Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1869 — Page 1

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Office™. Hon. Rob’t Lowry Circuit Judge. J.S. Daily, Circuit Prosecutor. Hou. D. Studabaker Com. Pleas Judge. B. F Ibach Com. Pleas Prosecutor. County Officers. Seymour Worden Auditor. A. J. Hill Clerk. Jesse Niblick Treasurer. M. V. 11. Simcoke Recorder. Jernes Stoops, Jr Sheriff. 11. C. Peterson . Surveyor. Sam. C. Hollman School Examiner. Josiah Crawford, ] Jacob Sarff, f .Commissioner. George Lncltey. J Town Office™. Harrison B. Knoff Clerk. Tobasco Burt Treasurer a Marshall. Herman Bosse, ) David King, V Trustees. David Showers, ) Township Office™. Union. —Trustee, J. 11. Blakey; Justice of the Peace, E. B. Looker; Constables, Joseph C. Wallers and William Cellars.

Root.—Trus.ee, John Chrislen; Justices of the Pence, Jeremiah Archbold, Ly.a •> Iler.'and Henry D. Filling: ConJohn Schuvger, Martin Lord and Henry Lutfnian. Prkblk.—Trii«<ee. F. W. Gallmeyer: Justices of the Peace. A. Mangold and John Archbold; Cotts* 'tics.—vacant. Kirkland.—T •u> . -e, Jonathan Bowers; Jii .vices o' *be Perce, S. D. Ben vers and Junies H. Word; Cousinble, John T. # Baker. W asuinctov.—Trustee, Conrad Brake; Justices o’ < ! >e Peace. J. W. Griin and Samue’ Me-Tymati; Consinhlcs, Frederick Me : - and Elias Crist. Sr. M» ‘ ■»..-Triisiee, Ed. McLeod; Justice - 'o' ’-e Peace, Samuel Smith, S. B. M? ; . a ><l William Comer; Constables, Geo’ge W. Teeple, S. B. Fordyce and J. W. Andrews. Blukcrekk.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice o’ the Pence, Lemuel Williams; Constables, William I. Danner and William Danner. Monroe.—Trustee. Thos. Harris; Justice of the Peace, Lorenzo D. Hughes; Constable, John T. Martz. F RExcti.—Tru’.iee, Solomon Shull; Justiccs of the Ptace, Lot French and V, D. Bell; Coi-.,eble, Joshua Sarff. Htarzono.—Trustee, Peter Huffman; Juatic's of the Peace, Benj. Runyan and Martin KLer, sen.; Constables, David Eckrote and John Simison. Wabash.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justices of the Peace, A. Studabaker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butcher and A. G. Thompson. Jefferson.—Trustee, Charles Kelly; Justices of the Peace, Justus Kelly and John Fetters; Constables, —vacant.

Time of Holding Courts. Circuit Court—On Ahe third Monday tn April, and the first Monday in No-, retnber, of each year. Common Pleas Court.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May, and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioxeb's Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, •nd the first Monday in December, of •ach year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mart's (Catholic). —Services every at 8 and 10 o'clock, A. M., Sabbath Schoeler instruction in Catechism, at 1J o'clock, P.M.; Vespers at 2i o elock, P. M. Rev. J. Wenk off, Pastor. Methodist.— Services every Sabbath •I 10$ o'clock, A. M., and 7 o’clock, P M. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, P. M. Rtv. D. M. Shackleford, Pastor. Presbtterian.—No Paator. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at I o'clock, and Sabbath School at 2 o'clock, P. M. BLANKS. Blank deeds, blank notes. Justices Blanks, Constables Blank*, etc. ate., printed and for sale at the EAGLE OFFICE

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The Printer’s Hohenllnden. In seasons when our funds are low Subscribers nre provoking slow; A few supplies keep up the flow Os dimes departing rapidly. But we shall see a sadder sight, When duns pour in from morn till night, Commanding every sixpence bright To be forked over speedily. Our bonds and due-bills nre arrayed, Each sealand signature displayed; The holders vow they must be 1 paid, With threats of law and chancery. Thea to despair we're almost driven. There’s precious little use of livin’ When our last copper's rudely riven From hands that held it lovingly. But larger yet these dues shall grow, When interest’s added on below, Length’ning our chain a foot or so, When gazing at them hopelessly. Tis so. that scarce have we begun To plead for time upon a dun, Before there comes another one, • Demanding pay ferociously. The prospect darkens—on ye brave! Who woidd our very bacon save; Waive, patrons, all your pretexts wave, And pay the printers cheerfully. Ah! it would yield us pleasure sweet. A few delinquents now to meet, Asking of us a clear receipt. For papers taken reg'larly.

