Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1870 — Page 1

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 18.

ATTORNEYS. JAMES R. 8080, Attorney at law, decatur, Rid. Draws Deeds, Mortgages, and Contracts, Redeems Lands and pays Taxes. Office-opposite the Auditor's office. R. S. PETERSON, Attorney at law, decatur, Ind. Prompt attention paid to all business entrusted to his eare. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing, Office over Dorwin & Bro’s Drug Store. DANIEL D. HELLER, Attorney at law, decatur, Ind. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. Office opposite the Recorder's office. 10:52 D. STUDABAKER, Attorney~at law, decatur, Ind. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties, secure pensions and other claims against the government, examine titles, buy and sell land, and attend to other business pertaining to the real estate agency. 13:23 CHARLES - M. FRANCE. Attorney at law, decatur, Ind. Arompt attention paid to all business entrusted to hi- care. Is a Notary Public, draws Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments in writing, Office in J. R. Bobo’s Law Office. 13:37 P. T. WEEKS, Attorney at law, decater, Ind. Will practice law in A/ams and adjoining counties. Is deputy Prosecutor. Office opposite the Recoraer's office. 13:42

PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELEFF. W. H. BCIIBOCK. JELEFF & SCHROCK, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS > Decatur, Indiana. Office on Second street, opposite the Public Square. 8:15 CHARLES M. CURTIS? - PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, Ind. Having permanently located in this place, tenders his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office at Burt House. 11:36 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, Indiana. Office on Second street, over W. G. Spencer & Bro's. Hardware store. 8:42 A. J. ERWIN, M. D., SURGEON. DISPENSARY, AVALINE BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, Indiana. 11:25 ~~s7d A YERS, M?D.. RESIDENT EAR & EYE SURGEON, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Office southwest corner Main and Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. Artificial eyes inserted. 12:44 BEAL - ESTATE - AGENT'S. JAMES R. 8080, Real estate agent, decatur, Ind. Three thousand acres of good farming land, several towh lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. It 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. AUCriONEERS.’”' CHARLES M. FRANCE, Auctioneer, decatur, ind a, announces to the pub’ic that he is a regulaily Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all public Sales when requested. Office in Bobo’s Law office. ~I~P WAGGONER, T ICENSED AUCTIONEER, RE3Inear Salem, Adams Co., Ind. Postoffiee address, Wilshire, Ohio. Special attention given to crying public sales. 13:24 “EMANUEL - WOODS, Licensed auctioneer, drcaTUR, Indians. Will attend Public Sales in the country on short notice. 13:47 hotels" MIESSE HOUSE. I J. MIESSE, PROPRIETOR, On 3rd Street, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. The traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place Good sample rooma. 11:9 ~ MAYER TIOUSE, JW.- BULL, PROPRIETOR. Corner of Calhoun and Wayne streets, Fort Wayne,’lndiana. 12:7 MAIN STREETEXCHANGE? A FREEMAN, PROPRIETOR West ZEMain street, near the Public Square. Fort Wayne, Indians. 11:11 II ED EK LN HOU SE, A J. H. MILLS, PROPRIETOR, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Strtet, Fort Wayne, Indiana. General Stage office. G<x>d stabling in connection with this house. 12:25 SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. O. D. HURD, '\r.ANUFACTURER OF SASH. Doom, ill iso Bitsns. northside Canal, west of Gas works, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Custom work promptly executed. 11:25 JOB PRINTING. Decatur eagle job office, A. J. HILL, Priprinter. Plain and Ornamental Job Printing done on short notice. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. Blanks of all kinds constantly on hand. Office on west side Second street, over Dorwin A Bre’s. Drag Stort.

DECATUR, IND., l-’RIDAY, MARCH 18, 1870.

Xcrtry. Caprice. >T W. D. HOWELLS. l. She hung the cage at the window; “If be goes by,” she said, “He will hear my robin singing, And when he lifts his head, I shall be Bitting here to sew, And he will bow to me, I know.” The robin sang a love-sweet song, The young man rained bis head , The maiden turned away and blushed ; “I am a foolI” she said, And went on bordering in silk. A pink-eyed rabbit, white as milk. n. The young man loitered slowly > By the house three times that day ; She took her bird from the window; “H« need not look this way.” She sat at her piano long, And sighed, and played a death-sad song. But when was done, she said, “I wish that he would come! Remember, Mary, if he calls, To-night—l’m not at home.” , So when he rang, she went—the elf; — She went and let him in himself. m. They sang full long together Their tongs love-sweet, denth-sad ; The robin woke from his slumber, And rang out, clear and glad. “Now goi” shecoldly said 'tis late;” And followed him—to latch the gate. He took the rosebud from her hair, While “You shall not!” she said; He closed her hand within his own, And while her tongue forbade, Her will Was darkened in the eclipse Os blinding love upon his lips.

