Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1868 — Page 1

THE _ DECATUR EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ■ S >■ A. J. HILL, EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On the west side of Second Street, over Dorwin & Brother's Drug Store. Terms of Subscription. One copy, one yepr, in advance,, $1 50 If paid within the year, 2 00 If paid after the year has expired 2 50 Papers delivefedTy carrier tweentyfive cents additional will be changed. ' No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. Hates of Advertising. One column, one year, S6O 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. J.egal Advertising. One square [the space of ten lines brevier] one insertion, \ $2 OO JJach subsequent insert!in, 50 No advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square ■will be counted and charged as two; over two as three, &c; Local notices fifteen cents a linexfor each insertion. Religious and EdacationaT'Twtices 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. lion. Rob't Lowry,Circuit Judge. T. IV. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Att'y. Hon. R S. Taylor, . . Com. Pleas Judge. J. S. Daily, Coin. Pleas Prosecut'g Att'y. County Officers. Keymour Worden,Auditor. A. J. Hill• Clerk. Jesse Niblick. Treasurer. M. V. B. Simcoke, Recorder. James Stoops, Jr.,Sheriff. Henry C. Peterson, Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollman, .... School Examiner. Conrad Reinking, ] Jacob Sniff, (• • • Commissioners. Josiah Crawford, ) Town Officers. Henry IL Knoff,Clerk. D. J. Spencer,Treasurer. William Baker, . . Marshall. John King, Jr., ] David King, >Trustees. David Showers, ) Time of Holding Courts. CritcrtT Court.—On the third Mon lay ! in April, and the first Monday in November,’of eacli year. Commox Plhas Couht.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioxkhs Cot kt. —On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in Jdne, the first Monday in September, und the first Monday in December, of each year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mary's (Cathomc). —Serviccs-es-ery Sabbath nt 8 and 10 o'clock, A. M.; Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1.1 o'clock, i’. M.; Vespers at 2 o'clock, P. 51. Rev. J. Wemlioff. Pastor. Metiiouist.—Services every Sabbath at Iti-j o'ckck, A. 51., ami 7 o'clock, I*. 51. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock., A. M. Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. PnKSUYTEttiAX.—Services at lti| o’clock, A. SL, and 7 o'clock, P. 51. Saltbath Schoo' at !t] o'clock, A. 51. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. DRUGS. DORWIN & BRO., —DEALERSIXDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet and Eancy Articles, Sponges, It rushes, Perfunteru. Coal Oil, Lumps, Patent .tie dice ties, fie. DECATUR, --------- INDIANA Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded; and orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmets and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, ami of the boot quality. v9n35 . ts. HARNESS, &c. SADDLE HARNESS SHOP, K. BURNS. .-MANUFACTURER AND DEALER 1NSaddles, Harness, Bridles, Coll ar Uy Halters. Whips, JUrielle-Hits, Hames, &.e. Decatur, - - • Indiana. I keep cons'antly on hand and manufacture to order. Saddles, Harness, Bridles Collars, Halters, whips, FlyAc., which I will “ Sell Cheaper than any other establishment in the county. ,* All Work Warranted to be of good material and put up in a substantial manner Repairing Done to Order en short notice. Call and examine my work and prices. A gool stock always on hand. SHOP—On Second street, in Msibcrs’ v11n47. R BURNS. J

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ATTORNEYS. D. D. HELLER, JLttorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in'lndiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. ; v 10i>52 ts. JAMES R. B1)RO, .Attorney at Law, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. • OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnGtf. JAS.C. BRANf'AN. HOMER J. RANSOM . BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Pctitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. If. Trammel, Esq., Ilqn. J.R. Coffroth, First National Bank, (’apt. U. I). Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. sayler, Connersville, Ind. iWSTJ.C. Bilan van is Deputy Prosecutinc Attorney. vllnlUtf. D. STUB AB: AKER, Attorney at Law, AFTD Claim & Ileal 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 inst.rumentsof writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECA TUR, INDIA NA, -SVRES of good farming ,| J* JVJ l'i»d, 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 wiil sell it for you. No sale, no charge. . vlOnCtf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DEC.lTrit, OFFICE—On Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co s Hardware Store. vßn’stf. C. L. CURTISS, Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR. A4-V.4. 