Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1864 — Page 2

AN OUTRAGE—A YOUNG MAN ABDUCED AND SENT TO THE ARMY. A most flagrant outrage hasjuG coine to light here, to which the attention of the M ar Department will be called for redress. The facts are a? follows; On the 9ih of December, a young man name! Henry Mead, was aged 17, of nighty respectable parentage, and a wot by, well beh tved youth, visited this city from Lawrence county, He was arrested by two policemen and lodged in jail. The next morning, the two policemen, in company with a recruiting officer called at the jail and sought an interview with the youth. They told him be could volunteer, or lay injail six months. Not knowing his rights and being a perfect alrat ger, he consented to enter the service—He was mustered into the 79th regiment, So soon as his bounty money was paid 1 im, the two policemen called on him again and demanded |GO for their services. He paid it. Bysome meansj he got u ord to his father, and Hou, Thus, R. Cobb came to the city to ; attend to the matter and secure, his release, In "the meantime, howevie, the young man has been sent to join his regiment, as is supposed, for he is not to be found at the Soldiers’Home, or at any ot

the camps about the city. The Provost Marshal Co 7 . Baker, Col. Jones and other leading military men, gave Mr. Cobb all needful assistance in investigating the facts. The two policemen were compelled to refund the $50 1 extorted from the man. As his body is not to be found in this State, an application will be made to the War Department to have him returned to the State.—State Sent, The Valve of the Monitors, Secretary Welles in his report speaks with unabated confidence of the monitors, but the accom-j panying documents affor I good! reasons for doubting whether they are worth their cost, 4iitt?r the unsuccessful attempt to take Sum ter in April last, sh-r-a were probably good reasons for holding out the idea that tbemonitors had been but slightly injured and would soon renew the attack. The publication of the correspondence on the subject by : Secret ary Welles ihows that there is no longer any motive for concealing the tact /hat tbemonitors were all seriously dis abledand proved ineffective. The report made to Admiral Dupont by the commanders of the monitors immediately after that engagement, make the whole thing clear. The amount of injury received vafed with the exposure. but all the monitors developed the same weakness. —F’t, Wayne Sentinel. Great Water fall, —a detachment of troops recently scenting in the valley of the Snake or Lewis Fork of the Columbia, discovered a waterfall which, it is said, is entitled to the distinction of being called the greatest in the world. The entire volumn of Snake riier pours over a sheer precipice one hundred and ninetyeightfeet high, thirty-eight feel higher than Niagara, Snake river is full as large as the Niagara and the cascade is one solid sheet or body. Tiie locality of this immense waterfall is near the point heretofore disignated as the Great Shoshone or Salmon Fallsof that river, but they have always been enveloped in .nystcry, --- i »* ■■■ ■ Old Abe’s last and meet stupendous juke, says the ‘World,’ is his offer of amnesty to the .slaveholding Hotspurs of the South upon condition that they become Abolitionists after the Garrison pattern. It is a horrible pleasantry, however, in view of the hideous waste of blood and treasure his ill-timid joke will nccasion. “Heroine” is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in Olir language; the two first letters of it are male, th 3 three first female, the four first a brave man, and the whole word a brave w-'tinn.

I THE OATH TO ABOLITIONISM -*» might beexpected hundreds ( of men in every county of the' State who have heretofore voted wi/h the Republicans, are started by Lincoln’s proposition to make every Southern man take an oath to Abolition’sm cr rcma'n out of . the Union. These men had supposed that wereutteringuntrutbs when they intimated that Lincoln was determined to keep up the ( war until slavery was overthrown. t They now see by his recent Proclamation that it is his purpose not, to allow any State to come back into the Union unless it adopts the doctrines of th? Abolitionists. They may lay down their arms and swear to the Constitution; but this, according to Lincoln, is not enough, They must swear to be Abolitionists; and until they do this, he will keep up the war and I hold them as white slaves subject ito the military rule he may sef over them! No wonder that reas'onable men of the Opposition, feel < that they have heretofore been mistaken in Lincoln’s purposes, h He is one of the most cunning' l men in the country and it is not ] very surprising that many citizens i meaning to be fair themselves, i were deluded by his false preten- ] se?, —Newark, O„ Advocate, We are confronted to-dav by c

