Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1864 — Page 1

THE ’DEC ATUR EAGL i .

VOL. 8.

** Decatur eagle.. ISSCSO SVBBY SATURDAY MORNING, BY Spencer & Schirmeyer. rvsusiiMs asd raoraiEToas. OFFICE —On Second Street, In Patterson’, bedding, crer the Dins' Store. Terms of Subscription: One eony. one year, in advance, $1 00 ts paid within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year hat expired, 200 LT Jo paper will bo discontinued until all errerasrea are paid except it the option f the I’ubliahar. Terms of kdvertiainx: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, gl 25 Esch sabispient insertion, 50 IJTI > a Ivertisement will he considered lees than ois sqa ire: over ne squ ire will be counted sal ehar'edastw; >r *r tw ~as three, etc, T li’nral discount, from the above rates, mile on ilia 1 vsrtisementsinserted fora period loader three months. f" !’da ab v.-e rates will he strictly adhered ,o an ler all circumstances. JOB P RINTING: We are prepared to do all kind* of job-work ri neat aad xrorkaxtrhko ~*’’.on the meat p»*.*>nabfo term*. Our mxteri for rhe completion of Job-Work, bein j new >_ I of the latent gt.yhs. we feel confident that satisfaction tan he given. Mirawi lURT HOUSE’ Decatur, Indiana,) •C 3. ra&'-H'- Proprietor. Will sfiv« good attention, and makes reasonable •barges. nJT-vG-ly. IY W. CHAMBER, PAVSfCAfN $ SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. ' T7"OFFICE—On the mm RidenfSecond fit . tn the room formerly occupied by J. D. Yuttmxn as a banking office. v-l-nIJ. HH D S TI!) A B Tk EH, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, INDIANA. WiH Practice in Adarns and adjoining Counties Will secure bounties, pension*; and all kinds •f claim* against the Government. •IZTOFFICE.—On Main Street immediately S»«th of the Auditor’s Office—v G-n 12 it bobcu Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR. LVDTAXA. TTUFFIGE, in Recorder’s Office. Will practice in the Courts of the Tenth Judi'.iil Circuit. Attend t the Redemption of Lae is. the pay ment of Tills Especial atten, Il >-t viifH, , given to t'i? cobec'ion f Bomitie*F.nin ill 111 < i li .1 ■ ig liasl <h.> Government Xoe. is, 1362. vG-i'42. FiTtTr P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph ,-W K 3, Ts BI SSS^S’ 9 Having permanently located in Decatur and tnpplied himself with everything that may be goand in a First Class Picture Gallery. Would call the attention of all wh > desire rod Picture at low prices, to call at hi* rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately over ibe Drug Store. n37-ly Large fall & Winter Stock OF READY-MADE. T IEME <£• BRO.. FORT WAYNE, IND. FASHIONABLE TAILORS TAILORING fc FURNISHING EMPORIUI . Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne. Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods. An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 V ICK SBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of business, Defies the World! All other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in he shade! AU efforts at COMPETITION gone by the BOARD. It i* acknowledged by all that he can sell a BETT ER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and all such like far LESS money than any other establishment in Northeastern Indiana, without exception. His work is all warranted to be made of the very best material, aad made by old and expe rionced workmen. Baggies and carriages trimmed in the latest and most approved style. Repairing done on short notice and at reasonable rates. TJ*Give us a call, and we will convince you of the truth of what we say. We PAY GASP for oar stock, and consequently BUY CHEAP ER than if we bought on TIME; and of course Mn sell in proportion —

FORT WHH AIiVFIITISEUIATS. I IIUN STREETTxmifiE, J. LESMAN, - - • Propiietor, Main Str, West of Calhonn, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Good Accommodations nt Reasonnlle rates Stage office for Bluffton, Decatur,St Mars's, ■ ffendalville, Sturgis and Auburn. 1138-6 I MEYER & 8R0..' Whole & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, ) Paints, Oils. French and American Window ' Glass, Dve -*tnfls. Brii-hes.Spices. Liquors and Wines. Coil Oil and coal oil Lamps. Ao □"No. 95 Columbia Street, Fori Wavne, In- ; diana. < n3?v6. • TT w. oaKTeyT Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. And M>lllnfnclnrer of TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPFRWARE I ATT-IE GRANITE STCPE. No. 79, Columbia Street. v4-n24. FORT WAYNE. IND. IIEDRKIN HOUSE, ; J. EKARNS & SON, - - - Pro's Barr St.vet. between CnhimMn <t Main. | FORT WAYNE INP j Thii House has been entirely Refurnished i and Refitted in good style, and every attention ! will be paid 1o the comfort of enests Board ers accommodated by the Day or Week. r»39 i MAYER HOUSE' Corner of Wayne and Calhoun Sts.. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H C. FOX, - - - Proprietor General Staee < flue. vsn% JUSTIN B KUREr, WITHIES. CLOCKS", JEWELRY SILVER-PLATED WARE, Ac , I NION BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, IND All kinds <»t Repairing done to order, and warranted pTsTuKnMnmILL, —DEALEB INMarble Monuments, HEAD STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-SLABS, As., <fc c FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on tbeshortest notice and i n the neatest manner v5n39. S PATTERSON, Agent. “d ? f c6mp are t\"~ PORK PACKER, MILLER IM) COMMISSION Merchant) EORT WAYNE. IND. G a-ie’-il dealer in all kind* of Grain, Se Fi-’b. S-i’t. Produce, Agricultural Jmplemams, d’c t Best Brand Family Flours LrLiberal advances made on r»-o<bice.rfc . n4 4vfff

