Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1864 — Page 1

THE DECA Tll R FAG I L JLJ >l7 ill VAI I IJ J>. 11 fl U 1j .81

VOL. 8.

DECATUR EAGLE, ISSUED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING, BY, j Spencer & Schinneyer. I PUSLISHERS AND PROL’BI ETORy. OFFICE—On Second Street, in j building, over the Drug Store. Terms of Subscription: One cony, one year, in advance, $1 00 ’ Ts paid within the year, 1 50 ' Ifnot paid until the year ha* expired, 200 ‘ITNo paper will be discontinued until all j arrerages are paid except at the option f the I Publisher. Ter n* of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three inse rtions, $1 25 Each aubiequent insertion, 50 127" N > a lvertisc:nent will beconsiderod less ’ than one square; over ne square will be counts lan I charged tw; tv »r two, as three, etc, 17* lib *r.il discount, from the above rates, nad • >n all ad v jriiseinontsi inserted for a period longer three cuonths, LTThi ahr.re rxt -s will he strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB P RINTING: We are prepared to do *.’l kinds of job work na ns st and workman] iir« s-trr-.on the meat r«ißona’>le terms. Our mxtcii for the completion of Job-Work, being new ji„ 1 of the latest styles, we feel confident that satisfaction ■ tun be given. ~Bulfr house. I) ccat ur, In<li an a, rgLgJo IS ? . Proprietor. Will irive good attention, and iaa’:-s reasonable charges. nJ7-vG-ly. D. W. CHAM PER, VI! YSIC AIN <J- S f’/? GE ON D E C A T U R , I N D IA N A . ®3TOFFICE—On the east sid»-<»f Second St . in the room formerly occupied by J. D. Nutt-! mis as a banking office. v-l-r. 12. DaVTI) STI’HBAKEH’, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CLAIM AG E N T n E c A T (J R, INDIANA.; Wdl Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties ! Will secure bounties, pension-?; and all kinds ■ *f claims against the Government. 'I*FOFFICE.—On Main Street immediately i flew th of the Auditor’s (Office. —vG-n 12 Attorney and Counselor at’ Law, [ DECA TUR, INI) I A NA. SyoFFICE, in Recorder’s Office. ri] Will practice in the Courts of the Tenth Ju«<lei’ll Circuit. Attend t the Redemption of Lqn Is, the payment of Tax s Especial atten, I ■ i rill b-» given Co the collect io?i f BountiesP.ri< >i♦. i 1 jH ,ii against the Government Nov. 23, 1362. vf>-n42. i’ictint: ■.\!.i. e iii: l’. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph .-XX E3.' Q ' B-SBSTT' 9 Murine; permanently located in Decatur and 1 applied himself with everything that may be gonnd in a First Class Picture Gallery, Would call the attention of all who desi re god Picture at low prices, to call at his rooms in l Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug Store. n37-ly I | Large fall & Winter Stock| OF READY-MADE. ar.l K .w -a. w «=- • T IE ME (t BRO., FORT WAYNE, IND. FASHIONABLE TAILORS JO SEPITC LA RK. | TAILORING it FURNISHING EM PORI FM . Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 | VICKSBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of Defies the World! All other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in I' he shade! All efforts at COMPETITION gone | by the BOARD. It s s * acknowledged by all ! that he can sell a BETTER article of | Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and all such like for LESS money than any other establishment: in Northeastern Indiana, without < xception. His work is all warranted to be made of the ' v ery best malerial, aa J made by old and expo ! * rienced workmen. Baggies and carriages trimmed in th? latest ■ and most approved style. Repairing done on short notice and at reasonable rates. • TFGivo us a call, and we will convince you ; of the truth of what we say. We PAY CASE 1 for nur stock, and consequently BUY CHEAP- ’ ISR than if we bought on TIME; and.of course •an sell in proportion —nSB-rS.

