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decatuT 'eagle. ! I UstfgL) BVttRY THURSDAY MORNING, BY. Spencer & Schinneyen PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson’., I • milling, orer the Drug Store. Terms of Subscription: On« cony, one year, in advance, $1 Oh l Jf paid within the yeNr. 1 50 I xf.not paid until the year has expired, 2 00 IJ'Jiojtajier will he discont ii'tii’d iyitil all '> rrorages are- pa id except at the option of th.‘Publiaher. *>* - o‘s Ailvortisine: Cne square, (ten Hues) three insertions, fl 00 j Each-sub sequent, insertion, 25 , VFWo S-tvertisement will hcconsidernd less than one square; over one square will becotin ‘tod and charged ns t wo; over two, as throe etc IT A. lib -rat di «cownt, from the above rates. ;rn vie ox ’illa.lv ‘<h Hementß inserted for a period V»n<rer three months. CT" Che ah >ve rates will be strictly adhered to under all Hrcnmstaiiccs. JOB PRINTING: W e are prepared to doall kinds of job-work ina neat and workmanlike manner.on thenust reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, heinjj new and of the lat est styles, we feel confident that satisfaction can bn

R BUMS 6ARDS!_ HOUSE/ Decatur. Indiana. B. T Proprietor. Will srivo good attention, and makes reasonable ■ ehtfrges. n37-vG-ly. D W CHAMBER, UHYSIC.tIN $ SURGEON /DE C A T U R , INDIANA, j I —On the east side of Second St . vi the room occupied by J. D. Nutt■m in as a banking office. v4-nll II AY ID STIDARAKER' attorney at law, DECATUR. Wilt Practice in Ad tms and adjoining Counties I“’*OFFICE —On Main Street immediately South of the Auditor’s Office.—v6-n 12 J AMES R. 8080, Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECA TUR. JND I A .V.l. fcpoFFICE. in Recorder’s Office..jj] Will p-nrtipe in the Courts of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Attend to the Redemption of Lands, the pay..,ent of Taxes Especial attention will be given tothe collection of Bounties, "iPension and all claims against the Government Nov. 28, 1862. v6-r42. P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph yw wjt sa mto Haring 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 Picture at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’* Building, immediately over the Drug Store. n37-ly =S3h J/? x7 N s v fc r 3 JEFFERSON QUICK, DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL .iMsrxv'i’:xrs, jewelry, &c., DECATUR. INDIANA. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instru ■anents, <fcc., repaired on short notice. SHOP —Ou Second Street, inri’rar.ee’B law of v-5 n 41 VICiKSBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In hisjline of business. Defies the World! AHnther LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in the shade! All efforts at COMPETITION gone "by the BOARD. It is acknowledged by all that he can sell a BETTER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and all such like for LifS money than any other establishment in Northeastern Indiana, without ixception. His work is all warranted to bp made of the very best material, aud made by old and expe riftneed workmen. Buggies and carriages 1 rimmed in the latest and most .approved style. Repairing done on short notice and at reasonable rates. TTG ive us a call, and we will convince yon of ihs truth of what we say. We PAY CASH for our stock, and consequently BUV, CHEAP* ER than |f we bought pn TIME; and of course -can dell in proportion.—n3B-v6. * 1 " 7 '—- —- —■ —* *—’ — ’ 'YTJOOD wanted at this office on subscripting • f before vae the roads become x>2<!.

