Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAKES R. 8080, Attorney I-rwxwz, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays TftX CR. the Auditor's Office. vJOnGtf it. S. PETERSON, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a No- ; tary Public, n nd draws Deeds, Mortgages, andotherinstruments in writing. OFFICE—Over Dorwin & Bro's. Drug Store. vl2n33tf DANIEL D. HEELER, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. vlonf;2tf D. STUDABAKER, Attorney a,t Tuaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure pensions end other claims against the government; ! buy and sell real estate; exam ne titles I and 'pay taxes, and other business per- I tainingto real estate agency. 13-23. CHARLES H. FRANC E, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. I)ROMPT attention paid to all busi- . siness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds nnd Mo>tgages and other Instruments in Writing. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law Office. 13:37 P T WE EKS, Attorney nt Lan. DECATUR, INDIANA. XTTILL practice law in Adams and udyY joining counties. Is Deputy Prosecutor. Office opposite the Recorder's office. 13:42tf. PH Y SIC I ANS. E.A.JELLEFF. W. It. SCIIBOCk’ JELLEFF A SCHROCK, PliysicianN and surgeons,’ DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. 4 vSnlfitf. CHAR LES L.CI R TIS S, 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, 11-30 A x drew S or®’, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —On Second Street, over W. G.orncer& Brother’s Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIN, ill. Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block. v11n25 * FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYER SD RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Stoie. Bay Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. J~AH E S R . 808 O, Real Estate A sent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Three thousand acres of good farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farin’ he will sell it to you. If you want your land Sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnG AUCTIONEER. CHARLES K. FRANCE, A.uotioneer, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the public that he i« I a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, I and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. jT i i’Twag go n e r , Licenced Auctioneer,' RESIDENCE, near Salem, Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. KIESSE HOUSE, l. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. TKird St., OjipotiU the Court Houtt, DECATUR, INDIANATHE 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 Street!, FORT WAY.NK, INDIANA. v!2n7 ‘f MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREKtfAN, Proprietor, Weet Jfain Street, near the Cublie Square FORT W4NYE, INDIANA. *ll*ll ' . If

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Soehii. 1 he Flight of Time. Who saith “Forgotten years are dead?” Time never dies; To’heaven departed years have sped, There to record things done and said, And even the thoughts that rise And fall like waves, and seem As evanescent as a dream. Vainly we deem the Past is gone; In all all we feel, In all we wish. e,r are. or can, i That which hath heen decides the man. T he Pst is very renl, And cnsts its light or shadow o’er The years that shall be evermore. To man immortal wliat are years? In pdgrimage Po many Hides, as he nears, Through love, and joy. and toil, and tears, His heavenly heritage. Another milestone standeth here! Pilgrim! be glad, the last, is near. Xew York Milllonares Importing Arab Steeds. 1 From the New York Star. | Among our millionares, who have used up pretty nearly every field of extravagance there is a growing fancy for full blooded Arabian hotses. Every one who wishes to maintain his position in society now is seeking an arrival of known pedigree fresh from the desert of Arabia. A number of the ver j* finest horses in the world have bi en imported to meet the de mat.dot this sudden fashion, which was set by Mr. Bennett. Jr., who drives a magnificent full blooded i gray Arabian, perfectly peerless, in points, style, action, and gener- I al beauty. George Wilkes owns another, a short remove from the magnificence of Cuis animal. Jerome talks of two or three he has secured and which are on the way hither, undergoing the ordeal of a sea voyage. The rage for the very best style of animal in blood and lineage has become so great that there is 1 being offered a supply to equal in some degree the demand. Mr. Foster, a well-known con-, noissetir in horse flesh, has a very fine Arabian stallion which he of f&s for sale at, of course, a high figure. This wonderful st^ed—by name Siad—is claimed to be a relative of the fabulous Janizear. I which leaped the citadel walls with the last Mameluke Bey when fleeing from Mahomed Ali in 1819. Which is plunging into and riding over history, Mr. Foster, ata hand gallop. What the rest of the Arabians owned by our millionaires can do, must be something fright ful after this has been taken for gospel truth. A circus performance bf Arabiau steeds,*ridden by ! tljpv* ovtiers, at Jerome Park, might not be uninteresting if they be really capable of such wonders. Feeing Walters. One of the latest bits of Faris gossip turns upon the custom of giving it son to the waiter. The Parisians having “inftugurated” a revolution against further compliincc tbith this system, a customer at" one of the fashionable cases lately paid his reckoning without atlding thereto the ordinary complement. The waiter said nothing, but