Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1869 — Page 1

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Union. —Trustee, David Erwin; Justice of the Peace William Cellars, and David Gleckler; Constables, Gep. B. Cline and Nelson D. Sut/les. Root.—Trustee, John Christen; Justices of the Peace, Henry Filling, and Samuel 8 Mickle; Co.Btablcs, Reuben Baxter and John Schurger. I‘rkbi.e.—Trustee, F. W. Gnllmeyer; Justices of the Peace, John Archbold and Janies Ward; Constables, Joseph E. Menn and Henry Dearman. Kibklaxd.—Trustee, Jonathan Bower?; Just ice of the Pence Wm. D. Hoffman; ■Constable, Manassas Sarff and Davi<J Stule. Washington.--Trustee, Cjnrad Brake; Justices of the Peace, C. M. France and Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Meitx and E. P. Stoops. St. Mary s.—Trustee, Esaiaa Dailey; Justices of the Peace, Samuel Smith, Wm Comer and 8.8. Merritt; Constables, 8. B. Kordyce, Washington Kern and Isaac Smith. Bluecbekk.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel Williams and J. C. Tindall; Constable, J. McCardle. Monroe.—Trustee, Geo. H. Martx; Justice of the Peace, Lorenzo D. Hughes, Samuel Smith; Constable, John M. Jacobs. French.—Trustee, George Simisson; Justices of the Peace, Lot French and V. D. Bell; Constable, Edward Leßrun. Hartford.—Trustee Peter Hoffman; Justices of the Peace, Martin Kixer, sen. and Benj. Runyan; Constables, John Simison, Lewis C. Miller and David Rqpyan. , W ab ten.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justices of the Peace, A. Studebaker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butcher and A. G. Thompson. Jkfferson.—Trustee, Justur Kelly’; Justice of the Peace, John Fetters; Constables, Daniel Brewster and'Jesse McCallum.

Time or Iloldlo* Charts. Cib'vit Court.—On the third Monday in April, and the first Monday in No-, vember, of each year. Common Pleas Cocbt.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May, and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissionbb's Coubt.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, and the first Monday in December, of each year.

CHURCH OIHtCTORY. St. Marts (Catholic).—Services every Sabbath at 8 and 10 o'clock, A. M. Sabbath-School or instruction in CateehitMi, at U o’clock, P. M.; Veepere at 2» 0 clock, P.M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Paator. Mithodibt.—Services every Sabbath at 10} o'clock, A. M., and 7 o’clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock. P. M. Rev. Charles Wilkinson, Pastor.] Pbssbttbbi.an—No Pastor. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at 1 o'clock, and Sabbath School at 2 o’clock. V. M.

The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAREB R. 8080, .Attorney at Law, PKCATIR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnGtf R. S. PETERSOK, .Attorney cat Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabaker's Law Office. v!2n33tf

DANIEL D. HELLER, .Attorney at Xjaxxr, DECATUR., INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. ° v!ons2tf

PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEPF. W. H. SCI! BOCK. JELLEFF& SCHROCK, Physician* and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. , vßn!stf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services tothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 ANDREW SO RO, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. ■ OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother’s Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIN, H. D., Surgeon.' DisjVCnsary, Aveline Block, v11n25 * FORT WAYNE,,INI». S. C. A YERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. BfejT 1 Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44

DENTISTRY. M. M. McCOA'XKLL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. All work neatly executed Mfcfjaknnd warranted to give satJJisfaction. Call and Examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, over Heller's Law office. v11n49

REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR. INDIANA. rpIIREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. v!on6

AUCTIONEER. CHARLES M. FRANCE, Auotloxxeer, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the.pqblic that be is 2. v a regularly LieeniM“.Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—Jn J. R. Bobo's Law office. HOTEL*. KIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. r pHE traveling public will find this L House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, West .Vain Street, near the Square, FORT WANVE, INDIANA, vllnll * If MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 ts

HEDEKIM BOISE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. GENERAL Stage Office. Good stableingin connection with thiahouse. v12n25 ts

HARDWARE Ac. McCULLOCH & RIO HEY Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Hardware, Tinners' Stock, Agricultural Implements, STOVES, <fec., We. st Cetambia Street, f.h.mcvlloch. 1 FORT W AVNE. I ND. AMOS RtCBKT. J vlSulSyl

DECATUR, IND.. FRIDAY HF.RfEMBER 10. 1869.