[the subline and ridiculous. ! “There is but one step from the sublime Ito the ridiculous.” The distance is not i greater from the poetical to the prosy.— I Somebody wrote some rather pretty ver ! ses about Love. Some other body borI rowed the metre, and taking Soap for a ; theme, wrote some wicked verses in paroI dv. Here are the two pieces: i LOVE. Av e are young And both are loving— You love me, And I love yoti; Each, each other s Faults reproving— Some in me, And some in you. NV hat is best For us to do? Live and love, Continue loving— You loving me, I loving you; Each, each other's Fault's reproving— You reproving me, • i y°'l- - is the best For us to do. < SO AT. j We want soap. Both need scrubbing — You soap me, And I soap you; Each, each others Bough hides rubbing— You scrub me, And I scrub you. What is best For us to do? Live and rub, Continue rul >1 >i ng— You rubbing me, I rubbing you: Each; each other's Rough hides scrubding, . | ■ , ..You sw'ubhing ipe, II • I you' This is the best For us to do. THE MAIDENS GRIEF, A TAI II OF SIiCESH. ■ ■ — CHAPTER I. ‘Oh! those horrid, horrid Yankees! —, . 800-hoo-oo o!’ The above may appear a rather curi- ; some way to introduce my shero to the the reader, but I pt esent her as she really is—weeping bitterly. IsabelWr Sheevelrie is the daughter of a rebel colonel, and like her parent is ‘dead set’ against the ‘Northern Hessians' She is Secesh to the back—to the spinal i column. She is now setting in the parlor of her father's mansion, her face covered with j ! her hands, Ever and anon a glittering [ tear forces itself between her tapering 1 I digits, trickled gently down her rounded arm to her elbow, and—then draps. ’ In the room stands an odd looking ta- ’ ble, made of dead Yankee's bones, on the top of which are several books, bound in not Turkey morocco, but Yankee cuticles ; Another prominent feature is a Fed.'s i skull, converted into a pitcher, which ! stands on another article of furniture.— > Pendant from the maiden’s auricular or-, , gans are rings of human bones. Fact! but-without minutely describing all the damsel's jewely, and all the furniture in the room, I will pass both, by saying that | they are simttlar to that already noticed. | So much for so much. — CHAPTER 11. Ere this, we think, I hear the reader ask the why and wherefore of Isabeller's , weeping? jj Her father had not been killed in the last battle, where (vide Secesh papers) 10,000 Lincolnites were slaughtered, and only fifty Southerners. Not any. Neith-' er did the unerring aim of a Union brave ’ let daylight through the empty cranium of her rebel lover. None! It is true, the damsel had no black-vel-vet bonnet, the left side ornamented with a double row of fan-shaped plaitings, and a rich green ostrich-plume sweeping over ' the front, the inside of the brim faced. I with black velvet, decorated over the head by a ruche ofblaek tulle, and on the right

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side a cluster of moss-rose buds and a , half open rose. Not much! Though the deprivation, of this might be considered i sufficient to cause tears to rain from feminine eyes, yet it was not for this she sobbed. It was something more heartrendering; for she wept on, faintly muttering > between each sob: ] ‘Oh! those horried Yankees! Boo-hoo-oo.’ „. . . CHAPTER 111. ‘Why weepest thou, idol of my soul.” She looked up; and in sixty-seconds was clasped was clasped in the arms of her lover—Dumpey Snob—who had en-; tercd unpei’ceived. The maid wept on. ‘Tell me, light of my life—why those : tears? Hast thy father been slain, my dear?’ Isabeller replied not. Faster fell her tears. It was evident something terrible weighed upon the girl’s mind. And so ; thought her lover. After imprinting hnn- ■ dreds, yea, thousands of passionate kisI ses on the maiden's brow, he again asked if the Yankees bad wiped out her dear parient. ‘O, dear Dumpey.’she managed to ar- ' ticulate, ,if it was nothing worse! Oh, ■ ; those horrid, horrid Yankefefft 800-hoo I hoo?’ . ‘Ye gods!’ wildly exclaimed Dumpey, ‘have they dared to — Ha. ha, ha, I'll -I’ll-’ ‘ And he would have T'll-ed’ had not Is- ; abellcr interrupted him with: ‘Dumpey —dear dump, do nothing 1 rash. 111 tell you all. 800-hoo-oo.’ 'l’he tears still rained from her eyes. ‘Tell me quicklyl’ yelled her lover, ‘and by our Codfederacy! I'll—l ll sweep the whole Northern scum off the face of the , ewth! I will.’ ‘Why, Dnrnpev, sobbed Isabeller. since the Yankee blockade, 1 have to go without skeleton skirts! 800-hoo-oo.’ ■ That's what ailed her. | And faster fell her tears. Dumpey was wild with rage, hatred, despair and sick. What, his Isabeller ‘ deprived of a—what-you-call-it!—on ac- | count ofthe Yakees? It was too much, if not more. But presently he smiled a ! grim ghastly smile, a; Billy Shak: says, caught Isabeller to his bosom, pushed i I back the dandelion-colored tresses from her imperial brow, kissed away her tears i anti— i I And it was a hunky sight! But list! Dumpey speaks. ‘lsabeller—my ’Beller, don’t weep.— j You shall have a skeleton skirt as is a . skeleton skirt—made of a Yankee's skel-, eton!’ : ‘O Dumpey!’ replied the maid, ‘you are so kind!’ j Her tears fell not so fast. j ‘And now, dearest,’ said her lover, ' those tears dry up.’ j And she dried up. | Harry T s of Exeter, is to an as-, s tonishing and even ludicrous degree what; is termed an absent minded man. He has often been known to commence milr king in a basket, and to bring a pail of water for use in the house in the swillpail is with him a mistake of common occurrence. Harry’s most astonishing freak of absent mindedness consists, I think in I the following actual occurence: j Harry had been to the city ot W—a, some fifteen miles, to trade. The inten- ( ded purchases were made, and he was j most home, when it entered his head that he had forgotten something. He looked - over the art icles he had purchased. They > were all there—everything as he had intended; yet still in his mind he was surely . puzzled; for he was sure that something was missing. But not until he had arrived at home, and an eager group ofchildren came bounding out to the gate, - crying: ‘Pa. pa, where is ma!' did ab- ; sent-minded Harry discover that the missing article was bis wife! Since the removal ot Gen. McClellan. , the army of the army of the Potomac has , I• ’ , moved on an arrage of about twenty-two 11 and one-half inches per week ; i

HEAVY BUT TRUE. The Logan Gazette, of last week, gets off some good ones. We extract the fol- j lowing from among a number. > ’ The Springfield News has a Washing- ! torreorrespondent, who describes linkin, , and has this to say about his hopeful oft- i 1 spring: 1 ‘His son stood by his side young fresh ' and vigorous, looking much like the heir apparent to the throne.” If he looks like the heir of Abe Lmtin he must resemble a babboon. If he does: not, the heirship is by no means ‘appa,rent” ' Some of the papers are busy in describing Linkin's receptions. His deceptions j are quite as remarkable, but much too l numerous for description. I Cassius M. Clay is still loafing in Washington reiterating his anxiety to ‘take the . j field.’ Yes—he wants ‘to take the field’; !in a horn. He takes about one field (of rye) per annum, Mrs. Fremont has written a novel i ! which she entitles ‘Story of the Guard.’ j She ought to write" another, make her ' husband the hero, and call it ‘Story of a Blackguard.’ Mr. Seward, it is said, drinks tea out > iof a bottle. What use does he make of j j his tea-pot? The same probably that | Gibbon did—-to keep his brandy in. SHAMEFUL FACTS. j A private letter from a soldier in Burnside’s army to his mother in this city, written from Falmouth a day or two pre- ‘ vious to the disastrous battle at Frede-1 ricksburg, states that on the day when I the letter was written there were brought > ; into the dead-house twelve dead bodies j of our soldiers frozen to death while on I guard duty! He says several of them I ' were on guard duty without pantaloons, | having had, for two or three weeks, only | • overcoats and drawers! The mercury ; lon two nights sunk to 13 and 11 degrees and ice six inches thick floated in the I river. Their shoes were in many install-' i ces almost worthless, being Massachu- ; I setts contract shoes with soles glued on i : and the men were, moreover, half starved ; : The writer had just received some money ! from home, and he says lie devoted j twenty-five cents of it to the purchase of I a quart of meal, which he stirred up with water and boiled; and he adds that it was the best dinner he had had for two or i three months. There is a terrible responsibility resting! on the heads of guilty contractors. Quar-1 termasters, and shoddy patriots generally I who have directly done so much to cause ! these evils. While white soldiers arc freezing to death in Virginia, oiir government is [ j having ">O,OOO suits of clothes made in j New York for negroes! and many dollars worth of life necessaries are sent abroad I 'to help the suffering poor of great Bri-1 tain, while our own poor soldiers die of ' nakedness and starvation at home — i (Hartford Times. ——— Henry Ward Beecher, in his recent ‘ fraternity lecture in Boston, said: “We need more bloodshed. Blood-' shed is the wine of the nations. God feeds them on blood.” Now says the Newburyport Herald, a republican paper, why does he not shed a . little of his own blood! In no way could he do his country more service, for his ut- ■ terance for years have tended to bring us I to our present possition. Good care does he take to keep himself out of danger, while he talks so bravely—so devilishly ■ —in the Plymouth church and Tremont. Temple. Ask the wife who lost her hus- ' band, and parents who mourn the loss of their sons, and they cannot talk so flippantly of blood as their minister of the ‘meek and lowly Jesus.’ If his god is one who ‘feeds the nations with blood,’ it ' explains much of his preaching. - tt - - A meeting of newspaper publishers ' from all parts of the country has been I called to meet at Washington on Mon-1 day week next to urge upon Congress j the importance of reducing or repealing the duty mi imported paper.

