Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1864 — Page 1

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DECATIB BISIXESS CARDS! BURT HOUSE. | Decatur, Indiana,! M Proprietor. .Till give good attention, and makes reasonable I charges. n37-v6-ly. D?W? ( HAMPER. PHYSICAIN 4 SURGEON DECATUR,INDIANA. O"OFFICE—On the east sirte of Second St., *n the room .formerly occupied by J. D. Nutt-, •ain as a banking office. v4-n42. D AVID STU) 111 I KER? ATTORNEY AT LAW AND i CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, IN D I AN A . Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties I Will secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds of claims against the Government. tryOF^ICE.— On Main Street immediately 1 South of the Auditor’s Office.—v6-n 42 J A MTS R? BOBO? Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. ’n-JKiTCn, i:: fl •••<• >-dor’s OffiS- - f Wftl'pAifitrci* in tl’ih nf l.Hq Tenth Judicial Ciiymt. A>' ■) lt. the Rfd<‘.nntinn Os Lands. th’J'fhy 'Taxes Esp'-ci.d at-ten, turn will Ijj given to the coHeeriotf f BountiesPensioQ an J against the Government N ISA’. v€-t’42. IN Hl 1 HE G HU IO! P. V. SMITH, Ainbrotype & Photograph «< r K" Q Havin'’ peraianontlv Im-nlr.l in Decatur find t ipplied hiuxelf with ever;, thing that may be ~and in a First Class Picture Gallery, Would (toll the aUoatnin of all who da.i re gel Picture at Ipw | : :.•••>, lu call at bis rooms in yimi-doh'i ’} iildtug, iinta.-dlately over the Drug Store- i>37-ly Large fall & Winter Stock OF READY-MADE. cr m aadE.’wea-. T IE M E <£• F3JT WAYWE, IND. 1 \ S ’! I O N VU L F T A I I. O R S Eeal Estate for Sale 1 t ffdr f r tai, :il r-ut 2,0n0 Acres of land fiitiinhwHn .liffi-hctt parts or Attains county. Any person wi-hi ng'to buy, will do well to call on the upJer’Hg’wd. MaHh 11/63 DAVID BTFDA BAKER j. w.'Vtauoe? I’JIVSIt IAN AN D SURGEON. RESIDENCE PLEASANT MILLS Adnn.s County Indiana. .JOSEPH CLARK, THLOBINC & rrRMSHINU EJIPftRHM . Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Ah 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! AH efforts at COMPETITION gone by the BOARD, it O acknowledged by all that he can sell a BET TER. article of TV®. Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and all such like* * for LESS mo»ey Uwn establishment, in North••.*.<-fra fp-aima •without < xc- ption. His wofks* all warrAfrteA to be made of the very best mi'.<»ris!/aad piade by oltlaudexpe xwnccd workmen. Buggies an.il carriages trimmed in the latest and approved style. Repairing done on short uosicro jhU at ccas-Wable rates. 'LTGiVO. u§ a.calL aQ d we ' V ’*l convince you *f the truth-qf what we say. We PAY CASH fpr our slyck, and consequently BUY CHEAPER than ffwo bought on TIME: and of coursi sef! tn proportion —n3S-vf Examiner’s Notice? The underbilled School Examiner of Adams County, Indiana, will hold examinations at hi-; office .mi pecatyr upon the fourth Saturday of the followin'? named months, id wit:—January, April, June, March, May. December: and upon each Saturday of September, October and No t vember. Exercises will commence each day at I ten o’clock, a tn. Teachers will please bear in mind that there , ■will be no private examinations given. miles : the applicant e&n show there is act al necessit j therefor. Shoo! officers, and other friends of education ■ are cordially invited to be in attendance. App icants with whorqthe examiner is not per-1 sonallv acquainted will be required to present j a Certificate sighed by a prominent eitizen of' the county to the effect that said applicanteu* taiu| a good moral character. J. R. 8080.. Examiner May3o,lW, Adams Omrnty.

