Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1869 — Page 1

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From the New York Cititsn. “THE EMPIRE IS PEACE.” Shall we have an Empire— The New Imperial Organ in New York—A Mysterlons Order, the T. !>©.—"Let Have Peace.” Many of the ablest men of present day have for the last’three or four years expressed their belief that the republican- leaders, in their efforts for centralization of power, were gradually paving the way sos Transforming this republic into ap empire; that, while pretending M bas'e'their action upon the will of the people, they are, under that cover, directing all their efforts toward a revolution which to insure the ruin of our republic and its institutions, and establish in its place an empire, with its crowned emperor. titles of nobility, and aristocratic rule. Few imagined that there would be any so bold as to publicly announce this as their intention, and proclaim this do* trine at so early a stage in ifhe movement. It is, however, fortunate that the mask is about to be removed, the real objects made known, that the people may be able to realize the danger which threatens them. Hardly had Gen. Grant been sworn in as president before there were rumors in political circles that a paper was soon to be started in Philadelphia advocating the establishment of an empire in this country, and in favor of proclaiming Grant emperor. This was at first looked upoVi as a mere ru mor, but it is now proving to be something more. A gentleman purporting to represent those engaged in the movement recently visited this city and Albany to see how far the republican leaders would lend their sympathy. This person stated that leading members of the Union league of Philadelphia were enlisted'2hil flds programme, and had fur*med the means to establish sccreT societies for the promulgation of that doctrine. Further, that a paper would soon be published in that city to be called The Empire, the motto of which would be, in the words of Napoleon and Grant, “The Empire is peace,” and “Let us have peace,” while its- columns would be devoted to arguments and proofs showing that this republic had proved a failure, urging the necessity of establishing an empire, nnd advocating Grant as the man for emperor. This sheet we understand, is ready to appear, and only waiting the moment .to arrive when those engaged in the work of organizing societies announce that the time has come to remove the mask. It now appears that they "have found sympathy here, and that one week ffom to-day a paper is to be issued in this city to be called the biiperiuiinti, the prospectus of which has already been issued, in which it is announced that “this long-expected journal ’—as though the matter had been in secret contemplation even during the last presidential campaign—“will appear in April.” Still further along we arc told that “the creed of the Imperalist is revolutionary its mission is to prepare the minds of the American people for the revolution that has already begun throughout the country,” thus announcing that the work has been progressing for a long time, and that it has finally reached a stage when the objects and aims can be openly proclaimed. Another paragraph in this prospectus indicates that either, the bondholders are in the movement, or else their sympathy and aid arc sought, and that it is also the intention to make this class the nobility; for it states that “We believe that the national faith if left in the keeping of the populace, will be sullied by sure repudiation of the national debt, and that an imperial government can alone protect the rights of national creditors.” Then again, it is stated that “The republic means lawlessness, corruption, insecuri-1 ' ty to person and property, robbery j of the public creditors, and civil war: that the empire means law, order, security, public faith, and peace." This journal, is likewise] to advocate making Grant an emperor. These facts prove that it has already made great headway I 1 in this city and Philadelphia; and if the whole secret was known, it might also appear that papers aje to simultaneously appear in Boston, Chicago, and other cities, advocating the same programme.— One thing appears quite certein : it is not confined to a few individuals as a sensation; sufficient

: has transpired to show that is a bopa fide movement, and that it : is tracked by a powerful secret organization, bearing the mystgrii! ous title of T. T. O. This is the : name whieh.has been adopted by , the societies which are now being i started in different parts of the i country. >• Our information comes from a : gentleman who was invited to join 1 one of these societies —a gentle-: , man who was an applicant for an .' office under Grant. He was told, . that becoming a member would [ assist him in obtaining the office;! ■ also, that its recommendation-was . the best card he/«o.uld have with . the president. ’lt was also claimed . that Gen. Graht was in full sym- I [ pathy and accord ment. As an illustration of tiffs] fact was cited the circumstance of . his appointing his and in » ] timate personal friends 7 ' to office, , in order that, when the time came , 1 for the coup d'etat, he could have . j men in position who : would be bound to him by t&uble ties— l ; those of office Howl far this assertion maji be true, we ] have no more evidmice than the ‘ public generally, who all see that! , .President Grant, like the crowned j , ilicads of Europe, is placing his family and relatives, even