foist wvhe fljyrmMEffi [ IAIN STBEET EXCHANGE, j J. LESMAN, ... Proprietor, j Ain In Str, West of Czllionn, Ft. Wayne, Ind., | ! Good Accommodations at Reasonable rates I Stage office for Bluffton, Decatur, St. Mary’s, i I fiendatville,Sturgis and Auburn. n3Bv6 ! MEYER & BRO., Whole & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils. French and American Window : Glass, Dye Stuffs, Brushes,Spices, Liquors and j 'Vines. Coal Oil and coal oil Lamps, <to. TjWo. 95 Columbia Street, Fort. Wayne, In-I Idiana. n3Bv6. B. XV. OAKLEY? Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. , And llunufactiirer of TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPERWARE | AT THE GRANITE STORE, No. 79, Columbia Street, v4-n34. FORT WA YNE. IND. ! HEDEKIN HOUSE, j . EZARNS & SOJi, - - - Pro’s Barr St eet, between Columbia <t Main. ! FORT WAYNE, IND. | ! Tlii-i TT.v.Ke has been entirely Refurnished ■ 1 ar.d Refitted in good style, and every attention . j will be paid Io the comfort, of guests. Board 1 j era accommodated by the Day or Week. r3O | MAYER HOUSK Cornor of Wayne and Calhoun Sts.. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H. C. FOX, - - - Proprietor General Stage ( fib e. vsn2o, J USTITTK MDRET, WATCHES, (WKS", JEWELRY ■ SILVER-PLATED WARE. Ac., j I NION SLOCK, FORT WAYNE, IND | All kinds ot Repairing done to order, and ( warren ted. v Mi 39. i IkKUNDERHILU -DEALER rS- ■ Marble Monuments. HEAD-STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-SLABS, & s . , & c FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on tlit shortest notice ; sndin the neatest manner. 1 v5n39. S. PATTERSON, Agent. ! D. F. CO M PAR ET. PORK PACKER, MILLER HD COIIIHSSION M c r chant, EORT WAYNE. IND. Conor..l dealer in all kinds of Grain, Se Fish, Sait, Produce, j . Agricultural Implements, <t'c, Best Brand Family Flours , -EFLiberal advances made on .Produce,etc.. n44vfitf S It, X l)F Tll n [’ X I)LUCK. 0. P. M()RG A N No. 81 CWamJia Street, i FORT WAYNE Ind. I o-~ — Hardware & Stoves -AND— Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Iron--15. YS&MA.'" mtL m■ J • no 15 I GUST F. SIKMON. RUDOLPH SIEM A F. SIEMDY & BRO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ißooks, Stationary, Toys And Fancy Goods, | Calhonn Street, between - Columbia and Main FORT WAYNE. IND. English School Books, German and Latin > 1 Books,Tooys—a large assortment, Wall and Window Paper, Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving’ Ac., The attention of the public is respectfully invited Most of our stock is imported directly M ourselves, which enables us togivp our custliners Great Bargains. v5n3F. ■ UNI O N FI L E OMP AN Y . C SCHMIDT & Co. -MANUFACTURES OFFILES, RASPS. MILL-PICKS, STONE CUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. Rj-C attin? Old Files, <&c , done to order and W irranted equal to new. Allkinds of Rtsp 3 ! and Files’mad? to order Also. Wholesale and Retail Deniers in Foreign and !>'»'n?stic Hardware, Pin* 3 Sash and Doors, i Naiß.Gla»s, Paint, <te., At Factors Prices. . UNION BLOCK, oppositestate Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND. i All ordws from Si-a Sonn fry attended to.

‘Our Country’s Good shall ever he cur Aim-Willing to Praise and not afraia to Blame,"

DEC’TUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDI ANA, APRIL 30,1864.

