Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 25 December 1868 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. DANIEL D. HELLER, Attorney a,t Ijhw, DECATUR, INDIANA. WMTILL practice hts Profekaion anywhere in In-' vv diana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite thQ Recorder’s Office. v10n52 JAHES R. 8080, Attorney at X.a'vv, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgagesand Contracts. Redeems Land and psys Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlon6. B, ST iflfA BAKER, A ttorney at laaxxr, 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; J examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agency. Heiaalsoa Notary Public, and Is prepared to draw Docds, Mortgages and othertnstruments in writing. vlOnll. PHYSICIANS. F.A. JELLESF. W. H, SCHROCK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE-On Second Street, opposite the Public "Hnare. ■ _ J vsmstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permaneptU’ lucated in this pbre,offeftrhis prntusstonal servlet to the people us Decatur«nd vicinity. . OFFICE—In Houston * Block. Residence it the Biijrt lloiwe, T ~ viHH6tf. AA 1> REW SOR « , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OF FILE-On Second Street, over W. G. Spencer’s Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWI.V, M. D., Stir <jeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, vll n 25 FORT WAYNE, IND. REAL ESTATE ACENT. J A WES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR. INDIANA. ACRESof good farming land, ■mv•tmtF ernl Tow n Loteand utaiimqiiantity of wild land for sale, if you want to buy a good fiirmor wildland he will hi 11 it to you. If) on want voirrl.md sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vinm.tf. ' DENESTRY. 11. 11. II <*CO A’A’ELL, Surgeon Dentist, nrC’ATVR, INDIANA. CMgfcbwgk \II wnrk nontlv executed nnd v»rt? ’anted »n eivo antlsfrictfon. Cid and examine ’•n ‘cimeni». OFID.T—In Rover’s building, over Heller’ h Luw office. vllnlOtf. AUCTIONEER. CHARLES 11. FRA ACE, Aucti oxK’ior, WILSHIRE. OHIO. Would innounce .<> the nnldic that he is a regularly IsiicuHod Auctioned . mid will iftriid all Public Sales, whenever reiHKMtvd. by J’im as above, nr e illint at his resilience in BlueTrock Township. Adams Co., Ind. ts. HOTELS. tl IES S E HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, l’ropri?tor. Third St„ Opposite the Court Home, DECATUR, INDIANA. ( <n connection with thb I!ou<e there is a Stage I ■ run to ami from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, - which connects with trains running both ways, ! vllnutt. ; MAIN STREET EXCHUNGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, B'ejf Hain Street, nc<ir the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA. ’ vllnlltf. ; MAYEII HOUSE. J. IV. BULL, Proprietor, Comer of Calhoun and JFityne Street), FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. 1 vllnlltf. , . . r • HEDEKIN HOUSE. I A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts., FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Alan g.aal .tabling to connection with the House, vllnlltf. JEWELERS. MAYER & GRAFFE, -DEALERS INWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVSR AXD SILVF.K-PLATED WARE. Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, Columbia Street, vllnolyl. FORT WAYNE. IND. NEW JEWELRY STORE! XKT DECJLTITR. EZRA LISTER Announce, to th. citiitna of Aii.tna Cnnnty and vicinity, that he has opened a JEWELRY STORE in D?catnr, one door north of Martin & Bro’t<. Bakery wh.r* he will keep eonvtan'.ly on hand a large and complete asaorraienc of ■ Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Notions, I St*etaclea. Ae., which he offer, at price, to suit the timee. ® Having »eeor*d the aerviee. of an ex- | • perie need Jew.ler, he i» prepared to do . all kind, of repairing on »hort notice. AH work warranted a. repreeented. | vl2t|6 MIRA USTKR. 1 -s •

DECATUR, ITSTD., FUIDAY. DEC. 25, 1868.

