Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1869 — Page 1

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. 1 C .' ' The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAHES R. 8080, Attorney ext loawr, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. 'Redeems Laud and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. v!on6tf R. S. PETERSON, Attorney at Xiavtz, DECATUA, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, andother instruments in writing. OFFICE—InD. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf DIXIEL O.HELLER, Attorney o,t Imw, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhcie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney a,t Law, DECATUR, r INDIANA. XX J ILL practice law in Adams and adv v joining counties; secure pensions and ojber claims against the government; buy and sell real estate; exam.ne titles an<l pay taxes, and other business pertaining to real estate agency. 13-23. PHYSICIANS. F.A. JELLEFF. W. II.SCHROCK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physician* and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. Ts— • —— — —_ CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. nAVI.XG permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. ”11-86: A A DRE W SO R<4 , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —Ou Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother s Hardware Store. vßn42if. A. J. ERWIA, M. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, vl 11125 ‘ FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear and Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—’South west corner Main & , Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. Srif Artificial Eye? inserted.. 12-44 ! DENTISTRY. M. M. McCO.l A E LL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. gun All work neatly executed lyand warranted to give satLT LTisfaclion. Call and Examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, over Heller's Law office. vlln4!) R EALE STATE ACENTS. JAMES R. HOBO, z Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good I 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. vlOnfi AUCTIONEER. CHARLES M. FRA ACE, ■A-uctionccr, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the public that he is j \ a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo’s Law office. J. P. WAKGONER, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Pcst-Office address, Wil- ! shire, Ohio. fejy Special attention given to crying ' public sales. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Propri»tor. Third St., Oppofitt the Oourt Home, DECATUR, INDIANA. r JNHE traveling public will find this I House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and ITirywe Streett, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ▼!2n7_ ‘f MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Weit Main Street, near the HtMic Square, FORT WAN YE, INDIANA. Vllnll ’ If HEDEKIA HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor. On Barr, hetreen Columbia and Main Stt. * FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. fl F.NKRAL Stage Office. Good staI bl.ingin eonncAtioß with this house. vl2b2s_ tf<

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——m - -j— uam, ,T»-—r w What Becomes TLlags. The following article is taken from All the Year Hound: What becomes of the enormous qup.r tity of • objects, natural at «• ■riticia!, which are daily, weekly, monthly, annually and perennially i .educed and sent forth into the world ? What becomes of the pictures which our painters paint and exhibit at metropolitan and provincial exhibitions, season after season, year after year? We see them at the Royal Acadamy, at the water color galleries, at at all the other art exhibition rooms. What becon--?' of them all ? Os some of them—the best—we knov the fate. They go into the hands of certain uilectors in the manufacturing dijtricte who luckily have a teste for art. Os some others, also, ’-e know the fate. They hang up iu the ctudios cf our friends who painted them. Sometimes again we come upon one in some carver’s shop. Put v. here are all the rest? Where are th 2 views cf Pcttws ycoed and of Loch Cornisk, the production of which has necessitated long journeyings and much sitting cut under white umbrellas ? Where ere the representation cf Dci.d Game, the Italian Pe .sante, the Studies oi Heads ? The I cons, again, what becomes of icctn ? These come out in legion, season after season, representing, in addi-. tion to an enormous ainoi of labor of different kinds, a cous’derable accumulation oi r.etuai i .a tcrial of mill board, o' cloth, of leather. What becomes of all tbi. rpatter? What soit c. propcrtion do the books that are sold bear to those that are brought out ? And again, of those that are sold —what becomes of them ? These that we see on the shelves of libraries, or even lying about upon tables, and chiflbnniers, are but a small percentage oi the number continually issuing from, the press. ! What becomes of the thousand I page novels which appear in great numbers in the course of every season ? How does it happen that our rooms are not entirely surrounded with full book shelves, or that there exists in any apartment, j hall or passage, any vacant por- j tion of that space unoccupied by j books, on which to put things down? Hundreds of thousands of volumes are cast upon the world every year. Where are they all at this present writing? The booksellers’ shop furnish an account of some, the libraries of