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DECATUR EAGLE. IS ISSUED fcVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY A . J . HILL, EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Second Street, In Patterson ’» b>i tiding, over the Drugstore. Terms of Subscription. One cony, one year, in advance, $1 00 ]f paid’within the year, * • . If not paid until the year has expired, 2 0 O’No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid except at the option ol the . Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, —’ rrNo advertisement will be considered less thafone square; ever one square wd be counted and charged as two; over two, as three, etc, ILTA liberal discount, from the alxive rates, made on all advertisements inserted for a period 10n j- e Ttetbov: n will be strictly adhered io under all circumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to do all kinds of job work, nLTand workmanlike manner,op the meat i»» neat and wot Kial for the comreasonable pf Jal Ist styles, 3 Confident that satisfaction cun be given. At a conference meeting, one of the deacons of the ehu ch. a good, easy old gentleman, made his accustomed exorta-; tion, and undertook to quote the passage, describing the mighty works of Cbnst, raising the dead and casting out devils - We do not imagine that the passage itself was at all to the purpose, but that was not the worst of it The deacon got it transposed, and drawled out, very solmnly, “ cast out the dead and raise, the de»tl He certainly did raise that very personage right in the mtdst of the revival. Run Away.—Owen Moore, the rebel agent for the purchase, of arms in Europe, has run away from France, leaving behind him 845G.000 unpaid debts. Owen Moore has run away, Owin’ more than he can pay ■ From the 47th Regiment. The 47th Indiana Regiment, commanded by Col Jas. R. Slack, whose openhearted and genial manner every one admires, continues to win golden opinions through the City. We bear it complimented on every side. It’s officers and so'diers have been so respectful and gentlemanly in all their bearings towards the citizens as to extort eulogies not only from all who have the union, but even from manv of those who cherish the most extreme dislike to all Lincolmtes and Northerners. Their devotion to the stars and stripes intensifies their regard for personal and pi ivate rights, and every one animated with patriotism may at all times look to them for protection. This could be said of them when they were at Bardstown, Ky., when they were at Commerce and Benton, and New Madrid, Mo., when they .planted the national banner end the thundering cannon on Fort Thompson at Riddle’s Point, at Tiptonville, and now in Memphis.- Long may they deserve the good name they have won. The above extract from the Memphis Union Appeal was sent us for publication, jy G.* Christen, through the hands of a friend.' Here is his reasons for its publication. Please give the above little extract to the Editor of the Eagle in my name. We can hardly be considered vain or conceited for wishing our friends> at home to know what our enemies think of us. Advantage of Crooked Legs—We eaw a Utter this morning from a Madison volunteer, in which the writer thanked his father for giving him crooked, or how legs, saying that on the day before he had narrowly escaped losing both his legs, a cannon-ball passing harmlessly through the space otcaslonsd by the ’ natural crook” of the legs. Every thing is for the best,— Madison Patriot The Wat to Say It.—At the recent war meeting at Newton, Massachusetts, a fine active young man of twenty-five years, a minister of the Mathodist Church placed bis name upon the enlistment roll, anti then marie the following effective appeal to the assemblage: ‘As a servant of my Divine Master, I do not cal) on you to go, but I say unto you come*

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, AUG. 7, 1862.