>etat Charge of Murat at Eylau. BI J. T. HEADLEY. It is at Eylau that Mura tappears in his most terrible aspect The battle fought in mid winter, in 1807, was the most important and bloody one that had then occurred. Ftance and Russia had never before opposed such strength to each other, and a complete victory on either side would have settled the fate of Eurepe. Bona- i parte remained in possession of Jhe field, and that was all; no vic tory was ever so like a defeat. The field of Eylau was covered with snow, and the little ponds that lay scattered over it were frozen sufficiently hard to bear the artillery. Seventy-one thousand men on one side, and eighty-five thousand men on the other, arose from the frozen field on which they had slept the night of Feb- ' ruary without tent or covering, to battle for a continent. Augereau, on the left, was utterly routed in the morning. Advancing through a storm so thick he could not see the enemy, the Russian cannon mowed down his ranks with their destructive fire w r hile the Cossack cavalry, which were ordered to charge, came thundering on, al ; most hitting the French infantry I with their long lances before they I were visible through the storm. Hemmed in and overthrown, the j whole division composed of sixteen thousand men, with the exception of 1,500. were, captured or slain. Just then the snow storm i clearing up, revealed to Napoleon j the peril to which he was brought | and he immediatel.y ordered a grand charge by the Imperial Guard and the whole cavalry.— Nothing was further from Bona- j parte’s wishes or expectations, i than the bringing of his reserve in- I to the engagement at this early! stage of the buttle, but there was ; no other resourse left him. Murat sustained his high repn- ! tation on his occasion, and prov- ■ cd himself for the hundredth time, i worthy the great confidence Na- ' poleon placed in him. Nothing cou'd be more imposing than the i l attic field at this moment. Bona j parte ami the Empire trembled in j the balance, while Murat prepared to lead down his cavalry to save ] them Seventv squadrons, making i in ail 11.000 well mounted men, begun to move over the slope, j with the Old Guard marching I sternly Leliind. Bonaparte, if is said, was more agitated at this cricis than when ! a few moments before, he was so ! near being by the Rus-! sials.* But as he saw these seven- 1 ty squadrons come down jon a' plunging trot, pressing hard after the white plume of Murat, that I streamed through the snow storm far in front, a smile passed over his countenance. The earth groaned and trembled ' as they passed, and the sabres, a I hove the angry mass below, look-1 ed like the foam of sea wave, ns it crests on the deep. The rattling! of their armor, and the muffled thunder of their tread, drowned all the roar of battle, as with firm, act array, and swift, steady motion they bore with terrible front on the foe. The shock of that host was.likc a falling mountain, and the front line of the Russian army went; down like frost before it. Then commenced a protracted fight of hand to hand, as in the cavalry , fight at Eckmuld. The clashing! of steel wan like the ringing of I countless hammers, and horses and riders were blended in wild confusion together. The Russian j reserves worse ordered up. and on i these Murat fell with his fierce, horsemen, crushing them down by; thousands. But the obstinate Russians disdained to fly, and rallietl again and asrain, so that it was no longer cavalry charging on infantry, but squadrons of horsemen galloping through broken -hosts j that, gathering into knots, still dispntctl, with unparalleled brave-1 ry, the red and rent field. It was during this, strange fight that Murat was seen to perforin one of those desperate deeds for | which he was so renowned. Ex-, citc<l to the highest pitch of passion by the oKstaelcs that opposed him. he seemed emlowed with ten I fold strength, and looked more like a superhuman l>eing treading down helpless mortals, than an I ordinary man. Amid the roar of artillery And rattling of musketry, and falling of sabre stroke® like lightning about him. that lofty white plume never once went down while ever and anon it was seen | glaring throngh the smoke of bat-J tie, the star of hope to Napoleon. i and showing that bis “right arm” |

