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M V 1/ U I U I t 1 il U I (i U (I i 335 S W T ’'JET' 5 Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable charges. u37-v6-Iy. I).' WCHAMBEIL PHYSICAIN $• SURGEON . DECA TU R, INDI AN A . II7*OFFICF—On t he east sideof Second St . in the room formerly occupied by J. D. Nuttman as a banking office. v4-n I’2. ■ HI 111 STI IM SI \KE I! . ATTORNEY ATjLAW AND 0 L A I M A G E N T DEOA TU R , IN I) IA N A . Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Coonti"* : Will secure hoiintipg, poni'i'ori's; aud all kinds of claim* against the Cavernrirnnt. trOFFPOE —On Main Street immediately 1 Fouih of the Auditor’s Office—v6-n 12 JAMES R 8080. Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR. INDIANA. Ty’OFFICE, in Recorder’s Office-. Will p’-aetice in the Courts of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Attend to the Redemption of, Lands, tire payment of Taxes Especial atten, i tion will he given to the collection of Bounties--Pension and al’ claims against the Government Nov. 28, vG-pl2 hTFu iiTWrn H P V. SMITH Anib roly pc &®Phot ogra ph MOT « Having permanently located in Decatur and supplied himself with everything that may be , found in a First Class Picture G-allery. Would call the attention of all who desire good Picture at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug n37-ly i. fa' tO ’ : JEFFERSON QLiCK, DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, ’ MUSICAL' 71 INSTRUMENTS JEWELRY, &C., I*3o DECATUR. INDIANA. 1 (’locks, Watches Jewelry, Mimical Instru I m mts, <tc.. repaired on short notice. SHOP—Ou Second Street, in Frazee’s law of flee. v $ n 41 V H KSBI jRG’! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of busines*. Defies the World! AU other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in the shade! Al! efforts at COMPETITION gone hy the BOARD. It i« acknowledged by al! that he can soli -a BETTER Articled of Harness,Saddles, Bridles. / L-iA JE3’ Whip,. and all such like for Ll.SS»M»aejL,fJjxn,-»px<>thss Jjatabijshmeut : >» Xurtlieastern'lndtaria. tvithont ixc-.ption. His work is all warsanLed 1° he made ol the T ery best material, and made by old ajad ejtpe 1 noticed workmen. Buggies and carrwicSt's trimmed in the latest andjupst. approved stvle. Repairing done on shsTf. liotice and at reasonable rates. i.< Sire us a call, and we will convince you ' of the truth of what we say. We FAY CASH ] for our stock, and consequently BUY CHEAP-1 BR than if we bought on TIME: and of course 1 caw sell in proportion —n3b-vt •

- “For the Son of Mun is not come to I destroy Men’s lives, but to safe them.’’ | —Luke 9:56. BY KATE. i As sbep'rds v itched on Bethlhem'a plains From eventide till morn, | An angel of the Lord proclaimed, To you a Savior’s born. Forthwith appears a heavenly host, One shout the Seraphs gave. ’Shepherds adore thp. prince of peace, He comes your race to save. Thon peace on earth, good will to men, ! Glory to God on high, Though man his life has forfeited, His surity comes to die. ' Go preach the word both far and near— Proclaim his power to save: To purchase life for friend and foe, His own he freely gave. But hear the men—-who bear his name, Who in their pulpits rave. . Who preach destruction to their foes, I Forget he came to save. Exterminate, they loudly cry. Blot out the Southern knave- ; Go. soldiers, wade through human gore, 1 T’n lihpi’fito. th a kin vp

