Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1868 — Page 1

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 11.

ATTORNEYS. J Al. C. BBAXTAM. HOM IB 3. BAMOB, BRANYAN & RANSOM. -Attorneys at Law, Claim A 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. 11. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. S9**J.C.Bbamyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. De 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. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, -A.JNTX> 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. vlOnCtf.

D. STUDABAKER, -A.ttorn.ev at 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. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. RE AL ESTATE ACE NTS? JAMES R. BORO, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, lAA Z"k ACRES of good farming J vrvF 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. ▼lOnßtf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELDEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DEUTIR, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bellman's Store. vßn!stf. DR. S. C. CURTISS, Physician 4l 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.vlln36 ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, dec.itfr, OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. auctioneer. C. Me 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, DECATUR, IJVD., 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. £. WALKER. : Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the beet style, and at reasonable rates. ■_* nsvlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE A.FREEMAS, Proprietor. Weet Main Street, near the Public Square. fort oxifjve, ltd. vllnllyl. HEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Ste. FORT WA YNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAUER HOUSE. J. LESMAN,Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Ste., FORT WAXNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE, MONROEVILLE, IND. B. G. OOVBB.DALB, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Publio, Real Estate and Insurants Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY. -TAX. 3, 1868.

Be gentle to thy Husband. Be gentle; there are hours when he By anxious cares is tossed, And shadows deep lie on bis brow; By business trials crossed. Be gentle; tis for you he toils, And thinks and stri res to gain Home comforts and home happiness; Don’t let him strive in vain Be gentle; though some hasty words Should fall, it was not meant; A smile, a kind word, will recall, And many more prevent Be gentle; Oh, 'twill soothe much care, And make each burden light; A gentle tone will smooth the brow And draw an answer bright Be gentle; though it may seem hard To check an angry word; Yet try, for it will surely bring A full and rich reward. The Perjured Goldsmith. BY PROF. J. H. INGRAHAM. A modest and exceedingly pretty girl plainly attired entered one of the goldsmith’s stores on street, and seeing a gentleman was engaged with the proprietor, she timidly shrunk aside near the door until he should be at leasure.— The assistants were occupied with customers, whose dress and appearance showed them to belong to the rich and upper circles, and so she was suffered to remain for sometime standing there, before she could be attended to.

The gentleman was a fine, noble looking person with a remarkably polished address, who seeing her waiting, stood aside and said to the goldsmith: “Do not occupy yourself with me now, Mr. Brochard, I can examine these watches by myself, while you see what this young person wants who has been waiting here so long and patiently to get an opportunity to speak to you.” “What do you wish, Miss ?” asked the goldsmith, with a look that coveyed a reproof to her for interrupting him while engaged with a customer of more value to him.

The girl hesitatingly approached the counter, and taking from her bosom a small gold clasp, bent over to him, and said in a low, trembling voice: “I wish, sir, you would be so kind as to keep this a few days and let me have seven dollars on it.” Low as she spoke, her soft trembling tones reached the ears of McHenry, the gentleman who was present, and he turned to observe her face and hear the reply of the goldsmith to this timid and pain* fully-uttered request The goldsmith took the clasp scornfully between his fingers, and throwing it down, said sharply to her: “This is no pawnbroker’s shop, girl, and if it was, that thing is not worth two dollars.” “It is of inestimable value to me, sir—indeed it is tbs only thing valuable I have,” answered she, earnestly, and her cheek slightly flushed at his rude reply. “I don’t know what you may value it at,” he answered, with a cold laugh, glancing at Col. McHenry, whom he saw severely eyeing him. I would not like to give you six shillings for it.” “But, sir, pleaded the girl, I must have seven dollars to-day, and I have no other way of getting it; I was in hope, sir, that you might let me have the sum on it. I will certainly come back and take it up again.” “I tell you,” answered he, angrily, “I keep no pawnbroker’s shop; go to the Jews.” “They won’t give me two dollars, and I want seven.” “And so you think to get it of me ?” The young girl was about to speak again, but, as if not knowing what further argument to urge hesitated, and was turning slowly away, when she checked herself and again spoke to him : “Sir,” she said, in a thrilling tone of earnest entreaty, my mother is lying ill, and our rent is due at 11 o’clock to-day, and the persons we sew for, having disappointed us in our pay, I have no other resource but this. Oh, sir! will you take this clasp only for a few days, and I will then repay you ?” Mr. Brochard felt that Col. McHenry’s eyes were upon him, awaiting an answer, and as he wished him to think him a man of business, (which meant, in his notion, a man without a heart), he answered promptly and sternly: “No. Do you think we are sim-

