Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1864 — Page 1

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DECATLR BISIXESS CARDS’ "BURT HOUSE? Decatur, Indiana, •a. ’• <1 BS’Er Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable charges. n37-vG-ly. dTwTciiamper, PHYSICAIN 4 SURGEON DECATUR, INDIANA. I ITOFFICE—On tl;<- east sick-of Second St,, ?n the room formerly occupied by J. D. Nuttman as a banking office. ' v4-nl’2. fHvTli stoito.HL ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties Will secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds t»f claims against the Government. O*QFFICE. —On Main *<tr<et immediately S-x;th of the Auditor’s Office —v H-n 12 JAMESR 8080 Attorney and Counselor at Law, PEC A TUR. 7.VD 7A VA. TT - >FFICE, in Recorder’s Office.XT Will p’-actice in the Courts of the Tenth Ju- • ♦Grill Circuit. Attend t the Redemption of L’inds. the payment of Taxes Especial atten,| t>oa will be given to the collection f Bounties-} P •nsioi) and all claim*, against the Government I Nd*. 23, 1362. v6-r42. rlO TIRE GIL LEI? VI P V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph wet' « ’ ra.=s»'ai' , » Having permanwlly ]oca*- <i !■> DeeMur and | applied bi •».-•> everything that maybe ,ound ill - Fir.’ CL-ss Fictura Gallery.. Would call the itu .1 in of all wh , u.--i re go 1 1 Picture at low. prices, to call at It i» rooms ini llmista’i'e B’.itHing, iii}med ; .i'.i-ly •wim> Drt : Store. n37-ly Large fall & Winter Stock OF READY MADE. cr T IE M E d- B RO., FORT WAYNE, IND. F A S II I O N A B I, F, T A I I. O R S • Real Estate for Sale; I offer T r «ale about 2.000 acres of lard sit- ; rated in different parts of Adams county. Any person wishing to buy, will do xwell io call on the undersigned. March 14/63 DAVID STIPABAKKR .eav — pf<\ i7c iTT’ PiIYSICI IX VXD SURGEON. RESIDENCE PLEASANT MILLS; Adams County Indiana. JOSEPH CLARK. TAILORING & HRMKIJIiG EMPOKHM . Calhoun Strset. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 , VICK SBitBG! I. J. MIESSE, In 1113 line of business. Defies the World! All other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in he shale! Ail efforts at COMPETITION gone I Ly th-3 BOARD. It h acknowledged by all that he can sell a BETTER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and a!1 such like • for LESS money th in any other establishment ; in N’«r Indiana without »xception. His vork is all warranted to be made of the very best ma’erial, and made by old and expo tienced workmen. Biggies and in the latest j and m??t approved style. Repairing done on i short notice and at reasonable rates. j 1 TFOive us a call, and we will convince you j of the truth of what we say. We PAY CASK . for onr stock, and consequently BUY CHEAP ’ ER than if wa houjjht on Tl ME; and of course can sell in proportion —n-SK-vF Examiner’s Notice. The undersigned School Examiner of Adam< 1 County, Indiana, wilt hold examinations nt his ♦ office in Decatur upon the fourth Saturday of tin* following named months, to wit:—January,! April, June, March. May. December; and upon j each Saturday of September, October and No I vember. Exercises will commence each day al ten o’clock, a m. Teachers will please bear in mind that there • W >l! he no private examinations given, unles ; the applicant can «how there is act al necessit thervfor. Shool officers, and other friends of education are cordially invited to be in attendance. App icants with whomthe examiner is not per son ally acquainted will be required to present •. a certificate sinned by a prominent citizen of. the county to the effect that said applicantss tains a good moral character. J. R. BORO, Examiner MayfJO, Adams Onntr. »

