Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAIEB R. 8080, .Attorney I-rfL'w, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts- Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOuCtf R. S. PETERSON, -A.ttom.cy «,t 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—InD. Studabaker’s Law Office. ■ v!2n33tf DANIEL D. HELLER, .Attorney at Imw, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhete in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlOns2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney- 4nt liaxv, DECATUR, INDIANA. ATT ILL practice law in Adams and adv v joining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the government; buy and sell Teal estate; exam ne titles and pay taxes, and other business pertainingto real estate agency. 13-23. CHARLES H. FRANCE, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. I)ROMPT attention paid to all busi- . siness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Mortgages and other Instruments in Writing. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 PHYSICIANS. ~ r.A.JELLEFr. W. 11. SCHROCK. JELLEFF A SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vfinlStf. CHA RLES YTCIJRTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 ANDREW SOR G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. ( rSa nr & Brother’s Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A? JL F R Iv¥n~ ML* IL, Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, M. D., RESIDENT Bar and. Bye Surgeon, EORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. fiS“Artificial,Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTB. 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 wrut your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnG AUCTIONEER. CHARLES H. FRA ACE, Auotlonoer, DECATUR, INDIANA. A NNOUNCES to the public that be is ’ Xi. a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. • OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. J. P. R, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, 'Wilshire, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. HIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Oppoeite the Court Houte, DECATUR, INDIANA. THE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J. w. BULL, Proprietor, =■ Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streete, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. v!2n7 ts MAIN STREET EXCHAHGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Weit Slain Street, near the Publie Square FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll . If HEDEKIN HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, betmeen Columbia and Main Stt. FORT WATNR, INDIANA. GENERAL Mage Office. Good eta" bleingin eoaaeotio* with this house<l2a2fi It

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■■■■■■■nßansnnanaaaMSKiaßEßHßSKHßHßßaH One Year Ago. What stars have faded from our sky! What hopes unfurled but to die! What dreams so fondly pondered o’er, Forever lost the hues they wore? How like a death knell, sad and low, Tolls through the soul, “one year ago!” Where is the face we loved to greet, The form that graced the fireside seat, The gentle smile, the winning way, That blessed our life-path day by day? Where fled those accents soft and low That thrilled our hearts “one year ago!” Ah, vacant is the fireside ehair, The smile that won, no longer there; From door and hall, from porch and lawn, The echo of the voice is gone, And we who linger, only know How much we lost, “one year ago!” Beside her grave the marble white Keeps silent guard by day and night, Scrpne she sleeps, nor heeds the tread Os footsteps o er her lowly bed; Her pulseless breast no more may know The pangs of life, “one year ago!” But why repine? A few more years, A few more broken sighs and tears, And we, enlisted with the dead, Shall follow where her steps have fled, To that far world rejoicing go To which she passed “one year ago!” JSefect DR. LIVIXGSTOYE. His Work Yearly Completed —An Interesting Letter. From the London Times. The Bombay Gazette, of Nov. 20, publishes an interesting letter from Dr. Livingstone, dated May 30 last, and received at Zanzibar by Dr. Kirk, her majesty’s consul, on the 2d of October last: TJjui, May 30,1869. —My Dear Dr. Kirk : This note goes by Musa Kamaals, Who was employed by Koarii to drive the buffaloes hither, but, by overdriving them unmercifully in the sun and tying them up to save trouble in herding, they all died before he got to Unyanyembe. He witnessed the plundering of my goods and got a share of them, and I have given him beads and cloth sufficient to purchase provisions for himself on the way back to Zanzibar. He has done nothing here. He neither went near the goods here nor tried to prevent their being stolen on the way., I suppose that pay for four months in coming, other four of rest, and four in going back would be ample, but I leave this to your decision. 