lomieraieuwsntve. The tluot. they any, defileyi our flag, 1 That did crer Sumter vr.'tvn.' i The Book of Life fliov'vo cast n’i 10, Tire stars and stripes to save. Thev take the side with numbers strong, They cry King Abe. Gbd save. i Thev made the war. and when it ends, The benefits they’ll have. T‘' 1 i What care, thev then, to preach the word A dying world to save: ; Go, mortals—perish in vo-ir sint' For we mrrt- —free the slave. I Though hosts of fair Columbia’s sons Find an untimely grave Amon—-"O let if bo-they o-y, For we mnst free the slave. ; I Ladies are like watches—nrettv enough ' ri) look at.—sweet faces and delecate hands b it somewhat difficult to regulate when once set agoing. —- . I I A shopkeeper was how lie ob- : taintd the. appellation of little rascal, and replied, ‘To distinguish me from the rest of the trade, who are all great rascals.’ The definition of an unconditional union man, as given by Louisville Democrat, is one who is in favor of everything ; in general and nothing in particular. ‘I have one request to make of you,; my dear Mr. Grant.’ ‘My dear widow,.l will grant anything you say.’ ‘Well, sir, I want to be Granted my- , self.’’' i ‘Where do you hail from?’ queried a ■ Yankee of n traveler. i ‘Where do you rain from?’ was the response. ‘Don'train at all ,’ said the astonished Jonathan. ‘Neither do I hail, so mind your own business.’ i _ >i - —- - A friend of a soldier who is suffering' from a wound that may. cause him to be a cripple fbr life, the other day said to him: ‘Well Tom do you feel like going back ' into the army when you shall have recov- ' cred from the effects of your wound ?’ ‘ 1 The soldier thought a moment and then replied: ' ‘No, I believe- not, unless I coiild go 1 back as an officer or a nigger.’ ' A little four-year old the other day non plussed its mother by making the following inquiry: ALotlier, ifa man is a Mister ain't a wo< ' man a MisteryT . i c i Punch thinks it would be well to sub- p stitute ‘No cake’ for ‘No cards after some t marriage notices, and in a case, now and s then, fancied ‘No nothing' would not be a amiss. *r

•Our Country’s Good shall eve/ be our Aim-Willing to Praise and not airaid ro Elan-x.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 2,1863.

A Frightened Contraband. A Letter received from an army cor-J respondent on the Rappahannock r Jains j . the following camp incident: An amusing incident occurred in canto a night or two since. A portly youi)g i contraband from Charleston. S. Carolina, | > wlio escaped from his rebel .master atn Antietam, and wasfora while subsequently quartered at Washington, was enga- , ged by one of our junior staff officers as his body servant, and brought down Itere to his quarters to attend him. It chanced that the officer had served his country gallantly at. Sharpsburg, where lost a leg below the knee, the absence of which had been made up by an artificial limb, which the captain wore with so easv a grace that few persons who met him suspected his misfortune—his sable attend piiit being among the blissful ignorant as ito the existence'of the fact. The captain had been out to dine, and returned in excellent spirits to his tent. Upon retiring he called his darkey sevant ito assist him iu pulling oil’ his riding i boots. | ‘Now .Timmy, look sharp.' said the ' -captain, T-m a little—io-—tiimsy, Jimmy. .' t ’night Look sharp, an—ic—pull etea- , i-w .. - _ -1

[ I’se allers keerful, cap'n,’ says Jimmy, , drawing off one long, wet boot, u ith con- | siderable difficulty and standing it asI s|de. ‘Now, mind your eye—Jim! Timo ther—ic—a little tight," and black Jim- ( my chuckled and showedhis shining ivoIries, as he reflected, perhaj's that his ■ master quite as tight as Im deemed ins ‘ boot to be. ■» i ‘Easy now—that's it. Pull away?— continued the captain good naturedly, i and enjoying the prospective joke, while iie loosened tile straps about his waist which fastened tlie cork leg up—now you’ve got it! Zip!there you are! Ob, Lord! oh, Lord! oh. Lord!’ screamed the i captain, a contraband, cork leg, riding, I boot and legitures tumbled across the tent in a heap, and the oneJegged officer fell back on his pallat, convulsed witli spasmodic laughters at this moment tlie door opened and a lieutenant entered the ■ tent. G’way film me, gway funt me—leminy be.’ iemmy lie! I ain't done nuflin,’, yelled the contraband lustily, and rushing to the door, really supposing he had ! pulled his master’s leg clean off. 'Lemin y ' go! I didn't do nuffin—-g'wav!’ and Jimmy put for the woods in his desperation, . smee which lie hasn't been heard from, ' though lus captain has dilligently sought! ! for him tar and near. Jimmy was a good , servant, but we never before were treat'ed to a sight of a thoroughly frightened .contraband. There is little doubt the i darkey is running yet. HI I—i 111 Tire St.Ti-i’.mxGs of Virginia.—The Jackson Mississippian, commenting on a letter despnbing the destruction in Virgi-: nia, by the enemy, says: It is mournful to read of the devastation of the old homesteads of the glorious Old Dominion. Her people have suffered and endures 1 more than all others in the .Confedraeyjuit together, and yet the I sublime patience and patriotism con‘inned to be exhibited by them stands with- j out a parallel in history. When years haye rolled by and the actors and witnes-! I ses of this eventful war have been long crumbled into the dust, the tale of Vir- ■ ginia’s trials and suffering—of her faith- , fulness in adversity, in the field, will pre- ’ I sent a page which will foster a love for < independence in the hearts of posterity ,' as long as time lasts, .and furnish a brighter example to the votaries of freedom to' s the remotest ages of civilization. > i A young and very pretty l.adv. riding , in the cars, had a piece of cort plaster on 1 her lip. When the cars emerged from ’ one of the long covered bridges into the ’ Itglit, it was discovered to have disap- ( pesred, but the eye instantly, detected it,. clinging to the lip of the young man who t sat on the seat beside her! They looked as innocent as if they lia lu't been doing 8 anrthhig » - 4

