Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1863 — Page 1

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THE DECATUR EAGLE. BTBBT SAT MB AT M**Ht»», BY. Spencer & Schirmeyer. rntrona*' oi mwmbtom. OFFICE-On Second Strest, 1* Patterson tntiding, over the Drug Store. Terms of Subscription: One a*?y. on* F**r.« U CO If paid vithia the year, 1 30 If net P*id until th* year has aspired, 2 On ETNo paper wiliMdusenth ued until all errerac** » r » peidooeepi stake option of the Publisher. Tltni of Adv*rttei&r< One square,{»•* lines) three inoertioM, $1 00 E«ch eubaequeat inner lion, 25 gyMo adrertieeiaeat will beeonaidared lee* then ent aq tsrs; over one squire will be counted and charred astwe; -iv»r two, a« thrsa.etc, tTA liberal discount, from the above rates, toad a on ■■lladvjriieementsinserted for aporiod longer three ir.cnths. . rThs abcro rates will h> strictly adhered to under all trsMsataSees. JOB PJH I N TING: w« are prepared to do all kinds of roa-woas ■ ins neat and workmanlike manner, on the tarsi reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, beingnew and of ths lat eat stylos, we Isol eontident that Satisfaction ran be given <*«i——u.:.- . "-" u— lu-t-u - . —rsss DECATUR BUSINESS £AIUDS? BURT HOUSE. Decatur, «C=. JffIMMLTKS.'KTp Proprietor. Will give good attsatlua, sad makes reasonable charges. aP-vC-ly D. W? CHAM PER, PUYSTCAIN i SURGEON DECATUR. INDIANA. KFOFFICE—On the east side of Second fit. 1* the room formerly occupied by J. D Nuttman as a banking office. vl-av-’ hyTd ItedabauE ATTQANrY AT|LAW U* CLAIM AGENT DECATUR. INDIANA. Will Practice tn Adams and adfrining Cbnaties Will seenre bounties, pension'; and all’kinJa of claims against the (Severnment. LFi.'FF’O-E —On Mein '■tr«t immediately South of the Auditor’s Office —-v6-u<2 JAMES R' 8080, Attorney and Counselor at Law. DECATUR. IXDTAXA. CFOFFICE, in Recorder’* Office. _n Will practice in the Courts of the Tenth Judiets) Circuit. Attend to the Redemption of Lsa-ts. the pay ..snt of Taxes Fepeeial nttrn. tioa will be given to the col ecti<.u of Bounties. Pension and all claims against the 3nv.-rr.ment Nov. 2d, 1862. vfi-n42 ? ICTOR 8 6 ALLER Y! P. V. SMITH. Ambrotype & Photograph AWTTMSBTTj Saving permanently located in I’ecatur and aopph'd htmsalf with everything that may be fuw, d in a First Claes Picture Gallery, Weald cal! the attention of all who desire good 1 Picture at low prices, to call at hia ru-'tns in Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug Store. t>37-Iy — ■ rm' igSSfcJZ'ZjO ts her JEFFERSON QUICK, Sanaa nr %LCCKt, WATCHSB, MUSICAL. IMJiVfiXNTS, JEWEIEY, &C., DECATUR, INDIANA. □tacks, Watches,•',Jeweiry,‘rMuaical Instru masts, ic., repairsd on short nutise. SHOP—3a Sesoud Street, in eraser’s law of fie*. >var» " v-Vu 41 VICKSBURG! I. J. MIESSE, Tn his line of business. Defies the World! All other LIKE INSTITUTION'S thrown in : the shale! Al! effoitsat COMPETITION gone | ®? the BOARD. It is ack.iowle.lged by all that he can sell s BETTER article of Harness, Sad diss, Bridh*. Whips and all such like w LkSS money than any other eetsbliuhrneet, ’• Northeastern Indiana, without ixcepticn. His work is all warranted to be med eof the ! *ery best material, end mad* by old *nd expe rtenced workmen. Baggies and carriages trimmed in the latest; •*d most approved stele. Repairing done on . short notice end at reasonable rates. CPGive us a call, and we will convince yon ®> the truth of what we say. We PAY CASH J* •” stock, and ece>.—ueniJy BUY CHEAP , •* than if we bought on TIME; and of rouroe «*» eeUta

