Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1868 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. D. D. HELLER, -Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. JAMES R. 8080, Attorney at Law, DECA TUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnGtf. JAB. C. BBANTAN. HOMKR J. BAXSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM. A.ttorneys 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. B® = *J.C. Branyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. STUJDABAKER, Attorney at Law, ■A-JXTJO 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. REAL ESTATECACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming ,iJvIO 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. No sale, no charge. vlon6tf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, R. LTDLI.Yd OFFICE—On Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co’s Hardware Store. vßnlstf. C. L. CUR TISS, 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. vllnSG ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, IJTDIAJTA. OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42t.f.

DENESTRY. A. J. RAUCH, Opperative & Mechanical DENTIST, DECATUR, INDIANA. All work neatly executed and warranted to give satisfaction. Call and examine specimens. OFFICE—With Dr. Jelleff, over A Crabbs & Co’s Hardware store. v11n39 HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howse, 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. SONROEHOUSEo MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. HUet exchange. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT IFAFJTE, IJTD. a vllnllyl. HEDEKIN 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. LESMAN, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl.' Indiana. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. a. COVERDALE, Proprietor. <o: —; Mr. Coverdale.is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insuranee Agent vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IXD., FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1868.

Jklerted gtofriE Growing Old. What is it to grow old-? —- Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for beauty to forego her wrath? Yes but not this alone. Is it to feel our strength— Not our bloom only, but our strength —decay? Is it to feel each limb■ Grow stiffer, every function less exact, Each nerve more weakly strung? Yes, this, and more! but not, Ah, ’tis not what in youth we dreamed it would be? It is not to have our life, Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow— A golden day’s decline! It is not to see the the world, As from a bight, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred, And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The hearts that are no more. It is not to spend long days And not once feel that we were ever young. It is to add, immured In the hot prison of the’presKit, month To mourn with weary pain. It is to suffer this, And feel but half, and feebly, what w« feel. Deep in our hidden heart Festers that dull remembrance of a change, But no emotion—none. It is—last stage of all— When we are frozen up within, and quite . The.phantomofourselves, . To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost, Who blamed the living man.

All the World’s Wives. In Ceylon the marriage proposal is brought about by the man first sending to her whom he wishes to become his wife, to purshase her clothes. These she sells for a stipulated sum, generally asking as much as she thinks requisite for them to begin the world with. In the evening he calls on her with the wardrobe, at her father’s house, when, if mutually satisfied, they appoint a day of marriage. They are permitted to separate whenever they please, and so frequently avail themselves of the privilege that they sometimes change a dozen times before their inclinations are wholly suited. In Chinese Tartary a kind of male polygamy is practiced, and a plurality of husbands is highly respected. In Thibet it is customary for the brothers of a family to have a wife in common, and they generally live in harmony and comfort with her. Among the Calmucks the ceremony of marriage is performed on horseback. The girl is first mounted and permitted to ride off at full speed, when a lover takes a horse and gallops after her. If he overtakes the fugative she becomes his wife, and the marriage is consummated on the spot. It is said that no instance is known of a Calmuck girl ever being overtaken unless she is really fond of her pursuer. Russia appears to be the most preposterous country in Europe in its treatment of women. The nuptial cermonies, all and singular are based upon the idea of the de gradation of the female. When the parents have agreed upon the match the bride is examined by a number of women to see if she has any bodily defect. On her wedding day she is crowned with a garland of wormwood, to denote the bitterness of the marriage state. She is exhorted to be obedient to her husband, and it is a custom in some districts for the newly married wife to present the bridegroom with a whip in token of submission, and with this he seldom fails to show his authority. In that cold and cruel country, husbands are sometimes known to torture their wives to death, without any punishment for the murder.

Such is the slavery in which Muscovites are kept by their parents and guardians, that they are not allowed to dispute any union agreed upon by their elders, however odious or incompatible it may be. This extends so far that officers of the army are not permitted to marry without the consent of the sovereign, and wives whom they do not want are sometimes forced upon them. Whether it be the result of this system of oppression, or their savage climate, or the unnatural hot air of the stove-heated departments, it is certain that a more unlovely race of women than the Russians -would be difficult to find. “They want,” says an English traveler, “the genuine flavor which only nature can give.” That charming firmness and elasticity of flesh so indispensably requisite to constitute beauty, and so delicious to the touch, exist not among the Russian females, or in very few of them. On the banks of the Senegal and among many African tribes, the matrimonial prize most sought after is abundance of flesh. To obtain corpulence is regarded as the only real comliness. A female who can move with the aid of two men is but a moderate beauty, while the lady who cannot stir, and is only to be moved on a camel, is estimated a perfect paragon. Nor is this queer fancy for obesity in women confined to the savages of the torrid zone, since we read in Wraxhall’s Travels in Rus sia, that “in order to possess any pre-eminent degree of loveliness a woman must weigh at least two hundred weight.” The Empress Elizebcth and Catharine 11., both accounted very fine women, were of this massive kind. In Hindostan the women have a peculiar veneration for marriage as it is a part of the popular creed that those females who die virgins are excluded from the joys of paradise. The distinguishing marks of the Hindoo wife are the most profound fidelity, submission and attachment to her husband.