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 II ms.'. v11n36 ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR. LTDIA.TA. OFFICE—On Second Street overSpeacer & Meibcrs’ Hardware Store. vßji42tf. DENESTRY. JI. ML Jlc< OXMILL, SurgeonL Dentist, DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Alli work neatly executed NWißßak.iiid warranted to’give sat-'■‘■‘-LLI-LTj isfaction. Call and examine specimens. OFFICE—With Dr. Jclleff, over A Crabbs 4 k Co's Hard ware store. vlln !9 HOTELS. MIESSE HOLSE, Third St., Opporit' the Court llowtc, DECATUR, I.VD., 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. lIOAROE HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. . L. WALKER,'. Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. navlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FRCEHAN, Proprietor. Wees Nuin Street, near the Public Square. PORT n\ITJTE, LTD. vllnllyl. ' HEDEKIM HOUSE On Barr, betireen Columbia and Main SOPOR T B'.t INE, IND. EI.IKEARNS I‘rorrlrior. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. .Alsogood stabling in connection with the Hoiumf. ’ vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE? J. IK. BULL,Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and ll'aynr St)., FORT WAYNE, vl2n'vl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. eOVEßDAl.KPreprleter. - " :o; Mr. Covcrdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl. . ’

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CAN THEiIE BE HARM IN KISSING. The waters kiss the pebbly shores; The winds all kiss the hills; The sunbeams kiss the tulip bud For the odor it distills. The dew-drops kiss the rose at morn; The cercus dew at eye; The fern and flower, in. circling class, Their mystic beauties weave. The moon-beams kiss the clouds at night; The star gems kiss the sea; While shadows dreamy, soft, and light, Are kissing on the lea. The zephyrs kiss the budding pink That blooms on beauty's lip, And ruder bhstS, though cold and chill, Its ruby nectar's sip. The winds, the waves, thebuddingflowers, The laughing, merry rills, Are kissing all from morn till eve, And clouds still kiss the hills. Even heaven and earth dp meet to kiss Through tears of sparkling dew, In kissing,-then, can there be harm? I don’t think so—do you? EAKEY BJAKE NAVIGATION. liiterestln;? Scrap cf history —Lake Vessels nearly Two Hundred Years Ago. A few years since we have a brief account of the first vessel which ever crossed Lake Erie, the career of which was a short-lived one. This vessel was called lhe “Griffin,” built in 16’79 at Erie, then called Frontenac, by the cele brated Robert de la Salle, her commander. This vessel sailed on the 18th of September, in that yeaff j for Green Bay, having on board i among other passengers, Father Louis Hennepin, a missionary.— On her arrival at Green Bay she took on a cargo of furs, and while on the return passage, was lost in Lake Huron with all on board.— She wassixtv tuns burden, and was fore and aft rigged. Previous to the era of this vessel, the Lakes were navigated only by birch bark canoes. Again, in 1766, four vessels plied upon Lake Erie. These were the Gladwin, Lady Charlotte. Vietory-and Boston. — The two latter laid up in the fall near Navy Island, above Niagara Falls, and one of them was accidentally burned, November 30th. of the same year. A vessel called the Brunswick, and commanded by Captain Alexander Grant, made her appearance on the lakes during the year 1767. and was lost sometime during the season following. Captain Grant was the Commodore of the Lakes for two or more years. In 1769 Sterling and Porter built a vessel at Detroit called the Enterprise ; a man bv the name of Richard Cornwall, of Now J"ork was the carpenter. The boatmen that went from Sehenectadv with the rigging and stores for the res sei to Detroit, were to have each 823 an<l ton gallons of rum. They wwe-seventv days on Lake Erie, and two of the number perished i from hunger. Their bodies were] kept for davs to decoy eagles and l ravens. They returned to New York in February. 1770, bv thej way of Pittsburg, then called Fort] Pitt. Tn May, 1770, a vessel ofi seventy tuns burden was launched at Niagara called the Charltv. bv whom owned or commanded is not known. The same rear the Duke of Gloucester, Secretary Townsend, Samuel Fretchcl, Henry Baxter, and four others, formed a compnnv for mining copper ore on Lake Superior. In December they built at Point an Pins, some nine miles from Saulte St. Marie, a barge and laid the keel of a slope of forty tuns burden. As to the i success of this enterprise we are in possession of no further data whatever touching the matter.