FORT TOSS ADVEIiTISEHRS, ' Jlui sTHEET EXC!iniiE,r J. LESMAN, - - - Proprietor, 'Main Str, West of Calhoun, Ft. Wayne, Ind., ' Good Accommodations at Reasonable rates ’ Stage office for Bluffton, Decatur,.St.Marv’s, Kendalville,Sturgis and Auburn. n3Bv6 ! MEYER &BRO. Whole & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, | Paints, Oils, French and American Window I ' Glass, Dye Stufß, Brushes, Spices, Liquors and j Wines. Coal Oil and coal oil Lamps, (to 'LFNo. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Waynp, In- i •liana. . n3Bv6. j B. W. OAKLEY? Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES, i And llnnhfactnrer of TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPEUWARE i AT THE GRANITE STORE, No. 79, Columbia Street, v4-n24. FORT WAYNE. IND. ! HEDEKIN HOUSE, f J FKARNS &SON, - - - Pro’s Barr St.vtt, between Colombia dr Main. ! FORT WAYNE. IND. | This Hanse has bqen entirely Refurnished i ' and Refilled in good style, aud every attention ! will b<i paid to the com fort of guests. Board ' •rs accommodated by the Day or Week. i>39 ' MAYER“ITOUSE? Cornor of Wayne and Callvoun Sts.. ■ FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H C FOX. - • - Proprietor General Sta?p < ffi« e. vsn-0 i jE?r!N'B?URET. : ' TOCHES, aoi'Ks", JEIVEEBE ; SILVER-PLATED WARE,<fcc., ' 1 I NION BLOCK, FCRT WAYNE, IND ’ l i All kinds ot Repairing done to order, and ■v l ■ (’! . I V i PS. UNDERHILL, I -DKALEU IN(Marble Monuments. II RAD-STONES, MANTLES, C A B I N E T - S L A B S, & s . , & c i FOHT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on theshortest notice . ' and in the neatest manner ’ vsifD. S. PATTERSON, Agent. ;i D F. COMP ABET, ■PORK PACKEPt. IIILIERIVD COMISSIW Merch a n t } EORT WAYNE, IND. I Gouf»ral dealer in all kinds of Grain, Sc j Fish, Sa’t, Produce. Agricultural Implemanis, d'C, Best Brand Family Flours : lEFLiberal advances made on .Produce,etc., n44vf;tf SIGX OF THE I’AIHOCKr O P. MORGAN xVo. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. ° Hardware & Stoves i I -AND— I I Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Iron- ' 15. 'WW -'W- H«- 0-1 • no 15 X GUST F. KMON RL’DOtPH SIEM A. F 3IEMDN’ & BRO., >; Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books. Stationary, Toys And Fancy Goads, Oalkonn Street, between Columbia and Main FORT WAYNE, IND. English School Books, German and Latin Books, Tonya—a largemsssortment, Wall and Window Paper, j Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving* 5 I Ac.. Ac., j The attention of the public Is respectfully in-1 vited Most of our stock is imported directly bj ourselves, vhic.h enables us togive our customers Great-Bargains. v5n3S. UN I O N~F IL E OMP AN Y . |C SCHMIDT & Co. -MANCFACTVRES OF- ■ FILES, RASPS. MILL-PICKS, STONECUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. i Rj-Cittinx D’.d Files, &c , done to order and Warranted equal to new. | All kinds of and Files made to order j ■( Also. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign ‘ iund Do niat.ic llardwa.ro, Pine Sash and Doors, ■ Nails. Glass, Paint, Ac., At Factory Prices. UNION BLOCK, oppo«itcState Bank. I FORT WAYNE, IND. i All orders from the Ominfry Q ded to.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTV, INDIANA, MAY 14.1864.