A Repenting' Sinner. The honorable J. M. Ashley has published a letter in the Toledo Blade, in which he invokes pardon for all the wrong'he has done his party. He cannot deny his madness, but he thinks he helps his cause by proving that there was no method in it. The harmless man never accused the President in public of being concerned in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln ; but he has repeatedly said in private conversation that he was convinced of it. He never publicly alluded to his belief that Harrison and Taylor were foully taken off; but privately he has spread his conviction to the same effect all over the country. .He has not dragged into light the statement of any puijurer, but he has run to the prisons for evidence and would have listened to a criminal whose execution was fixed for the next day, if such a wretch had promised to give him evidence for the assassination case. He is obliged to admit that a political reaction has set in, which is ending in a disgraceful panic, and that the Bull Run of the last election has demoralized his party; but rather than confess himself guilty of having occasioned, in part at least the Bull Run route of his party, to cease all unwarranted attacks on him. He feels that the condition of the Republican party is mot so promising as to invite dissensions in its ranks; but rather than abstain from creating them by dropping altogether the memory of his iniquitious scheme, he appeals to history for the vindication of the purity of his motives.— Rock Island Argus. During the day the inhabitants near Fort Bridger, Colorado, skim the waters of the creek and obtain kerosene for the midnight lamp.

The Shipping Trade and the Tarrift. There has been much senseless complaint of the decline of ship building—a complaint by no means confined to this country. But more ships are not built, simply because more ships are not needed. Seven years ago we grew five millions of (1,000,000 tons) of cleaned cotton; last year we grew two millions of bales only; while our product of sugar and rice has fallen off in at least equal proportion. Consequently, we want fewer ships than we did; hence, we built fewer, as we ought. When we have more to ship, we shall build the requisite vessels; and we ought not to do it before.— New York Tribune. The Boston Post in commenting on the above statement remarks that if the Union had been restored, as the President proposed two years ago, we should have had five millions of bales of cotton this year for our ships to transport between our own ports and to Europe; we should have had sugar and rice in “comparative proportion consequently, our present ships would have found charters and the demand for new vessels given eployment to our shipyards throughout New England and all along the Atlantic coast; the South would have been able to discharge its debts, to become liberal and profitable customers to the North, and to pay its portion of national taxation; we should have been saved the great burden of military expense now incurred to secure the negro vote in favor of the radical party, and peace and prosperity would have rendered our public obligations easily managed.— and restored the States to that reciprocal kindness which would have prevented starvation in one section and business prostration in another.

A Farmer’s Mistake. When “boarding round” was the fashion with school teachers, farmer A., on coming to the house at tea time, was introduced to the “school ma’am.” In a moment he perceived a strong odor of musk which came from the school ma’am’s clothing. He, entirely ignorant of the cause, immediately charged it upon Ponto who had a strong propensity for muskrats, and at once reprimanded him : “Ponto, you scamp, you have been killing muskrats ; go out of doors, sir, and get sweetened off.” But Ponto did not stir, and farmer A. spoke again mor? sharply, “Get out; you’ll scent the whole house.” The scholma’am by this time was blushing red as crimson, while the girls and boys could scarcely keep from bursting in laughter. One of them, unnoticed, at last made their father understand how the matter stood, and he, of course, dropped the Subject. The evening passed away rather awkwardly with all, and the teacher failed to return the next day. On her account the affair was kept quiet until she had left the neighborhood, when many were the hearty laughs had over farmer A.’s error, and the school ma’am’s discomfiture. She omited musk thereafter. —While some workmen were making some excavations in the neighorhood of Corydon, Harrison county, they came upon the petrified body of a man, perfect in all its proportions. The arms, stark and stiff, were folded upon the breast, and were as firm as the solid stone. It has created a groat excitement in that part of the country, and hundreds are flocking to see the wonderfull natural curiosity. The body is very large, and bears unmistakable evidences of having been one of the early races which inhabited this continent — New Albany Commercial. Four hundred and fifty thousand tons of copper ore were taken 1 from the mines at Lake Superior last year.

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Miscellaneous Items. -An exchange say the ladies would rather face a mad bull than not have their dresses gored. -A Nevada miner had his leg caught under a heavy rock, and was eaten by panther while in that position. • -The New York Express srggests Loyal Leagues to the Emperor of China, who is troubled with rebels. -The rumor that Secretary Seward has bought Saturn’s ring, Jupiter’s moons and a half dozen asteroids is contradicted. -Napoleon 87,500,000 a year fur spending money: Francis Joseph half as much; King William 83,000,000, and Victoria even less. -Three couples who were married on the same day fifty years ago, in Marlboro Massachusetts, celebrated their golden wedding a few days since. -This is an item in an offset account in a trial before a Maine court: “For loafling in defendant’s shop, at the rate of 850 per annum, 863.” -The Vermont Legislature has caused great laughter by enacting that paupers straying into towns in which they do not belong shall be punished with a fine. -Jacob Baker, of New Orleans eighty years of age, ex-millionaire appears in the courts as a bankrupt. He is anxious to begin the struggle with the world again. -An Eastern editor asks his subscribers to come forward and pay up like gentlemen, as he wants to pay a little joke upon many creditors who are continually dunning him from day to day. -A Nevada Court has decided that a man convicted by his own confession of stealing quartz specimens from ledge, “must be acquitted, because lodge is real estate and real estate can not de stolen.” -A woman in France in good circumstances, knowing the man she loved was in love with another woman, and too poor to marry, destroyed herself and left herproperty to the man, that he might make her rival his wife. -The privileged classes in this country just now are the negroes and bondholders. The entire legislators of Congress and influence of the Republican party are enlisted, almost exclusively, in their behalf. How long ?

