Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1868 — Page 1

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Vol. 11.

ATTORNEYS. 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, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contraots. -Redeems J/rnd nm d pay s Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office- vlOnGtf. JAS.C. BRANTAN. HOMER J. RANSOM BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. A!so, 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. Snyler. Connersville, Ind. B®* J .C.Bbaxyax is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney vllnlhtf. D. STUD AB A KER, Attorney at Law, -A.JNTXJ Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and ot ‘.er 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. 8080, . LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECA TUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming ." J* MJ 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 vriH sell - it to~ yon;lf you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnGtf PHYSICIANS.

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DECATUR, IND.. FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1868.

StUtM Itoeini* ARRIERE FENSEE. He wraps me round with his riches He covers me up with care, And his love is the love of a manhood Whose life is a living prayer. I have plighted my woman’s affections, I have given my all in all, And the flowers of a daily contentment Renew theirsweet ere they fall, And yet like an instrument precious, That playeth an olden tune, My heartin the midst of its blessings Goes back to a day in June— To a day when beneath the-branches, I stood by a silent stream, And saw in its bosom an image As one seetha face in a dream. I would not resign his devotion, No, not for a heart that lives! Nor change one jot my condition For the change that condition gives. I should muurn not for another, Nor more for another rejoice, Than now when I weep at his absence, Or welcome his step and his voice, And yet like an instrument precious, That playeth aqolden tune, My heart in the midst of its blessings Goes back to a day in June—■ To a day when beneath the branches I stood in the shadowy light, And heard the low words of a whisper As one hearsth a voiedin the night, - From the Boston Daily Advertiser. How Cbromoi arc Made. Chromo-Lithography is the art of printing pictures from stone, in colors. The most difficult branch of it—which is now generally implied when chromos are spoken of—is the art of reproducing oil paintings. When a chromo is made by a competent hand, it presents an exact counterpart of the original painting, with the delicate gradations of tints and shades, and with much of the spirit and tone of a production of the brush and pallet. To understand how chromos are made, the art of lithography must first be briefly explained. The stone used in lithographing is a limestone found in Bavaria, and is wrought into thick slabs with finely pollished surface. The drawing is made upon the slab with a sort of colored soap, which adheres to the stone, and enters into a chemical combination with it after the application of certain acids and gums. When the drawing is complete, the slab is put on the press, and carefully dampened with a sponge. The oil color (or ink) is then applied with a common printer's roller. Os course, the parts of the slab which contain no drawing, being wet, resist the ink; while the drawing itself, being oily, repels the water, but retains the color applied. It is thus that, without a raised surface or incision—as in common printing, wood cuts and steel engravings—lithography produces printed drawings from a perfectly smooth stone. In a chromo, the first proof is a light ground-tint, covering nearly all the surface. It has only a faint shadowy resemblance to the completed picture. It is in fact rather a shadow than an outline. The next proof, from the second stone contains all the shades of another color. This process is repeated again; occasionally, as often as thirty times. We saw a proof, in a visit to Mr. Prang’s establishment, —a group of cattle, —that had passed through the press twelve times; and it still bore a greater resemblance to a spoiled colored photograph than to the charming picture which it subsequently became. The number of impressions, however, does not necessarily indicate the number of colors in apaintingbecausethecolors and tints are greatly multiplied by combinations created in the process of printing one over another. In twenty-five impressions it is sometimes necessary and possible to produce a hundred distinct shades.

The last impression is made by an engraved stone, which produces that resemblance to canvas noticable in all of Mr. Prang’s finer speci-

mens. English and German chromos, as a rule, do not attempt to give this delicate final touch, although it would seem to be essential in order to make a perfect imitation of a painting. The paper used in white, heavy “plate paper,” of the best quality, which has to pass through a heavy press, sheet by sheet, before its surface is fit to receive an impression.

