Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1863 — Page 1

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| decatuTlagle, »7iPF.B EVERT TRIIRSDAV MORNINO, BY. fencer & Schirmeyer. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. 'Second Street, iu Patterson * R QUikHttij, over the Drugstore. Terms of Subscription: pne copy. one year, in advance, $1 00 | Jfpaid williin the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 200 will !>e discontit ued until all arreraires are paid except at the option of the : •4 * T Terms of Ailvcrtisinir: square, (ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 Eacjh subsequent insertion, ‘25 U“No n<| v f »rtisement will heconsidered less | than otf e square: over one square will he conn- I ted and charged as two:nv r er two. as three, etc, lih »ral discount., from the above rates. I m ade m, all ad v tt i cements i nscrted for a period p>n?er three months. rri'he »t>)ve rates will be strictly adhered . to under-all circumstances. ■'JOB PRINTING: Wp l are prepared to doall hinds of jor-wouk in a neat and workmanlike manner, on theincst i. aVonathb' forms. Our material fur the pom-'. pletTon of .fob-Vrorh, being new and of the lat ; rst sfvl-'s. we feel confident that satisfaction ran b<* "iv^n. Dic.mil misi\Ess mm "bukt house. Pe c a t-ii r, !ndi an a. <2C!2-* 55 £2 '£5;SL r EU , <$ Proprietor. Will tfice good attention, and makes reasonable diaries, n7f-vO-ly. i I). W. OITAMBER, I'HYSrCi rv \ SURGEON r> KCATU H , 1 N D 1 A N \ . 1 POFFICE—On the east side of Second fit , i’i fhi* room fin-Mierlv occupied by J. D. Nutt mnS.h< a Ijonking office. v-l-nU. si nin smwimiif ATTORYHY AT LAW, OK C A 'l' UR, INDIA N A . YV.il) i n Afl’inis and lulioimu? Counlf’t rj’pFFfOE.—On Main immediately South'of tin* Auditor’s Office.—v(!-n 12 JAWS TE 8080, Attorney and Counselor at Law, . DECATUR. JXDIAEA. ETOFFICK. in Recorder’s Office..rj \)sil p’acth'c. in she Oourts of the Tenth Judl. ifit,- Ojrrnit. Attend to the Redomptien of f,nnds. ilw* pnv...gi)t of Taxes Especial atten--1 ion will be Lfiveii loth*’ eolleetioii of bounties and all «*\aims against the Government INmt- QH, U 62. " vG-e42. PI f! TIKE GALL EH V! .. V. V. SMITH Ambrotypc & Photograph ' ais. r a ,, a'!»g r Hi> liaving ]M»rmanently located in Decatur and supplied himself with everything that maybe 1 foil ad ima hirst Class Picture Gallery, Wouldcall the attention of all who desire good Picture at lov.* prices, to rail at his rooms in 1 Ift'iftton** lbiilding, ijnmediat. ly over tin* Drug ore. u37-ly QbioK, DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL ,4 -I.VST WHEN IS, JEWELRY. &C., •■*-■ DSC A PUR, INDIANA. f;b»cVs, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instru Qfcjrais (to., repaired on short notice. fSjiOi* —On Second Street, in Frazee'slaw of Alee*. von 41 yicKsnußQi I. J. MIESSE, 'I uu-w In his line of business, Defies the World! All oilier LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown ir, All efforts at COMPETITION gone, Ly the HOARD. It is acknowledged by all that he can sell a RET TER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, /VA Whips, and all such like for EFSS money than any other establishment iii Ni.rtheastern Indiana, without exception. His work is all warranted to be made of the very bestmaieri.it, and mads by old and expe | rienced workmen. Buggies and carriages trimmed in the latest and approved style. Repairing done on short notice amt at reasonable rates. 3 s*Give us a call, and we will convince von of ike 4 ruth of what we say. We PAY CASH for our stock, and consequently BUY CHEAPER than if wc bought on'Tl ME; and of course . can sell in proportion —n3B-v6 TV7'T)D wanted at this office on subscription . . |h? i|i» roads Srrony* D id.

