Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1868 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAS. C. BSANYAN. ROMER J. SAKSG-. BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., W’m. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. Branyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. D. IIELLLR, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere bn Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr, Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. • •v]ons2if. ■ JAMES R. 8080, Attorney at Law, -A-isTIJ 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. vlOnGtf. D. STUD AB A KER, Attornev-at Law, _Z\_TNT3O Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECA TUR, INDIA NA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real-Estate; examine title’s and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agencv. Hets also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. . vlOnlltfi- * REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE ApENT, t .DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of go<?d farming ."JvF’LP land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity ’of wild-land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm or wild land t hP will sell it to you. If •ybu.want yottr land sold .he will sell it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlOnfitf "physicians. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, BEUTUR, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bellman’s Store. vßnlst.f. DR. S. C. CURTISS, 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 Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, IJTDIAJFA. OFFICE—On Second Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. AUCTiONEERT"

C. M. FRANCE . Would announce to thepublicthat he is n 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 Hawse, DECATUR, IJVD., I. J, MIESSE, : : : : r: : : : : : 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, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT JTAFJFE, IJTD. vllnllyl. lILDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House.vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LBSStAN, Froprieltir. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. * Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE, Proprioter. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IATT)., FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1868.

Fisherman’s Song. When tnorning builds a jeweled heap Os sand and sea-shells on the shore, We brothers of the purple deep, Aroused from sleep, Bend to the silver dripping oar. And toour joyous matin song That echoes answer far and wide, A living and a shadowed throng We sweep along, In double glory o’er the tide. • Till gathering up each netted told In which our shining treasure lies, We seem to draw from depths untold A web of gold, Shot with a thousand brilliant dies. And thus, while glide the hours away, We gaily heap the sunny spoils That flash throughout the live long day, As though there lay . A tangled rain bow in our toils. Till buried in his crimson urn, The suu proclaims bur labor o’er, And joyously our eyes we turn, To those that burn Beside opr far off cottage door. A Word to the Farmer. The League :—The harvest time is past. Field and orchard have yielded their generous products, as your well-filled barns attest, and Thanksgiving Day will doubtless be welcomed with grateful emotions to that bountiful Providence that has blessed your industry.— But as you look with pride upon these husbanded fruits, how natural will be the question, what is the exchange value of these my harvest treasures. And the question is proper, for they are the compensation of months of such hard'Labor and ‘fcarefttl ari*W<jP'as is probably unknown in any other department of industry. If it should appear that by any unjust combination you are to be deprived of any part of their fair value, honest indignation will be excited; and none the less so if such combination take place under the form of law.

Now it is worthy ofthe farmer's consideration that the legislation of nearly all the civilized states of modern times has tended to aid commerce and manufacturers at the expense of agriculture. This truth cannot be better set forth than in the language of the great political economist, Adam Smith. He says : “The policy of some nations has given extraordinary encouragement to the industry of Towns. * * * * Since the downfall of the Boman empire, the policy of Europe has been more favorable to arts, manufactures and commerce, the industry of towns, than to agriculture” ( Wealth of Nations pp 12.) The reasons for such partiality need not now be inquired into, but a knowledge of the fact will prepare you for the assersion that a like inconsistency exists in the legislation of our own country the present time, that is to say, manufacturers are protected to the disadvantage of agriculture, the manufacturer is made rich by the thrift of the farmer, and the truthfullness of the statement will be seen in a consideration of the following asservatioos.