PELEG JONES. 1 know a man named Peleg Jones, ■ He voted for Abe Lincoln; And when tin's war brokeouthe said, j There mustn’t be no blinking. Load your guns and squint your eyes, Finger on your triggers; Hang the rebels up sky-high. Emancipate tho niggers. He said the Union we must save, If it made creation holler; And that the President should have Every man and dollar. Load your guns and squint your eyes <fcc ; He joined the Union League and bought A nag for his son David. [ And prayed that in the other world, j No Democrat be saved. Load your guns and squint your eyes <fcc | He said the war was just and should ■ Be pushed with vim and vigor, i And any man agin the war Was meaner than a nigger. Load your guns and squiutyour eyes, &c i And yet this Peleg Jones would stay : Among his pigs and cattle, While other men took up their guns | And inarched away to battle. Load your guns and squint your eyes, <tc . But when the draft was made in town. Poor Peleg he got drafted, And when we told the patriot cuss, i It scared him almost half dead. Lead your gun and squint your eyes. Ac. I Then Peleg went right of and sold To Smith, of Podunk Holler, One horse, eight steers, ten Durham cows, And got three hundred dollars. I Lead your guns and squ int your eyes, Ac. j And then he paid the Marshal off, But said it was not right, sir, That such good patriot folk as he Should either pay or fight, sir. Load you f guns and squint your eyes, Ac And this same man, named Peleg Jones, He voted for Abe Lincoln; And when this war broke out he said There mustn’t be no blinking. Load your guns squint your eyes, Finger on your triggers; Hang the rebels all sky-high, Emancipate the niggers. A SMOKY CHIMNEY'. A correspondent who lives in New Hampshire, states that in those parts resides a man called Joe, a fellow noted for the tough lies he can tell, and as a sain i > • pie relates the following: Joe called in at Holton’s one day, and found him almost choked with smoke, when he suggested, ‘Y r ou don’t know as much about managing smoky chimney's as I do, squire, or you’d cure ’em.’ ‘Ah,’said Holton, with interest, ‘did you ever see a smoky chimney cured?* ‘Seen a smoky chimney cured?’ said old Joe, ‘1 think I have’. I had the worst one in Seaboard county once, and I cured it a little too much ’ ‘How was that?’ asked Holton. ‘Why, you see,’ said Joe, ‘you see I i built a little house out yonder, at Wolf Hollow ten or twelve years ago. Jim Bush, the fellow that built the chimneys, i kept blind drunk three quarters of the I time, and crazy drunk the other. 1 told him that 1 thought he’d have something, ■ wrong but he stuck to it and finished the ; house. ‘Well, we moved in, and built a fire next morning to boil a teakittle. AH the smoke came through the room and went out of the windows, not a bit went up : the flues. We tried it for two or three . days, and it got worse and worse. Byi and-by it came on to rain, and the rain begun to come down the chimney. It ! put the fire out in a minute, and directly iit came down by the pailful. We had to get the baby off the floor as soon as we could, or it would have been drowned. ’ i ‘ln fifteen minutes the water stood knee deep on the floor, then I went out and took a look. It didn’t rain half so ! hard outside, and I pretty soou see what ■ was the matter. The drunken cu=s had put the chimney wrong end up, and it drawed downwards; it gathered all the ; rain within a hundred yards, and poured it down by buckets full.’ ‘Well, that was unfortunate,’ remarked Holton. ‘But what in the world did you do with the house? Surely, you never , cured that chimney?’