was still uplifted and striking for victory. He raged like an unloosed lion amid the foe; and his eyes, always terrible in battle, burned with increased lustre, while his clear anef steady voice, heard above the turmoil of battle, was worth more than a thousand trumpets to cheer on his followers. At 1 ;ngth, seeing a knot of Russian soldiers that for a long time kept up a devour ing fire' on his men, he wheeled his horse and and drove in full gallop upon their leveled muskets. A few of his guards, who never al--1 lowed that white plume to leave their sight, charged after him.— Without waiting to count his foes, he seized his bridle in his teeth, and with his pistol in one hand and his drawn sword in the other, burst in headlong fury upon them scattering them as if a hurricane had swept by. Murat was a thunderbolt on that day, and the deeds that were wrought by him will furnish themes of the poet and the j painter. English and American Women. Dr. Holland (Timothy Tit comb) writes from England to the Springfield ilei>ulglican: “I confess to a little disappointment in the Englishman, phvsicalj ly. No American, passing through ■ the streets of London, would im- . agine that he was among a people : superior, physically, to his own — I speak onl y of the men. The Englishwoman is larger and stronger than her American sister, but l am ! yet to be convinced of the physical superiority of the Englishman ito the American. * * 1 have I the authority of a competent and I candid English woman—Tor the i statement that the American wo ; man is the handsomer. There can |be no question. I think. *Tnat the j average American girl is more ! beautiful tlian her cousin across ! the water. She has greater deli- ! cacy of feature, and generally a fu; | ner make up. She matures earlier i and. it is quite likely, fades soon- ; er; but the fact that she is prettier 'is not to be disputed. The girl : here is, also, under the usages of i English society, a surpressed ! creature, without the freedom that favors vivacity. The American I girls is quite at home in society i before the English girl sees socie;tv at all, or has ever been permitI ted to escape the eve of the govI criioss or her mother. “The American girl may be ; much too forward ; but I am sure , that the English education in the i two countries differs greatly, and ' singular as it may seem, the edu ■ cation of the English girl is more . showy than that of the American. 'As a general thing, the English 1 girl knows little 6r nothing of inadtematics and the natural scion I cos. These branches in America, absorb a-great deal of time as you : know; and you will find multi- : tudes of Amesican girls who are j adepts in them. That, in the cdi ucalion of the English girfc which strikes an American, is their | knowledge of language, of litcra- : ture, or music and of drawing. Ev- ; erything which contributes to I show in society is acquired by the j English girl! -I cannot recall, among my traveling acquaintances, a lady who could not speak French Italian and German, with entire \ faculty. With these languages at ' comfiiand, with a wide acquaint ! ance with history belle letters, and with the accomplishments of sketching and playing the piano. ■ it must be acknowledged that the • English girl «hnw« for all that she [is, amd that for social purposes, her acquisitions are greatly superior to those of the American girl”

Watching One's Self. “When I was a l>oy,” said an J old man,“we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching j idle boys. One day he called out to us. “Boys, I must have closer attention to your books. The first one of you that sees another boy idle. I want yon to inform me, and I will: attend to the ease.” “Ah, thought I to mvself, there ■ iis Joe Simmons that I don't like, iI ll watch him. and if I see him look off his book I'll tell. Il was not long before I saw Joe look off : his book, and immediately I informed the master. “Indeed.’ said he, ‘how did you know he was idle?’ “I saw him,’ said I. “You di<l; and were *o«r eye* on yonr book when you saw him ?’ ••I was caught, and never watch- * ed for idle bovs again.” If we arc sufficiently watchful over our own conduct we will have no time to find fault with the conI duct of others-