THE SWORD OK BUNKER HILL. BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE. Ho lav upon his dying bed, His eye was growing dim. When with a feeble voice lie call’d His weeping son to him; “ Weep not, my hoy,” the vetran said, ”1 howto Heaven’s high will. But quickly from you antlers bring, The sword of Bunker Hill.” The sword was brought, the soldier's oyo Lit up with a sudden flame, And as lie grasped the ancient ldaile. He murmur’d Warren’s namo; Then said, “My hoy. I leave you gold. But what is richer still, I leave you, mark Wie, mark me, now, The sword oWSunker Hill.” “'Twas on that dread, immortal day, ! I dared the Briton’s hand, A captain raised liis blade on me, I tore it from his hand; ; And while the glorious battle raged, j It lightened Freedom’s will, For, hoy, the find of Freedom Mess’d The sword of Bunker Hill ’’ “Oh! keep the sword,” his accents broke, i A smile, and he was dead; But his wrinkled hand still grasp’d the blade Upi n that dying bed. The son remains, ftie sword remains, Its glorv growing s’ill , And twenty millions bless the sire And sword of Bunker Hill. Six of One, mid a Half ti Dozen ot the Ollier. ‘Now, dearest Fred,’ she softly said, You must abandon smoking; It spoils your looks—and then your breath, Indeed, it’s'most provoking, i Did t!od decree that man should be, A chimney ffue regarded? Then, darling Fred let it be said. Tobacco you’ve discarded.’ ‘How, well, my dear,’ said Fred, ‘I fear, That will not, lie so easy; But like a man, I’ll try a plan, And the best to please ye. Did f’o.l intend that woman’s mind Such wondrous tilings should brew, love, As bustle, bloqmei s, crinolines, Or hoops do doudeu do, love? ‘But really, if,’ —tvhif, wliif, wliif, Wliif, — ’And mind you. I’m not joking — If rou’U abandon crinoline, By jovel I—l’ll give up smoking. A Student's Joke— Ebtiez-v Sweet, of Brunswick, lias enlisted Ebenez-r iias been a meat matt in Brunswick tor the last century, ntnl has probably furnished Bnwiloin students tougher meat and hatder swearing than they ever ex pe lie need in alter lite. Kbenez-r is con siderahle of a wag, but a story is told,in Brunswick which sliutrs at least on one occasion lie was outwitted. A student called iutu his market one| morning, and seeing a large tub lull ol eggs on the. floor, eyed it very wisely for some moments, and thus accosted Sweet: •1 will wager twenly-fhe cents that 1 can jump into that tub and not break an ’You can’t do it,’ replied Sweet. ‘l’ll stake twenty five oeuis 1 cap,’ responded the Siudeut. •Well liere’s twenty-five cents,’ contin- ‘ ued Sweet, ‘put up your money and I’ll j stand you.’ The money was accordingly solemnly put into tlie h indt of a third party, and the student prepared for the difficult encounter. In a moment lie made a leap, and the next moment he fell crash into, i the tub of eggs and rested Iris feet on the j bottom—breaking nearly every egg in lilt tub. •There,’ exclaimed Sweet, in a fury of delight, 'you’ve lost; 1 knew you couldn’t do it, not thinking, in hi» delight at winning, of anything hut that. ‘Well,’ replied the student, as lm coolly turned and went out of the market, I ‘there’s your twenty tive cents ’ It was a long time before Kbem-zer recovered from the effects of that joke and ! loosing his eggs. The Itch.— A friend of ours, who is the proprietor of a neat ii'.lle drag store had quite a profitable customer in the ': i shape of an elderly lady, a purchaser of ] salve, ointments, etc. One day last winter, she came in as usual, and after procuring her medicine,' handed my friend a quarter, remarking : a« she dtd’so: Will, 1 have found out at last what is the matter with me.’ t ‘Alt, indeed!* replied (r , as he tossed ; ’ the quarter from one hand to the other, 1 ‘what is it?’ ‘Why it is the real old fashioned seven : . year itch.’ The way that quarter was dropped in-1 to the drawer, and the hands that wasd tosstn ,T it, washed was a caution. 3 *

‘Our Country’s Good shall cvc? be cur A ;ir.— Willing Vo IPraise and not afraid to Elamc.’’

