Decatur Eagle, Volume 6, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1862 — Page 1

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DECATUR EAGLE. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY. Spencer & S ‘Dirmeyer. 1 YUBLISHEUS AND FROPRIKTOKS. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson’* , building, over the Drugstore. . Terms ol Subscription: One coby, one year, in advance, $1 00 If paid within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 2 0l>! EFNo paper will be dvscoiudr ned until all ferreritges ate paid except at the option of the Terms of Advertising: bne square,(ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 . Each su h sequent, insertion, 25 EFNo advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be counted and charged as two; over two, as three, etc, I (EFA liberal discount, from the above rates. I madeoti nil advertisements inserted foraperiod [onger three months. EFThe above rates will be strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to doall kinds of job-work ina neat and workmanlike manner.on the mcstl reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, being now and of the lat est styles, we feel confident that satisfaction eanbegiren. ] DECATI K BUSINESS MS’ Tbu KT HOUSE?' Decatur. India na, CtZ'Rl'w Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable .charges. n3’-v6-ly. I). W. CHAMBER, PHYSIC A IN if SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. 1 (EFOFFICE—On the east, side of Second St , tn the room formerly occupied by J. 1). Nutt-’ man as a banking office. v4-nW. hl VID ST r » 1.11 \hE II . ATTORNEY AT I, VW, DECATUR. INDIANA. tVift’TV’-'i-o in Adams and adjoining Counties CFOFFICE —On M ‘‘tr.o - imm ’■ t.dy South of tlm Auditor’s Office.—v<i-nl2 JAMES R. 8080. Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR. INDIANA. ITOFFICE, in Recorder's Office. c rj Will practice in the Courts of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Attend to lhe Redemption of Lands. thepav.„ent of Taxes Especial attention will be given to the collection of Bounties. Pension and all claims against the Government Nov. 28, 1862. v6-n42. HARNESS SHOP I.J.Meisse, Respectfully informs customers and the public in geifbr: 1, that he wtill continues to carry on the Harness Business at his smtt a wb> On a larger scale than ever, where he invites all to call and examine his work ; for he flatters himself that he can do a BETTER JOB for LESS money than any other establishment in North Easteni Indiana. (LZRepairing done on «hort notice and charges reasonable. —n37-v6 PIC TU B E GAH Ell 1 ! P. V. SMITH. Ambrotype & Photograph Having permanently located in Decatur and supplied himself with everything that may be found in a First Class Picture Gallery, Would call the attention of all who desire good Figure at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug Store. n37-l v I •' I f ® 4 JEFFERSON QUICK, •vsd n DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL IXSTRUBEKI'S, JEWELRY. &.C., DECATUR, INDIANA. Clocks, Watches. Jewelry, Musical Instru ments. Ac., repaired on short notice. SHOP—On Second Street, in Frazee’s law of ficer v-5-n-41 Auditor’s Notice. Notice ia hereby given that those having fail- 1 jpd to pay the interest of the Congressional and Common School Fund in advance,either upon certificate or upon loan, that by the require ments of the late school law Auditors are r«qui- I fed to advertise and sell on the fourth Monday of January in each year, all lands forfeited for i the non payment of interest in advance, aecor 1 ding to law Therefore, in order to save cost and expense all interest dne.mngt be paid on or before lhe 25th dav of December next. ‘ W. G. SPENCER. Nov 13,18f»2. Auditor.