S~IGX OF m MI)LOCK. O. P. MORGA N •Vo. 31 Cobimbin Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. BCB -W O -<■ w llard ware & Stoves -ANO— Manufaetnrsr of Tin &. Sheet Tron--115. ALAS." JB. K®. HR: . no 15 t gvst k. stKjrox Rcnoirn uiem A F 3IEM9Y Ac BRO.. Wlio’esale and Retail Demers in Books, Stationary, Toys And Fancy Good*, Calhonn Street, b?txvi»efi Columbia and Main FTRT ’V \YVE, IXD. En<rli«h School Book*, German and Latin Book*.Toov*—a a«**nrtmpnt. Wall and Window Paper, Look in? Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving* Ac.. Ac., The attention of the public isresnectfiillv invited Mo*t of nnr stock is imported directly b* ourselves, which enables us togiv* onreus—j,omt*r* Great Barsrains. *sn3f . unio n~fTl e“o M p aTJ Y . C SCHMIDT & Co. -MANCFACTVRES ofFlT.es. RASPS, mill-picks, STOVE CUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. Re-C ittin? Old File*, Ace , done to order find W irronted eqnal to new . All'cin-I, of Rr«p< end Files made to order Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and O >-n-st.ic H ird wire. Pine Sash and Door., Nail-.Gia.a. Paint. Ac., At Factor* Prices. UNION BLOCK , onpositestnte Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND. i AH order* frflto ti» Ge™fry .{traded M.

‘Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Alm—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 23,1861.

For Eagle. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE 1 Uh nr mrs. m. KiKtj, Onr soldier boys have left us now— 1 The house has silent gtown; ; They are hastening to the fieldtof strife, < And we are sad and lone. We’ll tlvnk of them when faraway, We’ll miss their pleasant voice. Their well known step th ii merry laugh ] T hat mad • our hearts rejoice. 'Twas harder far to part fiom them Than human tongue can tell; ’Twas hard to leavi their quiet homes, , I For tented fields to dwell, i Yet honor calls—they mujtobey, And bid a long farewell, To weeping friet ds and comrades dear, 1 And scenes they love so well. 1 They expect to fight the rebel foe, Until Columbia’s Stars Shall wave where e’ie you go. O’er this blood-stained laud of ours. i ’ 11 Their coutry calls -it must be saved— i. Thousands of men must die ! t But what the stars and stripes must wave Where now the tebel banners fly. 1 i They know their duty far aCvay, I They w»lk the midnight beat; , A soldiers lot is hard they say, Thev watch while thousands sleep. |l When war is o'er and peace proclaimed i ’ Through this once happy land, , With pride the soldier will be named ~ The ones whose honors stands ; I The brightest in the coming day, When this Government shall be ) I A beacon shining far away I; O’er every land and sea. ( I. O, Lord, we pray protect and guide Our sons when far away; 1 Help them in sorrow and joy ' t To ever watch and pray. ;, They say cheer up. don’t weep for us, 1 hough hundreds bleed and die, This life is but a dream at most, With disappointment ever nigh t I And though our hopes around us fail ( Like raindrops on the boundless sea. We will not think we’ve lost them all 1 While we are blest with liberty. For, oh! we love our country, , The country of our sires; We ll fight for glorious freedom T ill every foe expires. 1 The galling yoke of despots • Our neck shall never bear; We ll live and die as freemen, No servile badge we 11 wear. < ' We will not kiss the flag of tyrants i Now flaunting in our face— We ll rush into the battle Win glory, not disgrace. SOUND AS TIME. Once upon a time, not long ago, nor 1 ; so far from Millersburgh as it might be. a ■ good hearted man and hi.s long tongued, ' ' style talking wif attended a social party 1 * . I j About every three minutes the wife would ; check the husband thus: I ‘Now william, don t talk so loud! ‘Come, William, don’t lean back in the chair that way.' ‘Now, William, don’t be noi y over there! ’ ‘Say, William, let the gids a'one and sit by me!’ A t last forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and the husband who was really pittied by all in the room, arose and said; — ‘I beg pardon of the company, but as i my wife insists in being boss all the time i it is right she should have these!’ j And he deliberately took off his pants, j handed them to her and sat down in his' j boots and drawers. ’ The company was astonished —the wo-; | man burst into tears —the happy couple soon went home but neither of them wore the pants. How the affair was settled we cannot tell, but the last time we saw William he I had the pants on. We are inclined to ; think she will not again boss him in a hurry. Nature when she makes a beautiful head, is often so absorbed in admiration of her own work that she forgets the brains.