A PninningChargo Against the administration. On Tuesday evening last, at a tremendous meeting of tlie D> moeracy at the Cooper InslituVe, Ne-w York City, Hon Fernando Wood made the following stateIlli 111. I have stated before, and [ repent, that 1 :on the 12th .lay of December last, prop- ' ositions were made to the President which 1 I would have made peace, with Union, ' before- the Ist of April. I have h,,. n wai--1 ting for some r,uthonz"d denial of my statement that 1 might produce the document. It has hot been denied. because they cannot deny it. It is not necessary .forme toprove bv these nute.-nents tlntt ’ ! this administration never wt-hed the war (to ceas or the Routh to Come hark —for I have got the documenta to ; prove it.’ Mr. Wood had made this statement ’ previously, and he on this occasion re. I pealed it.—This is 4< o important a ch-art'-for the administrotion to allow to bo si-1 lence. The charge i- t hat on the 12th of December last, propositions were made to the President which would have made peace on the basis of Union bv the Ist of April, and that the administration never wished the war to ceake or the South to comeback; and Mr. Wood tells tl s he has gat the documen’s to prove it. N,>w if that is true, the country should know it. Not only should the country know it, but the whole wi> r |(j should know it. The people of the North are primarlv and deeply interested in knowing whether

Mr. Wood has told the truth. They have to furnish the men and money to persecute this war. A n enormous public debt Iris alrearlv nccumulati d, whith will be .a heavy burden upon tho indnstrv’of the coun’ry for centuries unless wiped out by repudiation. A ennscripdon is threatened which will take of the sons, husbands and fathers of the North a half . mi'iion or a million, to fillup the gaps male in our armies by disease and death Is nil this to-be borne and suff-red merelv ; to gratify the ambition destgins of politicians in power, or t.o carrv out. anlab- 1 olitiotvpolicy that is toend in a despotism? 1 . Tiie erv should go up from everv fireside, an-! workshop and lb Id in the whole north, for the documents which Mr. Wood says he has to prove the charges he has made against the administra- , tion. Everv tongue should h > a trumpet, which should give the ears of the President and those of bis Oahinet. no 1 rest til the. proof now lu-ld bv Mr. Wood: should be disclosed to the world, [n a previous speech lie eaid he was under a promise to a high offi iel at Washington not to publish . documents. That high : official is understood to be the President, i Why does not he, for his own honor. , give Mr. Wood the liberty to produce i bis proof? Why does he not eall’on’bim to prodoce his proof, or stand convicted before, the world 'of uttering the basest slander that could, he uttered against the administration? Shall the proof l>n forthcoming, or willt.be President rest, under the charge made pgatnsf’him by Mr. Wood? Black vs. Wiiitk—W- are allowed to make the* following ex'r ict, from a private letter written to a friend here from the army about Vicksburg, ft. gives about the same idea as most of the letters fram the "army, in regard to the treatment of soldiers and contrabands.. | It says:— Rtandard. I You said in yonr letter that yon wanted to know the feeb'ngs of the soldiers on the war question. It is about this wav. The officers have got u« into it, and wcannot get out of it honorably, until our time is out. I tb'nk. if our regiment was mustered out of tho service a recruiting i officer would do very pool business—that is considering the wav tho war is goir.g, ( nnw. For I was always brought up to think that I was a= good as a negro—but a soldier is about fifty per cent, tinder par with the dark skin gent]em°n. ns they call themselves. For instance: when wo areon a march, if a private soldier gets sick, he can get c-mp the beat wav , he can—and if Mr. Nigg°r don’t feel very well, b« can go and get in the amhulace and ride, and a white man won’t, dar sav a wojd against it. But then we are all living in hop-s that there is a better day coining That is when our times is out, then let Mr. Darkey get saucy on nnr hands if he thinks it wholesorn for him.’ A good storv is told of President Lincoln. A pergonal friend said to him “Mr. President, dn von really expect to end this, war during your adminis 1 tration?’ The president (in reply)—‘ Can’t say. can’t say, sir.” Tho querist — 'But Mr. Lincoln what do yon mean, to do?” The President—'Peg away sir; peg away. Keep pegging t-way!’— Ex. ' It s mi-wrable- pegging that old Abe ' makes of it. . . 1