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FED, 12,1863.

THE RESTORED. V KMVOLI TIONARY TALK. God is everywhere. Ills words live ye all hearts, lie is on the battlefield, i;t our quiet home. I’raise be to his holy liathe. * It was on the wilds of Wissahickon, on the day of battle as the noonday, sun i came through the thickly clustered leaves that two men met in deadly conflict, near tlie reefs, which rose like the rocks of some primeval world, at least au hundred feet above the dark waters of the Wassa- : htekon. The man with a dark brown free and ! darker grey eye, flashed with a deadly, muscular form, clad in a blue frock of the Revolution—is a Continental named Warren. | The other mail, with long, black hair, I drooping along his cadaverous tiicu, is clad in the half military costume of a tory 'refugee. This is a murderer of l’aoli, named Dehancy. They mot by accident, an l now they .fought, not with sword and rifle, hut. with long and deadly limiting knives, they i struggle, twining and twisting on the green sward. At last the tory is down—down on the ■ turf; and the knee of the continental on ■ his breast—the upraised knife flashed death in his face. •Quarters! 1 yield!’ grasped the tory, as the knee was pressed upon his breast, •Spare ni“. I yield.’ ‘My brother,’ said the patriot in a tone of deadly hate, my broi her cried forquar-! tors on the night of l’aoli, and even as he clung to your knee you struck that knife into his heart. <), I will give you the 1 I quarters of Paoli! And, as his hand rai- ! sod for the blow, and his teeth were j ; clenched with deadly hate, he paused for i a moment; then pinioned the tory’s arms, j and with a rapid stride dragged him to the verge of the rock and held him quivering over the abvs. ,‘Mercy!’ gasped the tory turning ashy \ pale, by turns as that awful gulf yawned below, ‘Mercy! I have a wife and child at , home—Spare me. The continental, with his muscular. : strength gathered for an effort, shook the murderer once more over the abyss, and hissed his bitter sneer in his face. *My brother bad a wife and two children. The morning after the night of l’aoli, that wife was a w idow, those children orphans. Would you not like to go and beg your life of that widow and orphans!’ The proposal made by the continental in mockery and bitter hate, was taken in | serious earnest bv the terror stricken to- j rv. He asked to he taken to the widow I and her children, and to have the privilege of begging his life. After a moment s serious thought, the patriot consented.— 1 'lie bound the tory’s arms still tighter, placed him on the rock again and led him , to the woods. A quiet cottage, embosomed among trees, broke on their eyes. They entered ! the cottage. There beside the desolate ; hearthstone, sat the widow and her children. She sat there, a matronly woman about j thirty-three years, with a face shaded by care, a deep, dark eve. and long black hair, hanging in a disheveled state about her shoulders. On one side was a darkhaired hoy of some six years, on the other side a girl one year younger, with light blue eyes. The I able an old venerable volume—lay open upon the mother’s lap. And now the palefaced tory thing himself upon his knees, and confessed he had butchered her husband on the night ot I’aoli, and begged his life at her hands. ‘Spare me for the sake of m v dear wife and child— ’ He had expected this pitiful moan would touch the widow’s heart, but not one relenting gleam softened her pahface. ‘The Lord shall judge between us,’ she said in a cold icy tone that froze the murderer’s heart,. ‘Look the bible is in my lap; I will close the volume, and the boy shall open it, and place his finger at ran-