For the Eagle. On the Death of a Friend. BY R M. D. Our companions are fading from earth, How lonely and cheerless it seems • Th* circle’s been broken that surrounded the hearth, Oh how idle have been all our dreams; His bed is composed of the clay, And his form in the coffin lies low; For the morning breeze wafted his spirit away, Totlie land which no mortal may know. We saw the aged mother draw nigh, I o take a last look at her boy. Oh who could behold with a tearless eye; Tho’ we know that in heaven there’s joy. She murraered, my child, my dear child; As she smoothed back the locks from his brow, It seemed that he with the angels then smiled. In the land which no mortal may know. The father looked mournfully on’ With a heart almost bursting with grief, He spake not a word, though his hope was not gone. For he trusted in God for relief. Two sisters and one brother, dear, Are all that are left here below We are passing away, year by year, To the land which no mortal may know. We trust that this day unto him II as been a sweet Sabbath of rest. And we hope we may meet in a fair sunny clime. And with him forever be blessed. Death called him. the youthful and gay Like flowers when autumn winds blow. He has faded from view and gone far away, To the land which no motal may know. Oh say must we now say farewell, Will his voice blend with ours no more. Till the angels come down and say it is well Come up to that beautiful shore. And now our kind Father, we pray. That still in thy grace wem ly grow; And at last meet our friends who have van i ished away. In the land which no mortal may know. [Near New Buffalo Ind. Nov. 24. 1868] Charles Sumner mid the War. Charles Sumner has spoken! Long and patiently have the people wai.ed for the oracle to move its bruzsn lips, and they have not waited in vain. Faneuil Hall shul against Webster, opened wide its doors to receive the great Massachu- ' setts Senator, and multitudes assembled I to listen to the inspiring eloquence of the God like man the embodiment in one per I son of the patriot the statesman, the jurist and the philanthropist! Listen to the words of the oracle as delivered on the nation’s birth day July 4, 1845: 'Mankind blind to the real character of war while condemning the ordinary malefactors, may continue yet a little longer !to crown its giant actors with glory. A I generous posterity may pardon to uncon i cious barbarism the atrocities winch they i have waged; but the whole custom —and it is of this that I speak — Chough sanctioned by existing law cannot escape the existing law, cannot be authorized by anv human power, aud they must rise in overwhelming judgement of reason and religion. The outrages which it madly permits und invokes for professed purposes of justice cannot be authorized by any human power and they must rise in overwhelming judgment, not only against those who wield the weapons of battle but against all who uphold its monstrous arbitrament. Thus spoke the oracle and peace prevailed. What are its terrible utterances now. Listen: ‘lf anybody believes at this stage that any words or acts of conciliation—any forbearance on our part—any hesitation in the exercise of the sternest rights of war—will help us to victory or contribute to put down the rebellion let me not enter into the man’s councils, for they can end in nothing but shame and disaster. I find that they who talk most against coercion of rebels and coercion of States are indifferent to the coercion of four millions of people men and children to work without wages under the discip line of the lash. Without hesitation I sav that the rebels are to be subdued—call it coercion or subjugation which you will; and our war has this dtrect object. With victory will coms conciliation, but first victory.’ Pray, Mr Oracle speak again and tell us whether this war can be carried on even for tha purpose of liberating four millions of unwilling negroes without incurring the unerring judgement of reason and religion.

Abolition long drawn out—Abe Lincoln. Hard nuts to crack—Butternuts. What we are enjoying—The Lincoln good times.

‘Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim-Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame. ”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, DEC. 4,1862.

A Terrible Description of Fort Lafayette I by-exGoveruor .Morehead of Kentucky. Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, in his description of Fort Lafiiyette, before the Secessionists of Liverpool, England, I said: I was seized at two o’clock at night in my own bed. dragged from it and mv 1 family, without a moments warning, and carried across the Ohio river in defiance i of the writ of habeas corpus. The sold-| diers took me and ran me by night, bv I special train to Indianapolis. One of the ! Judges of the Supreme Court sent a Mar- I shal with a corpus to bring me I back, but I was carried by special train to Columbus, Ohio. There I was kept awhile and afterwards carried to New York , and afterwards hurried on to the prison of Lafayette. I cannot well conceive ot any i horror more dreadful than that which was ! experienced in that prison. It has a small court not mueli larger than this room for exercise. Thirty-eight of us were placed in one room, five 32 pounder cannon occupying one portion of the room, which was sixty feet in length and twen-ty-two feet in depth. The floor was a ■ brick floor, so damp that your boots would 1 be covered with green mold every morn- 1 ing. They gave me fourteen pounds of! straw to sleep on, carefully weighed, about half rotten. It was placed ina very coarse tick. I am, without mv shoes, six feet in heighth, and the bed measured I four feet and seven inches. We had one very dirty tin cup to drink out of, and the water we drank was filled with tadpoles. I We had to hold our nose when we drank 1 and strain every drop of it. We were locked up at six at night, and , kept till six next morning, without anv natural convenience whatever, suffering 1 the agonies of death. There was an old ' man brought from Kentucky upwards of I seventy years of age. A friend liad sent |me some liquors, und I asked him if he i would not like to have a little whiskey or brandy, and he said yes, it was the only j time in his life that’ he felt that a good dram would be of service to him. So he ; took the bottle and poured out a very heavy drink. He drank it off without mix- ' ing it with water, and took up a glass of water—we had purchased glasses at that i time—to drink after it, and saw the tad- ' pole. He sat it down again, shaking his I head, and said he could not stand it. and i walked away; but the brandy burned him I Iso much that he could not stand it, and , he came back and took it up, and held it up between the light of the sun and him-1 self, and, soliloquizing, said: “Well, tad-! poles, if you can stand it, I can;” and drank it off. [Laughter.] We wrote a . letter to Mr. Lincoln, signed by every individual in the fort, telling him of the hor- j rors of this prison, stating that we did j not pretend to discuss the rightfulness of I our imprisonment, but that we supposed • we were entitled to the common rights of human beings. The result of that was, that in about a ■ month we were taken to Fort Warren. They put us on a vessel to be taken their | by sea. The Captain told me himself j that the vessel was calculated to take j about 250 persons, and they took 1,100. We were fifty hours in making the voyage ! and all that was given us to eat during I that time was a piece of raw fat barrel pork, perfectly raw and about the size of my hand, and three sea crackers, and I saw the poor soldiers eat that raw meat. [ We had furnished ourselves with some- ! thing better, but we could not feed them j all with the little we had. We were placed afterward in Fort War-’ ren upon the naked floor, without bed or ! blanket, or anything, not a wisp of straw j even, and their in that condition we had ; to remain until we supplied ourselves ! with such things as we needed, buying beds and bedsteads, and being allowed by a very kind, excellent and humane officer. Colonel Dymick, who did all he could to ; alleviate our condition—to employ a cook and to buy provisions, we lived very com-1 fortably there. An order came to Fort Warren while j we were there forbidding them to employ counsel, it being stated that the : mere fact of employing counsel would be a sufficient cause for continuing them in prison.

