Decatur Eagle, Volume 6, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1862 — Page 1

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ttbuhj DECATUR EAGLE. 18 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY A. J. HILL, EDITOR. PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson’s < building, over the Drug Store. — Terms of Subscription: One copy. one year, in advance, $1 00 if paid’within the year, 1 50. If not paid until the year has expired, 200 ( ILj*No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid except at the option of the { Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One square,(ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 ; Each subsequent insertion, 25 K7*No advertisement will be considered less ; than one square; over one square will Im 1 conn- I ted and charged as two; over t wo, as three, etc,' O’A liberal discount, from the above rates, made or. all advertisements inserted for a period i longer three months. | LFThe above rates will be strictly adhered to under all ircumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared lo do all kinds of job-work, isa neat and workmanlike manner,on themcst i reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, being new and of the lat •st styles, we feel confident that satistaclion > tun be given. Friend Hill, I sun ■ you for publication j the following poetry from che Household Journal. It is the sweetest thing written for many a day. By giving it a place in your paper, you will oblige your friend. W. D. Frazee. LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR. A good-wife rose from her bed one morn, Aud thought, with a nervous dread, Os the piles of clothes to be washed, and more Than a dozen mouths to be fed. Tbeie’s the meals to get for the men in the held And the children to send away To senool, and the milk to be skimmed and churned: And all to be done that day. It had rained in the all the wood Was as we* as it could be; And there were pudding and pies to bake, beside A loaf of cako for tea And the day wa. not. and h> r aching Lead i Throbbed wearily. as site said. “If maidens but knew what good wives know, They would be in no haste to wed.” “Jeanie, what think yon I told Ben Brown I Called the farmer from the well:,, Aud a flush crept up to his bronzed brow And his-eyes halt bashfully fell; “It was this,” he said; and coming near, He smileil, and stooping down, Kissed her cheek -* ’twas you were the best And the dearest wife intown! The farmer went b ick to the field, and the wife In a smiling and absent wav, Sang snatches of tender little son.fi She'd not sung for many a day. Aud the pain in her head was gone, and the clothes Were whit eas the foam of the sea; Her bn ad was light, aud her butter was sweet And golden as it could be. •‘Ju t think.” the children all called in a bresth “Tom Wood has run off to sea! He wouldn’t, I know,if he’d only ad As happy a home as we ” Tbs night came down, and the good-wife' smiled To herself, as she softly said: "Tis so sweet to labor for those we love, It’s not strange that maids will wed!” Mas. R B. .Edson. £O-K northern editor predicts that wool will be “king,” Does he mean wool on the back of a sheep or on the head of a nigger?—Prentice. jty Here is a conundrum got off by a Nebraska editor Why is a Confederate! bond like an impenitent sinner? Because ( it does not know that i-s redeemer live h. ‘I didi.’t sav, vour honor, that the man wa» intoxicated - 00. not by any mean*. — But this I will M, when last 1 saw him, he was wasl'tig bis face in a mud puddle, and drying n o'. » door mat. JE3TA lover se s I is sweetheart in everything he looks st just as a man, , bitton by a tn- I . •> e* ’’’l* in kis meat, dugs in he virt-.K, all roua I him. ar- • vert - ••■yay, but we tn» tnee 'ns cot .Iren of : m brain, u-hkr- .. t make so much noise in the world as their fond parents : desire,

DECATUK, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA JULY 21, 1882.