In Quiet Days. BY CARL SPENCER. The dying year grows strangely mild: Now in the hazy autumn weather My heart is like a happy child, And life and I, friends reconciled, Go over the hills together. My peaceful days run sweet and still As waters clipping over sand, Seeking the shadows of free will To gather tenderer lights than fill Day’s over-lavish hand. The summer wood with music rings, The singer’s is a troubled breast; I am no mere the bird that sings, But that which broods with fold'd wings Upon its quiet nest. Oh, fairest month of all the year! Oh! sweetest days in life! thev melt: Within, without, is autumn cheer, September there, September here, So tranquil and so sweet. • Oft have I watcliod all night with grief, All night with joy, and which is best? Ah, both were sharp; both were brief, My heart was like a wind-blown leaf, I give them both for rest. Fair Quiet, close to Joy allied, But loving shadier walks to keep, By day is ever at my side; And all night long with me abide Peace and her sister Sleep.

‘•She Was a Widow.” Did you notice that sucer, the tone of contempt with which those words were ; uttered ? The Hindoos burn widows on the funeral pile of their husbands’, and we call them cruel. American Christians, with the Bible in their hands, often treat widows with a more refined, but no less real cruelty. Dear reader, did you ever speak lightly of widows, and did you ev er realize what the word signifies? A widow! one who has loved and been loved—once the miktress of a pleasant home where clustered the richest blossoms of affection, where was music and gladness ; one who once had a strong arm to lean up on, a noble manly heart to sympathize in all her sorrows, and to shield her from every rough blast. You knew her then; perhaps you often partaok of the hospitalities of that home which she adorned. How respectful you were—how lovely she seemed, how lady-like—-she was a wife then—she had a protector. But days of darkness and sorrow came—her husband—her earthly all, was laid low, and s! e, the tenderly nurtured, the ‘•precious one,” the joy of that now cold heart, was a widow ’. At first von were all kindness and sympathy ; but days, and weeks, and months wore on, and you forgot your friend —did she forget? No, but she must struggle for bread; she who had always shrunk from any other than household care, must care for business now; she must bargain with you and others of your sex, or starve. And now you strangely forget those other days, and you are a noble exception if you do not take advantage of her ignorance of business, to make a good bargain for yourself to her loss. If necessity compels her to Im? on the alert against business trickery, then forsooth she is a strong minded woman, and your bachelor ‘ friend is warned against such de signing widows ! Shame! shame! where is your manhood, your sense of right and justice? You know Itetter; you know it is almost mar tyrdom for her to meet you in the marts of business and to talk of dollars and cents; you know that the memory of the past comes upon her with an almost overwhelming sorrow, while, as with calm exterior, she seems to guard the temporal interests of herself and little ones; you know she is a gentle, true, loving woman, one whom the Lord has afflicted—one who has too much reason to think that all real manliness is buried in the dust. Designing! Do you ever think when you speak lightly of widows that your wife may soon be liable to the same reproach ?Your wife is not secure; the wife of your friend was no less happy than your own is now; she was no more selfreliant, no more “strong ininded.” and even now she shrinks from contact with the outer world with just as much delicacy; but stern necessity heeds no such womanly feeling. Beware, then, O, man, perhaps professedly Christian brother, how you forget the teachings of the bleued Master. Beware how you emulate the heathen, by inflicting torture ou the sensitive spirit of a refined woman, harder to be bonje than the faggot and the fire. Re-mcmlx-T thafThc Holy One, fore

seeing all, has proclaimed himself the widow’s God. and that his ear is open to every sigh of her pained heart, and He said to you, “By your words you shall be condemned.” Speak respectfully, then, of these afflicted ones. The Lord made them widows, not in wrath, but because “whom he loveth he chasteneth.”— Con. lieraid.

