Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAfi. C. BBANYAN. HOMER J. RANSOM. BRANTAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance A gents. Also. Notaries Public, DECAT UR, INDIANA, . References. —Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Tud., Hon. H. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. fl®”J.C.Branyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. __ v 1 f n 19tf. D. Do HE LEER, at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in I # d ana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vlons2tf. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, -A.2NTX> Pension & Bounty Agent, DECA TUUR, INDIA NA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensio-s. OFFICE—-Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnfitf. D. STUD AB!: A KER, Attornev at Law, Claim & Heal 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 tainiug to Real Estate Agency. Ho is also a Notary Public, and is prepared tn draw Deeds, Mortgages and other inst/m mentsof writing. vlOnlltf. REALESTATE AGENTS. JANIES R. 8080, LICENSED R'A. ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, IfkAA of good farming ,VVV 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 vou. If you want your land sold he will sell it fw you. Fo sale, no charge. vlOnfitf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and burgeon, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßnlstf. ANDREW “SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DFAEITUB, IN'ni.l.Y.l. OFFICE—On Second Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C? A —RESIDENT— Eye and t'ar Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA, OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vlln9tf. AUCTION E ER. C. M. FRANCE Would announceto the public that heis 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 House, DEC.ITIR, IJl'B., I. 3, 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. monroehouseZ MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER, :::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. MAU STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREESIAY, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT fr.IEA'E, IJW. vllnllyl. HEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEAKNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. fiIAYER HOUSeT «7. LESMAN, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE7 EXCHANGE MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVER DALE, Proprietor. - —:o: — Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl,

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 18G7.

Twenty Years, She nears the land—the beat chat brings My wand'ring boy again to me; The sturdy rowers lend her wings And now each sunburnt face I see. Among them all I marked not him— It is not that with rising tears My watchful eyes are weak and dim; It is the lapse of twenty years. He left me when a little lad, A lad! a. babe; I see him now I hear his voice so frank and glad, I stroke the curls upon his brow. My son returns.across the main, But brings not back the time that's fled I shall not hear the voice again, I shall not pat the childish head. Perhaps a trace I yet may find Os boyhood in his look or tone; A glance—an accent to remind Me still of hopeful visions gone. His mother's smile may greet me, when We hold each other hand in hand; Hib mother’s voice may echo then A ble..sing from the spirit land. The boat comes on; a minute more She’ll grate upon the beach. And see, Who rises now to sprirg on shore? Who waves his cap aloft? T’ishe; No more I look in wistful doubt, As in the man the child appears; His earnest gaze, his joyful shout, Have bridged the lapseoftwenty years. The Emblem of the democracy. Editor Statesman : Why is it that the Democratic party adopt the “rooster” as an emblem of victory ? Please explain. Democrat. Columbus, October 11, 18G7. Because the game rooster is the gamest bird, when encroached upon by his fellows, that ever existed, and the Democracy is the gamest party that ever voted at an election or resented oppression. Both the party and its emblem* when they go into the fight, make it a matter of life or death. Both may be whipped, but not conquered, for giving up, when once in the fight, is a word unknown to the practice of the rooster, and is not found in the Democratic vocabulary. This one reason for adopting the rooster as an emblem of Democracy ; another reason is this. During the war of 1812, the British on Lake Champlain was attacked by the American fleet, under Com. McDonough. The fleet' of McDonough, much inferior to that of the English, suffered terribly in the first part of the battle. At the moment when it was ra<’in<v o o fiercest—the heaviest fire of the enemy directed against the flag ship of McDonough—his men driven from their guns by the fierce cannonade, and dismay sat upon every countenance, and the storm of iron hail, which seemed to threaten destruction not only to the ship but to every living soul therein, was at its bight,a cannon ball struck a chicken-coop and knocked it to pieces, killing all it contained but a moment before, save only a game rooster, whose battered comb bore the marks of many a death fight. Flying upon the bulwarks of McDonough’s flag ship, the noble bird, undaunted by the noise and confusion and carnage around him, with clarion voice rang out his notes of defiance and victory. Sailors are very superstitious, and when in the pause of the thunder of the enemy’s cannon, the\heard the shrill “cock-a-doodle-