I .... ; ' , , '( ilotu upon a line, and by that you shall i live or die.’ This was a strange proposal made in in good faith of a wild and dark superstition of olden times. For a moment the tory, pale us ashes, was -wrapped in . deep thought—-then in a fainting voice lie signified his consent. Raising her dark eyes to heaven, the . mother prayed to the Great. Father to direct the finger of her son. She closed the hook—she handed it to that bay whose cheek redened with loathing as he gazed upon his father’s murderer, lie took the bible, opened its pages at random. and placed his finger on a verse. There wars a silence. The continental : soldier, who had sworn to avenge his brother’s death, stood with dilating eyes and parted lips. The culprit kneeling upon the floor, with his face like discol- . ored death, felt his heart leap up in his , throat. Then, in a clear, hold voice, the widow read this line from the Old Testament, it: was short, yet terrible: ‘•This man sii u.i. t»ii-:!’ Look! the brother springs forward to plunge a knife into the murderer's heart but the tory, pinioned as he is, clings to the widow's knees. He begs that one more trial may me made by the little girl that child of five years old with the golden hair and laughing eyes. The widow consented. There is an [ awful pause. Yi'ith a smile in her eye, without knowing what she was doing, - the little girl opens Ihe bible, as it lay on her mother’s knee, she turned Iter face away and placed her finger upon the line. The awful silence grows deeper. The I deep drawn breath of the brother, and broken gasp of the murderer, alone dis- ' t-urb the stillness, the widow and dark , haired boy were breathless. The little girl as she caught a feeling of auc from I those about her stood breathless; her face: turned aside, and her tiny finger resting i on the line of life and death, j At length, gathering courage, the widow bent her eye to the page and read.— It was a line from the New Testament, • “Love yolk enemies!; 1 Oh. book of terrible majesty and child like love—of sublimity that crushes the heart with rapture, yon never shone more strongly than there in that lonely cot of . Wissahickon when you saved the murderer’s heart. Now look how wonderful are the ways of heaven. That, very night, as the widow sat by the fireside, sat there with a crushed heart and hot eyelids, thinking of her husband who now lay mouldering on the drenched soil of Paoli—there was a tap at the door. She open!ed it, and that husband living, though covered with wounds, was in-her arms. Tie had fallen at Paoli, but- not in death he was alive, and his wife lav panting on his bosom. That night there was a prayer in the 1 woods bowered cottage of Wissahickon. Abolitionists frequently quote Judge ' Douglas when denouncing democrats for opposing the present abolition crui sade. Let them read his Springfield speech and specially that part in which he said; I think I can appeal to friend and foe— I use it in a political sense and I trust i ; I use the word foe in a past tense —-I can appeal to them with confidence that I have never pandered 1o the prejudice , ,or passion of my section against the 1 minority section of this I nion, and I, will say to you now with all frankness ; and in all sinccrtv that 1 will never sane-, ; tiou nor acquiesce in any warfare what , ever upon the constitutional rights or the domestic institutions of the people of Ihe Southern States. On Ihe contrary if there was an attempt made to invade those rights: to stir up servile insurrection among their people I would rush to their rescue and interpose with whatever of strength I might possess to defend them from such a calamity.’ Run away Match. — Miss Libhie Rice, the oldest daughter of Dan Rice, the Sltowman, was married the other day at Girard. I’a., to Mr Charles Reed an eques train connected with the Great Show the match was a runaway one and, as wo are informed very distasteful to the 1 bride's parent.' —Chico jo Times. "