The process thus briefly ex : plained, we need hardly add, requires equally great skill and judgment at every stage. A single error is instantly detected by the practised eye in their specimens. The production of a chromo, if it is all complicated, requires several riont'is—sometimes several years—of careful preparation.— The mere drawing of the different end entirely-dctatched parts on so many different stones is of itself a work that requires an amount of labor and a degree of skill, which to a person unfamiliar with the process, would appear incredible. Still more difficult, and needing still greator-aki'l, is the progress of coloring. This demands a knowledge which artists have hitherto almost exclusively monopolized, and,in addition to it, the pratical familiarity of a printer with mecanical details. “Drying” and “registering” are as important branches of the art of making chromos as drawingand coloring. On proper registering, for example, the entire possibility of producing, a picture at every stage of its progress depends. “Regis - tering” is that part of apressman’s work which consists in so arranging the paper in the press, that it shall receive the impression on exactly the same spot of every sheet. In book work, each page must be exactly opposite the page printed on the other side of the sheet, in order that the impression, if on thin paper, may not “show through.” In newspaper work this is of less importance, and often is not attended to with any special care. But in chromo-lithography the difference of a hair’s breadth would spoil a picture; for it would hopelessly mix up the colors.

After the chromo has passed through the press, it is embossed and varnished, and put up for the market. These final processes are for the purpose of breaking the glossy light, and of softening the hard outlines which the picture receive|from the stone, which imparts to it the resemblance of a painting on canvas. Mr. Prang began his business in the humblest way, but has rapidly increased his establishment, until he now employs fifty workmen, —nearly all of them artists and artisans of the most skilful class, —and is preparing to move into a larger building at Roxbury. He uses eighteen presses; and his sales are enormous. His catalogue now embraces a large number of Albums Cards, about seventy sets of twelve in each set; a beautiful series of illuminated “Beoutitudes” and “Scriptural Mottoes;” an endless list of our great men, and men not so great after all; of juveniles, notably, a profusely illustrated edition of “Old Mother Hubbard;” and of half chromos and chromos proper. Tait’s “Chickens, Ducklings, and Quails” were the first chromos that met an instant and wide recognition. Nineteen thousand copies of the chickens alone were sold. Bricher’s “Early Autumn on Esopus Creek” is one of the best chromos ever made on a small scale. The “Buifinch” and the “Linnet” (after Cruikshank) are admirable. There are other chromos which are less succssful, and one or two that are not successful at all; but they are nearly all excellent copies of the originals, with which the defects must be charged. The chromos of Bricher’s paintings are really wonderfully accurate. Mr. Prang’s masterpiece, how-

ever, is not yet published, although it is nearly ready for the market. It entirely surpasses all his previous efforts. It is Correggio’s “Magdalena,” and can hardly fail we think to command a quick sale and hearty recognition. Like every modern discovery, chromo lithography has its parti sans and detractors, —those who claim for it perhaps impossible capabilities, and those who regard it as a mere handicraft, which no skill can ever elevate into the dignity of an art. We do not care to enter intathese disputes. Wether an art or a handicraft, chromolithography certainly re produces charming little pictures vastly superior to any colored plates that we have had before; and it is, at least clearly entitled to be regarded as a means of educating the popular taste, and thereby raising the ideal of art. A correspondent, looking at chromos from this point of view thus indicates (it maybe somewhat enthusiastically) their possible influence on the culture of the peo pie:—