THE DYING WIFE, Lay the gem upon her bosom, Let her fe-l her feel heraweet warn breath For a strange chill o’er me passes, And I know* that it la death. I would gasu upon the tresaurs— Scarcely given ere I go— Feel her rosy dimpled fingtrs Wandering e'er toy cheek of snow. I am passing through the waters. But a blessed shore appears. Knrel beside me husband dearest, Let me kiss away thy tears. Wrestle with my grisf my husband. Strive from miduight ntil day; It may ieavii as angel's blessing When it vauisheth away. Lay the gem upon her bosom. Tie not long she can be there; See. how to my heart she neatlsa, 'Tiethe pearl I love to wear. If in alter year* b**idu thee, B.U another in my chair—though he* voice be sweeter musie, And her face than mine more fair. If a cherub Call thee Father, Far more beautiful than this— Love thy first born I Oh my husband. Turn not from the motherless Tell her .omettmee of her mother You will call her by my name; Sbivld herfrom the winds of sorrow; If she errs, oh! gently blame. Lead Iter sometimes where I’m sleepisg; 1 wtll answer if site calls, Aod my breath will stir her ringlets. When iny voice in blessing falls, Her soft blue eyeswill brighten With wouder whence it ca ne In her heart when years pass o’er her. She will fiud her mother** name. It iassid that every mortal Walks betwe. n two angels here; One records the ill but blots it, If before the midnight drear Van repenteth; if ntcancelled. Tires he seals it for the skies, Aed the angel woepeth, Uw with veiled eyes. I will be her right hand angel, Healing up the good for heaven Striving that the midnight watches Find in rrisdeed unfurgi/en TodwJl no forget me huiband. When I*m sleeping ’neath the sod! QLlove the jewel given ui, As I lore ihtw—next to God, N its to Crack* If the Administration is the Government why didn’t it die with Gea. Harrison orTayior. We suppose the Government was cut with a razor the other dav when Mr Seward wounded his hand. If Lincoln should take the diarhos, the Government would have to swallow burnt brandy or some other astringent to regulate its bowels. If Lincoln should get the rheumatism the Govenment would have to go on j crutches. When Chase takes snufl the Government has to sneeze. When Wel’es gave his fat contract to Morgan it was a brother in law of the Government to whom he extended the favor. There is a rumor that the Government drinks brandy tea Out of a bottle We don’t believe the rumor so far as relates to the tea. The government by successful and skill ful strategy arrived in Washington, dressed in a beautiful Scotch plaid. The Government was once heard to say that it had not studied the tariff yet but it intended to do so as soon as it Lad leisure. i The Government is six feetfourinches high, has large feet and lank ja ws, and used to maul rails when it was young. \ When Halleck hit Staunton the government got a black eye. I The go den days of Democracy are ’ gone and behold the greenback days of abolitionism a’ e upon us. * What does the Conscript bill mean-— ‘X our money or your life.’ The conscript law has a enrions effect The Administration is coercing the peo , pie of the North to coerce the people of i the South. ! The abolition preachers are opposed to dancing, skating, theatre going and play ing chess; but enthusiastically in favor of, a bloody fratricidal war between brothers and friends. The buttamut has medical properties. A story is told of a doctor who made pills iof the bark. When he wanted an emetic i he scraped the bark upward, if he sought : a purge ht scraped downward. The laborer who adds his share to the i general w*alth, is worth a thousand doMthinga who only oonaam*

persona' *Our Country's Good shall over be dux Aim—Willing l</'' rt 2aiso and not afraid to Blams.” >t ■

DECTUR, ADAMS COUNTV. INDIANA, MAY 23,1863.

