Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1864 — Page 1

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deca ms eagle. I3SUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY. ; Spencer & Schirmeyer. PU3LISHEK3 AND PROPRIETORS. OFFICE—On Second S reel, in Patterson’., □adding, over the Drugstore. Terms of Subscription: One copy, one year, in advance, $1 00 If pail within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 2 0o rrXo paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid except at the option f the Publisher. Tertna nf Advertising: One square,(ten lines) three insertions, $1 25 i Each aubwquent insertion, 50; rrtfoal ver use me nt will beconsidered less | than one s [ tare; over ne square will be counted and charged as r. v; >v r two. as three, etc, O*A. liberal disco mt, from the above rates, made on alladv jrtisementsi nserted for a period longer three months. iJrrha abjvo rit ;s will be strictly adhered to under all ;ircumstancea. job p rYn TTV Cr : We are prepared to doall kinds of na nest and sr“rkm n r r ’*’.on themest { reasonable terms Our mate*. for the completion of Job-Work, being new .. I of the lat ' est sfvle-!, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. ~ DECATt B BI SIAESS CAKDS! ~burt house. I) ecat ur. India na, EJK SK. T S 5 *’JB Proprietor. Will give good attention, and mak- s reasonable I charges. n?t-vG-ly. D AACcIIA'>[PER, PHYSIC AIN <V SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. ITOFFICE—On the east t id(-of Second St . in the room formerly occupied by J D. X t: man as a banking office. v4-n42. mi ii'Twhlakeii , ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties Will secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds of claims against the Government. U*OFFICE.—On Main Street immediately South of the Auditor’s Office.—v G-n 12 .FAMES It 8080, Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR. INDIANA. TPOFFIOE, in Recorder’s Office. Will practice in the Conns of the Tenth Ju-r-ici il Circuit. k.tend t the Redemption of I< ; iI, the pay .ent of Tax.-s Especial atteu, u i /ill h " :-a to the collection i BountiesI’c i , n and alt claims against the Government Nov. 24, 1362. v6-i>42 i ■ h n g v.i.mi P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph' Having permanently located in Decatur and ; tup 1 e<l himself with everything that may be f oj lin a First Class Picture Gallery, Wuhl call the attention of all who desi re go I I'cure at low prices, to call at his rooms in >h’a Building, immediately over th** Drug Store. ‘ n37-ly ? irge fall & Winter Stock OF KE A :>Y- MADE. ® ■ ti ra • TH IE M E <£• BRO. FORT WAYNE, IND. : n I O N A B I, F T A I T, O J? .« j J USETI MICLARK. t)RI!VG & FURNISHING EMPORiIM . Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne. Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 ■ VICK SBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In his linp of business. Defies the World! | A. mier LIKE INS iUTUTIONS thrown in ! h? shade! Alleffotsat COMPETITION ..one ! by the BOARD. It is acknowledged by° all • ... tie can sell a BETTER article of fg—. Harness,Saddles, Bridles, Zi—A V'-’i Whips and all such like r LESS money than any other establishment bi ' .heastern Indiana without < xception. Hi work is all warranted to be made ofthe I ;st ma' erial, »a J made by old and expe • d workmen. It 'ie.s and carriage*trimmed in the latest I a- i I Ist approved style. Repairing done on i ■ otiee and at reasonable rates. e us a call, and we will convince you of thu .. ..th of what we say. We PAY CASH far cat Stock, and consequently BUY CHE APF.R than if we bought on PIME. a»dof course ser. in proportion—n3B-vfi.

