Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1868 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. RDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE —On the west side of Second Street, over Dor win & Brother's Drug Store. Terms es Subscription. One copy, one yenr, in advance,, $1 50 If paid within the year, 2 00 If paid after the year has expired 2 50 Papers delivered by carrier tweentyflve cents additional will be changed. No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. ■ Rates of Advertising. One column, one year, sf>o 00 One-half column, one year, 35 00 One-fourth column, one year, 20 00 Less than one-fourth column, proportional rates will be charged. Legal Advertising. One square [the spg.ee of ten lines brevier] one insertion, §2 00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 No advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be counted and charged ns yvo; over two as three, &c. Local notices fifteen cents a line for each insertion. Religious and Educational notices or advertisements may be contracted for at lower rates, by Application at the office. Deaths and Marriages published as news—free. /official directory. District Officers. Hori.Rob't Lowry,Circuit Judge. T. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Att y. —Hon. R S. Taylor, . .-Coin. Pleas Judge. J. S. Daily, -Com. Pleas Prosecut g Att y. County ‘Officers. Sevmour Worden,Auditor. A.’J. Hill,.;Clerk. Jesse Niblick. Treasurer. M. V. B. Simcoke,Recorder. James Stoops. J r., - . SJtbrifi'. Henry V. Peterson, Surveyor, as—.. . . School Examiner. Conrad Reinking, ) Jacob Snrff. [...Commissioners. Josiah Cr..wford, J Town Officer*. Henry B. Knott',.. . . . Clerk. D. J. Spencer, Treasurer. William Baker,.Marshall. John King, Jr., ] David King, >Trustees, kavid Showers, J O ~ • ... Time of Mohling Court*. CiUrlT Cot r.T. —On the third Monday in ApHl. and the first Monday in November, of each year. CoMMMi Pi.Ets Cot rt.—On the second Moniay in January, the second Monday in May and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioners C<h RT. —On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Motday in September, and the first Mondly in December, of each year. CHUR CIHD RECTORY. St. Mary's (Catholic). —Services every Sabbath at 8 Hint 10 o’clock, A. M.: Sabbath School or instruction in Cate- * '"ch’ismT'aflT o“cT<>cli',"t*"'W.; ‘Vespers at g o'clock, P. Si. ReV"; J. Wemhoff. Pastor. Methodist.—-Services every Sabbath at 101 o'eb'ck, A. M„ aid 7 o'clock. 1* M, Sabbath School at !i-o'clock, A. M. Rev, D. N. Shackleford, Paster. Presiivterux:—Services at 101 o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at '.t| o’clock, A. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor, DRUCS. DOR WIX & BRO., -DEALERS LNDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet and Taney .Irtiflex, Spowtx, liritfdtes, Perfumero. foal Oil, Lamps, Patent Jledicenes, *vr. DECA TUR. ------- - - INDIANA Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care andmiuipaUh... Farmers—am4—Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of the best quality. ▼9n35 ts. HARNESS, &c. SADDLE MADNESS SHOP. R. BURNS. - MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN— Saddles, Harness, Bridle*, Collar «, Halters. IVhips. HruHe-Bits, Hanies, &r. Decatur, - - - Indiana. I keep constantly on hand and manufacture to order, Saddles. Harness, Bridles Collars. Halters, whips, FlyNets, Ac., which I will Sell Cheaper than any other estatdishraent in the county. - , u All Work Warranted to be of good material and put up in a substantial manner —■ -- Repairing Done to Order on short notice. Call and examine my work and priV ces. A good stock always on hand. SHOP—On Second street, in Meibers' building." vllnlL R. BURNS

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Vol. 12.