— Subsequent to the above period, 1 but very little was accomplished in the construction of vessels for lake navigation, and the few that ' came into commission were used 1 solely as traders, as were also all I those previously named. Not long following the latter date, batteaux 1 from Montreal and Quebec, employed by the Hudson Bay Fur Company, made their annual tour westward, gathering large quantities and returning home in the fall 1 season.— Detroit Post. A now machine for laving rail- ! road tracks is putting down ties 1 and rails on the Valiev and Sacra- i mento, California. Railroad, at the « rate of two miles daily. — — i General Sherman writes that the ’ charges of the hotels of Kansas are ’ 83 a day, board and bxlgitfg extra. |

“I’ll ’lake What Father I Takes.” “What will you take to drink ?” asked a waiter lad who for the first time, accompanied his . father to a public dinner. Uncertain what to say, and feeling sure that he could not do wrong if he followed his father’s example he replied, “I’ll take what father takes.” The answer reached his father’s > ear and instantly the full responsibility of his position flashed upon him. If he said, ‘il’ll take ale,” as he bad always said before, his son would take it also, and then ? i And the father shuddered, as the : history of several young men who, ' once promising as his own bright I lad, had been ruined by drink, started up in solemn warning be- I fore him. Should his hopes also : be blasted and that open faced, no- 1 ble lad become a burden and; curse, as they had become ? Bat for strong drink they would have been actixm, earnest, and prosperous men; and if it could work such ruin upon them, was his own lad safe' ? Quicker than lightning these thoughts passed through Lis mind, and in a moment the decision was made. “If the boy falls he shall not have me to blame;” and then in tones tremulous with emotion, to the astonishment of those ho knew him he said, ‘‘Water, I’ll take water,” find from that day to this, strong drink has been banished from that man’s table and from that man’s home. That youn g lad, in this brief utterance, was really the represents live of the generation to which he belongs. God has so declared it, that the father is the highest authority ifi the world to bis child.— Who does not know that “M,” father said so,” is the endofall controversy with the little one’s l round us ? Who does not sec the i parent’s tones, and manners reproduced continually in the children, whose nature is now “soft as > wax to receive an impression, and rigid as marble to retain it;” and who watch with a quick and imitating eye those who, to them,’ are God’s vicegerents ? Would that we could impress upon fathers and mothers of this country the solemn fact, that the future character o4’the children is being formed by them. That if they are trained 2[. ?. i’-ir nay they should go, when tli.y are old they ! will not depart from it. But if they become vain, sen ual, ".nd de ; graded, the seeds will have been deposited and the bias given in the ' early morning of their lives. If we teach them that strong drink is a good creature of God, they will believe us ; and When depending : upon our judgement and truth, they shall have taken it, ami it shall have shown itself to be the devil's master piece, anji have bitten, and crushed, and ’Brngged them down ; to ruin, we may weep and pray as, we please—the blame will be bur | own, and we must not accuse God, j <>r cast reflection upon the gospel, j We shall have reaped corruption, i Gqd will have visited -the sins ofi our fathers upon the children.— j They only “took what their fath-. er’s took.” If. on the other hand, we banish thofmnd when their young and trusting hearts are most open to our, teaching, we tell them that nine is • a mocker, that strongdrink is raging, and warn them that no ser- j pent is so dangerous, no adder so I much to be dreaded, we shall be j erF-workers with an all=mmYifttl| and wise God, who to preserve' them from taking it, has sentthem into the world with a loathing of its very taste. Our children will believe us. They will , grow up with their natural instinct fortified bv our instruction and example, i These will be preserved from the! poisonous influence of the destroy- : er./tThere will be a bridgeless gulf between them and the companions who are most to lead them into the wavs of sin.— 1 Thev will be preservetl from habits of extravagant t and waste. They will have no eon-penions but those , who walk in the ways of God ; no employment for their spare time j butthat which is elevating and purifying, and we pass to our reward. they will rise up and call us blessed, for they “took what their, father took." Mr. Van IVyck from the Committee on Retrenchment on the Bth inst. offered a resolution reciting that the iron clads Catawba and Oneida had been recently sold to Swift Co., and there was reason to iM'lieve.that they were to be sold and delivered to the Peruvian Government, now at war with a friendly power and requesting the Pres ident forthwith to order the seizure and detention of these vessels until the matter has been investigated by Congress