to the , most distant, as well as those bound to him by personal ties, in public office. During the late presidential campaign,. Francis P. Blair, Jr., announced that if Grant was elected president he would ! proclaim himself dictator before 1 the end of his term. Can it be that he bad an inkling of this ! scheme which is now being made ' known to the public, Or that his words are to prove prophetic ? If > not, then what docs gU these mys- | terious organization, backed as 1 we are told they aie, by leading I and influential niemebers of the Union league in this city and Phila delphia, mean ? Is this nqilraas on, and are not those engaged in it rendering themselves liable' to prosecution under that head ? From tlie Indianapolis Sentinel. Married Else ira Indiana—; Hardships of the Divorce* Law. On last Tuesday, Mrs. Albert French, of Lagrange, left the room of her sick husband to go on an errand to the house of a neighbor, 1 across the street. While there, some one asked her if she had heard of a rumor that she was di--1 vorced from her husband. She rep'ied no, and, in a laughing way I was making some remark about ■ the absurd stories people tell, when ] a person, entering, handed her a note from an attorney, informing . her that the rumor was true. Her! husband had made an application in the circuit court of Elkhart i county, where the parties had nev-! er lived at all; the sheriff had ! served the process so informally I that she hatfi never received it; I the application had been granted on the 19th of March ; her husband had brought the home I with him and lived with her more than a week before she found it out during which time she had 1 been attentively nursing him through a fit of sickness. Mrs. ! French was almost killed by the totally unexpected intelligence.— ] She had been married to her hus-! llgnd 21 years; they had two child- j ren nearly grown, and so far as it is known the family bad always < lived in peace and unity. The I husband is worth BC,OOO, but the wife did not receive one cent of alimony, altffbugh a portion ofi the property was inherited J;y her. I It is one of the most infamous | cases we have ever heard of and as the decree was granted in a county where the parties never re-! sided, a considerable amout of] perjury must have been committed. . The matter should have a legal in/] vestigation. for it certainly caps l the climax on anything we have > ever known in the way of Indiana ] divorces. There arc few people tfho have i not been occasionally puzzled whether to write ci or ie in the i words that so represent the sound I of long e. A very simple rule. ] i says a schoolmaster, removes all ' difficulty. When the dipthong fol- i lews c, it is always ci —cc/ling, [ conceive, etc.; when it follows any ' other letter it is always te —grief, friend, niece, etc. ■ ■ ■ M — A person asked Zeno, thO phil- j osopber, if wise men ever fell in love. His answer wm: “If tcise l men do not fall in love, bea»f(fd ! women must be very unfortunate.” ; I The centuries have given us noth- i ] M£thM<wuMSdd to the wit or I wisdom of the remark. * r . w j Rehearse not unto another that which is told to thee, and thou shalt fare never the worse.

From the Newburyport (Mass.) Herald. THE CONFLICT OF RACES* What a Radical Editor Says about It. ■ j. Races of men are : flict whenever they came togetliI er. There can be no mixture, j That is not in the order of nature. If, as some believe, all the races are of a common [origin, that or- ' igin must have been so many mili lions of years back that to us it iis as though they never had been ' one. Two of the races show no marks of'progress, and these two are the oldest—the African and the Australian. No trf—Africa or Aus ' traHh hare discovered any evidences of asocial or civil condition among those people above i what they are now. This'is not k so with any other race. No other ] seems to Lave been created' and j destined to live to the end bari barians, as where a higher I’ I o race not only lifts them up but j every moment sustains them above : that level. With the Indians we ; fund the remains of a better con- ] dition enjoyed by they long be- ! fore the white man came to this country. They reached the achme and had subsided before we knew them. The Mongolians, too, of eastern Asia, though they have made no progress in thousands of years, yet have a civilization of their own, which, in some respects will bear a favorable comparison with our own. In a conflict of races—as we say. it always comes* when two are in competition—the superior races overcomes nnd roots out the inferi ior, unless for former are so weak lin numbers as to have no chance !of success. Such is the case in the West Indies, where the whites are so few that they may eventually be driven out, as they have from St. Domingo, unless arbitr ary power restrains the ' inferior. Byt where they have any chance the superior—superior in mind, .though they may not be physically—will win the day, if equal advantages may be given. With the , inferior, their language, their ! features, • and their cast of mind will disappear. In Africa, the negro type, within the memory of man. has not extended north of the Great desert where the Arabs and the Moors prevail. They have been brought there as slaves, and been brought there as j captive in war, but they have nevler mixed with the people to adulterate the blood or gain the as ] | cedcncy by numbers. So it has ' been in the south of Europe. The ] Moors at one time were very I numerous in Spain and highly civ- ] ilized, but in the conflict with the j Caucasians, they were destroyed or exiled. In Italy, the Africans] j that were brought to Rome dur j i ing the long years of Roman triumphs, all disappeared. How numerous they were we have no I i mcajis of ascertaining, but it is os ! timated that no less than a mil- ] | lion negroes were brought there! i and mixed with the people; but to-day the Italian shows not the I slightest taint of African blood. 