t Exscuticn nt Hageostown Miryland On Friday, the 10th inst., Frederick Smith was hung at Hagerstown Mary land for the murder of Miss Agnes Tracy It is estimated that from six to eight thousand persons were present. From the Torch Light we take the following particulars; At 11 o'clock the sheriff s guard of citizens, numbering about one hundred horsemen and two hundred footmen, the former under the command of Blackstone Lynch, of this town and the latter under the command of Captain McKechney, proceeded to the place of execution and maintained order there. There was nothing very remarkable in the last hours of the doomed man. On Thursday night he slept some four or five hours and on Friday morning he arose and eat a hearty breakfast, but notwithstanding these evidences of seeming indifference to his fate he was profoundly agitated and wept as if the fountains of his heart had been broken up. He was visited during the morning by the Rev. Mr. Evans and several other minsters. These gentlemen sung and prayed with him and gave him much spiritual advice, as one in his situation required. Between 11 and 12 o'olock he again partook of food and at twenty minutes of 1 o’clock, having been previously arrayed in a suit of black clothes which the sheriff purchased for him, and otherwise prepared for the last terrible scene in his life, he was led from his ceil by the sheriff and his deputies to one of three carriages drawn up in front of the jail.— Seated in this with the officers of the law the other two carriages being occupied by the clergy and medical examiners, and accompanied by the mounted guard he was tasen to the place of execution. As the solemn procession moved onward he buried his face in his handkerchief, and exhibited intense agony trembling and weeping and sobbing incessantly He raised his head but once or twice on the way to look at whst was to him the last of earth and made but a single remark and that was an appeal to the sheriff to lose no time. In a very short space of time the vehicles reached the gallows, which was erected at the base of a hill near the railroad just beyond the Northeastern suburbs of the town. Smith now alighted and accompanied by the sheriff his deputies, and the clergy ascended the scaffold where no time was lost in executing the stern mandate of the law. He took an affectionate leave of the clergy, who deserve much credit for their attentions to him by shaking hands and kissing each one of them, and in like manner bade adieu to the sheriff and his deputies, after which Mr Stitt made a brief but very appropriate an beautiful prayer. The sheriff then adjusted the rope, led the doomed man upon the fatal trap, who continued deeply moved, weeping and shaking like an aspen leaf. In an instant the rope was attached to the beam above, the cap drawn and the sheriff on his way down the steps — As he descended he touched with the heel of his boot a lever or treadle, which caused the rap to fall and at precisely ten minuses past one o’clock the unfortunate: man was launched into eternity. Smith was about 31 years of age, was exceedingly illiterate, and wholly destitute of moral and religous training. In his last moments he gave some evidences of contrition. From what purports to be a confession of his, we learn that he denies that he premeditated the murder of the young girl whom he shot, but fails to define the governing impulse which, prompted him to commit the horrible deed. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDER. The murder of Miss Tracy was a most atrocious one as will be seen by the following remarks of Judge Weisel, in passing sentence upon the criminal. The victim of your fell purpose was a young and confiding female, the joy of a monntain home and the solace and comfort of her parents. You had contracted a passion for her. Whether she returned it or what were the obstacles to an honorable union, is best known to yourself. There was certainly nothing on her part so far as the proof disclosed to provoke unkind feelings on yours. You professed and declared an attachment for her and not only that you declared, you had nothing against her and yet in a moment when she least expected your design and in a spot to which she was lured by a seemingly friendly promise, you planted the deadly weapon to her head, and in an instant, quick as the flash from the pan, she was lifeless object at your, feet.. A woman who marries a man from 35 to 45 years of age, thereby exemptng him from liability to serve in the first class of conscripts, is regarded guilty of a disloyal practice. No more loafers wanted at this office.