FUJI Ii U mEITMSB. IMS STREET EXCIM\tIE. J. LESMAN, - - - Proprietor, j Wain Str, WestafCalhoun, Ft. Wayno*|nil. ( Good Accommodations at Reasonable rates Stage office for Bluffton, Deeattn ,St. Mary’s Keudalville,Sturgis and Auburn. n3Bv6 Whole & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, French and American Window i Glass, Dye Stuffs, Brushes, Spices . Liquors and Wines Coal Oil and coni oil Lamps. Ao O’No. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wnvne, In- i Idiana. n3Bv6. 1 B? W. OAKLEY, Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. , And .Manufacturer of TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPER WARE AT TSE GRANITE STORE, Mo. 7?, Columbia Street, v4-iGL FORT WAYNE. IND. I I REDEKIN HOUSE, J. EX AHNS Sc SON, - - - Po’s Barr St cet, brtwp< n Columbia <t Main. FORT WAYNE. IND This House has been entirely ar.fl R. fitted in u r ood fatyle, and every nfiention will be p ii‘d l-o the comfert of gdesis Board ors accommodated by the Day or Week. j>39 MAYEIf HOLM: Cornor of Wayne and Calhoun Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. 11. C. FOX, - - - Proprietor General Stage f e. vsn2o. j WATCHES, i'tOCKs”, MELIIT I SILVER-PLATED WARE, Ac., I NION BLOCK, « - FORT WAYNE, IND All kinds ~t Repairing done to r, ano warranted. Es? UNITE lUI ILL, -DEALER INMarble Monuments, HEAD STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-SLAB fe, it., & c FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on theshortest notice and in the neatest manner. v5n39. S. PATTERSON, Agent. D F . CO M PARE T , PORK PACKER, MILLER HD COMMISSION Merch a n t , EORT WAYNE. IND. General dealer in all kinds of Grain, So | Fish, Sa’t, Produce, Agricultural Implemants, (Lc t Best Bra d Family Honrs I fTLibcral advances made on -Produce,etc.. n44vt;tf STOI OF TIIU P1 DLOt’K. O. P. MORGAN Wo. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. O —>i, ■9 as 2 s' -. E'i e« n Hard w are & Stoves -AND— Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Ironilt. 'S*w .'a.- JMt flc • 110 15 i GVIIT y. Sil Rt lmi.riT HIM A F SIFM YTT BRO . V/holesale and Retail Dealers in ißooks, Stationary, ToyAnd Fancy Gond«, ' Cdlhonn Street, ’between Columbia and .Mail ' F TND. English 'Rooks, German and Lit’. Book*,Toovs —i I’atg’P asssort.mrnt, Wall and Window Paper. Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving® i Ac.. *te., ' The attention of the public invited. Most, of our stock is imported directly ' bj ourselves, which enables us our cus—: t nmers Great Bargains ‘ ?5n3S. i UNION FILE. O MPA NY . C SCHMIDT A. Co. -MANUFACTURES OFFILFS, RAsps. MILL-PICKS, STONECUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. Re-C itting Old Files, * c , done to order and V ir, tilted equal to new. Allkin.ls ofßispt and Files made to order • Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Forei.-n jnnd IJnnieatin Hardware Pine Sash and Doors Nails.Glass,Paint. Ac., At Factory Prices. UNION BLOCK, oppositestate Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND all Orders from ths Country attended to.

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

DECATUR, ADAMrf COUNTY, INDIANA, MAR. 19,1864.

For the Eagle. THE CONSCIENTIOUS CHRISTIAN I never will—l never can—- , I never mean to try; . To slay my fellow creature man! Oh, no, I’d rather die! Some tell us “it is right to kill, I's not a wick’d thing, If ordered by a President, A Congress or a King.” , They tell us that good men of old, Were taught of God to ficht! i ° , Who crowned their work with victory, . And said that it was right. j In vain the law would come forth And proffer to endorse, An act so vile, so barberous! The law is not in force. ■ We have a better covenant, It suits a pious heart, And from it none, but wiek'd men, Are willing to depart! And yet we have a class of men, They say they know the Lord, They thirst., and cry, for blood, They say they preach the word. Did Jesus Christ teach men to war! : To Cght, and slay, and kill? j Oh, no he taught more peaceful truths— He taught his Father’s will. Put up thy sword into his place, Now Peter I command— Who take the sword must die by it Mine is a peaceful band. My Kingdom is not of this world; Else would my servants fight! But, if I told them so to do, I, then, would call it right! Legions of angels would be given, And they would fight for me, If I would ask the King of Heaven, That such a thing should be. But did not Jesus Christ indorse, The acts which Csesor did? Oh no, He said it was unjust, The tribute Csesar laid. And John the Baptist gave his life In sacrifice, you know, For speaking out against the King, His wickedness to show. The Word is holy pure and just, When rightly understood; But by an Abolitionists, Is often misconstrued. War Powers of the President.— I We understand, says the State Sentinel, !-i * . I that Col Baker, Assistant Provost Mar--1 shall General for Indiana, has officially I notified Judge Perkins, of the Supreme Court of the State, that he has issued writs of habeas* corpus in contravention of the President’s proclamation, and further, that he, Col. Baker, regarded it to be his duty' to report the fact to headi quarters. We also learn that Judge 1 Pei kins, in response to this notification ; that he had done nothing inconsistent j with his duty as a citizen and a Judge, land that a refusal to issue the writ in the leases that he had granted them w uild have been a violation of his obligation to die■<. H. tii'dtlon and laws to which ail ,owe:'. common allegiance. We know ;i. t whnt may be the result of this conflict between the civil and military authorities but if the civil power is thus to be overridden in a State loyal to the government atd in which its laws and decrees ' can be njaintained and enforced by the I civil authorities, arbitrary or despotic ■ power displaces a constitutional government. and the rights and liberties of the . citizen are as insecure and will be as litj tie respected as in France or Austria.— I [Ft. Wayne Sen. Dr. Wingfield, of Portsmouth, Va.. has been sentenced, by command of Gen jE. A Wild, to sweep the streets of Norfolk and Portsmouth for three months, on account of disseminating traitorous 1 dogmas,’ and on one occasion showing j disrespect in church when prayer was offered np for the President.