Increase of Real Estate in New York. A life long friend of John Ja | cob Astor said to him just before he died, real estate then being very j dull: “Mr. Astor don’t you think you have too much reaF estate?” “No, sir,” said the old man : “If I' could begin life again, and know what I know to-day, I would buy every foot of land on this island of New York.” The leases of New I York run for twenty-one years.— They usually include a clause for , three or more renewals as the ex- j piration of successive twenty-one years at a new valuation. Trinity Church leases all expired last, . year, and the difference in price ‘ ; over what it vas twen,ty-one years 1 ago, is-perfectly enormous. Dr. Cheever's congregation built their ; church on leased'property at the ; ( rate of 81,500 a year ground rent. 1 i The new valuation brings the I ground rent for the next twentyone Tears to the sum of 810,000 a , year. •Stewart's new marble store, on Tenth street and Broadway, which will cover the whole block—Broadwav, Bowertv. Ninth street and i 1 Tenth—is built on leased ground. ; It is owned by the corporation of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor. Many I vears ago Cupta ; n Randall left his ' . ■ farm house and twenty-four acres ; ’ of land to form a snug harbor for 1 disabled and age ! seamen. The ; nropertv was then valued at about 811 000. It includes the lots : on which Stewart is now building , his store, and stretches away a-! cross Broadway to Washington ( Square, It is among the most : valuable of the city property. The j .lots on winch Stewart is building ; were rented twenty-one yearsago forS6,ooo a year. Mr. Stewart [bought up the leases and holds the renewal. He has been paying 86,000 ground rent to the Sailors’! Snug Harbor. | In January, 1868, the new valuation commenced, for twentyone years his rent will be increas- i ed from 86.00 Q, to 850,000 a year, i And so real estate goes in New t York The whole of Park Place, ' near Cjty Hall, is owned bv Colum- ; bia College, and those immense warehouses in and around pay tribute to the cause of education, — , ■ The Dutch Church property run j • j ning from Ann street to Broad-; ; "'fi'.'down toward the East ; River, gives the Collegiate Church ' . 1 fin income which makes it a mil- | i lionarie. While Trinity sees its < ■ domains stretching below its ; Cathedral on Broadway, above rt~ sto C race, and stretching out east i and west, like an immense fan. makes u place richer and more | valuable than the gold mines of ! the Old World or the New. Reconstructon—Picture of a Radical OHflctal. The election of Arkansas lasted seventeen days. After tinkering 1 the vote for several weeks, it was ■ announced by the military to be ; in favor of the constitution framed j !by the negroes and carpet bag i

I mob. The Legislature, composed in part of “American citizens of ! African decent.” has met and rchoSen two Senators to represent the State at Washington, in whf.t was once so august a body, but has degenerated into a mere political police court. Ono of these Senators is Ben Rice, who made himself so notorious in this section a few years ago, by running off with a large sum of other people s money. He was an Eastern Yau I kee. and once ran f>r (.’ 'nereis in the district now repr -cute i l>y Major Adams. Os some ability ■ and rather insinuating manners, ( he located in Irvine, in Estill Co..' nud slipped into a considerable; practice at the bar. He was a warm Breckinridge Demorcrat, and at the beginning of the war a decided secessionist. In 1861 after putting into his pocket all the money that he could get hold of by any means j fair or foul, he eloped between two days, and went to parts un known. He took with him 84,000 belonging to some fiduciary relation. Rice was afterward heard ! of as an officer in the federal army ■ and now turns up a Senator from . Arkansas. He is a fit representative of his party not only in the i South but all over the country.— I A thief and a robber, he is worthy of a place beside Cattell. Fowler, and Cameron. How honorabls, men can longer stay there is beyond our comprehension. He and his associate will doubtless want to take their places as members of the Impeachment Court — If they do, Johnson’s fate is sealed beyond peradventure. Such men would have condemned Christ for party purposes .or for pelf, without showing as much reluctance as*did Pontius Pilate.— TF<«chester. Clark County. Democrat. Chief Justice Carter has refused to admit Surrat to bail.