others, and of some the trunk makers, and all the buttermen know about; but the rest —where ere they ? In these days, as in the days which have preceded these days, all sorts of articles of wearing apparel become the mode, are worn for a short time by everybody, and are then by everybody cast off’ and rejected. What is the destiny of these rejected articles ? When steel pettitoats disappear, what becomes of them ? When the ordinary bat worn by Englishmen is reduced to I a hight of six and a half inches, what becomes of the hats seven i and eight inches high, of which ' the hatters’ shops were full a few i mouths ago ? Where ere the Wel-; lington boots, of whivh the ohcc-1 makers’ shove used to display lour, | rows? Where are the chatelaiuw, I which ladies used to carry at their girdles? Where are the Malacca canes of our youth ? Even the footmen have discarded their use we know, but what has become of them ? They must be somewhere, in some form. Where? And iv I what form ? Numbers of people I have entirely bewildered them-1 selves in endeavors to arrive r.t some rational conclusion on tec 1 subject of pins. The statistical account of the number of pins ■ turned out annually at Birmingham and Sheffield alone, would lead one to expect that the earth itself! would present the appearance of a vast pincushion. W here are those pins oi which the yearly fabrics ' tion is on co vast a scale ? Pins ! are not consumed as an article of ! food. Pius <lO not evaporate. Pins must be somewhere. All the pins which have been made since civilization set in must be in exist ence in some shape or other; we ought to sec nothing else, look in what direction we might, but pins. Thia island, not to meddle with other countries, ought to be knee i deep with pins. Reader, how many . pins are imported into your own homes in the course of a year ? Do you know what becomes of those pins ? There are a few in your wife’s pincushions, and one t may occasionally be seen gleaming r in the housemaid's waistband; but 1 where are the rest ? It is perfect- ' ly astounding how seldom one encounters a pin “on the loose.” i Now and then, by rare chance, as

when a carpet is taken up, you ' may catch a glimpse of a pin lying i in a crevice, but even this is an uncommon occurrence and not to be counted. You often want a pin, and Lake tropble to get a pin. j Where are the pins that ought to ■ be always in attendance everywhere ? What can become of all the steel pens, of which myriads are continually turned loose upon the world ? Each individual pen doos not last a long time. Left unwiped, as they generally are, tteel pens scon corrode, and so u, for use. What do we do with them ? We take them out of their holder, replace them with others, and leave the old pens lying about in the pen trays of our desks. Theyc.re awkwr-rd io. i • U.-d iicutly lie round ur. ..~3d tor. Still the ..cul, like the pi..o, do- >.t laci disappear. Whither? The ca.ih ia ..ct prickly with steel pens, it oimutto be. '.7iiy vn’t it? • Exploration In tfce rpper C01e ...1a. A Rich Country In etlnes and Agrlcullure. Colonel Samuel Adams, who has spent the better part of the past four years in explorations up the . Colorado river, and through the v, idlest portions of the far southwest, b..s just returned from another expedition, tee dangerous unci difficult ye; undertaken. He arrived laet night, a:. J will out- . mit an extended report of bis dis i cgyoi 'es to tho Covet’nmsnt'-’ith- :•! nfe days. His party consist- 1 . cd ofcleven men besides himself,! and all the expenses of the erpe-di- I tion, including the cost cf boats, i conveyance.’, instruments, pro vis- I ions, ?r.d other necessary articles' !of outfit, were borne by himself, I I and the undertaking purely of a , private character, without aid from the Government, or from any State or association. WeT# confined to the Upper Col , i orado and its tributaries • and the i country adjacent, and embraced i ' sections never before penetrated by modern explorers. The party started a the summit cf the Rocky Mountains, near Breckinridge, Summit county, Colorado, where , fifty-two hydraulic mines are in ! operation, and where much gold ! is taken out during six months of ! the year. Colonel Adams represents that he found localities equally rch in ' mines, that can be worked during : all the months of the year, ami . that in the northwestern and central portions of Arizona and New Mexico he found the richest country he had ever seen. ILe says he i saw wild wheat, rye. oats, and barley, growing to the hight of six feet, and that he also discovered ruins of cities built of stone, fortifications, canals, and abandoned mines, several hundred years old ;. and he gives it as his belief that the . cities, the ruins of which he discovered, were inhabited centuries be . fore St. Augustine, Florida, which is believed to have been the first settlement embraced in the present ' territory’ of the United States. | The party also discovered oil wells, | tar wells, and salt aud coal in I abundance. After starting, tire explorers de ' ! scended Sve thousand feet during ! I the first hundred miles, following ! the river, and Colonel Adams • states that the growth ot timber, very limited st first, increased as they descended, and that an inexhaustible supply was found, which . would supply the whole Southern ! conu’.ry in that region, where now i the supply is brought from the ! country about Puget Sound, and reaches its destination only by being shipped along the coast, in the ! Pacific