Days Without Kights. Nothing strikes a stranger more forcibly, if he visits Sweden at the season of the year w hen the days are longest, than the absence of night. Dr. Baird relates some in teresting facts. He arrived at Stockholm from Gottenburg, four hundred miles distant, in the morning : iu the afternoon went to see some friends, lie returned about, midnight, when it was as light as it is in England half an hour before f unset. You could see distinctly, but all was quiet in the streets; it seemed as though the inhabitants had gone away or were dead. The sun in June goes down in Stock holm a little before ten o'clock. There is a great illumination all night, as the sun passes round the earth toward the north pole; and the fraction of its rays is suc’i that you can sec to read at midnight without an artificial light. The first morning Dr. Baird awoke in Stockholm he was suprised to see the sun shining in his room. He looked at his watch and found it was only three o'clock. The next time he awoke it was five o'clock, but there were few persons in the streets. The Swedes in the city arc not very industrious. There is a mountain at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia where on the 21st of June the sun does not appear to go down at all. The steamboat goes up from Stockholm for the purpose of conveying those who arc curious to witness the phenomena. It occurs only one night. The sun rctichcs the horizon, you can see the whole face of it, and in five minutes it begins to rise. At Cape, latitude seventytwo degrees, the sun docs not go down for several weeks. In June it would be about twenty-five degrees above the horizon at midnight. In the winter time the sun disappears, and is not see i for weeks; then it conies and remains for fifteen or twenty minutes, after which it descends, and finally docs not set at all, but makes almost a circle around the heavens. Dr. Baird was asked how they manager! in those latitudes with hired persons, and what thay considered a day. He replied that they work by the hour, and twelve hours would be considered a day's work. Birds and animals take their accustomed rest at the usual hour, whether the sun goes down or not.

Billings and Been. The Bumble Bee is one uv nature’s sekrets. The probably her a destiny tew fill, and are probably, necessary, if a fellow only knew how. They live apart from the rest of mankind in little circles, num boring aliout seventy-five or eighty souls. They are born about hay-ing-time, and are different from any bug I know uv, they are the biggest when just born. They resemble some men in this respect. Their principal bizness ismanking poor honey, but they don't make any tew sell. Boys often rob them outAiv a whole summer’s work, but there is one thing about the bumble bee that boys always watch dreadful close, and that is their helm. I had rather not have all the bumble bee honey there iz between here and the city uv Jerusalem, then to have a bumble bee hit me with his helm when he comes round sudden. They are different from other war vessels; the helm alwavs minds thv bumble bee. <>

Barbara Freitcble. The “Fing”—the Real Facts tn the Cane. From the New York World. In his address before the Grand Army of the Republic, when thej' put flowers on the graves of the federal dead at Arlington, Hon. S. H. Fisher, commissioner of patents, alluded to the “flag” as “the flag which Barbara Freitchie waved.” If the “flng” Ims no more substantial claim than this, then is the flag in a bad way, and had best, to borrow Mr. Greeley’s poetry, be torn down as a “flaunting lie.” Barbara Freitchie never had any flag to wave. Below will be found what Mr. Whittier says of Barbara Freitchie with the “real facts” between the stanzas. After narrating the march of the confederate army into the city of Frederick, the poet says: „ " Uprose Barbara Freitchie then, Bowed with four-score years and ten. rise up at all. She remained in bed, where for four months she had been confined with what she called “an orful rheumatiz iu her bones," of which she died soon after. Indeed, the old woman didn't know that the confederate army had passed through at all till after the}’ had gone. The poet continues : Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down.