A ROMANCE OF THE SOI TJI AIEANTtCA Yankee Community on a Eon ely Island. From an article in the London Athcneuni on the recent voyage of Prince Alfred in the frigate Galatea, we extract the following ac-1 countof a curious little communi ty dwelling in mid ocean On leaving Rio the romance of the voyage began by a call at Tris tan D’Acunha. the largest rock in a lonely group of islets in the. great waters —a group which is said to be further away from other settlements than any other land in the world. Here is a prime fact for romance. One of the three rocks is called Inaccessible, a second Nightingale and the third Tristan. The nearest spot on which menlive isSt Helena, and that dwarf island is a trifle of 1,200 miles to the north. A little story something like that of the Pine , Islanders, like that of the Pitcairn Islanders, lends a charm to this lonely group. During the early days of Napoleon's cjjptivitj’ in ' St. Helena, a few sappers and guards were thrown upon Tristan, who dug a ditch, raised a " battery, tlire'.v up Irtg huts and cleared a patch of soil' When they had been on their lonely station, they were fetched away, no one knew i why. A corporal, named Glass, I got leave to stay behind and keep ■ I the place for the British Crown — J Three Yankees had been there before, one of whom, a man Ly ■ the name of Jonathan Lambert, i had taken possession of the islet, not for the Great Republic, but i for Jonathan Lambert himself. > who was declared by Jonathan, in ; a regular proclamation, to be the > sovereign owner and prince of the then lonely rocks. Jonathan being gone Glass took up his seep ter and purstinded two fellows to • star and share his empire. Happi- ;! ly Glass had a wife, a Creole woman, and two children, so that hu- . man interests came into play at • once. The little party, after making Glass Governor of the island, • fell on the soil, part of which | Lambert had cleared, and harvest f ed vast quantities of potatoes. — | Now and then astray seaman joint ed the colony, and two women i' c.ame among them from the distant ■ Cape. Seven years after Glass and his folks were left alone, the . colony had grown into twenty-two . mon and three women. Glass told the captain of Her Ma'estv's > ship Berwick, that “tljev only re >1 qiiired a few more women to make . i the place an earthly paradise " — | i Glass is how dead, .and his little colony exists without either Gov ! ernor or government; the men growing potatoes and making i shoos, and the women, strange to [I say wearing crinolines. The Prince went on shore and visited the shanties of those enrii ous people, to whom the chaplain offered his services in baptizing > all the youngsters and marrying all the stray couples who might i feel virtuously inclined an ] ready : for the yoke. The youngsters . came up in troops to be bantized ; . but when the reverend ’ gentleman i mentioned the marriage, the maid- ! ens were coy and the bachelors slow to appear. Perhaps they <l>d , not like mai rving in the Prince's i Mr. Jliller gave them ■ | two hours to consider his proposi- ; tion. and lingered in vain. As he says, with much professional regret, there were seven girls on the [. island old .and enough to marry a id seven young men, all of whom > wore “eligible” for the sacrifice, vet the two hours slipped away ,: without bringing the young men and blushing girls to the altar of i Hymen. The Prince could not wait, and the British elwp'ain. . though burning with zeal to bind

I these benighted swains and i nymphs in holy matrimony, had ito push off for the Galatea, leav- , ing them as wildyn morals and free in life as they had been before his advent. Who will not sympathize in such a case of clerical dis tress? The Yankees take advantage of the dnnibal propensities of the . rats. A clever Yankee, being much ■ troubled with rats, and being determined to get rid of them, tried every possible plan, but without success. At last he got a lot of rats and shut them up in a single cage; they devoured on? another til< only a single one was left. He then turned this one loose, when exerted with the blood of his fellow rats and having become a genuine cannibal. it killed and ate all the rats it could find on the premises. . , Jenks say that cucumbers may be ma-le pickles while growing, if von get a cross old maid to look over the fence at the vines three times a week

