Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORN EyS. JAHES R. 8080, Attorney at Xazwcr, DEOATUH, INDI.'.NA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgnges and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnfitf r. s. IrlrrEß - so"^, ! Attorney eR."t UU-fZXX. 7 * 7 7 j DECATUKr INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted fb his cure. Isa h'otary Public,r.nddraws Deeds. Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studubaker'* Lew OsIfiee. \ Vl2n33tf »ASI E E ’ BE ELL E Ri Attorney nt Xjfcw, DECATUIt, INDIANA. ■VTTILL practice his Profession anyV. v whete in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. vlons2tf F. A. JELLETF. W. It. SCHROCK. JELLEFF& SUREIGCEi, Physicians and Mirgcons, DECATUR, INDIANA. i OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite , the Public Square. vßnlstf. ehTriLes eTcVrtiss, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. nA VINO permanently located in this place, offers bis professional services to the people of Decatur and v.'cinitv. OFFICE-At the Burt Ilo.’- e. 11-30 aIFd “r iTw *Vo if Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —On Second Street, over W. G. Spencer & Brother's Hardware-tore. vßn42tf. A’.- j. iTr w i V ii? D., Su Dispensary, Aveline Block. v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. ' $7 <J7* A ¥ BR »7, R~S!DT.NT Ear and Eyo Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun str -ets, over Drug Store. JJiJ*Attificial Eyes inserted. 12-14 dentistry. ! .11. .12/ lie ('o~ .vTe LL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. work neatly executed W?SjijSS|' in 1 warranted to give sntisfaction. Call and examini' snccimons. OFFhfE- ilppnsite the Public Square, over Heller’s Law office. vlln4o REAL ESTATE ACENTS. j'-Wes R. RO RO, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA. ApHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming bind, several Town Tots and n large quantity of wild land for ' »nlc. If von want to buy a good farm ihe will sell it to you. If you want your , bind sold he will sell it for you. No j sale, no charge. vlOnfi if. - Vt l r l> AR A KER. Real Estate Agent, DECATUR. INDIANA. : TYUYS and sei's Reel Estate, oxnm- ; I > ines titles, pays taxes, nnd other I business pertaining to Real Estate I Agency. vlArill < M lt iiLES'if.' FR~iWcE, A-tietlouoer, DEC ITU If, INDKNS. 4 NNOUNCES t» the public that he is .V a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, i and will attend all Public Sales when ; requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bolin's Law office. HOTELS. MIES SB MOUSE’, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third NU. Oppctfiir the Court Houtt. DECATUR, INDIAN 4. IN TIE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. ! Good sample room*. > vllnO H STREET EXCHANGE, A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, : lUrif dlain Strut, near the Publie Square, j FORT WAN YE, INDIAN A. I vllnll If MAYER HOISE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calfoun a net Wayne Slreete, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. vl2nT ts BEE DLL U ~tfOF SE, A. J. H. MILLS. Proprietor, On Barr, between Coh'mbia anti .Vain Stf., | FORT WAYNE. INDI4NA. / vFNERXI. Stage Office. Good ata- i 1 K.Thleingin contieciiott with this house, i vl2n’i* POORS.SASH.4c. O. D. HURD, M»r.«r«l«r.r of " •’ SASH, DOORS A BIANDS, S orth ride Cinnl, weft of (eat B Ort’s, FOIIT WAYNE, INDIANA. Justom work yrxupUv executed.

