Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1863 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE.

VOL. 7.

DECATITI™AGLE. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY. Spencer & Scbirmeyer. Publishers and proprietors. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson*, budding, over the Drug Store. Terms 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, 2 00 HjTN’o paper will be discontinued until all urrerages are paid except at the option f the Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, 25 [U*No advertisement will beconsidered less than one square; over ne square will be counted and charged as tw; over two, as three,-etc, (LT*A liberal discount, from the above rates, made on all ad vcrtisemcnts inserted for a period longer three months. ITT he above rates will be strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to do all kinds of job-work na nett xorkmacbcc d- tree’,on the meet, reasonable terms. Our matcTl for the comp letion of Job-Work, being new .1 of the latent styles, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. DEf.nni BrsixEss mi ; buTq iiqusiT” Decatur, Indiana, <T H 9 C Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable charges. n37-v6-ly. D. W? CHAMBER. PHYSICAIN 4- SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. IEFOFFICE—On the east sideof Second St . in the rooiii formerly occupied by J. I). Nuttin.in as a banking office. v4-n42. DAVID STI DAB AK E B , ATTORNEY AT IAW A X D C L A I M A G E N T DECATUR, INDIANA. I Will Practice in Adams and adjoining C<mnt ies I Will secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds I claims against the (Government. (EPOFFICE.—On Main Street immediately I South of the Auditor’s (Wfice..—v(»-n 12 JAMI'S R. 8080. Attorney and Counselor at Law. DEC.-t TUR, IXDTAEA. ITOFFICE, in Recorder s Wil! p’actice in the Courts of the Truth Jnf dici.d Circuit. Atten I t *he * IT-denint Tn of K Lan is. the pav..,rnt nf Taxi s 1.• prei.-'I atten, E lion will be given to the collection f Bounties ■ Pension ami all claims against lhe Govei i.mer.t Nov. 2S, 1 762. vG-i'42. ~¥iCTUH GALLERY! P. V. SMITH, ■Ambrotype & Photograph Ktllaving permanently located in Decatur and || supplied himself with everything that may be i Sr ound in a First Class Picture Gallery, at low prices, to call at his rooms in Building, immediately over the Drug •tore. n37-ly f* r *B JEFFERSON QUICK, DEALER IN I CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL OSTKVMEBTS. JIWKLBV, &C., IDECATUR, INDIANA. B Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instru Ments, Ac., repaired on short notice. F SHOP—On Second Street, one door south of Nultman <t Crawford’s Store. v-5-n 41 VICKSBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In h|3 line of business. Defies the World! AU other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in the shade! All efforts at COMPETITION gone 4>v the BOARD. It i’ acknowledged by all •fiat he can sell a BETTER article of fiA—Harness, Saddles, Bridles, g Whips, aud all such like Jor LESS money than any other establishment i» Northeastern Indiana, without ixception. K His work is all warranted to be made of the ! very best material, and made by old and expe rienced workmen. K Buggies and carriages trimmed in the latest and most approved style. Repairing done on abort notice and at reasonable rates. Kffj”Give us a call, and we will convince yon ofthe truth of what we say. Wo PAY CAST for our stock, and coo sequent.lv BUY CHEAP 'Jtp • >..... - ’ • -