1 The African has been absorbed in I the main stock, and as in taking I food into the stomach, what would i not assimulate has been rejected, and cast out. It is the same in: ! Egypt. There from the earlist j ages the African ha« been a slave:' 'and though a few mulattoes are found there are greater part of the] people show no traces of African' blood. It will be lhe same in the I country. There may Iw swamp! i lands in Louisfhna, Florida, o» | other states, which will l>e deserted. : by whites, in whieltyhe negro may | i thrive; but in those sections where ] i the races will bo in competition, /ttrough the African may have the Lmajority now, they will gradually faisappear. When they were slaves. I i they were kept separate, and the ] , care of the white man was to have. them increase; but the more they I mix with the whites the fewer they ■ ; wfll become; and the less the] ■ white is bound to do for them the ; I quicker they will sink. So wc see: that iu all the northern states they j have rapidly disappeared, and the ( i bleaching progress gradually. • works sonth. Fifty years ago' Massachusetts had as many] blacks as New York now has; and I RM) years hence. Virginia will ] ‘ hare no more than New York has ; to-day. It is the order of Provi- ] dence—the law of God, that the ■ higher shall overcome the lower, the superior occupy where the in- j ] ferior have been ; otherwise there! wonld be no progress. Weigji every step you are about ] to take whenever the passions be-1 come Involved. How often do, things assume’a different aspect ' when they arc fairly considered. •

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Miscellaneous Items. The men sent to keep the Pacific railroad free from snow desert in squads and march overland to the new diggings at White pine. The leading billiardists propose to make a change in the counting of the game, so 'that all caroms will count three, whether on red or white balls. A girl in Wisconsin swallowed 40 i O j percussion caps. Her mother 1 refrained from spanking her for fear of anexplosion. The New Jersey Central rail road have appointed a number of I district surgeons along the line of i their road, to give prompt attentidrTtaisuffe’rers in accidents. The people in the village of Cayuga, New York, ;ire in the ninth week of a revival at the j Methodist church in that village. The conversions, thus far, have about 150; 60 of whom have already united with the church. In the vicinity of Three Rivers, Canada, a traveler's horse became entangled in the telegraph wires at a point where they crossed the highway, and received injuries from which it died the next, day. The citizens informed the'owner that the wires were 2Q feet from the ground before tfte_snow fell. Horses in some of the logging districts around Moosehead lake, in Maine, have been fed on wheat flour during the heavy snows of this winter, owing to the impossibility.of transporting forage for many weeks. The United States ship Del.;- : ware, which has been lying under ] water at the Norfolk navy-yard | for a long time, has been boarded ] and plugged up preparatory to! raising- After she is raised, the old receiving ship Pennsylvania, which is lying near St. Helena, will undergo a similar process. One Cornelius Russell claims to have made the discovery that the famous horse Dexter is of the i Morrill stock, and has no preten- ! sions as to the Hambletonian I blood. He says he has traced i Dexter back to his true sire. ; through all his ownerships, from, his breeder to his present owner— ] Mr. Robert Bonner, of the Ledjer. A German doctor maintains that the human skin, when health- i y. does not absorb, and that baths [ can have no effect upon it. He I offers to go into a bath containing the most poisonous substance, provided they be not corrosive, to . ! test the truth of his theory, to pay ■ a fine if he be wrong, and to go to Paris and submit himse’f to the disposal of the academy of medicine at any time for the purpose. A catfish was cut up in Nash- ° ville. on the 16th, that had in its , stomach a four ounce flint pre-' scription phial, with a cork-stop ] per in the neck, but empty; a double-bladed old Barlow knife, with the. point of both blades broken off', and clasped; a largesized iron key. and a Grant Colfax badge pin. with a brass rim. the | pictures of the president and vice president being quite distinct. A Feejoe Island correspondent of the Honolulu Gazette says that ■ there are at Dibruka, on one of I the Feejoe islands, about 30 Amori icans, all sailors, most of whom i ran away from their ships. The I principal man among them, an 1 , the one who has the most influence ! with the chiefs —and in fact is a 1 very responsible an,l stead)' man— i i is David Whiffy, who 30 years ago ! left a Nantucket whaler, and. makI ing friends with the chiefs of i Libruka, settled there. He has a , number of wives and a considerable progeny. A party of roughs recently I stopped at a hotel in East Green- ] wich, Washington county, N ; Y. j I The landlord was absent from home ! but the bar keeper’s place waaifilliod by his daughter. She refused [to let them have liquor. They ' attempted to help themselves, whereupon she quietly took a i loadeel pistol, and cocking it told, 1 them they had her permission to ! leave. Several coat tails were ' just then seen disappearing out of I doors, and the young lady was Heft master of the situation. The luka (Miss.) Gazette hasj i got a fighting editor who writes I as follows of some one who had . sent him an anonymous threaten , j ing letter: “In reply to the con-: temptible poltroon who penned it.