A Singular Stoiiv. — A wonderful ! insUnsß of rescue from i.irowi-ing occur- . i red at Athens, New York, Tuesday, ■ The facts, as we have gathered,, are these I A hoy about «- I g ll l rears old fell into a hole ill ihn Athens dimin' 1 a short distance troir the y ice house, which j is building. He was seen to go down, and the alarm was given*—-While some ran toward the spot, others had she I presence ol mind to run in the opposite direction to the tool house, three hundred feet off; for ail ice- cll’isel Tier ice whs nut and transparent and they found the : hoy lying his back, on ihe top of ihe . water, floating along under the ice. A hole was made, hui he pissed one side j and they could not reach him. A S'-C ond and third huh, furllier down whs inade, but with no better success. But .through the forth hole, which for want of time was made very sm* 11, a young! man thrust in his hand and caught him The ice was cut awav, and he was taken out, not only alive, hut conscious. ID was soon entirely . stored, lit* had floated, as was found 0y ... surement. one hundred and twelve feet, under thep ice, with his face up, and rubbing againsl j it, He must have taken a full inspirit , lion of air on going down; and the little fellow was lak-*n out with his hand tightly clasped over his mouth and nose, so that not a drop of water had entered : his boil v. It is evident that Dan Par-, inentvr was not born to be drowned. Some of the beauties of the hundred j and fitly nigger regiment bill are shown up in the Congressional proceedings It seems that under its provisions nigger Brigadier and Major Generals can be placed in corunimd over white soldiers. 1 The abolition majority in Congress, how-! ever, will doubtless pass the infamous tiling. The chance of having the honor of I serving under a nigger brigader will uo[doubt form a great inducement fur, Greeley’s 900.000 to enter in to she service of their country. Bounty, one hundred scents. Tim last obstacle is removed, the nigger is not only emancipated but is elevated over the ‘poor while .trash, ami Greeley’s cherished dreams . are about to be realized. What possible excuse can the fl iming giants* of abolition invent tiuw to save themselves from this glorious opportunity of immortal izing themselves in a war ol lluir own - fashioning? Let them at once enlis under the bannei of some RrigadirrJGeneral of African descent, and march to the field ol carnage with a slride that will ’shake the earth lo its very centre. A writer in the Boston Courier 'peaking of the currency mid war says; That, we ate fast drilling’ oil to the rocks o| national bankiuptcy, is apparent. What must he the ell’, cl on the ar ■ J , ofter wailing s'x or eight months, to be paid in a currency which is depreciated 59 per cent? L-t ary one lake up a 1 legal tend, r note ami ask hints-If What' is this image and sup. rscriplion?’ and ’ then lake up a Bank ol England note or Chemical Bank,’of the city ol New York which now pays its bills ill Specie and F it will need no argument to convince! 1 him that it is not the quality of the paper ! or ink ot the character of the engraving which makes the difference in value The hgal tender no’es is not im image; of gold but a broken image issued on the’, fitith of a government which lias repudiated and broken its constiiu>iou and. laws-, which ought tube ns sacrid as its paper proinis.-s to pay money, and ibus destroy- j ed nil confidence and mined its own ; credit bv its own folly. And ihe army,:: as it marches to buttle, and look' at tho , flag which formerly was (lie emblem of the constitution and laws, and thinks how shamefully they have been violated by this administration, is i* strange it is demoraliz'd? Can the soldier look the! enemy in the eye, and say, I am fighting for the constitution and the govern- ' ment formed by our lorefulhers which you have violated and broken?’ Printing Office Destroyed bv a Mob —We learn Irom the Louisville Journal that tlie Office of the Rockport (hid.) Democrat was attacked by a mob composed of soldiers of the Fifth Indiana cavalry (a company of which is stationed neft.r that place.) on Wednesday; night last and the contents with the exception of the press’ destroyed. Mr. Jones estimates his loss at 8590. A resolution has been introduced into, 'he Legislature of this Stale to create a Military Board lo consist of all the Stale officers The resolution does not content' plats divesting the Governor of his power as Commander in Chief, but to liiauf.i tho responsibility. It is said the whole Jewish p-q ulaibm : of Palestine, including men, »nim n and children, in ICSC, was 19X31'?

