Cooke, as the agent of the Treasury, and if you will consult the files of the Tribune containing the advertisement of that loan, you will find that Jay Cooka advertised the 10-40 loan as the only loan of the Government, the prinipal and interest of which g. as payable in gold. I have not seen the advertisement in the Tribune, but it was so advertised; and I assume .Jay Cooke took advantage of so valuable a medium of advertiseing as your paper to make known that important fact of the desirability of the 10-40 loan, as he certainly did so advertise in other papers. You further say: “General Butler uttered no word of dissent then," i. e., when the loan was upod the market. True, because there was no occasion. And still another, and perhaps equally available answer—General Butler at the time had other public interests in another branch of the service to contemplate and try to serve. Again; You do not deny that this 5-20 loan in whatever it is payable,is now due at the option of the United States. That is, the five years have passed at the end of which, by their terms, the United States reserved the right to pay them; and the Government has the right to pay them to-day in whatever currency the contract calls for—whether gold or paper. If these bonds are payable in gold, why arc the selling at from 109 to 112 in currency when gold is worth 143 to 145 ? If the United States should now choose to exercise its right to pay them, which would seem to be wise, as they are untaxable, so that their interest is, in fact, from one to three per cent, to the holder in that case, why should the Govrnmentbe called upon to pay them in gold or its equivalent in currency say 153, when anybody else buy them at 112 1 Why should the tax payer be called upon to pay the holder thirty or forty per cent, more in order to redeem these bonds, than, as they now have the right to do, the capitalist is now willing to sell them for to any body else? Assuming that no man can doubt, in view of the legislation of Congress, and the words of the contract, that these bonds are payable in currency, my next proposition is, that the United States shall issue a new loan upon such terms as sound finance should allow to be most advantageous, and, with the proceeds pay its 5-, 20 creditors, aud thus reduce the rate of interest, while at the same time it keeps exact faith in its contracts. lam unable to see that this is

•‘a dodge” or “repudiation,” “which is a longer synonym for rascality,” or anything “irrcconcileable with common honesty.”— “These be hard words, my masters.” As Ido not think they add any thing to the strength of the Tribune's argument upon a legal question relating to finance, I certainly can neitho reply to nor return them. I propose only to reply to the specific argument of the Tribune, and, therefore, refrain from discussing any of the collateral branches of this subject. May I ask—as the question is one of great moment to the country—you in justice and fairness to give this letter the same conspicuous insertion which you gave the the attack. “Common honesty’ would seem to require this. Very truly yours. B. F. Butler. Husbands and their Wives Some husbands never leave home iu the morning without kissing their wives and bidding them “good by,” in the tones of unwearied love: and whether it be policy or fact, it has the effect of fact, and these homes are generally pleasant ones, providing always that the wives are appreciating and welcome the discipline in a kindly spirit. We know an old gentleman who lived with his wife over fifty years, and never] left home without the kiss and the “good by, dear.” Some husbauds before having ask very tenderly. “What would you like for dinner, my dear ?” knowing all the while that she will select something for his particular palate, and off he goes. Some husbands will leave home without saying anything at all, but thinking a good deal, as evinced by their turning around at the last point of observation and waving an adieu at the pleasant faces at the window. Some husbauds never say a word, raising from the breakfast table with the lofty indifference of a lord and going out with a heartless disregard of those left behind. Itis a for their wives that they cam sympathy elsewhere. Some husbands never leave home without some unkind word or look, apparently thinking that such a course will keep them straight in their absence. Then, on returning some husbands come home jolly and happy, unsoured by the world ; some sulky and surly with disappointments. Some husbands bring home a newspaper or a book, and busy themselves for the evening in its contents. Some husbands arc called away every evening by business or social engagements; some doze in speechless stupidity on a sofa until bedtime. Some husbands are curious to learn of their wives what has transpired during the day; others are attracted by nothing short of a child falling down or a house taking fire. “Depend upon it,” says Dr. Spooner, “that home is the happiest where kindness, interest politeness and attention is shown ; of course all the responsibilities rest with them and temptation find no footing there. ‘Whatthe Elections Decided.’ —Under heads like the above many radical presses, that are less honest than cunning, are playing cuttlefish in respect to the recent election results. The people who have decreed the downfall of the radical traitors and corruptionists, answer to their interrogatories that the elections have decided that" you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.’ Thad. Stevens says in a recent letter: “Sick as 1 am, I take this occasion to thank God for our late defeat. The Republicans have been acting a cowardly part, and have met a coward’s fate.” There were not righteous people enough in Sodom to save it, but there was a pretty good Lot.