doo,/ of the undaunted bird, they gathered new courage and repairing again to their guns, returned anew thedfre of the enemy, cheered by the loud crow of the emblem of the Democracy, until the battle ended and McDonough, on Lake Champlain, like the Democracy in in Ohio, was victorious over the enemies of the country - Every naval historian makes mention of the fact and history says that the bravery shown on the occasion by the rooster was the cause of the victory, by the renewed courage it gave to the sailors in McDonough’s fleet.

From that day to this, in political contests, the rooster has been the Democratic emblem of victory, and when it is seen, in the act of sending forth its “cock-a-doodle doo,” at the Lead of a Democratic newspaper, it is right to say the country is safe, for the victory is with the Democracy. The gallant birds that grace our columns, crowing over Ohio redeemed from abolition misrule, are believed to be, if not lineal descendants, living likenesses of the one that cheered McDonough and his men on to victory in 1812.— Ohio Statesman. An Absurd Query. The following -how is it?” from a newspaper, is of course an absurdity, but it gives rise to reflections “Suppose a man and a girl were to get married—the man thirty-five years, old, and the girl five years, this makes the man seven times as old as the' girl ; • they live together until the girl is ten years old, this makes the man forty years old, and four times as old as the girl; and they still live until she is fifteen, the man would be forty-five this makes the man three times as old, and they still live until she is thirty years old, this makes the man sixty, only twice as old, and so on. Now how long would they have to live to make the girl as old as the man ?” This is as absurd as the girl of twenty, ■who was about to ma rry a man of forty, and who wept to think that when she would be. fifty and still vigorous, he would be a hundred years old I It is curious however, when we reflect how as we grow older, we gain on our elders : how the man of thirty, whom we looked up to at twenty, becomes nearer our own age as we move along in years. Sheridan’s East Campaign. Sheridan’s last campaign has added nothing to his glory. His tour in company with sundry politicians, has had a very queer effect and illustrates nothing so well as that it is not enough for a soldier to hold his tongue, but that he must also choose his company and give politics the go-by. Sheri dan’s reception in Philadelphia was a great stirring up of all the radical elements but votes in the late election there wont all the other way. Even Massachusetts is in danger, with all the enthusiasm Little Phil brought out; and saltpetre will hardly save the Empire State. Sheridan, it is true, can not talk; but Sickles can and he went along ;• yet even his elegant and astute sentences had no better effect than had the name and presence of his gallant fellow soldier. It would have been wiser after all, for Little Phill to have gone straight out West to the Plains,-cutting the politicians, that he might cut at.the Indians.— New York Herald, A Fciv Hard Things. Experience and observation have taught men that it is.— Hard to quit chewing tobacco. Hard to keep from eating too much. Hard to drink liquor and not be intemperate. Hard to pay your debts. Hard to resist temptation. Hard to believe a man you know to be a liar. Hard to turn the other cheek when we are struck,

Hard to borrow money from friends when we heed it. Hard to love our enimies.

Cider— it S weet. An exchange tells how to keep cider by saying:—When fermentation commences in one barrel, draw off the liquor into another one—straining through a flannel cloth. Put into the three fourths of an ounce of the oil of sassafras and the same of the oil of wintergreen—well shaken up in a pint of alcohol. But one difficulty is said to pertain to this preparation of cider. It is so palatable that people won't keep it long.