Our Economical President. The Allentown (Pa.) Democrat in reproducing the able speech of Mr. Stiles in the National House of Representatives, truthfully remarks that persons of humble origin are’, more apt to "put on imperial airs when favored by good fortune, than those who have been reared in affluence. None are so apt to complain of their dinner abroad as those who live on corn bread and bean soup at home Gen. Grant was raised iu comparative poverty, and afterwards was reduced to such straits, of imj eenniosity as very few people, we are glad to say, ever realize. When he was dismissed from the service in California, he opened a billiard saloon in San Francisco, which he kept until he could keep it no longer. Then he sought the charity of his relations. When he arrived in New York, he had not a dollar left, aud was indebted to the afterwards Confederate Gen. Buckuer, for means to reach his wife’s relatives near St. Louis. He lived there for some time, on their land, and kept himself supplied with whisky by selling wood by the half cord on the streets of St. Louis. Failing to make any progress in this business, his father took him into his tan yard at Galena, as a sort of clerk, in which situation the war found him, without a dollar of money, and wholly demoralized in character. * By means which we do not propose to speak of now, -lie became President of the United States, and all accounts agree that he is the most extravagant, snobbish and supercilious Chief Magistrate we have ever had. The White House is no.longer be the plain, homely abode of an Unpretending Republican President ; but the air of regal grandeur and the costly sumptuousness of the princely courts of the old world are to be introduced to astonish, awe and impress the hard-working citizens of this boorish country. To gain an idea of the change that has so gradually crept over us, and the contrast the White House to day presents to the same establishment a score of years ago, one lias but to make a formal call of respect upon the President. No longer does be find the main entrance standing open to all comers. Even at the very threshold* he is reminded that the latcbstring does not bang out as in days of yore. The house of the President is closed against the common throng. To Im? sure, the great dignitary may bo seen, but not as in days gone by, in a plain, familiar manner. The visitor must understand at the outset that he is calling upon no ordinary )>ersonage. A flnnky, in full dress, receiveshim at the door. All the paraphernalia of swallow-tailed coat, white vest and choker, black trousers and white gloves, with which this obsequious door opener astonishes the visitor, is designed to prepare the mind with something more grand and aristocratic within. The economy in the present ad ministration that President Grant promised in his Inaugural and preached in his message, letters, speeches and talk, and about which