For the Eagle. ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. Coatie Landing, April 1, 1864. Editors Eagle:—We are now lying at Coatie Landing, about twenty-five miles alxive Alexandria, and so far as I can see have come to a dead halt Fort De Russey was taken on the 14th of March, and the next day we reached Alexandria where we awaited the arrival of Gen Banks. After a weeks delay he came. I Another week has passed and we have made an advance of twenty-five miles.— We cannot comprehend the delay, and the impatience of officers snd men to move is universal. Inaction is weakening us more aniF more with every day’s delay the men unaccustomed to the Red river water are taken down with diar- • rhea and dysentery, and to-day the 89th has fifty men unfit for duty. Il is to be feared that too much time is spent in gathering up cotton. Speculators are in the field armed with military protection; and it is the opinion of the army that the spoils are divided among the “stars " Your correspondent, “for the good of the service,’’ has been silent on these questions. But if the veil could be lifted 'he scene reveal corruption and ’ official stealing beyond the power of words to describe, and throughout every grade of the army. An honest man is the exception, and at times it seems to me they are the exception only because they have never been tempted. And stealing and speculation are not confined to our own army. The rebels accuse , their leaders of using their authority for the purpose of gathering filthy lucre in the shape of “greenbacks.” Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor are charged with having macle fabulous amounts, and whether the people fall into our hands or remain under rebel authority, they say the wolf is at their door. I think my dinner has not digested well, which may have some effect upon the coloring of what I have sketched; but I rejoice to think I am not alone with the green spectacles on; for an officer just passed consigning Quartermasters to a warm climate for selling whiskey to boats to be retailed at the bar at twenty five cents a drink and not keeping any for his especial benefit; but it is ,a great temptation, 85 to $lO a gallon for whiskey when 50 cents is the Commissary price, and it leaves a beautiful greenback margin for somebody. Says he, “it is an, outrage.” He meant, kind reader, because he could not get whiskey—nothing more. Sugar is another article of traffic in Louisiana and affords ample range lor the genius of the speculator. Scarcely a sugar house that we have passed on this trip but is filled with sugar and molasses. It is nothing uncommon to find one hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar on a single plantation. Corn is p’entiful, and beef, mutton and pork in abundance.— Starving the rebellion is “played out.” If the rebels had a good sound currency, produce could be purchased in the Southern States as cheap as in the Northern. But with no confidence in their currency noting is for sale, hence in large cities and near the large armies of the rebels subsistance is scarce, and is the cause of much suffering. So far, all that has been accompli-hed by this expedition has been done bv the Vicksburg army, and before the arrival of Gen. Banks. Fort Deßussey fell on i the 14th of March where were captured - over 200 prisoners and ten pieces of artillery, eight of them siege guns and around i Alexandria seven field pieces were captu- ' red. On the arrival of Gen. Banks he issued a congratulatory order to the army of the Gulf for what had been aceomi plished by Gen. Smith’s forces. Information has just been received that we advance to-morrow. Our delay has given the rebels time to concentrate their forces and fortify Shreveport, or evacuate it and save their stores, as they chose.— ! Whether this will prove a successful expedition or not remains to be seen. If it is not, our worst fears will be realized; if successful we shall take pleasure in ' chronicling it H,