more powerful armies than at the beginning: and the Confederates, by their retreat to the interior fastnesses of their country, are ; compelling us to fight at a greatei disadvantage. There is equal or greater reason to day to expect the war to last four years than there ' was in the If Abraham Lincoln or any other pol-; itician of his school, be re elected ' i there is not a particle of reason to ■ doubt /hat the war will last anoth-l ertermof years, if conducted upon . jits present policy of conquest, The abolitionists of Medina county are beginning to realize 1 that as they have sown they shall i reap. The doctrine of negro equal-1 ( ity so liberally advocated by them 11 is beating its legitimate fruit in practice. and the preachers of that doctrine can reflect with gratification that their labors have not ; been in vain. It is understood i that a negro was implicated in the murder of the Coy family, and recently the right minded portion ' of the people of Medina have been shocked by the elopement of a negro with ayoung white girl. The negro is a barber, is thirty five' years old. and has a wife and three; : children. The girl is sixteen years ■ of age, and is ths daughter of a 1 bnan named Hill, an abolitionist. The pair went on foot from Medi-' na to Washington, a distance of* twenty miles. They were overtaken at the latter place and brought back to Medina, where the negro is now in jail. He asi sorts that the girl persuaded him to elope with her. m 111 — From the published proceedings of a recent public meeting i held in San Francisco we copy the following: “Among the many speakers of the evening was Rev. Thomas Starr Kin" who. alluding to the' work of the Sanitary Association' of the Pacific Coast, said: ‘We; had sent $490,000 in gold to suffering soldiers at the East-$485, GOO rather, through the blessed influence of Providence and Salmon P. Chase, and rheso two* were a team when harnessed to- , getber. The piety of the political clergyman is well displayed in the' 'closing lines of the above in the very reverent al/usion to “Divine) Providence and Mr. Chase as forming a grand'team when har ! nessod together.” It is no wonder' ' that the churches are losing the: respec/of the people when such clcrgymon as King are its author ized exponents—[C ineinna'i Ln : quiver,

Mr Flessendea remarked the other dee in the Sen»i», that when Congress ge/e the heads of departments a taw, he wanted them to understand that they were not to m.vke a law for themselves What copperhead it m! We are astonished at stub sentiments from a New England Senator. For two years past the notion has been exactly the other way, that when the President or any of bis heads (es departments wanted to do anything in any way, it was treason to oppose them by citihg laws or constitutions which forbade their proceedings. And sow Mr. Fessenden actually dares tell them that Congress makes laws, and he expects them to obey them and not make laws for themselves! Well we are coming, it may be, to sensible times Will Mr. F lessendee have the gooddess to add that they must obey old laws as well as new laws? It is net a doctrine which can very well be limited to the immediate action of soecial legislation passed by a favoring C tigress. It is doctrine which applies with reference to all law, and above all with reference to the Constitution, which has been shamefully neglected end trampled on—[N. Y. Jour, of Cam. Tuk Toledo Blade in speaking ot the seve’eignty oi the weather on Friday and Saturday says: Accounts from abroad are truly alarming,— The bare thought of the thermometer standing at 20 degrees below zero at Louisrille, and 24 below at St. Louis, suggests scenes of the most intense and extensive suffering and damage. At the latter place the figures are pronounced unprecedented. We understand that on Saturday morning two soldiers started from Sandusky to cross the ice to Johnson’s Island, a distance of about three miles, and that when half way one was overcome by cold and compelled to lie down, hie eomoanion going on. Os course the poor fellow

perished immediately. It instated that in Central Wisconsin on Friday, the thermometer was 34 degress below zero. About 10 inches of snow fell during Thursday and Friday.; At no time on Flidsy whs if less than 10 degress below. The oldest residents **y i it is ‘-by all odds” the coldest spell, taken I on a whole, that Las ever been known j there. The Holmes County Farmer expresses our views exactly in the following paragraph: "Let all friends of our common country join together for the overthrow of Abolitionists and Secessionists, and when we ha»e rendered them powerless it will bu time enough to talk of the peculiarities of our Democracy. A family may have its d sseniions and quarrels, but when cut-throats and robbers are tearing down the dwellings, destroying the property! and threatening the lives of the members of the family, they should hush their domestic quarrels and be united for com-, mon protection.” — Unemplotkd Major Generals.—A VA ashington correspondent writes: 'Congress will take action soon after its organization upon some measure to dispose of the long list of unemployed Brigadier ; and Mj< r Generals in some way less | burdenseme to the nation than they now are. A resolution will be introduced in the Senate, ceiling upon the President for information as to the cause of such officer* ' removal. My information on the subject is indefinite, further than the real object will be to prohibit men for whom there is no prospect of service in the field from drawing pay from the Government I am not al liberty to use the name of the gen- - tl-tnan who says be will take the inita ’ tory steps in the matter, Quincy (III) Herald favors ’General McClellan for President, and , Genet al Grant for Vice President. It says: With the popularity of McClellan in the Eastern and Middle Slates, and with the Army of the Potomac, and with Grant's popularity with th* people of the Northwest and the great army es the West, and aith th* Constitution and the Union as their rallying short and their I bit’.le ery, the Democracy will be s’soi lately invincible. The people want no, 'change in their form of government as it has existed for nearly a century past; birt ( | they went a change in th* wen won new i administer it, and who have failed to I comprehend its spirit, its object or its heaven born destiny. I. I— HI , I The courag'Ous Parson Brownlow insists that he dtJ not run away from; Kn xviiii*, when the rebels came to as-1 sault the place, on account of cowardice; . but ‘because he well knew that if they should lake him lie would have to pull , h mp without a foothold.” That is cer-1 tsinly sp’it'iug a pretty fine point. We surely have no desire that the man should fall into the hands of the rebel hangman, but only about three years ago the abolitionists said that he deserved to be hanged, and, giving him the abolition judgment had better be carried into effect with j out much further delay. It was this same person, by the way,; who, at the beginning of the war, propo- j sed to settle the difficulties by hanging-' th* leading abolitionist and leading seces-t aionists upon the same tree*.—Chi. Times. »l A leading Republican paper says that "even if the Adosinistration has commit-1 ted some mistakes, it is useless to cry over spilt milk" Yes, but we can’t help cry-] ing over needlceslr wpil* blood.—Louie-‘ i vilie Journal.

