Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1864 — Page 1

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‘TCjrai «E£3 DECATUR EAGLE. | njUSD EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY. Spencer & Schirmeyer. publish ms and rnoi’aißToas. OFFICE— On Second Street, lu Patterson', Sodding, over the Drugstore. Terms of Subscription: One toyy. one year, in advance, $1 00 j if paid within the year, 1 50 | If not paid until the year has expired, 2 Oi) | EFNo paper will be discontinued until all I arrerages arc paid except,at the option f the Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One square,(ten lines) three insertions, $1 25 Raeh subsequent insertion, 50 TTNo advertisement will beconsidered less than one square; over ne square will he counsel and charged as tw;over two, as three, etc, lO* A liber il discount, from the above rates, made ot. all ad v.-rtisementsinserted fora period Langer three months. lTO'is .ihrve rates will be strictly adhered *o nnihrall circumstances. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to doall kinds of job-work i>i ne»t&nd wcrkmanhke iratce-.on themcst reasonable terms. Our materi for the com- : nletion of Job-Work, being new »_.l of the lat- | stvles. we feel confident that satisfaction ,an be given. BL UT HOUSE” dcca tu r, Indiana, U3S'®U' Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable .barges. 1.37-vG-ly. 1T XvTcham per. PH YSICAIN $ SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA, j UTOFFICE—On the east •’idenf Second St . >n the r » n formerly occupied by J. D. Nutt- ■ (bin as a banking office. v4-nVL • t"c. h s j 0)7111 k e ii, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, INDIAN A . i Will P' i.’tice in Ad ims and adjoining Counties I Will secure bouiitiis, pensions; and all kinds} pf claims against the Government. ( CTOFFICE —On Main Street immediately | Svuth of the Auditor's Office. —v6-n 12 j7\AfEsnr”i?oßd. Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECA TUR. INDIA NA. TTOFFICE, in Recorder’s Office.Xll Will p-actice in the Courts of the Tenth Judin’, t! Circuit. Attend t the Redemption of Lan Is. the pay ...ent of Taxes Especial atten, tion will be given to the collection f BountiesPension and all claims against the Government 1 Nov. 38, 1362. v6-l-42. | "?I fITil Eli ILI. Ell V! P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph. ZalwM'M'MMTT's Sirring permanently located in Decatur and , applied himself with everything that maybe fbund in a First Class Picture Gallery, Would call the attention of all who desi re god i Picture at low prices, to call at his rooms ini Houston's Building, immediately over the Drug I Stere. ° 37 - 1 y j Large fall & Winter Stock OF READY-MADE. ! M_a M «S ■ w «=■• THIEME d- BRO., FORT WAYNE, IND. FASHIONABLE TAILORS JOSEPH CLARK, Tailoring a fi rmshiag emporium . Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 VICKSBIRG! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of bittiness, Defies the World! AU Qt’ier L T K3 IMS FITUTION’S thrown in (he h’i iK? A.U efforts at COMPETITION gone by Th* 30ARO It m acknowledged by all Chat he cn*i < *ll a BETTER article of pk H Saddles, Bridles, W -ps and all such like far L njd v han any other establishment in Nt i’d*--.; Il Ii ma.’ without exception. ffi -r > virr anted to be made of the vary i - , t 1 made by old and expe Her.: euBu . I ■ .‘PK?-.’ trimmed in the latest an I . style. Repairing done on ahirt it. reasonable rates. fp J ill, and we will convince you of th -at we say. We PAY CASH ferou: • > i»nOy BUY' CHEAP* jjt li. .n .' ; Teuton TIME: and of course AnU la proportiou —a39-v6