1 could not employ him to carry my mail back, nor can I say anything to him, for he at once goes to theUjjjiansand gives his own version of all he hears. He is untruthful and illconditioned, and would band off the mail to any one who wished to destroy it. The jieople here arc like the Kilwa traders, halers of the English. Those Zanzibar men whom I met between this and Nyassa were gentlemen, and trad ed with honor. Here, as in the haunts of the Kilwa hordes, slaving is a series of forays, snd they dread exposure by my letters.— No one will take charge of them. I have got Thani bin Suellim to take a mail privately for transmission to Unyanyembe. It contains a check on Ritchie, Steuart Co., of Bombay, for 2,000 rupees, and some forty letters written during my slew recovery. ' I fear it may (never reach you. A party was sent to the coast two months ago. One man volunteered to take a letter secretly, but his master warned them all not to do so, because I might write something lie 3id not like. He went out with the party and gave orders to the head man to destroy any letters be might find on the way. Thus, though I am good friends outwardly with them all, I can get no assistance in procuring carriers, and, as you will see, if the mail comes to hand, I sent to Zanzibar for 15 good boatmen to act as carriers, if required, SO pieces of meritrano, 40 pieces of kinitrn, 12 fflrrfsala'sbf the beds called jamsain, shoes, etc., and I have written to Seyd Majid begging two of his guards to see to the safety of the goods here into Thani bin Suellim's hands, or into those ot Mohammed bin Sahib. “As to the work to be done bj’ me, it is only to connect the sources which I haxe discovered from 500 to 700 miles south of Speke and Baker’s with their Nile. The volume of water which flows north from latitude 12 south is so large, 1 suspect 1 have been work- i ing at the sources of the Congo as well as the Nik. f I hare to go down the eastern line of drainage to Baker’s turning point Tanganyika, Nyige, Clio wain be (Bakers?) are one water, and the head of it "Is 300 miles south of this. The western aid central' Hncs of drainage converge into an unvisited lake west or south-1 west of this. The outflow of this

' JBBS3KB!S9ESSa&£&333BScEE whether to Congo or Nile, I have to ascertain. The people of this, called Manyema, are cannibals, if Arabs speak truly. I may have to go there first, and down Tanyanyiki, if I o®me out uneaten, - and find my new squad from Zanzibar. I earnestly hope you will do what you can to help me with the goods and men Four hundred pounds to be sent by Mp .Young must surely have you! i/ff-ough Flemming & Co. I am, &c? “David Livingstone.” A long box paid for to Nijiji was left at Unyanyembe, and so witTi other boxes. Remarkable Freak of a Chinese River. At one of the last meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, the London Times’ report, November 24, says: The paper of the evening was on the exploration of the new course of the Yellow river of China, by Mr. Ney Elias, F. R. G. S. The author stated that, hav ing planned a survey of the course the great Yellow river of China had taken since breaking through its old banks, some fifteen years ago, he demoted his autumn holi day in 1868 to carry out the object, having previously secured the approval of the. Shanghai Cham her of Commerce. .jQuly. 4he vaguest accoiint&kl<lpreviously been received of this grand phenomenon, caused by the river forsaking its bed several hundred miles from its mouth, and pouring its waters in a northerly direction, seeking an outlet in the sea, at a point sep a rated by four degrees of latitude from its former mouth, leavit ga dry bed two or three miles wide, which is used as a high road. By the change scored of square miles of highly cultivated country had been devastated, millions of people had lost their lives, and along the forsaken bed other districts were deprived of their fertility by the loss of the means of irrigation. No less than nine such changes were recorded in Chinese history, the first dated about 602 B. C., the position of the various months ranging over the extent of coast between thirty-four degrees and thirty-nine degrees north latitude. The author believed that the major part of the great alluvia plain of China had been formed by the rich deposit left by forsaken beds of this singular river. The author's companions were Mr. Hollingsworth and two Chinese. They left Shanghai well provided with instruments for taking observations in latitude and longitude, on the 24th of September, and after a journey of nearly four hundred miles on the Grand Canal, arrived on the 17th of October, on the brffiks of the new Yellow Riv er, near the town of Nan Shan.