the Radical press boasts so complacently, is, like so much else of Radical lingo, of a very novel kind.' Save us from any more economy i of this sort. A few dozen clerks were discharged from the depart- i ments last fall, a number of Gov-! ernment workmen, who did not happen to be of the Radical persuasion, were turned off, the salaries of poor fellows docked for a few hours' absence on account of! family cares—these are the sum to- . tai of the economy. This caused j great hurrah in the Radical camp,! but the real facts, as regards the extravagance practiced by Grant at the White House, as just shown ' up on the floor of the House by 1 Mr. Stiles, ofAhc Allentown, Pa., ! District, are rather damaging to these idle boastings of economy we liave been accustomed to hear. The House of Representatives having before it the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive Appropriation bill, on the 17th of February, Mr. Stiles made the remarks below given regarding the prodigal and profligate expenditures at the Presidential mansion, the whole backed up with facts and figures that left no room for denial. Mr. Stiles said: Mr. Chairman.—l do not understand the entire expenses of the executive department (I mean Executive proper, the President’s expenses,) have brought to the atten tion of the House in this appropriation, and in order that the whole question may be fairly presented I will quote from the New York Ann, of February 7, a comp; rison of the expenses of the White House in 1862-63, with the same expenses in 1870-71, as follow* : Expenses of the White House in 1862 and 1863. President Lincoln, when the war was at its height, and the duties of the executive office required more clerical and other labor than ever before or since, asked for— One private secretary at $2 500 One secretary to sign land patents 1 500 One steward ......... 1200 One messenger 900 Stationery and contingent 1 000 Hay of Major John Hay, military secretary 2 450 9 550 President’s own salaries 25,000 Total salaries .... 34 550 1870 and 1871. President Grant has asked for the next fiscal year a continuance of the force he has put on duty since the 4th of Morch last, namely: President U.' S. Grant $25 000 Private Secretary, Robt. Douglas 3 500 Asst, private secretary J. T. Eley 2 500 Executive clerk, L. P. Suckley. . 1 800 Executive clerk, C. C. Sniffin ... 1 800 Detailed clerk, W. 11. Crook. 1 600 Detailed clerk, W. H. Fry.... 1 600 Hilitary secretary, Major and Brevet Brigadier General , Horace Porter (actual secretary ) 2 75C Military secretary, Major and / Brevet Brigadier General 0. E. Babcock, (actual assistant secretary) 2 750 Military secretary, Captain and Bievet Brigadier General Badeau (scribe) 2 200 Military secretary, Brevet Brigadier General and Lieutenant Colonel F. T. Dent, presidential doorkeeper 3 600 Steward *........ *. 2 000 i. 840 Furnace keeper...'. ...... 720 Policeman 1 320 Policeman 1 320 Watchman 900 Watchman...-.., 900 Doorkeeper-in-chief 1 000 Assistant doorkeeper 600 Secretary to sign land patents, now on duty at Interior Department 1 500 Stationery and contingent fund 5 000 Lamplighters 1 000 Laborer® on sidewalks. 1 000 Laborers on grounds 3 000 $69 800 AtMtWonal Expenses of the White House. Fuel 5 000 Manure and hauling 3 000 Painting exterior 15 000 Gas 5 000 Plants &e., for green house..... 5 000 Appropriation of $25 000 for fitting up and refurnishing has been exhausted and an additional amount is asked for of.. 30 000 60 000 Salaries 69 000 $132 800 White House under Lincoln.... $34 550 White House under Grant IS2 800 Grant over Lincoln (.peace ’»• war) S9B 250 An increase of S2BO per day for every day in the year. Thus it will be seen that Grant’s ‘ administration, elected as the peoI pie were promised in the interests I of economy, in the first year asks for the expenses of the President’s House the enormous sum of 9132800. This sum exceeds the amount ’ expended bp President Johnson In ! any one year, and greatly exceeds 1 the expenditures by Lincoln or ' Johnson. President Lincoln io a

time of war only expended 834,550. Here is economy with a vengeance. In comparing the expenses of the administration of President Johnson with the expenses of the present Administration the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. Dawes.] in reply to his colleague, [Mr. Butler,] uses the following language. “Now, sir what does our Ad ministration estimate that it will carry on the Government for tlie next year ? The sum estimated for is $331,097,174 62, and increase over the last estimate of the administration of Adrew Johnson for 1868-9 of $28,097, 174 62 But we cut down his estimates 820.000,000, so that the exact difference between this book of estimates for the present Administration and appropriations made the last year of Andrew Johnson’s administration is $49,692,538 01. It is due to the Post Office Department to say that there is an error of 87,000,000 in the footing, which reduces the amount to some 842, 000 000.” Sir, this Administration came into power under a pledge made in the Republican platform that the Government should be administered with the strictest economy. The exact words of the platform are as follows: “The Governmcnt’of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy; and the corruptions which have been so, shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical reform.” General Grant, in his letter of acceptance indorsed the plank of the platform, as follows : ‘•I indorse their resolutions. If elected to the office of President of the United States it will be my endeavor to administer all laws in good faith, with economy, and with the vietf of giving peace, quiet, and protection everywhere.” But as a commentary upon both the platform aud the letter of acceptance let me read from a speech of the gentleman from Massachucctts, [Mr. Dawes] chairman of the committee on Appropriations, a committee especial!}* charged with the considerations of these very questions of the expenses ot the government: “Now, sir, this is a public work; it is a new public work. There is no necessity, no pressing necessity, of commencing it to-day. Does this load of estimates justify us in supporting this proposition ? Why, sir. this book of estimates contains estimates for appropriations for public works of 824,625173 85, against appropriations for the same objects last year of 85,493,000! Sir»4hc administration! of Andrew Johnson surrendered to the allegation that it bad been profligate in expenditures. The people tried it upon that charge and found it guilty, and took from it the sceptre of power, and put it in our hands upon our professions of economy in the administration of the public service. And the people intend to hold us to our profession and promise.” And further than that, he says I the appropriations asked for ex i cced in amount the expenditures • of the last year of the last Adtnin- | istration by 849,000.000; but ns the gentleman states, a reduction in • the estimates of the Post Office : Department reduces that amount j to 842,000.000. Tfle gentleman from Wisconsin, I [Mr. Washburn] moves au amend-1 ment to strike out the appropriation to the “assistant secretary who shall be a short hand writer,” and to the other clerks mentioned in the amendment. In the expenditures of this Administration, coming into power as it did under the pledges of economy, wo should have something more tangible in the shape of economy from the ! majority of this Congress than the mere words of the gentleman. Reduction by refusing a clerk to the President will not quiet the public mind as to the profligacy of the Administration in its general I expenditure of the people’s money. You charge that Andrew Johnson i was repudiated because of extrav- ! agance. How can you hope to escape the judgment of deceived j people when you are squandering! money without reference to eeon- i omy ? But the expenditures, according' to these estimates and according to I newspaper reports, exceed the a- ! mounts of the expendituresuntier' the last Administration. When compared with the administration ! of President Lincoln, who con ' ducted the affairs of this Government in time of war. they exceed very largely in all the Department* theKeapenditures of that Administration. Now, in the time of peace, they should, if ever, be reduced ; yet yo® greatly increase 1