FORT WAVXE MAIN STREET EX€HA\GE, J. LESMAN, - - - Proprietor, Main Str, West of Calhoun, Ft. Wayne, Ind., | Good Accommodations at Reasonable rates | Stage office for Bluffton, Decatur, St. Marv’s, 1 Keudalville, Sturgis and Auburn. n3BvG | MiIYER & BROT, Whole <fc Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines. Paints, Oils, French and American Window Glass, Dye Stuffs,.Brushes.Spices, Liquors and i U in os. Coal Oil and coal oil Lamps, do. EFNo. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, Tn - ! d J ana - n3Bv6. B?Ay ()AKI.EY. I Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. And Manufacturer of TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPERWARE AT THE GRANITE STORE, No. 79, Columbia Street, v4-n24. FORT WAYNE, IND. TedekiTiiouseT J. EKARNS & SON, - - - P 3 Barr St.eet, between Columbia <t Main FORT WAYNE, IND. This Hou«e has been entirely Refurnished and Refitted in good style, and every attention will be paid to the comfort of guests. Board ers accommodated by the Day or Week. »3g mTyE RTlffouSE, Cornur of Wayne and Calhoun Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H. C. FOX, - • - Proprietor General Stage f fill e. vsn2o. JUSTINBiTUREf, Dealer in WITCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY SILVER-PLATED WARE, Ac., I MON BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, IND All kinds ot Repairing done to order, ana warranted. v-»u39. P. S. UNDERHILL, i -DEALER INMarble Monuments,; HEAD STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-SLABS, <fc ; . , & c I FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on theshortest notice and in the neatest manner. vsn3». S. PATTERSON, Agent. D . f7~C O M P a R E t7 PORK PACKER, MILLER AXD COMMISSION Merchant, EORT WAYNE, IND. General dealer in all kinds of Grain, Ss Fish, Sa't. Produce, Agricultural Implemants, etc. Best Bra- d Family Flours LT* Liberal advances made on .Produce,etc., mToFuiTlhmcir o.l*. MORGiAN No. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. ic» hl-b.-w.aßt® aw ; Hardware & Stoves--AND— -1 Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Iron- ; 15. ‘ta.'W - -«t MB- '■H3 • no 15 t OUST F. SIKMON. RUDOLPH 81EM A F- SIEMON & BRO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in IBooks, Stationary, Toys,. And Fancy Goods, Calhonn Street, between Columbia and Main FORT WAYNE, IND. English School Books, German and Latin . Books,Tooys—a large asssortment, Wall and Window Paper, Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving’ tfcc.. <tc.. The attention of the public is respectfully invited Most of our stock is imported directly by ourselves, which enables us togive our customers Great Bargains. v5n3S. UNION FIL ECO MPAN Y . C. SCHMIDT & Co. -MANUFACTURES OFFILES," RASPS. MILL-PICKS, STONE CUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. Re-Catting Old Files, &c-. done to order and Warranted equal to new. Allkinds of Rasps and Files made to order Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Hardware, Pine Sash and Doors, Nails. Glass, Paint, <tc.. At Factorv Prices. UNION BLOCK, oppositestate Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND. ' AllOrd«r« from ths Country attended u

‘Our Country's Good shall ever be cur Aim-Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.’’

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, UN. 16, 1861.