ATTORNEYS, D. D. HELLER, _A.ttorn.ey at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere - in Indiana er -Oh+o?— : '* OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf. JAMR. 8080, XI .Attorney at Law, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. , OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office? vlQnfitf. JAS.U. RRANYAN. HOMER J. HANSOM. i BRANYAN & RANSOM, .Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agent*. Also, Notaries Public, " x DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. I’etitt, Wabash, Ind., Win. 11. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J.R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. 1). Cole, Huntington, Ind., lion. 11. B. Sayler, Connersville, Ind. nff* J.U. BkanyaS is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney vllnl'Jtf, D % STUD AB A KER, -Attorney at Law, —AKTD Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECA TUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Ctovornment; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles . and pay taxes, mid other business per- . tuining-to Real Estate Agency. He is ' also a Notary Public, and is prepared to . draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instrumcnts.of writing. v lOn] 1 ts. REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMEJS R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR. INDIANA, 3/A fA f k H’ltF.S of good farming ,1/ilv land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for i 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 tor you. No sale, no charge. f - vlOnOff PHYSICIANS. 1 F. A. JEI.bEFF, t V Physician and Surgeon, > »EC.ITUI. I.VDr.s.v.t- • OFFICE—Ou Second Street, over A. 1 Crabbs & Co's Hardware Store. vßn!stf. C. L. CURTISS, Physician & Surgeon. • DECA TUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Having permanently located, in this ' 1 the people of Decatur ami vicinity. Office in Houston's Block. Residence i al.th" Buri Houmo. vlln3o ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon. nKC.iTrn, i.mi.i.v.i, OFFICE . .On Second St reef overSpen- . ecr & Meibers' Hardware Store. vSn42tf, DENESTRY. VI. ]U. 11 c <’<>A ; .<Bi'B7L . Surgeon Dentist, DECA TUR, :::::: : : AVDtI.V.I. | C? s '- 1 work neatly executed -yak' l ii.l warranted' to give sntisfaetion. Calhandexamine speeirne ns. OFFICE—With Dr. JellefT, over A Cr ibbs Co s Hardware store. vllnPJ HOTELS. SIIB']SSE HOUSE, Third St., O/>i>ositr the Court Iloicee, I OEC.ITI 11. i.vn., - Hr J, MfttßSE;: : Proprietor; In connection with this House there is a Stage run to ami from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which connects with , trains running both ways. vllnlitf. MOAROE HOUSE. MHNROF.VI LLE. IN DI AN A. ‘ L. WALKER,: ::::::: .Proprietor, to: • This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best ‘style, .and at reasonable rates, novi Iff; MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. H’rst M-tin Street, n'ar thr I'uldie Square. FORT ir.UXVF. I.VO. vllnllyl. HEDEKJA HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Ste. EORT WAYNE, IND. ELI K EARNS. Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Abn good stabling in Connerwith the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE J. LES.V.IX, ..... rj-oiniiitAr. Comer Calhoun and BMywr Ste., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE, 1 MONROEVILLE. IND. R. «. COVER 1»A1.F... .. . . Pr.prlrtnr. | Mr. r oversale is also a Notary Public, 1 Real Estate Insurance AgeutC 1 rllnllyl. D

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1868.

WEARY OF THE MIGHT. DY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. The shadow of the midnight hours Thill like a mati.tlero>ind my form: And all the stars, like autumn flowers. Are banished by the whirling storms, The demon clouds throughout the sky Are dancing in their strange delight, Whilnwinds unwearied play—but I Am weary of the nighL Then rise, sweet maiden mine, arise, And dawn upon me with thine eyes. The linden, like a lover, stands, /Ind taps against thy window pane— The willow with its slender hands Is harping on the silver rain: I've watched thy gleaming taper die, '5. And hope departed with the light, The winds unwearied play—but I Nm w-eary of the night. Then rise, sweet maiden mine, arise, And dawn upon me with thine hyes. The gentle morning comes apace, And smiling bid the night depart; Rise, maiden, with thy orient face, And smrle the shadow from my heart; The clouds of nightaffrightened fly, Yet darkness seals my longing sight, All nature gladly sings— while I Am weary of the night. .Then rise, sweet niuidcii mine, arise, And dawn upon me with thine eyes. [From the New York Journal of Commorce.J BoutweiJ's Speech. The Journal of Commerce may truly claim to be-just and impartial as between the President and Congress. From the beginning of this impeachment business we have felt only such an interest in its issue as all citizens must? feel who have at heart the well-being and permanence of republican institutions. We have recognized faults and mistakes in the Freak, dent, and Have not hesitated to subject them to our criticism. We have marked with sorrow the unmistakable of passion and prejudice in the House gathering volume from day to day, until, like a great wave, it has taken the steadiest of men otf their feet.— We have traced, since the trial commenced in the Senate, the corrupting intluencc of political ambitionwarping the judgment of men hitherto supposed to be in-AiccessiL)lc-.to.^lil"b-f>&F"M4wd--&««-■ siderations, until the aspect of the “High Court of Impeachment” is little better at times than that of a packed jury, who come into their seats on the first day with the tixed determination to convict. Air. Boutwell’s speech we have read with thesame freedom from bias with which we have perused the arguments of Butler and Curtis. We admit its general cleverness, as we did that of Butler's.