AN ADVENTURE. ■I never attended bulone temperance lecture,’our friend 8., with a peculiar smile, and I don’t think I will ever attend another.’ ‘You probably found it dry?’ •Well, yes—but that isn't it. The lecture was well enough, but I got into such an awful scrape after it was over, that I never think of temperance meetings without a shudder. I’ll tell you about it. It was in Jersey City, where I was something of a stranger, and the night was one of the worst of the season. : Boreas! how it blew! It was enough to ! take your breath away. Well, sir, the lecture was over, and making my way through the crowd, I lingered in the doorway, contemplating the awful scene, when somebody took my arm. •Where have you been?’ said the sweetest voice in the world. ‘I have been i looking for you eveiy where. Very much supprised I turned my head and saw — but I can’t describe herl llt makes me mad to think how prodig iously pretty she was! I With her left hand she leaned on my I arm; she was arranging her vail with her right, and did not notice my supprise. •You have been looking for me?” I ■ faltered. i ‘Come, let us be going,’ was her reply, pressing my arm. .1 A thrill went to tny heart. What to make of my lady's address, I did not know; but she was too charming a creature lor me to refuse to accompany her. We started off in the midst of the tempest, the noise of which prevented any conversation. At length she said with a i scream — •Put your arm around me, I shall blow ! away." I need not describe to you my sensation. as I pressed her to my side and hurried on. [t was very dark; nobody ; saw us, and allowing her to guide my i steps, and followed her motions through iwo or three short streets, until she stopped beforvan elegant mansion •H ive you your key?’ she asked. 1 ‘Mv key?’ I stammered, ‘there must be some mistake.’ 'Oh! I have one.’ i And as she opened the door, I stood wailing to bid her good night, or to have some explanation, when turning quickly, she said: ■How queer you act to-night? ain’t you coming in?’ There was something very tempting in lhe suggestion. Was I going in? A warm house and a pretty woman were : certainly objects of consideration, and it was dreary to think of facing the storm and seeing her no more. 1 It took me three quarters of a second to make up my mind, and in I went. There was a dim light in tha hall, and as niy guide ran rapidly up stairs, why, I thought I could do noteing better than run up too. 1 followed her into a very , dark room. |- ‘Lock the.door, John,’ she said. Now. as if I had been the ouly John in the world, I thought she knew me. I I felt (or the key, and turned it in the lock without hesitation, wondering all the . while what was coining next. Then an ) awful suspicion of some horrid tricks flashed upon my mind, for I have often heard of infatuated men being lurue tdo . their destruction by pretty women, and I was on the point of reopening the door, I when my lady struck “. Then—being'an excessivly modest man—dis covered to my dismay that I was in a bed-room! —alone with a woman in a bedroom! I cannot discribe my sensation. I said something; I don’t know what it was, but the lady lighted her lamp, looked, started at me an instant, turned as white as a pillow case, and screamed— ‘Who are you? How came vou here? Go quick—-'eave the room—l—l thought you wers my husband! and covering her face with her hands, she sobbed hyeteri cally. I was petrified. Os course, I was quite as anxious to leave, as she was to have me. Butin my confusion, instead of going out of the door I came in, I unicoked another door, walked, into a closet. Before I could rectify my error, there came a terrible thundering at the first door. The lady screamed; the noise increased, and I felt peculiar, knowing very well that now the lady’s real husband was coming, and that I was in rather a bad fix. Well aware that it would not do to remain in the closet, and convinced of the .danger of meeting a man who might fall into the vulgar weakness of becoming jealous, I was trying to collect my scattered sencesj in the darkness, when the ladv rushed to me and whispered to me in a wild manner — i ‘What shall I do? If you do not go he will kill me.’ •O’ ! but consider— ’

•Our Country's Good shall ever be otu Alm—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame."

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, OCT. 10,1863.

