Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1863 — Page 1

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decaTur 1 a gle. ' ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY. Spencer & Sclnrmeyer. thIBtISIIER§ AnD rnoPRIETORH. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson’, 1 ouilding, over the Drug Store. Tenps of Subscription: One copy, one year, in advance, $1 00 If paid within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 2On O’No paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid except at the optibd f the t Publisher. Ternw of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, 00 Each sub sequent insertion, 25} ttdTNo advertisement will beconsidered less than one square; over ne square will be counted nnd charged as tw; over two, as three, etc, SJjT’A liberal discount, from the above rates. made on all ad v?rrisements inserted for a period J lunger three months. LTThe above rates will be strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to do all kinds of job-work na neAt&nd workmachre d •rrr-.on themest reasonable terms. Our mater i for the completion of Job-Work, being new .1 of the lat e.st styles, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. DECATCR BLSIXESS LHLDS! . . BURT HOUSE. I) ccat ur, India na, {ST'Z W 7 Proprietor. Will give good attention, )i fid makes reasonable charges, n37-v6-ly. I). W. CH A M PER, PHYSIC A IN As SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. 11 J*OFFICE— On the east sideof Second St . in the r«M»m formerly occupied by J. D. Nliftman as a banking office. v4-n42. Ii \III ST I. IIA1! \ K EII , 41TORM1V ATjI.AW AND (> L A 1 M A G E N T D E C A T U R, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties Will secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds of claims against the Uwvernnamt. LrOFFFCE —On Main Street immediately South of the Auditor’s tiffice.—vG-n 12 JAMES R. 8080. Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR, LVDIA.VA. EFOFFICE, in Recorder’s Office.jrj Will practice in the Courts of the Tenth Judicial Cireiii'r. Attend t the Redemption of Lands. the pay...ent of Taxes Especial atten, lion will be given tothe collection f Bounties Pension and all claims against the Government Nov. 28, 1862. vb-i-42. rifT fK E G A LLE RY! P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph •W Having permanently located in Decatur and ►applied himself with everything that may be found in a First Class Picture Gallery, Would ball the attention of nil wh » desi ye godPicture at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug Store. n3t-ly JEFFERSON QUICK, DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL iNSTRUMENiS, JEWELRY, &C., DECATUR. INDIANA. Clocks, WaDches, Jewelry, Musical Instru taents, <tc., repaired on short notice. SHOP—On Second Street, one door south of Nuttman A Crawford’s Store. v-5-n 41 V ICK S BUK G! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of business, Defies the World! AU other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in <he shade! All efforts at COMPETITION gone by tlx BOARD/ It i* by all that he can, sell a BETTEJR article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, jRA al) £uch like for LESS money than any other establishment in Northeastern Indiana, without exception. His work is all warranted to be rondo ofthd very best material, and made by old and expe rienced workmen. Buggies and carriages trimmed in the latest and most Approved style. Repairing done, qd abort notice and at reasonable rates. CFGive us a call, and we will convince von of the Uuth of what we say. Wo RAY CASH for our stock, and consequently BUY' CHEAP ER than if we bought on TIME; and of course can sell in proportion.—n3B-i 6.