A patriotic old lady recently eedt thre e smoking caps as presents to officers in the Army ol the Potomac. One was for Gen. Meade, and the remaining two she desired to be presented to two Generals, one of whom must be a teetotaler, and the other who never indulgrd in profanity. Gen. Williams, Chief of Gen. Meade's staff, took the anti ptofanity cap, and Gen. Hunt the temperance arp. A great deal of fun is made about the disj tribution of these presents. The total expenditure upon the Capital ex'ension, up to the present time, is 86,399.909. ' - X-y SHAKE and BURN ! Shake and Bimu! 1 Shake and Burn’!! This is the life of agony endured by the sufferer from Fever and Ague. He wanders like an uncetsin shadow, never know- ; • ing what moment he may be prostrated, and therefore disinclined to give any serious attention to business. This is the condition of thousands in town end conn- < try, Il is no exaggeration to say that Fe- j ver and Ague kills more people thad any twenty other diseases in America. For' a sure and speedy enre of this terrible ! hffliction, we take great pleasure in raeommending Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which have already achieved a wide reputation for rapid and powerful effects in j renovating the system prostrated by this disease. For sale by Druggists ar.d dealers generally, every where. [lmo i SALE OF LAND Mortgaged to the School Fund. ' tn obedience to the ninety seventh, ninety nith and one hundredth sections of the school law adopted March 11, 1861, the following pieces, parcels or lets of laid, or so much as ' may be necessary, will on, Monday, January 25, 1864. at the court house door, in the town of Decatur Adams county, Indiana, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, the bids being equal the amount chargeable and due; the same having