pietons here ? If you have nothing more to say, please stand aside for customers.” ' “Well, Colonel, what do you think of those ? They are the latest importation, full jeweled and warranted in all points. I will sell you the one you have just laid down for one hundred and ninety-five dollars.” The gentleman, however, was not heeding him, but watching the yonng girl, whom he saw leave the counter, with a heavy, drooping step, and approached the door.— Her face had struck him for its sweet, intelligent loveliness, and her modesty had for him an irresistable charmbut , her plea of poverty deeply interested his feelings, and enlisted his sympathies in her behalf. He had silently watched the progress of. her interview, with emotions of contempt for one and pity for the other. Her hand was on the knob of the door when, advancing toward her he said: “You asked, I believe, for seven dollars ?’’ He spoke with a gentle interest in his tone, that at once awakened hope in her heart, and again brought the light to her eyes and the hue to her checks, as she diffidently answered: “Yes, sir, I, should not have been so urgent—” •‘None too much so. There is a ten dollar note—and I have no smaller bills.” “Sir, you are too kind.—” “Not a word. lam happy to do you a service.” “Take the clasp, though I am ashamed to offer it to you since the gentleman says it is so value less. But to me it was as valuable as life, and I foolishly thought it must be so to others.” “I do not want it, child,” answered McHenry, feelingly, putting his hand aside while she urged it upon him. “Indeed, sir, you must take it, for I shall feel in some degree under obligations .to a stranger. — Besides, I wish to call and redeem it. Will you give me your address, sir ?” And as she spoke he still declining the jewel, she laid it on the show box.”

“Oh, no matter —but if you insist, it is the United States Hotel. “Thank you sir, you can never know the blessings to others that will follow your kindness to me to-day.” Thus speaking and looking upon him with an expression of gratitude in her tearful eyes, she left the shop, forgetting the golden clasp which she left upon the show case. “Will you look at these watches now Col. McHenry?” superciliously asked the goldsmith, without lifting his condemned eyes. “No sir,” answered the gentleman, sternly, and taking his gloves and cane, he walked from the shop of the avaricious goldsmith, who, too close to risk a trifle, to relieve the wants of a poor family, probably lost a large amount by the purchases his wealthy customer might have made, as well as his own self respect, such as it was; for avarice always sinks into its shell before the broad sun of benevolence. “Now, there goes a man who throws away his money upon vagrants, while I keep mine to support my family,” said the goldsmith, looking after him. “He thinks me a miser, aud I think him a fool. O, here is the clasp, after all! She left it for him on the show case and he was too proud to take it away, if he saw it. Seven dollars! It is not worth more than five!” He opened it as he spoke, and taking up a sharp instrument, tried the firmness of the gold. “It is good old Mexican gold.— It might have cost twenty dollars. Ah! what! a star of diamonds in it!” he exclaimed, as in working about with a point of steel he discovered a cavity. “Twelve large diamonds of the purest water! This is indeed valuable. Let me seer—they are worth at least five hundred dolars! What ? to ask so little! No, no, she could not either, for she would not let it go for so small a sum, or ask for nearer its value. I suspect she was ignorant of the cavity, which I detected only by accident. She has stolen it, and never will return for it.” “Ah, ah, Abraham Brochard thou hast made a good evening's work of it,” he said exultingly to himself. Then looking around among his shop boys to see if he was observed, he carefully, yet with a cheerful air, locked the clasp in his private drawer, and taking out the key, placed it in his pocket He had hardly done so when Col. McHenry re-entered, and .without speaking or even looking at him, he cast his eyes upon the show case for the clasp which he recol-

