Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1869 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. ===== OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. ===== DECATUR, INDIANA. ===== FRIDAY. OCT. 1, 1869. ===== THE NEWS. ——— Ex Governor Lowe, of California has been appointed Minister to China, <vice> J. Ross Browne. The Radicals are becoming alarmed at the situation in Pennsylvania, and freely admit that the Democrats will carry the State. Boutwell, to prevent gold gambling, will sell $1,000,000 of gold every Tuesday and Friday until November. Gen. Howard is not in favor of continuing the Freedmans bureau, to the disgust of some of his radical friends. He is only in favor of an educational bureau. The Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. of the United States has been in session at San Francisco, California, this week. From Omaha west they were the guests of the Grand Lodge of California, who bear all expenses from that point and return. Dr. Hall who has for the last five years been searching the Arctic regions for the remains of Sir John Franklin’s expedition has lately returned. The Dr. found a native who said the ships were stove, the crew taking to the boats when they died of starvation. He has prepared a report, which will soon be made public. The Indiana State Fair is being held on the old fair grounds at Indianapolis this week. There is a creditable display of articles on exhibition. That portion devoted to machinery and agricultural im- [sic] impliments being very full. There has been also a large attendance of visitors. The Radical party has two tickets in the field in Texas. The administration is opposing the Hamilton wing, who have been in possession of nearly all Federal appointments. Since Grant has taken sides their heads are falling thick and fast. In the meantime the Democrats are about placing a third ticket in the field with John Hancock, of Eastern Texas, at its head. Reports from the department of agriculture show that there is a considerable excess in the wheat crop in the United States. Corn, there is a large deficit. The only States showing an average crop are Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas.— The estimated deficit is 150,000,000 bushels. ———<>——— The Powell Expedition. ——— By the courtesy of William B. Dougall, Esq. of the Desert Telegraph Line, we learn that the Powell expedition, concerning the supposed loss of which there was so much excitement a few weeks since, arrived safely at the mouth of the Rio Virgin, on the Colorado river, on the 30th ult. Major J. W. Powell himself had arrived at St. George in good health, and expects to reach this city <en route> to his home East in a few days. It is interesting to know that all that was necessary to the success of the expedition was saved at the time the boat was lost, of which accident mentioned has been made in previous communications from him, and that his trip has been a a successful one. The Colorado river has now received a thorough exploration. Lieutenant Ives explored the river up to about the point where Major Powell had landed, and the Major has doubtless given it a thorough examination from the place where he launched upon its waters—<Salt Lake City News Sept. 7>. GENERAL GRANT is on another tour. It is supposed that, at the rate he is going, by the time his term of office is complete, he will have become the greatest traveler living, surpassing even Daniel Pratt, the great American tourist. The beauty of it is, that Grant is not missed at Washington. He has found, by experience, that affairs go on better without him than with him; that he is more useful when absent from, than when present in, Washington. ———<>——— A man at Cajie May, who rereived fifty cents from a gentleman he had saved from drowning, handed back forty-nine cents because he didn’t want to take more than the man's life was worth.