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mn—a—aw—ngß—g—MMatwes [From the New York Timrs.] ART AGED VETERAN. An Old Continental Soldier Celebrates (Eis One Hundred and Third Birthday. Very few persons, even those i who believed that they study his-; j tory, are awftr i of what immense I ; chantres have taken place in the j distribution of the territory of Eu- ! rope within one hundred years, i and yet in many’ respects these ; have been absolute- Poland was : ; still a kingdom in all its integrity ; j I the Turks were still a mennqp to [Austria: the commerce ot the! Mediterranean was preyed upon ! by the. corsairs of B irbarv; Belgi um belonged to the house of Aus tria; France was constrained within boundaries which were oni ly overcome by.the revolutionary ; fervor of 1793. and Frederick thj j Great bad just concluded that i seven years’ war which, in reality. | laid foundation of the present , North German confederation <>r | imperial kingdom of Prussia: At [this date. Bth March. 1766. a boy ' was born in London who has lived [to sec Grant inaugurated, and reJjoicein the event, after having j played a prominent part in the great-European wars which de i termined the changes alluded to iin the opening sentence. When i thifCTad was three years of age, j Wellington, under, whom he fought when the great general was only a field marshal in Flanders, and subsequently when lie com- . mantl’ed the Anglo-Hispano armv <>n the peninsula, was born. This i happened in the year $769, which | also was’ the natal year of a host ' j of other celebrities with whom this bo\’ was in sonie manner connect I ed. Among these notabilities were ■ Napbleon. whom lie saw as the j universal conquerer and dictator II to Europe, on the raft in the NtcI man, at his celeliratcd pieetinfir I with Alexander, and afterward [ guarded as the captive of Europe nt St. Helena: Cnstlerengh, the i great English diplomatist, to i whose staff he was attached as in . [ terpreter. and with whom lie came | very near being captured in the [suit of the queen of Prussia nt '•Jena; Soidt and Nev. a/minst ! whom be bore arms, amt Mohamet 1 Ali. He was a lad. just entering : upon his military studies at the ■ military school at Croydon, when the Independence of the United States was consnmmnt«'d hv the final victories over the British nnd their last post in the einancir>ntc.l Colonies. In 1810 he was left for dead on the battle field of Bnsn. nftcr ncconiiilishing a font of arms i which won hint fbt* especial men i tion in orders <>f the duke of Well ington. In 18’25 he was washed nshoro apinirentlv lifeless, with his only child living in hi* arms, and on the sands of Algoa bar. one of the few survivors of n shipwreck which swallowed up bis wife nnd fortune. For 40 years his life was j maintained by a daily ’dose of 75 I grains of opium, having on two I different occasions been compelled ito increase the dose to 150 nnd ' i 250 grains. Within a short time , he reduced his daily dose to 40 [and then to 10 grains of opium. s when, finding his health beginning I to suffer greatly, lie was entirely j restored by a single dose of 100 i grains. Perhaps there is not aniother case on record of another [such Itcnefieinl use of opium, of| 1 which, for many years., he enn- ■ i sinned 24 pounds a year. This , veteran sohlier and wondetTnl man , celebrated his 103 d birthday on j the 9th Inst. nt the house of his • friend Gon De Pevstcr. No. 59 | East Twcntx’-first street, in the i company of gentlemen who havej ' attaino I the highest celebrity sincj ! the centenarian reached the nt- ! most limit even of the exceptional ; long lived few. There wore nrosI ent Admiral Farragut. Maj Gens , , Hooker, Cnllntn. Powers, Col Do Pevster. Henry J Raymond. Win Blodgett, who took so prominent I a nnrt in the great snnitarr fair of [1863. nnd Mr. Hammerslev. the . giver of the recent unique fefa of ! the Mvstera Mercnrii. a revival of I the solemnities of antiquity. Ac. . | Hords for the Boys to Remember. Liberty is the right to do whatever you wish without interfering with the rights of other*. Save your money, an 1 von will find it one ui‘ the most useful i friends. Never give trouble to your mother or father. Take care of your pennies and I they will grow to t>e dollars. I temperance is the cause of ; nearly all the tronlrir in the world : beware of strongdrink The poorest boy, if h«'be indtrt- [ trioua, honest an l saving, may reach the highest honors in the J land. * Honesty is the best of policy.