A Romance of Paris Life. A iikui singular and startling diseotery has been made in Paris by lha death of the old Marquis D___ . This gentleman, who during the whole of his life, was received into the best soceity, with every privilege accorded to persons of his rank, never bore any other than his mother’s name; and so patent is custom that the fact never seemed to create the smallest astonishment although it was remembered that his mother went by no other name than that Mdlle. D____ . Now and then people would speculate and wonder at the boldness of nerve which would enable the lady to face the world with this most extraordinary opposinn of the world’s decrees; when the lady retired into the groat convent of the Rue de Vaugirard, of which her sister is Superior, the wouder ceased an 1 was, ere long forgotten. The family of ___ is constdered the richest in France. The gift of ten million of frances, made to the Arch bishop of paris by the Superior of the convent is still spoken of with admiration and the gift never seemed to impoverish the convent a white The Marquis, who kept a magnificent establishment, was merely bound to one condition, and that was to remain a bachelor. All sorts of strange reasons were suggested for this obligation, and every kind of supposition alledged. Some vears ago Mdlle. D___ died in the convent and the queries concerning the birth of the Marquis were resumed on learning that he was entitled to but a life annuity out of the immense fortune enjoyed by the family His death, which happened a few days ago, has solved the mystery. His register bears the notice of his having been born in the prison of La Force, the recognized offspring of Citzen Robespierre and the Citoyenne ____ It has been ofied imagined that the prisons of those times held more mysteries than met the eye. The heroes of the Revoluuon found it easy enough to reduce the proudest ladies of the land to their wishes. Mdlle. D—, beautilul, aristocraitic and in the first bloom of youth, must have been a tempting prey to Citizen Robespierre, and one of which he would have been proud enough no doubt, had he lived to enjoy his triumph. The New Postage Bill —The New Postal Law as amended by the last Congress will go into effect on the 1st of July next. The following are the most important o( its provisions: Letter carriers are to receive salaries and no charge will be made for the delivery of letters, Postage on local or drop letters is raised to two cents to be invariably paid in advance and by postages stamps. The postage is two cents when the weight does not exceed half an ounce, and an additional rate is to be charged for every additional hall ounce or fraction of an ounce The regulations respecting soldiers’ letters, remained the same as heretofore. On all mail matter required by law to be prepaid, and which shall reach its destination unpaid, double the usual rates must be callected on delivery, and insufficient payment is to be disregarded. The fee for the registration of letters is left optional with the Postmaster General but it is not to exceed twenty cents per letter. Unsealed circulars, not exceeding three to one address are to be charged with two cents postage, and in that proportion for a greater number. Newspaper postage will undergo considerable change. No paper will be permitted to go free in the mails except in the county where published as heretofore. Weekly papers five cents per quarter, semiweakly ten cents triweekly fifteen cents sixtimes per week thirty five cents. At those rates the weight must not exceed lour ouners —in each case payable in advance, per quarter, of year, either at the mailing or delivery office. No extra charge is to be made for a card to be printed or impressed upon a circular or letter envelope or wrappers. Circulars, to be prepaid, by stamps. Post masters, will not be allowed, to exercise the franking privolege as heretofore. Postmasters can only frank official letters to other officials—the former licens to the smaller class of officers heretofore enjoved. of franking on their own privat business, having been abol- ■ ish ed. All foreign postage is to be paid ia coin. A beggar woman, when questioned if she were not an Irish woman dropded • courtesy, and added Sure I am’ yer honor, and I have been ever aiaov I was * ehiM.*