First, that taxation has been so arranged by our lawmakers as to enchancethe cost of everything raised by the farmer, whether wheat, corn, pork, or any other commodity. This system excludes the American farmer from those markets of the world where he would otherwise naturally be found as a seller. He is undersold by his competitors. For example. England is compelled by a deficient harvest at home to be for the coming season a large importer of grain. The United States ought to supply the deficiency, but Russia can raise and therefore sell her wheat cheaper, and America is to a large extent kept out. Second. That taxation has been so arranged as to prohibit the importation of those low-pric-

ed woolen and cotton fabrics so necessary to the farmer who must in consequence purchase goods of home manufacture at exorbitant prices. If events during the last six years had been flowing smoothly in their ordinary channel no such crime against society could have been committed, but advantage has been taken of the excitement caused by civil strife to impose upon the farmer “heavy burdens” that can hardly be borne. attention has been engaged by the nations struggle for life—while appeals have been made to hjs patriotism—plans Were being matured to impose unjust taxation that others might be enriched by his' sacrifice. And men whp. befpre the war had grown grey-headed iq fruitless efforts to enslave the farmer now rejoice th see him f bound and even threaten to make their grasp firmer. We have not.to inform you that the whole of society is in reality made to feel the effect of this injustice. National evil is as surely involved in National wrong as sm aud suffering are “forever linked together.”* And this is so clearly expressed in the axiomatic words of the distinguished writer before referred to, that we cannot forego a second quotation. He says: “When a landed nation * * * oppresses either by high duties or by prohibitions, the trade of foreign nations, it necessarily hurts its own interest in two different ways. First, by.raising the price of all foreign goods, and of all sorts of manufactures, it necessarily sinks the real value of the surplus produce of its own land, with which, or-what comes.to the same thing, with the price ot which, it purchases those foreign goodsand manufactures. Secondly, by giving a sort of monopoly of the home market to its own merchants artificers, and manufacturers, it raises the rate of mercantile and manufacturing profit, in proportion to that of agricultural profit; and consequently, either draws from- agriculture a part of the capital which had before been employed in it, or hinders from going to it a part of what would otherwise have gone to it. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways : First, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits ; and secondly by raising the rate of profit in all other employments, agriculture is rendered less advantageous, and trade and manufactures, more ad. vantageous, than they otherwise would be; andjevery man is tempted by his own interests to turn, as much as he can, both his capital and his industry from the former to the latter employments.” (Wealth of Nations.) In dictating to nature our legislators disorganize labor. In conclusion we wish you to investigate the question thoroughly, feeling assured that if you do so the injustice complained of, must give way before that calm and dignified power that you have so frequently exerted in the rebuke of oppression and wrong.—Correspondent American Free Trade League. The Negroes.—A gentleman from the cotton region informs the Planter's, Louisiana, Banner, that the freedmen are beginning to open their eyes. Flattered and deceived about receiving forty acres of land and a mule for vot-1 ing the radical ticket, and going to Congress, they neglected work, and now many of them are in rags and have no provisions for winter except a little corn. They turned from their genuine friends and listened to their pretended ones until poverty, degradation and sorrow are at their door. At last they will "Eve to turn for help and sympathy to the white people whom they have insulted and injured, when those who deceived them for their votes will be out of reach of their appeals.