Significations of the Word Marry. In the August number of the . Galaxy, Richard Grant White continues his excellent series upon; | “Words and their Uses,'’ and ! ; writes thus of the much-used dis J ; sylable marry: j “Thero has been not a little dis- [ I mission as to the use of this word [ [chiefly in regard to, public an ! )nouncements of marriage. The; usual mode of making, the an-j [uonneoment is—Married, John! ( Smith to Mary Jones. Some peo-! [ pie dissatisfied with this form of! ; late years we have seen in cer-1 [tain quarters—Married, John; Smith with Mary Jones, and in, others—John Smith and Maryl Jones. I have no hesitation in: [saving that all these forms are in [ correct. We know, indeed, what I is meant by them ; but the sama is ' I true of hundreds and thousands of! [erroneous uses, of language — ; Properly speaking, a man is mar ried to a woman, or married with I [ her; nor are a man and woman ; married with each otlrer. The' I woman is married to the man.—' [lt is her name that is 1 >st in his, ’ . not his in hers. She becomes ai , I member of his fimilv, not he of| I hers; it is her life that is merged i ; in hi*, not bis in hers ; she follows • | his fortunes, an 1 takes his for i tunes, and takes his station, not: , [he h«rs And thus manifestly.: «hn has been attached to him by a . legfl; bond, not he to her; except itiTeo l. as all attachment is neecs . s.arilv mutual But, nevertheless, , we do not speak of tying a ship; to a boat, hut a boat to a shin — [ And as long, at least as man is th? ; stronger, the more individually , import ant, as long as woman gen . orally live* in her husband's hou*? -I I ,‘ and boars his name—still moroi . [ should she not bear his name—it, is tliv woman who is married to, .! the man In speaking of the cer ! . emonv. if, is proper to say that he ■ ' marritsl her. and not that she mar ; , i ried him. hut was married to him:; [and the proner form of announce ; ijnent is—Marrricd, Mary Jones to , John Smith. 'I " -- * J _ ■l # The Women of Iceland. The everv-dav costume of the ■ is o\trom A lv simple. 1* ’ cnn«i«tsof a tight fitting, woolen-; '[knitted hodice of a dark color, i 1 * with narrow slt'evns. l>ntton«d nt I the wrist, without, nnv ornament. ‘ ; and a homcsnnn skirt. The dark • I [ color is sot off by a «‘ri ’od or[ ; ehnekerod npmn. nsnally pr( f ‘ > n nr ‘I rod. nnd on the Imad is a smiPi • ‘ black enn, fastened a [ ; p.-oqq the tomoL'a. fl't l with a long) [ silver tn«s°l. ntt o chod hv a '-o’d or: i silver thread. T'’° Teel md’c wo j ! mon have very thiy’j, n,, d Lea'ftif'il ; , hair, which th«v arrange in grace I ; fnl plaits, hanging down from the , cap unon their hack. ’Die a’phor; is not enthusiastic in his tnaises, of the female bounty of Iceland : “Many a dark-brown eve and l curling lock of hair may bo seen peeping forth from beneath t’’o| can: still, the cor't-golde'i’ h - ’r and the. azure Uno eve which the) old Sang*s sang of, is the eenora!: 'l typo : and thus pink and white are the prevailing hues that nature has laid on their cheeks nnd fore j heads Anil s’mnld tb.o readeri , now ask me whether the women of. Iceland nre pretty or uglv. I can , ; not, give him a bettor answer than 1 j—‘Go there and judge f r ’otr-! self!' I romomber one of the j prettiest Icelandic women I met; I with, ask'll mo. at one of ’’’•■'s«dp-: ' liglifnl evenin'’ 1 parties which I had; the nlen nre of attending in Revk | javik. with .a vc”v arch ’o Ax the troaohornns question ‘Whether I , bed not sopn a wm I many girls in the south of the island ?’—; As,l k'f' v v w’* wdl that Revk • jnvik. thnu on the west. ; orn enpst. >s ahv tvs consiflored to ' ! helonw to the southern provinc" of the island. I wa* sorolv attempted, i to nnswor—‘That I had onlv seen one!’ But Ido tint, mind confess 1 ing to the r?a 1 w that in the s >nth. i east, and no-t'j of the country. I have mot with a great inanv nret'v; girts. The western paris 1 bare i never visited : but 1 doubt not that they may be f ound there also.” An earnest Ohio radical con-: : gressman in M’nshington was ask'ed how he like-1 the nomination; of Cox for seer't-irv of the interi ! or. To the interrogatory he replied:- “C<>x be darned! AVhv diln't he appoint old Ren Wade? Only forthix. negr > suffrage would have been cartie lin Ohio. Damn such men! I tell vnn gentlemen., ‘ Grant can't ass «r.l to treat the republican partv in this fashion. If he thinks he can. he i< very much mistaken. Better for him if he was shot and had his leg amputat ed. like Gen. Sickles, than treat 1 ihe men who elect® 1 ! him in this ; manner.”