In her attic-window the sjaff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Being in bed asleep, suffering from rheumatism, not having left her mattress since her last “spell,” nejer leaving it till carried to her grave, no men “having hauled down” any flag, there being, too, no flag in her house, which, likewise, had no “attic-window,” but only a hole in the roof, and the luinber-room itself being approach ed only by a ladder, which had been removed, the conspicuous exactness of the verses is obvious. But listen to Mr. Whittier: Up the street came the rebel trend, Stone wall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat, left and right. He glanced; the old flag met his sight. ‘•nal*!" the dust-brown ranks stood fast “Fire!" out blazed the rifle blast. It shivered the window-pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick ns it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbarasnatch’d the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, Aud shook it forth with a royal will; “Shoot, if you must, this old gray bend, But spare your country’s flag," she said.

“Whofloucbcs a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said, The CQnfederate army passed through Frederick, at 4 o'clock in the morning. No part o? it went by Barbara Freitchie’s house. The portion which marched nearest to that place were the corps of Stonewall Jackson, and they, and he, at 4 o’clock a. M., came quietly through a street five blocks below the humble house of Barbara Freitchie. Every single incident in the stanzas quoted is pure fiction; and very good fiction it is. Barbara Freitchie, whose bedridden state has been described, was a daughter of Caspar Freitchie, hanged in the revolutionery war for being a tory; otherwise, however, the family always have been, and are respectable, worthy folks, of German extraction. Her children still live in Frederick, and are well-to do, and are as well thought of as are any of those who deserted the cause of their section and favored the invaders of the south. The historical house was a miserable, little, one-story affair, as has been described, which has recently been one half washed away by a flood, the other half being sold by the heirs to the corporation, which needed the site to allow for a necessary enlargement of the banks of a creek. Mr. Whittier is understood to have been imposed upon by a nephew oi his, an olllcer on the staff of a federal general, who had a prolific .imagination, only inferior to that of the poet himself. Such are the facts in the case of Barbara Freitchie, ascertained by a gentleman who had occasion to visit Frederick within a fortnight.

A New Zealand chief latciy is sued the following proclamation : “Acic.l put forth for the information of all men: 1. All killing of men on account of land must cease. 2. All killing of men by men must cease. 3. The left hand must attend to things of the left hand, and the right hand to those of thy right hand. By or der of- Tawhiao..

An unlucky thing to have in your own house—a mother-in-law. A lucky thing to have in the white house—a brother in law

A Blast at the President. Wendell Phillios’ Oninlon of Grant and His Cabinet. From the Anti-Slavery Standard. Wiseacres remind us that we must not expect too much at once : that as great a change has already been made as reasonable men would expect in a generation ; that history moves, in four cases out of five, pendulum fashion—action and reaction. We know all that. We know also why it is so in four cases out of five; and why, had God given us a great man as a leader, we might have been the fifth exceptional case and moved straight forward. Had Grant been wise and brave enough for the hour, the South would have been as law-abiding as New England, and loyal men would have dared to show their wealth and opinions there under the protection of the law. Politics would have marched to the music of a safe, gainful, and contented industry. Sully, Richelieu, or Bonaparte, Cromwell, Walpole, or Chatham installed at Washington, would, in live years, have made New Orleans and Sa vannah the twin sisters of Boston and Chicago. Charleston would have been the banner town of the ultra republicans, and Galveston would have taken for its citv seal the motto : “If any man insults the stars and stripes, shoot him." Instead of this what have we for president ? A jockey and sea side lounger; a restless boy. needing constantly to be amused: and so impatient of business that he can not stay at his post more than a week at a time. Five months in office, he has not yet given us an administration. But, posting a copying clerk here and there, to keep the machine in motion, he hurries off to idle a week at a watering place, act dummy at a monster show, or helpless at a steamboat excursion. The presidency must, indeed, be a sinecure, if. in such an hour as this, a man bred in a camp and tan-yard can properly discharge its duties 300 miles from the capital, in the intervals of the race-course and the half-hours left after theatres and concerts. Northern property safe nowhere at the south. Texas covered with outrages on women and murders of men. Tennessee -playing the same game as Virginia. Stokes, at the risk of bis life, unsupported by the government, fighting on a for'.orn hope. Andrew Johnson clamoring for the election of Senter, and Greeley quietly hoping for the defeat of Stokes! One half of the south loyalists telling us that unless there is a change at Washington they cannot live there—“must fly across the Ohio"—and throughout the whole south the same men warning us that in 1872 democrats (that is rebels) will rally the whole south on their side. This is too uniform to be accident. It is the result of a plot at the south, and of disloyal apathy or| honest incapacity at Washington. There Grant shows himself occa sionally. Fish never was a republican. Cox was a Johnson man Boutwell stands alone—no press to support him. If you look at the Tribune, its editor treats slavery as a dead issue, and longs for the old whig party, while it is managed by one who opposed impeachment, and would have voted for Chase as the Tammany candidate in 1868, and wants him as such candidate in 1872. It'Johnson’s treason arid Grant's neutrality be succeeded by Chase and Wade Hampton, sent to IVashington by Tammany hall, where will 12 such years leave the nation ?. * * ♦ To your tents, O Israel —for a second Buchanan sits in the white house, temporizing while the enemy gets into battle array.