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It will bo seen by the fol/owing special from Washington to the Cincinnati . Gazette that though ] Governor Morton is willing to t turn his fellow citzens over to the army for a hundred days, ho is t .not wil/ing to let them remain I ilong enough to be of any real serv- t 1 ice to the country, lest his own < chances for reelection might be 1 ! endangered. The Senate bill appropriating i ! $25,1)00,000 for the three months ' Hrocps tendered by the Western s Governors, was reported by JZr. j 'Garfield from the House Military I jCommiteeand went through to- : day almost without debate. There ’ 'is a general feeling however < against raising troops for so short 1 a time, and most want them held 1 I for at least six months. Governor 'Brough urgently proposed offering them six months, but some of the oiher Governors objected- He ithen urges four months, to which jail the Governors except Morton assented- Governor Morton objected on the ground that it might ,take men out of the State who ! were needed to sustain the Govleminent in the home elections. ■ Finally it wasagreed to stretch the term of service a little beyond the (three months proposed, and make ;it one hundred days. I This ig as much as to say to ( j the people, ‘'Drop your emlpoy- . incuts, let your farrnes go to waste ' abandon your families, but under- * istand you must be at home in' J time to vote for me, 0. P. Morton ( ■for Governor.” The niggers have for some time I past though that they are better than white folksand they are miking the white radical think so to The regular Washington corre pondent ol the Philadelphia Press, in one of his letters after running ja parallel between the white man ;and the nigger in regard to one, of the best characteristics of noble manhood and giving a decided preference to the nigger adds: I “But let us try the nigger by an-j 'notlier feststill running the paral. lei between him and the white,” and he proceeds to run the parallel, very much to the white man's disadvantage. ■ Let the radicals have their way 'and the question will soon be not i whether the niggers shall be 'admitted to equal privileges with ,tbe whites, but whether the whites shall be admitted to equal pri\j ileges with niggers. We are | threatened with a Dry and Martin aristocracy. What the Rebels Do.— i The New York Evening Post, a violent Republican paper, in a 'complaining article about Gen- ■ eral Banks’ defeat in Louisiana. ■ i j says: II “The rebels move without trains i without commissary, they fight ■ without ammunition, and yet they I beat us, Some ot General Banks ■ friends say thgt he ts staggering ■ under the weight of Generals who . :have been consigned to his depart . ment. If so, in heaven’s name. 1 ' why fight'? Or. it be must fight, why not brigade them, and put ' them i» th” front? So far, it is ; pretty clear that we are out general led there, and.more men will only result in more slaughter.” 1 .. . w ... What a fine speculation for the I country —it Massachusetts could : be bought for her value in the > L T uite<i States Army, and sold for i her impoitanco in the United i States Senate, plus her profits on • shoddy and other contracts.

CURIOUS INCIDENT A Cincinnati {taper thus, reports an Incident at the launch of the iron clad Catawba in that city. At the foot of Buller street al great crowd was gathered and though those standing near the water’s edge were repeatedly ordei-' cd away they returned wlienever the j olicemcn were called elsewhere. At the moment the vessel 1 was fully in the water an immense' wave rolled shoreward, instantly submerging one or two hundred people carrying many of them off their feet. As it retieated, a sight at once ludicrous :>nd terrifying i was presented, \\ omen and childern were crawling up the mud dy banks, wildly clutching at each other’s heels; men were flounder-' ing on their backs, and one individual, li is hat earned off by the' undertow, was frantically and hur-j ing in the mud, as the surf advan ced and receded. Fortunately the first wave was the largest and most sudden, and ail the bathers against their will scrambled out of danger. One bedraggled individual said he din’t care a pin for the wetting, but he didn't like to 1 miss the show.” He disappeared , into a neighboring bar room, and j probably launched a little Catawba on his own account into a» region i where there was no danger ot its j displacing an overwhelming bulk, i of water. i WAR AND CRIME. The Winsted(Conn.) 7/earld, in j review of the article in the Blldgiport Standard, representing New ■ Haven terribly demoralized and , as contaiasng six hundred ptostitutes, says: “The number seems astonishingly large, but it should be considered that New Haven has been little else than a military camp for the : last three years and prostitution I follows military operations like ja hedious shadow. No? only here has degrading vice thriven since the war broke out. That even I seems to have lifted the flood j gates of licentiousness throughout the land and the peculiar j vices of large cities have lost their peculiarity in their universa l prevalence. History and books 'have ddubtlcss a thousand times told the reader in vague, general terms of “The Evils of War.” but history and “the books’ have but halfrevealed their loathsome nature and their broad blighting sweep. Truly it becomes a people Ito pause and consider before it 'accepts the gage of battle.” All wrong, if not “entirely disi loyal” in your conclusions/ Henry i Ward Beecher draws entirely