waters, up the Gulf qf Cali-! Toruia, aud thence up through the I navigable waters of the Colorado. ■ The report will be one of the j most interesting ever made of ex- . plorations in the tar west, and will be submitted to Congress at its next session. The Secret Vaults Beneath Constantinople. A correspondent of the French ' Journal Official, writes as follows : ! About forty years ago, when a large house in Constantinople had ! sunk beneath the level of the soil, I I I an immenee series of subterranean ! vaults were discovered, supported 1 j by magnificent marble pillars, ’ | which, tp judge from by their rich decorations, were the work of 1 Greek artists. Underneath the vaults is a lake of unkno.wn extent f and considerable depth. Thismis- > terious construction, of which hiss tory makes no mention, is suppoat ed to extend under a considerable t part of the city. The principal en -! trance, being the only one accessible to visitors, is situated in the ’ : court yard of a private palace, the 3 proprietor of which has a boat in

I ' whice he amuses himself sailing ai bout within a hundred yards of the : entrance. Last month an Englishman, ac j companicd by a sailor, desired to j explore the lake thoroughly. Havi i ug obtained the necessary permission, he set forth on his adventurous journey, but never returned, he and the sailor having been as phyiated beyond the reach of help. Another Englishman volunteered jto go alone in search of them iu j another boat with six torches at- | tached to it; for a long time the re- ! flection of the torches upon the waters was visible to the outlookers 1 at the entrance, until it was lost iu i the gloom and After j an absence of two hours he return- • ed from his unsuccessful search j completely exhausted, and nearly choked with the foul air he had inhaled, having in his whole course ' seen the ranges of vaults and pil- • hrs uniformly continued. The i b urkish authorities have ordered j the boat to be lifted, and prohibit- , ed r irties from sailing on the lake, | but still p jrmit the curious to inspect this singular construction at i the entrance, which reminds the be- j holder of the architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. Wholesale Swindling’ in Indian Land Scrip. Wcuhiiigfon Dispatch to New York Hera id. Some very interesting develop- ' ments are looked for at an early day, respecting Indian and Land Office irregularities, particularly regarding the half breed Indian ; I Chippewa scrip. Under the laws; 'of Congress, the Chippewa Indi -1 | ans of Lake Superior, of half i breed descent, were entitled to i eighty acres each of half breed; 1 Indian scrip. The fac!s, it is ali leged, will show there were about ( 4000 Indians belonging to this j band, and less than 400 of them half-breeds or mixed blood, for I ; whose benefit the scrip was issued ; ’ that there were 1200 pieces of scrip, calling' for eighty acres of; i land each, issued by the Land end ■ Indian Offices conjointly, as both j act in such matters and are equally responsible. If there were but ; 400 half-breed Indians in this baud , and 1200 pieces of scrip issued, j what became of 800 pieces of; scrip, representing 64,000 acres of land, for wbiclrthere were no half breed Indian claimants? This; ! scrip was very valuable, superior : ; to land warrants, it being located j :in either surveyed or uq&urveyed ; land anywhere on the public do main of the United States. This I scrip sold at from five to ten dol ; lars per acre. Who got the 800 j : pieces of scrip, the 64,000 acres of j land, or the 8320,000, the market price of the same? These figures may be wrong, but your corres-' pondent is assured they are entire ly reliable. It is a well known ; fact that this half-breed scrip has betjji located by the thousand acres throughout the Western States and J Territories. On the supposition I . that the foregoing is true, then, notl only the half-breed Indians have been credited with more than they claimed, but “Uncle Samuel" has been cheated out of 64,000 acres• of his farm. All the Difference. About a year ago, Mr. saw and loved one of Nashville's fair- ; est belles. Three months since they were married, and they were happy. Thus things went on until some ten or fifteen days ago, when 1 Mrs. went to a little town not a great distance from Nashville, recuperate what seemed to be her ; failing health. Mr. , with the natural instinct? of an affectionate youug husband, was. of course,, much exercised over the wellfare of Mrs. , and tenderly reques-' ed, on her departure, that, should > i anything happen to her, she should , lose no time in telegraphing that' fact. Several long and weary days, . to him, rooled around without any tidings from him wife. His sus • pense was broken a day or two , Since, however, by the reception, i of the following dispatch : , “Mr : Your wife had a child last night, but is doing well to-day , Mrs. , Nurse.” On its reception he grew frantic,; and would have losi no time in reaching her side hail he not been ' left by the last afternoon train, i He passed a sleepless night, and departed the following morning in great haste. On bis arrival a sat isfactory explanation was given The case had been misrepresented i The nurse claimed that, instead of the dispatch he had received, she hail sent the following: “Mr. : Y'our wife had a chil last nite, but is doin well to-day. Mrs. Nurse." It was discovered that the oper s ator, misinterpreting the word ) “chill." had simply added a “d.” i —Xtuf rille Prui, Oct. 3d.