The Presidential Question in the Re- ■ publican Ranks, The telegraph yesterday briefly an- i nounced the fact that the two German I Abolition papers in St. Louis had hoisted the name of John C. Fremont as the; people's candidate for President Here! are their • articles on the subject. The Post introduces General Fremont in this fashion: “We place tp-day the name of John I C. Fremont, as a candidate for the Presi-: plency, at the head of our columns, pene- > trated by the conviction that in doing so i Iwe shall be indorsed by the greater porI tion of the radical party snd by the libe- j ' ral element of the people, So much has ; already been said, and, perhaps, too soon about the Presidential election, that we i believe it our duty to make known our view on the subject by raising the gio- j rious name of John C. Fremont. We' ! at least feel it necessary to let our friends I know how we stand in this matter. Se- ■ cret movements we have had enough— ; it is time to act openly. j Our position is this: John C. Fremont is our first and only choice. If Fremont is nominated by a National Convention. If ho is not nominated by any convention, we shall, nevertheless, work, as best ■ we can, for his election as people's candidate, believing him to be the fittest' man for our crisis: The Nene Zeitung says: “We present to our readers to-day a Presidential candidate in the person of; .; the man whom the young republican' | party, in the days of its purity, chose for ' its standard bearer, and who produced more enthusiasm than any other candidate since: of the man whose name we' also placed at the head of our columns in ' 18*50, until the unfortunate end of the I Chicago Convention, and who was then ! , also the true people's candidate; of the ■ man finally, whom we have so often dis- ■ I ignated, during the campaign as the man i of the situation. ,! Ws place this name at the head of our . columns, because the friends oi’froedqm hold earnest counsel e erywhere to find the best man—the right man for the right ■ O O | i place—a man of initiative, and whose , I name alone is a platform—a pilot for the , storm-driven ship of our State. Asin consequence of this search so many names I have already been mentioned, we feel it our duty to hold back no longer, and not, to run the danger of hurting, by our si- ’ lence the chances of him who offers the ! best guarantees. And we call him the 1 . people's candidate, because we know him to be first choice of the Free State men; of St. Louis and Missouri, and because we are convinced that the people eyery- ' where. And we also, call him so, be- ,! cause the people, by thus making free > I ■ with his name, appropriate him as , their property, and press him, th as, as it were, into their service. Finally, we ' , call him people’s candidate, because ’we hurry forward his name without the , authority of politicians, caucuses, conclaves, etc. And we, together with the , masses of his friends, shall stand firm and true to him. r.ntif he himself retires from ' . the arena. The decision to do so, if he I should it in the interest of freedom, we , leave altogether with him, as our recogI, nized leader in the impending presidential campaign.’ This German Radical movement is ex citing the ire of John AV. Forney. In his Philadelphia Press he says: “If this be so, then the liberal Germans are anything but Union men. and are entitled to not the slightest con-idc-j.. ° . i ration in Union Conventions. They are, in fact, very illiberal Germans, who announce at this early day their determi-1 nation to make the defeat of a favorite candidate a pretext for seeking the ruin of a great cause.” Good. —From the Congressional Globe of the Ist, we get the fallowing: i Mr. Cox offered the following resolution, which was read, considered and agreed to. . Resolved, That the rebellion be, and the same is hereby abolished. • As that settles the question, we hope ' now that we shall have no mere of the rebellious States.