New York State Convention. The New York State demobratic convention declared for the payment of the public debt according to the contract, and for taxation of government bonds. Every Democratic State convention that has met this year has substantially passed similar resolutions. It is just, right and proper. Capital should pay its just share of the burdens of the government and when it does not as is the case under Radical management, at present, there is an unwise and unjust discrimination in favor of capital, which the working men of this country must repeal or go to the wall. Whether the democratic party war upon unjust legislation, so called protection, or against the policy of enormous land grants to railroad companies, it is true to its early history, and is now, as it ever has been, the determined and presistent foe of monopolies. The Gold Excitement. Last Thursday and Friday was perhaps the most exciteable days ever witnessed in Wall street, NewYork. Gold stood at 1 33 in the morning of Thursday, but before the days operations at the gold exchange were over, had been quoted at 1 66. A rise of 33 per cent, in gold in one day is without a parallel in the history of gold gambling. The transactions of Thursday and Friday in the aggregate ammounted to 8600,000,000 or 8300,000,000 per day, figures never before equalled even during war times. During this time fortunes changed hands; many lame ducks were reported among the gold operators, the gains and losses between the bulls and bears being nearly equal. The cause of this rise in gold, it is hardly necessary for us to state, was brought about by capitalists who had previously ascertained the amount of gold held by banks and the government, and had calculated within a few dollars what amount could be thrown upon the market. Thus prepared with capital to buy all offered, they forced it up at their pleasure. It was nothing but gambling, in which the bears were betting against four aces. It was heads I win, tails you loose. When Boutwell threw gold on the market the bulls become demoralized through defection in the management, and in the end lost nearly as much as they won. Wc have no sympathy for either side; they are the men who hold government bonds; who pay nd taxes themselves, and whom the Radical party say the poor men of this country shall be doubly taxed that they raaj’ go free.— This is one of their pastimes, one of their ways of spending your hard earned money, while you are working for more for them to spend in the same way. The working men of Vanwert county, Ohio, have hit upon a very peasant illustration of this fact. They affirm that Radical legislation has put the cow with her head in the poor mans crib and her udder over the rich man's bucket. We need not be choice of our expressions. It is enough to know that they were gambling with money that they never honestlj" earned and which comes directly from the pockets of the people in consequence of “loyal'’ legislation. An Idea for Farmers.—Mr. Casey Barbour, an intelhnent and highly successful farmer, who lives on Fort Harrison Prairie, two miles north of Terre Haute, has just threshed the wheat cut from a ; ten acre field, and finds the yield to be a trifle over forty bushels to the acre.' His mode of planting was novel, and suggests an idea to our farmers worthy of attention. . He took one half the usual quanti- , ty of seed and drilled one way, ! and then with the other half drillled crosswise. Mr.- Barbour at- .; tributes this unusually heavy yield I to this new method of planting. We hope some of our farmeas will . • test the question by imitating this , style of planting — Terre Haute Journal. J- A disgraceful affair occurred at ' the John Street Methodist church. : in New Albany, on Sunday night, ‘ in which a young man was put out lof church for disorderly conduct He afterward returned and threw a 1 brick at one of the stewards and drew hi* knife, besides making e dangerous threats. So much dis- ’ I turbance was created that the J Services were broken up

State News. The public schools for colored children are now open in Vigo county. Four supreme judges are to be chosen at the election in October, 1870. Frank Ray will clear ten thousand dollars from this year’s crop of peaches raised on his fruit farm just east of Vincennes. Some of the mines in the neighborhood of Brazil have but one place of entrance, like the mines at Avondale, where the terrible disaster occurred. Tom Allen will go into training, under Jim. Coyne, at Vincennes, next month, preparatory to his oreat “mill” with Mike McCoole, o On Tuesday two negroes became engaged in an three miles from Jeffersonville, and one of them drew a pistol and fired upon the other, killing him instantly. George Hampden, who, after being tried for burglary at Bedford, and sentenced to five years' im piisonment in the penitentiary, moved fora new trial, because, by oversight, he had not been arraigned, had a second trial the next day and was sentenced for six years. A very contemptible law-suit was tried in the Sullivan circuit court last week. It was brought up on appeal from a magistrate's c urt. The matter in controversy was the key of a Sunday school library and two testaments —some twenty-five cents. The sheriff’s costs for summoning witnesses a mounted to nineteen dollars and forty cents. Mr. Morrill, an experienced civil engineer, left New Albany the other day to survey