been mortgaged to the State of Indiana, to secure th* loan of congressional and common school funds, and forfeited for the non pay ment of interest in advance thereon according : to the condiliors of the loans; the sale will be held between the hours of ten o'clock am; and four o’clook p. in., on said dav, and will conI tinue from dav to dav until all is sold. I UNION TOWNSHIP. The North half of the North East, quarter of Section ten township twenty Eight North of j Range fifteen East, containing Eighty .acres more or less, mortgaged by George Hart and Sarah Hart his wife on the '9th day of Novein her 1853 Loan SSO, Interest $0 ”<• dan.agejl 01 I cost $3 50. Total Amount due $55 21 KIRKLAND TOWNSHIP. The South west quarter of ti e North west quarter of section tnirtv six township twenty seven North of Range thirteen East containing I forty acres more or less; mortgaged by John ' Gilbeit and Sarah Anti Gilbert his wife on the ; 19th day or January icnn 1< an sro.oo li.tmu. $5 31 damage $1,63 cost $3,50, Total amount 8ue585,44. SAINT MARYS TOWNSHIP. Th* South East quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty Eight township twenty seven North cf Range fifteen East containing forty acres more or less morgaged by Thompson Robuck and Clarissa M RobucK his wife on the 18th day of March 1861, loan one hundred dollars interest five dollars and thirty eight cents, damage twodollar-. and ten cents, cost three dollars and fifty cents total amount due one hundred and ten dollarsand ninety eight cents. MONROE TOWNSHIP, The North west quarter of the’North west quarter of Section Sixteen township twenty six North of Range fourteen East containing forty acres mere or less, mortgaged ly Daniel Urick and Nancy Urick his wife on the 14:h day of 1 April 1862 loan twenty dollars, inteiest one dollar and nine cents damage forty two capts cost three dollars, total amount due twenty four dollars and fifty one cents. The South west quarter of the North East quarter of section sixteen township twenty six North of Range 14 east containing forty acres ■ more or less sold on certificate No 104 May 14’ ’ 1852 to Levi Kincade now owned by Ormm Laizure residue of purchase forty five dollars ' interest two dollars and twenty cents "damage ninety four cents cost three dollars total amount due fifty one dollars and fourteen cents. WAR ASH TOWNSHIP. The North East quarter of the North west quarter of section twentyJEight township twen tv five North of Range fourteen East containing forty acres more or less mortgaged by Henry S. Judy on the sth day of March 1852, loan i thirty three dollars and thirty three cents in--1 threat two dollars and six cents damage seventy one cents cost three dollars total amount due thirty nine dollars and eleven cents The North west quarter of the North East ; quarter of section twenty nine township twenty five North of Range fourteen East'containing forty acres ronre or less mortgaged by Jacob ' Bradford and Mary Bradford his wife on the 18th day of October 1862. loan one hundred idollars interest one dollar and eighty eight I eeu/3 damage two dollars and four cent, cost three dollars total amount due one hundred and six dollars and ninety two cents. ; The East half of the East half of tho North ’ west quarter cf section thirty six township 1 twenty five North of Range fourteen East con ' taiuing fortv acres more er less mortgaged by i Edward H Shepherd and Lncv Ann Shepherd his wife on "the Bth day of November IBfiO, . loan seventy five dollars, interest one dollar ' and twelve cents, damage one dollar and fifty ‘ two cents, cost three dollars, total amount due eighty dollarsand sixty four cents. So much of th' above mortgaged premises in each case a« will pay the principal, interest, and cost, will be < fif.red for cash, and incase there are no bidders for rash the premises will be bid in by the Auditor on account of said fund in accordance with the 101 section of said school laW ' W. G. SPENCER, Jan. 2. 1864. AuJltor - ESTRAY NOTICE. Taken up by the undersigned in Mon- - roe township. Adams county, Indiana, ■ two estray steers; one a red steer, the other white and light brindle. and supposed to ha»e been worked, marked with a crop off the left ear and a split in the same; and supposed to be three year* old and appraised at thirty five dollars by Samuel Eley ftn 4 Mioh * t ' l Ele F LA BON HEADINGTON. ' D„, ,1,1865.

———_ -U, ■!. ■ » ESTABLISHED I®. TOWNLEYS, DEWALD & BOND, 107 COLUMBIA STREET, : FORT WAYNg Are cow offering a much larger and more attractive Slock of Goods th*. before, at ' ,Wf Wholesale and Retail, A splendid assortment of WINTER DRESS GOODS, All kinds of DOMESTIC GOODS, in large Stock. Our Household Furnishing Goods Department, Emoraces nearly everything in this line kept by Dry Goods Stem --W ■ n ■«« J <BI-- MEV-VLT At very low prices for this season. Hoods. Nubias, Sontags, and Comforts, All kinds of Clothes for Men’s Wear. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, AND A HOST OF OTHER ARTICLES NEEDED BY THE HUMAN FAMILY, FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES. Fort Wayne, Indiana, December 26. 1863.