ii", bm - ii* 11'.' x«ai»uiuaac«saißnwa bub * I - hriilnsr Adventure of Dr.. Mary Walker. “Jingle,” of the New York • which has the air of probability : I While with the Army of the ■ Potomac, in the summer of 1863, j Dr. Walker visted the headquar ! ters of Colonel, afterward General, : Samuel Carroll, of the Second [Army Corps. Failing in all her I efforts to obtain a regular comi mission as surgeon in the army. ! and having only permission to i remain with the troops in the ca I pacitv of nurse,- the “Doctor” was : • frequently obliged to accept the : hospitality ofthe officers. On the 1 occasion referred to. she plainly' istated to General Carroll her inI tention of tarrving a nt his head-, [quarters forjt few days for the ; Imi l:il>l • propose of lacking after 1 the sick. Os course the Genera! • co”,sente 1. and being ns gallant ns ■he is brave, offered her the sole use of his tent, which she accepted. i So far so good. I Early on the morning after her , ! arrival, a fie'-l officer of the Sev- ' I enth West Virginia regiment, of I .Carroll's brigade—a bluff, honest, j brave devil -ma v care old backwoodsman—took a walk over to I brigade headquarters, tlnd noticing tha* the flies of Carroll’s tent i were still tied, thought it some ' what Stange that his commanding I offi 'er, generally an early riser; should remfl'n in bed nt so late an hour. “I h ive it,” said lie thinking a mem-’nt, and approaching I the tent, he quietly untied the I canvas doors, winking a s the same ! t’me to several s'aff officers who 1 war'* near by endeavoring to con tr >! their risibiliti"* The face of i the sleeper was hidden by th*- bed i c ivering, and the officer, quietly [ lifting the covering a' Um foot of ! the conch and encircling two warm ankles with hisbrnwnv paws i wh'le Im watched tho bend of the by I intently, to see if the sleeper i awoke, shouted at the top of his [ lungs as he dragged the bodv : coinnL'telv out of the bed to the floor, C‘voll. you • lazv cn”, get nn h°re! It's eight o'—The rest of the sentence was lost in a piereing «cren;n, such ns only a female in distress can furnish nt short notice, nnd the jolly old officer, [ aba*L?d and duin I 'toiin ied. hound I ed from the tent like a sta r struck [hv a three ounce bullet. The joke was altogether too good to kwn nnd the result was that every sold\ [ ier in the S 'con 1 Corns soon kn -w ! the story about Colonel .of the Seventh Virginia, pulling Dr. ' Mary Walker out of bed. J Indiana is getting to be as j.thriving in the matter of crime as w§re Texas and California in olden [time. The Clem Young murder; ; the lynching of the Renos p the ; operations of vigilance - commiti tees; the facility for divorce; the : late revolting rape eases, —ail as I sist in giving this neighboring state a rare and unenviable notorIt is a somewhat carious fact . thitt the growth of Indiana in crii minality is about equal to its ' growth in radicalism. As its rad i ical majorities swell, so do i‘s criminal statistics. The thing is not at all starngc. The very es,i sene? of r.idiealis n is its contempt |of established rules, and its obe ! dience.to what it terms “higher I law.” It was in obedience to the i ‘-higlict law " that Brown set out on his tour of assass nation in j Virginia- It w?.s the dictates of i the law that sent citizens to federal j bastites dnringthe war. It is the ! same law which, to day. is making Indiana notorious for its Irwlesstivss and its criminality. — C h eego I Times. t J. B. Stilisou writes from Wash- ! ington, on .’lomtay last: ■•• Hie kite general of the army has los, ■ more prestige during the four 1 days wln.lt have elapsed since Ins i inauguration as president than hii "j bitterest tra hiver could haw expecle I tiim to [tave lost in as many months. President Grant, who ! bcaptu so clumsily, may or may uoi slice *ed in keeping lite upper ■ hams. I'ae disagree ibie impression wrought upon the average [ tnind of bo. t parties at I.ij c-*p iitalisthat he nai assumed too I much, and ought to betaken down a peg. His prestige has been lowered by the uieJiovre tone ot ' his inaugural and the narrow jtidg me.it evinced m his cab.net svlec- : ttoai. ’ The New York Evening Post. I a radical organ, says Grant •'Uss fallen into the old nut.' The old rut which Grant formerly fell into can be seen between St. Louis aud tlie Beat farm. Also, the old bench on winch he wax carefully laid when they picked him out of I the old rut — Timet