AN EDITOR WANTED. 11 BY J. PARISH STEELE. We have been without a paper In our town a year or more. Though we’ve had of printers plenty, And of editors a score. Some of them were ‘ jump up” fellows, Good at writing, good to plan; But they all, without exception, Failed—pleasing every man! For this mighty sin we “shipped” them Now we re sending forth a call For an editor to join us Who will write to please us a'l; Others need not ask for favors. i ( For of such we've had our fill; We will heed no applications Save from those who till the bill. Well I mind the first among us—lie was by no means the worst. But we didn't seem to like him, Simply ’cause—he was the first; For, you know it is the custom. J list to sacrifice a few; So we placed our heels upon him, Ere we knew what he could do. 1 Next there came a gifted fellow, With a prepossessing way, Who, but for a fatal blunder, Would have doubtless won; the day Blank, a crafty village merchant, Bought a “puff” to gain a “lift,” T’was offensive other merchants Sent the editor a-dUft. I Next we sent a learned committee To a man in Baltimore, , M horn we knew to be a writer, , Full of cunning full of lore; They solicited; ho yielded. , Came, delighted young and old; But he got in debt and toddled. Leaving us “the bag to hold.” Then a host of others followed. Lived awhile, and passed awav; l eaving this, our thriving village, Minus of a press to day; Hence, we send this little notice, Knowing that some fellow can Make a fortune hear among us Just by—pleasing every man. —The Printer. THE FATAL BRIDEGROOM. The other day, when wife and I were riding to town to do up a few old chores j for the family, who should we see walk- ■ ing along the road but Dr. Smith, the ■ very person that married our Jeremiah to Farmer Dobbs’ gal. “Hello parson;” said I stopping the { mare; “how d’ye do? I aint seen you j since yon did up that ere little job for youngster.” The parson's generally reckoned a jol--Ily kind of man enough, but he walked up to us kind of solemn as we halted, “Good day to you, friend G , and to you, also, madam; it has indeed been . I many days since we have met,” I knew from his pompous manner that { ;he alluded to wife and I not havin’ been to meetin’ of late; so I thought I'd better smooth up matters a little. “Yes, indeed,” says I, drawin’ my ■ face as long as I could, “we’ve had such drawbacks with the bad roads, aud the : mare’s being lame, and rny old woman, here, down half the time with the rheumatiz, that we’ve been fair run aground up our way lately for want of a good sermon.’ This did the business, and our parson looked smiling in an instant, that is, about as jolly as a persimmon tetched with frost which is doin’ pretty well for a parson. “And how is your son, madam, and hit bride!” he asked, turning to Mrs. G., who sat on the back seat. “Oh, fost-rate,” said my wife; “they’re jest as happy as two chippy birds; and I often can't help thinking what a goose I was to sit and cry that day all through the ceremony. “Well, well,” answered the parson, weddings ars solemn things, madam, asI ter all; but your son’s wedding was noth- ! ing to one I officiated at the other day.’ I “Why, doctor, what on airth do yon

i mean?’ put in my wife, like women in | general, is very easily aroused in the curiosity way. “Why, madam,” he replied, “I married a beautiful young girl.” ‘You married her!” screeched my wife. “Ah! ahem! I mean I performed the ceremony,” explained the parson, blushing clean through his yellow skin, and, bad to relate, 1 buried her on the same day.” “Dear me, how terrible!’ cried my actually turning pale, and no wonder. ‘Was it consumption. Oh no, I guess it I must have been cholera, since they could- { ent keep the body. Poor young man ! how desolate he must be!’ ‘Dcil't pity him madam,’ said the parson, looking mysteriously around him; ‘she was a victim of neither cholera nor consumption. And what is stranger yet as he continued, lowering his voice, ‘it is not the first case of the kind that has occurred in the bridegroom’s family. Ten years ago I man-red his eldest brother to a lovely girl, and strange to say. I was forced to bury his wife, too, on the very ; same day, and in the same manner.’ ‘Sakes!’ 1 exclaimed, ‘it’oeally a dangerous thing to be concarned in parson; ■ you ought to let the police into such a piece of business as that. ’ ‘What!’ cried the parson, ‘go to the police with a private family matter like that?’ Never?’ Sometimes, when the parsen had worked himself up rather high in his sermons, I had fancied there was something kind of flighty about him; but now I made quite sure that he was raving mad, or else about as black a villian as ever walk- j ed the earth. Just as he was going to' again, I drove off. ■Good-day, parson,’ says I, a little stiff, i j ‘we’ve lots on hand to-day. and must be [ ; moving. Good-day! ’ So saying, without noticing my wife, { who wanted to talk more, and kept kick-; I ins my boots under the seat as a hint, I I ' whipped up the mare, leaving the parson i j standing in the road. ‘I declare, Jed,’ scolded my wife, ‘if you ain’t the provokingest man that ever was. I wanted to hear more about that awful queer family and there you went and drove off right in the middle of it. Dear! dear! there’s murder somewhere in that business, you may depend on it.” ‘Of course there is, ’ I answered; ’and 1 tell you, wife, the less you and I knows about itFthe better. Sooner or later I things of this kind come to light, and , then look out for being called to court as ’ a witness.’ ‘That’s so, Jed,’ replied my wife, ‘bnt