Who Moved dis Well.—An exchange tells of a wag who once attended a “cnllud’’ ball and noticed that the mokes made frequent vis its to a well in the rear of the house to refresh themselves after a spvll of dancing- Being a Christian of ranch humor without the fear of the civil right's bill before his eyes, he moved the well curb a few feet beyond, and awaited the issue with “the serene calmness a Christian feels when he holds four aces.' Presently there came a dark being who made for the curb, and sloshed into the well, where his heels stuck fast in the mud, when he yelled out: “Gorry! who moved dis well since I'se out hcah de las’ time ?

Among the measures projected in France, are the suppression ofj the ministry of state, and that of the emperors household. Also, mention is made of the intention to form a ministry of agriculture and commerce distinct from that of public works

Flowers of Thought. Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.—Penn. Education is the chief defence of nations.—Brooks.' An idle reason lessens the weight of the good one you gave before. —Swift. Virtue is a rock from which rebounds all the arrows shot against it.—Koslay. Give your son a trade and you do more for him than by giving him a fortune.—Faanklin. He who tells a lie is not sensible bow great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to tell twenty more to maintain it.—Pope. Books are the depository of ev erything that is most honorable in man.—Goodwin. Take care of the Constitution and the Constitution will take care of us.—Crittenden.

I would rather my daughter should have a man mithout money, than money without a man.—Thein istocles. Success in life depends upon the heroic self with which one sets out in life.—Lowell. The history’ of the world tells us that immortal means will ever intercept good ends.—Coleridge. Ignorance is the curse of God ; knowlelge the wings wherewith we fly to heaven. —Shakespear. The troubles of the country come from uneasy politicians; its safety from the tranquil masses.— Benton. Two hearts which mutually love are like two magnetic clocks; that which moves in one must move in the other, for it is the same power which acts in both—Goethe.

A CurlosUy. The Augusta ( Me.) Journal has the fol’owiug: ‘-Twenty years ago, or in the spring of 1849, the superintendent of the burial ground in Hollowell —Capt, John Beeman, who is still one of the business men of that city—purchased a number of silver poplar trees, averaging about two inches at the ground, and five feet in height, and transplanted them in the cemeiery. They flourished finely, and have become large trees, adding very much to the beauty of the cemetery. A few days ago one of these trees was cut down by direction of the present superintendent, Colonel W. S. Haines, for the reason that its branches were broken otf° by the greet ice storm of last winter, and the tree ruined. The fallen tree measured 21 inches itr diameter at the stump, and was about 40 feet in length. “Imbedded in the centre of the trunk was found the original tree, of the same size as when transplanted 20 years ago, but minus the bark. All the growth of the tree had been outside of and apparently detached from the original. The core or original tree was loose, and fell from its sepulchre when the trunk was being split, though it was as full of life as when transplanted. Upon the original tree, which is about five feet long, and two inches in diameter at the largest end. were ten knots, showing that number of limbs to have been sawed otf when the sapling was set out. The marks of the saw are distinct as if made yesterday. This curious freak of nature may be seen at the store of Vapt. Beeman, in Hallowell. It is a genuine curiosity, and worthy a place in the State's cabinet. We doubt if a similar specimen can be produced.