Immense Treasure Trove— A Wonderful taie of Gold--The Rights of the Ancient Tombs of Montana brought to light. A most wonderful story, says the Leavenworth Commercial, reaches us from Montana: indeed, a tale which we should hardly credit, were it not related to us by one whom we consider worthy of credence. The gentleman who related the circumstance to us came down by the steamer yesterday, ami had himself conversed w.i th Mr. if*ward on lucky adventurers, who gave him the following particularsln July last a company, of five prospectors was made up in -Helena, who having heard of the unexplored country, around the head of the yellowstonedetermined to visit that district in search of lodes. The country was found to be almost entirely free ''from Indians, and there was abundance of game until they arrived within two day’s journey of Yellowstone Lake, when the scene entirely changed, the country being entirely barren, and permeated in every direction with hot springs, and fissures in the rock from which issued smoke and noxious gases. Continuing their journey through a scorching atmosphere, and encountering some peril among the rough and irregular ri.dges of bare rocks which everywhere distinguishes the land scape, the travellers, on the third day, came to the margin of a small lake, from which issued a river, which they judged would lead to the Yellowstone. After following the stream for some time, they came to a long irregular mound, crowded on the summit by an ancient stone “ca;rn,” similar to those seen in some parts of New Mexico, which was half concealed in grass and a growth oflow bushes. As the work of removing the stones did not appear to be a difficult one, they being uncemented and of medium size, it was proposed to open the “cairn,” which was done, after half a day’s labor, and below was found a solid cemented floor, which sounded hollow to the tread. Being, however, determined to complete their work, the travellers, after some labor, dug down some twelve inches, when they came to an immense »stone, seven feet long, which it took the united strength of the party to remove. Beneath there was a long low chamber, and when the eyes ofthe intruders became accustomed to the darkness, it was seen that an Indian catacomb had been unearthed. Seated in a single row round the quadrangle, were the ■ remains of upward of thirty warriors, from whose forms the flesh had long since mouldered away, and whose very bones crumbled into dust at the touch of the spectator. On the floor around lay numerous instruments of war or chase, some of iron, some of stone, and the entire apartment was covered with a fine and almost impalpable dust, which, was all that remained ofthe furs and robes with which this abode of death, had doubtless, at one time, been carpeted. Lying beside the bones were numerous ornaments, indicacating the rank of the dead, and among them were many of those twisted circlets of gold known to antiquarians as “torques,” which had at one time entwined the necks and arms of their owners. Some of these were of unsual size, weighing one and a half to two pounds and many other ornaments of the same precious metal were also secured by the happy finders.— What chiefly attracted attention was, however, a massive basin or kettle that occupied the centre of the apartment, and was doubtless used as a sacrificial censer for burning incense, it being two feet high, and two feet and a half in circumference. This massive article, wonderful to tell, proved, on inspection, to be pure gold, and was so heavy that the party had great difficulty in removing it from its resting place, and bringing it

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into_the upper air. Endeavors were then made to break the vessel but the pure quality of the gold caused it> only to bend beneath the weight of the blows inflicted upon it. After great exertion, the adventurers were enabled, by means of their axes, to sever themdss into portable pieces, laden with which the party turned their steps homewards, having themselves to walk the greater part of the way to give relief to their burdened horses. The whole amount of gold was brought to Helena, and Mr. Edward Parsons calculated that his share of the treasure amounted to about $21,000, the whole amount being atleastsloo,000 in value. A Tlea for Mean Men. The Missouri Republican has a correspondent who undertakes the thankless task of defending mean men. He endeavors to prove in an elaborate essay, the superiority of the to the “good fellow’.’ of our period. And in good sooth, he comes nearer to success in his task than it is politic to acknowledge. One thing that a mean man is remarkable for, is his reliability.— You always know wdiere to find him. Ask him to contribute a testimonial to Prodjers, or subscribe for the relief of smuggs. He says No. But he also acts No. He don’t give a cent. But put the same appeal to a “good fellow,” and he says, “Certainly my dear boy. Put me down for aV, subsequently enjoying the privilege of making the subscription good out of your own pocket. For “good fellow” always says yes, but never acts yes. So far we have discoursed on the text given by our topic. Now let the correspondent speak for himself : Who makes the better husband ? At the risk of bringing down a torrent of male-dictions on my unprotected head, I shall still adhere to the man who is supposed to have no heart or genuine human sentiment. The good fellow for a lover, the mean for a husband. The latter will rob all creation to supply his household; the former will rob his family to accommodate his friends. Form all the married women in St. Louis in a solid column up and down fourth street, and if I don’t get ninetynine votes out of one hundred in favor of my proposition I will •treat the drinking community - to a barrel of gin aad water on the occasion of the first election of a female President. Goodfellow, all love; mean men, all businsss.— One takes his wife to the opera in a four horse carriage, the other rides triumphantly in a street car. The good fellow never can. be cross to anybody but bis wife, for fear of making himself unpopular the mean man is so sour with all ofthe world that he has not one particle of ill-temper to spare at home, “Love rules the camp, the court, the grave, For love is heaven, and heaven is love,” but it won’t buy beef. A mean man seldom gets “salubrioushe is too mean. His wife is never jealous. She knows all women hate him, because he is mean, and she rather likes it. She laughs and grows fat. Good fellow drinks: too kind-hearted to refuse; and he loves every-body. Good fellow’s wife pale and emaciated, deeripit with care and full of sorrow; mean cuss’s wife hale and heartyi; fat red-faced, and weighs a ton. Am I right ? Mrs. General Gaines is at present visiting some friends at New Orleans. She is now worth fifteen millions of dollars, but it has taken her almost a lifetime to establish her claim to the property.—Home Journal. Tacitus says: “In the early ages, man lived a life of innocence and simplicity.” The first woman went astray; the very first man that was born in the world kiled the second. When did the time of simplicity begin ?