The Democratic Mass Convention at Indianapolis. The Mass Convention of the 30th, is said to be one of the largest assemblages of people ever gather'd at Indianapolis. The proceedings were deliberate and harmonious throughout. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, was chosen President of the .meeting. After organizing and choosing I a committee on resolutions, consisting of one from each Congressional district, the i President introduced what the Abolitiouwould call “the distinguished Secessionjist” Ex-Governor Wickliffe of Kentucky, I whom eve.y man who loves his country ■ would call a patriot. A man whose intimate friends, whose wife and children are identified with the rebels, but who has stood erect through all these stormy times, aiding the Government by Lis vote with men and money to put down the rebellion, and at the same time fighting Government leeches and northern Secessionists— Abolitionists, for whicu they call him a Secessionists. We have room for but a short extract of his speech, which is as follows: What was the cause of the war? [A 'voice: "Abolitionism ”] Well, you , guessed it pretty near, my friend. Some i body must have told you. That I know; ! for, so help me God, it’s true! But they say slavery is the ciuse of the war. If he had the power he would visit upon the heads of the leaders of the rebellion the punishment their wickedness merited.— 1 But when it came to the test very likely Jhe would, like the lory Scotchman, who told the Revolutionary rebel that he would be conquered, but that His Majesty was a merciful man and would not descend in hanging below a few atrocious characters—he would not, with regard to rebels i now-a days, descend below a few atrojcious characters, but he would hang an i Abolitionist on lhe other end of everv ' ro P e ’ Slavery was as much the cause of ‘he war as the tea thrown into B eton Har- . bor was the cause of the Revolution. — ( This was conceived by designing and ami bilious men. In proof it, Mr. Wickliffe produced the resolutions passed al the New A ork Abolition Convention in 1853. What did this Convention re solve? Why, tljat because of the evil of slavery, they invited a free correspondence with the disuntonists of the South, to the end of a dissolution of the United j States. Thank God. but more thanks to i the Abolitionists of the North, the Secessionists say, for they have enabled us to accomplish what we have been trying to do for thirty yea r s. Hence you see we have two classes of traitors to fight: the Abolitionists among us, as well as the rebI els of the South. As be had told LoveJoy in Congress, who, in an Abolition ’ harangue, brought out metaphorically a j ship full rigged and freighted with Secessionists and Abolitionists, he would throw overboard the Abolitionists first. So people of Indiana, you must throw them overboard. I don’t care under what name they approach you. A leopard is just as spotted, although you call him a bear. As the close of his speech lion. John S. Carlile, from Virginia was introduced, who made a stirring and powerful speech, at the close of which the Committee on resolutions reported as follows: Resolved, 1 That we adhere to the time-honored principles of the Democratic party, and we believe that the only ; hope for the restoration of the Union and ■ the maintenance of the Constitution is in ■ the restoration of that truly conservative* party to power. 2. That this Convection indorse, as \ worthy of all confidence, the persons nominated by the Delegate Convention which assembled at Indianapolis on the Sth of January, 1862, and that we recommend them to the people as honest, capable and 1 faithful to the Constitution. 3. That the Constitution, the Ametican Union, and ths laws made under and by the authority of the Constitution, must be preserved and maintained in their proper and rightful supremacy; that the rebellion now in arms against them must be suppressed and put down, and that it is the duty of all good citizens to aid the Genera) Government in all measures necessary and proper to that end. 4. That the Democracy of Indiana, with patriots evsry-where, have made and will continue to make every sacrifice to the end that the rebellion may be suppressed, tbo supremacy of the Constitution maintained, and the Union under it preserved; but they are unalterably opposed to a war of conquest or subjugation, and they will never consent that the war on their part shall be waged for the purpose of interfering with the rights, or I overthrowing the established institutions of any of the States. In the language of j Senator Dou.das, uttered at Chicago, a : few days before his death. ‘We must

“Our Country’s Gooi {shall ever bs our Alm — Willing |to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

