Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAB. C. BRAKYAN. EOMER J. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance 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., Hon. H. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. J .C. Brant AS is Deputy Prosecat in e Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. D. II EL LE -Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. JAMES R. 8080, Attorney at Law, yiuiNTxa 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; vlOnfitf D. STUDABAKER, Attornov at Law, Claim & 51 cal 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. He Is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JAMES R. BORO, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, ID AURES of good farming . IJlitJ land, several Town Lota, 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. vl Onfitf PH YS ICIA NS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. , vßnlstf. DR. S.C. Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Having permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office in Houston’s Block. Residence at the Burt House. v11n36 ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, IJFDIAJTA. OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. vßn42tf. C..AL 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, Third St., Opposite the Court Howie, DECATUR, I JUD., 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 HOUSED MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER. :::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. iFsrmWGl A.FREEMAY, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT n'AFJTE, IJt'D. vllnllyl. IIEDEKIX HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main St». FORT WAYNE, IND. EJJ KEARNSProprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LES MAN, 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.

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY. DEO. 27, 1867.

THE MAN I LIKE. I like the man in any sphere, Be his posessions what they may; Who owns the password “persevere,” And struggles manfully away, Nurs’d on the downy lap of ease, Or tossed upon the sea of fate; I like the man whom no trifles please, Whose mighty love still conquers hate. I like the man who never broke A promise to the heart or err; I like the man who never spoke A word unkind or insincere; I like the man whose cautious skill In channels of good work doth run; I like the man whoso iron will Yields not till such good works aredone. I like the man who never paus'd A low and slamderous (ale to hear; I like the man who never caused A virgin’s blush, a virgin's Tear, I like the man who never belonged To any vain or foolish creed, I like the man who never wronged A brother e’en in thought or deed. I like the man whose thoughts are pure, Who wears within a double breast, A noble heart, trained to endure, And aye in sorrow hope the best; Who promptly, heartily forgives E en as he hopes to be forgi ren, An 'earnest, holy life who lives At peace frith man. and at peace with Heaven. A Touching Story. I remember, though somewhat imperfectly, a touching story connected with the church bells of a town in Italy, which had become famous all over Europe for their peculiar solemnity and sweetness. They were made by a young Italian, and were his hearfs'pride.— During the war the palace was sacked, and the bells carried off, no one knew whither. After the tumult was over, the poor fellow returned to his work, but it had been the solace of his life to wander about of an evening and listen to the chime of his bells, and he grew dispirited and sick, and pined for them until he could no longer bear it, and left his home, determined to wander over the world, and hear them once again before he died. He went from land to land, stopping in every village till the hope that alone sustained him began to falter, and he knew that he was dying. He lay one evening almost insensible in a boat that was slowly floating down the Rhine. He scarcely ever expected to see the sun rise again, that was now setting gloriously over the vine covered hills of Germany.— Presently the Vesper bells of a village began to ring, and as the chimes stole faintly over the river with the evening breeze, he started from his lethargy. He was not mistaken, it was the deep, solemn, heavenly music of his own bells, and the sounds that he had thirsted for years to hear were belting over the waters. He leaned from the boat, with his ear close to the calm surface of the river and listened. They rang out, their hymn ceased—he still lay motionless in his painful posture; his companions spoke to him; he gave no answer—his spirit had followed the last sound of the vesper chime. “Kiss Mi.”—A new song entitled “Kiss Me,” is being published in Louisville. A sweet and blushing maid having heard of it proceeded to a music store, and said to a modest clerk, “I want ‘Rock Me to Sleep.” The piece of music was laid before her. “Now,” said she, “I want ‘The Wandering Refugee,” and it was produced; and she continned, “Now ‘Kiss Me’.” The young man blushed, stammered, and begged to be excused. Had it been an Indianapolis clerk he would have bounced over the counter in a jiffy, put in one or two on her “potatoe trap,” and then stood up like a little man to take the return.—lnd. Herald. An exchange says a young woman in the East left the dinner table blushing, because the servant put some bear meat before her.