regarded the customer, who was an old habitue of the es tablisbincnt, with a look of blank remonstrance, tacitly enforcing an explanation. ‘•Alphonse,” said the customer, kindly, but flrrhly, am very sorry, but. I belong to the society for giving nothing to the waiters.” "Oh, Monsieur, don't say so,” cried Alphonse, “you are an old pratique, and in that case 1 may bint to you that I, and Eugene and Louis yonder all belong to the society for spilling hot coffee over the trowsers of stingy customers.” The member of the society for giving nothing to waiters immediately presented tcu centimes to Alphontjyjand went on his way a sfidder and wiser man. Mark Twain's Fortune. A "celebrated fortune teller” of the Hub, told Mark's fortune the I other day. as follows : Yours was not. in the beginning a criminal nature, but circumstan j ces changed it. At the age of nine vou stole sugar; at fifteen you, stole mopey; at twenty you stole , horses; at twenty-five you com-* mittcil arson; at jhirty—hardened in crime—yon Ixecamc ah editor. I Since then your descent has been rapid. You are now a public lee- ■ turcr. Worse things are iu store for you—you will be sent to Con -1 gre«s; next to the penitentiary. i and finally happiness will come to you again—all will be well —you will be banged. Youth's companion—A pretty gid.

The Man on Horseback. Certain ardent friends and admirers, assisted by artistic talent, are busy getting up an equestrian statue of President Grant to adorn the front of the treasury building. The money has been subscribed, bis Excellency consulted, and the horse seFctetj from which to model the animal, and the artist is at work. One could well question the taste of this performance. It comes within touching distance of the Vanderbilt bronzes. It is too much the work of the man to be an honor. We all know the motive that animates the move. ‘W e fed to know,” as my excellent friend, the Rt. Rev. Maxwell. P. G., was wont to say, that if his Excellency were to wait till the end of his term, the subscriptions would be slow to swell to the necessary amount. W lien completed, the man on horseback will look upon the melancholy, unfinished monument to George, the father of his country, and since then a long line of Presidents have coipe and gone, who. had they desired, might have figured in bionze or marble, and called for the effigies' during their briet hour of patronage. But it is a waste of good ink to be discussing a question of taste with this administration. It has all sorts of sense but p. sense of propriety. There is, however, a little inner history connected with this equestrian statue worth giving to the public. The work originates in Philadelphia, under the di ( reel supervision of Pig iron Kelley. And this accounts forcer tain lacteal fluids in the cocoanut Up to a certain time it was believ ed, if not known, that the President sympathized with Western interest. Our Gov. Hayes, for example, had ft very satisfactory talk on that subject with the General, and said that his views sounded as if based on the statistics of David A. Wells. When, however, his message made its appearance, there was found a total revolution, and all the might of the administration was brought to bear in favor of the present infamous inequality of taxation under which Western interests are being buried. As soon as it was whispered about that part of the message had been j prepared and put in by old<Fig-iron i Kelley himself. The bronze horse had proved more fatal to us than the wooden horse of Troy. How How could his Excellency resist the soft persuasion of a gentleman who was doing such a grand thing for him ? An equestrian statue—how far ahead of the other heroes of the war he would lie. Where is your old Pap Thomas now ? What j are Western interests to this ? Let I us have infamous tariff's; let them jbe augmented Ulysses will sit for ages in immortal bronze, long after these transieit measures have passed and we small men forgotten. Well, as the statue is to be erected, we must have an appro I priate inscription, and I humbly suggest the following: Erected to th<* Honor Os Ulysses 8. Grant, General, And President. Os obscure origin a questionable training. He held himself aloof from parties, And jfeitriotically Had no principles. Entering the army, He fought bravely and won renown By making the ro.id to Richmond A highway of human bones; ’ Happening to be the first in command When the Confederacy tell, From sheer exhaustion. A grateful people made him President. He proved his science By reaching into the unknown For his Cabinet. He was generous, And, to those who brought him gifts, He gave fat office; And charitable. For he fed his family at the public crib: i And lives immortal as the only man W ho ever helped A brothet-iu-law. This monument Is built Os protected copper Monopolized pig-iron, By a grateful few. Who fattened famously While the people staTved. Some may question the good taste of this, but I submit that it is quite in keeping with the monument Itself. If the President can [ afford that statue, I can stand the inscription.— Washington Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial, ( Radical.) ■■ - - — I I— ♦ — - '■ There is a difficulty in one of the Richmond churches, because the brethren with moustaches drink from the Ik>wl at the lore feast, and the ladies wont drink after them. The publisher of Greeley’s “Amcrican Conflict’’ sohl 250,000 P*picfl of the first volume, and were receiving order* it the rate of 500 ■ div when Horace went bail for Jeff. Divis. The sale m three 1 diy« fell to fifty, and »**ir r*lH*d.'