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Miscellaneous Items. ________ Q -The Scientific Convention has decided thift the reason why milk now-a days has no cream, is because the milkdias got so high the cream can’t get to the top of it. -Does silver money wear out ? It would appear so, as the Iqss on silver withdrawn from circulation by the British mint of one year, owing to wear, was fifteen thousand pounds. -The old mansion at Cambridge, ; Mass., which served as General Putnam’s headquarters while at . Boston, was beleagured by the ‘ colonial force in 1775 and 1776, is to be moved in its old age, its t grounds having been sold for house lots, -A man in Cincinnati recently ' quarreled with his family and ' threatened suicide.- They politety Requested him not to commit it in I the house, as it would be disagree- ! able, and he politely complied with their request, and going out of ! doors blew out his brains. -A woman recently died in i Washington county, Ohio, aged i I one hundred and three years. She i ' had known the country “from the ! root,” as the Buckeyes say, and pierJiusLun.A4ia.ving ? been a- great [hunter and and Indian lighter, she • | could tell “frontier stories” by the i week. -The annual amount paid for i the naval and military budgets of ! Europe amount to the astounding amount of £600,000,000. The loss of labor by the withdrawal of jso many men from productive industry is as much more, while the! interest on capital invested in these establishments is £150,000,000. -A battle was fought near Rog-! ersville, Tenn., in November, ’ 1863, in which the Seventh Ohio Cavalry took part. A few days ago according to the Greenville (Tenn.) .Vot' Urn, a plow boy ' turned up in the field th belt con- ' taining upward ofsl6,oooiugrcenI backs, in a good state of proac-va-I tion. __ -A poultry man, of Boston, re, ; cently sent to Manchester, N. 11.- , a pair of Brahmah fowls colored a ; ; !.y.‘."dib'd Crimson, and they were J passed olf as just imported, at : great expense from Japan. The ! beautiful birds caused a sensation I amongst poultry breeders, and ' thyir eggs sold at fabulous prices i —it is said as high as £1 an egg. I -A poor woman in Prussia has lately c onfessed, on her deathbed to i have committed a fait thirty years I ago by substituting her own son! I lor the son of a countess who had ! I been sent to her to be mused.— j , The false count has grown up married a rich lady, and is living on ; I the estate, whde the true count I was brought up in poverty and ignorance, went out to service, married a plebian and has given* no sign of noble decent.

I ■ I -The people of Texas have pret [tv generally abandoned the culI ture of cotton, and gone to ’stockraising- This year, hides lona-the priuci’ iel article of commerce, and in order io keep the supply equal to the demand, they are killing cattle on the prairies for the hides alone, for which they obtain 12| cents per pound, in specie. There is a total absence of “greenbacks” in the interior. Mexican specie is the.circulating medium. On the -Coast, currency is taken at 30 cents on a dollar, but in the interior it is refused. -One bv one the European residents in Japan are searching out tiie little peculiarities ot the Japanese, and airing them tor our benefit. We learn that Japanese scissors are in the shape of our sugar-tongs —of steel —nud soier articles freely as the blades approximate by pleasure. 1 heir looking-glasses are highly burnished steel. They use a very elastic transparent silk paper in window frames instead of glass, and a more firm opaque substance oi the same suvtclad on frames as partitions inside thc-ir dwellings. - The native wine makers of Hermann, Gasconade County, Mis souri, will have a general national trial of native wines, in the Music. Hall in that place, on the Sth day of May next Seven different classes of wines will be received, ou each of which there will be three premiums of 820, 810, and diploma. The classes are enumerated as follows: tirst. Catawlm; second. Concord; third Harbement: fourth. Virginia Seedling; fifth. Best Native White Wine; sixth, Best Native Re I Wine; seventh. Best Old Native Wines—all rtf the vintage of 1867 except the last named, in which the vintage of 1567 is exelu led