“ What the discovery of the art ’ of printing did for the mental 1 growth of the people, the art of 1 chromo-lithography seems destin- ' ed to accomplish for their resthet- 1 ic culture. Before types were first made, the scholar and the wealthier 1 classes had ample qportnnities for i study; for even when Bibles were 1 chained in churches, and copies 1 of the Scriptures (then aptly sostyled) were worth a herd of cat- i tie there were large libraries ac- ' cessible to the aristocracy of rank and mind. But they were guardded against the masses by the ■ double doors of privilige and ignorance. A book possessed no attractions for the man who could not read the alphabet; and because they were rare and hard to get at, he had no incitement to master their mysteries. Made cheap and common, the meanest peasant, in i the course of a few generations, ' found solace for his griefs in the ' pages of the greatest authors of i his times and of all time. Mental i culture became possible for whole 1 nations; and democracy, with its ; illimitable blessings, gradually 1 grew up under the little shadow of < the first ‘printer proof.’ i “Until within a quite recent peri- i od, art has been feudal in its asso- < ciations. Galleries of priceless i paintings, indeed, there have al- 1 ways been in certain favored cities i and countries; but to the people 1 as a whole, they have been equal- t ly inaccessible and unappreciated, i because no previous training had 1 taught the community how to prize t them. It was like Harvard Col- t lege without the district school, — < a planet without satelities, and too i

far removed from the world of the people for its light to shine in the ; homes of the masses. •‘Now, chromo lithography, although still in its infancy, promise to diffuse not a love of art merely among the people at large, but to disseminate the choicest masterpieces of art itself. It is art repubiicanized and naturalized in America. Its attempts hitherto have been comparatively unambitious, but it was not Homer and Plato that were first honored by the printing- press. It was dreary catechisms of dreary creeds. So will it be with this new art. .As the popular taste improves, the subjects will be worthier of an art which seeks to give back to mankind what has hitherto been confined to the few.” Better wait five years to go into business upon adequate means which are properly your own, than to rush in prematurely, trusting to loans, indorsements and the forbearance of creditors, to help you through.— Greeley. Some of the members of the Chicago Board of Trade have been arrested for gambling in grain. There are eight papers in the United States edited by negroes.

No. 45.

Description of Rome. Ataveler who has been to Rome, thus philosophizes:. Nor must you come to Rome with those extravagant expectations which such terms as temples and palaces, and forums, and amphitheaters, and triumphal arches, and pyrmids, and baths, and other like words are certain to kindle in our untutored Western imaginations. Do not come hoping to see the Rome of Caesar, of Horace and Virgil, of Tiberias or Nero. This Rome, which lives vividly in the young collegian's mind, is only through that creative genus which brings things past into the present, which peoples the fragmentary ruins that have been happily spared by the robbers of the middle ages, with the men and the events that yet live so powerfully in men’s minds, that even here in Rome, twenty centuries seem not so far off in the past as five. What few remains there are have been so fought over by the antiquarians, that even when you have reconstructed the Roman forum once more, you are haunted by a dark suspicion that some new Niebnht may prove that all the antiquariee thus far have been wrong. Disappointment ia the fate of him who expects much in Roman ruins—not that you may not have certain romantic thrills in walking among the ruins of the Colosseum, or gazing over a questionable Tarpeian rock, or wandering through such a vast confusion of ruin as the Baths of Caracalla, or treading the shores of the Yellow Tiber, or following the old Roman walls in their vast sweep about modern Rome. I grant you a certain degree of wonder at the pyramid of Curtins, or the tomb of Metellus, or the Temples of Vesta and Concord. I admit that you are awed into silence by the Pantheon and the Capitoline Hill. But still there will linger consciousness of disappointment, a conviction that the Rome of the Republic and the Empire no longer are to be seen in the few ruins that the Vandals of the church have spared. Instead of these, you turn from your faded dream to whining beggars that speculate on their deformities and exhibit a horrid goitre or a withered arm at the very moment of your highclassical raptures. For the sentimental traveler, the man who is forever trying to kindle with raptures not his own, the Roman Forum is probably as good a place as all Europe affords. Here is seen the most signal revenge brought about by the “whirling of time.” He stands in the very center whence, in gigantic heart-throbs of war, the Roman power was carried literally to the ends of the then known earth. His imaginative ear catches the voices of great orators hushing to silence popular tumult. He witnesses, in his mind’s eye, the gorgeous triumphal procession of conquerors returning to Rome and marching through the Forum with the spoils of three continents. He gazes on the broken columns that mark the place where once the divinities of an elder day were worshipped, and meditates on the solemn and tragic death of a religion and a government that were the springs of so much fortitude and noble daring. Indeed, if the traveler be a youth fresh from the classic enthusiasm of college, he can sentimentalize for hours in the midst of the ruins of Rome, few though they are compared with his expectations.— And yet, as he turns to the desolation of the Forum, and sees cattle browsing where once his Caesar walked, or hears the hypocritical whine of Roman beggars where once his Cicero waxed eloquent, there will come over him a mingled sense of sorrow and indigna tion such as no other place in Europe has excited.