A Hog gtory. Mr. Elisha Atwater, of Munson informs us that on returning from an absence of a few weeks, last June, he found that a straw stack had tipped over, and it was thought that some hogs that were in the habit of frequenting the stack might have been buried beneath it. Nothing, however, was done with it until a week or two ago, when the straw was removed to release some poles that had been covered by the fall of the stack.— When near the bottom a hog was heard to grunt underneath, and the straw was quickly removed from the place indicated, when a live hog was found, imprisoned in the space beside a pole, giving just sufficient room for the animal to stand on its knees and to move forward and backward about half its length. The hog had been under that straw more than three months, with no drink, no food but rye straw, and not even room to stand up I The animal was taken out and let go, when it ran a few steps and fell down. It appeared blinded by the light, was very thin and weak, and was bleached as white as snow. It made no attempt to eat, and appeared to know no use for food or drink.— It was attacked by the other hogs, and had to be removed to a seperate encloscure, where it remained in a sort of imbecile condition for about a week, eating nothing whatever. Mr. Atwater then poured some milk down its throat, after which it began to revive, and finally commenced to nibble corn.— It is.now thriving, with as bright prospects of filling a pork barrel as any other hog. Cambridge 111. Chronicle. Flexible Stone. A great geological curiosity has just been deposited in the museum of the Hartley Institution at Southampton, England, consisting of a piece of flexible stone about two feet long, seven inches wide and more than one inch in thickness, having the appearance of rough sandstone, which bends with a slight pressure like a piece of In-

Bofeb>bber or gutta percha of the same size. This interesting specimen of geology has been placed in a glass case constructed for it, fitted with a lever, by touching the key of which on the outside of the case the flexibility of the stone is shown. It was presented to the Hartley Institution by Mr. Edward Cushen, from his relative, Mr. R. S. Munden, who obtained it from Delhi, India.— In its natural position the stone is said to run in thin layers in the soil in which it is found, but is so rare in India that it finds a place in the museums at Calcutta. There is a similar stone, but not so wide as the one under notice, in the British Museum, and another in the museum of the School of Mines but specimens are very rarely to be met with. Although the stone has a gritty appearance, no grit or dust is thrown off by the motion given to it when under pressure. A young man in Southwestern Missouri has committed suicide in a manner to excite the envy of a Parisian. He put himself at au angle of a “Virginia rail fence,” and using an ax helve as a lever he raised the fence, put his head under it, and caused his neck to be broken by the falling weight of fence timber. When the late Sir Frederick Bruce was asked whether he was not very much shocked and offended by Bancroft’s attack on his govment in the Lincoln eulogy, he replied : “O no! Vhen Igo to see a savage put on his paint and dance a war dance, I am not surprised at any of his antics.” “Wherever there is ignorance,” says the Tribune, “there is peril to the cause of good government and to the institutions of the country,” True, and the Southern elections show it.

Are Our Feet Properly Clothed. It is somewhat sup rising that, with all our boasted improvements, we have not as yet produced a proper covering for the feet. Barbarous people, if their climate admits, go with bare feet, or wear sandals covering only the sole of the foot. We, however, encase the whole foot, and a portion of the leg, in a material almost impervious to air and moisture, and generally uncomfortably hard and rigid. The color and polish of our boots are directly calculated to attract the sun rays; and the enamel on patent leather and the blaking on ordinary calf skin tends to harden and solidify the substance. Closing the pores and making air tight cases for a portion of the body which exudes more perspiration than any other, and is subjected to greater strain. Our boots' 1 in summer parboil our feet in a warm bath, and in winter freeze them in an icy envelop. It is doubtful if wet feet are, in themselves, very conducive to disease, some medical men to the contrary notwithstanding; but cramped confinement of the feet, in an icy cold envelop, generated by perspiration and chilled by the external atmosphere, thus shutting the imprisoned feet almost air tight is as unhealthy as it is uncomfortable. For hot weather there is hardly any shoe so agreeable as that introduced within the past three or four years,known as the army shoe, and extensively used by base ball players. It is of heavy convas and unblacked leather. It is cool and remarkably easy to the] feet. The texture of the canvas allows the escape of the perspiration, and" the color of the shoe does not attract the heat of the sun. It would seem that the plan of covering other portions of our bodies with material pervious to air might advantageously be extended to our feet. There is no natural reason why our feet shall be so much less sensitive than our hands. They become indurated and deprived of their natural activity by long, close confinement. The people of warm climates, who use their toes as we do our fingers and the bare faced school boy, who picks up and throws pebbles with his feet, show that the foot of the civilized adult in our climate is a much abused member. A more flexible and porous mater A for our boots and shoes might save us from many of those terrible annoyances, which, in the form of corns and bunions, make pur pilgrimage' one of pain.— Scientific American. Mineral Wealth of Japan.— Mr. Grower, the British consul at Hnkodadi, refers in his report of this year to the minerals which abound in the island of Yesso, and states that he has visited some of the rich mines which have beeu abandoned through mere ignorance of the first engineering principles, and through disregard for economy of time and labor. Many spots where lead is found are left unnoticed. Copper aud iron are found iu different forms. On the east coast the Consul has gone over miles and miles of iron sand, which is said to contain over 60 per cent, of pure metal.— Gold is found in small quantities in the vicinity of Ulop. There are also springs of asphaltum, with every indication of the probable existence of petroleum not far below the surface. Coal is plentiful. To use the expression of a native officer,cliffs of pure coal form part of the east coast near Cusuri, where the waves wash into the sea. Q _ r The Boston Post says the “California yarnists tell us of a lake in which raw hides may be tanned in six days, and a dirty shirt made "snowy white by wetting and wringing out.” To which the Norwich Advertiser replies: “What an acquisition that would be for the Republican party, which is just now washing its dirty linen in public,” We begin to hear from Alaska. This is the item: “Twenty thousand pounds of walrus tusks arrived in one vessel at San Francisco from Alaska.”

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