— At this point the stream had not yet worn for itself a bed, but was spread over a belt of country some ten or twelve miles in width. The banks of the Grand Canal bad here been carried away by the invading stream, and the whole country wore an air of desolation. The party embarked on the new river near here, and traced itdown to an embouchure in the Gulf of Poschilli. Nineteen miles downward the wide-spread waters converge and flow into the narrower beds of a much smaller river, the Tatsingj which hencefortlr’serves as its channel. The great volume and rapidity of the waters of the Yellow River are causing the nar row bed to widen, and with the undermined banks are swept away tho streets of villages and cities, gardens and fields. Bridges which formerly spanned the Tatsingnow remain as mins in mid-river. At Tsi-ho-hein, one of the bridges' effectually stops navigation at pres- { ent. at a short distance above the , port of Tsi nan too. Toward the I sea the banks of the river arc marshy aud uninhabitable, the lim-' it of the peopled region lieing the j small part of Tu-men-quan. The mouth of the river is ob- j structcd by a bar, which Mr. Elias I on the 27th of October, to , have a minimum depth, at low wa- j ter, of three and a half to four i feet. Deeper channels on the bar have from five to seven or eight I feet of water. From various con-1 siderations, the author concluded I that the new course of this laigel river was not likely to be used by | the larger trading junks, and that, | in fact, its commercial value was ' verv small. Ifi returning to Shang hai by the river, the party ascend-! ed to the point where it first broke ' from its former course, near Lung men tau. The date of the first . branch was 1851, but the waters ; were not finally diverted till 1853. The paper was accompanied by a carcftilly executed chart of the new I course of the river, constructed effi an ordinary traverse survey, checked at several points by observations for latitude and longi-

tude. Soundings were observed ! throughout. In the discussion which follow ed, Captain Sherard Osborne, R. N., bore testimony to the great geographical value of Mr. Elias’ paper. The Yellow River had been generally spoken of as a rapid and dangerous stream, remarkable for the mass of alluvium it carries down, and with which it is continually sifting up and raising its own bed. The great plain of China, which in 1813 supported 170,000,000 inhabitants, is in a great measure formed of the alluvium brought down by this river from the ivcstern -highlands, the rich soil having a depth, according to Davis, of seventy feet.— Uncontrollable as the Yellow River appeared to be, it was waiting only the hand of the European engineer to put a bound to its turI bulence, and guide its superabundant forces into channels useful to man. r Mr. Wylie, who has lately returned from extensile journeys tlwough the interior of China, spoke of the great accuracy of Mr. Elias’ description. -■ ■■ - - mm ‘ Decadence in New England —Depopulation of Country 1 owns. The decrease in population among the country towns of Mas sachusetts is quite startling. Tire same-may be §aid of Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont.— Railroads and factories have changed the ancient order of 'things. The population of the hills has slid into the valleys, and with it the wealth also. Farms can now be bought for less than what the buildings are worth, and several farms are often merged into one, and briers and brambles spring up where once was the gar- ' den and the rose. Rev. Dr. Gale. I of Lee, in a recent sermon, drew a gloomy picture of this decrease of population in the hill towns of Berkshire county. He stated that four towns now contain half the population and half the wealth of that county. Os the remaining ■ twenty-seven towns, fourteen have i less than a thousand inhabitants. . There are 33 Congregational | churches in the county, and only ■ 14 settled pastors. Five of these ■ churches have no regular service, ! and 14 hire clergymen for a stated time. Jn 1829 there were 26 Congregational churches, and 23 pastors. The membership in the churches has increased only 34 in the last 40 years, being 4,544 in 1829, and 4,578 in 1869. Tn ten of the churches the membership is i less than 50 each, and in these ten churches the number of male members average only ten. In most! of these mountain towns were ■ once large churches, and the sane : tuaries on the Sabbath were filled with devout' worshippers. Now, in some five places, the people ■ have forsaken assembling themselves together on the Sabbath,. and iu many towns the minister preaches to a very lean congrega- ■ tion. We can add our testimony , to that of Dr. Gale, and apply the same to other counties in western Massachusetts. In the last four i years we have traveled thousands 1 of miles among the hill and moun- j tain towns, treading their back roads and by-ways, wherever the : remnant of a once prosperous population lingers. One is surprised at the indication of decay witnessed at almost every mile. For long distances there are no human hab-! itations. You pass the wreck of once elegant mansions, or the I foundations where they stood.— I Others are crumbling back to dust, I the outside covering hardly keep ing the elements from reaching! | the inmates within. There are' , scraggy remains of large and once ’ : fruitful orchards, now moss grown | j and choked w*th underbrush. Oc-1 j casionally, at the cross-roads, may i jbe seen a dilapidated school I I house,*long since deserted by chil- ' I dren and teacher, and oftentimes' Iwe have traveled a half a day I j without seeing a solitary human i being, except as we entered a i dwelling. A thickly tenanted, but | sadly neglected burial place, here j I and there, is evidence that there' I once dwelt among the hills and I I mountains a more numerous pop-: ! illation. These signs of desolation and | decay suggest an inquiry as to the ! cause, and the answer comes in j the conclusion that they have been I brought about by extravagance ' and fashion. It has become the , fashion to have fewer children, and the farmer who once r&ised a j dozen boys who helped earry on the farm prosperously, is succeeded by another who hires his help, outdoor and in/and finds at the end ot the year that be has scarce-1 Jy saved enough to pay his em- > ployes. If he has one or two sons 1 or daughters, they cannot be con-