Tnliiz’g a. i'ea-i to lia*3e. A Correspondent of ths LaFayett Courier. A young lady of this city came home from u late Sabbath School Convention recently, with an escort about seven years old, rejoicing in his first pair of suspenders, and wholly unlearned in the sublime mysteries of pomatum and the arrangement of his back hair. “Rather a young beau,” we remarked.— “Well, yes,” said she. “He is a spring chicken I’ve ta&en to raise. You see, Mr. Editor, the beaux of the present day—that is the stock on hand—arc so worthies, that I have concluded to raise one of my own, to my liking. You see,” she continued, “all the ‘fellers’ worth having went to the war, the most of them were married, and so many engaged, that of those who lived to return there are not enough to go round, and so I’ve concluded to raise one. I’ve had him out this evening taking the first lesson. I think, when I get him finished up,"he will be just the thing. The first lesson I shall seek to impress upon his mind is the ineffable meanness of a young i man to sneak off to an ice cream i saloon, a concert, or lecture, with- ; out asking me or some other good looking girl along. I shall teach him that an occasional drive into the country, or a horseback ridetoFobe’s Rural Retreat, is eminently the proper thing, and I shall teach him to abhor stag dances aud gentlemen’s euchre parties as an abomination, and poker as an unpardonable sin. I expect him to be a light and an example to the beax of LaFayette, and revive, if possible, the days of the ancient gallantry, when a young man was not ashamed to be seen in public places with his mother his sister, or some other interesting friend of the persuasion. If there is anything in diet, and I could ascertain just what Jupiter, Jove and Apollo fed their sons after they emerged from the Milky Way, I should adopt it for my little beau as his regular rations.— I infer that half our LaFayette beaux were raised on spoon victuals, for they are the flattest of Spoonies. I have seen theriW at an evening party, after dancing themselves out of breath, and punishing the refreshments, steal off to the coat-room and sneak home alone, leaving twenty young ladies without an escort. If my little beau, when I get him raised, docs anything of that sort, he will bring my gray waterfall in sorrow to the grave. I intend that he shall know something, too, and be able to carry on fifteen minutes conversation without exhibiting hi&poverty of attainments.” She ran on in this strain for twenty minutes, and if the boy survives “his raising,” he will be a model of his kind. - ■ ■ — • —— — ** 'Something of a Tree. —On the train and ready for ship men to New York is a tree grown in the forests of Tipton county, the butt cutt of which measurers six feet and nine inches. It made five cuts ten feet long each, and the part of the top cut measures five feet and nine inches. The tree will make at least nine thousand feet of lumber, end was bought in the woods for &ISB. To transport it to New York v ill require two cars, the cost of which will be one hundred and sixty dollars a car. At New York the cost of the tree will bo five hundred and eighteen dollars. Aside from the fact that this tree was perhaps a sapling when Columbus discovered America, and a monster of the forest when the Declaration of Independence was read, it is a great curio sity.— Tip ton Times. If going uncovered indicates a reverent spirit, as is claimed in some countries, many of our ladies in some fashionable circles are patterns of reverence. They are head and shoulders in advance of the world in general.