Republican Estimate of the President. From the Revolution, Female Radical The New York Times calls Gen. Grant ‘the horse jockey President.’ But the Sun, still more audacious, declares: The Administration fails through the political incapacity of its head. General Grant is filling the ranks of the party with dissatisfied mem bers. Some of its old leaders begin to suspect him. of lack of fidel ity to itk principles, its measures, and even to the organization itself; and they are not slow in asserting that all he cares for is to amuse himself during his four years occupancy of the White House, providing for himself, his relatives, retainers and benefactors. Those charges may be, to some extent, groundless; but, while he will doubtless carry out the policy of reconstruction after a dilatory iashion, he has already shown that he is destitate of high statesmanlike qualities, and in regard to leadership is too often but the willing instrument of charlatans and adven turers. The same paper sent a reporter to Boston last week, to have an 1 interview with Mr. John Quincy Adams on the present national sit nation. In answer to the question how President Grant is estimated by Republicans in New England, Mr. Adams answered as below, in which answer he speaks the gener al Republican sentiment very far beyond the confines of New England : “Mr. Adams replied : ‘They are mortified , chagrined , disgusted . with their President, and don't know how to help themselves. They can't control him ; nobody can control him, and he has no political ability to control himself He is out of his element in the Eqecuti ve ollice, and feels it. State matters are a bore to him. He dislikes their conversation and shuns it, thus shutting himself out from the advice and information a President always needs. He prefers the companionship of horsejockeys and retired merchants who have plenty of money to spend, but who know nothing of public affaits, and care less. The Republican party in New England is an aristocratic party, and dislikes the course of General Grant is pursuing. But they can’t help them selves, and they feel the mortifica tion all the more keenly on that account.’ ”

The Reconstructed States* This, from the Albany Argus, will suffice’ for a statement of the case: “In one of the early German dramas, Adam passed on the stage on the way to be created! It is in such a scene that the reconstructed States figure. They appear on the stage, and re-appear, talk and struggle, preparatory to being cheated. They look very much in this, their antenatal condition, as they will when the fiat of their creation is pronounced! We are not left to guess their character or form and proportions, for in their repeated rehearsals which they have made of their part, before as sinning it, they have fully indicated their character. If there were any doubt, it would be corrected by regarding the course of those States which have been allowed to be born. Virginia anti Tennessee are not doubtful or ilLilefined characters; anti what they are the rest of the Southern States, when reconstructed, will be. “Realizing this so fully, we have never felt much anxiety as to the particular mode in which these States were to make their entry again into our political world. Once in it was clear that they would play their paits effectively. “It is quite probable that Congress may hesitate to recognize these its offsprings, lest, as in the case of Frankenstein, the mon strous birth should pursue and destroy its maker. “It is a dilemma for the Radical leaders from which they can only extricate themselves at equal haz •rd either way. Will they exclude such States as Virgil.ia and Tennessee from representation ? The assumption of power would excite against them the "wrath of the whole Will they admit them ? Then the citadel of their strength ia given up to the hands of their enemies

Radical Party at the South. A Sharp Letter from Genera.! Dent to President Grant. The New York Herald, of Sunday, publishes an extract from a letter addressed by Judge Dent to his august brother-in-law, in reply to one written by Grent in the ear , ly part of last month. The president, in the letter to Mr. Dent referred to, gave his reasons for casting the weight of his influence in favor of the radical party in Mis sissippi, and it is to that part that part that Judge Dent replies, thus: “Is it reasonable to suppose that a people having a free choice of their representatives would elect for their rulers a class of politi ticians whose aggressive and hostile conduct hitherto has rendered them peculiarly obnoxious and disagreeable ? This is the charge made by the people of Mississippi against the radicals, or ‘bitter-end-ers,’ as they are called. This charge is not made because they fought against the south and secession, for many of that class fought on the side of the south. It is not made because they are of northern birth and education, for many men of northern birth and education, and of the northern army, are with us in antagonism to this obnox ions party- It is not because they are republicans, for their antagonists were among the first in the south to organize on the republican platform, anti to advocate the civil and political equality of all men; were sent as delegates to Chicago, and for their consistency and constancy were rewarded by you with offices of trust and honor. But this charge is made, as I have said before, because the proscrip tive antecedents and aggressive policy of these politicians toward the people of Mississippi have made them the objects of peculiar abhorrence That ptliey consists not only in the continual advocacy of proscription, but in preaching to the freedmen, in a time of pro found peace, such revolutionary doctrines as excite and direct against thy white men of the south and their families a most danger ous animosity, such animosity, indeed, as, with a continuation of the same fuel, would inevitably lead to a black man's party and a war of races. Neither are such doc trines preached with an earnest desire to ameliorate the condition of the freedmen or promote the ends of peace or strengthen the repub lican partv in the south, but solei v to alienate from the planter the time honored confidence and affec tion of this race, in order that the new political element, under the banner of republicaui-m, might be entirely controlled and subordinated to their own purposes of power and aggrandizement. And to this class of men. whom you foiled in their attempt to force upon the people of Mississippi the odious con stitution rejected at the ballot-box. you now give the hand of friendship and support, and spurn from you that other class, who, accept ing the invitation of the republican party in good faith, came in mass in Virginia and Tennessee, as they will come in Mississippi anti Texas, to stand upon its plat form and advocate its principles. “Lewis Dent.” A Full Hand. Although the “flush times’’ have passeti away on the Mississippi, they still have some queer ami sometimes rough customers on the river boats. On a recent trip of the “Highflyer,” crowdetl with passengers, the clerk ha 1 allotte<l the last state-room, and was about to close his office, when he was as tonished by the apparition of a tall Missourian, who exclaimed: “I say, stranger, I want one of them chamlters.” “Sorry, sir.” said the official blandly, “but our state-rooms are all taken.” “The deuce they are!" responded Missouri; “I’ve paid my fare, ’n I want wun of them chambers.'’ “Allow me to see your ticket,” sail! the still i»olite clerk. Putting his hand to the Itack of his neck, the i»assenger pulled out a ten Inch bowieknife, nntl driving it quivering into the counter, said : “I'm from Pike county, young feller, and thar’s my ticket. 1 want wun ot them chambers.” - Before the steel had ceased to vid rate, the prompt clerk.quietly thrusted a loaded capped six shooter under PikJs nose, “Hnd coolly answered: “I've only got six ‘ chambers,’ and you see they are full."