Effect of the Course of the Administration Press in Foreign Countries—lts Object. Bishop Mcllvaitw, of the Di icese of I Ohio, who has recently returned from a visit to Great Britain, which, i, is said, he undertook in a semi-official capacity, i under the auspices of the General Gov- ‘ ernment, states, aa we are credibly informled, that a chief difficulty which he was icalled upon to encounter, inwonviueing ' the people of that country of the justice !of the cause of the Government, and of (its ultimate power to put down the rebellion, anil of enlisting their sympathies in ibelial l , grew out of the opinion, prevalent, among them, that there is a large party lin the North —if not a majority, an active ' and powerful minority —which believes in I the justice of the Southern cause, and is ! desirous that it shall be successful, They owe this opinion, according to Bis op Bishop Mcllvaue, to the charges which — for purely party purposes — the Republi- . can press have in-.de against the Democratic party, in their attempts to prevent I its organization, and ask, with some appearance of reason: If the South is divided upon tbs quest on of restoring the Union—that party which has hitherto been numerically the strongest coinciding ; with the rebels—what demand is there upon them to take sides, either in felling or in action, wnh the Government? I litis is the state of things which the conduct of the Republican press has produced in Great Britain No Democratic journal upon the side the Ohio has admitted that the Democrats ot the North ( were in sympathy with (he rebellion; on ! the contrary, they have contradicted the (charge when made by journals ol the othI party. No Southern journal has recent!ly made any such statement; on the contrary, th»v hav ■ accused the Democracy of the North of the absence of that sympathy which, as they claim, they had die right to expect. The mischief, therefore, 1 lies solely at ’.he door of the Republican press and pollutions; and had their de- , signs been, as far ae possible, tc derange ! the cause of th* Government in ’.he eves if the intellig nt people of Great Britain, what could they have d< ne that would be more effectual? Another cause of the indifference which the people and the governing classes of Great Britain manifest toward (he side of the Government is to be found in the constant testimony which the Republican papers have borne (, f tl’» weakness and . incapacity of the Administration, individ- - ually and collectively- This species of I evidence coming from Democratic journj als w uld have had little effect. They know the character of party st ife «s well as we do, Bn a t ; ie e gect which it has in i working the judgements even of those i o desire to be impartial —too well, in'deed, to permit the criticisms of an oppo I sition newspap er t 0 fie of much effect to determine their opinions either of meas- ; ures or of men; but when leading organs of the Administration, with almost entire unanimity, are free to proclaim, ns well ■jin their reflections upon individuals as upoq specific acts and general policy, the entire incompetency of the AuministtaI tion to the task that is before it—when they se P misfortune and inefficiency, and see it traced directly to the want of the j qualities necessarr to success —what ! er nrs* have they but to believe? Intelligent gentlemen of Britts’ l birth and citigonship residing among us, wonIder a the—-as it appears to them—suicidal course of ■ he jonrnsls of the Adminis’ration Knowing the effect which the n har<r Pß o f Rvm pathv with the rebellion , made against the Democratic party must produce upon the minds of the people at, I home, they dread to send cop : *s of these journals tn their friends in England.— They know that the masses of their fel-low-suhjects have always looked upon the Democratic—ns the great governing party of the Union, the true rep esentative of those principles of civil freedom which »r- embodied in the Constitution, and j they do not need lo b* informed that, when those manses learn from such, tn i th»m, indisputable authority, that this partv believes in ths justice of the Southern cause, and hopes for its success, they will learn to look upon Secession as right, and the division of the Uni.nrt as a thing accomplished. If all the South and a majority nf the North are opposed to the restoration—so 'hey will, and, in fact, do reason—why should we desire to hav* th* Union restored? Why should we not desire to have the separation com- l-’tel and made perpetual? The urgency of many of the Administration journals for th* arming o f the ne- ' groes, and for enapinring them in the astive operations of the w ar, is taken aLroqd as another evidence of the weaktesi of ’h- Gbvernment —> quival»nt to an sdmi#«io»> t They know that the North I numeriaallv ’he strongs”, that the free ■vhtt* population of the North is three irn°* is great as that of the Cotton States, and they ask. with great appear - ; ance of reason, where, if the North is ■jpitod, is the ne«e»»ity of laying »o ranch •;