I her voice. She fled to open it. As the ' wrathful husband burst into, the room, I thought, I felt a little sold, and crept under some, garmets hanging, in the I closet. i A gruff voice roared and stormed —• Othello was jealous and revengful; Desdemonia innocent and distressed—then I heard ominous sounds, as of some one ! looking under the bed. ‘1 know he is here! I saw him come into the house with you! You locked the jd-o-o r!’ I’ll have bis heart out!’ ‘‘Hear me! bear, me! I will explain!” As I was listening Very attentively for the explanation the garments under whiefr i was concealed were quietly lifted and fancy my feelings, discovered in such a situation by such a husband.’ •Well, B we cried deeply interested for we knew every word of his story was true, ‘how did you get out of l the scrape?’ I ‘I used a violent remedy for so violent a complaint. Driven in a corner—my life in danger—perceiving at n glance that O'-hello was not as strong ns I was, I threw myself upon him. fell with him and held him there, until I had given a full explanation of the error, made him hear, reason, and tamed him to be as gentle, as a lamb. Then I left, rather unceremoniously, and I have nev: er, seen Othello, or Desdemonia since? THE CAUSE OF THE WAR. Hon. Wm. Allen, in a speech, delivered at Hamilton, Ohio on the 10th ult, made the following apt remark, in reference to the cause of our present unholly, war: These Abolitionists say slavery is the j cause of the war; 1 say it is not. They say slavery ought to be exterminated; I 'say it ought not. [Cheers ] Slavery is , not the cause of the war: it is the interineding of some men with other men's business. If any fellows should come; here and undertake to disperse this i ; crowd this evening, and should happen ; to get hurt, they could not say that this meeting was the cause of it [Cheers ] The cause ot it would be that they tried I to break the meeting up. Every man knows that there has been great wars about religion. In all parts, of the world these wars have existed more or h-ss extensively and more or less frequently. Not long since there were thirty years id war tn Europe—about what? About relegion. Well now, ac-1 cm ding to the Ab liiionists, religion I i ought to be extyi minati-d in order to get rid of the w r. [ Laughter.]—Religion being the cause of the war, one way in getting rid of religion was by cutting the throat of every man who professed it By ! getting a decree pronounced by some person like Abraham Lincoln, that the Bible is all false, and its teachers all liars and th-refore having been the cause of the war, it ought to be exterminated in order to gel peace. [Cheers ] But, my friends, this would be unjust, and it would have been unjust to religion to say that religion has been the cause o' the war. It has been the cause of wars in no other sense than that it has afforded j a pretext to interpose in the opinion of the other. Did you ever hear any talk j about a war in the United States about religion? I answer you, never. Because there are a great many religions here and a great many parts where there ,i« no religion at all. There are Jews and Mohammedans; there are Catholic and Protestants, and tnese Protestants are I divided up into half a dozen different i denominations, and they are composed of foreigners and natives—those who have taken the oath of allegiance and those who have not —all men from al! climes have been living here under our Constitution for seventy-four years, and no civil war abeut religion. Why so? Because our forefathers seeing that religion had been made a pertext for civil war, did not declare that there should be in United States no religion. They did not undertake to exterminate religion. What they did was to be put in the organic law tl protection to religious demoninatlons | and sects of all kinds and description, so I that we could not cut the throats of one another. By tolerating all aopinions, by protecting all men in their rights, there, has been no quarrel —These people have had it in their own way to argue; they have sweat about it, and used a great ! deal of ink in their religious controvers- : ies, but no blood. The very moment thev attempted to shed each other s blood we should not have sent Gen. Burnside’s spies we should have sent the sheriff of the county; and if the sheriff is j not strong enough, he call curt lhe I farmers of the country to help him; and if he be Jew, infidel, atheist, or the devil himself, they will take him The Reptt(>li<.nns have got so crazy for war that they promise to get tsp one ini Ohio, if the people do not Vote WB they : lor them. Thev are great on ‘orders?