The Missourian edged out of “range,' anti putting up his “toothpich,,’ ejaculated :—“A full hand’s good, by the bokies!” anil strode off to seek such quarters as he could tiud — Cummcreiul Bulletin.

Ploun Swearing. During the time of the freshet on the Wabash, where the flat country on both sides of the river was inundated by the rising water, it became necessary for those in the way to escape to the mountains—the mounds that were probably made by the Indians for that purpose. A party of fugitives, on their way to a place ofsafe'y, over took a man in a covend wagon, with a span of horses, standing still in the road, the water nearly up to the hubs of his wheels, and fast rising. He was sitting with a small book in One hand, and a whip in the other, reading a line aloud, and then laying on the whip. They stopped a moment to listen, at tracted by the man's curious conduct, and were surprised to hear him read. J “The wicked shall be turned into hell!’’—(cut)—giving a frightful emphasis to the last word. “Whoso believeth not shall be damned!”—cut.) “How can ye escape the damnation of hell ?” —(cut) —and many more of the same character, yelling the enipha sised words at the topof his lungs. Wondering at his conduct, the fugitives asked he~, meant “Why,” said he, “I am a Methodist misister, and am restrained from swearing; but these horses were bought in a region where they were accustomed to hear such language, and lam endeavoring to come as near as possible, conscientious.y, in order to induce them to move, but I’m .” Here he consulted his book, leaving his hearers to imagine what he sought to give emphasis to his hopelessness of making them stir a peg.

The Higher Life.—A few days azo. in the country, I stood be neath a tall cedar, a student of its nature, and an admirer of its glory. I observed that the lower branches showed the only signs of decay, and that they seemed to be ap pointed for removal, in order that the Sap of the tree might pass un interruptedly upward to develop the higher boughs, and to hold the top in full evergreen. The trunk of the tree is made the more grand and substantial by the disappear ance of the lower branches, year by year, and the avenues to communicate life and beauty upward are thus the more direct and effect ual. And so does the Christian grow. The habits of his childhood, embryo notions and opinions, as >he rises into manhood, are lost; and like the cedar, as he grows, his lower affections and attach ment. love of ttie world, of fame, of position, one by o ie, die and disappear, and his higher nature is all tliemore comely and comj l?te. Any man may thus die to sin. and live unto God, loose his attach ments fof.n the things of time and sense, an I fix them upon those things which are eternal and di vine.

The Wrong me 11. A high officer of the Sons of Temperance presenting himself with the smell of grog he had been drinking upon him. at the door of a “Division” for admission, was waited upon by an Irish sentinel, to whom he eave the password, when the following passed : “Sir,’ - said he. “an’ yez are Mis ter O'Wright, the Grand Worthy Patriarch of the State of Khain tucky, I do be atther belavin’.” • Yes,” said Jim’ “you are per fectly right, my friend ; but why do you ask the question?” “To tell yez the truth, then. sir. and shame the divil,” said Pat, “yez do lie havin' the right password for a Son of Temperance, entirely; but by the Holy Virgin and the blessed Saint Patherick, yez g >t the wrong smell.” Be Social at Home. I.cV|»arents talk much and talk well at home A father who is habitually silent in his own house, may be in many respects a * ise man ; butbe is not wise in his silence. We sometimes see parents the life of every company which they enter, dull, silent, uninteresting at home among the children. If they have not mental stories sufficient for both let them first provide for 'Their own household. Ireland eworts beef and wheat, and lives potatoes ; and they fare as poorly who reserve their social charms for companions a broad, and keep their dullness for home consumption. It is better to instruct children, and make them happy at home than it is to charm strangers or amuse friends. A sirent house U a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escape if they can. They will talk or think of being “shut up” there, and the youth who docs not love home is in danger