The Buffdlb Commercial (Re publican,) utters some sava:. ; j words of warning to Greeley and i those who with him are arraying the ultra radical wings of the. 'Republican party in such deadly) hostility to Lincoln that it will be impossible for them to support) him in case ot his nomination by) the Baltimore Convention. Its I talks of “sharp retribution upon I those who through ignorance or ; : design shall come between Union •, : men ami their great purpose;”; their names will become a hissing ) 'and a reproach;” “political trick-, sters and schemers must take warning in time,” &c , &c It conclu-, des:' ) “We areaware that we speak I strongly, bat we believe none too. strongly. But a few. days ago, in the Border States Convention at ; Louisville,a representative radical i I German, Hon. Casper Butz, of) , Chicago, declared that the radical Germans party. He stated that ' they did not separate from their) jAmeicam fellow citizens in conse-i Iquence of any nativistic prejudice,) )or to oppose their opinions, but in ) ; orderto more fully discuss in their, ; own mother tongue, the prim iplc.-' ) which they wish to adopt and! knowing full well that they, alpne land separated from their Amerijean fellow citizens, could never have u any political influence they resolved to go always as an inde ’ pendent auxiliary with that party that would adopt a platform of prin ) ciples similar to those that they ) themselves had laid down,’ I The German radicals of the j West have” crossed the Rubicon’' ) against Lincoln. It is stated chat ; two of these organs in St, Louis ! have hoisted tbename of Fkemont as their candidate for the Presidency. ) Not A ery Hopeful.—' Monad i nock.’ the regular London corispondcjit of the New York Times, Jan intensely Republican sheet, 'thinks that “toconquer six millions of freemen, and make freemen ol four millions of slaves is not the work of a day,’ and he suggest ■that ‘if it should require as many ) years as there are freemep to conquer or slaves to free, it would be jno ix)ore unreasonable calculation. 7t may cost more money than ; it would liaye done to buy the whole lour millions of negres, with hall )the whites thrown in.” The Tinies ) should look to its correspondents This one is cZeaily disloyal. The London Post says: Advices from Paris state in more possitive terms than before that confidential negotiations'have been entered upon by the French government with the cabinet of St. .1 ames for the joint recognition of the southern Confederate States of America. It is stated that France has oven expressed itself prepared to recognize the States alone in | the event of a negative answer 'being returned by the British government. Although thisinformaj tion reaches us from reliable parts iwe do n->t vouch for its authenticity notwithstanding it has receiv jcd coroboration in influential quar Jters here and has for some days i been current in the citv. '. The quota of New Y. rk under .! the last two calls is 95,000 and of ■ Pennsylvania 65,000. From 40, ! 001) to 45.000 men are expected II to be drafted in each of those I States.” I ; - Wfl understand that General Carrington is shortly to be ordered ito the field.

— - — — -i— Jeff. Davis has taken to imitating Burnside. He is sai Ihave suppressed the Raleigh (n. C.) Standard on account of its Unionism, just as BuriLside suppressed numerous northern democratic journals on account of their Unionism. It is by the co-operation of secession 'and abolition in this and ail sorts <>f ways the Unionism assailed in both section of the Union. It is i between these upper and neither millstones that unioni-m is ground to powder. In 1860, the Atlanta Southern Confederac y published a Speech of Gen Gantt then in the rebel serv- ! ice. One of the passages in the speech was, this: I “I can tell you how we did a whining Yankee out in Arkansas a few days ago.. He got to making . too free Use ot fncepdiary language. Our boys took liim in hand. They carried him where a convenient and friendly limb protruded from the body of a sturdy oak. They fastened one end of the of a rope to the limb and the other around Lis neck ami ) elevated him.” i This Gen. Gantt, having abandoned the rebel armv is now making abolition speeches in the North. We arc not ail surprised, v miscreant, who exulted in horri)blc murder while on the rebel side, is naturally enough an abolitionist while profcsMn|f to be oi; i the Federalside.— LouisvilleiourI 1 rial. a SiLAMic'i Soldiek!—On Saturday a soldier who was perambm lating the streets of the Sixth ward espied the patrol making towards ' him, and not having a pass, ho, undertook to dodge' the n by entering the cellar of Middleton's popular restnurant. Here he found I himself among the apparatus used ' for steaming oysters, and, seeing the box in which tin oysters are prepared, he jumped into it and pulled dawu-t heli i which fastened ) with a spring. The guard follow .) cd, and failing, after a close search to find him they proceeded on their round. About this time the ' colored man who attends the steam cam? down and turned a full head 'of steam on, which, of course, put 1 the soldier in a sweat, and, as soon las he comperhended the position of ass iirs ho yelled and kicked , lustly fbrheip and. as heat inereas ed, made such a bother inside the .'box that the darkey, nearlv ’(frightened out of his wits, leaped 1 out of the cellar at a bound, shout , iugthat “the d—l was in the . steamer 1” Some other employees Jofthe establishment, summoned . ! by the vigorous yells of the soldier. . urgod the negro to open the box 5 biri 're could only be persuaded to . make the attempt by the aid of a f long pole, with which he lifted (he jcatch; and the moment this was l effected the soldier bounces out, ;.dripping with steam and perspi■)ration, and without pausing to . render thanks for his deliverance . I he sprang up to the steps and was ; ofl’with the speed of a seared rabit. .1 Washington Star. r t General GfAhi has gone to Washington. He his been the , most fortunate of m i hithtrto, jbut this came of the fields of his r operation lying U> u I the direct f.e\il influences of th? capitol. I, Biought within their influences, 1 he will need more'.han his common e) luck to escape their contagious ' demoralization. - Good Lord, I deliver him! I Idaho is an Indian name sljk', fving the Gem of the Mouat-’ -> UI “ ‘ -aims.

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