Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAS. C. BRANYAK. HOM» J. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & liHMrance Agents. 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,, Hou. H. B. Sayler. In lianapolis, Ind. •VJ.O.BaAXTAXie Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. D. HELLER, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, 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 Pensions. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. v!on6tf. D. STUD AB A KER, -Attorney at Law, ■ZVJNTTS Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims againet the Government; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agenoy. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming , I JvU 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. vlOnfitf PH YSICI ANS. F. A. JEELEFF, Physician and. Surgeon, I.VDI.LV.I OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßn!stf. ANDREW~SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DEC.ITIJR, lA'DIAATA. OFFICE—On Second Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, M. D., —RESIDENT— Eye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—Corner of Main and Calhoun Streets, opposite the Court House. vllnOtf. AUCTIONEER. C. M. FRANCE Would announoeto 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 Howie, D DECATUR, IJTD., 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. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE, A.FREEJIAN, Proprietor. Weit Main Street, near the Public Square. fort wapae, iatd. vllnllyl. REDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sti. FORT WA YNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, . . VProprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. A Iso good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE? J. LES MAN,Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Sit., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EIMGL MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. Vllnllyl.

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JMertd f Mnj. 1 he Fellowship of BnWerlng. The cruel Crown of Thorns! But where. O Lord, L mine! Are there for me no scoffs and scorns, Since only such were Thine? Or, having named Thy name, Shall I no burden take? And is there left no thorn no abate, To suffer for Thy sake? Unscourged of any whip, Unpierced of any sting — 0 Lord, how faint my fellowship With Thy sad suffering! Yet Thy dread sacrifice So fills my soul with woe, That all the fountains of mine eyes Well up and overflow. The spear that pierced Thy side Gave wounds to more than Thes. Within my soul, 0 Crucified, Thy Cross is laid on me! And as Thy reeky tomb Was in a garden fair, Where round aboutstood flowers In bloom To sweeten all the air— So in my heart of stone I sepulchre Thy death, While thoughts of Thee, like roses blown Bring sweetness in their breath. Arise not, O my dead!— As one whom Mary sought, And found an empty tomb instead, Her spices all for nought— O Lord, not so depart From my enshrining breast, But lie anointed in a heart That by Thy death is blest. Or if Thou shall arise, Abandon not Thy grave, But bear it with Thee to ths skies— A heart that Thou shalt save! Protection In a Nutshell. The following article practically illustrating the evils and injustice of what is termed the protective system appeared in the New York Evening Post two years ago, and as the facts it details, and the arguments it educes therefrom, are none the less forcible now than then we reproduced. “The Hartford Times boast that the Thread Works at Willimantic, owned chiefly by Hartford capitalists, are the most extensive in the country, and says that their new mill, four hundred feet long, five stories high, and built of granite, costly as it is was built of the company's profits of over three hundred per cent, without disturbing their capital, which is now a million of dollars. “It further admits that ‘thread that used to cost the needlewoman four cents a spool, now costs ten, the same as the imported English thread of J. & P. Coats. One reason why Coat's thread works more smoothly on the machine and is better liked than ours, is in the fact that greater dampness of the English climate is more favorable than our dry air to spinning cotton. Again, the highly electric condition of the atmosphere of the Western world is probably unfavorable to the necessary compactness and smoothness sought for in the fabrication of this article, the strands and fibres being more inclined to rough up and “fly off." Here is a manufacture which from physical causes can not be brought to perfection in this country ; but which by enormous protection, has been made to pay three hundred per cent, profit.— Specific and ad valorem duties have been piled upon each other to keep out the better goods made in climates adapted to this delicate work. The tariff on imported threads has been raised until equal to seventy per cent, in gold, on the cost. The tax on domestic is six per cent, in currency, and all this difference is for the fostering of such enterprises as this, whreby a single company has within the past three years accumulated a million of dollars, besides building a very costly factory. Who pays for it ? The poor needlewomen of the United States, the millions who hare to patch and