post wim mmismm in iv s T r s e fixeni.it l J. LESMAN, - - • Proprietor, tlaln Str, West of fallionn, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Good. Accommodations at Reasonable rates Stage officefor Bluffton, Decatur,St.Msrv’s, •Tendalville, Sturgis and Auburn. i>3Bv6 MEYER & F,KO., Whole & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, ! Paints, Oils, French and American Windowl Glass, Dye Stuffs, Brushes,Spices, Liquors and ' Wines, Coal Oil ai.d coal oil Lamps. Ao WNo, 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, Tn- j diana. n3flv6. B. W. OAKLEY. Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. And Manufacturer of TIN,SHEET TftON AND COPPFHWARE ATTHE GRANITE STORE, No. 79, Columbia Street, v-l-1124. FORT WAYNE. IND. HEDEKIN HOUSE, J. EKA.RW3 Sc SON, - - - Pro’s Barr St.ret. between Columbia <t Mnin. FORT WAYNE. IND. This Rouse has been entirely Refurnisbeil ; and Refitted in good style, au<l every attention will be paid Io the.coin Tert of guests. Board j ers accommodated by the Day or Week. n3l* M AYER ~ HOUSE; CornoF of Wayne and Calhoun Sts.. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H C. FOX, - • • Proprietor • Genera! Staffc f ffi’e. vsn-0. 'JUSTIN BKURET, Dealer in >WATCHES, CLOihS, JEWILiti SILVER-PL\TED WARE. Ac , I \||oN BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, IND All kinds ot Repairing done io order, ano i warranto*! -DIALER INMarble Monuments, HEAD STONES, MANTLES, ;CABINET•SLA B S, & : . , As c FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on theshortest notice ! and in the neatest manner. ; v5n39. $. PATTERSON, Agent. D . F . CO M F A R ET, PORK PACKER, HILLER Bl) (MISSION Merc h ant, EORT WAYNE. IND. ' (Tneral dealer in all kinds of Grain, S« I fish, Si’t. Produce. Agricultural Implemams, d-c. Best Brand Family Flours i iJ’Liboral advances made on .Produce .etc.. n 44 vi»f f SlfiY or piE padlock” O P. MORGAN .Vo. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. n JS7> HZ2 /W. ■ ■ xW II a r d w are&Stoves -AND— Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Tron--115. Ei-a • no 15 I GUST F. BIEMON RUDOLPIT BIFM A F. SIEM9N & BRO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books, Stationary, Toys And Fancy floods, Calhonn Street, between Columbia and Main! FORT W4YN r E, IXD. English Schoo! Books, German and Latin Books, Tooys—a large asssortment, Wall and Window Paper, Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engravings <? t c.. <fcc., 71 e attention of the public is respectfully invited. Most of nqr stock is imported directly by ourselves, which enables us our custom ors Great Barsmrs . UNION Fi L E OMP AN Y . C SCHMIDT & Co. -MANUFACTURES OFFILKS, It tsps. MILL-PICKS, STONT CUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. at-C ltting Old Files, ic , done to order and A’ irritated equal to new All kindv of R tsp. and Files made to order Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and 0 >’n *st,ic Hardware, Pine Sash and Doors, Nails. Glass, Paint. Ac., AtFactorv Prices. UNION GLOCK, oppositcState Bank. FORT WAYNE, INO. i Ail eiders from tee CMtmtw oMcoded ,4. ‘

‘Our Country's Good shall eve? be cur Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTV, INDIANA, MAY 7,1861.

DECATUR EAGLE ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY i Spencer & Scliirmeyer. PUBLISUKRS AND PROPRIETORS. OFFICE—On Monroe Street in the second story of the building formerly occupied by 1 Jesse Niblick as a Shce Store. i Terms of Subscription. One copy one year, in advance, $1 00 . If paid within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 200 (LFNo paper will be discontinued until all ; arn rages are paid, except at the option of the publishers. Terms of Advertising: One square (the space often lines of b’e.vier) three insertions, $1 50 ; Each subsequent insertion, 50 ! Hj*No advertisement will bo considered less ; than one square; o. er one square will be coun j ted and charged as two; over two, asthree. etc. I • A liberal «!i*-» ount from the above rate* 1 made on all advertisement* inserted for a period longer than three months. O Local Notices fifteen cents a line for each 1 insertion Job Printing We are prepared to do all kinds of Plain and ; Fancy Job Printing at the most reaeonable rales Give ns a call, we feci confident that , satisfaction can be given. ALONE. With a heavy step and alow Through the town, Little caring where I go, Up and down, With a g’ance into each face, And a timid hope to trace One sad spirit it this place Like my own! Thro’ the winter’s rain and frost. Here and there Do I wander like a ghost. In dispair. For in every - face I meet I can read that life is sweet, While to me it ia a cheat Everywhere! Do we love it is a dieatrt Brief and sad; For a moment, true, we seem To be glad. But the dream is over soon, And our heart becomes a tomb, Where we wander in the gloom, • And go mad! Would my life were at an end, Or that Fate Would give me but one fritnd Ere too late. For my lot is so unblest I could welcome either guest— A Friend—or Death and rest— So I wait! A story is related of an enterprising editor in an interior town, j who, finding the body ofa man hanging to a lanp-postone night, after his own paper had gone to j press, cut it down and cai ried it ’ |home, to pretent bis rival from publishing the news—and wasj himself indited for the murder. A sharper seeing a country gentleman sitting alone at an inn,and thinking something might be made out of him, enteied, and called lor a paper of tobacco, “Do you 1 smoke, sir?” asked the sharper. ‘■Yes,’’ said the gentleman, very gravelv. “any one that has a de-' sign upon me:!’ “As diamond polishes diamond, says a German writer, “so man is formed by man.” Truly. And we may add, as diamond cuts diamond, so man is fleced by mm. I The Montreal Witness asks for a scientific explanation of the fact that this has been the mildest winter ever known in Lotver Can-. i ada, and the severest, perhaps, ever known in the Western states and even as far south as St, Louis and Washington.