Keep Your Powder Drv. We head this ehurt article wish an injunction which when used always presupposes imminent danger—Keeg your powder <lrv,’ and whicii is"suggested by information which we «re in receipt of—- — within a lew weeks from this period ; a crisis may be reached by our Legisla- i ture in the prosecution of its legitimate j duties in investigating the conduct of our late State officials, (including Governor. Mortot.) and their ex'.raordinaiy unexampled and unwarranted expenditure of public money. A military commission will probably be raised and plenary power given it to investigate all the acts of the Executive, and those of his subordinates whom he has made, ‘Bowthe pliant hinges oftheknee' That thrift may follow fawning' 1 and also to tike charge of and control | itisubordina'ion to the Constitution and Laws of the State, all her military—just as His Excellency proposed and urged should be done last year with aflairs in ' Kentucky. And it has been intimated — that these efforts of tha Legislature may be resisted by Gov. Bforton and his abolition cohorts—bv the military which has I been kept at the Capitol till now lor reftsons inexplicable. In view of these tilings and in view of what seems to be the iflterior design lof the Federal Administration, viz: To intimidate State 1,-gislatlire's and degrade State sovereignties by Federal bayonets i i nised ft>r far different purposes we counsel every (rue and 1 yal citizen who is ! opposed to any' such usurpation of power, and to meh flagrant violations of Federal and State Constitution, to be vigi lent to discV r and prevent the first i effort at such tyranny and unsurpation Let every one fully understand his rights 1 and knowi' g: ‘Dare nmintaii, them.’ | In the meantime do everv duty required, ! eitlu r by Laws or Constitutions, or bolh, ' and do them alacrity and patriotism; I but in doing those demand what, is ■ right, and submit to nothing that is I wr '»"g-’ . . i if then, the shock of internal stri'u j shall copie, let the fault be with those I : who shall have caused it and the tnsue ; : he deternrn-d by the right. Patriots: to be foi warned is Io be forearmed.’ Watch and pray that God in ( ; his goolness may let this cup pass,” j I but, never forget that your ceaseless J vigilance may save your liberties. Tne spirt of liberty has died in New i England — and let us of the centra] and i western States, keep it alive—but, if ’die it must, let her last her expiring »g-| I oriies be heard in Indiana.— Ft IVai/ne Tines. — What We Have Got t > Pay e ,r this War —The Dubuque Herald makes the following aeo n ling mathematical celcnlntions in regard to our present and j i prospective war ixpenses:—-A million of j dollars in ggld weigh about two 1.550,000,000 would therefore weigh ) more than 3,000 tuns. Asingle tun is | , a full load for a wagon with one pair of i horses; placed i i one line and allowing j thirty feel to each team, the number of, | teams neces'ary to hall this amount of • : gold would occupy a road of about nine- ' | teen miles in fength. This is the amount ■of solid gold that will be necessary 10l ‘ pay the ind< btedess now proposed to be i authorized in addition to that which we I already owe. This is the debt we shall ( sooner or later have to pay in gold or its I equivalent, with interest, or else resort to j ' repudiation.’ , A Rampageous Negro —The recent, efforts towards ouganizing negro regi-I I ment has opened in the minds of the 'negroes in this vicinity a realization of their importance as a fight eienient, and has developed their pugnacity in an alarming manner. Ata public house in this city, a couple of gentlemen were discussing the policy of organizing negro regiments when one of them remarked that negroes were not good fighting material, would not make good soldiers, and had better be kept out of the army. A negro nomed George Riley who was employed in the house happened to be present, and made a savage onslaught on the gentleman making the remark, throwing a hatchet at him, which fortunately missed and buried itself in the doqj’ of the house to the debt of two or three inches. He then drew a knife and made a most ferocious attack on the gentleman mutilating him terrible. Brandishing his knife he made an indiscriminate rush at all the persons present, and injured several severely. — Among others he struck a woman present over the head with a chair inflicting a serious injur". He succeeded in making his escape and ; lias not yet been arrested.— Ft Wayne | Sen. 1 Original Criticism! —The N Y. TVfpihl ■speAkscf ITonry Ward Beecher as a purloinerorprophets and prrvert<>r ofp-a’ins