darn to make their old cloths hold out through these times of high prices. But for it the best of threads would now, while gold is 140, be sold at six cents a spool. This does not show the whole extent of the protection. In England the three-cord glazed threads such as are made by this company, cost much less, and are sold at lower prices than the six-cord goods; but here, as the manufacturers are protected, the sewing woman must pay as much for the one as for the other. The revenue of the country has also suffered to pile up this three hundred per cent, of profits.— Spool cotton used to pay an annual revenue of half a million in gold in the treasury: in the last fiscal year it paid a trifle over three hundred thousand dollars. Such protection as this robs the revenue and robs the poor, but it pays the lucky few three hundred per cent.— lnd Herald. Protection Illustrated. The following extract translated from the French of Frederick Bastiat's “Sophismes Economiques,” by Emile Walter, designed for the American reader, will be found an apt illustration of the practical workings of the protective system so popular among the Radicals: A poor laborer of Ohio had raised, with the greatest possible care and attention, a nursery of vines, from which after much labor, he at last succeeded in producing a pipe of Catawba wine, and forgot, in the joy of his success, that each drop of this precious nectar had cost a drop of sweat to his brow. “I will sell it,” said he to his wife, “and with the proceeds I will buy lacc, which will serve you to make a present to our daughter. The honest countryman arriving in the city of Cincinnati, there met an Englishman and a Yankee. The Yankee said to him. “Give me your wine, and I in exchange will give you fifteen bundles of Yankee lace.’’ The Englishman said, “Give it to me, and I will give you twenty bundles of English lace, for we English can spin cheaper than the Yankees. But a custom-house officer standing by said to the laborer. “My good fellow, make your exchange if you choose, with Brother Jonathan, but it is my duty to prevent your doing so with the Englishman.” “What!” exclaimed the countryman, “you wish me to take fifteen bundles of New England lace, when I can have twenty from Manchester !” “Certainly," replied the customhouse officer; “do you not see that the United States would be a loser if you were to receive twenty bundles instead of fifteeen ?” “I can scarcely understand thissaid the laborer. “Nor can I explain it,” said the custom-house officer,” but there is no doubt of the fact; for congressmen, ministers, aud editors all agree that a people is impoverished in proportion as it receives a large compensation for any given quantity of its produce.” The countryman was obliged to conclude his bargain with the Yankee. His daughter received but three-fourths of her present; and these good folks are still puzzling themselves to discover how it can happen that people are ruined by receiving four instead of three; and why they are richer with three dozen bundles of lace instead of four. “Bill Arp,” the good Union man, so called, is the mayor of Rome, Georgia. Mayor C. H. Smith is a grave, dignified gentleman, and withal a Presbyterian elder. A stranger would never take him for the author of the amusing etters which have given him a world wide reputation.

Converts From Protection.

A Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes to that journal to ask whether it were true, as he had been informed that Mr. Morrill, having lately returned from a visit to Europe, stated he was “amazed to see the evidences of commercial prosperity in Europe under the sway of free trade principles and acknowledged “that a high tariff had not beneficially affected American industry.” The Chicago Tribune replies as follows: “We have no information on the subject immediately referred to by the writer of the above. We believe that Mr. Morrill was opposed to the attempted increase of the tariff in Congress last winter, although he deemed it incumbent on him to sustain the action of the majority of the Committee of Ways and Means, of which he was chairman. It might puzzle him to find reasons for opposing an increase of ‘protection,’ which would not apply with equal force to the whole doctine of protection. Mr. Morrill is a conscientious and persevering man, who received his training for public life in country store in Vermont—a vocation not calculated to give one enlarged views of commerce. His views of the benificial results of high taxes on the industry of the country have been adopted and tested? The result according to his public admissions, has not been satisfactory. It is quite possible that his recent European tour has helped to open his eyes. We shall be glad to learn that such is the fact. “Mr. Wells, the special Commissioner of the Revenue, entered upon the discharge of his duties three years ago, a Protectionist. — His investigations have led him to change his views. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, whose recent pamphlet on Free-Trade has arrested the attention of thinking men on both sides of the Atlantic, tells his readers that he was an ardent Protectionist all his life, until within a quite recent period, because he had never investigated the subject, but had taken it for granted that a tariff was something good in itself, even if the government had no need of revenue.— Mr. Atkinson’s description of himself probably describes Mr. Morrill and Mr. Wells, and nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand Protectionists in the United States.” -General McClellan, who is residing temporarily in Paris, will not return to this country until next Spring. The General will then resume his former business as an engineer. He tells his friends that he desires a return to the active duties of life, that he is still a young man, and feels that he may yet have a future outside of politics. -A large muscular Irishman, in a party crossing the Rocky Mountains, lately left his companions to chase a grizzly. He was afterwards found torn into ribbons, and the bear lying dead a few yards distant, pierced with six bullets. -John Hardy, editor of the radical paper published in Montgomery, Alabama, has been confined in a lunatic asylum, and when we say this, we do not mean that he has been chosen to the State Colored Convention. -A new secret society has been established in Michigan, called “The Order of the Secret Temple.” Its object is said to be the moral and intellectual improvement of woman. Only females are admit- < ted. -One of the fashionable ladies ‘ of Boston, gorgeously arrayed and gorgeoously drunk, lay upon the ] sidewalk of Summer street until a policeman called a carriage and took her home, Sunday afternoon. * > ’ -It is stated that the costumes i of the Black Crook have been re- i nude. 1

MlaceMmeous Items. -Georgia boasts of com fifty bushels to the acre. -The Providence papers lament the immodesty of the young girls of that city. -Horace Greeley says he fell in love while he and the object of his adoration were eating Graham bread. -In his will Maximillian bequeathed every little present he received during childhood to him or her who was the giver. -Virginia has nine and a half million acres of improved, and eleven million and a quarter acres of unimproved lands. -One reason why General Grant don’t say more, is because he can’t talk and smoke at the same time. • -The Alta Californian says this ; has been a mighty poor season for earthquakes. They have had only one beside the election. -It is a fact that people don’t all . know, that over 40,000,000 gallons sorghum syrup are made in this country annually. i -Radical equality, says a St. Paul paper means 81,500 shawls for the President’s wife, and 813 a month I for the soldier’s wife. 1 -San Fransisco harbor is being improved, and the construction of a sea wall of granite has been begun around it. -Peter Lorillard left an estate of fifteen million dollars, a handsome net revenue to derive from the habit of using tobacco. I -The first sleigh-bell made in America was made in Chatham, in 1780, by William Barton, and that town still has the monopoly of the business. , -A boy in Hudson, Wisconsin, [ was sent out to catch a horse, and while leading him home, carelessly tied the rope about his waist.— . Some hours afterward the horse was caught with the corpse of the boy still dangling after him. - A Veteran Convict, The Utica Herald says: Not long since an elderly man, bent almost double by age and work, and in garments tattered and torn, while passing through Rome, New York, stopped at one of the stores and asked for bread or money. He volunteered the remark that he was ashamed to beg, but stated as an explanation, the following as the cause of the necessity: His home was at Saratoga, and he chanced to be in Canada at the rebellion in that country in 1837. He was charged with being engaged in that outbreak, was tried and convicted of being in complicity with the “Patriots,” and sentenced to Van Diemau’s Land for life. He says be was not guilty, but that the feeling was so strong against the “Yankees” at the time of this trial it required but slight evidence to convict. He was then some twenty-one or twenty-two years of age; he was taken to that penal colony, and there subjected to the severst drudgery and the most inhuman treatment. He and other convicts were compelled to draw the plow and cart like oxen, and to labor early and late, and treated not much better, if any, than the dumb beasts. Thus were twenty-eight years of life passed, never hearing from friends or > home, nor allowed to communicate therewith. He with others, was finally pardoned, and allowed to , reach home as best he might. He left the country a hale and hearty , youth, erect and full of life and , vigor and returns to it, after nearly ; thirty-nine years of absence, a de- ( crepid old man bent over with ( age and work, and with broken j health and a shattered constitution. , The narration he give of his life ( there, and the details of his treat- ( ment, fully impressed his hearers with the truth of his statement, and that he was no imposter. He i was on his way home, not know- < ing that he would find a being f whd knew him when he was i a boy. <