DHBeaHHBfiXSHHDEBKBMDnEatnaBCBDnHi j tent with bumble fare at home, but must ape the fashions of the c.ty ‘ or village, and force the “old folks at home” into more style in living than they can afford. The«rcsult is soon reached. The farm runs down and is ultimately sold, the ' ■ proprietor moving away to seek j hjh fortune where money is easier * ,tp begot, and his family can move ; in more fashionable society. Dr. Allen, of Lowell, has shown by reliable statistics that the Yankee race of New England is running out, and the reasons for it are those we have given above. Extravagance and fashion are exterminators more potent than all the “i Is that flesh is heir to.” Unless a reform is commenced in this re spect, the hill and mountain towns of this and other states will soon become a wilderness. Every year they decrease in population and valuati&p, and every succeeding generation will have a frailer hold upon life. While all are urging reforms of other kinds, what a pity it is we cannot reform the fashions and habits of our men and women, wherein lies the only hope of a perpetuation of our name and race. Three Letters. The following letter, written by Thomas Jefferson during his Presidency, has recently been brought to light, and may be read with I both pleasure and profit: “Washington, Feb. 6,1863. j “Dear Sir—Mons. d’Yrujo, the : Spanish Minister here, has been so kind as to spare me two hundred bottles of champagne, part of a larger parcel imported for his own use, and consequently privileged i from duty, but it would be im- ! proper for me to take the benefit iof that. I must therefore ask the > favor of you to take the proper measures for paying the duty, for which purpose I inclose you a hank check for 822 50, the amount of it. If it could be done without mentioning my name, it would avoid ill intended observations, as in some such way as this, ‘by duty , paid on a part of such parcel of i wines not entitled to privilege,” ' or in any other way you please.— ■ The wine was imported into Phil- | adelphia, probably about midsum- | mer last. i “Accept assurances of my great I esteem and respect. “Th. Jefferson.” “General Muhlenberg. Andrew Johnson began and ended his Presidential career in the same spirit, and to a committee of gentlemen, who sent him an ele- | gant carriage and span of horses, ! made the following truly JeffersoI nian reply: “While I fully appreciate the t purity of your motives in thus ; tendering to me such substantial I I evidence of your regard and es- ’ j teem, lam compelled, solely from the convictions of duty I have I ever held in reference to the ac- ! ceptanee of presents by those oc- • ’ copying high official positions, to I decline offerings of kind and loyal friends. The retention of the I parchment conveying your sentiments, and the autographs of those ! who were pleased to unite in this I I manifestation of regard, is a favor I would ask; and I assure you, i gentlemen. I shall regard it as one i of the highest marks of respect I from any portion of my fellow- , citizens. Trusting that I shall j continue to merit your confidence , and esteem in the discharge of the i high and important duties upon which I have but just entered, and • with the best wishes for your i health, etc., individually, I am, gentlemen, yours truly, “Andrew Johnson.” We have never offered any pres- ' ent to Mr. Grant, and hence we i can not give exactly the kind of • reply that he makes to the numer- ; j ous presents he receives. We may ‘ imagine it is about the following ; | “Receiver's Department. “Dear Sir : It affords me ex- ’ tremc pleasure to receive the pres-j ' ent you offer. It is accepted with a view*to the encouragement of | others to do likewise. The autograph letter, with the names of the j p donors, is numbered 970, and filet! in a convenient book that I keep j for reference when making ap- 1 I pointments. Any further donations will be thankfully received. “Yours truly, i ( “U. S. Grant. It is the fashion every now and i then for writers to throw out bints about Cockney poets; bnt it may ' l»e worth while to remember that ‘ Milton, Chaucer, Spencer, Gray, Pope and Byron were all born j “within the sound of Bow Bells;” I in fact, of all our greatest poets • , before the present centuSv, Sliaks I i pea re and Dryden alone were not | Londoners by birth. ' “The coming man”—A waiter.