I g-tr The following 1 ines were written on I the death of a little daughter of Thomas ; 'and Elizabeth Wilson, aged 2 years and ; 14 days, who died on the 14th fast., hear | New Buffalo, this county: by u. m'donald. Little Minni thou art sleeping • In thy silent bed of clay; But the thought that thou art happy. ■ Drives, from our hearts, the gloom away And we think of the as an angel, now, I In that beautiful world Os light, With angelic forms around thee, i All robed in snowy white. Thou art flitting about the throne, Minni, On thy bright wings, so fair, ; And when we leivq this world of grief, We hope to meet thee there— Oh, how we miss thee, gentle Minni; i Miss tßy childlike gentle tone, But we know that thou ai t resting In thy blissful heavenly home. When we weep for thee, dear Minni, i We shed no tears of doubt, or woe; But joy to think that thou hast left ! A world of grief below. Little Minni! o'er thy tomb, The stars their vigils keep, Dimly sparkling o'er the spot, Where thou doest sleep. , Little Minni! thou art gone: We can see thy face no more. Until we meet in the spirit land, I That peaceful happy shore. Dear parents, trust in Christ the Lord, ; And strive to gain a home so fair: . And when death calls you hence away, i | You will meet your lovely Mipui there. The strongest words are generally the ofteiiest broken. t There is no fear that the man of skull i can't scull himself over the sea of lif-. 1 I The beautiful is as useful as the useful; j perhaps nw.ro so. —ll l til \ A smart young womanyan judge by a ’ kiss of the quality of her lover's liquor. The world is in a state of bankruptcy: the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into ; chancery and be sold. I; The simplest Affing turns out to be un- I ’< fathomable mysteries, the most mysterious appearance ]>n>ve to be the most common place objects in disguise. <•! 111 ■ It is certainly much easier to w holly I decline a passion, than to keep it within j just.bounds and measures; and that which few can moderrte, almost anbody may ; prevent. i The ‘government’ contemplates inak- . ing a trip to New England in August ac- , ooiupanied by the ‘government's’ wife to ; ■ visit the ‘government’s’ boy, who is in j i .college al Cambridge. 'I he ‘government s I i wife has got her new dresses about ready ’ ( for the joilrney. If she stops at Parker s ; this time, she will have tlife ‘government*: I along to settle her bills. — .i — — lie who would make use of force to i prevent freedom of election is a traitor to i all the principles of civil liberty. To ac t complish a temporary object lie would inI voke a power which will destroy not only the liberties of his fellow-citizens, but his own. We consider ourselves superior to | our English ancestors six hundred years ago; but men men in this age may learn 1 a lesson from the time of Edward the a First. ‘And because elections ought to be,’ says a statute of that time, ‘the king commahdeth, upon great forfeiture, that . , no man, by force of arms, nor by uiaiace i or menacing, shall disturb any to make ; free electiou.’ i “ ’ i The American Iliad in a Nutshell. — ! The following is the article of Mr. Ihoi mas Carlyle—‘The American Iliad in a Nutshell' —in the August number of Mac- ) millan’ (London) Magazine. pi II.IAS (AMEKICAN) in NICE. i II Peter of the North to Patil of the South: ' ‘Paul, you unaccountable scoundrel, 1 find von hire your servants for life, not by the ■ month or year, as Ido! You are going 1 straight to Hell, you !' 9 Paul:‘Good words, Peter! The risk is ; my own- 1 am willing to take fife risk — Hire your servants by the month or the * day. and get straight to Heaven; leave, me to my own method.’ t Peter: ‘No I won’t- I will, beat ydur brains out first!’ And is trying deead- , fully ever since, but cannot vet manage iti j 7/

'Our Country’s Good shall cvez be cur Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Elame."

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, AUG. 29,1803.