the lower Ohio, thence to Cairo, by order of Gen. Weitzel. The party, Mr. M. and five men, embarked in a large yawl, surmounted with a canopy of canvas, and will be absent several weeks- They will accurately measure the distance to Cairo, sound the principal bars, and make a chart of the river. In the section of country about Montezuma, the fever and agrte prevails to such an extent that re cently the drug stores in that place were exhausted of their supplies of quinine, and a post rider was sent in hot haste to Rockville to pro cure a new supply. In the meantime, the Montezumenan shook a round like the leaves on an aspen tree. THE PLOT AGAIN.T VIRGINIA. B’aaJh'Mfton Correspondence nf the Baltimore Gazette. For some time past it has been more than suspected that the Radi cals, under the lead of Boutwell. Butler, and Sumner, were preparing a scheme by which to nu.lify the recent election in Virginia.— These suspicions have found their way in several of the papers of the country, but to improbable did they seem that they met with neither credence nor attention. Recent developments, however, prove that these suspisions were well founded, and fall far short of the facts. Night before last two men (of the ultra radical type) arrived in this city from Virginia, where they had been on a “reconnoitering” tour, in the employment, as is now positively known, of the worthies mentioned above. Their mission to Virginia was to organize com mittces of the Union Leagues in various sections of the state (and to instruct them how to do it), to get up evidence proving frauds in the recent election, and intimida tion and coercion of the freedmen by which they were forced to vote the conservative ticket, or not vote at all. These affidavits—for the instructions were that the leagues should secure affidavits—are to accompany a petition which is to be presented to congress car ly in the session, nnd be referred to the reconstruction committee, where, under the management of Butler, and his friend Bingham, it is to sleep until the end of the session, which will keep Virginia un-reconstaucted, a least, until the firnt Monday in December, 1870. The next being a short session, it is supposed there will be little dis ficulty in “staving” the consideration of “affiairs in Virginia” off until the adjournment of congress. This petition is not to be presented until after notice has been received that Virginia yielded to the crowning act of radical usurpation imposed upon her—thn adoption of the Fifteenth amendment.— Then the mine is to be sprung, nnd Virginia—Virginia, who gave to the nation a Wasnington, a Madij son. a Jefferson, a Monroe; Vir--1 ginia. whose people'have complied 1 with all the demands which the radicals conld invent to degrade ; her, until her submission amountI ed almost to dishonor, is to be subjected. two years longer, to military rtile. survilance, dictation, and 1 tyranny. i This programme is not only to , apply to Virginia, but to Mississippi and Texas, should a majority

of the people of those states in the coming elections vote for the conservative candidates. Numerous have been the crimes of radicalism exposed in this correspondence, hut there are none which evual this in cool, calculating villainy. Its enormity is evinced by the fact that it required the united genius of three of the most unscrupulous men in the nation to concoct and initiate it, and the agents selected by them to do this dirk} - work in Virginia (who have just returned here, after having completed their disreputable mission) were in every way fitted for the task. One is ,rom Pennsylvania, and was dismissed from office on a charge of appropriating property of the government to his own use; the the other, who hails from Illinois was peremptorily dismissed from the army by President Lincoln for conduct unbecoming an officerand a gentleman. Shese men seek every opportunity to try and excite prejudice against the people of Virginia by the circulation of the basest slanders. They state that the same spirit that produced the rebellion is still rampant in Virginia—that the people of Virginia are the least reconstructed of any in the south. On the frauds committed to secure Walker's election they were very eloquent, and assert the most improbable stories. Strange to say they find men to listen to them and believe their lies. The plan of Boutwell, Butler, Sumner & Co., disgraceful as it is, is of easy accomplishment, and will be carried out to the very letter, and neither Virginia, Texas, nor Mississippi will be allowed representation in congress or freedom from military rules, unless they’ accept just such terms as these men may dictate- They have the power during this congress. Will the next be different. A Memphis Secret. A Romance of Good Soelety-ThrilUac Sketch for a Novelimt. From a Memphis Letter. We propose to give, in the follow ing sketch, a few brief facts, tending to show that “all that glitters is not gold,’’ neither are all the erring sinful. About a week and a half ago, an elegant funeral took place from the house of a demimonde — the hearse bedecked with four white plumes and drawn by the same number of proud, white steeds. Upon the mournful but elegant procession hinges the creme of our story. It is the ftF’ neral of a promising boy-child, scarcely three years, old, noted, although so young, for remerka ble intellectual vigor, as well as physical beauty and sweetness