“Our Country's Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

* . —E-f- 1 - stress upon toe arming of the negroes, as I if upon that measure alone the success </f the No. th wae depending. Every article, ' f therefore, upon tt is subject, iu the R* j , ptiblicau newspapers, lias its effect to weft- , ken the hold which the cause of the Gov- , I ernment has Upon ’h* people of Europe. As a Pleasure, aside from this, it does ont . meet with approval. It is looked upon ' i j as giving a barbarous and cruel aspect to the war—as one of’.he last measures to ,: which an info iated party, desperate of f j success and careless of the opinion of the world, would resort. ii It is not difficult, to understand the pol- ; icy of tlte Republican journals in char ‘i’<g ■ t treason upon the gre t Democratic party ' of the North. They have chosen the, t‘ Democratic partv as the victim which is t, to bear off into the wilderness the burden of their own sins, faults and weakness. II and their consequences. In the face of ■; this (to them) greater d nger, they do • I not hesitate to sacrifice the good which esteem for and confidence in their cause, I' in the eyes of foreign nations, would con-1 ■ I fer. Like marines in a shipwreck they • are throwing overboard every thing, even ' i their provisions, in order to lengthen for > I a few days an unnecessary existence. I They will not succeed. The AdminisL tralinn from the begining has had the ! matter in its own hands. The whole ccnduct of tlte war has been its own. and it, lias bad i's own way in everv thing — ■ There is not a charge of a single pracbcal impediment interposed to the war by j Democrats, individually or collectively. ' i that can be substantiated. The fighting I I has been done by Democrats, and well 1 ! done. There is not a Republican journal | or editor that dare say to the contrary — The management has been even more ex ■jCltisvely in the hands of a Republican 1 , Administration. Not one Administration Journal can cite a single fact to show that , i the Democrats of the North are traitors iin notion or in sympathy, [f they dis-1 1 J trust the wi dom, the capacity or the j earnestness of the Administration, they '! have abundant, reason to do so from the ! 1 1 testimony o’fits own organs. If these • inrgrnssay that Lincoln is an entbecile, | ! lStanton an inflated and arrogan civilian, I 1 Welles a fool and McClellan a traitor, 1 ' who is to gainsay testimony so disinter-1 Rested? And where is the offense against I ‘ the nation or the people of an honest and 1 j constitutional effort to place, at the propter time, in better hands, our Government.—Cin. Enq. ■ From the 47th Regiment. , i Office of the Provo«t Mar-hii.,} 1 J Memphis Tenn , July 10, 1862. ( I , j Editor Eagle Sir:—lt bashaen some- , l time since I wrote you last. But having I ■ been du.idled in the Provost office soon I ! after coming her*. I have not nad time . to write to y--u. There was considerable i i 1 excitement in the ci y some few days • since, but all is quieting down now.— i '■ Tlte majority of th* citiz me have taken [ ', the oath of allegiance an I are quietly fol- ■ lowing their former avocations. The ci- ' i i ty is now presenting n lively appearance, I trade of all kinds has revived and the ’] scowl that many of the citizens put on ; i when we first came here has given away ! to a far more pleasant look, and many • acknowledge they were deceived in the “Yankees;” they having been taught that ■ i they were a lot of thieves and burglars. ' But the good behavior of our troops has t driven that impression away. At this t i time th* 47th is doing the Provost Guard • duty of the city. Yesterday they made ■ a run upon the whiskey holes of the city, and the result will prove successful, as they succeded in finding quite an amount ■ of the “Oh l be jisvfitl,” which they re--1 ' moved to headquarters, and arrested the ' keepers of the various holes of vice. The ' result will he fining the proprietors, and ,! passing the sentence of confiscation upon ■ old Mr. Whiskey. ' There i t occasionally some skirmishing ' doing on between our pickets and Jack- ■ , son’s cavalry. We had one man killed ft, , I few nights since and som* four or five wounded, and the first, train which st-j ’ tempted to run through from Corinth to I M“mphis, after finishing the road, was captured by Jackson's cavalry. It con- . sisted of but one car, in which there were eicrhl or ten commissioned officers, and about 2 ) privates, and some sutlers stores The value of the train did not amount to , much, but the fact of it being the only locomotive on the road, the loss was s«- ' verely felt. But all will soon be repaired and ample guards stationed to protect j 1 t 1 the road. , It is surprising to sec the amount ol t cotton and sugar bving shipped from ihit