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Grab-All Massachusetts. Tn 1859 Massachusetts received the principal of the debt due her by the .United States for money i advanced during the war of 1812 [ and 1815. She was glad enough , to get that, for her debtor refrain- ; cd from bringing in a counter bill : for damages occasioned by the ' use of blue lights by Massachu | sett citizens for the benefit of the [ enemy during the war. The prin- [ cipal of this debt was obtained - through the infltiencc of that “arch ! fiend” Jeff Davis, and even after [ : paying the lobby bills a handsomp , bonus was left for the treasury of; the State, the receipt of which was i acknowledged in full liquidation of the claim, principal and inter- i est. Now, after a lapse of forty- : seven years. Mr. Sumner, in the i Senate, puts in a bill for the inter- 1 est on.the debt, which he claimsto amount to the snug little plum of five million dollars. Besides all t'.iis it appears that the claim j has been transferred to some rail- [ . road corporation ill Massachusetts, ; ' arid, in short,'is but another of those swindling railroad schemes [ and jobs to rob the public treas-i ttrv which confer ineffable disgrace j upon legislation in Washington. If the claim be ’/resisted in the fol- ’ 1-Wfeg would be a good way to draft the bill: Uncle Sa'i—To tho Commonwealth of, M is»aeli'!set;g—Dr.: To interest on money advance I for her own defense in 1812-15. S 5.000,000 Per Contra—Common- t wealth of Massachusetts - to Uncle Sam—Dr.: To damages done American • pr n stiie and credit by the ,' use of M ss tchusetts bine lights to assist the enemy ' i and obstacles thrown in the way of a successful ' Prosecution of the war by the Hartford Convention, i in which moveme t M iss- ' ach’tsc’ts cordially sym- ' pathizec} . 20,000,000 ' Balance in favor of Uncle Samuel, less interest §15.0)0,000 —which tha foresnid Common wealth is to fork over to General Grant’s Secretory of the [ Treasury, when that functionary . shall be appointed.—A’ctc York ; World. The last Day of the Week. How tnanv a kiss has been given , . —-how many a curse —how tnanv a , caress —ho w many alo>k of hate [ —how many a kind word—how : many promise has been broken— ■ how many a soul lost-—how many! a loved one lowered into the nar [ row chamber —how many , a babe ' has gone from earth to heaven— 1 how many a little crib or cradle stands silent now. which Last Sat urday night hell the rarest treasures of the her.|t! A week is a life. A week is n ■ history. A week marks events of! sorrow and gladness, which peo-; pie never heard. Go home to [ your family men in business! Go home to your heart erring wander I er! Go home to the chair that a- j waits von wronged waif on life’s . breakers! Go home to those yon ! love, man of toil, and j ive one ! night to the joys and comforts fas’ flying Leave your book with complex figures—your dingy olliec—-your busy store ! Rest with those you love, for God only knows what the next Saturday night will brine yon ! Forget the world of care and the battle of life which have furrowed the week! Draw close around the family hearth! Satttr ■ day night your c ingin sadness, in tears, and n silence. Go home tq those yon j love, nnd as you bask in the loved embrace of vour heart's pet, strive to be a better man, and b!e e s God t for giving his weary children so ‘ dear a stepping st ’ne in the riv- r to the eternal as Satnr lav night. ' “Hallo, this hone!” \elicJ a man on the steps of a t uptown- . mansion, onecohl night .ately, at the same time ringing the doorbell violently. ‘AVhat do you want?” Asked the owner, can-j tiousta) thrusting his held tho upper window. -I'm you cousin from Shrewsbury, and 1 want to stay here all night."--’ ••Well, yon inav stayJhere in welcome. if you’ll keep quiet and let t!te door bell al me,” said the hospitable fellow inside, as he shut . down the window. Tho St Louis Times remembers Cress well as a man who in 1861 hadn't begun his career of loyalty The editor asks: Is it • saving too much to declare that i we took a cocktail with Cresswell i in Montgomery during the session ' there of a very treasonable bodv i in that memorable year ? Hardly., 1 Cresswell was there on that occasion. but whether as a friend of the f north or the south, ia just now no ! business of ours