not invade constitutional rights. The innocent must not suffer, nor women and children be the victims. Savages must i cot be let loose.’ 5. That we protest, in the name of ouri selves, and our children, and in all we i hold dear in the future of our beloved i country, against tne mischievous mess- ' ures of negro emancipation in the Dis- , trict of Columbia, and the payment for ' such negroes out of the National Treasury and we further protest against the reso--1 lu ion of Congress pledging the nation to - pay for all negroes which may be emancipated by the authority of any of the Southern States; that we regard such measures, involving, as thev do, an expenditure of two thousand five hundred , millions of dollars, as measure* of trans i cendent enormity, and fruitful only of i national beggary to the land we love; that ;we are unalterably and unconditionally opposed to all schemes having for their object, immediate or remote, the taxation of the white man for the purchase of ne- ■ groes anywhere; that we deny the constiI tutional right of the President or Congrees to adopt a policy which taxes white I labor to pay for negroes, or which would I make the Government or people slave- ■ dealers; a policy which, if not arrested by the votes of the people, will entail upon unborn generations of our kindred a debt more overwhelming and appalling than , ever cursed any nation of ancient or mod- . ern times. I 6. That in opposition to measures of | this kind we desire to interpose the peace- , i ful and powerful agent—the ballot as a > free people—and say, in the language ol another: “We will neither surrender our I rights nor forsake them. We will main- , tain our constitutional liberty at a I hazards, and, as a necessary toward that end, we will maintain the Union in like manner. We are for the Constitution as it is, and the Union as it was.” i 7. That, in the language of the resolution of the conservative members of Cong ess, the doctrine of the Secessionists I and of tile Abolitionists, as the latter are now represented in Congress, are alike . inconsistent with the Constitution and irreconcilable with the unity and peace of ttie country. The first have already involved us in a civil war, and the others (the Abolitionist) will leave to t(ie coun- , try but little hope of the speedy restoration of Union or peace. 8. That this Convention denounces, as ’ unwise and unpatriotic, all organizations, secret or open, having for their object the nullification of, or resistance to the laws of the State or cf the United States—that , oppressive laws and unwise legislation find their proper correction on'y at the , ballot-box. where a change of legislators , i will produce the wished-for reform of bad and odious laws, and to that tribunal only will the patriot resort in this hour of ‘his country’s trial. We hold sacred and binding every enactment till repealed or deciaredr 9. That the happy accord of the Border State Union men of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Western Virginia with the Democratic delegations in Congress, in their joint efforts to arrest the tide of fanaticism in both Houses, has filled all National hearts in this State with sentim«uts of deep affection for our brethren of those gal ant Commonwealths, and we hereby pledge to them and the country our best efforts to secure to the coun- ’ cils of the Nation statesmen who will labor to restore the union of the States on [ the basis and in the spirit of our match- j less and severed Constitution. 10 That the people of Indiana, having' I inhibited, bv the State Constitution and ' law, the entrance of free negroes and mulattoes into this State, and as the present l disturbances on our b Tiler are likely to . j bring in an influx of that population from neighboring States, we respecifullv ask the public authorities of Indiana to see that the Constitution and laws are prop-1 erly enforced on that subject. When the people of Indiana adopted that negro exclusive clause by a majority of ninety- | four thoHsaud vote, thev meant that the honest laboring white <nan should have; no competitor in the black race—that the) soil of Indiana should belong to the white j man, and that he alone was suited to her, free institutions. 11. That the people justly view with i alarm the reckless extravagance which : pervades every Department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispens-: able to arrest the systematic plunder of , the Public Treasury bv favored partisans ' while the recent startling developments, . of frauds and corruptions at the Federal Metropolis show that an entire change of Administration is iraeratively demanded. 12. That we approve of and indorse the resolutions draw bv Hon. John J. Crittenden, and adopted by the conservative members ol congress on the 221 : day ol January, 1861, as a clear and just I declaration of the objects which ought to be had in view by the American peop'e' in the present fearful emergency es their national affairs

13. That we recur with patriotic pride to the baavery and valor of the officers and soldiers of all the Indiana regiments exhibited in the struggles upon the many bloody fields in which they have been engaged, apd that this Convention in be- ! half of lhe Democracy of this State tenderto them a united testimony t j their I valor end devotion to the Constitution J and the Union, and offer to the friends I and families of those who have fallen in i the s rvice of their country, its sincere ■sympathy and condolence, and that we will ev,,r cherish in grateful recollection the willing sacrifice made by the noble sons of Indiana; in exchanging the peace--1 ful avocations of life for the hardships I and perils of war. 14. That the Central Committee be requested to prepare and publish an address to the people of Indiana, setting forth '.he principles, opinions and doetrines enunciated in the resolutions adopted , this day, end that the same be given to the people with the proceedings of this Convention. 15. That said Committee be further requested to publish such campaign documents as may be deemed u»e*ul in the present emergency. After reading the resolutions, Hon. Wni, A. Richardson of Illinois was introduced. We have room but for the so - lowing extract: The rebellion must be put down and the Constitution must be preserved. The rebellion can only be put down and the Constitution preserved by the white people, the loyal white people. It is a libel upon the twenty odd million of loyal people in this nation that they can’t put down eight or nine millions of negroes to aid them. If the rebellion is not put down till the negroes close it, it will never be put down. That man who says that he is for changing the character of the war to make room for the negro and J for trusting to ths negro to put down the I rebellion is not loyal, and is only fratn- | ing an excuse to avoid volunteering ini the country’s service. He is aiding the , rebels in arms more effectually than he j could in the ranks ofthetr army. The only capacity we can use the negro in our service is in some menial capacity, not with arms, and dig ditches, if we need them; employ him, and when done with ■ him, let him take care us himself. Upon ' this point Mr. Lincoln clearly occupies | the right ground. The good of the country and the cause of constitutional liberties demand that i the people should change their Representatives in Congress. You have tried the Abolitionists, and you have found no promise of their’s realized. It is clear that their policy and course will destroy the nation and ruin the people, A change will surely follow to both the nation and individuals from the impending ruin. This Government can stand a great deal, but it can uot stand two years more under the management of such a Congress »s we have now. If any of these members rise to the dignity of statesmen, they are overthrown, their counsels are disregarded, and they are assailed with slanders as foul as thev defame Democrats by the radio >1 Abolition party. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, and Browning, of Illinois, are just now the I recipients of the choice epithets of those I libellers. No persons had said more against the Constitution and the Union than Horace Greeley or Wendell PhilI lips. What convention of the Abolition- | ists has censured them? What paper rebuk“d them? What public speaker has proclaimed that they were disloyal and should be placed in the bastile? None, and none will. If the Government is to be preserved it must he done bv others than those who follow it) the wake of such men, and the people must take lhe thing into their own hands and apply the proper corrective, or they will go into history as the degenerate sons of illustrious sires, i unequal to the duty imposed upo i them, n>t entitled to freedom or good govern- . ment, because they could not preserve a ' priceless legacy given to them by their ' fathers. Liberty lost onco is not regained without greater sacrifices than we can lor will make if we permit it to be lost. I At the close of Richardson’s speech, Hon. D. W. Voorhees and Mr McDonald addressed the meeting. Thus passed off one of the largest and most enthusiastic mass meetings ever field witfim Isis State of Indiana.