—<\s a Avbole it ly more decorous than the etfortof the leading Manager: But it must greatly disappoint those who had exacted a higher and calmer exercise of reason from a man of Coventor Boutwell's reputed dignity and ability. While free from the superlative cruelty .and hate of Butler’s speech toward the President, it is marred in passages by the exhibition ofsueh a partnership such down-right injustice to Mr Johnson, such misrepresentation of his motives as Mr. Boutwell, if ho is the num we have taken him to be, may yet live to repent of.— The trail of the Butler is over it all, and for this, if for nothing else, ought Mr Boutwell to bury his head in shame that he has put himself in the position of playing second fiddle to such a man, catching the echo of his malevolent catgut, and struggling to keep in harmony with his discordant tones. Third fiddle Bingham, Fourth fiddle Logan, and the rest of the orchestra will take their }>itch, of course from the same bow, and thus give to the united efforts of the Managers a certain Butlerian predominance of gall and bitterness. But we did expert a more independent home-made, creditable speech from Boutwell Without undertaking to sift what is exceptionable out of about fifteen newspaper columns, or thirty three thousand words, we would point out a fair sample of Boutwell's unworthy method when ho is least biuiself and most Butlor. It oi-e’urs toward the close of his speech when he speaks of the President as tire author of al! the troubb"s and disorders which now beset the Southern States. We do not remeinlw in Butler’s “harangue” anything more foreign to the-truth, mote heavily latdcn with malice and passion than these expressions: “He has brought disorder, confusion, an.l bloodshed to J the bouse of twelve millions of.

people, many of whom are of our own blood, and all of whom are our own countrymen.” “Ten States of this Union are without law, without security, without safety, public order everywhere’ vi<Wated, public .justice nowhere Respected, and all in consequence of the evil pursuits and machinations of the Pr.'-sirlunt.’’ “He has inaugurated and adhered to a policy which has deprived the people of those blessings of peace, of the ]>rotection of law, and of tire j list rewards of honest--industry.” ‘’A vast and important portion of the republic is helpless under the evils which his administration has brought upon it.” And so on. It must be apparent to any person accustomed to analyze literary compositions that this sort of stuff is merely'rhetorical. It represents j no genuine conviction in Bout-! well’s mind, _TlLe.separateac.cusarq. tions that we havfe quoted convey th'e same idea dressed ..up differently. It is but the stabbing of one dagger a number of times into the same wound. Boutwell is malicious, those paragraphs display that black chajaeter, : ' if nothing else in his long speeches does.— Now we are not going to defend the President. He hash’s counsel—and they will attend to Boutwell. But we can not read charges so unjust and unfounded against any man without reverting to the proof which exists of their entire falsity. The proof is this : The President has no substantial power at the South. He has had none since he became President- All the real power has been and is with Congress. Congress have passed what laws they pleased. If the President lias vetoed any of them Congress have passed them over his head. Besides the law-making power, complete and absolute, Congress have had' the War Department and the army, the Freedmen’s Bureau. and every species of engine and contrivance for < moulding the sentiment- of the I South. Tiie whole South has been i as much in the hands of Congress as Topay was. in Aunt Ophelia’s. They have had full license to ex periment upon it If they had | ‘ succeeded, they would have claim - i 1 ed all the credit of the education: j as they have deplorably failed, they would cast the responsibility of the njuddle upon President Johnson, To put the idea into plain English he is the scapegoat of tfie ignorance of most Northern representa- ‘ the South, and out of malice 1 which rejoices in the infliction of humiliation and torture—blunders many and self-confessed, as ! has been shown by the numerous ; attempts of Congress to mend the I Re-construction Bill, so as tn make i it work. But it does not work, sen-1 ply because it is absurd and impracticable. No persons in this land more clearly than the Southern whites have seen from the be- ■ trmning that the President was! ■ nothing, Congress ' It is to Congress they have look- 1 ed and appealed, not to the I‘resi- ; .dent. To deny this is'to confess either a dense ignorance es the •tone of Southern newspapers and ! Southern men, or an unsurpassed | cruelty of purpose, in putting all. the responsibility upon the President, after having stripped him of almost the last vestige of the power to do either.good or evil. J Whajcvvr offenses Congr. <s may I bring home to Mr. John-on, we do not believe that they will succeed, in the minds of equitable reasoning men, in this'cowardly attempt to transfer the grievous burden of Soatliern misrule from. Congressional shoulders to him. Effect* of Tea on the System I The Boston Journal of Cheui-I istry publishes a lengthy article on the properties of ten, in the gonrse of which the writer says that the brain-workers, in all the years since tea was introiluct'd. have regarded it with the highest favor. It has a power to subdue irritabil- ’ ity, refresh the spirits, and renew Jhc energies such as is possessed by no other agent. When tael system of man is exhausted by la bor or study, a cup of tea reinvig : ‘ orates and restores as no other form of food or beverage can.— He thinks it promotive of longevi-ty.-and add-:—“Tea saves by less- • oiling the waste of the body, sooths the vascular system, and affords stimulus to thy brain. The ynng da not uecd it. and it is wor-. thy of note that they do not crave or like it. Children will frequent-* ly ask for coffee, but seldom for tea: To aged people whose pow- ■ ers of digestion and whose bodily substance have to fail together, it is almost a necessity ” If your cause is good, be sure you do not injure it by a bad spir-, I it; if it is bid. give it up at once. !