WHO ARE FRIENDS OF TIIE UN-1 ION. When the committee from Lousiana planters Communicated with Abraham Lincoln offering to come back into the ' Union as ii was il they could do so with j their rights unimpaired every patriot i heart beat with h<,p« that here was an ' opening offered through winch the sece- ; ded Slates could re enter the Union. < Not a Democrat in the country but hailed lit as an omen of returning reason, and ; hoped that the offer would he received in a patriotic spirit by the administration and Louisiana soon re assume her place ; among the loyal States. Rut that hope ' was diseppointed. The rnaniplation ol the Slate by the creatures ol the abolition I party had not been finished. A respett ! able portion had not jet fixed matters so as to be able to rule the inhabitants and . the proposition was, treated, with in- ; suit., The same spirit was manifested when the report came from the Old North State I that her Legislature would repeal that i act ol"secession. Any man who loved 1 I his country would have hailed the prom-1 i«e as an omen of h renewed Union Aliy ; patriot would have cought to encourage the North Carolina Legislature to come 1 i.back to the old paths. Democrats tdid I i f. joice at the prospect and were ready to receive back the as one of a sacred But what did the fana-j , tics? Immediately followed the announcej ment of the probability that North Car- ■ olina would probably repeal the secess- | ion act was the announcement that it j bad been decided not to receive her un I less she adopted a gradual emancipation I policy. It 'yas not then that they wanted the . . Union restored but that they wanted the ' , emancipe'iori policy ol the Administration I carried out. In view of these facts, who I are the friends of the Union —those who! ■ to let North Carolina and Louisana come in under the old Constitution and would ' 1 not listen to partition" to be permitted to I letuin. or those who would have rejoiced . al their coming and would have done all I I things honorable and possible to encour age them :<j d«> it? Tliey are disunionists and traitors who stand tn the wav of return of the seceded Stales.—[Peoria : Mail. A I iinernl Procession stopped and the I Mourners and Uihers Arrested by Military Oliicers, From the baltimore American of Saturday. | | Some excitement prevailed yesterday at the Gteelimoutli Cornmentery in con sequence of the arrest of a number ol per- , . sons by order of jhe military- authorities, , upon the charge of attending the funeral I I'bt a rebel officer and making some dis-1 play on the occasion. The facts of the ■ case are as follows: Shortly after the [ ’ breaking out of the rebellion a young I man named Wm. D. Browu well known ’ in South Baltimore ns a ship builder, left • here went South, and enlisting in the I rebel army received a captain’s. Ir, the ’ recent battle near Gettysburg he received a mortal wound, and was buried by the I Federal soldiers At the instance of his [ mother, the remains were exhumed and t 1 brought to this city and deposited in the public vault ol the Cemetery. As it was designed to have the body buried in the j 10l of the family, M; Übarks R. ColeI man, cashier of 'the Mechairiics Bar.k and a relative of the deceased, called on Gen. Schenck, nnd was assured that nc interference would be made, provided that the proceedings were conducted without dis i play. Accordingly the relatives nnd friends ,ol the deceased assembled nt the Comjetery, (public notice having been give in the newspapers,) and attended the interment, the Rev. Henry, Slicer officiating. II Soon as the exercises terminated several I military officers appeared and arrested eighteen of the parly. They were conI I ducted in carriages to the headquarters of Gen. Tuler. in the Gtlmor II use, and 1 their remained until about nine o’clock, when Col. Cheseborough, of the ststf, of Gen. Schenck, appeared, nnd re‘i leased the whole, party upon their, * promise, to appear, at Gen. Schenck’s headquarters, this morning, nine, o’clock. j There were many persons at the funeral, including a number of ladies, hut the latter were not arrested. Ol the parties arested il should be slated that al least three-fourths are unconditional Union men, and developed their love ol j country even on the 19th of April, when some of our military officers were sharpening, their weapons, to drive back the defenders, of the Nations Capital. No doubt, the Union, feeling, of’ these, “Unconditional Union” men, was greatly strengthened, by this, ev idence of tlie humanity, of the ‘govern- ; ment.’ Our tokens ol compliment and love are i for the most part barbarous. Rings and other jewels are not gifts but a apologies 'for gilts.