A country school teacher preparing for an exhibition of his school, selected a class of pupils and wrote down the questions and answers to the questions which he would put to them on examination day. The day catne and so came the young hopefuls all but one. The pupils took their places as had been arranged, and all went on glibly until the question came for the absentee, when the teacher asked: ‘ln whom do you believe?’ ‘Napoleon Bonaparte.’ ‘Yon lielieve in the Holy Catholic Church do vou not?’ ‘No.’ said the pupil amid roars of laughter. ‘The boy who believes in the church hasn’t come to school to-dav; he's sick in bed.’

A Brane Boy. When I was a bov I lived among the Green Mountains of Vei tnont, in Winter making snow (orta and sliding down the I steep hills and in summer and autumn wandering over the mountains after flowers and nuts or catching lhe beautiful I trout in the brook*. But my brother in Wisconsin wrote to me to come to him ’and I went. Our house was on what was then called ’Baxter’s Prairie. The | prairie was covered with flowers, and the many clear lakes abounded in fish and ducks, but our principal food was hoe Cake and salt pork. One of our neighbors had no meat for some time and getting out of powder they had uo game, so one day they sent up their oldest son, a boy about ten years 1 old for a piece of pork. As he was carrying it homewards and going through a piece of woods by Silver Lake, he heard a rustling of the leaves in a thicket by the roadside. He stopped and listened —al) was still. Again he pu’hee forward again the leaves in the thicket bv the roadside, rustled and be thought he ! heard a stealthy step. Again be stopped. Everything was still except the 1 gentle dash of lhe waves upon the pebiy ' beach and the rapid beating of his heart. He dreaded to go forward, and he dared not stay, for he saw night was approaching when the woods always echoed with the sound of the hungry wolf and the j stealthy catamou nt came out from their dens. So picking up a club he again I started homeward. Again came the I stealthy step behind him nearer and near jer until he saw a gaunt and savage wolf creeping after him and as he hurried on j still clinging to his meat the wolf coming i nearer and nearer lie might at any moment spring upon him. Still the boy though he trembled in evi ery imb did not lose his presence of mind ; He remembered having heard his father say that if any one faced a wild animal and looked it square in the face it would not dare to attack him. He turned around and faced the hungry wolf and commenced walking backwards towards his home still a long mile and a half I away. As the woods grew darker the wolf came nearer showing his white teeth ; with the hair bristling upon his back.---The courageous boy knew that if he gave up his meat he was safe and could run I unmolested but he knew that there were I hungry ones at home awaiting his return ISo backward step by step he went. As I the wolf came n ear he hit him square | upon the head with a stone when with an angry yelp the wolf sprang in the thick et and set up a long and dismal bowl.— The boy listened to hear if there was answering howls and hearing none took courage; but soon the savage beast maddened with hunger came at him again — With his club he gave him a well! directed blow betweem the eyes which sent him howling back again into the thicket. Again and again was the contest renewed; many times did lhe savage animal make a spring al the lad and many ■ times did the brave boy beat him off until at last he came near the log cabin ofl his parents when the disappointed wolf with a long and wailing howl, dashed away into the woods. Trembling with excitement and wet with perspiration, the boy dropped the meal upon the floor crying, ‘Mother I’ve got it,’ and fell exhausted al his mother's feet.