THE LIVE YANKEE. Our F iend, Col. ii, oueejfoniid liimseU' ;a passenger oh board one of the steamers running bet ween Havana and New Orleans. Before rendhing the litter ei'xv .the captain of the steamer bavin?!earned in course of conversation that Col. B was ! a live Y ankee, from Vermont, thought lie ! would amuse, ami at the same time cyiti-, [l-limentthl Colonel, by relating toliim a' ; bit of his experience with a Ynnkfc pilot** i whom he once employed, and who like tlie colonel enjoyed the honor of hailing from Vermont. The colonel ‘aid: ‘My friend, tbo'enpfnin was formerly In l command of one of the Mississippi rive? , steamers, and one morning while his boat .w as lying at her moorings at New Orleans, waiting for the tardy pilot—who. it appears was a rather uncertain sort of. !n fellow —a tall, gaunt Yankee made his appearance before the captain’s office, and sung out,, •Hello, eap n! you don't want a pilot 1 nor nothin’ about this craft, do ye.” ■TTow do you know I don't?’ responded the captain. ‘Oh, you don’t understand: I axed yott •s’posin' you did.” ‘Then supposing 1 do, what of it?' •Well,’ said the Yankee, ‘I reckon I know sutlijn about that are sort o' business, provided you wanted a feller of itux about my size.’ The captain gave him a scrutinizing glance, and with an expression of countenance which seemed to say, ‘I should I pittv the snags!’ asked. ‘Are you acquainted with the river, and do you know where the snags are!’ ■YYeil, ye as—responded the Y ankee, rather hesitatingly— l ‘Pm, pretty well :iefquajnted with the river: but—the snags | —T don't exactly know so much about.’ ‘Don't know about the snags!' exclaim ,ed the captain contemptuously, ‘don't ;km?\v about the snags! YouVl make a pretty pilot!’ At this 'tlie Yankee's countenance asI sinned anything but an angelic expression and with a darkening brow and fiercely flashing eye. he drew himself up to his full height, and indignantly toared Din k in a voice of thunder, ‘\\ hat -lo I want to know where ihe snags are, old sea boss! 1 know where they ain't, and tlieie is w here I do my sailing!’ ‘lt is sufficient to know that the Y au- ! kee w as promptly engaged, and that the : captain takes pleasure in saying that he proved himself one of the best pilots on tlie river.’ AVOIDING \ Dl’X. A compositor in one of the daily newspaper offices, though a good fellow, lik■■ ! most of the printing profession, siifl'eis from repeated attacks of limited finance-; or revenue disproportional to his disburse meats. He has no objections to paying debts, even to the last penny, when he lias the money; but w hen he is short, he abhors (lie idea of meeting his creditors, l'or ho hates a dun, as lie hates the old boy, or a dirty proof. On the last few occasions of the pressures iijioii typo's monetary market, he w us descending from tlie new s room to the street, when lie met a collector, who asked him if James 11. Smith—giving the printer’s name-worked in ll.at office. ‘Whv do vou wish to see him.” asked Smith. ■1 have a hill against hint (producing it) 1 for >2 I left bv Dr. A. who, you remem bor, recently died, and bis accounts have been placed in my hands for collection.’ •James H. Smith,’ replied the •compositor, repeating his own name slowly, r.s if it had a mysterious familiar sound, and he was endeavoring to recall it: ‘I have heard that name before, sttrelv—James 11. Si nit It. James lE' James H? oh, \es! (as if with sundden remembrance,) lie used to be employed here, certainly, certainly be did. 1 remember now, ho worked next to my ease, poor fellow,’ and ‘the speaker paused and looked sad. ‘Did anything happen to him!’ asked : the collector. ‘Y es, he died otto morning, suddenly, of the cholera, after attending the sick bed of a d\ing friend.’ ‘Did lie leave anything?’ asked the man of bills. ‘Oil. no: the boys in the office had to i burry him. ] gave five dollars myst-h'' 1 ndp in putting the generous creature i del* the sod. Poor fellow, lie died p..:: ltiless. •Then there is no use in keeping t * bill. I suppose.” •None at all.’ said James 11. Sm : And as the collector tore uj> tim I T ua : departed, he eontii.tteiT to himself, • I’ve'got lid of that old bore. It \ 1 i, pei li,.p'. much of a stoi v I was tell Probably 1 was only anticipating!, after all—except in the five Jolla but ion ’ Gold sold g.t Jfl tit) in New Vo , last Saturday old demand note# M slock' wa rt quoted low er and It w a >,

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