‘Didn't I though? - answered old Joe, I ‘Yes, I. did.’ ‘How?’ asked Holton. ‘Turned it the other end up,' said the incorrigible, ‘and then you ought to have ' seen it draw. That was the way I cured it too much.’ ‘Drew too much?’ asked Holton. ‘Well, squire, you may judge for yourself,’ said old Joe. ‘Pretty soon after we ; [got the chimney down the other end up, I , I missed one of the chairs out of the [ room, and directly I see another of ’em shooting towards the fire-place. Next : ; the table went, and I seen the back log I going up. Then I grabbed the old wo-, ! man under one arm and the baby under! I the tother and started; but just as I got; to th.e door, I seen the cat going across the floor backwards, holding on with .her claws to the carpet, yelling awfully. It I wasn't no use. I just seen her goingo-1 ' ver the top of the chimney, and that was j the last I seen of her.’ ‘Well, what did you do then?’ asked ’ Holton. ‘Of couse you couldn’t live in i such a house?’ ‘Couldn't I, ♦hough?’ said Joe, ‘but 1 did. I put a poltice on the jam of the fire-place, and thut drawed tother way, so we had no more trouble.’ That is what we call hard lying, and a good deal of it. A Massachusetts Minister in Troi - ' bi.e. —A gentleman who conversed a day or two since with a reliable gentleman from Beaufort and Hilton Head learned ; the following facts which have just transpired: One of the Gideonites there has [ I come to grief. AMr McOus, who went there as a missionary, preached and prayI ed on all the plantations, and kept a Sun-1 ' day School tor negroes, was arrested ! ; while in the act of selling three gallons ; . of tangle-leg whiskey to a soldier fur the ; moderate sum §3O, or §l2 per gallon.— I ;He owns two plantations: has made a I pile of niouey; had charge of ‘old clo’ that ■ . were sent out there for negroes, and made money on the goods which our be- ; ; nevolent Uncle Sam sent out to be fur- j nished at cost to the contrabands. He has been tried and sentenced to stand two hours each day from 9:30 to 11:30 i A. M , in front of the Provost Marshal’s ' office, for a fortnight, with a ball and : chain to his left leg. this placed in large letters upon his breast: ‘‘l sold liquor to soldiers;” to be fined five hunderd dollars or imprisoned for six months at hard labor, and then to be sent out ot the department never to return. The sentence has been carried into effect. There are more of them that ought to be brought up. The Christian has been, by his own confession, in the whisky trade for over a year past. A Valuable Petticoat.—ln examining the dresses of an elderly lady lately decea- • sed in a neighboring town, bids of one of the Boston banks to the amount of three hundred and sixty dollars were: found quilted into one of her- petticoats.! The money was accidently discovered before her garments were distributed among the worthy poor, whose scanty I wardrobes were considerably enlarged ; when the apparel of the deceased was parceled among them. By the discov- . ery of the bills some es the poor lost a , rich prize. ! I have nr sympathy whatever with those ’ who would grudge our workmen and our : common people the very highest acquisition which their taste or their inclinations would leave them to realize, for, next to - > the salvation of their souls, I certainly say j , that the object of my fondest aspiration is i the moral and intellectual, and, as a sure consequence of this the economical advancemend of the working classes—the . one object which of all others in the . witla range of political speculation is the one which should be dearest to the heart of evyry philanthropist and every true patriot.—Chalmers. , A gentleman was promenading on a sash - ionable street, with a bright little boy by his side, when the little fellow cried out, ’Oh, pa, look! there goes an editor!’ ‘Hush, hush, my son, dont make sport of the poor man—God only knows but you may bo reduced-to the same condition r‘-

i Rather Cool —A gentletnin from the country, stopping at one of our hotels, the other day, entered into conversation with one of the boarders, asking questions about the fair. etc. Altera fewp minutes’ conversatien, the boartier drew his cigar case, saying; | ‘Will you take a cigar, sir*?’ •Wall, I don’t mind it do,’ was i the reply. The eegar was passed to him: ' 'also the one which our boarder 1 was smoking for the ptrpose of [giving him a light. Hecarefully placed the cigar first handed him in his pocket and took his knifehind cut oil that end of the lighted > one which had been in the mouth lof his generous friend, and com menced smoking the remainder,'saying: ‘lt ain’t often that a man from j the country runs afoul of as clever ■a fellow in the city as you are!’ A WARM BATH WAGER. Smith was a man who never permitted himself to be outdone —he would do whatever any body -else could. Smith mot Brown in a iath-room. and Brown knowing i the other’s conceit, said that he -(Brown) could endure a hotter bath than any living man. 7’hereat Smith fired up and a bet was made. Two bathing-iubs were prepared, with six inches of water iin each. The fellows stripped by | a cloth partition each one got in 'andlet on the hot water on the. I word —the w agerbeiug whoshoukl stay in the longest with the hot [water running. Smtih drew up his feet as far as possible from the [boiling steam, while Brown pulled -out the plugin the bottom of his 1 uli. A fler about half a minute, quoth Smith: I “How is it Brown—pretty 1 warm?’. “Yes,” said the other ‘’its getting mighty hot; but I guess I can hold out a minute lon ' ger. v “So can I.” answered Smith. “Sci-s s squash! lighted: it’s awful!’ Fifteen seconds passed, equal to half an hour Dy Smiths immriuarv watch. “Isay, over there, how is it now?” “O, nearly up to the (bilin’ pint. *'O, Christopher! 'answeied the diabolical villain, who was lying in the empty tub, while tho hot water passed out of: i the escape pipe. By this time - Smith was ‘splurging about like a boileil lobster, and called again “I say, over there how is it now?*’ ’Hot,” replied Brown. “But—whew! scis-s! guess I can hold out another minute;’ 4 “You can‘t!' shrieked the now boiling Smith, who rolled out and bolted through .the partition, expecting to find the other quite cooked, -ion