Singular PremisesA boy borrowed a tool from a f neighbor, promising to return it L at night. Before evening he was i away on an errand, and did not ret turn until late. Before he went he , was told that his brother should . see the tool returned. After he . had returned and gone to bed, he . inquired an found the tool was not r returned. He was much distressed . to think his promise was not fult filled, and was finally persuaded to , go to sleep and rise early in the f morning and take it home. By < day-light he was up, and now [ where was the tool to be found. — Afte a long and fruitless search, ’ he set off for his neighbor's in ’ great distress to acknowledge his e fault. But how great was his sur- > prise to find the tool on his neigh- > bor’s door. And it appeared - from the little bare feet on the mud - that the lad had got up in his sleep i and carried the tool home, and t went to bed again and knew it not. i Os course a boy who was so e promptin his sleep was prompt 1 when he was awake, He lived reg spected, had the confidence of his x neighbors and was placedin many ! offices of trust. If you can form . a careless habit in such matters, i- you will carry it into relgion. It will 1 be in concerns of the soui, “bye and-by, to-morrow, in a short > I time,” &c., and if yon do not get; § rid of it soon it will rob you of [ your soul—of heaven. To-day—- . now. Tetthisbe your motto. — s Be prompt for time and eternity, s Bible Class Magazine. t —— e Senator Hendrick's Resolution. On motion Mr. Sherman took T up Mr. Edmund’s bill, pledging ’ the faith of the United States to r pay the public debt of the United States. In the Committee Mr. Hendrick j offered a snb-resolution providing Whereas that the public debt of the United States, except where otherwise provided for by law, was incurred on the faith and credit of the United States and some of it ( would be redeemable in the lawful money of the United States which was declared by Congress (, to be legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties j on imports and interest on the I public debt. c Whereas it is not good policy r that Congress should pledge the ’ nation to incur more burdens than the law requires, therefore, j Resolved that the public debt , of the United States, except when , the law pro vides for its payment I in coin, shall be redeemed in law--5 ful money of the United States, , and the faith of the United States 3 stands pledged accordingly. . Mr. Hendricks hoped the, pro--3 position would go to the Commiti tee on Finances. He did not wish to apply to the indebtedness be- , fore the creation of the United , States, ( On motion of Mr. Sherman ; referred. t Where’s Sumner? —The radicals have been making a great fuss over General Sheridan wherever ! he has gone; but lately he has been 1 guilty of a breach of one of the ! dogmas of the party, which must . 1 certainly impair his pa,rty stand- , ' ing. He has been guilqy of making an iuvidons distinction on account of color. The Chicago '1 ribune ays that Sheriden kissed ( five hundred girls the other day, in the public schools of that city The next day he t.-as invited to ' visit the colored schools, but he 1 declined to kiss the negro girls, t thereby making an invidous dis- 1 tinction on account of color. — 1 Sheridan is no longer available; in t ' fact he has denied the faith and 1 deserted the party. Let Sumner 1 roar in the Senate, introduce a s 1 resolution, and make a fuss. — St. t 1 Louis Republican. 1 1 —.—-—-—.— — Two woman in Kansas fought a [ duel the other day and one was I 1 shot dead. Man, false man was t the cause. c

The Bondholders Safe. It may be some satisfaction to the tools and toadies of the bondholders to be assured that whether their bonds shall be paid off in gold or in greenbacks—in either event they will “make money” by the operation. There is not a bondholder anywhere that would lose a cent if he were paid off in full in greenbacks to day. On the I contrary, they would all be well , paid for their investment. The Illinois Statesman, one of our best exchanges, states the whole matter in a nutshell, in the following extract: \ “When the bonds were placed upon the market, greenbacks were worth forty cents on the dollar.— Four hundred dollars in gold would buy one thousand dollars in greenbacks, and those greenbacks would buy one thousand dollars in bonds. Thus, four hundred dollars in gold would buy one thnusand dollars in bonds, which would immediately draw seven per cent, interest per annum in gold, and in five years, eight months and seventeen days, would just double the amount invested. Now, by the time we could get the redemption policy to work he will have held those bonds about that length of time, so that for his four hundi dred dollars of interest in gold, ; and one thousand dollars in greenbacks, which now is equivalant to seven hundred and ten dollars in gold, making him eleven hundred and ten dollars in gold, from four hundred dollars in gold, in a little more than five years, which is equal to money out at thirty-five per cent, per annum. And yet the accursed villians call for more, and after being enriched in this manner, howl bad faith because the people do not wish to continue thus to enrich them.” McCulloch and the Bankers. A deputation of bankers from the Eastern cities visited Washington at the time of the issut of the ten-forty loan, and after an interview with Secretary Chase, at the Treasury Department, they were taken to the White House by Mr. McCulloch, then Controller of the Currency, to be introduced to the President. Mr. Lincoln was writing at his desk by the window of his office as the party entered. Mr. McCulloch went to him, and leaning over the desk, said: “Mr. President, I wish to introduce you to a number of financial gentlemen who have come to Washington to see about tlie new loan. As bank ers, they are obliged to hold our national securities, and lean, therefore, vouch for their loyalty ; for you know the good book says, ‘Where the treasure is, there vyill the heart be also.’ ” Mr. Lincoln, without looking up, instantly replied, “There is another version to that Mr. McCulloch. Tbs same book says, ‘Where the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.’ ” A gentleman who stands high in the community at Corydon, Ky., under the influence of wine undertook to kiss two young ladies at their house, but they retreated to a room he following. He got his leg through the door, but they fastened it there by pressure against the door, and procuring a saw, amputated the leg below the knee. The Henderson News swears to the truth of the «tory, but we should like to know whether the limb wa» a wooden one or not. There has been a debate on baptism at Newton Deleware, between Messrs. Jump, of the Methodist Episcopal, and Flippo, of the Baptist church, at the conclusion of ] which, says a local paper, all the ( Methodist were converted to sprinkling and the Baptist to iminersion. A great triumph for < Messrs. Jump and Flippo. j The Mayor of Norfolk resigns 1 because his pay is too poor. In J this instance, it is the want of mon- f cy that makes the Mayor go. <