Army Letters, A soldier wrtgliting Ironi the nrmv at Murfreesboro, tn, hissisteo in Hancock County. Ohio, published in the Couri, r, -after ad vising all bis frit-nos , and neighbors to abandon, the aboliton, party, ,says: Wo have, in the 3 | Division not less ( than Gve hundred, blacks. Well, on a heavy inarch you can see pnpr soldiers . who give <)U«, or are sick, or sorefooted, go crippling, and working, their . way along the bust they pan, with a load el from 25 tq 35 pounds weight on their backs, while these 500 darkies are all i provided with some way of getting along. A great many of them rile the best hprses, some ride on the supply wagon o , sod if they do venture to mnke the pretty little iliings walk they are v<-ry 'careful, not to make, them carry a mule’s load, like the whites, have to do ’ An! tliis we suppose is what, the Republicans papers mean by claiming to be the especial friends of the poor soldier! What shameful hypocrisy, if such men can have shame. The same writer also ,says: 'I ain aware, Jackson, that vou nnd the most of my friends at home, endorse Lincoln’s proclamation tn the letter, but it appears to me if you had been over Kentucky and Tennessee and saw as much of the free negro institution as I have, It would have cleared Almlitjoii- ■ ism out of vou so clean that it would never trouble you any more while you live.”

II » u. Will tl lose fanatics learn truth and ’ common sente wh<-n it com-s directly ' home to them from the private soldier in [ the field? Another, sol Tier/ writing, tn the courier from Yotij’s Point, Louisiana, says: ‘Murtnering? and grumblings seem to be in every camp and every lent, and as the poor, unfortunate blacks pass by, there is a shout, corn's from the so! diera, “Here goes Lincoln's Proclamotion!’ 1 This Isst writer den i- s the truth as the i sta,tement sent hom« by (he well paid officers of Abolition decent, that soldiers are for the Proclamation, for freeing the negroes, or putting those who tire free on an'-quality with the white race. We have (he more reason to believe that these letters from the privates speak the truth from the fact that until nur paper was attacked bv the mob, we had 1 never received a letter from privates in the nrmv enclosing money as subscriber to the Crisis. Within the last, week or | two we bpvo received several and one of ! them states the 1 . The Crisis is in great -demand among the soldiers.’ It is very clear Chat th- late attempt of the A bob! ioni sts to force politices upinn the army is resnlt’ng in a grand fail i ure, and tending greatlv to disturb the harmony nnd goo-1 feeling in the regimen’s, which it should be the purpose of ■ every officer fit In command to preserve. But as many of the officers were appoin- ■ ted becntpie of their fann'i-al politics, wsuppose they are onlv obeying orders,’ — Crisis. A Slight Drawback —Many a glor ions speculation lias failed for the s imv good reason that the old Texan ranger gave when he was asked why lie didn't buy land when it was dng cheap. ‘Well, I did come nigh on takin’ eight .thousand acres once’t,’ said old Joe, | mourn/'illv. You see, two of the bores ' came in. one day from an Indian hunt without any shoes, and offered me th-ir titles to the two leagues just below her . for a pair of boots.’ “For a pair of booty!’ we exclaimed. 'Yes. a par of boots for each league ’ ‘But why on earth did you not tak- it I Theypi be worth one hundred thousand ■ [.dollars to-day Why didn’t you give them , the boots?’ Jvst because I didn’t Imve the boots to . give,'said old Jo-, as he took another chew of tobacco, just as contented as if he own-d two or three hundred leagues of land. Estate of Stsviies A. DouaLAs. — The inventory of this estata has been filed in the Cpunty Court, !>y D P. Rhode„s, .Executor, I- covers a large. rumb-.T of pieces of real estate, valu-d in the aggregate st several hundred thnivvipd li'dlars; but there are incum hranceupun it equal to the appraised ualua of the entire property The appraisers appoin’ed by the Court' to enumerate, a p -rsonal -state r -port [that they, cannot find any personal property belonging to said estate. — C.Mcago Tribune. As daylight c4n be seen through very small hob s, so little things will illustrate . a person's character Indeed character consists in little ac|« habitually and honorably performed Daily bfij being the quarry from which we build it up and rough bew the habit from it. ♦ - -c » ' ” > '•