SLAVS WOMEN IN LONDON The young female slaves of whom we speak are worked by gangs in tllvenu- • lated rooms, or room that are not vm tileted al all for it is found eupvnence that if the air be admitted it brings with 1 it blacks of another kind, which damage i thewirk upon which the seamstresses are employed. Their occupation is to sew from meaning to night and night to i morning— sticb, sttch, stich without ■ speech—without a smile—without a sigh In the gray morni g they must be at work — sav at six o’clocs, having a quarter o< hour allowed for breaking their fast. The food given to them is scanty and miserable enough, but still in nT prob i ability, mors than their fevered systems lean digest. From six o'clock then, till , eleven, it is stitch, stitch As eleven s I small piece of br-ad is Served to each : seamstress, but s'ill she must stiicii on At one o'clock, twenty mineets are alllowed for dinner —a elice of meat and a j potato, with a glass of toast and water jto each work wotn-ir. Th>n ngain to work, stitch, stitch, until five o’clock, whvtl fifteen minutes are again allowed for tea Their needles are again Set io motion ones more—stitch, stitch, until nine o'clock when fifteen minutes are al lowed for supper—a piece of dry b-ead ahd cheese and a glass of beer. From nine o’clock at night until one, two and three o.clock in the morning stitch, stitch the only hrenk in this long periol being a minute or two—just time enough io swallow a strong cup of tea, whieh is supplied lest the toung people should feel sleepy.* At three o’clock, A. M-, to bed at six o’clock A. M., out of it, again to' resume the duties of the day. There j must he a good deal of roonot in the oc cupation But when we have said that j for certain months of the year these tin fortunate persons are worked in thr man ner described wo have not said all Even during the few hours allotted to sleep — shall we not say a fdverish cessation | i from toil!—their miseries continue. The-, i are cepped up in sleeping pens ten in a ( room, which world perhaps be sufficient! ■ lor two persons. The alteration is front I a treadmill (ann what a treadmill!) to • i the black bole of Calcutta! Not a word I I of remen>tr«n» is »’triwed nr possible, i The seamstress may leave the mill, no i doubt but whar awai'e her on the otherside of the door? Starvation, if honest; I if not, in all probability, prostitution and J its consequences — Lon Timet. ■ a— ii. ■ - — A Mutter-of Fact-Man, i Here is a ven amusing picture of that species of odd fish known as a mstler-of fact man. I am what the old woman call an odd 1 , ! fish.’ Ido nothing under the heavens ; 1 without a mnlivv—l attempt nothing un- j less therie is a probability of my succeed- ; i ing. I ask no favors when I think they I . j are not granted I grant no favors when I ■ , think wait upon girls when I think my ; attentions are dtsagreeab'e, lam a mat- , • ter of-fact man—l am Ido things serous ly. 1 once ofiered to attend a young lady '. home—l did it serou'ly that is, I meant; , to wait on her home if she wanted me ; , She accepted my offer. 1 went home with err and it has ever been an enigma to me whether she warned me or not She look my rrm and sa‘d not a word. I bade i her good night,’ and she said not a word : , I met hor again, and she gave me a two ' hours' talk. It struck me ns curiofs ! Site feared that I was offended, she said, ane could not for the life of her tel) why. ’ , She begged ma to explain bnt didn't I give the ghost of a chance to do it. She i said she hoped I would not be offended ; I asked rne to call aud it has ever since ; been a mystery to me whether she wanted , me to call or not. I once saw a lady at her window; I thonght I wnul i call. I did. I inquired for the lady. And was told that she was . dot at home, I expected the was. I went away thinking so. I rather think so still ; 1 I metl.es again. She was offended— t said I bad not been neighborly.’ She te- : proached me lor my negligence, and said i she thought Iha I been unkind. And I ; have ever since wondered whether she i was sorry or no . I A lady once said to me that she shor.ld . like to b« married if she could get • good congenial husband whe would make her ! i happy, or at least try to.’ She was idificulty to please, she said. I said:’! ') should like to make you hrppy.’ She ' said: . ’ Umpli!’ and she looked as if she ! meant what she said she did. For when ■ I asked her if she could be persuaded 1 to marry me, she said she'd rathe; be excused, I’ve often wondered why 1 excused her. 1 Well Patrick, asked the doctor, how i do you feel to day?’ Och, doctor len i I joy very poor health entirely. The rumali i ics are very distressin indade when I go to - slaps I lay awake all night and my foes is '.swelled as big as a goose's hen's egg ijso thst whin I stssd up I fall down icemad's’efy.*