Lex’.ngton, Ky.,July 31.—Maj Bracht, of the Eighteenth Kentucky Regiment, who was in pursuit of a gang of 127 reb els under Corbin, overtook them at Mount Sterling, killing 13 and taking 97 prisoners, including Corbin. Eight prisoners of the same gang were taken elsewhere, leaving nine to escape. Major Bracht, who lost none of hitl men. returned to Lexington this morning with 3 prisoners. It is the same band reported to have left Scott County under Capt. Bullitt.

A Republican Secret Organization. Kent Station Newton County Ind 1 Ju y 25, 1862 j Ed. Sentinrl. Sir:—lnclosed is a copy of a letter from a secret organization in La ayette to John Ade, a member of the order at this place. The circumstances under which it came into our possession are as follows: Mr, Ade had gone to Louisville. Ky., to bring home a sick soldier, and in his absence Mrs. Ade received the letter, and not understanding it she called in a friend to explain to her what it meant, and after reading the letter he made the inclosed copy from memory.--He then told a Republican -bout it, and asking what it meant, it made some stir among the order. Mr. Bissel, a lawyer, and Mr. Beery, a tinner, of this place, l called on Mrs. Ade and told her under no consideration to let any other person see the letter, as they understood its import As there is much excitement, and the Republicans not being able to give a sat- ! islact Ty reason for the organization, one of them, who is a member of the society, stated to one of the undersigned that the society here was recently organized and has had one informal and one regular meeting; that it was a secret political organization; that there were similar organizations all through the State, but he did not know if they were organized in every county. When asked why not let sll loyal men to join it. Democrats as well as Republicans, he could give no satisfactory reason. The above are the facts in the case.— They can be substantiated when necessary, and vou are at liberty to publish this expose over our signatures. Res ec fully. A. SHARP. N. WEST. P. S. Mr. Ade is our County Recorder; Mr. Bissel is a lawyer and Mr. Beery is a tinner. They all live in Kent, and are strong Republicans and leaders in the party. The following is a copy of the letter referred to: July 23, No. 10. [U. C. within a circle.] The Secession sympathizers are begin- ; ning to raise. Be ready for anv emnr-; gency. They claim to have fifteen or twenty thousand now ready. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Increase your numbers and have your arms ready, aad organize a Home Guard at once. Illi Illi |||| C S S. V C Ind. N. 7TT7 Illi

Weeding the Treasury. From the N.Y. Herald. Secretary Cameron, in his report to ' Congress s tated that there were over six 1 hundred thousand soldiers in lha service l of the government. There is no question I that the pay rolls exhibted that number, when, in reality, there was only about ' five hundred thousand actually in the service. This d screpancy is now said to be accounted for from the fact that the paymaster returned lists of the different regiments with their quotoa of men when, in fact many of them fell two and three hundred short. The money for the payment according to the retu’ned, was drawn from the Government. The public can draw their own inferenc-as the disposition of the surplus, or the amount drawn for the three hundred men over and above those actually in the regiments. Here is another important item in the cost of the war and an additional chapter on the swindling operations that have been carried on. Is there not some way by which these pa . masters and their accomplices, whoever they are, can he made to disgorge their fraudulent gams and return them to the Treasury? THE TOTAL LOS!* AT THE RICHMOND BATTLES. The following statement, which comes from an official source, may be relied upon as a perfectly correct enumeration of the Union losses during the six days’ battles before Richmond: Corps. Kill. Wound. Miss. Total Franklin 215 1313 1,179 2,732 Sumner 70 1,068 848 2,086 Keyes 69 507 201 777 Heintzelman 189 1.051 833 2,073 Porter 873 3,700 2,769 7,352 Cavalry 19 60 97 176 Engineers — 2 21 23 Totals 1,565 7,701 5.958 15,224' Jackson, Tenn, July 30—Captain I Dollins’ cavalry attacked eighty rebels yesterday near Brownsville, and captured forty prisoners. The rebels were afterward reinforced, and recaptured twentynine men and fourteen horses. The Fed-j eral loss was four killed and six wound-' ed Rebel loss, about the tame