lected, after going out, the young girl had laid down, but did not take it up again, aud so he turned back for it. Abraham Brochard was busily engaged in replacing the watches to their doeskin coverings, and preserving silence and ignorance. At length, Col. Me Henry spoke. “That young person laid her clasp on this case, sir which I neglected to take up. It is a pity it should be lost she valued it so highly.” “The clasp! Oh, no, I have not seen it, sir. She took it up again.” “Did you see her?" “Yes, oh, yes! I had my eyes upon her, and she said at the same time, you’d never see your ten dollars, or the clasp again.” The gentleman eyed him steadily for a moment, and then, glancing around the show case again, as if in search of it, he quitted the shop. Several days had elapsed, and Colonel McHenry had quite forgotten the circumstance we have narrated, when, as he was passing leisurely along the street, he felt his sleeve Suddenly pulled by some one he heard running behind him and looking around, he beheld, with a cheek glowing from the pursuit, the girl he had seen at the goldsmiths’s “Oh, sir, I am so happy to have found you,” she said at once addressing him, as he stopped and withp leasure listened to her. “I was at last enabled to get my pay and by my other work have earned enough to repay you the ten dollars you so kindly gave me. — You don’t know the good you did—the suffering you relieved—the evil you timely averted. Here is the money, sir.” “Nay, my good girl, I do not want it I made you a present of it at the time, and did not expect you to return it. lain, however, glad to find you have the disposition to do so, and that I was not deceived in my estimation of you.” “You must take it,” said she, with ingenuous earnestness. “I should be distressed to be longer under pecuniary obligations to an entire stranger. Besides, that, I would be very glad to have my clasp, if you please.” “Did you not take it from the case where you laid it down?” he asked with surprise and justly directed suspicion. “No, sir. Indeed, I hope it is not lost, It is of countless value to me. It was given me by—by—” “By a sweetheart,” added he, smiling. “He is now—dead,sir,” she added, with overflowing eyes. “You do well to value it. I did not take it up. , Are you sure that you left it there ?” “Yes, sir, hoping you would take it and keep it until I payed you the money.” “Well, my child, I have not got it, but I believe the goldsmith has. Let us go to him.” On their arrival at the shop, Mr. Brochard denied ever having seen it since she went, ont, and that ho saw her take it with her and place it in her bosom as she left the shop. The young lady turned pale and was inconceivably distressed. “Como with me. I will find the clasp for you,” said Col. McHenry offering her his arm leaving the goldsmith’s with her. “I do hope I shall find it, sir,” she said as they walked along.— “It was Robert’s last gift. It was given him in Cuba by a rich lady whose life he had saved from the water. He was a sailor, sir, and had little to leave me, but his memory and my poor clasp. Oh, sir, if it is lost, I shall never for give myself for offering to pledge it. But, sir our extremity wa| very great” Colonel McHenry stopped with her at a justice’s offlee, and briefly and clearly made his complaint, and in a few minutes Mr. Broachard was brought into the presence of the magistrate. He appeared to be in a great trepidation, and was pale as ashes for he had been suddenly taken without warning from behind his counter, leaving his shop in charge of his assistants. Colonel McHenry and the young lady being sworn, deposed that they last saw the clasp on the show case, where each went out and left it; the former further deposed that he had not gone three steps from the door before he returned and found it missing, and no one was in the vicinity but the defendant. The goldsmith was then called up to be sworn as to the knowledge of the facts. He approached the stand where the magistrate held the Bible, and laid his hands upon it with a perceqtible tremor of his body; but love of money was stronger than the fear of law I

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and he took the oath. It appeared as if he would sink through the | floor when he took it; but the moment it was done, he recovered his audacity. At this moment an officer who, at the suggestion of Col. McHenry, had been privately dispatched by the justice with a search warrant to the shop of the goldsmith, now entered and placed something in the magistrate’s hand after briefly whispering to him. “Did you ever see this gold ornament before ?” asked the magistrate, holding up the clasp before the young lady’s eyes. “Oh, it is my clasp—it is my clasp!” she cried springing forward. “Yes—it is the same.” answered the Colonel. “And did you ever see it before,” demanded the jastice sternly holding it in the direction of the goldsmith, who had seen it at first and was appalled with fear and consternation. Instead of replying, he uttered a wild, hysterical laugh, and fell his length in convulsion on the floor. He was a few weeks afterwards taken from his prison and tried for perjury; but his reason forsook him, and he is now an inmate of the madhouse. Thus was avarice and parsimony and indifference to the suflerings of the poor, punished in this life; the acts of this selfish man show to all how acquisitiveness, if wrongly directed, is fatal to its possessor. Col. McHenry proved to be a bachelor; though a little turned of thirty, his heart was keenly alive to all the finer sensibilities of our nature. He could feel for the down-troden poor, and sympathize with the unfortunate. To this truth none could more positively attest than the young friend of the “gold clasp,” for ere two moons had waned, she rejoiced in the euphonic title of Mrs. Col. McHenry, surrounded with all the appearance of wealth that a grateful heart could enjoy, or even wish.— Her poor, afflicted mother was well provided for. when she soon recovered her health, and happiness and prosperity smiled upon all.— Weekly Yeoman. ** Men Who win Women. God has so made the sexes that woman, like children, cling to men; lean upon them for protection, care and love; look up to them as though they were superior in mind aud body. They make them the suns of their system and they and their children, revolve around them. Men are gods, if they but knew it, and women burning incense at their shrines. Women therefore, who have good minds and pure hearts want men to lean upon. Think of their reverencing a drunkard, a liar, a fool, or a libertine. If a man would have a woman to do him homage he must be manly in every sense ; a true gentleman, not after the Chesterfield school, but polite because bis heart is full of kindness to all ; one who treats her with respect even deference, because she is a woman; who never condescends to say silly things to her; who brings her up to his level, if his mind is abo ye hers; who is never over anxious to please ; but always anxious to do right; who has no time to be frivolous with her; always dignified in speech and act; who never spends too much upon her; never yields to temptation, even if she puts it in his way; who is ambitions to make his mark in the world, whether she encourages him or not; who is never familiar with her to the extent of being an adopted or cousin; who is not over careful about dress; always pleasant and considreate, but always keeping his place of the man, the head, and never losing it Such deportment, with noble principles, a good mind, energy and indutsry, will win any woman in the world who is worth winning. Forty-two million dollars to pay troops to give negro suffrage to the South. Forty-two million dollars have been paid out by paymasters to United States troops during the past year. This is over three times the amount of money it took to pay all expenses of the United States Goverement under the administration of John Quincy Adams. When to this large amount is added the sum expended for clothing, subsistence, removal of troops, etc, the tax payers will have a slight idea of the expenses of running the South for radical rule, by the bayonets of the standing army. In Danbury, Connecticut, a deaf and dumb man has started a shoe shop, and all of his men are deaf and dumb. A miser grows rich by seeming poor.