Bachelor Li?k.—They tell a good story of two batchelors down east who j lived a sort of cat and dog life, to their i neighbors, discomfort, for a good many years, Out who had been at camp meeting were slightly converted, and both of i them concluded to reform. ‘Brother Tom says one, when they had artived at their home, ‘let us sit down, now and I’ll tell you what we’ll do You tell me all of mv faults, and I’ll tell you all of vouru, so we’ll know how to go to I mending ’em. •Good!’ says brother Tom. ‘Well, you , begin.’ ‘No, you bagin brother Joe,’ Well in the first place you know brother Tom vou will be. Crack goes brother Tom’s double fist between brother Joe’s blinkers and a considerbie of a ‘scrimmage’ ensued, until in the course of about ten minutes neither being able to come to time reformation was postponed. The salt fields of Saginaw, Michigan, extend forty or fifty miles 'n length, and the supply of brine is equal to that of Ka. nawha or Onondaga. The brine is obtained by boring and it is confidently believed that enough to supply the entire Northwest will soon be matiufatured at that point. The pirate Capt. Setnmes was placed upon the retired list of the United States naval boaid be cause be was a ‘fast man,’ and therefore an inefficent officer- As the old fogies objected to his 2:40 gait then, what a pity it is, says Vanity Fair, some of them can’t overtake him now in his 2:90.

Blind Joe Parsons. A correspondent of the Boston Trans, cript writing from the hospitals at Alexandria, relates the following anecdote. Joe enlisted in the first Maryland regiment and was plainly a rough originally As we passed along the hall we first saw him crouched near an open window, lus- ( tily singing ‘l’m a bold soldier boy,’ and ; observing the broad bandage over his ; «yes I said: ‘What's your name my tnsrry fellow.’ •Joe Parsons.’ ‘And what’s the matter, 1 1 ‘Bl'nd, sir.’ ‘ln battle?’ ‘Yes—at Antietam. Both eyes shot out at one clip.’ ; Poor Joe was in the front at Antietam creek and a Minnie ball had passed direct ly through his eyes and across his face, destroying his sight forever. He was hut twenty years old and was as happy as a lark. ‘lt’s a dreadful thing.. ■l‘m very thankful I’m alive sir it mii/ht a been worse yer see he continued And then he told his story. •Iwaa hit and knocked down. I Jay j there all night and next day the fight was j renewed. I could stand the pain but balls was flyin’ all around me and I wan ted to get away. I couldn’t see nothing though. So I waited and listeno and al last I heard a fellow groanin’ beyond me •Hello,’ said I. ‘Hello yourself,’ said he. ‘Who be yer’ said I. ‘ A rebel ’ ‘I am a Yankee,’ says I. What’s the matter.’ ‘My leg’s smashed.’ ‘Can’t you walk ’ j ‘No.’ •Cant you see.’ ‘Yes.* ‘Well,’ says I. •you'r a rebil, but will you do me a little favor?’ ‘I will ,’ savs he. ‘ef I ken,’ Then I says, 'Will, ole butternut,! I can’t see nothing’. My eves is knocked I out; but I ken walk. Come over yere. Let’s git out o’ this You p’inl the wav, i an' I’ll tote yet off the field, on my back.’ ‘Bully for you!' says he. And so we managed to git together. We shook hands on it. I took a wink onter his canteen, and ho got on to my shoulders 1 did the walking’ for both, an’ ho did . the navigation. An, es he didn’t make me carry him straight into a rebel Colonel’s tent, a mile sway, I’m a liar! Hows’ ever the colonel came up, an’ says, 'Whar d’yer come from? who be yer?’l told him. He said I was done for, and couldn’t do any more shoot'n, an' he sent me over , to our lines. So, after three days, I came ! down here with the wounded boys, where we’re doin’ pretty well, all things consid- ; ered., ‘But you’ll never see the light again, |my poor fellow,’ I suggested, sympath- : etieallv. ‘That’s so,’ he answered, glibly;'but I | can’t help it, you notice, I did mv dooty | —got shot, pop itt the eye—an’ that's my misfort’n, not my fault, rs the ole man 1 i said of his blind boss. But — “I'm a bold soldier boy.” he continued, cheerily renewing his song: ■ and we left him in his singular merriment. Poor sightless, unlucky, but stout hearted Joe Parsons!