sue——*»ss»^w———sms—we ■ ■ >sf" ■■* - ~ «• - Abolition Threats —Let Democrats b» I’repnred. It's our duty to keep our DemOCra’.’u readers advised ol what la g<ri*-g or. The times are lull of portent! Lr e« ery Democrat read what we pu.bl:sbelow. [From theSpriniffieldNrWa—Republic’!* j It is a fact tnat does not admit of question, that there are in Ohio and the North W»sl a band us sect el disloyal eocsy *- tors, who are potting forth all peSv : e eff iris to precipitate this portion of the United Stales out of the Union T ’’ u promptly squ-lehsd efforts at Frank! . the other day has its thousands of S."mpathssers North of the Ohio, who ev;nc their sympathy by denouncing Col. G berts arbitrary exercise of power. Cut bitterest and most dangerous foe* among usl We must be organized! We must, b-e awake!- We must be ag gressive! [From the Rsoyrus Joumal—Republieso ] The enemies of our Government ha v ’« ead their day in the North, and should be put down With a vengeabce which koo’s na <nercv. i From a Republican Speech made in Btcyrua * Reports 1 by tl.e Forum NeXt-arose the renegade Juhn Scroggs who said he knew the Knights of th • Golden Circle were in our midst for 1-i had seen that G—l d—d hell forsnker arch traitor Archy Me Gregor on our streets in secret consultation with otb* ers—He then advised his brethren ’.- arms’ and if th* Government would t*t furnish them with arms, for every men to furnish hitnself with an Eou-id riffand one hundred rounds of catridges and shoot the G—d d—d Rounds dowr. ;on the street, and send them to hell!’ From a Sps< ch by Lew Wallace at a Republics:. Meciin/ in Cincinnati1 have given you the alarm —What d : I propose? I advise you to organize, politically, but in the stvle of soldiers.. Organil- for your lives (or your pro: ertv for tl.e peace of scciety and t ' Government. When th'* proceedings > this vast assemblage shall reach the army I they will ba plopsed and happy. But they would t: finitely rather hear th*l i the whole North was a vast military or.ganization, than to hear the most elo* , quenl expression loyalty or read t’>s mu-t. glowing re»o!a:im <n th* wo'ld ’ I Consider the above Dt-mocs’-S, *n* I conclude what you ought co do. ■ Tns Magical Be segues —The Boston Herald says: A newly married young fellow on Salem street acked his sy oos# to go to the theatet one night last wee/y she excused herself on the p/u-iai i.nt she had a toothache but pers.ia. sd tto go alone and he went. Oil r:t: :::g at the door he was told that he co ;’.: r.ot ' get a seat whereupon he returned hOrr.B, and finding his wife in bed he retired, alijp. In a few minutes his suffering w::"e : desired him to get up and go for brandy I and laudanum, as her tooth put her ir. such agony that she could not b?ar it. I Ho hastily put on his clothes and went to the drug store on the corner. In :;?.y---ng for the article purchased the young 1 man was astonished to find the pocklotsofhis pantaloons replenished with : gold and silver and on further examination he found a wallet with 5164 in bills ,in it. The pantaloons he had on were of ; fine broadcloth, while his usual neither garment was a coarse cassimere. He went home in not a very pleasant mood’ i reflecting as to the mysterious metamI orphosis but his own pantaloons, were nettobefonnd and his wife on learn- , ing his dilemma, became so perfectly crazed with the toothache that could not i say a word. Longevitt.—There is nothing in the i system of nature which in our prereet state of knowledge appears so uninteli- ; gible as the scale of longevity. It must be admitted indeed that our knoledge I upon the subject is very imperfect for all i that is known of domesticated animals, and the accidental facts thas e been preserved concerning others fend to the strange result that longevity bears no relation either to strength size complexity lof organization, or intellectual power. True it is that birds which seem ’o nmk higher than beasts in the scale of being, ' are also much longer lived. Thirty is a I great age for a hor»e dogs usually live onlyjrom fourteen to twenty but it i* ' known that the gooses and hawk exceed a ! century. But fish, evidently lower rank in orea'.ion than either are longer lived than birds: it has been said es some species, and of certs in snakes also, that rher grow so long as they live and as far »’ we know live till some accident put' • • i end to their endefinite term of ,ife. A-; I the toad: It can not indeed ba said " ■* 1 the toad lives forever but many cf t’. • i animals which were caged up at theg eral deluge are Likely to live till they « • 1 released by an accident in the oour. e r * oenturiM. — Put, a food ftoo, upon, r thing nuton y*t ar* t* ugiy

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