A Running / 1A Debt. A young man running in debt is a painful sight. The disposition to do this is the fore-runner and exponent of all evil. Apostolic ap thority says : "The love of money is the root of all evil.” But when a young man loves money so well as to get it while knowing lie cannot repay, or be willing to take it before he has honestly earned it, there is, in the most cases, lying behind this,, some passion so ' strong as to thus overbear his, moral principles in clamoring for its indulgence. Pleasure, especially unlawful pleasure, is a perilous and exhaustive thing. Lawful, necessary, and healthful pleasure. like the pure mountain air, and the gushing waters of the mountain spring, has be<*n made i aceessibla by our Creator, at com- i parutively little trouble and ex- ( pense. Any indulgence may be j known as unlawful when it can be reached only by running in debt. ‘ The highway of sin is an expensive ' road to travel. The fare, the ' charges, are all high. And they ‘ have to be paid twice over,, not' only in currency, but also in some- I thing more precious than gold, ' quarried from the depths and j springs of our being. No person ; ever traveled on that highway, so ! attractive in prospect, without be ( coming bankrupt, and pawning his ' own peace and life long befoie he got to the end of his journey. Whenever a young man, of mod- I erate salary, is seen always cramp- : ed for money, and ready to borrow of his friends, 1h? is surely on the ' downward grade of respectability. I Willingness to run in debt is of itself agn at vice. It is caused by ' the wisli to gratify the unlawful \ cravings lying behind, as yet perhaps undisclosed to the eyes or to the world. Experienced men really judge what this want of money indicates; and. however fair your character may seem in other respects, they will be satisfied, from this alone, that there is some hidden taint and unsoundness. However small your income, live with- I in your means. There is less un- ! happiness in doing without neees sary things than there is in the consciousness of being in dcM. Herodotus savs, that among the ancient Persians, “To tell a lie is considered by them the greatest disgrace; next to that, to be ini debt; and this, for many reasons, i but especially because they think that one who runs in debt must, of I necessity, tell lies.” Does your: experience, your consciousness, ( tell you this is true ? Always keep an unspent and impawned dime in the bottom ofj your pocket. Its touch will always be invigorating; and with; talisinanic power, send through your soul an energy, making you ! carry a countenance flushed with honorable frankness. This simple dime is invaluable, as the symbol of manly independence. The con-; sciousness of debt, in a young' man, begets incipient meanness ! of character, and, when continued, j developer this into a confirmetl habit, tainting the whole nature. A man yet in his prime, who has accumulated a fortune of two millions by honest industry, said, "I began with a determination to keep within my wages. When • getting only twenty-five cents a day, I alwavs saved something.” : This principle has carried hitrr; and will carry you, to high elevation of character, to great influence. 1 and to independent fortune. — The \ Occident. Young America. Saturday evening, a jolly little lad named Fred Light, only ten years old, walked up to officer Considine, at the Detroit and Milwaukee depot, and wanted to know the way to "the place where they let boys stay over night,” He was brought to the Central Station, in which place he was directly at home, taking a chair and elevating his ragged little Ixiots as high up on the stove as he couid, and he presently shovetl back his old bat and sang: '“I'll like a big «unflower, Out on the big blue sea; 1 don't care for nobody. And nobody cares for me.” A conversation revealed the fact I that he had dead-headed his way to j Detroit from Michigan City, the , conductor letting him ride “cause , he was so small.” His parents' were both dead, and ; hc wouldn't stand it to "be pounded bv his Uncle Henry,” and so-he made a start out into the wide world.— Detroit Free Press A iatly advertising for a hns- j l«nd. is very particular to have it understood that “none need apply who arc under six feet.’’ That female is strongly in favor of hy--1 men! > >

No. 45.