—-— __— [Correspondence of the' Baltimore Sun.} Government Appropriations rand Expenditures—Convenience of the Defitefency Account—Weceptlons of Official Estimates, ate. Washington, April 21, ’6B The action of Congresstlms far, especially the House, in the matter of reducing the amounts of appropriation s below the sums re-; commended by the various committees and heads of departments, has been the subject of solicitous controversy among officials here. While the inconsiderate and oftentimes reckless cutting down of appropriations was going on, the members who advocated the reductions were shown the inadequacy of the appropriations in many [important instances. The reply, i was, generally ; “We can’t help it ! now; we must make a good show- ‘ ing to the people until' we gr< [tliroagh with the elections....Wecan make it up in deficiency bills hereafter, etc, etc,. As the matter now appears, there will be hereafter an oppressive doubling or quadrupling of taxation in some -branches of expenditnrrs, which Wi bgxdi.3nrei.tnp...br that c invenient pack -h«>rse, —the “deficiency” There is also frequently a wide difference betweeiVoffi'''iarest'mates and the actual expenditures. A The War Department estimates from time to time, f.>r tile past three years, present an extraordinary disproportion as compared with the actual , expenses of that branch of the Government outlay and will serve to illustrate this practice of under-estimating expenses, as well in some of the dcpertinents as in ■ two Houses of 'Congress. By official records it is' Btrowii the actual expenses are sometimes five hundredgimcentum above the official estimates. In his official report to tliePresident in December, 1865<AIr. Stanton estimates for War Department expenssc ( whigh he says is “adequate for a peace establishment.’) for fiscal yaer commencing the 20th day of June, 1855, at 833.,--814,481. His drafts upon the ! Treasury for that year were 8117,i 70J,-J7O 16. Mr. Stanton's official ; report dated December, 1866, and reported to Congress, estimates the expenses for the fiscal year ending June, 1868, at 825,205,66',i. The drafts of the War Department on the Treasury for nine months of that fiscal vear, namely, ' 'to. the !Hst'oniaf ell7lß6s7' 'ww 8110,008,113 68, General Grant. 'Secretary nd interim, in his official report last December, estimates > the total expenses for the fiscal i year at 877,124.707, or more than* ; three times the sum estimated by ; Stanton, and yet but one half the | I actual expenses, as shown by drafts I paid for- three-quarters of the year. The disproportion 'bet ween official estimates an appropriations ' and the actual .expenses are more ' alarmingly, because more broadly i ‘ displayed in the cost of the 11 ar * i Department than in any other , direction ; and yet other depart- : ments, it is found that generally a • corresponding disproportion ex- ! ists between appropriations duri ing the session and estimated expenses. The tax-payers will have a fear fubbi'l to pay next year to meet i “deficiencies.”- caused by inade-. qatc appropriations, to “make a good showing to the people” “until after the elections are over. Data. At a party a young theological Lstndent, not particularly noted for ' qTegaTice of manner.-or trrhmtc or ’ Oxtraordidary piety, being urged ! 'by some voting ladies to join in a' i .quadrille, then forming, declined somewhat rudely, and turning to mJ lady near by, a<ked, n ith rather an i imposing air: “Do you think, Mrs. L—. that a man ought to dance who expects to till a pulpit!” The la.lv replied: “I don t see why he , slidnld not. provided lie have ' grace for both!” - . — ♦ - — A freedman who left Charleston, South Carolina, for Liberia, a few [months ago. writes back the most glowing account of matters and things there. He says he “never felt free till he reached the rolor.ed man’s own republic.” and is i quite rapturous in dscribipg the luxuriant fertility, of the country. He advises all his friends to join . him in the new ••land of prom-, ! fee-” ’ A Nevada widow crcctPd atotnbi stone and planted rosebuds upon the supposed grave of her hus band, only to have the ungreatful i man turn up aiit e from the other • side of the mountains just in time to spoil a particularly a.lvantageoCts marriage for which she had • engaged herself