There is a negro dwarf in Tallahasse, Fla. He is fifty-five years of age, and only forty inches high.

An Esquimaux Belief. The following singular belief of the Esquimaux in regard to the sun and moon is from Dr. Haye’s “Artic Boat Journey “In a distant country there ’ once lived an unmarried woman who had several brothers. Being once at a festive gathering, she felt herself suddenly and violently seized by the shoulders. This she well knew was a declaration of love, for such is the custom of her people; but who the man was she could not discover, Since the hut was quite dark. There being, to her knowledge, no men in the village beside her brothes, she at once suspected that it muat be one of these. She broke from him, and running away, smeared her hand with soot and oil. Upon returning to the hut she was seized again, and this time she blackened one side of the face of her unknown lover. A lighted taper being brought soon afterward, her suspicious were confirmed.— Seizing the taper, she now ran out of the hut, and bounded over the rocks with the fleetness of a deer. Her brother lighted a taper and pursued her, but his light went out; yet he still continued the chase, and without having overtaken her they came to the end of the earth. Determined not to be caught, the girl then sprang out into the heavens. Her brother followed her, but he stumbled while in the act of springing, and before he could recover himself the object of his pursuit was far away from him. Still bent upon gaining the prize he continued the race, and from that time until this the sun has been going around and around, and the moon around and around after her, trying still to catch her. The bright light of the sun is caused by the taper which the maiden carries, while the moon having lost his taper, is cold, and could not be seen but for his sister’s light. One side of his face being smeared with soot, is therefore black; while the other side is clean; and he turns one side or the other toward the earth, as suit hie pleasure.”

Avarice and Generosity. An anecdote is told of Valpau, the eminent French surgeon who died a few years ago. He had successfully performed, on a little child of five years old, a most perilous operation. The mother came to him and said: “Monsieur, my son is saved, and I really know not how to express my gratithde; allow me, however, to present you with this pocket-book, embroidered by my own hands.” “Oh, madame.” replied Velpau, sharply, “my art is not merely a question, of feeling, my life has its requirements, like yours. • Dress, even, which is a luxury for you, is necessary for me. Allow me, therefore, to refuse your eharming little present, in exchange for a more substantial remuneration.” “But, Monsieur, what remuneration do you desire ? Fix the fee yourself.” “Five thousand francs, Madame.” The lady very quietly opened the pocketbook, which contained ten thousand franc notes, counted out five thousand francs and, after politely handing them over to Valpau retired.

A writer somewhere in the dissant West, who asumes to know all about Ulysses L, asserts that his real name is Ulysses stewart Grant, and not Hiram Ulysses, or Samuel Ulysses, or Ulysses Sidney, as other good authorities would have it. It seeems likely that the controversy concerning General Grant’s name will shortly be settled against all the authorities by an act of Congress, declaring him to be Ulysses Siezer Grant. — Chicago Times. Mr. Lincoln aypointed five of the judges now upon the bench of the Supreme Court, and yet his friends will not trust them. This is paying but little respect to the memory of the “late lamented" head of the radical party.

There are in the post-oflee department ten thousand photographs of Union soldiers, taken from dead letters which accumulated during the war. Some enterprising Americans are boring for oil in Italy.