Our Great Western Natural Arteries of. t Con in<*rce> A dinner was given to GosHiuir Jlurk ton’ ol Imliaua, on lite occasion of his ’ ! visit to New York. He tnade. a speech ■on the occasion. We rx raet trnm it ' , ihv h,'lowing paragraph,■ wh'eh is not without its importance: •Al least halt 'he poptilalion of Ijidr- • ana were born in slave Stales or ol Si ut.h’'ern parents. The same was True, iti a ’ large degree, of tin- H'uti-s of Ohio end ■ lllnmis This: was an important considersiion which must not be host sight of i when they come to consider the war. iApbtJier consideration, not to be lost ( sight of. was (heir geogrepl-ienl silut'tion. New York, Pennsylvania and the ' New England Stales were on the Atlantic, or connected with it. end the Sta'es of Ohio. Illinois and Indiana .found their , outlet to the ocean through the Mississippi River. For forty ye ora nlier (he settlement of Indiana, its commerce was , entirely dependent on the Mississippi River. As far as like navigation was 1 (concerned they had never had m'utfh ' ’ i d-pendenec on the lakes. Al! the traditions of the p<-opl- of Indiana and other Norlhweso-rn States were connected wiift the free navigation t>nd cutittol of the Mississippi River.' A great tnanv persons seem tri 'hink that bv means ol onr railroads we ch" have al) the facilties we need for tho transportation of our produce ton maik<-t not considering the great expense as that mode of transportation over wfiat it 1 I ... e t. . .... si. . m . ... 1

I 'void 1 cost by bo its on the Ohio nnd Mississippi Hiver Our cornu.<-rec and our relationship are with the routli west 1 , and not wild) Ni-w England. It is for that reaeni the people of Oiiip, Itcliana and Illinois are now and have ’ been, so opposed to a separation from the South, and why they have taken such a rlisiikt to New E Iglarid, which they ' .regard as the cause of our troubles. ’ They have volunteered by hundreds of thotisinls topreserve the Smi 'i to the Union, and, consiquently, to themselves. i They are willing yet to make great sae,I rifici s to raaintiiin the old relation: r.nd ■the mure tin sacrifices the greater will be their repugnance to those w'mni they ’ regard al the parties that compelled them tv mike these sacrifices. And should ' they tn- able to restore thi-ir -Id rel. - lions with 'be Southwest, New England fanaticism will have to labor long and persifctentlv, before it can agn ti nlaltrf any, impression upon thd people of tiie North, west.— Cinc'Jm-.'t' Empiiter. IHn-sncliuseit« soleiicrs. T’reeidml Lincoln having given Governor Andrews ol Massachusetts tire privilege ol raising a negio regiment, and nt recruiting wherever he pleased in ■ the Unit-d States, we find the salfie Gov. with his sable friend's and their sable sboulder-stra[)*j bard at work in the city, of Chicago: and after, two months hard ivorii and expending tn- , ough money to rais a full regiment of white soldiers. h« can, in that ci'y where there are thousands of negroes procure but forty who are willing to volunteer, and tear tbernsi-lves from ttu.-ir liman’ and turile-dovi s ' These free Americans of AfriearfiT deeent are to receive the bounty and about th- same pay the white soldiers receives; while the drafted while men, will not fair hall ns well in bounty and par. Li«t week a negro was appointed Surgeon W".h the rank of Major and appeared in his uniform and straps in Washington and produce quitcd an i.;eitemtnt and sensation.. So go. We will soon have plenty of black Lii-iitehants Captains, Colonels and Gig-tdier Brindles. What is Trea«onabije LaXovagk — One .Captain Ridins lias b< i n arrested for using trpasonabie language in a letter of resignation. Here is the treasonable language: That I am painfully convinced that the war is not prosecuted by the present par.l y in power in accordance wi l h the min- ' , ciplvs and policy under whi-’h 1 enlisted months ago, that I enlisted to fight reli. Ilion, to fight treason, to tight for a reconstruction of the Union ns it was bit’ 1 >t for the dt gredaticn of'tlie white imin to an equality with the ne.-vi | and being u.-.wt’.}:ng to rr erifien my liberty of opinion and more unwilling to encouragi! in • subordinaiion by tee utt*-rtme-s of sentiments while in the stAvic- wb iee might be Ct nsidered inconsistent with good order and proper diseiylinein the army nnd as I ttodld not ns conscientiously and ' s zealously discharged my duties as formerly I resp-ctifully desire 'hat. niv r s ignaimfi ba accepted, and fnor. over, 'b •’ the service would not suffer Mount" v icancies in the regiment were now f, ‘ ! nnd a c»mp» t-nt senior caj in r.\ , lake my place.' If this is treasonable InogU"'- « ‘ ’a host of trai'ors there must be ’ „ T.rrr.v and among (lie penpie?—JZ'<' ' ’

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