Presidents, V. Presidents, &,c. The following list of Presidents, Vice Presidents, and candidates for these offices since the formation of our government, is worth preserving: • - ' 1789. George Washington and John Adams, two terms, no opposition. ~ ';-y. 1797. John Adams, opposed by Thomas Jefferson, who, having the next highest electorial vote became Vice President. 1801. Thos. Jefferson and AaroA Burr; beating John Adams and vhas. C. Pinckney. 1805. Thos. Jefferson and George Clinton; beating Chas. Pinckney and Rufus King. 1809. James Madison and Geo. Clinton ; beating Chas. Pinckney. 1813. James .Madison and Elbridge Gerry; beating De Witt Clinton? 1817. James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating Rufus King. 1821. James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating John Quincy Adams. 1825. John Quincy Adams and John C. Ca'houn; beating Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Wm. H. Crawford, there being four candidates for President, and Albert Gallatin for Vice President. 1829. Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun; beating John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush. 1833. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren ; beating Hen- ; ry Clay, John Floyd, and William ! "Wirt, for President, and Win. Wilkins, John Sergeant, and Henry Lee, for Vice-President. 1837.__ Martin Van Ruren and . Richard M. Johnson; beating Wm. H. Harrison, Hugh L. White and Daniel 'Webster, for President and John Tyler, for Vice-Presi-dent. 1841. William 11. Harrison and John Tyler; beating Martin Van Buren and Littleton W. Tazewell. [Harrison died one month after his inauguration, and John ! Tyler became President for the rest of the term.] 1845. James K. Polk and Geo. M. Dallas; beating Henry Clay t and Theodore Ifrelinghuysen. 1849. Zachary Taylor and Milliard Filmore; beating Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren, for President, and Wm. O. Butler and Charles F. Adams, for Vice-Presi-dent. [Taylor died July 9, 1850, and Filmore Joecame President.] 1853 Franklin Pierce and W. R. King ; beating Winfield Scott and M. A. Graham. 1857. James Buchanan and iJohn C. Breckenridgebeating John C. Fremont and Millard Filmore, for President, and Wm. L. Dayton, and A. J. Donelson, for Vice-President,. 1861. Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin ; beating John Bell, Stephen A. Douglass, and John C. Breckenridge, for President, and Edward Everett,. HerI schell V.-Johnson, and Joseph ! Lane for Vice-President. i 1865. Abraham Lincoln and ! Andrew Johnson; beating Geo. I B McClellan and Pendleton.— I [Lincoln assassinated, April 14, ; 1865, and Johnson assumed the Presidency.]

Facts Concerning Human > Life. The total number of human beings on the earth is computed at 3.000,000,200, and they speak 3,023 different toungs. ’ The average duration of human . life is thirty-three and one-half years. ' One-fourth of those born, dio ' before they are seven years old—- ’ j one-half before they arrive at , ' seventeen. ; Out of one hundred persons only six reach the age of sixty Out of five hundred persons, only one attains the age of eighty - nineSixty persons die every minute. Tall men live longer than short ones. Marrifed men live longer than ’ single ones. Rich men live on an average i forty-two vears, but poor ones but thirty. There is a drunkard to every forty-four. The Poetry of Advertisixo.—i V>\ find the following bona fide ad- ' vertisement in the Meadville Jour- ! n>d: On a beautiful lot, near the State Road big hill, is a cozy new cot, the subscriber would sell. In the rear, and close by, runs a brook to the seas, while the front is dry and well shaded with trees. The brooklet enlarges from rain and from snow, but never has “gorges,” und don't overflow! The neighbors are kind as good neighbors should be. The women all mind their own business at tea.— The place is as healthy as Meadvill can give. Here the poor and the wealthy “live and let live.”— How much for the cottage ? A thousand will do ! Who bids for the cottage ? Dear reader, will you ? L. W. Thickstvn. April 1, '6B No. 13 North St. Dickens took away with hint SIOO,OOO in gold