Free Whiskey—Free Trade. Are Free Traders and drunkards equally reprehensible members of society ? This is not a conundrum. It is a puzzling question to deI cide. Fortunately, we have it decided i for us by the Tribune. Listen I “A commerce in danger of being debauched by unlimited and i indiscriminate trading needs as much intelligent protection m a community which demands an efficient liquor law to keep its body politic sober. Between extravagant, unlicensed buying and selling, and intemperate drinking, we can easily find the logical parallel, especially if the market bullies the workshop, to the confusion and defeat of those legitimate industries which are the true test of the national worth. Liquor selling without any hindrance is at the cost of public sobriety; free-trade, without stint, is a charge on the national toil. Wherefore, we think the people are not likely to be deceived by any spacious argument under a plausible name. They know that free-trade is very much like free whiskey, such as a toper permits himself to take at all hours of the day and under all circumstances. Free trade is another word for liberty without law. It is a dangerous license of trade and finance. In a word it is commercial libertinism. Against such a heresy every pich, hammer, spindle, and hoe in the land is raised.” Has the writer of the above had too much Free Whiskey ? General Miles, freedmen’s bureau commissioner for North Carolina, has written a strong letter to General Howard, urging that the bureau must not be discontinued until reconstruction is fully accomplished; and says that in his judgment that at no period since the close of the war has the bureau been of greater advantage than now. A very large proportion of white.voters in this State, at the late election, either voted against the convention, or wilfully remained away, in order that their absence might obstruct the work of reconstruction. At present there is a strong political force organized and canvassing with the sole purpose to vote, down any constitution the convention may adopt and thus defeat the construction acts. This opposition is controlled and led by ineu who have been notoriously antagonistic to the Government for years and no efforts will be spared to effect their object. If they are successful in the design, it is possible they may be in the condition of the blacks which would be horrible. He argues that the civil courts are as a general rule, in the hands of men who are opposed to reconstruction. A Nigger Speech in the Convention. —Among those who are reflecting infamy on Virginia in the Kangaroo Convention at Richmond is a nigger named Lewis Lindsey. On the question whether the convention should employ a stenographer or not, he made the following lucid and elegant speech, reported by the dispatch : Lewis Lindsey said: Mis-tar Presi dent, I hope in dis late hour ob de struggle dat Ole Virglnny hab been impearilled dat no free thinkin, man can suppose for a momunt dat we desires to misripersint de idee dat we can't qualify de ability of de sternorgerphy for, dis convention. I hope evy good thinkin’ gentleman will obsarve de necessity of havin’ astenogaphy, and dat de will be willin’ in de desire to gain de ability of de Commonwealth of Ferginny to see dat de gentleman is justly desarve. I hope, sir, dat evy gentleman will now see de necessity of havin’ dis stenogerphy, so dat we can den be able to understand de principles of dar proposition. [Laughter.] [The above is a verbatim report.] Bunyan and the Quaker — John Bunyan, while in Bedford jail, was cailed upon by a Quaker, desirous of making a convert of him. Friend John, I have come to thee with a message from the Lord; and after having searched for thee in all the prisons in England, I am glad that I have found thee out at last. “If the Lord had sent you.’’ returned Bunyan, “you need not have taken so much pains to find me out; for the Lord knows I have been here twelve years.” XSTFor chapped hands—wash the hands, and, without using the towel, apply a small quantity of honey and rub well. Use once a day, and it will make the hands very soft, and cure as well as prevent chapped hands. A Southern planter, who owned fifty-three negroes at the begining of the war, is now at work on day wages at a railroad shop at Jackson, Mississppi. Upward of eleven mill ion of persons passed through the turn stiles of the Universal Exhibition,