Over Doctcring.— Our fathers and mothers are still hale and hearty, at rixty seventy, or eigty years of age, and yet they never bothered themselves about the liver snd the stomach, and digestion, and baths, and hair brushes; they lived in bli'sful ignorance of the liver, ‘lights,’ or anything elee than the stomach; the whereabouts of‘that animal,' they were regularly and pleasurably reminded of, three times a day; but not so with us. their degenerate sons, whose houses are cumbered with double sashes to keep all the pure air out while every pains is taken to keep the foul air in, with patent shower-baths to chill us to death; with hot air furnaces to stew us with their stifling humid heat; with carpets to hide dust and dirt, to hsrbor dampness and noxious gasses; and laxy loafing rockingchairs to insure three crook* in every spine and cushioned ottomans, sofas lounges, fauteuils, vis-a-vis and a great many oth er french things to engender lingering death.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Enquirer with the army of the Potomac says that at one of the farm-houses along the route the following dialogue occurred: A venerable African asked, ‘ls dat all de army of de Norf." ‘No, the last end is just coming through Bangor Maine.’— ‘Bless my soul, where dey all grow?— Massa Linkum’s got de biggest pile dis time anyhow.’ Hammers to kill abclition with, —Valla ndighammers.

Hymen in a Hurry. The following curious story we get all the way from Russia: An English merchant, resident at St. Peter sburgh, desired to marry a Russian lady, which cannot be done without a special edict from lhe Emperor. He had given up all hopes, when one evening, a friend happening to find the Emperor in a good humor represented the matter to him and desired his permission. ’Let Miss A. and Mr. B, be (turned imtnediatelv’ was the order given by Nicholas. This ukase was signed at six P ,M,; by ten it had passed through the offices of registry, bv eleven o’clock, it wag in the hands of the synod, and by midnight lhe police were trotting the streets to pul it in execution withont delay. Mr. B. was fast asleep when a thundering rap at the doot frightened him awake. Visions of the knout and the like floated before his half wakened brain, when the bear-faced soldiers burst into his chamber aud ordered liitn to follow. ’ln God’s name, what have I done?* be exclaimed; ‘where am I to go? Must I be dragged off at this time of bight?’ ‘We have a warrant which roust be executed immediately.’ said one of them; and be proceeded to read: ‘By the irrace of God, the Autocrat of all the Russias. <fec, ordets the marriage of Mr. A. to Miss B. to be sriemnized immediately, &c„ ‘Yod see he admits of no delay.’ observed the officer, gravely. The astonished merchant was then hurried off to a priest, and thence, in company with this functionary, to the house of the iadv, who was thundered up in the same way; and err her eyes were fairly opened or her dishabitie half arranged the twain were one flesh. The clergyman attested the execution of the sentence and abruptly departed with the officers, leaving the astonished couple to get over their confusion.

A Thinking Society. A historical fact was rulated to us a day or two since which is not lacking of a j siginifieance at the present lime and i might be repeated with, some advan- : tag*. During the feign of the elder Adams, and when the Alien and Sedition laws were in full force a society of gentlemen in Pensylvania, who were, in a measure, I debarred by one of these laws from a I free expression of opinion determined to ! meet together at stated times, and su ; together tn perfect silence lor a given period of time at the close of which lhev would adjourn without uttering a word. These meetings were denominated, ' Thinking Societies and strange h sav. they were large the number of memj hers increased daily and were remarkj able not only for their unanimity but for the influence they wielded against the party in power . Their practice was to meet simultaneously ata certain hour take their seats without a word and at tha slrik'ng of the clock they would rise and disperse' We can well imagine the influence of such a proceeding upon the public mind, then burning with indignation at ilia tyranny of the government which had made it a penal offence to criticise the acts of (he Executive and to that extent, deprived the people the natural and inalienable right of the freedom of speech. They were determined however to exercise tha freedom of haught which is beyond the teach of human tyranny, and who can measure the power of that electric sympathy passing around the circle of those silent men as from eye to eye they flashed the story of their wrongs, and their determinalion to redress them! It wns more eloquent than the eloquence of a Demosthenes or a Cicero — True American

Had Hts Eyb Ui>-—On Sabbath after- ! noon a Sunday school teacher observed i two boys playing at marbles. He stopped told ih«m how wicked it was. and succeeded in persuading the worst one to school, the lad was decidedly a fast youth jof about eight years. In the class, among other things, the teacher told him that ‘God made this beautiful world and , ail that is in it: we must thank him lor the good things we enjoy; he gives us all of our food and all our clothes. ; 'Does be give uw my clothes, too?* ' broke in the lad. •Yes he gives us everything. ; ‘Now that’s whar you got your eye shutup for mam made rue these trowsers out of dad’s old ones. Burnside has advanced his army be- ' yond the Rappahannock river, and the rebels have also massed their troops, between there aad the Rapidsn. A voting ntan in Moscow Maine cut off his forefinger to avoid the draft. The town raised its quota by volunteers and he was manned for life for no avail. j AVhat is the w idth of a narrow escape

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