ELOQUENT AND TRUE. I Hon George E. Pugh, the Democratic ! candidate for Lieutenant Governor O 'is making a noble canvass. In a recent speech in Miami county he said: j. ’They say the Administiation is the i Government Solomon says there ts nothing new under the sun, but that doctrine certainly is new. Then, if Mr. Lincoln should get sick, we should have a sick government II Mr. Lincoln should die the Government j would be dead. [Great applause.] Shall : not criticise the President, they say? I ■ Why, every one criticises, and is crit- ! icised. Even the ladies ciilici-.e each, j other, nnd each other’s bonnet; ant wliat : has Mr Lincoln done to exempt him Irotn ' I the common lot of man? What service I I has he performed? That proposition is ' ■ too absurb. We don’t intend to respect it \ .We will discuss and criticise the acts of j the President. We will pay no regard to threats. We will do il peaceably, if t possible but, if necessary with arms in 1 ! our hands. [Continued applause | They ; j may take it lor granted that we will give ’ them no right to take our liberties hum ; i us. Give us an unobstructed path to! the ballot box and we will end your party j and power but I warn you upon the peril i lof your lives, gr e us an unobstructed I path to the ballot-box Donut interfere; with the councels ol Democracy or else make your wills first We have in Ohio Constitution defin- ; ing the rights of the people. We have j liberty of the press trial by an impartial jury freedom from arrests except upon a' icivil process, or indictment by grand Jury and defining treason; anil yet any ■ shoulder-strapped gentleman can set their 1 ! lights atnaught, at his pleasure. Mr. 1 Lane of Kansas gave the best illustaliun ■ of the military. He said a Intis boy i threw a stone one night at a dog in Washington and missing the dog, knock- ; down three Brigadiers. Mr. Lane added it was not a good night lor Brigadiers either. Who g»ve them authority to make our flaws? They have no more right to do! 'it than 1. Who autborizvd flie'm tour-! rest our riliz-ns? Tliey* have no more ' authority to do it than .yay have. It is nothing hut the strong arm of violence ; illustrated in the person of one of our bravest and purest citizens 1 speak not alone for Mr. Vallandigham but for; ! every citizen of Ohio. What wrs done, ' to him will be done again unless you rise and defend your liberties. •Voice —“We’ll do that with, the bayonet.” ! Mr. Pugh-—All you need is the paper ; ballot that goes into the ballot box. Our | fathers fought for liberty We must preserve it at the ballot box, [‘We will,’I but no one must attempt to obstruct our gath to the ballot box. It were better for the man who attempts it that he bad never oeen born. — [Cheers and laughter ] The first week of the canvas I read from the constitution — 1 have quit that now — I find like. Chatham, the principle written, in the heart, of every, oil t ‘ izen. You know vo’ir rights, lam persua ded voti intend upholding them. Do it manfully, but be not over confident. What are golden fl-lds or full barns to a nation of slaves?—-Maka it your business to take up the Exile, in whose per.'son your rights have, been violated, and ,; elevate him to the highest office in the Stale. It would be the greatest act of justice ever done on the American Continent, and in alter years, remember 1 BG3 that you were the. people that took up the prostrate from of Clement L. Vallandigham<|ind made him your Governor, and thank God that he has perinited you II to see this great crisis and given you courage to fight (or the right side of the question. Men May out talk you at the corners, shoddy contractors, ic., hut the hearts of the people are in this contest lor liberty.—You know those shoddy contractI ors—building fine houses, and laying, up goods for many, years But Ido not, ; envy them. Mveyes have been fix'd on the broken and outraged dwelling in Day- ; ton, of the more than widow and the desolate orphan whose father has, been infamously carried away. I appeal to you ladies, to vindicate the sacredness of the; fire, side. Go to the bhlloi. box Be a committee; expostulate day and night ! bring your neighbors to the rigth, failh. Clear the path to the baPot box. Regain your, liberties, and you will, have taken, the first step, to the restoration, of the Union. [Trepiendious, npplause ] After all efforts the abolitions!’have been making to get Americans of African decent’ to enlist in the army there appears to he only five regiments of the black skins numbering in all 2,010 men. These are all the negro troops says the New York Tribune yet organized in the Deii partment of the South. ' Negroes dont fight.'