i nftrnal rascal! why didn't you put | the plug in? ’ “Why, 1 didn't. agree to,“ said the imperturbable joker. “Why in thunder didn’t j you leave yours out/“ —Home Journal. It is apparent that Cha.se and: Company mean to break down the Sato Banks, and force their capital and circulation into Federal securities. Daniel Webster said; : “Sir, mine is not the ruthless hand thatshall strike at the State J Banks, nor mine the tongue that , shall causelessly upbraid them J with treachery or perfidy. I admit their lawful existence. I J admit their utility in the circle to ■ which they properly belong.

AN AERANAUT IN TROUBLE A late French journal relates -the following well invented story which, it will be seen, is French all o'er: : While Mons Godard was filling (an immense baloon in the Champ [de mars, he amused the spectators by sending up the small figure of a man, the perfect sem- ! blance of M. Thiers without spectacles. The little man being filled i with gass, rose majestically into (the air, and was soon lost to view among the clouds, His adventure . aliich becameknown the next day [werecurious.Thanks to astrong and favorable gale, which impelled [ him on his course, the little balloon man arrived the samo afterI noon in the sight of a fine country house in the neighborhood of Bievro. It was near the hour of idinner and the lady ofthe rnanision, who natural)' thought herself I perfectly safe, was occupied in the ' mysteries.of her toilet, It was a warm day, and she opened one of the windows which looked out upon the park,and was 'safe from any prying eyes.— ■' While tranquilly engaged by the [assistance of cotset-lacing in r -.’ ’. ,icing her waist tos sizi ands [that would reflect credit on h r d busband’s taste, she wa- su-1 Lm-y [stai’ded l -y ,i blast o 'wind, . • ed by a sliunge noise; and inn ; i diately the caserne nt was throw : [open and our little baloon mar, ■'entered her chamber unannounced. i The lady utters a cry of terror i[and thrmvs a shawl over her should rs. The little man driven 'by the wind throws himself upon the unhapy woman, who. scream- [ ing louder than ever pushes him off, and he consealedhimself under ; the bed. Just as the wife, in a supplicating voice, says to this' novel [Don Juan. “Ah. Monsieur, go 'away or you will ruin me!” the [husband furiously' rushed in, serving. “Ah, the wretch, I have him know!” goes in search of his ! sword t<> run him (hough the body. [The wife more dead than alive, [r. iterated, in the midst of sobs, “Flv’ fly, Monsieur, and save me sight o‘s a dreadft 1 tragedy I ’ The husband arrives armed to the tbeth, followed by the whelo i household, who seek to mollify bis "Wiiile two oi his friends [ held the husband, a third, stoop- ; ing down perceives our little friend .[who for good cause utters not a word and catching him by the leg i drawed him forth from his con'ceahncnt when low Monsieur [ Balloon, no longer b Id down by ' the bedstead, raises himself erect [swells out and raises majestically to the ceiling to the immense 'amusement of the spectators; while the poor jealous husband sinks away sword and all heartly ■ashamed of his causeless wrath. I ■

I A Bad Spell made a Good Joke. ■ —A gentleman riding thr ugh Suydenham saw a board with : -This cotage for sail’ paii ted on ‘it, as he was always read; '■ r a {pleasant joke and seeing m.m lin front of the house, b' ■■ ; and asked her very pt the cottage was going Jlist as soon as a mar who can raise the wind v. reply. Why are the abolitionists like , necessity? Because they know no i l aw '” Why is John Digger’s boy larger than his lather? Because he ; is a little Bigger. ‘l’ll strike for my home and ■fireside,” asouridevil said when the parson's dog was after him.

NO. 10.