The Mormons. I There seems to be every indication that the Saints are about trt I end their differences in Kilkenny [fashion. There are already two [ powerful parties in Utah that are working for the control of the church loaves and fishes. Brigham Young, who has made a good thing out of his management of them, in the shape of a large amount to his credit in the Bank of England, is opposed to being i ousted by the son of Smith, the ; original Prophet, who has raised [up a powerful opposition to ■ Young. It is a very pretty quar- [ rel as it stands. Meanwhile, the [ Pacific Railway is pouring thous- • ands of Gentiles into the dominions of the Saints, and the effect is |to neutralize the influence of the Mormons and lay the foundation i for the gradual extinction of this i disgraceful blot upon the United ! States.

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Henry Keep. A remarkable career has just been closed in the death of late President of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Its lesson is one that will long live in the annals of our great railway financiers. The poor foundling of a rural poor-house in Central New York, [ with the secret of his birth never I solved ; then a bound boy under , a flinty-hearted farmer ; and then, ! through such an unpromising rift, and opening upon life' too obscure : and worthless to be followed by ; those all too willing to get rid of i him, the forlorn little scarecrow rushed into life alone. Could I anything be more unpromising? , Put your own petted, brighteyed. I well clad boy beside him in this ; picture, and say which shall surest mount the shining steeps that are j known as success in life. The poor little astray began life for himself bv leading or riding horses [on the Erie Canal. He helped I. drovers in odd jobs of herding and driving cattle. He was always busy and keen for advancement. IHe made his first substantial step [ as a mere youth in buying Canada ' scrip and converting it. _ His ; hands and feet once on the ladder 'he climbed stronger and rapidly [ into his place as a broker, banker, financier until he came to control millions and to be mighty in stock i circles. Dyin" at the head of one :of the greatest American railway corporations, he has shown by his [life a remarkable instance of tri umph over obstacles of birth and earlv surroundings.— Chicwju lie- ! publican.

— . I The Local Newspapers. We clip the following from the I New York Tribune ;it is true, and j we commend it to every one who ■ has interest where he resides: I Nothing is more common than to hear people talk of what they pay newspapers for advertising, i <£c., «« so much given in charitg. Newspapers, by enhancing the value of property in the neighborhood and giving the localities in which they are published a reputation abroad, Irenefit all such, particulari ly if they are merchants or real I estate owners, thrice the amount ; yearly of the meagre sum they pay for their support. Besides every public spirited citizen has a laudable pride in having a paper of which he ashamed, even though he should pick it up in New York or W ashington. A good looking, thriving sheet helps property, gives character to locality, and in many resjiects is a desirable public convenience. If from any cause the matter in the local or editorial column should not be to your standard, do not cast it aside and pronounce it good for nothing, until satisfied that there has'been no more labor bestowed upon it than is paid for. If you want a good readable sheet It must be supported. And it must not be supported in a spirit of charity either, but because you feet a necessity to support it. The local press is the power that moves the people.

The Philadelphia Age, in commenting upon the recent gathering at Gettysburg/says: “There is in truth, no real enmity now felt towards the old mil-* itary lerders of the South, even by the Radicals, a They hate, not Robert E. Lee. of Virginia, the Confederate General, bnt Govenor Walker, of Virginia, the I'niou Colonel, who lately whipped the Radicals not only out of boots but out of their offices. When they now liellow rebel, traitor, secessionist, it is commonly at some man. who was not only on the side of the North, but was even a Republican leader like Johnson, Chase,* Blair, Etheridge and others.’’

A boy while angling in the canal at Cincinnati, a few days since, got what he thought a very promising bite. He cautiously drew in his line, when he found on the book a small tin box, which h« opened and found to contain <3O w» silver, •40 in greenbacks, and two gol j rings, worth $lO each