Beautiful Extract. We remember reading the following many years ago, but, forgot ita authorship. It is not often we meet with language so beautifully expressed. “It cannot be that earth is man’s only’abiding place. It canQoU be that our life is a bubble, cast up by the. ocean o + " eternity. to float a moment upon its waves, and sink into nothingness. Else why is it, the high ahd glorious aspirations, which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts, arc forever wandering about unsatisfied. Why ia it that the rainbow and the cloud conic over us with a beauty that is of earth, and then pass off and leave tnrtw muse on their faded loveliness ? Why is it that the stars which “hold their festival ardu'nd the mid-night throne," are -set-above the grasp of our limited 1 fai•: i 11ies ; fore ver ino;-king us with their unapproachable glory? And ] finally, fVhy is it that bright forms ot human beauty are presented to our view ami taken from us; leav ing the thousand streams ..of our affections to flow back in an Al- ; rpitrn- Mr ren t SigQflHS® rd tearfs ?-W e arc born for a higher destiny tlic.n that of earth. There is a realm where the’rainbow never fades—where tlfe stars will iw'sprejid out before us like the islands that on the ocean, .and where the beatltiful beings who now pass Sefbre ns like shadow;., will stay ia our presence forever Freni the Xew York Heratt.J Happy Zndiirereuc© to Eacts and Farms. There was a man before .an Irish jury oiCijs trial f>r murd w. It was a bull of a trial, for the de-fen-c produced in court, alive and well, t ie man who was said to have been killed. But the triad went on. and the jury went out; and, not to be dauiitectby any such little fact as tiie presence alive of the man who should h’ave been dead, they brought the prisoner in guilty. “How's this?” says the Judge; “there has been no the man is alive in 'court. “Well, your Honor,” said the foreman, “the jury is convinced ..that the J prisoner di I not murder this man, : but he is a dangerous person. I am sure he killed my grey mare, and we beljeve that hanging him is necessary to the peace of the country.” That Irish jury is sitting in the chamber of the United States Senate. It has.tried a man on certain charges. He is proved ch.u a I p.ropos >d to condemn him all the i same—“not from a feeling of his ' technical gui’t on this or that I charge, but from a feeling that it is a necessity of the political con i dition of the country.” This last ! sentence is not from the loremail ■ of an li is’n jury, but from a Republican organ. ArtcmuS Hard Artemus Ward, the American showman, says; “In the ortum of ■ | N—, my friend, the editor of the ' Baldwins vilie Eagle, was -obliged !to leave perfeshional dooties and 1 go and <lig his tutors, and he axe l me to edit for him dorin his ab- ■ seneff. Accordingly 1 ground up his shears, and commenced. It didn't take mo a great while to slash out copy enough from the ' exchanges for one ison, and 1 thawt I'd ride up to the next town on :i little jaunt, to rest my branes I which had been sevorotv rackt by mv menfaTefforts. ( Phis is s 'iter ironical.) So I \v"ut overdo the rale road otlls and axed the sdoperintent for a pars. “You an editor?” he axed, evI identic on the sniekerin. u- P?z J “Don’t I look ■ poor enugh ”, “Just about?’said he ; “but our ' road can't pars you ” [ “CanT- hay ?” - ~ - g'No.jdr it can’t. “Becnnz,” soz I. 10-offtn hirn fall ■ m face with eagle eye. ‘n't g-»es ;to slow, it can't pars anybody ?" Methinks I had him thar. It’s the slowest rale road in the west. Witjva mortified air he told me to •go but of Ids oilis. 1 pitied him and went. A Paris newspaper, states that , the Olfice of rhe United States iv- ! gation in that city is “overrun. with crowds of persons anxious to ; emigrate to America so as to escape the opperatwn of tin? new arliny bill. Having heard of the G erman - Ameriean Nat;;ralizat ion treaty, the Frenchmen seek to ob- ; tain their qmpers as -rttfeees-srfthe Republic. * IB I —— • Poverty and reconstruciou ib Soitth Carolina have brought the price of land down to ten cents an ‘ acre. ”'- t _ ’ Forney.is attacking. Judge Cur- ' tis argument. It is A* if an oyster II boat should try to run 4 'wu a in