place to the North. It has been secreted j ihrough the country to prev nt it being burned. But still the country is infested with cotton burners. A lew days since there were passes issued from this office 'to parties to bring in some cotton; and 1 when returning, within a few miles of the i city, they were overtaken by a baud ol these devils, and the cot’on and drays were burned, the mules and horses taken, and the sent on their way rujoicing, minus mules aud cotton. The election passed off quietly, resulting in the election of the entire Union (ticket. Every man who voted was required to take the oatb of allegiance, and ito see it executed a commissioned < fficer was stationed at the polL in*ev*ry ward ! in the city. The most rabid secesh in the city are ■ the ladies, (if it be not an insult upon the I sex to call them ladies, 1 ) many ot them nte insolent and annoying, so much so (that a few have been seat outside the. I Federal hues, that they may find associations more congenial cotheir nature — One of the most troublesome of these secesh “queens,” was sent atjay day before ; 'yesterday, in the person of Mrs. Gallo-1 wav, the wile of Ex Postmaster Galloway of this city, who at this time is tn the Confederate army; while his wife w is hv- ■ ing here in grandeur, upon the money i ( stolen from the P 0. Depar went, at the breaking out of the rebellion. The latest accounts from Vicksburg was that Com. Farragut would soon m ike , an inland city of ,t, as the work oi ditch- ( tig was progressing rapidly. Our forces re fortifying this city, aud the work is progressing satisfactorily . —- | The report of musketry ie being heard while Linn writing; thu presumption is! , that our pickets have been r.ltack-’d. To give you an idea of the number ta- ( king the oath, I will just state that since ' tlte IGlh ult. I have administered the oath to 2200, and there are three other clerks engaged in the office who have done about the same amount of work each, since I the same data. Hundred's are coming in Iftom Arkansas and Mississippi, who have ( ran away to avoid the conscription law of I the Confederate States. 1 The health of the 47th was never betj ter. I have seen some of the Decatur ; boys of the 1 Ith, a few days since; they ; are well. I will write soon again. Yo trs, <fce., Wm. VANCE ' Cynthiana Surrendered—Fighting Lasted Only Thirty Minutes. Covington, Ky , Julv 18. I I have just received the following, da- 1 I ted Boyd’s Station, Julv 18: George Saddler, a reliable man. hsa just coins in from Cynthiana lie says ( the city surrendered about five o’clock ' last evening. Fighting lasted about thirty minntes He saw Morgan and l.is men. and says the number is about twenty five i hundred men. He shook hands with. I Colonel Morgan and talked with him. i Morgan disarmed him and passed him. ; Says Morgan treated him with politeness, j and also reports that both bridges at Kel ! I let’s and Kimbrqughs’ are burned. IS'gned] Durant. Operator. G W FULTON. Superintendent Ky. C. R. R. Mrs Rochfoucald’s Maxims.— A wo- | man hater, a question,’ but loves to ask I one. The female mind is too poetical to j be tamely methodical. Who would mar ry a woman who punctuated her love let ter? Cupid is blind to everything—eave to, pin money. Praise a woman’s taste, and you may , attack her senses with impunity. Your candid friend has never anything pl*asing to say to you. He reminds you of his pet virtue by wounding you with it. If you want to know a woman’s true character, linger after the guests have gone, atid listen to what she has to say about them. A woman wins an obi man by listening to him; a young man by talking to him. XW r nn American paper announced I the illness of its editor, piously adding! All good paying subscribers are reqiies- , ted to mention him in their prayers, the others need not. ss the prayers of the wicked avail nothing according to good authority.