) Adventure and romance, are said to be the companions of war, ! and the terrible struggle which has been desolating our fair land for nearly three years has given birth to many wild romantic incidents. Beneath the smoke rolling above the angry thunders on every battlefield thriling adventures are enacted, and we have the real i romance of daring, dash and death and lastly, the romance of gentle jlove. We have hid placed in jour possession an incident of thei latter nature, that will bear repi eating to the world. When the bloody battle of Gettysburg was raging hottest, ayoung Lieutenant who was gallantly and bravely' jleading his men in the front line fell in the moment of making a victorious charge. Severely woun- ; <led he was borne bleeding from i the field. He was taken to the private house, a short distance in the rear the battle-ground. The I army surgeons were all employed in caring for the wounded sheltered by the hospital tent. Our young Lieutenant was left without a physician. A young lady, 'who was on a visit to some friends in the vicinity of Gettysburg I noticed his condition, and kindly bandaged his wounds, and watched by his side until surgical assistance could be rendered. The injuries !of the Lieutentant were found to be so great that his life was despaired of. He was unable to bei remeved from the house. The 'young lady kindly volunteored to be his nurse. For weeks she bent over his form, soothed his fevered j brow and watched the faint {batterings of life, The sufferer grew better; and during the days ofi convalescence, the fair nurse and j her patient learned to speak of love. Before the young lady left for home in Kentucky, the vows) of love were plighted. Months rolled by, the Lieutenant’s wounds , were healed He could not forget )his fair nurse, and taking the train for Louisville he again stood )in the presence of bis betrothed. On the evening of the 28th of i March, at 7 o’clock, the romance ) was furnished with a sequel by jthe hippy patr being united in j wedlock. The guests that witnessed the gallant officer and happy bride igroomlead the blushing Miss —B ito the alter last night admit that a treasure was secured in the j bride and war his a romance of love as well as of heroic daring, A Boston paper suggests the ■ organization of ‘‘a grand Loyal Ladies’ League composed of women who are willing to pledge themselves to maintain, while this war lasts a d ’Cent economy in their attire.,’ In connection with this, it is interesting to know that the Merrimac Print works are about to resume operations, so that calico will once more be cheaper than delaines. These printworks have been closed nearly two years,

— An Antiquity.—There is now , in Deptford Dockyard a model, j ' constructed in the year 1558, of 1 die yachtbuilt for Queen Elizabeth ’ T7;e inode) is in excellent preser- ’ cation and recently came into the possession of Mr. Brown, of the. dockyard, at the sale of the effects' of a deceased na val officer, — 1,1 ~ — s | A False Report.—We find, in r an English paper, the sanguinary - announcement that Lord Palmcrs- ■ ton and a select party shot, lately v ■ among much other game, one hunf dred and fifteen peasants. ’ “I’ll drop you aline in a moment, as th© fisherman said to the trout

Men Killed.—Two men were killed on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad on 'Thursday; one near San Pierrra and another near Crawfordsville, the first mentioned was supposed to have been a soldier belonging to the regiment going south on the m irning train.. His body was reduced to a shapeless in ass, scarcely recognizable as ever having been human. JZis remains were gathered up in a candle box. The inau killed near Crawfordsville was supposed to hive been lying on the track intoxicated. —[Lafayette Journali Melancholy Occurrence—During thestorm of Tuesday evening last the barn of Daniel B. Gray, in Cloverd tie township, wasstruck by lighting, setting fire to the barn which was consumed with all its contents. These consisted of c >rn, hay oals tobacco, and farming utensils- Thiee horses were also burned to death, and a fourth rcndeied useless by the flames. But the most melancholy part of the catastiophe is yet to be told Mr. Gray and another old citizen, John Moore aged about sixty years i were working in the barn at th® time, and were both burned to death! Mr. Washington Allee barely escaped a similar fate, having left the barn a moment previous previous on on errand, and was knocked down by the Zightning, but not serieusly injured—[Greencastle Press, Officers arriving from Chattanooj ga report a weather novelty down in that latitude. On Tuesday tho .) snow covered the ground to the depth of fifteen inches, and flakes were falling in showers, when the train le f t the depo. The weather Igod appears to be on a wild ram- ! page and entirely out of reckoning for a fall of snow is very rare on the borders of Georgia and Alabama, and never, hertofore, to any depth* In the longest of j winters, when the sky in the . latitude of Chartanooga is darkened with snow clouds, the flukes-driftdamp and very heat y, and melt on coming in contact with mother earth. It would seem that the weather god, in bis care- ,) less frolic, conceive 1 a wild idea of the so’diers by offering to them the J bright snow-storm as a greeting - from Northern skies and Northern i homes. No doubt the soldiers j appreciate the stormgreeting, but . they will scarcely excuse the jolly god for his loss of reckoning if he ! tarries with his ice and snow too ‘ long ’ -r

Singular Book-Binding—A-monga collection of books announced to be sold at auction in Paris, is a copy of “ La Constitution de la Republic'’, published at Dijon, 1 An IL, bound in human :skin! The binding resembles light calf. This work recently belonged to well-known book- ' collector, named Villeneuve. To the v dume is added a note from its first possessor, testifying to the nature of the binding. On 'one occasion during the First Revolution, a journalist, named Galetti, was accused by the Comi miltee of Public Safety of having j invented, inone of his articles, with a slanderous intention, the existence of tanners of human skin. A triend ot GaUetti’s procured for ■ him the book in question by which the latter was enabled to justify the truth of bis assertion. i m Touch not, taste not, handle not, boys. That is the only safe ground on liquor,

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