I Row at a Nxoro Barbecue —The uegroes ol this city, their wives and babies had a barbecue yesterday north of i this city ami near the Canal. They bad i fixed up to have a good lime. They had a call roasted whole, and also a pig and a sheep, and provided themselves plentfully with pine, applestoranges, peaches, cakes, <kc. and buckets of lemonade and ice cream. They say, (we of course know i nothing but what we aae told about the i luss) that they were having a Very pleasant time, when twenty cavalryman enter|ed the ground and pitched into the nise things they had provided, The negroes i stood it tor a long time, and until, they, i louud all their luxuries would, be con sumed, when they remonstrated anda.i fight ensued. I One darkey was shot in the breast and ; will die another was shot in the shin, anil , | another in the shoulder. Alter the fir- ' trig the soldiers, drew their sabers, and the darkies armed themselves with knives ! and blnndgerms and a hand to hand fight ensued. Several on both sides were severely wounded in ihe last struggle,' ! but low many or how, bad. they, may, I Ibe hurt we did nut, learn. — | State Sentinel. How Capt. Tiger Got Married — Captain Tiger says I courted her under singlar circumstances. I won her through ; I a rash, vow. Thus: 1 saw, her— ; [loved, her—l proposed—she refused.” i 'You love another,’ said I I ‘Spare my blushes said she. ; T know him, said I Very good,’ I exclaimed, If he remain ' here, I'll skin him. •I wrote him a note. I said it was a painlul thing—so it was. I said I had ' pledged my word as a gentleman, to skin ! him —my character was at stake— I had ' no alternative. As an officer in Iter Maj- ; | esty’s service I was bound to do it. 1 I regretted the necessity but il must be done. He was open, to conviction.' He saw, that the rules, of the service, ' ' were imperative. He fled—l married , her.’ in [ ' During the draft in the Fourteenth Ward, Philadelphia, a few days ago, an incident occurred that gave rise to much merriment. In the crowd there stood a pale faced Irishman, with his hands crossed and arms behind his back He gazed intently as each name was drawn from ' the wheel of destiny. He had not b< ei) heard to speak a word to anybody. Prejsently he appeared to be operated upon but some unseen galvanic battery During I his spasm he exclaimed in an F sharp tone: “Wherl, if round! wherl, it round rouse, it will ye!” shouted the man lie was, evidently, full ol dread, susI pense. What's the matter with yon? said the J i Provost Marshal. “Oh, be jabers, turn, it round a d.ojen, of times, lor that man, yoti drawed, last is my, next, door neighbor.’ Summer Complaints—Will you p'ease publish the tollowing simble cure for cholera infantum, cholera diarl.ea colic and all diseases of ot the alimetary organs ‘ gem rated in the summer Season by the u-e of fruit, or otherwise? 1 say Summer season because such diseases are then most, rife: but it is equally effectual at any season, for the cure of such dis-' eases. lam as much opposed as any allophathie, or homoepalhiu physician can be to any species of quackery or empiricism. ' This is the result of many years of pos- , [ittive personal experience in my own family—with myself—with my children — with my neighbors—and with my ; friends and acquaintances. It ought to; I be every where known! How many children’s lives, it will save, if adopted! 1 It is simply this— One-fourth of an ounce of pulverized cloves. One-fourth of an ounce of pulverized Chinamon. One-fourth of an ounce of pulverised i gittn guaiaeum. Mixed with one pint of <<id nnd pure whiakv. Tobe well shaken before taken.” Does for an adu’t one half of a i wine glass, or a large table spoonful tilled I an with, water. For a child, proportionI ai.ly, j It never fails. Ono single dose at ihe I inception of any such dmeases, if not complicated with other maladies, will always with in an hour, cure. If such ‘ deseaaes is chronic, or has run on for. some time then hourly or daily tlirev or four times. . —i i - ■ Jnbiter made a wound upon liis head tn ' let Minerva the goddess of wisdom find h“r way out and ever since many mor- [ tals have thought it necessary 'o "crateli their heaJs to enable a «i-e 'd» a to esI cape.