Tlio Confiscation anti Emancipation Bill. A. Bill to suppress insurreetien. to.punish tr*a t.<»i,and.r<bvlliou. to seize and c*,uti-.can’ ti.e property of rebels, anil tor offi'-r psrpMes1 Be It enacted by tbe Senate and Bnaxe of of the United Slates of i Atnericd in Congress AaxembM. 1 hat evert pyrspn wiio’-sball hereallyr commit ■ the crime o' treason against the Uoiled Stales, and shell be adjudged guii'V thereof, shall stlff'-r death, and all his slaves, if any, shall b* declared and made free; ar he shall be itripr soned for not I less tit-fin five years and fined not less Itbnn SHI,OOO, and all his slaves, if any; shall be declared and mad* I «’■; s*’ l ’ fine, shall be levied and crllected on any ot all I of th'e property, real and personal, ex: it j ding slaves, of which the sai l person so ( convicted was the owner at the time ol , committing the sai l crim", and ant sale ;or conveyance to the qontriyy notwitlt- ' standing. ■ I Sec. 2 And Be it further erfntded. That if any person shall heieatter inci’e, seton foal, or engage in »nv rebellion or ins r- , rec'ion against the authority of the Uni | 'ted Slates, or the laws thereof, or shall , i give aid or comfort thereto, or shall en--I gSgd in, or give aid and comfort to, any such existing rebellion or insurrection, . and he convicted thereof, stick person ! shall be punished bv imprisonment for a ' nerirtd not exceeding t*n years, by a fine i not exceeding SIO.OOO, and by the liber- ■ i atiofi of all Ids slaves, if any he have. ! Seo 3- And be it further enacted. | That every porsnn gutltv of either f the ! offenses described in this act shall be for i ever incapable and disquAlifi*‘i* f -0 hold ! any office under the United StW.es. , Sf.c 4 And be it further enacted, That I ; this act shall not be construed in any way ; jto affect or alter the prosecution, convic tio n or punishment of acv person or guil- , Ity of treason against the buite i States ( he ore the passage of t his act, unless sucii 1 (person is convicted under this act. I Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That; (to insure the speedy termination of the i j presant rebellion, it shall he the ditt, of: (the President of the United States to! cause the seizure o' nil the “state and i I property, money, stocks, credits and es- ' j facts of the persons hereafter named in. j this section, and to apply nnd use the . s ,i me, and the proceeds th“i eot, for the (support of the s’tny of the United States, I that is to say; First, of any person here- | 1 after acting as an officer of the army or ! 1 nnvy of th* rebels in arms against the I Government of the United States; second- ( (lv. of any persons hereafter acting as > I President. Vice President, member of| l Congress, judge of anv court, cabinet of- j | ficer, foreign minister, commissioner, or| ‘consul of the so-called Confederate States I of America; thirdly, of any person acting ■ as Governor of a Stale, member of a con-1 vention or legislature, or judge of anv j court of the so-called Confederate States I of America.; fourthly, of any person who,; (having held an offic* of honor, trust or j j profit in the Unite 1 States, shall hereaf- i I ter hold an uffice in ilia so called Con . federate Stn’es of America; fifthly, of anv j person hereafter h»l ling .any office or a i, j genev under the Government of the so-,, called Confederate States of America, or . I under anv of the several States of the i ! said Confederacy, or the 1 w« thereof, whether such effief or agency be national, ‘ ■ ,Stat* nr municipal in its name or charac i ter: Provided, That the persons thirdly. , fourthly and fifthly above described shall!, I have accepted their appointment or alec-1 1 fion since tlte date of the pretended ordi- , l nance of secession of th* State, or shall . i have t ken an oath of allegiance lo or to |, ■ support the Constitution of t.h* so-called , I Confederate States; sixthly, of any per-j ( son who, owning property in any I'val I <tate or Territory in the United States, | ( or in the District of Columbia, shall here- j after assist and give aid comfort tn such , rebellion, and all sales, transfers or con- ' I vevance of any such property shall be null j and void; and it shall be a sufficient bar Ito anv suit brought bv such person for the possession or the use of such proper-1 ty, or any of it, tn alleg* and prove that he is one of the persons described in this section | Sec 6. And he it further enacted. That I if anv person within »nv Stale or Territory of the United S'atea. other than thns* named as aforesaid, after the passage of I this act, being engaged in armed rebellinn , , against the Governmt nt of the united States, or ai ing or abetting such rebellion, shall not, wi’Lin six'y davß after public warning and rrool matinn dulv given and made bv the President of the j United S’ates, ceas* th aid, countenance, ! and abet such rebellion, and return to his allegiance to the United States, all the , estate and property, moneys, stocks and | credits of su»h person shall be liable ’o i i to seizure as aforesaid, and it shall ba th* duty of the President to seize and use them as aforesaid, or th* proceeds thereof. Aft ! all the sales, transfers, or con vevances of any such property after the (expiration of the said sixty days from the date of such warning and proclamation shall be null end void; and it shall be n