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them. Thia bill appropriates nearly 820,060,000. I warn you that your extravagance shall be held up before you at.d the country through the Democratic portion of this House. Imperialism, Wathington Correspondence of the New York Herald. The state dinner of last Wednesis concede to have been superior to any remembered by the oldest habitue of presidential entertainments. A certain minister, representing a very powerful European government, remarked to me of the dinner: , “Do you know, sir, I have attended some of the best loyal dinners in Europe, and I don’t remember a single one that was better in any particular than that last night. Everything was so perfect in the arrangements, and the president so gallant and attentive to the ladies. I did not suppose the president could be so much of a gallant. He quite surprised me, and I am sure the ladies themselves were quite charmed with his man ncr.” From this you may suppose that Ulysses is becomming famous for bis entertainments, and a great favorite with the ladies. Indeed, be gives the best dinners in town. He has the best butler and cook in the capital, and devotes attention to some of the preparatory details. Then he has adopted a plan calculated to make his feasts more palatable. He always has ladies among the company. Unlike bis predecessors, he never gives a dinner to gentlemen alone. He is decidedly opposed to stag parties. A lively sprinkling of the fair sex is always found around his hospitable board. And then he lays himself out in the floral line. * * To all the ladies invited he sendb mr.gnificient bouquets on the morning of the dinners. The choicest flowers are gathered for these bouquets. The white house conservatory and the gardens of all the flowrists in town arc ran sucked for appropriate bouquets. No wonder the ladies all admire the president and cherish his beau tiful bouquets with so much care. I know three ladies at least who attended the. last state dinner, and who have put away their bouquets to be nurtured and tenderly watched over as sweet momer.toes of the occasion.

Glass. This material is generally looked upon as largely resisting the action of fluids. It is invaluable to tlye chemist because of this qual- j ity, fluoric acid being the only reagent which will attack it de 1 structively. It is still true, however, that much'of the glass in common use yields some of the constitutents or its surface to solution in water, and will lose its polish Housewives will toil in vain to restore brightness to the inside of decanters and tumblers which have become cloudy by long use. It is not a deposit on the surface which looks so much like dirtinessto the eye of a careful mistress, but a loss of substance which has been 1 solved away. Glass is perishable aside from being so easily broken. It is more easily scratched than many suppose. The continual use of silk in wiping spectacles will be sure to cover the lenses with minute scratched till they are blurred, and the troubled wearers begins to think that his eyes are growing I dim. To keep lenses from being scratched requires no small care. They should never touched with silk, but only with linen, or cham-ois-skin, and this as free from dust as possible. The more subtle effects of light and magnetism upon \ glass are exceedingly .. curious. Some sort of change is induced in the atoms, with more or less permanence. One or two caseshave been recently reported of landscape pictures being visibly im- j pressed on glass surfaces after i long exposure in a bright sun. ’ These statements remain yet to be ; verified, but. they are not more singular than the well-established i fact that a magnetic current sent! through a coin, lying on glass, I will leave a copy of the coin on the glass. _ The Massachusetts Ploughman says there is a close and intimate connection between the nervous and secretory systems of a cow. I and this explains the fact she will; oftefe “hold up her milk,” as it is ■ termed. It shows also that every | milker should strive to be on good , 1 terms with the cow be is about to milk, if he is a perfect stranger 1 to her, he should take time to gain i her confidence and good will by i handling her gently and petting I her, or giving her something she is | foor of to ent.