Imy goodness! ain’t it awful to think of! It’s worse than Bluebeard ! What family can it be, I wonder? He seemed kind of disinclined to tell us, did you notice?’, ‘Of course 1 did. You don’t think the man would go and let out anything of that kind before a woman, do you? He 1 might a well publish it.’ ‘Uniph! What did you marry a woman for, if they’re so dreadful!’ retorted I my wife. ‘Because,’says I chuckling, ‘I did'nt ' care to keep my marriage particularly se- { . jcret.’ . 1 Well, to tell the truth, we had a few; ' more words not tender and Feffectionate. .' but we soon made up and so drove into [ town still talking over the unnatural .: business, and wondering at our parson's having a hand in such work. , All the rest of that day wo couldn’t talk or think about anything else; but we [ both cesolved to keep the matter to ourr i selves for fear of getting into some scrape I or other. II Finally, after tea. my wife said; “Jed, ! I declare I shall have the nightmare all j night if I don’t find out something more .'about that business. What do say to [ callin’ in at the parson’s on your way to [ brother Tom’s. You could get up some , excuse or other to stop.’ Well, the long and short of it is, like j Adam of old, I was tempted by the cu- •. riosity of ‘the woman,’ and so dropped . in to offer the parson the use of my nen • seed sower in case he needed it. a ! The parson’s room was full of folk-

I •' ‘ I i and I talked about different things until < 0 I at last I couldn’t hold out no longer; so I just drew the parson out in the entry, J and whispered: 1 •Doctor Smith, if you wouldn’t mind entrusting me with the name of thas bridegroom, I might sometime be of use to you in the matter, as I can testify to { your general character and ’ ‘Of use! character! ’ interrupted the par- j son, opening his big eyes wider yet ‘Why, my dear friend, what do you 1 mean?’ ‘Hush’’ I whispered, “we will be over-' heard! I merely ask to know the name j in case you are willing to give it to me. 1 I shall never betray you.’ The parson colored—got purple—turned from me an instant, and I could see that his frame was convulsed by some I -1 great inward struggle. At last he turned towards me and gave vent to his feel-1 iugs in one long hideous shout—of laugh-1 ter. ‘Why, my dear Mr G., he yelped out ‘ holding his sides in the meantime, and actually droning half a dozen people out I |in the hall by his outrageaus racket.— ' . ‘Why, my dear sir, is it possible* Didn't I I tell you that man's name ? He, he, ho ho ! Dark secret, indeed ’ Why, you 1 see you drove off in such a hurry I had ! no chance to tell you—he, he, ho, ho, ho! Why the man's name was Berry; and so of course I had to Berry his wife when I married her to him ! Don't you take?’ And he laughed harder than ever. Yes, I ‘took’ and I ‘put’ too ‘Mrs. G., was even more indignant than I was. But she always clinches of j | any allusion to the story with—- “ Well it servad you right. Another ; time you’ll be more careful not to drive i off in the middle of a story.”—‘Godey’s . Indy’s Book. ! WHAT WASHINGTON IS FULL OF. A Washington letter to a Northern paper draws the following pen-picture: Washington is full of people—full of J Representatives and politicians; full of I honest men and dishonest men; full of office-seekers and office holders; full of j men who pick individual pockets and , get arrested, and men who pick the National pocket and get rich; full of private , sharpers against whom the traveling and ; sojourning public are solemnly warned I I in placards, and public sharpers who are ': deemed highly respectable because they i do business on a large scale; full of men i who pay their pew rent-regularly, thumb ' their hymn-book religiously and sell shod- | dy overcoats to soldiers; full of men who . wouldn't let a note go to protest for the