When pressed upon the taxation question the Radicals reply, “Poor people don't pay taxes." Who does pay them if not the workingman, the laborer, the real producer of wealth ? There is not a loaf of bread placed upon his table, a pair of shoes worn on his own or the feet of any of his family, nor a shirt, nor a coat, nor a dress, which is not covered with tax bills Wore it reaches the poor man's hands. The Radical who asserts that the poor man pays no taxes is either . a knave or a fool. If real estate i is taxed, the tax is added to the poor man's rent. If manufacturers are taxed, the amount of the tav is added to the price of the manufactured article, and the poor man has to pay it. Even the sol dier. who sits on the curb stone and ekes out a scanty subsistauce from day to day. is made to pay a license of ten dollars for the privilege of playing his hand organ The Radical party is the party of debt and taxation, qnd working - men should oppose its principles ’ and candidates on all occations.

- Mi»cellanc»us Item#. In M counties in-Tenriesse there arc 63,314 school children. The tax on tobacco has killed ten oin vi 1« •oanufacturics in Dan ville, Va. Henry Vincent will make another Lecturing tour in this country next winter. * Alexander Burns, second cousin , of Robert Burns, is a resident of New Harmony, Ind. He is 80 years. of age.

No. 20.

At the museum of painting, at Paris, they chain the pictures to the walls, to prevent thieves' from carrying them away. The State of New Hampshire has 75,000 pupils in its public schools, and employs nearly 3,000 teachers.

Theodore Derand, of Philadelphia, was yeyterdny appointed commissioner ot deeds for Indiana.

The Turkish general vizer is preparing a comprehensive and liberal scheme of popular education for the whole empire. After more than half a century's separation, the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist bodies in Ireland are likely to become one. Michael Frederic Halliday is dead, lie was known as the painter of "Measuring for the Wedding Ring,” and other pictures of merit.

The collection of bones on the battle-fields of Virginia, to lie used as fertilizers, is now prosecuted as a regular business. It has been found impossible in France to procure by public subscription the 84,000" which is necessary to erect a statue to Lamartine. • »•

Judge Ridgeway, noted as the inventor of the Ridgeway revolving turret for iron clads, died nt the age of 56, at Ids residence, in Boston, Wednesday last.

A subscription has been started in Boston to secure a bust of Longfellow, by Miss Edmonia Lewis, in Rome, for Harvard university.

The question of a new arming o’the fortresses has b.*en r.d ed in Russia. A sum of 816,000,000 was granted in 1867 to the minister of war for that purpose.

Bierstadt, the artist, has received the decoration of the Legion of Honor from the Emperor Napoleon for his picture of the Rocky Mountains.

In Princeton* Gibson county, some burglarious tetotaller made the rounds of the drinking saloons on Sunday night, and spilled liquors to the amount of 81,000.

George M. Early, Esq., of Terre Haute, has been appointed clerk of the southern penitentiary. He will take charge of his position within a month.

i The cabinet of St. Petersburg has decided on sending several ! engineers on a mission to Suez to ■ report on the commercial advantages which will be afforded by the opening of the canal through the isthmus.

Millais is engaged on a work illustrative of the history of Sir Walter Raleigh. This artist has also in hand the subject of a cradle and its sleeping occupant floating on the stream of a violent Scottish flood.

i It is proposed to erect at conspicuous points along our coast, huge posters inscrilied as follows : "Warning—All cable and other I scientific exhibitions are cautioned against landing on these shores, ! out of respect to the Fish. ’

The Erie Dispatch says: “We I sincerely trust the republicans of_ Pennsylvania will resolveto break up the ’draw poker’ ring which has existed so long in Harrisburg. If they do not manifest a disposition to do so at the coming election. * thev deserve to be badly defeated.”

Twenty questions were put to a worthy German, an applicant for a position under the government at Washington. To nineteen he answered in writing, “I forgetto the twentieth question—“ When and by whom was America discoveredhe replied: “In 1402, by George Washington” The Russian government has issued a ukase for a universal exhi- ’ bition to be held in St. Petersburg next year, to open on May 15th. It is said that the Emperor Napo I lesn is expected to.visit the court 1 of Russia on the occasion of this exhibition.

The death of the Turkish brigand Mandi, the Bithynian Fro Diavoloi, the terror of Asia Minor, is reported from Broussa. The Turks are indignant because a Christian dealt the blow and claims the prize of $3,000 offered for Monoli's head. Apart from his brigand proclivities, he is said to have been a most gentlemanly per sonage. who preferred to capture men of high station rather tbsp cramon mortals