sufficient bar to any suit brought by such p r Ln lor the possession or the use of such property, *r anv of it. '■> '‘"‘‘lT Rn(l prove tha? he is one of the persons described tn this'section. Sec 7, And be it further enacted, that t<> secure the condemnation and sale ot sny such property alter the same shall h ,ve been seized, so that it mat be made available fi r the purposes aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be instituted in the name ul the United States, in any District Court thereof, or in any Territorial Court, or in the United States District Court for-the Disl'iel ’>• Columbia, within which tlte ptoperty above described, or any part (hereof, may b* found, or into w ifiji the same, if moveable, may fir-C ' be brought, which proceedings shall conform, as’nearly n» msv b*. to proceedings m admirably or revenue casts; and if sail property, whether real or personal, . hall be found to have belonged to a per. ' son engaged in r*b. Ilion, < r who has giv-,-n ai l or cotn’ort titer, t", the same shall b* condemed as enemies* property, and .become the property of the United Sta.es, and may be disposed of as the Court shall I decree, and the proceeds theieol paid into 'the Treasury 1 the United States for the ] purposes i Sbo. 8. And beit further enacted. Thxi the several courts aforesaid shall i have power to make such orders, estab- ' li*h such terms of decree and sale, and direct such deeds and conveyances to be 1 executed and deliver d by the marshals j thereof, where real estate shall be the ( subject of vile, as shall Gtly and efficiently effect the purposes of this act, and vest in the purchasers of such property I uond and valid titles thereto; and the said ; Court sha llhave power to allow such i fees and charges of their officers as shall Ihe and proper in the premi- , ses 1 Sec 9 And be it further enacted, i That ell slaves of person’ who shall h*rei after be engaged in rebellion against the I Government of the United Stales, or who sha)l in any way give aid or comfort there- ■ to. escaping from euch pet sons, and ta- ■ king r luge within the lines of ihe armv; fund all slaves capture i from such perI sons, or deserted by them and coming ' under the control of tho Government of . .he United States; and all slaves of such ' persons found or b ing within anv placn (occupied hv rebel forces, end aherward occupied bv the forces us the United I States shall be deemed captives of w r, • and shall be forever free of their servitude, and not again Ik Id as slaves. ! Src 10. And be it further enacted. I That no slave escaping into any State, Territory or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered up. or in any wry impeded or hindered lof his liberty, < Xf'ept for crime or soma ' ofT-nvc against the laws, unless the per* l«on claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor i or service of such fugitive is alleged to be I due is his lawful own-r. and has not borne arms against the United States in ♦he present rebellion, nnrin anv way given aid and comfort thereto: end no person engaged in the miiiiarr or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretense whatever, assnme to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service o r labor of any other person, or surrender up anv such person to the cl irnent, on pain or being dismissed from the service. Sac 11. And be it further enacted. That the President of the United States is nnfhoriz'd to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem npand proper for the suppression of this rebellion; and for this purpose h« may oraaniE’’ and use them in such manner ns he may i'ldge best for the public welfare. Skc 12 And be it further enacted. That the President of the United States lis hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation, and settlement, in some tropica] country beyond the limi f s nf the United States, of siirh persons of the African race, made ( free hr the provisions of *• is act. as mav ;he willing ‘O emigrrtp. having first ob tained the ennspn* nf the government of 1 enid country to their protection and set- ♦ loment within th** same, with ad the rights and privileges of freemen. | Sec 13. And bp it further enacted. That the President is hereby authorized, at anv time hereafter, bv proclamation, to expend tn persons who mar have participated in the existing rebellion in anv State or part thereof, pardon and anines tv,with such exceptions anti at such tins* and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare. Sec. 14 Anl be it further enacted. That the Courts nf the United Statea shall have full power toinstityte proceedings, make orders and decrees, issue pro* cess end do al other things necessary to carry thia act into effect. The following amendment was also passed. COKTIBI’tO ON RKCOXn FAn’-

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