A New View of the Life of Pocahontas. Researches into the history of Pocahontas, recently made by Mr. Neill, our Consul at Dublin, destroy a great deal of the popular romance which surrounds the "Indian Princess.” It secyns she was ; not a princess at all,ther father . having only been p. sac'iem of one ouLof many Virginia tribes. Sh<F>. ■ was just a savage of the ordiimW£? Indian kind, who ran naked in the woods till she was twelve, lived at thirteen with an English colonist, and was married at fifteen by an ambitious settler named Rolfe. ■ for the good of the colony, and i from a secret hope of getting a ; good bargain out of her father's lands. William Strachey, the Secretary of the colony, writing in 1610, speaks of the custom of the Indian maidens to go without clothing till they were about the age of twelve years, and in particular says that “therefore would the before remembered Pocahontas, a well featured but wanton young girle, Powhatan’s daughter, somelyrnes resorting to our fort, of the age then of eleven or twelA years, get the boyes forth with her into the market place, and make them wheele, falling on with their hands, turning up their heeles upwards, whoine she would follow and wheele so herself,,naked as she was, all the fort over.” It is probable, from a casual notice by the same Strachey, that she lived for a short time as wife to a “private captain named Kocouirt,” it being for the moment a part of Virginian policy to encourage such unions. Subsequent to this, she was seized as a hostage for the release of some prisoners and the delivery of a certain quantity of coin, and while in custody was married by one John Rolfe, who, however, had another wife Already, and was taken to England, where she died shortly afterward in 1616. The story of her saving the life of John Smith is pronounced a pure fabrication. Pocahontas had one son by Rolfe, who returned to Virginia, and seems to have been recognized by the Indians as a connection ; and it was through this son that the Indian blood entered the Virginian planting families.— An “esteemed and industrious mechanic,” named Randolph, settled on the James river, and his son Richard married Miss Jane Bolling, great grandmother of John Randolph, of Roanoke, the well known Virginian, who, it is said, considered this descent the proudest among his endless claims to the admiiation of his countrymen. Walking. If you will hold yourself erect, with your chin close to your neck, swing your arms freely, and move rapidly, you will find walking the very best exercise. Few muscles escape work, while you enjoy fresh air, sunshine, and a constant change of scene. I have taught gymnastics as “a profession for many years, but as a source of health I believe walking is superior to any of the artificial exercises. The best hour during the autumn ■ and winter for people of average ' strength is from seven to eight I o’clock in the morning; for invalids from ten to eleven. Mrs. Lewis and myself have walked ! around our Common more than a thousand mornings with the happiest results upon health and spirits. By the way, is it not a curi- | ous fact that while our people are j clamoring for a large park, which must be located several miles away this most beautiful park which lies at their very doors should never be visited by them ? During these years of morning walks we can never, that we can recall, met a single person out for a “constitu- ! tional.” With the exception of the children of toil hurrying across to their tasks, we have it all to ourselves.—Dr. Dio Lewit. “Big Injun, .He ” Was in Washington the other • day. lie had just come from the scalping ground, and his blood boiled over with recollection of the war-dance and other cheerful ; things. He was invited to attend ! a reception at the residence of one of the heads of the departments, which invitation was accepted.— He went,‘and at once fell fiercely ' in love with the fascinating wife of “one of the heads” in question. ■He didn’t ,sit like patience <R» a monument, smiling at grief, not 1 he. He told his love. “But what shall I do with my present husband ?” inquired the lady. “I see about that,” replied the noble savage, “you never mind him; I fix him dead,” and be tapped bis scalping knife and tomahawk with his fingers in a very suggestive ! manner. “Big Injun, me” was in the street within ten seconds after that. , A woman has just died in a Scotch colliery village, who for 50 years has passed for a man. She jjad two wives, with one of whom ‘ she lived for LM years. I —■> —-—-— It is sail! there are no les* than 1,500 boys and girls from the I'uip ted States in the various universities and schools of Germany.

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