How the Bonds Were Bought A correspondent desires us to ' throw a Tittle light upon aquestion which he propounds, as to whether the bonds issued by the Government of the United States durins the war, were purchased for gold or paper: We have so many times explain ed this point and given it ventilation, that we had supposed it was generally understood by those ev ’en who had not given it special : attention. On the last day of the ■ year 1861 specie payments were : generally suspended by the banks ; of the country, and the Govern- ■ roent was compelled to follow’ suit. . All the six per cent, gold interest ! bearing bonds were issued after iliis time, and were purchased by I the capitalists with depreciated pa- ■ per money. Early in 1862 a large ; , amount of the legal tender notes, j • familiarly called greenbacks, were 1 issued, and. in most instances. . these constituted the money used ! iu payment of the bonds. | At different periods of the war these legal-tenders were worth dis- , ferent sums.,their value being regI ulated entirely hyThe price of gold. ' There were times when forty dol ■ i lars in gold would"purchase a hun-' idred dollars in greenbacks, and ; this period was taken advantage of lby the wealthy thieves and ShyJocks, to con vert their gold into i greenbacks, and with the greeni backs to purchase bongs, but we do not believe a case can be inI stanced where one of these loyal ' and patriotic cormorants went forward and gave his goW. dollar for dollar, in payment of bonds. They took every advantage of! I the unfortunate situation of the! (Government, and like the usurers i and thieves they were—vultures ' gloating over the torn carcass of the Union—they devised and planded only ,to increase their owp wealth, and to do it they robbed the people, and crippled the prosperity of the country. Most of the holders of these I I bonds have already been more i ' than paid. They went, when the ■ North most suffered, and with their forty dollars in gold convert- I ed into one hundred in currency j purchased a hundred dollar bond.' This drew them interest at six per . cent, per annum in gold, or six I i dollars on the hundred. Say they • have held the bonds seven years,! I the aggregate interest in the seven • years is forty-two dollars in gold, a sum two dollars •greater than . I was originally paid for the bond ■ upon which this interest has been j ' received, and yet the people rob- ■ • her who holds it. comes forward I and dares to ask the people to pay j the principal of that bond also in i gold, thus giving him one hundred 1 and forty two dollars,in gold for ; seven years' use of forty. Suppose a man who has given I ; forty dollars in gold for a one-; hundred dollar bond, and keeps! the same locked in his safe for the .twenty’ years they are to run, all the while drawing interest at the rate of six percent, perjinnum in gold, and at theemlof tlwse-Vwen- j ty years he receives his principal also, he will have two hundred and twenty dollars in return for the • loan of his forty. This is the style of financiering, which our loyal Congresses have been indulging in since 1861. and . every step they have taken in the matter of finances has been planned and dictated by the capitalists i themselves, for where they could j not coax and wheedle with loyal ! whines, they could buy ! No one has suffered from it but the people and they have not been sufficiently awakened yet to dare to ’ upset the infamy at the ballot-box. The industry and prosperity of the ■ country "has been crushed down and made to pay tribute to an aristocracy created by act of Congress. The people arc asked to pay i these bondholders m gold, but no !bondholder gave gold for his But they will never be paid at aIL Each day . serves to o[>en more and more the eyes of the people, and each day adds t hundreds to that grand army of 1 Repudiat on, which will not long , hence march, and when it marches this mystery will be cleared up. I — Pomeroy t Democrat. A good story is told of Theo .dore Parker and Ralph Waldo ■ Emerson. A confident Millerite meeting Parker just as he was leaving Emerson's house, said to him : "Friend, do yon know that the world is coming to an end next week ?” Parker replied, “Ob’ ; that don't concern me; I live in ,Boston.'’ Passing on, he saw Emerson, and a.-keti the same ques tion. Emerson's answer was: "Well, let it come to an end ; we ! can get along -/till as well vith- ■ out it”