-At Quincy, 111., is a German with a curious blood mark. It is a perfect deer about the size of a silver dollar, and on his right cheek. The form and outline of the deer are as perfect as could be drawn dy an artist, and shows a deer in the act of leaping. It is of a bright red color. -There are over 1,500,000 old maids in England and Wales.— Sad to say, one-third of the number cannot hope to marry, as there are not men enough to go round. Os every 100 women in England, 58 are wives, 39 are spinsters and 3 are widows. The old maids are more numerous in high life than in low. -The cleanest village in the world is Brock, in Holland, which no horse or carriage has ever been permitted to enter, and where everything is kept with the most scrupulous neatness. Before entering many of the houses you are required to remove your shoes.— It is said that even the Emperor of Russia was compelled to comply with the custom.

-Romantic.— A young lady in Winona, Wisconsin attempted suicide because a young man refused to marry her. She jumped from the top of the cow stable and stuck fast in a manure heap. A passing neighbor helped her out, washing her stockings, and scraping her shoes. Her father saw the swain and had a talk with him, and on Sunday the two jumped nto the sea of.matrimony.

Earthquake Waves. The papers have lately announced the terribly destructive force of waves of the sea, produced by earthquakes, in the West India Islands. Professor Brocklesby, in his elements of Physical Geography, states some facts of an interesting character in reference to the velocity of the waves. On the 23d of December, 1854, immediately after an earthquake, the sea rolled in upon the town of Simoda, in Japan, in a wave thirty feethigh, overwhelming it in an instant. After the wave fell there were only four feet of water in the harbor. Four or five similar waves followed at intervals, completing the destruction of the town. Professor Bache, of the Coast Survey, by observations made on the tidegauges at San Francisco and San o o Diego, which registered all changes in the sea level, discovered that these earthquake waves at Sjmoda, travelled across the PacificThe distance from Simoda to San Francisco is 4,327 georaphical miles, which itfas traversed by the wave in twelve hours and twentyeight minutes, or with a velocity of six miles a minute. At San Diego, which is 4,917 miles distant from Simoda, the waves arrived an hpur later, the velocity being sensibly the same. The curious fact is stated that the breadth of the wave, its velocity, and the depth of water in which it travels, have been found by Prof. Airy to have a relation to one another. For example, a wave 100 feet broad, traveling in water 100 feet'daep, has a velocity of fifteen miles per hour, while a wave 10,000 feet broad, traveling the ocean depth of 10,000 feet advances with a velocity of 145 miles per hour, So that, given the velocity of a wave and its breadth, the depth of the water may be calculated. Professor Bache, from these data calculated the depth of the Atlantic, and found it to be on an average of 22,000 feet —a result corresponding with soundings made.

The force of ocean waves has been calculated. During a storm on the western coast of Scotland, in March, the force of the waves was estimated at six thousand pounds per square foot. It would seem that the immense wave, which like a wall thirty feet high, moveing with restless velocity, struck the ship of war Monongahela broadside in the harbor of St Thomas, and drove her from her moorings, forcing her over the tops of the warehouses, and leaving her, when the waves receded high and dry on the coral reefs of the Island, must have had a force even greater than six thousand pounds to the square foot. If the ship had not yielded to the terrible impact of the water, and moved shoreward—if she had been stationary and immovable —she must have been crushed like a cockle boat or a shell by the terrible blow given by the wave. Snowball the Girls. Before the winter is over we advise all our friends —married and single—to snowball the girls.— If any of our readers of the “male persuasion” have never engaged in this pleasant pastime, we assure them that they have missed one of the happiest recreations that frail mortality, in this world, is ever permitted to enjoy. Justimagine yourself surrounded by three or four rosy cheeked, bright eyed romping girls. You snowball them. and they snowball you. They will fill your pockets with snow and you will their —their— necks with snow; then you laugh until you lose half your buttons, and try it over again. It will cure the rheumatism and a bad cold, and scares away “the blue devils” for a whole year. We would suggest, however that it is best to wait until the next snow.

A Bangor (Maine) correspondent says that there has not beena winter during the war, in which there was so much actual suffering for the want of food and fuel, in that city, as there is at the present time. This is caused by a lack of employment and the high price of provisions. The Health Officer of St. Louis officially reported 684 deaths from cholera, in that city, from June 22 to December 7, 1867.