e! PARENTAL EXAMPLE. • ; There is often a great deal more con-. f veyed through a single sentence, than 0 I we are apt to imagine. Our Inture de.s- ■ tiny may be swayed by the hearing of ", one little word, and that word mav be ; spoken in our hearing ata very early I period of our lives. Many a father, when 0 years began to sober down ’he buoyant I tumult of his spirits, has wondered and 1 grieved over the disposition and action*1 of his son or daughter, mat Veiling | whence they came; whereas the son or ‘ I daughter received the feelings which ! j gave birth to such actions, while they r | were but infants, from the lips of their r , father, as they heard him recount the j I | deeds, the exploits, the feats of bravery I i' of his young boy hood. Krom the hour thst a child begins to notice the objects I - j around it, or to be sensible of kind or s harsh treatmet, from that moment eyery | f one who takes it in its arms, every ob I ject around it becomes its instructors.—. , All children are inquisitive, and this en- j _ xiety for more knowledge should be en--9 cournged rather than depressed. A child’s ofttimes curious inquiries should ’ , never be met with the repulsive, chill ) 4 ing answer which is so often heard — , Children should never ask questions,’. s would not the mistaken parents hesitate . I replying thus, if he reflected, that what : he terms idle curiosity, is 'he restless, j never ceasing yearning of the immortal spirit that will never be entirely satisfied? : The great plea urged by those who neglect these important duties, is want of ' time But God never .imposed, up- ’ on any, of his creatnresf a single duty ' j without, giving, time for its, peform- , snee. ' I Under Democratic Adminintrations the people were blessed with peace, pros-1 perity and happiness: under Abolition ' rule the country has been curse with I civil war, ruined credit, enormous taxes, 1 land a remorseless conscription. The ; former struggled to protect the many, I and secured to all classes of American | I citizens, at home and abroad, the wrights ■ and priv Hedges of freemen; the laster has assailed the liberty of speech and the freedom of the press, and has established 1 ; the worst despotism the world ever saw. i tTbe Democracy are for the Union and; I he Constitution: the Abolitionists are opposed to both. Which will you I choose? Worth Remembering.—Tax payers j should bear in mind the important fact I that the expdnses of the Lincoln Administration are nearly two million dollars a day. A large portion of this immense sum ■is absorbed by shoddy contractors and I abolition office-holders. The Conscrip--1 tion and Tax bills have created hords to of the latter, who are receiving enormous salaries for the discharge of their duties. The results of Abolition rule are hundreds of millions of public debt, increased taxation, and wholesale plundering of , the National Treasury, which, unless speadily cheeked, will inevitable lead to National bankruptcy. A genuine, down baster lately, essaying, to appropriats, a square, i of exceedingly, 'lough beef’ at din- | er, in a Wisconsin, hoiei. ms convulsive, efforts with a knife, and fork attracted, lhe attention and smiles, of the rest, of the company, who were in the same predicament as himself. At last ‘Jonathan’s’ patience vanish- ■ ed under, bis ill-success, when laying | down, his “utensils,” he burst, out with. ‘Strangers, ycu needn’t sass—is you hain’t got no regard for the landlord’s feelings, vou orter have some respect for the old bull? ‘This sally ’brought,’ down the house.’ j Age of Man.—ln the September Atlantic Prof, agassiz says: ‘I do not off, er any opinion respecting the fossil human bones so much discussed recently, because the evidence is at present too 1 scanty to admit of any desisive judgment concerning them.—lt becomeshowever, daily more probable that facts will force us sooner or later to admit ' that the creation of man lies far beyond any period yet assigned to it, and that a | succession of human racas, as of animals I have followed one another upon the earth | !it May, be the inestimable privilege of j young naturalists to solve this great prob- , lem, but the older men of our generation must be content to renounce this hope; Iwe may have some prophetic vision of ; its fulfillment, may look from afair into ' the land of promise but we shall not enter in and possess it? I Solon, gave out his laws, for a him dred years, in advance. Many wour- ■ | en give out theirs, according to the pro-1 portion of their smaller iurfadi ction tc ’ 1 last one hundred secorMs