Waste, We venture to Say that there is no other business that man followed} is there sb much waste as in farming. Tliere are thousands of hflfebandmen to-day, who provide lit?* tie or no shelter fur their stock; who feed hay and other fodder upon the ground, allowing it to be trampled into tbejinire; who allow the gathering piles of manure to leach and dry away, by being exposed to the sun and rain; who carelessly save and care for wheat, corn, oats or barley for seed, and then curse those intolerable pests, the rats, for breaking into their hordes, or if they fail to come promptly forward in spring time, murmur at the Providence that decrees such a cold, backward spring; who house the mowing machines, horse rakes, cultivators, plows, ahd other implements out doors, and the next season grow! at the maker for using such rotten material; who, for the lack of a new post or a few nails properly driven, allow every gust ot wind to blow down a portion of fence; who use a light, insnffiicient team, plow shallow, thoughtless of the hidden riches just an inch or two below, and who never think of planting a tree. Every neighborhood has this class, and if Mother Earth was not wonderfully lavish, and, to a degree, heedless of ill ire, they would come to the end of their financial halter prodigious quick; but, thanks to’amore extended circulation of that great civilizer, the newspaper, this state of tilings is becoming changed for the better. Farmers see with clearer vision the increased thrift and prosp< rity at tendant upon a more careful economy and thorough system of culture anclthey are awakening to the fact that the once utterly despised “book farming” has at least some merit. ’ * It is admitted there is no safer or surer means of livelihood than to be a tiller of the and we opine that with the same capital and rigid economy applied the returns will be fully equal to that of any mercantile calling. ' ster y a si a ar. Some young ladies and gentlemen Who were taking advantage of the fine sleighing in the interior of the State not long since, in attending a donation, surprise, or wedding party, or something of the kind, were obliged to sit thrde on a seat. One of the seats contain, ed two gentlemen and one Indv. The gentlemen, of course, would not allow the lady to take an exposed seat; she, therefore, sat in the middle. As the night was extremely cold, gentleman No. 1 quietly passed his hand, a remarkably small one by the way, into the lady’s muff. As the raeff was not very capacious, the lady quietly removed one of her hands from the same In a few moments she felt a movement on the other side, aud found gentleman No. 2 attempting to pass his hand into the muff on j the other side. She then quietly I drew her hand from the muff and allowed him lodo so. Wbwt took plaec afterwards in the muff she is unable to say. But each of the gentlemen privately reported to a small circle of friendshow warmly the lady had returned the presure of his hand in the muff, while the lady as privately reported to her friends the magnificent sale she had made of both the gentlemen. The Outward Test of Character. There is a physiognomy in the human back, the wave of the rim of a hat the heigbth of a shirt collar, by which a man may be recognized quite as well as by bis beaming face. The ignoring of this familliar truth for a purpose, was singularly illustrated in the i Rush trial, when the endeavor was ! made to shake the maid servant’s indentification of the murderer, because she had only seen his back. Yet- we do not remember if the learned Judge or anybody else asktxl the jury lo consider wiieiher, ■ in their daily experience they were j accustomed to know people by their backs as well as by their faces. To know such man’s walk, the shape of such another man’s back, <kc., seems to belong to a specially (acute and Indian like instinct; I while sailors, in refutation of that 1 meager sense', which excuses some failure of recognition by such a ' pretense as -‘I could not see his . face.” talk airily, and with a metI apbor drawn from their own proi session, of knowing some unfaiailiai figure “by the cut of his jib.” i These loose expressions all point I to a deeper principle, to the curious marks which the interior soul leaves behind it wherever it comes in contact with earthy matter or ■ earthly manners and modes. It all I comes under the head of style, ' which we have been told, ‘•makes d ! the man.” Tell us a particular , style, and we shall know the man. And in dearth of all o'ther helps 1 and tokens show us a man s trunk, t and we may be pretty sure as to ; what he is.—XU the Yenr Round. It is said that petroleum, or ooal oil, will certainly eare cows of lice.