of disposition. To the world he was known as the offspring of a keeper of a bagnio, a voluptuous votary of crime. Her name has often figured in these columns, and it has been thought that long since all feeling, all refined sensibilities, and every emotinn of kindness and sympathy had long since departed from her heart, leaving it a bleak and barren waste of licentiousness. But it seems that though erring, man judges his fellow men with far more severity than even the great Author of his being, the peerless One, does himself. To save the character, honor and reputation of a deceived sister of humanity, who has and does yet figure in the fashionable world as a leader of the ton, this outcast of society, this fallen woman, took the little wanderer, gave it a home, fed it with delicacies, and provided for it in the best of raiment. Its innocent life, begun and reared in crime, was destined by providence to be of a short duration. One afternoon this elegant and respectable (?) lady, having previously heard her child was dangerously ill, staggered unseen into this brothel of iniquity. The real “Madam" met her at the entrance, and told her that her baby could not live a week. She reached the couch of the little sufferer, pressed it to her bosom in one agonizing embrace, and ere her jewel bedecked arms unclasped its tiny frame, the spirit of the dying child had passed to the God who gave it. The real mother soon after left, the assumed mother took the child and shrouded it in robes almost becoming royalty: The funeral that followed we have - already described. The little waif was the natural result of an intimacy between a young lady named , and Mr. , a middle-aged single gentieman, highly respected in ’ociety, and a successful business man. The woman is young, accomplished, and decidedly handsome. The dread secret has been successfully guarded thus far, and we doubt if ever any but the two guilty parties, when this article shall be read by the circle in which both move, will recognize the characters therein described. A'otice of Appointment of Administrator. is hereby given that the unXi dersifned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Daniel Zaugg, deceased. The estate is supposed to be solvent. WILLIAM DIEHL. Ben„ Rept. 24,15A9, Administrator.

THE LAST SHOW OF THE SEASON I s — PREP ABE FOR THE LEVIATHAN! D DR. JAMES L. THAYER’S ZOOLOHIPPOZONOMADON!! CIRCUS ! PAN THEON ! MENAGERIE OF TRAINED ANIMALS ! »' - WILL EXHIBIT 'IN Decatur, ’VD r ec3Lxxe»da ( y, Oct. 0,1869. The only legitimate exhibition now traveling in the Western States; organised durng the past winter and remode’ed and refitted, with costly equipages, brilliant paraphernalia and ‘‘all appliances and means to boot’’ of a regal, imperial pageant, nt a cost of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, Embodying as a necessity, the unprecedented force of THREE HUNDRED PERSONS AND HORSES. With a choice Menagerie of magnificently ANIMALS J > ' -7 > . _ ' 1> *7^'UiMT " /L. r J' jbcx. x i J JtßHgji'_HW~rTl Including a quartet of superb Asiatic and Nubian Lions, the largest in America, trained and performed by PROFESSOR CHARLES WHITE, Also, the novel and interesting feature of FOUR 53-A-T3'sr LIONS The only specimens in the country. Mr. Frank J. How. Blooded. Horses and. Monies! ! i1 I 1 1S H W c±i • ft ? W .-> o K s | K r < tn h 3 QI Qb£ »3 c Q S —** ->tt» -■ MN? VAN ® M 3 < _ - —m o ■ § The Arenic Troupes embraces distinct corps of Horsemen and Eqnestiiennes, Gymnasts and Voltigeurs, Hippodramists and Equerries. Each department being headed by Champion Representatives. As witness the proof in the following leading celebrities. mn,d.’llefli Maria and Royalit. Premierre Equestriennes, from the principal of Europe and America. WM. MORGAN, the indomitable Bareback Horseman, and Ten-Thousand-Dollar Challenger to all would-be competiors. GEORGE M. KELLY, the champion Leaper, whose flying leap and Somersault over SEVEN’TEE HORSES has never been approached. THE BELMONT BROTHERS, World-rowned Gymnasts, and exponents of the Classic Games of Olympia. CHAS. H. LOWRY, the leading Scenic and Histrionic Equestrian. Messrs. Batty, Ringgold, Morton, Desaix, Baker, Merryfield, Batteaux, Dorland, and Mortimer. Mad’lles Mollineux, Lambelle, Pagodi, Ames, Viola and Estelle. Three, Star Clowns! Dr. James L. Thayer, Nat. Austin and Chas. Abbott Each rd original wit and humorist, distinct in fancy and caprce, ever bright, brilliant and varying, grasping each passing incident with the electric spark of playful satire and pure Attic wit. BEAD IN MIND That the procession upon the forenoon of the-day of exhibition is a pageant of enequaled splendor. 4 TH2E3 O-AJFL OF 1 A.TJHOFLA. ’S ►» 5 3 , y 41 Lr „5 B o ~ — a I S A 2 5 ‘.3 HI "3 ® Ji Jw B 2* I ® 1 -i . El s. * j § H c 2 ne=s ■ " • H/. i t r I q 2 ST 2» 101. s: e BH I =• ® ‘ 5 4.“ S = i £ tgi g H I ■s O ' ' 9 & ' s < U. S '" — „ A. LIVING LION LOOSE Is seen reposing in stately majesty, while Triumphal Cars and Chariots, Elephants, gay Cavaliers and Brilliant Demoiselles, mounted on richly caprisoned prancing steeds and carrolicklng palfreys, fill up the measure of this mag« uificent street show, which is led by Prof.’Tony Frank's Choice Yew York Cornet Band. PERFORMANCE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Doors Open at 1 aiad 7 o’clocK. Admission, 50 Cents. Children under ten years, 95 cts F'RED DUBOIS, Business Agent, .