A Leading Abolitionist A»* tonlsbed. Parker Plllnbury’a Firm VUlt Saatk - Tk« >c«r«» I’nflt ta Vale. Editorial Correepmdrnce to the .Vew» Yorl Herat, f lon. Charleston, October, iB6O. You ask me to write a letter to 7%e Revolution. The thing seems scarcely possible from this locality. Not that material is wanting, but because it is too abundant. Slavery, you know, was my theme for thirty years, now it is suffrage. For the former, I am too near it, or its relics and ruins, to see and speak of them to advantage. Some objects are so large as to be seen best at a distance. And as to suffrage, I begin by saying that though it is the right now, and will one day be the duty of every i colored woman in the nation, the ; present is not the time to agitate it here in the South. Push it at the North against all obstacles and opposition ; sparing nothing, sacred or profane, that lies in your way. I But meantime we may rest the suf- ' frage question here, for a period jat least, until some more elemen--1 tary culture and elevation are se- ■ cured. He surely must have a low estimate of the solemn responsibilities of a government involving the liberty, the person, the proper!ty and life of every individual in ! that government, who would force I the ballot on thousands and thousI ands to be seen all over the South, i And forced it was on many men, i where the slaves have voted ; as | much as were ever their tasks in i the cotton field. They knew no more and cared no more for what they’ did in voting, than as if they were as infanti’c in years as they ' are in citizenship and in political experience. * * That they are thus lost is what I was endeavoring to show. In moral culture, and domestic and social position, their casfi is more deplorable than in the merely’ intellectual. Ths white people have prate continually of ; their ignorance and inferiority. But they should remember that they themselves have had the teaching and the training of them through ten of their generations, and this, of which they now complain, is the melancholy result. Intemperance here is frightfully prevalent; and the colored people i share almost universally in the evil. The whisky here is diabolical, and yet they appear to love it more than anything else! women as well as men. They drink it red hot ffom the barrel, clean and pure, and I have seen mothers pour it thus down the throats of their six month ol i babies. And what is | worse, there are very few white ! men who employ them to any cxi tent, that do not keep a barrel on 1 tap, and give it to them whenever _ i a better bargain, or more work can be had thereby. There are no traces of a temperance association i anyong them, so far as I have seen lor heard. The marriage tie is not i even a beau knot among them. ; There is no tie about it as a generlal fact. On the plantations very few children, very few, are born. I Infanticide is common, it is said. but marriage is rare, unless forced I upon the parties, and that is not I frequent. In the towns it is somewhat better than in the country, but every where, apparently, among those poor beings, the legal restraints of marriage are but little , regarded. The ballot may be the I one thing needful there; but ,it seems te me soap, sand, fine-tooth combs, pots, kettles, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, decent food; I cooking and clothing, glass wifii dows, and even looking glasses, ■ should at least go side by side, if they may noLprecede the rights of suffrage and of sovereignty. How Ice Is Made. Everybody knows that ice is now manufactured in New Orleans, but very few know how it is done. Ths ice factory consists of six retorts of a chemical freezing mixture. From these six retorts six ' pipes descend to six huge chests, which in turn radiate severally off into four compartments. In each compartment are long tin cases, seven on one side and eight on the other. This making a total of sisI ty-six cases in a box, and there be- , ing four to a chest, *od s * x ; chest to utactory, it follows that this Southern ice factory can turn I out 1.344 cakes of ice eightenn inches long, twelve broad, and two thick, at the completion of each j process. The ice is more solid than that frozen naturally, and lasts much longer. The factory is a joint stock enterprise, and the property is exceedingly lucrative. The latest indoor amusement is termed “the printer's delight,’’ and is performed in the following manner: Take a sheet of note paper, fold it carefully, and inclose I a bank note sufficiently large to pay up arrears, and a year in advance And what adds immensely . to the feat, is to send along the name of a subscriber “with caah balance." Keep your eye on the printer, and if you detect a smile, the trick is a success. Try it The official returns of the late election iu Ohio, shows the followI ing result: Hates. 236.082; Pin ’ ■ dlfton. 2’28.581. Hatxs' rnajoaity. 7.501. .

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