i i r rr- - - - iiliisiil* Bpenking4 oC Tho sew Tori the late report made by Senator toward, from the Joint comnrifteo on heavy ordnance, qpd under the above caption, adds, editorially : “We print herewitb. t a startling report recently made by i Senator Howard, of Michigan* from the joint committee on ordnance, which has for mouths been ifivestignting the purchase and manufacture of canon, especially of monster guns, for the military iuk! naval service of our country. Very rarely have we read the official report which seemed so giv'in to plain speaking as this, or which embodied so many statements at once indisputable and essentially [ incredible. Take for instance tho [ statement that army and navy guns [of the same caliber are of diverse i bores, so that the cartridges of a i navy gun cannot be used in an ar:my gun of like caliber, whereby* i co operation between the two arms iof the service is not only embari rassed, but ‘Offensive operations ' on the part of a joint expedition 1 of the two might be brought to an : end by the want of projectiles for the land forces, while the ships of i tho naw might have a surplus of the very articles required, but ! which could not be used by the land forces.’ If this is not the i flehme of stupi lity and incapacity, • ; what could be? So of the use of i muzzle-loading muskets by our i armies throughout the late civil war, with the universal agreement [ at its closethat breech loaders are [ every way preferable, and far more [ effective. But we cannot instance . all the remarkable disclosures ;of this astounding report. Let ;no patriot fail to read it, and let i the next congress see to it that ‘ this committee is enabled to finish [ the work it has thus begun.” [From the Trcntoa (N. J.) American.} A Pitiful Case— A Man Dyin? ot Hydrophobia Asks to Kiss bls Witc. I Mr. Eckerson. who died of hy [ drophqbia at Saddle river, had to ibe held by frve or six men, and | during bis lucid intervals begged 1 to kiss his wife, who was very ill iin another ; art of the house.— : Just before his last dreadful fit he 1 pleaded so pitionsly to kiss her ! oive more before be died, that, I risking the consequences, they took her to his bed. The dying man carefully wiped the froth from his face, and compressing his teeth tightly to prevent any of the poisonous saliva exuding from his mouth, kissed the lips which ;be had so often pressed in love •md affection, and then resolutely • turning away, after bidding her aI dieu forever, relapsed into a dreadful paroxysm and died. The i man who kept the dog which bit : Mr. Eckerson. after knowing that [ it had been bitten bv another mad dog a week before Mr. Eckcrson'a death, gave bint 850 a compensation forth? injuries sustain- ' ed, and pursuaded Mr. Eckerson to sign a paper of release from furtbgi: claims. The neighbors , are very indignant, and talk about 1 clubbing together to carry on a : suit against the owner of tho dog !on behalf of the widow and ori phans. The neighbors think that I the very least Mr. Hooper can do is to pay oil's mortgage of 8700 ; resting on the Eckerson place, and they tin eaten a lawsuit if he does ! not lift that mortgage. “ Waruling the Hudson. A correspondent of the Brook- ' Ivn Un>'on, who has been visiting Seneca lake—a body of water that n ver freezes over—makes the fbllowtng astonishing suggestion : Considering that the immense rohuno of water of Seneca ake, in its high altitude, is kept from freezing by sub aqueous springs, i whv cannot Hudson river, with its ocean tide, and salt water, it* thousands of craft plying its surface, be kept from freezing by sinking ar'e’iau wells along the bottom of its channel ? Thes? wells, when [once bored, never cost anything to run them. What millions of freight would be saved? Tbi, ! noblest of rivers would be no more i ice-locked for a large portion of the year, rendering ita lovely l a iks secluded and bleak, btil from the bowels of mother earth a l»erennial warm fountain would flow, unlocking forever the present f rbidden barriers, and enrich»ing the state. There are moneyed interests along the river to exp«n i a sum for the experiment.— If. as in mo*t other places, there e*n lie the attainment of one warm ' -treana fom an artesian well { n the tied «>t lhe river, the entire reolamation ofthe Hu Ison river for win* ter navigation is an assured success. . James Brown, qfias Charles Williams, who was lately convicted bv the United States court for passing eounterteit money, made h s escape from custody at luJi* anapolis. last Sunday night He was confined in the jail, bnt under a plea of sickness was removed to ths hospital, from whence b« escaped with nothing on but his I shirt sad drawora