different concisions from war. He ' says it has prcdu e I a groat rev;-' val of conscience! Another j forth on the “Philanthropies} ‘developed the war!” and at 1 least one half the clergy upholds the war, as a glorious thing. Loyalty.—Koop it bcfote the; people that the Chicago Tribune. I a Lincoln loyal organ said: * “Give us a rebel victory, lot j ' our destroyed, Maryland conquered. Washington captured i ; the President exiled, and the Gov ; eminent destroyed; give us these any ether calamities that cm result from defeat and ruin, soon r thana victory with McClellan as General. i The bow-grriug has been nfavo- - rite instrument for putting people to death in Turkey. Red tape is I ■ the American bow-string. • Fools arc sure to assume authority

i United, the North and South would both be great and prosI perous. Apart both would per i isb. i It is stated wo know not whether on good authority, that Gen. Grant isn't pleased with the army of i the Potomac's luxurious style of living. We hope that he will require that army to live as the [army of "the Cumberland does, iWe guess that officers and soldiers fight better upon more neces■saries than upon luxuries. But iif any feel that they must have luxuries let them remember that , the greatc-t of all luxuries to the ' patriotic warrior is victory. Reader if you have looked in lupon Gen.Grantat dinner in his ■tent whilst he commanded the 'army before Vicksburg, you • would have beheld him enjoying his pork and beans and glass of cold water. And then,- if you had whisked through the air to the banks of the Rappahannock or Rapid Ann and peeped into the Headquarters of a Colonel or Major or Captain you might have seen the occupant feasting upon j roast beef or turkey and drinking his Mudira or champagneSaid Joe to Bill—both were old bummers, and both were terribly dry-— “Bill, if you’ll Ire;.f, I’ll tell you j where you can get a Whole I new suit of clotlies.on six months’ ■ trust,’ ' “Will you. though? Now, no • j foulin' Tj-i Billy,” j “True as preaching’ I will,-’ I said Joe, and the 'parties took a . drink at Bill’s expence, when Joe with a twinkling of the eye. . said, J “You go up to the recruiting .'rendezvous and tell ’em yeu want • a suit of clothes. They give them to yer on six months’ trust” ; Bill said that his health was • so delicate that lie. couldn’t I list,’' _ j Mrs. Douglas has felt called upon 'to again contradict the statement j whieh for a second time went the i rounds of the papers, - that she , l was employed as a clerk in the i Treasure Department at Washing ’ | ton. The newspaper correspondent who reported the story was probably not so familiar with her personal appearance as he thought I I himself to be.

At a recent rille match in Eng land, six women of Holywell appeared as competitors for the* “Bright Eyes Sweepstakes,” by invitation of Lor i Fielding and the officers of the Flintshire Battlion. A Mrs. Anhwin made a center shot and carried off ti e prize. The Montreal Witness asks for a scientific explanation of the fact that this has been the mildest winter ever known in Lower Canada, and the severest, perhaps, ever known in the Western states and even as far south as St. Louis and Washington. a general exchange of prisoners jit is announced in the Richmond Enquirer, ha§ been agreed upon and all prisoners, of war of both sides will be included in the ar rangement. The radicals are resolved to : serve out their three years’ term ■of enlistment—at homo: An ice machine has been erected at BcmOay which produced three i ions of ice daily, Poverty is the only load that is heavier the more lord ones there are to assist in supporting if.

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