| Mr Vai.landigham's Prospects.—ln I answer to inquiries as to th« prospects of Vallaudigbmn’s election Medsry’s Crisis, i which we look upon as excellent authority says: —J •We state freely and cheerfully that every day and every hour render the election of Mr. Vallan.ligham more and more certain —-In spile ot all obstacles, in «piie ol all frauds, in spite of ail tyrannical treat men: of the soldiers to coerce tin ir votes, we have the greatest confi dence that Ohio is bound to vindicate, 'and lliat most nobody, the cause of free speech, n free press, a free ballot and . Constitutional Liberty. ‘The noble people of Ohio, lhe hardy I sons of toil and of tile workshops, have resolved upon this, and if ad the world ' beside sinks into the slough’of despotism, i of imbecility, of corruption, lhe Ireemen !of Ohio, will never permit her free soil ;to be polluted by the tyrant's tread, coma from what quarter he may or with what ever garb he may assume. The people of Ohio believed, religiously, (that they can take care of their own state ■affairs, tvhich guarantees to them life, j liberty and happiness? ii ■ -■ Administration Generalship —The Boston Courier, which takes a common sense view ol passing event, says: ‘To insult the State ol New Y r ork’ and, il j possible place her Executive in a false position political purposes, forty lour ie-1 giments were taken from General Meade and sent to smuse themselves in the sqares and parks of New York city.— I Lee, taking advantage of the sil y maneuver, sends a large rein'orcement to Bragg, with the aid of which Rosecrans is checked and driven back, and the lriumphant career of our forces in the South checked. This on a parallel in point of military sagacity with the withdrawal of McDowell's! troops from McClellan (another political necessity, lor the ruin ol a popular officers,) demonstrates that Washington Generalship is , still at lhe lowest ebb. Rosecrans has 'lost more prisoners than all the men which will be realized by lhe draft in New York? The Chicago Tribune, a venomous ab-j | olilion paper, says: ; ‘The campaign in Georgia is of great consequence, but not so great as that in Ohio? To the same purport remarks, the Cleveland Leader, another Adnnnisira-; tion print: ■ ‘A greater calamity could not befall Ohio and the nation than the defeat of the Union ticket in Ohio. Its conse- | quences, would be more, serious nnd lasting, than would, be even the DE ' FEAT OF ROSECRANS AT CHATTANOOGA? The Administration has acted, upon this idea, an tby sending its troops into Ohio to overawe the peaceful people here, it has sustained a severe defeat in Georgia. Thousands, of lives have been lost because it wanted to prevent ; the people having a fair election. Soldiers asd Abolitionists. —On one of the Indiana Central railway trains, yesterday a widemouthed and snag tooth- | ed white cravated hypocritical Aboli-I Zionist was gassing He denounced Voorhees: he denounced Vallandighain; he denounced Pugh; he denounced, in the kind of ‘copperhead’ and ‘butternut’ and traitorous literature all of his kidney use, Democrats in general. Two soldiers from the Aimy of the Potomac ; overheard the fellow. One of them,: who had lost bis left arm in battle, stood' matters as long as lie could, and then suddenly raised from his seat and confronted the abolition fool. He extended the slump of his war shattered limb close to the sycophant’s face, and with a revolver in his righ hand told him to‘dry up? or off would go his head. Mr. Abolitionist subsided, and held a newspaper before his deceitful physiognomy until he got off to preach at the stn'ion he stopped at. Soldiers! this is the right way to serve the malignant and inf* rnal creatures, snakes reptiles adders, »nac ondas asps and scorpions who aic g *ing up and down id the land causing »!l out woe. Brough that if Mr. Vallandghani is elected Governor el Ohio, war will ; rage at the very homes of its citiz -ns. 1 Who will get up the war? Mr. Brough? Surely not Mr. Yallandigham, nor his friends.—Does Mr. Brough want to be a Major General? If Mr. Brough, or any other Gubernatorial aspirant cafinot be elected Governor without threatening the people with war at home he might as well give up all hopes of ever arriving a that position. l The swallow should be able to eat like | folks; his bill is a knife, and his tale ai I fork