The High Fare© of Impeachment. Mflcaulay, in liis essay on the. life of Warren Hastings. - says . of impeachment in general. trAffb,4b wJriqwssible Ta ny that impeachment, though it is a fine ceremoney, and though it may have been useful in the seventeenth century, it is not a proceedingfrmu which much gobtl can be expected. Whatever con fidence may be placed in the decisions of the Peers on an appeal arising out of ordinary litigation, it is certain that no man has the least confidence in their impartiality, when a great public functionary, charged with a great crime, is bro light to their bar. They are all politicians. There is hardly one among, them whose vote on impeachment may not be confident,ly predicted before a witness has been examined. . _ Mere the eminent. historian living now, could he have portrayed more truly the state of thing's nbw to be.seen.’in Washington ?' If the I hereditary peers of Britain are j politicians and partisans, morally ; inapable of trying, an impeachment, i how can it be otherwise with the j Senate? A „ The Wife. It needs no guilt to break a hus-, i band's heart. The absence of con- ' tent, the muttering of spleen, the j untidy dress and cheerless home, [th;- forinding scowl, and deserted j heart—these, and other nameless •! neglects, without crime among the lioci't s-'©oremt many a man, ami planted there beyond the reach jof cure, the germ of dark despair. ; [Oh ! may woman, before the sight •arrives, dwell on the recollections ! of her youth, and, cherishing the ■ dear idea of that tuneful time, awake and keep alive the promises she so kindly gave. And though she may be the injured, not the ini juring one; and forgotten, not the | forgetful wife,, a. happy allusion to i ; the peaceful love—a kindly welCome to a comfortable home — a I kiss of peace t’p pardon all -lini [ ■ past, and the hardest heart that : I was ever locked in the breast of , ••selfish man will soften to her • charms, and bid her live, as she i had hoped, her years in matchless i bliss, loved, loving and contented • —the soother of the sorrowing . hour, source of eonifurt, and the ; spring of joy. Height of Hoosier Solihehs — Dr. A. Gould, of Cambridge, Masi sachusetts, one of the most eminent stisticians in the United [ States, ■ and a gentleman who is 1 now engaged in getting statistics II of the Sanitary Commission, writes . I to Adjutant General Terrel that the i i average height of American sol- ? diets is greater than that of any ) other civilized country and that ; the average height of Indiana spldMmrs is greater than that of the [ soldiers from any other 3 ‘ the Union. An interesting fact, t; about which a little [ “blowing” t ! may be excusable. GfeograhicalJ lv,'physically, intelledtually and • ; longitudinally. Indiana invites and t defies comparison. Whoop! . 'Where's your Irish giant ?— State. Sentinel. An inventor at Washinton , claims the discovery of a proct-ws- [•; of setting or distributing type by > I machinery operated by electricity. [ I Or, in other words, by means of [ • one ot these machines located in 11 one of the newspaper offices'in • Xew York or Chicago, and counccJ te l with the National Capital, the reporter or operator in M ashington , could put his dispatch m type at , ths same time that he transmits, it by telegraph—the machine stand ' ing in New York or Chicago, while ; he is in Washington. The ruins of a town, canals, etc . J have been discovered in Utah, a ; few miles above the mouth of salt River. The canals are from thirty ' five to fifty feet in width, and the i walls, which are from five to eight feet high, have been traced ten or ' fifteen miles from the river. The . ruins are al intervals the length of ' 1 the valley. Cotton tobacco, and castor beans are still found grow , ing luxurianly upon the old farms p around. _ _ ' B. F. B. and Chandler, of the Senate, were walking up the ave ’ nue the other day, when Butler • broke out: “Well. Chandler, you ’ have heard me called a damned 1 rascal often enough, but did you ever near me called a damneq t fool?., "Not exactly,” replied the . ami/ble Senator,.“but 1 heard you • calmd a spooney, Ben.’’ “4V hat , i sort of a spooney ?” said Ben, nol r taking the joke. “Why, a niter spooney, of course." 4 " llr r A colored preacher in Missouri, who evidently belongs to the » church militant, was surprised the Mother day by the discharge of > pistol in bis coat tail pocket ,I - The public lands in Alaska are Jsaiil to extend to three hundred and sixtv five millions of acres.— Many of these acres are preserved • in ice. - ' * - r ., ——•—— - - I Dearer than life —fa<bionabfe I f mcrals ' . ; ;’_2' ~ i ' ■ ' ~ '•„ > g|F'

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