No Time to Run in Dcßt. An Ohio Reader asks: ‘Would von ’ consider it prudent for a farmer having a hundred acres paid lor and well stocked, and out of debt otherwise, but not having a comfortable domicle, to incirre a < debt of five or six hundred dollars in building a dwelling house?—We think not. In the November Amtricoh Agriculturist, we referred to the effect of the increased relative Vallie between geld and currency and showed why farmers should seize upon this time to get out of debt and keep out. The recent further advance in gold gives addilonal force to the reasons then set forth. Currency that will pay d' bts is now very abundant and will probably be more so for a time. The moment the war closes or bids fair to close the country will begin to turn to a specie currency and then look out for breakers. What now is called BISD will begin to recede toward SIOO. A debt of 8100 contracted now, when wheat is at 814 per bushel in this city will probably have to be paid when wheat will be worth only 81. This will not probably take place at once for there will be a large amount of legal tender” currency to be retired from circulation before vpcicie will be the legal standard but the I change must soonir or later take place. If the old house is at. all tenatable, or can be made so with a little outlay, better put any surplus funds aside where it will be absolutely safe and can be called in dollar for dollar. Th< n when prices of labor of timber and of other materials fall, the money and its interest can be used to far greater advantage. If there be a mortgage upon the farm or house, poor crops and low prices ntav perhaps not enable you to .meet it. This flush period is just the lime to get out of debt, j keep out, and lay by as much as possible, A Cite Trick! —French for adroit 1 sv indling operations, which are alike celebrated for their success as for their novelty. We record an instance. A faslij ionable-looking lady, not long ago, drove ‘Upin a handsome private carriage to a well known lunatic asvlurn, situated a few ■ miles from Paris, and Requested to see : the proprietor. Her wish being acceded to, she informed the doctor that she I desired to place her husbund under his care, to see if a cruel mania which he la- ■ brtred —viz., that he had lost a large ' quantity of jewels—eonld not be removed 1 After some hesitation the doctor consented, and the lady, on receiving his assI urance, drove directly to the first jew- | eller’s in Paris, and selected jewels to the ' value of several hundred pounds, Re- ' ipiesting ft clerk to go with her carriage ;to procare the money for the goods she I had taken, she drove with him to the insane asylum, and arrivitig there lie was shown into a room. The lady then | sought the doctor, told him of the arrhal I of her husband, and getting intodier <>nri riage again, drove rapidly away. ’Die poor clerk, after waiting and waiting. I grew impatient and violently rang the bell j The doctor made his appearance, and the tclerk. commencing eagerly to inquire asIterthe ladv and liis jewels, was forced , into a straight jacket, the ntaladv cornulained of as the doctor imagined inrtkttig its appearance. He was confined several ! days before the lady's ruse was discovered. She and the jewels are as yet non est. — -, » . '• ! CoMMONt’t.AOE Women. —Heaven know»how ninny simple letters frtTm simpleminded women, have been kissed, cherished and wept, over by men of far loftier ' intellect. So will it always be to the end of time. It is a lesson worth learning by those voting creatures who seek Io allure by their accomplishments, or to dazzle by their genius; that though he may admire, no man ever loves a woman for ’bese things. He loves her for what it, < w’ntiaily distinct front though not l incompatible with them—her woman's , nature and her woman’s heart. This is why we so often see a man of high intellectual power pass bv the De "Stacis and the Corinnet to take unto his Iwisom some II wayside flower, who has nothing on earth . to make her worthy of him, except i. that she is—what so few of your, “female celebrities” are—a true woman. 1 ' 'r, h The Chicago Times snys: Providence doubtless nfll cted us with Abrsham Lin- ! coin in oroer that the preslnt and future 1 generations might see difference he--1 tween wise men and weak flea—between ' statesmen and fanatics. This .terrible ' example ought to warn the world (of a ■ thousand years to come. It is estimated that the sorghum crop this year has been sufficient to supply more than half the syrup and molasses wanted in this country. The vield in 1U59 was less than eight millions of gallons; tlii* yew jt is estimated at /ortv a-.ill-i U«.

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