} Iwe would say we are personally ! I responsible for every line we write for the Gazette, and are on the streets of luka seven days in every ] ‘ week, during six of which we are I prepared to kick or cowhide any ! , low-born blackguard or vulgar ] vagabond who may feel a desire Ito insult or injure us.” ’

Frankfort ( Germany) Correspondence of the New York Evening Foat. How it Feels be Hlowa <fp. The recent sad accident to the Austrian frigate Badetzky has sharpened up the memorj' of art old Dane, who was on board the Dan shship of the line ChritiaaVIII., on lhe sth of April, 1846, when she exploded. Fortunately, he was not killed, and has just given to the Vienna Press, In all earnestness, his experiences and sensations at the time. The old sailor’s imagination appears t<» be one of the best: “In the first ’moment,” he says, “hearing and seeing both went away, though both came back again very soon, and I comprehended the whole affair (1). Lieut. Frus had sprung the ship in the air. I constantly ] went higher. Not far from me I saw our foremast flying around mo in a very dangerous manner. Above mo everything was concealed in the thick power-smoke ] which shutout the sun ; but below : me the land lay spread out before,. my dizzy sight in the variegated beauty of spring. The Baltic glistened like silver in the fresh breeze but of the glorious battle ship I there was nothing left but a blazi ing crater, and upon the frigate Geston floated the flig of tho enemy. Oh, my poor Demnark, how ranch hast thou lost'? I calculated, —this is a remarkable physiologi ical fact, —while I was flying in the air, the loss.at one and a half million of rigsdalers! In the meantime my movement upward became much .slower, and at last it appeared as if I was suspended perfectly stillfor a moment in the ether. indescribable feeling of comfort permeated my breast, and confident in the future of rffy dearly-loved fatherland entered my soul (.'). But this did not last long. I sank slowly again to the earth, and the foremast, and all the other wreck around sank with me. Only a monster cloud of powder-smok# . • . remained in the air. different was my frame of mind as ; I approached the earth with the ] rapidity of fifteen feet in the second. In ascending, I did not feel at all unhappy, but in descending, on the contrary, I experienced an oppresive fearfulness which is hardly describable. I now saw before my eyes death, upon which I never once thought; the period of my childhood sprang fresh up in | my memory; I thought of iny moth ! er, and of my sweethearts, and with (closed eyes, in madening speed. I came down head foremost. Tfie ! clear and pure water was beaten into spray as I dove down like a bomb. I sank slowly, bqt deeper, i ever deeper. Underneath there prevailed a greenish twilight. Fini ally. I reached the ‘dead point anti it appeared as if I was again raised up the water. My breath was : almost exhausted, yet I exerted my lungs to the utmost, and was at . last rewarded with life. Ever quicker I ascended, and at last, I ! came out in the air like a cork. Powerful arms seized hold of me raised me into the boat and led me as a prisoner of war into ar*rest.” Fatal Haste. The Israelites who talked of drowning Moses, and the mariners who threatened to drown Columbus, are onlj' two instances of the unreasonableness of impatient passion in the igorant, towards those wise leaders who would guide them slowly surely to their i best good. Many years ago, when the Egyptian troops first conquered Nubia, a regiment was destroyed by thirst in crossing the desert. The men, being upon a limited allowance of ’water, suffered from extreme thirst, and derived by the appearance of a mirage that exactly re sembled a beautiful lake, they insisted upon being taken to its banks by the Arab guide. It was in vain that the guide assured them that the lake was unreal, and he refused to lose the precious time by wandering from his course. Words led to blows, and he was killed by the soldiers whose lives depended upon his goidance. The whole regiment I turned from the track and rushed towards the welcome waters. Thirsty and faiut, over the burning sands they hurried—heavier and heavier their footsteps became. hotter and hotter their breath as deeper thushed into the desert—> farther and farther from the lost track where the pilot lay* io bis blood; and still the mocking : sprite of the desert, the street of the mirage, led them on, and the | lake glistening in the sunshine tempted them to bathe in its cool » waters close to their eyes but never at their lips. At length the j delusion vanished—the fatal lake ; had turned to burning sand 1 Raging tbirst and horrible despair? | the iralhless desert and murdered f guide! Lost! lost! lost! Not a man ever left the desert, but thev were subsequently discovered, parched and withered corpses by the Arabs sent upon the search. Foolish people are often deciev- ■ ed to their ruin row by appeereace I less fair