Miscellaneous Items. Fairhaven, Connecticut, sent out 2,6-19,000 quarts cf oysters last year. There are.but three manufactories of wire rope in the United States. I Somebody says that Morrill has come back from Europe a free trader. i One in six of the school chil- . dren in Brooklyn is near-sighted. Baltimore is now experiencing a general revival of religion. There are 241 manufacturers of false teeth in Paris. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others ou ourselves.— Pope. What stylo of hat is the easiest to wear ? That which is not felt. “I love thee still,” as the quiet j husband said to the chattering wife. He who beholds the faults of others through his own virtue, always disposed to forgive them; indulgence is the child of purity of heart. A physian stopped at the shop of a country apothecAry, and inquired for a Pharmacopoeia. “Sir,” said the apothecary, “I know of no such farmer living about these parts.” General Lee writes that there j are six hundred students at his college, against four hundred lust year. Pennsylvania furnishes s’eventy. three and three-fourths per cent of all the coal produced in the United States. Shoes are made in Paris by machinery, of three classes—sewn, pegged, and screwed. Two nice young Illinoisans recently paid fifty dollars each for the original amusement of sprink. ling cayenne pepper on the floor of a dancing hall. Oberlin College, which claims to be a model of liberty, gives all the students who are Free-masons an honorable dismissal, but will not permit them to remain. A minister in Lawrence Massachusetts, lately had a barrel marked “crockery” delivered at the depot in that city, but the head fell out during the cartage and revealed a keg of brandy snugly stowed in the cask. It is said that the largest number of jewels owned by any private individual in the United States is possessed by Madame de la Grange, the prima. donna. They arc valued at more than two hundred thousand dollars. A man in Alton, lowa, has escaped from punishment for adultry because the highly educated prosecuting attorney had charged him with “idolatry,” which is not known as crime in lowa. An association of matrons is in course of formation in Chicago, with the view of saving innocent womSn now lost to virtue, and especially of rescuing girls- in danger of entering the way that “takes hold on death.” A peculiar carriage, with wheels ten feet in diameter and sails, has been constructed in St. Louis for use on the plains. It can be used as a boat in crossing streams. A versatile scamp stole a melodeon from a Baptist church in Wisconsin, and aferwards returned and delivered a lecture in the despoiled edifice to a delighted congregation. Coin were once in fashion; postage stamps had their day.; shell, pebbles, butterflies and beetles have all been at one time or another the rage among children.—• But the most hopeless task of all was that of a boy who had a collection of several hundred business cards, of various firms; he was afraid, he said, that he would not be able to get a complete set, but he intended to try.

Honesty of Tlic Turks. Keppel relates, in his “Journey across the Bidcan,” that, in the winter of 182-8, a Turkish postman was sent to some distant part with a considerable sum of money in specie. The money, meueh eases, is carried In bags,'which the merchants call “groupes.” They are given to the postman, and without receiving any written document as proof of the receipt. This man, on returning from his journey, was applied to by a French house for fifteen thousand piasters; a sum at that time, equal to fifteen thousand dollars. He made no attempt to evade the demand, but immediately said, “I have doubtices lost the bag, and must therefore pay you as soon as I can raise the money.” After maturely thinking cf the loss, he returned by the same road, quite confident that if any Mohammedan should find the money it would be returned to him. He had travelled nearly ths whole distance, when he arrive I, in a very melancholy mood, at a small, miserable coffee house, where he remembered to have stopped a few moments on his way. He was accosted at the door by the case jee, who called out to him, “Hallo, sheriff! when you were last here you left a bag, which I suppose to contain gold. You will find it just where you placed it. The postman entered, and discovered the identical bag, evidently untouched, although it must have been left exposed to the grasp of the numerous chance customers of a Turkish case. Flour Making.—-The question how much wheat does it take to make a barrel of flour is often asked, and the answer is of a general character, “five bushels are allowed.” At the annual Fair of the Dubuque gounty (Iowa) Agricultural Society in 18(16, a premium of $3 was offered for the best barrel of flour made from winter wheat, and also the same made from spring wheat. A firm entered one barrel each, accompanied with the statement that sixteen bushels of winter wheat .yielded three barrels aud one hundred and three pounds of flour-at the rate of four bushels and fifteen pounds of wheat to the barrel. Os spring wheat, fifty bushels yielded eleven barrels of flour, being four bushels and thirty-two pounds to the barrel. The wheat was a fair quality and no more.