world, have no scruples against mouldy bread and spoiled beef for army purposes; full of officers who would crush the 1 { rebellion instanter, wear fierce mustaches { and fancy uniforms of any avail against ' the rebels and rilles; full of affieers who I ‘ | c ou<rht to be with their commands, and I ’ officers who should never have had a command to be with; full of Colonels ■' who want to be Brigadiers, and Brig-, 1 adiers who will resign if they are not', made Major Generals; full of spectators ; land speculators: full, too, of ladies, ladies I ladies who are handsome and accomplish-; [ed, and know it very well, ladies who' j are ’handsome and accomplished and i don’t seem to know it, and ladies who [ are homely and unaccomplished and don't | seem to know it; full, too, of females who I are not ladies, though they now and then ' make an uninitiated member from the West believe they are; full of Cyprians 1 !of high and low degree, from the ownI ers of grandy equippages and the occuI pants of palatial residences to the poor ' pedestrians who live in garrets; full of every body and every thing. A pen I I photograph of Washington City, as it is ' I to-day, would be a difficult’achievement.

, — ... —... , i A heavy robbery took place on the I stage line between La Crosse, Wis , and i St. Paul, on the 20th ult. Some parties 3 organizing a National Bank were sending - $35,000 in United States bonds to Wash1 ington, They were placed in a trunk T I and strapped on the back of the stage, I A few miles north of Lake City the j trunk was cut off from the stage, and no s trace of it has yet been found

REVOLT AMONG COLORED TROOPS. The Boston Courier hasthefolI lowing information from its New Orleans correspondent, who writes on the 12th: { Our military authorities have just had a foretaste of their wisjdom in intrusting important military posts to ’colored troops” by a revolt of Fort Jackson, which ; the newspapers in this Department i by authority,’ will inform you was ‘only an altercation between an officer and some of the men, and soon quieted.’ I have my information from the lips of the officers in command at that post, the garrison of which consisted of 500 j colored soldiers aud officers, and . 20 white men (though some of the | colored men are as white as some of their white officers,) and so serious bad become the revolt that the officers themselves declare that had they attempted to exercise {any authority over their com]mand, every white man would ’ have been killed, and the negroes in possession of the forts, which (Cost the United States Government ’so much life and treasure, and so many months delay to get into our own hands. It hasbeen decidedthat this regiment of colored men must be 'mustered out of the service,’ in consequence of this ‘alteration between an officer and some of the men,’ : INCREASE lilE PAY OF THE PRIVATE SOLD7ER, The Dayton (Ohio) JEmpire, in the course of an article upon tha war, ‘•lf the war is to be carried on. we are in favor of increasing tba pay of private soldiers to form thirty to fifty dollars per month, and reducingthe pay of officersone half. The reduction in the pay of officers would more than pay the increase to the soldiers, There is neither sense nor justice in the disparity that now exists, ‘The life of a private soldier is as valuable to him, and as precious to his family, as that of an officer. Why should not thisuniveisal public sympathy for the soldiers and their families take this substantial shape? Why make them dependent upon public and private charity, when a

reasonable increase of their pay would have their families comparatively comfortable, Why should the Government pay the widow of a dead soldier, with a family of destitute children, a pitiful pension of only eight dollars per month and to the widow of a commissioned officer. with influential connections, from thirty to a hundred. ‘■lt this is a ‘people’s war.’ as it is claimed by its advocates to be, why this monstrous and unreasonable discrimination against those who bear the burden and hoat of the contest. New York, January 7’.—Mayor [Guenther assumed the duties of , his office to day. delivering a long message. On the retiring of ExI Mayor Opdyke, he was escorted ,by a committee of prominent citizens, with a band of music, to a neighboring hotel, where an ad- . dress was delivered and festivities indulged in. It appears by Mayor I Guenther’s address that the city debt is $20,000,000, probably aris-

i ing from the fact, as stated in his address, that the system of local i government is lacking iu that simplicity so necessary to economy and efficiency, and that the subdij vision of functions and the waut of responsibility' has led to extravagance and multiplication of offices,

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