>I . ■ NEW GOODS i I _-w jNEWPRICES! r We are now receiving our Spring Stork of . t.oods and. although, (on account of sickness we are a little late, we bought our goo U from 15 tb *2O per Cent cheaper :han we could have done a week or two earlier in the season. We intend our customers shall have the advantage of the GREAT FALL IN PRICES, and although we are not able to sell goods at tbegiKMl old fustloued Peace Prices, we can come nearer to it than we have done in a longtime. CVe are opening our usual assort I ment of DRY GOODS Palm Leaf and other Summer Hats, bonne tsar tificinls, ribbons Ac. Clothing, Groceries Boots and Shoes, Nails, Iron Ac. i all of Which we will sell at the lowest possible prices for READY P AY, But a« we can buy to advantage only for ready pay we cannot sell goods on Credit v6-n!7 NLTTTMAN *t CRAWFORD. BRANDRETH’S PILLS. While brandreth’s Pill are so potent for good diseased bodies they are hermless as bread, The babe at the breast or the tnan of ripes years and delicate females are certain to receive an increase'of health from the us* of these Pills blessed | of heaven. It has been said by *n aided physicirn, j that'lhis medicine aiwavs benefits and never injures.’ Wherein is the superlative quality. The Brandreth Pillshave n» power or action but upon impure humors in’the blood. They seize only 'the impurities in and around the parts ' affected by disease; all the parts involved in diseased actions ar» operated upon and I cleansed from all foulness and reinfused with ‘Life,’ by the wonderful curative powers contained and inherent of lb* most justly famed Brandreth’s Pills. Millions of people whose lives appeared to be at the last ebb, worn out by ; fever’s consuming fires, by consumpt- . ion's insidious advances by racking torments of infl immatory rheumatism, have been cured by the useTtf these pills. The ‘ persons are living witnesses and thous. ands are residents in everv citv of Am- ■ erica. Principal Office, No. 294 Canal Street New York. Sold by T. T. Dorwin Deeatur and by respectable dealer*in medicine*. Aek for new stt le. _ Clark’s school Visitor. VOL. VII.—A DAY-SCHOOL MONTHLY The Visitor will commence its seventh vol- ’ nme with the January number, 186-3. This is ! the only Day-School periodical published st sis : tv cents? vear, magazine form, beautifully illustrated. Reading, music, speeches. Dialogues ‘ stories, puzzles, etc., etc., from tfie very best ' | writers. The Visitor has the largest circulation of*ny educational Journal published. Now is the tin eto form clubs for winter schools. Send for a specimen, and see in- rrmrnti to clubs. DAUOHXDAY i- HAMMOND, Publisher*. ”Wi4*i»lpsi*, Pa- ,

THE SWEDISH BRANDT — As its name indicates it a pti product of the invrntc-r, // w hose native land is Snrdtß. efUq'''A * s Htl article having a msll.t 6r and delicnte flavor, pcculiarlv " jfy'/.rich, and palatable; '* highly and < specially id- ' *P le( l ,ot h« ot *ll ladin, w ' lo n ' R y requite an agreeable, P stimulating tonic, imparling strength to the sysli m, git ij an increased vitality Io th whole human frame. It ie a great favorite in Sweden, so much so that it styled the national btvc rage. No Ir-mily should be without it. — Taken in the shape of a het punch at night beferr fr>ing to bed, it make* r. delicious draught (producing n healthy perspiralicn dispelling a cold mere effectually than any other mixture that can be takm. Try it one* and beconvinced. ; Sold by merchants & Druggiite everywhere. Established 1760. PETER LOR II LARD. Snuff & Tobacco Manufactur.r, 16 A 18 Chaubibs SiazrT, (Formerly 42 Chatham Street,New Terk.) Would call the attention of dealer, to tho Irtish. I cl' his manufature. viz: BROWN SNUFF. Macaboy, Demigros, Fine Rappee, Pure Virginia Coarse Rappee, Nacbitnche.. American Gentleman. Copeai.p.YEI LOW SNUFF. Scotch, Honey Dow Scotch, High Toast Scotch, Fresh Honey Pew S.olrk Irish High Toast, Fresh Scotch, or Lundyfoot. TTAttention is called to the large redaem* in prices of Fine Cut chewing and ing I. 1 accos, which will be feund of a superior qul ■ TOBACCO. Smoking, Fine Cut Chewing. 8ttO» 1B C' long. PA. L.. or plain, S. Jag" No. 1. Cavendish, or Sweet. Spem.’’No. 2. Sweet Scented Orono™. ClBM’• j N >s. 1* 1 mixed, Tiu Foil Cavendish i < Granulated. . A circnlarofprices will b* s.m Guardian’s Sale. Notice is hereby given that the will sell at public sale pursuant to » n ® , y the court of common pleas of Adam _ , ur ' at the court house door in the town o county of Adams and State of Indiana, Monday, January 11. 1864Between th-> honrs of 10 o'clock a ™ . o’.clrck p. m.on said day, the following bed real estate, to wit: »fth. Commencing at the north wer r ?‘ „r arceast half of the north west quarter or tion*w>ntv eight (28), township " A ',|, m s (25) north.range fifte-n (15) east.| lpn „ count v and State of Indiana. runr| - • ),, T south thirtv-eight (38) rods, thenre e.«t " - (Rtl) rods, thence north b«thence west eighty (80) rods tn „ P rf , smort ot ainnin^.cnntaininG’ runfttupn y on the following 1 One third of the purchase m.nev .» P ~r ed rv”--, Nov. 5. 18 63. " 'Administratrix’s Noti* Notice is hereby given that the on has been appointed administratrix a of Xrthur Patretson. late of Adam. „„irenl t| ceas ed. Nov 28.1863. : Real Estate for Sale person wishing to buy, wdl do w.