■ •''. ".y;" i THE RED RIVER DISASTER Springfield, 111., Apnl 15. 1 have been shown a letter from a prominent officer in the 13th ’Army Corps the use of name would obviously be impro ’ ; per, giving in the strongest light i I the criminal blunder which cost jus our recent repulse on the Red River, and laying the undivided • responsiblity on Gen Banks. Ila I confirms the statement before published that the heavy cavalry train of army wagons was following the cavalry, the infantry being in the rear.—That the army thus j !singularlydisposedwas marching' iforward in single column, along a narrow road, through a thickly | wooded region. That when it be- j came necessary to throw forward j j Ransom’s noble troops it could o/dy lie done in driblets, crowded j through by the side of the wag-i jons. Thus the rebels were able ;to defeat and cutup in detail the; jheroesofthe 13. h, whose prodigious valar were wasted and whose, withdrawal in good order was prevented by the wagon train. i The letter was writes to a brother j officer,and discusses very freely; the feeling in the army. The) 'repulse is confessed to have been la very costlv one. both in men | i and material, though there is no 'demoralization. Eveay account apparently agrees in the location of I the blame, A member of the j Chicago Mercantile battery, after ■discribing the defeat, says: I Thus we went in about two miles from where we left our guns i w hen the lOth corps came up and j formed in line of battle. The rebs |came on and they did pour the volleys into them from way back. ■ They checked them for a time and as it was almost dark the rebjels did not follow us, Our forces jfell back nine miles that night.— \V§ saw General Smith. H* 1 was very angrv and sworetcribl? about •< O •/ the way things were conducted. Well, his division came up about eight thousand strong. lie massed his force again and got everything ready to receive the rebels, Oh how glad the troops were to see some one lit to command, — I The 3d division stacked their arms land swore they would not sigh. j under Banks, but would stay by I Smith as long as there was a man left. The New Orleans corresp-i 'undent of the New Yq,rk World. writes as follows: I presume that there has not | been a single person who has comedown from there who has reported the Union loss at less (than six thousand the lowest estimate I have heard of. or who jdoes not admit that it was a j gloomy and disastrous defeat; yet j the papers go to you claiming a ’victory. Read their accounts, and you will see how inconsistant they are; and notice that the Era and Times charge one another with giving false accounts, but j they dare not tell the truth, fur fear that their publication will be isuspended. It would be giving! information to “the enemy”—not I the confederates but the war sup- ! porting people of the North whose pockets and whose credulity arctaxed to the uttermost to support ’ these cottun raids. Sunday Morning—Nothing later. I believe that Banks is nowout of danger except as to his material of war, most of which will have to be sacrificed owing to low water. All the troops around the city except the provost guard, have been sent up, including the negroes, who are almost a’ways j excused, whether from favor or

'aversion, I will not undertake to say. What has the Country Gained —What h is the country gained by placing the abolitionists and ' their followers in power? A divided, Union, a debt that weighs usj down, the destruction ofa million j of able bodied men, calls for more every three months of the year, iapolicy that keeps eveiw town ami city at work to find the “lastman” i and the “last dollar.” and every town and city fast a p proa chi ngi . that point. What have we gainj ed? Mourning al’ over the land—a calamity such as the world has 1 never witnessed- What shall we I gain by keeping these men in I power? Utter, irretrievable ruin. I —Fort Wayne Sen. I>en Wade, of Ohio, said in the’ ; Senate, not long ago, tint “when j he heard a man in these time talk all the tim.' about the Constitu-ion lie suspected him being a traitor.” ’■ Daniel \\ cb.-ier oiico said;—-“The-constifution of the United iStates isa written instrument, a record of fundamental law, it is ;the bond, the only bond, of the Union of the Stares; it is all that gives us na/ionaZ character. W ebster was a statesmen, and [a patriot, Wade is a demagogue ■ and a traitor. Webster is dead, 'but living in the respect manikind. Wade is living tail dead to all virtuous respect in the ■ world. There is but an unappn ci able difference botween the blocd-iliirstv aboliitionists and the mis-reants who butchered the negro garrison at Fort Pillow. Both, in the future will dispute for the honors of the) lowest deep in the Infernal Pit. when they have reached the! ultimate destination. One is a nigger-butcher in lact, and the’ other is a white-butcher in motive, Hear one of the latter: “Our pla'n for putting down the infamous uprising ofthe aristocrats! j in favor of nionrachical institutions is to conquer it by the downright j force of arms to put its supporters to death so long as ihey resist, and toconiiscate utterly, and without exception. every rebel estate to liquidate the expenses which the country has incurred in this unprovoked and wicked war. This is our plan for putting down the . rebellion; and the more rebels we kill the better will it be for the , future security of the country.” ; You should stand before him land be shure he- has a fine haze] I eye, large nostrils, long from the ieye to the nostril, broad atandabove the eye, rather slim horns, toes straight out before him. straight in the knees, bosom full, back straight, and rbs round and wide (atthe hips. If you find these > points, you need not ask of what . breed he is but if you want or e buy him. Alittleblack eyed ox is not to be depended on, as he will kick and be ugly, while a short-ox will start from the whip, but will I soon forget. j — i Mr. L. G. Brown, in the Boston Cultivator, says— ‘That ’ spring, when the buds are swelling | and the sap in lull flow, is a /very bad time. Yet there are many who prune m.»re or less ■ every spring.” More apple trees I are destroyed by such injudicious pruning than by all the canker ■ worms and caterpillars combined. ■ {Prune in June, when the sap is • comparatively at rest/ or in Octn- ; ber. soon after the fill of the leaf •{and so on for a month or two,