A Hard Wiud. The Western States have been visited with numerous hurricanes of late years, sometime! demolishing entire villages,leveling forests, and doing immense damage generally. The town of M ,in Ohio, was once visited with one ot these squalls; and among other antics performed on that occasion was the following, which I tell as it was told to me; and the reader can attach sny depree of credence to it that he deems proper. Old Peter H. lived in a one story wcoden house of not very extensive dimensions, and when it was subjected to' the force of the winds its power ol resistance were in-sufficient to withstand so great a pre sure, and it yielded to the point without a struggle; however it was not upset, or torn to pieces, but merely moved a few rods- In the course of its journey, the stove was upset and the fire spilled out, and the danger of a conflagration was imminent. Old Peter was to much excited to take notice of the removal of his house; and, seeking the necessity of immediately applying water to the burning embers on the floor, he seized a bucket and darted out behind the house, when great was his astonishment to find all traces of his well obliterated. After looking in blank amaz-melit a moment, he called out to his wife: “Sarah. I’ll be blamed if the wind hasn’t blowed lhe well clear out of the lot! There is not as much as a stone left!”

all Honor to A Kalamazoo Printer. — Norman H. Carr, a printer, ol Kalamazoo, late of the St. Louii Democrat, has done about as much good fighting as "anv other man” while a member of the Ist Missouri Infantry. He “was in” at the battles of Boonville, Springfield and Dug Springs, and since a member of Captain Richardson’s Ist Missouri Battery, has been in at the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and at Shiloh, besides many skirmishes, coming out sale every time. He is considered by his officers one of the b st of the brave, always on hand in a fight—a true specimen of Northeon pluck and courage. ‘‘Long may he wave” and soon return to frieuds at home. A Patriotic Challenge.—ln Quincy, Illinois an insolent republican was boasting of bis superior loyalty and loudly denouncing democrats as “secessionists,” when a prominent democrat quietly challenged him to enlist with himself. They both repaired to the recruiting office, where the democrat enlisted. The republican suddenly remembered that he had urg nt business to attend to, and skedaddled, much to the mortification of his backers.

Depletion of the Army’ It is stated by the New York Post’s Washington correspondent, on unquestionable authority, that 30,000 soldiers ionce belonging to the army of the Poto- : mac, are now loitering over the free ! States as well as they ever were. The President found, on his late visit to Gen. McClellan, that 60,000 of the troops taj ken to the Peninsula are now missing or ■ absent. It is impossible to believe that more than 40,000 are dead, wounded, or <iek. Gen. McClellan expressed the o- ; pinion to the President that more than 1 half ot the 70,000 absent soldiers are now well. How they got away it is almost j impossible to tell. A fact, however, is mentioned which will seem to elucidate ! the matter. A single member of Con- ; gress has succeeded in getting furloughs and discharges for 300 soldiers during I the present session of Congteeg. This is a fact, and it will -how how the army ha* ' be,n depleted, or at least one wav in which i its numbers have been reduced. The friends of soldiers—of regiments—have ; endeavored to get off every so'dier who ! was sick of the service Members of i Congress desired to be popular in their ! districts, and answered every call upon j them. Colonels of regiments and Generals of brigades had the same desire—of popularity with their men —and one and all have aided in this depleting process, till the sum total of absentees is enormous. Republican Advice to White Men. ‘lf any individuals,’ say* the Toledo Blade, ‘are unwil ing to work by the side 1 of the negroes, it is their privilege to seek I employment elsewhere.’ •Any laboring man.’ says the Cincinnati Gazette, ‘who fears (negro) competi tion, can present himself at one of our recruiting offices, and he can secure permanent employment. ’ But the Gazette says that ‘our Generals in the South will now arm the negroes,* so that the laboring white whe dreads competition-at home, will, according to the Gazette, encounter it if he enlists in the army. He must both work and fight, eat, drink and sleep with the negre, under Abolition ascendancy.

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