i Miie I’REsmtNi’s Leiter to Gensrai. f Grint.— lln . letter is Lincoln all over, , At the very outset, in addressing Gen. Grant as a ‘Brigadier? he commits a blunder winch no military man would t palliate cr excuse in one of his own pro- > session. lie assumes credit for fore-see-ing the plan which Gen. Grant finally , adopted, yet which neither Gen. Grant nor any officer of the uriny would have i approved, with the knowledge they had lof the enemy 's woik* Mr. Lincoln says he'thought' it should bo done. Mr. ’ Lincoln ‘thought? he should ‘go down the river and join Hauks,’ and thus run away from his supplies, and place his arjmy w here it could not be fed. But—surprising as Mr. Lincoln appears to think it—he discovered that General Grant knew more than he did. This admission Mr Lincoln seems to think, is the highest coinplimewt he could pay to General Grant. SACan.EGiocs.—On sonic night during the past week, we learn that the Roman Catholic Church of tire ’Holy Roseryf about five miles below Marlboro, Mil., i was forcibly enterefi by some evl-design-ed person, and the entire furniture of the alter broken or deface. Among the tnul- : Rated articles was the beautiful marble tabernacle, the gift of a former pastor.— j Theft does not appear to have been tinobject of the miscreant, as a valuable ilI ver chaiace was left, after la iug la oLeii land bent out of shape. The flunkey Abolition Senator Charli s Sumner, has written a long article for the Atlantic monthly, in which he attempts to abolish the doctrines of State rights and State Sovereignty, declaring that the State governments of the Southern States are in fact abrogated, and that : Congress is now their only legitimate and direct government. This is the obi ject to which the article is devoted; the Abolition party deeming it essential that the State governments should be annulled lest they re-ensfave the negroes claimed to be emancipated by the proclamation. A. single sentence from the first 1 message of Andrew Jackson to Congress is sufficient reply to all the Senator's stilted rhetoric and turgid argmnent: i ‘Nothing is clearer, in tny view, than that we are chiefly indebted for the success of the Constitution, under which we I are now acting, to the watchful and auxiliary action of the State authorities.— I I’his is not the reflection of to-day, hut ■ belongs to the most deeply rooted conviction of inin-l I cannot, therefore, too strongly, or to earnestly', for my own i sense of its importance, warn you against all encroachment upon the legitimate sphere oi Stale soveieignty? Oi r Losses at Chickamango.—The rebels state their loss in killed and wounded at Chickamauga will not exceed 12.000 and estimate the Federal loss in killed wounded and prisoners at 28 000.— A dispatch from Gen. Bragg says: ‘Our prisoners will reach seven thousand, of I whom two thousand are wounded. \Ve i have twenty-five stand of colors and guiI dons, thirty-six pieces of artillery, and have already collected over fifteen thous- > and stand small arms, over and alxtve i those left on the field by our killed and wounded. More are being found? These are large figures, and may lie exageruted; but the absence of any official statement from our authorities, of our losses in that disastrous light, lead us to fear that our losses may be as great as the rebels claim. I, IM - The Union as it Was.—George Washington’s Union was a Union of such State as chose voluntarily and of their own accord to become member of it.— That is the only Union worth having, and the Democracy are for it to-day.— ! There is another kind of Union, Composed of unwilling States, held together by force, as Poland is by Russia. 'J hat i th • Union the Abolitionists want—a Union of Despotism.— [Ft. Wayne Sentinel. Iv r- vsk of Oi r NvhAn vi. Debt— Our Nation-fl debt is fficreasing so'fast that a ’i-.'gft number of steam enoincß. from ten to foriy horse power each, are u<(i’t in the tre.isitrey biiihling in the mani’i'tetur.- >•!' paper—bonds, notes, and other i’■'■<?<let>ces of indebtedness. We are eert.-.hdv traveling the road to ruin with la igniticeni velocity when so many steam engines are employ’d to accelerate our speed. There will be nn awful reckoning wheft pay-day contes.—[Fort Wrt'yne Sentinel. The s-a drown! *>ht humanity nn.t time; it Ims no si ir.pstl.y nith either; for it belnntjs to eternilv, eli'l of tlm‘ it sin-js ils tnonoioiious song forever «nJ forivr r. To whom you betray your secret you h. trnv vour liberty.

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