Political Items. -It has been heretofore alleged that the stumping campagin by General John A. Logan in Ohio, prior to the late election in that State was undertaken in pursuance of a promised money consideration. The allegation turns out to be true. But it does not turn out that the promise has been redeemed. On the contrary, it appears that the Ohio Republicans repudiate upon General John A. Logan. The sum they promised to pay him was $6,000, but this was with the expectation that he would do them $6,000 worth of good. They now declaretbat, instead of doing them any good, he did them vast harm, inasmuch as the localities visited by him show greater Democratic gains than any other localities in tha State. What steps General John A. Logan will take in reference to this extraordinary breach of promise has not appeared. We fear, however, that the Ohio Republicans. “have him,” on the plea of “no consideration.” — Chicago Times.

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-The Washington correspond--1 ent of the Boston Post says : The 1 selection of Chicago as the point [ for holding the National Conven- . tion of the Republican party is re- [ garded here as conclusive of the • fact that General Grant will be the , nominee. The convention is to I be held the 20th day of May next. « The defeat of the proposition to • change the name of the party to the “National Union party” was ! not a defeat of Grant’s friends, as 1 charged; but a change of base at . this juncture was considered too , hazardous, or in the language of . the late President, it was not re--1 garded as “a proper time to swap horses. Grant’s friends are now [ so confident of the nomination • that the question is on the lips of > every Republican, “who will the . Democrats run ?” and the chances > of Sherman, Pendleton and Hancock are being actively canvassed. ' -The radical faction in Congress started out last spring upon a 1 platform of which “no distinction ' on account of race or color” was 1 the prominent feature. But they have now gone a step farther, and demand special and exclusive privileges to the negro, Schenek, the leader of the House, proposes ■ that, in defiance ofthe rules of Con- . gress prohibiting the sale by any ■ one, a negro shall have the special - privilege of selling ale and beer at • the Capitol. It is to be hoped ’ that, in mercy to thirsty members , and visitors, the House will gra--1 ciously add its permission to • U’7( <7e men to drink these beverages there.— Washington Intelligencer. -Killing, stealing, nothing doing, is still the order of the day among freedmen all through the country. Planters, be vigilant, day and night; watch your barns, watch your yards, watch your porperty at large; do not let idlers take a forced possession of your premises under the false pretensj of future engagements; if you have true old laborers, keep them in preference to all others; feed them properly; be kind to them, as they seem to be the only reliable friends of the planter; but beware of those having no means of living and prowling in every direction without trying to be useful to the country.—Nathitoches, La., Times. -The radical party claims to be a national one. The following, from the New York Independent, does not endorse this claim : “If the Republican party is not to stand for the negro’s rights, then it has no better mission than the Democratic. Every national question, save the question of the negro, might be just as safely trusted to the Democratic party as to the Republican. If, therefore the Republican party throw overboard the negro, we shall straightway move to throw overboard the Republican party.” -Mr. Disoway, the writer of the political article in Putnam’s Mothly for January, says that during the past four years “more impor. tant legislation has been moulded by a silent sneer from Thaddeus Stevens than Webster’s most brilliant oration ever discussed.”—r. Admitting this to be true, i| it not a sorry commentary on American statesmanship t— Chicago Repbu, ican,