An amusing instance of the capacity of the ear is given in the case of a blind man, who was sent by an Edinburg tradesman to take a mattress to a customer, together with the bill, that be might receive payment. “To my surprise,” said h's employer, he “returned with the account and the mattress too. ‘l’ve brought back baith, ye see, sir,’ said he. ‘How so ?’ ‘lndeed, sir, I didna’, like t’ leave't yonder, else I’m sure we wad ne’er see the siller; there’s nae a stick of furniture within the door.’ ‘How do you conle to know that?’ ‘Oh, sir, twa taps no the floor with my stick soon till’t me that.’ The ‘twa taps, were not wrong.” Sir George Staunton related a curious anecdote of old Kien Lung, Emperor of China. He was inquiring of Sir George the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When, after some difficulty, his Majesty was made to comprehend the system, he exclaimed, “Is any man well in England that can afford to be ill? Now’ I well inform you,” said he, “how I manage my physicians. I have four, to whom the care of my health is committed. A certain weekly salary is allowed them, but the moment I am ill the salary stops till lam well again. I need not inform you my illnesses are usually short.” Youth and the lark have their song for the morning, while age and the nightingale have theirs for the evening.

General Sherman’s Opinion of tli® Revolutionists. Says the Washington corrcs- ; poundent of the Boston Post: IV hile those who profess to act : “outside of the Constitution” are ■ digesting President Johnson’s dec- | claration that he will resist any atI tempt to suspend or degrade him j before trial and conviction, I will I add, upon reliable authority, the | declaration of General Sherman • that such an attempt would be , clearly revolutionary, and should be resisted by the President with , all the means within his control.— ; I ids declaration,,made to those I who had a right to know his views I may have suggested the propriety lof his return here to assume the i command of the department of : Washington, which includes Maryj land -and Ddeware. Such, also, ; was the substance of an opinion j expressed by General Grant when i approached on the subject during ; the last session cf Congress by the | House Military Committee. Mr. i Schenck declared to his friends : that before taking any extreme ; action in the premises the opinion |of General Grant should be ob- - tained, and he volunteered to pro- ! cure it. When the subject was I mentioned General Grant promptIly responded, in substance, that any attempt to suspend the President before trial and conviction would be in violation* of the Constitution. This reply of the commanding General arrested any further proceedings at the time.— It may be well in this Connection to repeat that President Johnson will hold ready obedience should the House of Representatives impeach and the Senate convict him as required by the forms of the Constitution. Courtship and i ove. In the new play “Under the Gas : Light,” the heroine gives utterance to the following: Courtship is the text from which the whole sermon of married life takes its theme. As lovers are discontented and unhappy, so will they be as wives and husbands.— So as you would be happy all the years of your life, listen to the voice advising you. Let the ladies you look upon be wise or vain, beatiful or homely rich or poor, she has butone thing which she can really give or refuse —her heart! Her beauty, her wit, the accomplishments she may sell to you—but her love is the treasure without money and without price! She only asks in return that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak a mute devotion, that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving and kind. That you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designsfor when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purpose, her love remains to console you. You look to the trees for strength and grandeur—do not de- - spise the flowers because their fragrance is all they have to give —but it is the only earthly thing | that God permits us to carry beyond the grave.A Weraan’s Answer to an Ailicist. A Writer illustrating the fact that some errors are lifted into importance by efforts t<s refute them, when they need to be treated with contempt and ridicule, observes :— —* —- ■’ \ that all the blows inflicted by the Herculean club of certain logicians are not half so effectual as a box on the par of a celebrated atheist by the hand of some charming beauty. After having in vain preached to a circle of ladies, he attempted to avenge hinislf by saying:— “Pardon iny error, ladies, I did not imagine that in a house "where wit lives with grace, I alone should have the honor of not believing in God.” “You are not alone, sir,” answered the mistress of the house “my horse, my dog, my cat, share the honor with you only these poor brutes have the good sense not to boast of it.” Men talk idly about empire, nation, family. The foundation of the empire is in the nation, of the nation in the family, of the family in the individual; in fine, government is founded on the people, the people on the family, the family on its chief.

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