Religious Bigotry In The Newburyport Herald has of late unearthed some of the doings of. the Puritan bigots wjjo on the banks of the Merrimac over two centuries ago* The yj Quakers,'it seems. were nipnng earliest religionists in the valley of the Merrmfac who from the Puritans. In 1859, Thomas Macy of Salisbury, Mass, was fined thirty shillings, for sheltering three Quakers in his house, for three quarters of an hour, from a violent rain storm. He stated in his defense that hg,waa sick at the time and in bed, and hurried them off as soon as the storm’ would permit, fearing they were Quakers. His thirty shillings was a good investment, as the poet Whittier chronicled him in one of his poems :nd thereby he has attained what many have struggled for without gaining it—immortality. The Quakers were afterward hanged in Boston. The first Quaker Society in that section was formed in Amesbury, in 1704, and has continued to the present time, Whittier being one of its members. The organization seems to have struck terror into the Puritan ranks, for in 1816 a fast was had lin the first Parish of the West Newbury, that the people might unite in prayer to God that lie , would prevent the spread ,o.f the Quakers. They had a society in Newburyport in 1744, with a house of worship on High street, Belleville; tut Xs Quakerism found this an uncongenial soil, they moved and built another meeting-house, which has this season been rebuilt, at Turkey Hill, West Newbury, where some of the best people of the country now worship after the manner of George Fox and William Penn. ■—l * — ■ “Oroide” Watches. For a considerable time past I “oroide” watches have been widely ! advertised, and a too gullible public has doubtless made the trade in I these inferior and often worthless time-keepers a profitable one. The following sketch shows the manner in which they are manufactured : “ “In Switzerland the several pieces that go to make the com- ! plete watch are made at separate factories remote from.each other, and the watch-maker is the party ' who puts the different pieces together. The watch maker pur- ■ chases his stock by the thousand ; j or the thousand pieces for differ- , ent factories. As a consequence ' or such a want of system in making the different, pieces, there are always large quantities improperly finished and perfect. These ini i perfect pieces are again slightly ; altered and put together, and constitute the movement for the “oro- ! ide watch. - ’ These movements ! are placed in brass cases rganß-H | factored for this very purpose. S ' costing about seventy five cents ■ each, and exported to England and i America, where it has been defi- ' nitely settled the greatest number l of fools exist. The French Government will not admit them unless i they are truly and correctly de- : scribed, and the English Government places them under the ! ban in so far as to prohibit the ! use of genuine names or trade marks; J)ut, like our own Government, it reaps a profit from their importation and sale. These are ! the famous “oroide” watches. They are worth, according to some of our largest genuine practical dealers and watch-makers in this city (New York.) from 81.80 to ,84 each. The very best quality cost but 855 a dozen. They sell in the bogus stores from 8” to 825 each—-and often for double and treble those sums. — American ■ Artizan. The Ward’s Island Inebriate Asylum. An interesting conversation has j been reported by which we find that the principal of this establishment regards it as absolutely worthless for the purpose for which it is kept up. From his view it would appear that all such establishments are ultimately useless, because they never accomi plish what they are intended to. and what is done, pearly if not quite as well without them. Ho holds that few persons or none • are ever permanently cured of "the passion for whisky.” and that ■ no person can be cured unless he ••had the will” to relinquish his bad habit If* man "has the : will” it is easy enough to see thatr hc needs no asylum. From thia ■ conversation appears the important ■ fact that the authorities have placed in charge of a hospital established for the treatment of a particular disease a man who does not I I believe in the existence of that disease —for Dr. Fisher s word* , point distinctly to the idea that he J lias no proper conception of dipsomania as based upon a pathological condition and amena- ! Ide to remedies. —Aeir York Her- ’ 11 “ The chiW who cried foran hour ' one day last week, dKbx'tggt iL