AR MY CORRESPONDENCE. Red itivi n Expedition - ,) Grande Cour La., April 14. f We left this place, which is five milei . from Natchitoches, on the morning of the '7th inst. lor Shreveport, bringing up the y ear of Gen. Banks army. That portion {of his army comprising a fraction ofthe j 13th army corps, some,three or four thou- ( sand strong, and one division of the 19th army corps, s-cne live thousand strong; ■ind on ■ brigade of colorc I troops had precerdeil us. Nothing of interest ocre’iri\'l until the afternoon of th Jth, ; when heavy artillery firing was heard in | front, announcing to u? that the rebels j were therein force disputing our advance A forced march of eight miles brought ns up with the 19th army corjis, after dirk, when we bivouacked for the night, ; and about a mile and u half in the rear ot : Pleasant Hill. We were ordered to be jremly to move nt three in the morning. I During the night stragglers from the i light on their way to the rear halted at <"U- fir-, ; and gave exaggerated details of the light, wln.-h footed up. gave the 13th jarmy corps aloss 0f3,000 men, 21 pieces of artillery, and their supply and amunition fiaiu of from SO to 100 wagons; and that tiie 19th ai my corps was barely able to check the rebel pursuit. Conversing with officers of the latter corps, I soou found that they were indulging in the most glooming forebodings in regard to the morrow’s tight, in fact that they considered us whipped before going into the I light. At reveille, which was bent about ■ tw - o o ciocii in tne morning the train comlUicuei < men■ gto the K>ar accompanied r. ith strag ■, -.-. s piving the wildest state ments of the fierceness of the fight, the force of t!i '. rebi ’s, and always closing _ with ‘our regmi. nt. was r.’.l cat to pieces ’ After we had pm taken of our coffee the camp fires wc r ■ ord, red to be put out, as we lay grouped arctih I the dyingembers | the forebodings indulged in in regard to the coming on. -et were anything but pleasant. T.-.tue was a heavy load on ! the minds of the boys, but in this one yhingwe alt concurred: That the 16th ; army corps wouel have to bear the brunt I of the fight. Tune wore away until ten o’clock iv, hen the 2nd Brigade of our Division, Col. Show, was ordered to the front to take up a position on the extreme right of the line, the 19th army corps being on (the centre and lift, the line was about ; one mile in front of Pleasant Hill, in s thick wood, and in the rear of the left ■ and centre was a large open field about one mile across. On the opposite fide of this fii ld and j:-t in front of the village our artillery was massed and the re- , mainder of Gen. Smith’s forces draw’n up in line and held as a reserve. The 89th was in the center, on our left the Ist Vermont battery, and on our right the 3d ! Indiana. The 9th Ind, and Ist U. S. ar- ; til ery were supported by Eastern regiments, of which more hereafter On our ( right was the 178th New York, and on our left the remainder of our Brigade was thr. 'wn to ward a' short distance and ,-ked i tiie wools. In our rear was Col. Hills B;igade ofthe Ist Division 16th army corps. It was neatly one o’clock in tho day before tlutfie d was cleared of the train, and these different dispositions of the ti oops made. In the mean time at day light ti e occasional crack of a rifle could ; be heard along the skirmishers, , followed by a half a dozeti others, and this again by the sullen booming of ari tillery, when all would again become sillent these demonstrations increased until about 3 o’clock, when the skirmishing be uno quite reg ilar, our skirmish lino gradual', giving b-.k under the heavy volleys : mnstsetry and shells from the ic' -1 art ill ry. wlii.h they scattered along the me as if th. /y m.aiit work and plenty 1 of it before the day was over. About half j .tst four o’clock P. M. the crash cmno. Volley after volley was poured into our line, while nt th- same time the eftu ts o! their artillery were redoubled, and in a few moments they charged. The left and center immediately gave way. sud in a moment after

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