An Abolition Slierilfiu a Bad Way. Mora than usual interest attended the trial ot Sheriff Mead, the pest week, in A case of bastardy, wherein be was sued for the support of a child which has the misfortune to be minus a legal father. Tlie evidence, or even a synopsis of it, adduced on the trial, would not be proper matter for publication, and those having any curiosity about the matter will have to look elsewhere for tlie information. He was acquitte'.', as those acquainted with the circumstances supposed he would be; not for a want of sufficient evidence to bind him over, but by reason of outside pressure, the social position of the parties, relations of the court to the defen.ient, &e. The case was tried before Justice Milliken, editor of the Union who keeps at tlie head of his editorial columns the name of tl.e defendent as a candidate for Sheriff at the coming election. We do nut wish to cast any imputations on the integrity of the Justice, but we would be more than what most men are, if he was entirely free from predjudice against the plaintiff, and in favor of the defendent. The leading abolilionists hereabout espoused the cause of the accused, probably not knowing and certainly not caring, whether he was guilty or not, and if the decision had been against him, the future political frtrtnt es of the Justice would have b< en easily determined. The evidence of the prosecuting witness was straight forward, positive and unequivocal. There was no more cause l for impanelling I.er credibility, than exists in any other similar case. If such witnesses are not tu be believed under any circumstances, then the Justice was l right in discarding the testimonv of the prosecuting witness in this case. The ‘oily direct testimony introduced to rebut ' th- evidence 'or the prosecution, was the (testimony of Mead, and his son. Ilis own testimony was such as was expected ■' he would give; but it was unexpected to many of his own friends, that he would bring I.is son, yet minor, into court for [ the purpose of testifying as he did. His (evidence was to prove that the child was ' his own, at d not his father's! In what 'terms will tlie public characteriz-a tha 'conduct of a father who brings hia own si n not yet arrived at the age of manhood, into court, there to give is testimoi nj’ that he is a libertine; thus blackeninghis own character that the father may ibe acquitted? The probabilities ot guilt are very strong when Mr. Mem) deliberately settles upon the everlasting des- , grace of his Son to lesson his chances of i conviction. The people will have an opportunity of passing upon this matter, and as the tacts in the ease have become publio property, they will doubtless be tJror- ■ oiighly canvassed by the citizens of-this I county, A Wonderful Story —Says the Journal de Conntantenopel'. ‘One evening', [ last week, two young men, of the Isle of Prinkipo, were returning in a caique from a spoiling excursion on the coast of Asia, when tliey sudtlenly heard a noise I fur which they could not account, but soon after they perceived* over their ' beads an enormous bird, tho sight of which filled them with alarm. Seizing their guns, they both fired at it, and were still more amaz-tl when they heaid broken words and cries which could only proceed Irom human organs. They at 1 once steered lor the spot where the sup. posed bird had fallen, and were struck with stupefaction on finding that what they had taken for a volatile was a rnati 1 will, an immense parr of Wings. They 1 took him in their boat, and were not a little relieved un finding that he had < nly received a few small shot in the legs.— This new Icarus was flying from Anti- ; gone to Pla'i to visit a young person whom he wished to rnarrv, but whose parents were opposed to the match. To I visit his lady love, he had invented and j made the wings be wore, and had al- ; ready crossed the straits between the island. On his third journev his flight was cut short by Ibis untoward accident, j He is now at Plati. ; Some humbugs, especially these of a religious kind possesses a wonderful tenacity of life. Witness the Mormon humbug as an example. For a few years past it lias been thought that Mormonism was dying out—Gradually running iiaelf into the ground as a member ol Congress said last winter. Bulnot a bit of it Its proselytes are pouring in from Europe by hundreds yea thousands. And they area fhriftv well to do class too and not mere vagabonds as one nvgbt naturally suppose they wuuld be. As things now look Mormonism ir»v yet have a run sometl.ing like that wf.ich Mahometanism had in its eailv ng- - with this difl'erance Irowev. r that it wit! bo propagated, by the yen an I not, hv the swonl. An old maid sometimes bites her lips ■n tags al finding that nobody wants to bile them io love.

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