(gam & gwriuM Which is the Best Breed of Sheep. A correspondent in the Prairie Farmer says. “The Southdown sheep will shear, on the average, about eight pounds of wool that will not lose over one-third by cleansing for the cards, worth more per pound in the fleece than any of the fine wools, for this reason : The wool is fine enough for all manufacturing purpses, except the very finest description of goods. A two year old Southdown wether or buck will shear twelve pounds of wool that will weigh eight pounds when cleansed for the cards; his carcass will weigh from 175 to 200 pounds, gross, worth more per pound than any other breed in this country, or perhaps anywhere else. This breed of sheep f is ready for the butcher at any time from two months and a half • old to five years, giving as much weight for their feed and age as ; any other breed, always netting ; more in proportion to gross weight! The Southdown bnck has t always been profitably introduced . into a flock—improving, as he al- , ways does, and ever will in my judgment, every breed upon-which L he is crosse 1.” 1 Potato Crust.-—Boil six goodI w sized mealy white potatoes, pare and mash them through a colan--1 der ; add a tea cup of sweet cream, 5 and alittle salt, sift in just flour 1 enough to make them stick and to roll out; work it as little as possi- [ ble; if properly made this is an f excellent paste; it must be rolled 1 rather thicker than ordinary paste; it is excellent for pot-pie, or any f kind of boiled dumplings. In boil--3 ing dumpling great care is necessary, first to have a nice stout cloth, which must be kept exclu- . sively for the purpose, washed and i well floured before the dumpling t is put in, and tied tightly. The 3 pot of water boiling when the pudding is put in, and a kettle of boiling water ready to renew it as the I water evaporates, and not allowed , to remain in the water a moment after it is cooked ; served hot. ' Ditching.—Where the ground ! has not become too hard from the long-continued drouth, the intervening period between this and . the setting in of winter is one of ; the most convenient for constructing drains for carrying off the sur- ' plus water of late fall and spring. • This is one of the most important , items of fall work on the farm. D». McClure thinks feeding rusty straw to cattle and horses has very injurious effects, inducing many diseases, and states that in the last eight months, out of 700 horses fed with such straw, 45 or 50 were on the sick list. A Mixture of gelatine and glycerine, liquid while hot, on cooling becomes solid, retaining considerable toughness. The neck of a bottle dipped into this melted compound becomes covered with an air-tight cap. Treat your horses with that kindness which is characteristic in all the actions of a merciful man. No animal will appreciate itbetter, or respond to it with more_gratitude than the horse. No man so well understands farming as he who has made poor land rich, and he will keep it rich. He is like one who has earned a thousand dollars. It is said sheef& will not bark Shat are white-washed with a laving a little sheep manure -Prairie Farmer. An Excellent Lemon Pudding.—Beat the yolks of four eggs, add four ounces of white sugar, the rind of lemon being rubbed with some lumps of it to take the essence ; then peel, and beat it in a mortar with the juice of a lemon, and mix all with four or five ounces of butter warmed. Put a crust into a shallow dish nick the edges, and put the above into it. When served turn the pudding out of ths dish. The Madison (Fla.) Messenger reports the wedding, one night recently, in that town, of a lad of fourteen years of age, to a widow who was the mother of five chili dren.

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