Ilew Cars are Crowded. The correspondent of the Xenia (Ohio) Torchlight, tells very amusingly his experience in a crowded car. He says: The nine o’clock train up from Xenia was packed with people—but loosely packed, as is the royal American custom. A long string of a man coiled all over two seats, with a hard knot of a head up in the window and a double-. knot of boots over in the aisle; an incubatively wide crinoline woman spreading defiantly and looking cluckishly spiteful at any entering passenger of the same gender, who offered to shove her over: a man and a woman with, three valises, two baskets, five flowerpots, eight shawls, a bird’eage, an invalid poodle, pre-eminently asserting domain over all four seats; so loosly was this train overcrowded with passengers when we entered it at Xenia. It requires courage to geta seat here, To get three seats requies audacity as a natural gift, and we push for the four seats which contain the man and woman, the valises,, the baskets, the flower-pots, the shawls, the bird cage and the indisposed poodle, We propound to the man the preprosterous inquiry, whether or not he occupies all four of these seats. As if we could't see that he just more than occupied them ! Man with the full measure ot disgust appropriate to the situation, as though sick in his very soul with our impertinence, promptly replies he rather does occupy these four seats; and his decisive emphasis, corroborated by the before detailed appearance of things, goes to indicate that he means to be understood as occupying every inch of them. “But, my dear sir, have you paid for four seats This was an outrageous question an we fancied the valetudinarian poodle gave symptoms of fainting at the shock of it. “Yes, sir, I have paid forthem I” —this, reponse coming with an indignant pop, as if jerked out with a cork-screw. ( “Well, sir, we shall see if you have.” We had become obstinate, and believed we had a call to fight it out on that line, We therefore reinforced, and moved upon the works. The man offered to bet the conductor some fotfr dollars and a half, we think it was, that payment for a seat implied the whole slip, and that he only had what his ticket called for. The conductor Very courteously . declined to take the bet, but did taW the valises and the rest of the four seats, making the other two look like an overloaded furniture car with the little family economically packed in the middle- As two ladies went into possession of the vacated premises, we felt a pang , of remorse for our process of ejectment. General Butler’s Declaration. —A striking feature of the House proceedings, was the declaratiop of General Butler, on reporting the appropriation to> cover deficiencies in the military districts of the South, that these enormous expenditures must go on, and Congress could not control them unless the great experiment for the restorasion of the South was abandoned. The Maine Farmer tells of a young man and woman who got married in Bethel last'winier, and the next day the happy couple started on thier honeymoon tour into the woods, where he had contracted to cut a large quantity of wood. He built a camp, where she spends her time in promoting the comfort of her husband, and on every Saturday night they make their appearance in the village to secure fresh supplies for their next weeks work, and return on Monday morning to their camp home as happy as a king and queen. It is stated that the oldest couple in Kentucky, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd —the old gentleman being 110 years old and the old lady 107 — they have frequent quarrels, and threaten each other with a divorce, A few days ago, the lady refused to sew on a shirt button for her husband, when he indignantly inquired, “if he had got to, live so all his life,”