SPECIAL NOTICES. Science Advances* As soon as an article purporting to ba of utility has been tested, and its merits endorsed by public opinion, unprincipled parties endeaver to replenish their depleted purses by counterfeiting, and substituting a spurious for the genuine article. Some time since, mercury, in the disguise of pills, powders, &c., was given for all diseases of the stomach and liver, while quinine was freely administered for the chills. At length HOST ETTER'S STOMACH BITTER'S made its adveut, and an entire new system of healing was inaugurated. The beneficial effects of this valuable preparation were at once acknowledged, and mineral poisons suffered to sink into that obscurity to which an enlightened age has consigned them.There have been many spurious Bitter* palmed upon the community, which, after trial, have been found perfectly worthless, while HOSTETTER’S have proved a blessing to thousands, who owe to it their restoration to health and for many years we have watched the steady progress of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS in public estimation, and its benificent effects as a cure for all complaints arising from the stomach, of a morbid nature, and we are free to say that it can be relied upon as a certain relief and remedy. Its proprietors have made the above preperation, atter years of careful study and sitting, and are now reaping the reward claimed by this valuable specific, und which they so richly merit. It is the only preparation of the kind that is reliable in all cases, and it therefore demands the attention of the afflicted. 71A YER AG RA F F -DEALEHBIMWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVER AND SILVER-PLATED WARE. Gold, Silrer and Steel Spectacles Columbia Street, vllnslyl. FORT WAYNE,IND F. C. SHACK LEY. House Painter AND FAFER RANGER WALL PAPER of all kinds furnish ed at Fort ‘ Wayne Prices. Samples can be seen at Dorw in’s Drug Blore All orders promptly attended to. Decatur, May, 1869. 13n8m6 KNOFF’S ART GALLERY! 11. B. KNOFF, Artist, Decatur, • • ■ Indiana, 4 NNOUNCES to his patrons and the jftL people generally, that hois prepared to accommodate them with every style of Picture known to the Art. Special attention paid to the taking of children's pictures. Having lately purchased a MAMMOTH SOLAR CAMERA specially designed for taking PHOTOGRAPH'S LIFE SIZE! j k lam now prepared TO COPY ALL. KINDS OF PICTURES and enlarge them to any size, without the slightest injury to the original picture. A large assortment sf FRAMES kept constantly on hand. vlonstf. CRABBS & RICE DEALXH IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, -UK - ' O HATS A- CAPS, a & BOOTS Sl SHOES, G-ZI.OOZ3XI.XXICI, Que enswar o 9 CA.RPETS, oX Xj OXj o t m • NOTIONS, 4c., DECATUR, INDIANA. /By All of the above goods will be sold very cheap for Cash or Conntrj’ Produce. v12n31 NEWHEWELY STORE! DECA’I'C'R' - LALLEY, Announces to the citisene of Adam. County and viciaity, thathe has purchased the JEWELRY STORE in Dicatur, of Mr. Exra Lyster, and will continue the business at the old stand where he will keep constantly on band a large and complete assortment of "W atchea, ClQcUa, »T o'vcrelarjp, Notlona, Spectacles. Ae., which he offers at prices to suit the times. Repairing of all kinds done on short 1 notice. All work warraaUd aa represented, 1 vl2nS9 LALLIT.