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Stopping into the Wrong Bed —The Shortest Route to Matrimony. • Last week an interesting event occurred at one of the hotels in I Pittsburg. Penn. A young lady ! from a neighboring town went to : ; the city for the purpose of meeting ' ■ her betrothed. She was accom- - ponied by her brother, wdio was to ; act as groomsman, and her lover's , sister was to be bridesmaid. The ; intended husband not arriving in ' time, the young ladies arranged . ! that they should occupy the sime . bed in a room adjoining that of; j the bride's brother. Traveling the I night before, the bride and her brother, being worn-out, retired at : an early hour, with instructions to their companion, whom they left reading in the ladies’ parlor, not :to make a noise when she came to , bed, as they did not want to be awakened out of their sleep. The ' young lady, getting interested in her book, sat up till a late hour.— :At last, getting drowsy, she slipped off as noiselessly as possible .to her room, and quietly retired, as she supposed, to the bed occupied by herintenled sister-in law, .' and nestling close up alongside un- ; der the blankets, was soon sound j asleep. Happening to awaken liefore her companion, she put her arms around, as she supposed, the i 1 bride’s neck, and commenced kiss • I ing her and calling her sweet sis > er and other endearing names pe ■ . culiar to her sex. In a mom'nt her kisses were ptlid Lack with in- , ■ tcrest, and she found a pair of ; stalwart arms encircling her fair , form, and instead of being in the i bride's, she >yas in the bride's > brother's arm. She had mistaken > the room, llei'e-wa* a dilemma. and not knowing how to explain s'ie commenced sobbing as if her heart would break, —which awak .! cued the bride who came to the ! rescue. The young man, however. refused to let her go, saving : that fortunate accident had given him a prize and lie was determined not* to lose it. and on one coni dition only would he relase the . i young lady from his grasp, and . that was that she would put her . arms around his neck and kiss i him. and promise to become his t wife at the same time !iis sister bei j came the wife of her brother. Hesaid > that he ha I long l ived her, and in- > tended to ask her that day for her ; hand, and thanks to an accident, ; he had now a much better oportunitv than ho could ever hope for > i again. The young lady, seeing no . alternative, finally surrendered, > threw her arms around the man's neck, ami sealed the bargain with i a kiss, when the young man covr ered up his head and she retired J to his sister's room a promise I : bride. She enjoined secrecy from 1 the brother and sister, but the . thing was too good to keep. Imi mediately after they got dressed r the groom arrived, and after eat j ing breakfast, dispatched the landt lord for a minister, who s >on • came and tied the indissoluble ; knot. : As soon as the minster got 1 through, the groomsman and ' bridesmaid astonished the compa ’ ny by taking the places of their ’ brother and sister, and requested ’ the minister to repeat the per--1 formance, which he did in less ' time than it takes to tell it. “What ; is the meaning of all this ?” Ask- ' ed groom No. 1, who seemed to be ! agreeably surprised by the scene just enacted. His new-made wife 1 now smiling all over, related to • the whole company the incidents '| of the past night. Groom No. 2 1 said it was all right; he did not f care how many stories sister told; L that ho was the happiest man a- • live, and if his wife had shed tears ' that morning, they were the last ' she should shed, unless tears of 1 jov if he could prevent it; and ■ she. looking her husband. ' said she would never cry again, ' when he put his arms around her, ’ for he was now her own darling I husband. The afternoon train, ini stead of one. carried two happy > couples to homes in the West, > where we hope that year after year ! they will by couplets lie blest. There is a real idol temple erect : ed and formally established in the r United State*, at Portland. Ore ‘ gon. The building is completed, and the Chinamen are actively engaged in furnishing it. The ves--1 tibulecontains two large oil globes inside of which lamps are horning so as to show to advantage the I heathenish figures painted on the outside. One of the transparencies represents ecclesiastical warriors or saints, some on foot and [ some ’on horseback. Whatever ; thev are. they go round an round j propelled in some manner by a current of beatedair.

I’ Mlsscelanaom Itsnss. A gold nugget, the exact shape of a snail shell, has been foand at Boulder. g Telegraphic reports of the West- ■ ern Associated Press, last year, I cost $150,000. The Chinese and negroes are murdering each other merrily in Cuba. The French government is about to call on Wm. H. Webb for two new iron-clads like the Dunderberg. The question-of adopting Sunday as the Israelitish Sabbath has been started for discussion by a i Jewish writer. I The Chicago and Alton railroad i supplants station- dining-saloons i with palace dining cars. Lotteries are all the ragejn Alai bama, and the next legislature will ! probably charter fifty. ’ A soft stone, that can be cut •’ like pine with a knife,' composes ' the material of which Fort Wallace A j is built. Four thousand and twenty oratio'es have been grown this season - upon one tree at Montgomery, j near Savannah. A deed is recorded at Topeka. Kan., covering thirty pages, and I transferring 339,245 acres of Lind. I A Bnffalonian holds the champi- ' on skating medal, a gold decqrai i tion set with brilliants, end worth 85,00. . ! The spire of the new cathedral in Pittsburgh is to be surmounted ( bv a hollo*v iron cross, 14 feet in 1 height, which is to be illuminated z by 300-gas jets. j | The first skating accident of tiie ; season comes faom St. Joseph, i Mo., where 11 pe-sons broke ! through the ice into the river, but i escaped with a wetting. ' A Chattanooga paper states that a French gentleman, named Bryant, lias purchased land on Missionary Ridge, with the intention ’ of establishing there a colony of 1 French wine-growers. The site is ’ said to be admirably adapted to 1 the purpose. , A Great Many Ducks. The Louisville Co ’trier, in no- . ticinga visit of “Johnv” Morej hea.l'to that city, is reminded 'of . i an amusing incident that occurred in the good old days when his fa- . (her was Governor of Kentucky. 1 Powell who kept a rcst.aurent and r ' drinking saloon in Frankfort, rendered his monthly account to s ‘'Johnv'’ (the boys could get credit then), which amounted to 8150. ] “Johnv” went to his father to get .! thq money. r “One hundred and fifty dollars' “Johnv?’ said the Governor; it's . a large bill, son.” r “Yes I entertained’a great many ) friends during the month.” i “Have von the bill with you ?” , “I believe so”—hesitatingly, j“Let me sec it. son." .' “Jonny” slowly drew forth a | long strip of bill paper, on which | there were exactly thirty-one items ! put down as“D'ks,” ranging from e ten cents to as many dollars. The i Governor adjusted h.s specs, and ] regarded it attentively, and said. ; “D. K. S—D.K. S : Johny, mv son, what docs D. K. S. stand i for?” e l “Ducks, father. Ducks! But of | course they were not all ducks — some were patridges and snipe, I and even eggs and oysters. But 1 Lou Murray put them all down as ducks. The Governor looked first at 1 “Johny” and then at the bill, and giving an omnious “horn,” wrote ’ a check. 1 Nobody ever believed the Governor was fooled, but after that f “Will yc u take a duck ?” was for ' a long time a favorite convival inL * vitation with the Frankfort boys. ) , good story is told o t Barnum to the effect that ho de- . signed an advertising curtain for the Museum, and sent out an a- . gent to solicit merchants to fill t places thereon with their cards — t - The first man the agent applied to j - was Helmbold, who immediately consummated a-bargain for the entire curtain. The agent returned to Barnum. reported progress end ’ 1 was sent back to pay Helmbold ' 85,000 if he would only tear up . the contract, but 'twas no use.— That curtain was paid for, and ’ Helmbold's remedies were duly advertised thereon. A few days after. Barnum met Helmbold on the street; and said l ‘ Yort are d--d smart ain’t you? When I see that ? infernal curtain I can’t tell whether I am running Barnum's Muse- • um or Helmbold s Buchu! Arizona Territory ia the least i remunerative post-office district in I the country- The expense of carj rving the mails last year was ! 8125.607. while the aggregate re--1 ceipts only amounted to 81,968. 1 Parties from Salt Lake report r the grading ot the Central Pacific 1 Railroad completed 110 miles west -of that place and running 80 miles to the end of the trsck