Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1864 — Page 1

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BEMTL’It BI'SIM MBS! I BURT HOUSE..! Decatur, In (liana, Proprietor. Will L'ive ’oo 1 attention, and makes reasonable i charges. ° ndZ-vG-ly. ' I), W. CHAMPED. rOZFS/C.inV 4 SURGEON DECATUR,INDIANA. dj-OFFICE—On the east side of Second St . ,n the room formerly 'ccupicd by J. D. Nutt,l,lll as a banking office. v-l-ntd. IIA YID STI I) 11! \KE I! , 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. ({□“OFFICE.—On Main Street immediately South of the Auditor's Office —v6-n 12 JAMES’ R.IiOBO. Attorney and Counselor at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. QTUFFIUE, in Recorder’s Office, rji vVill practice in the Courts of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Attend t the Redemption of Lan Is. the payment of Taxes Especial alten, |i«»ii will be j/iren to the collect ion f BountiesPension in 1 all claims against the Government 21 13G7. v6-p42. Fiimi gTllbryi P. V. SAFI L IT. Ambrotype & Photograph J'Ck KBl' EL” M iving piTi.i.int i.ilv located in Decatur and t ippli himself with everything that may be t auiid in a First Class Picture Gallery. AV mid call the attention of all wh » <!><i re god V,Mure at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately overt!.** Drug Store. n 37-1 y Large fail & Vi inter Stock OF READY MADE. a : s ..is s«'« ' e nta ’WO-. T IE M E rs- O 0 . , FORT WAYNE, IND. F I I H I O S •- B I. I! T A I I, Olt X Beal Estate for Sale 1•• ff< r f r sale about 2.000 acres of land sit- ■ lin different parts of Adams county. Any* trson wishing ‘o buy, will do well to call on the undersigned Mirth 14,’63 DAVID STfDABAgER j. wTpe \rck VSICI IX I\I) SFRGiION. RF ■ <CE PLEASANT MILLS A- ,ms County Indiana. J SEPH"CLARK. .oßiv; a i it*,i suing empciuim . •. idhaun Street. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, An excellent assortment for sale low. 5-1 VICKSBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of business. Defies the World! All other LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in I he shade! All efforts at COMPETITION gone \ !>y the BOARD. It. is acknowledged by all that he can sell a BETTER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, and all such like for LKS3 money than any other establishment ; iu Northeastern Indiana, without exception. His work is all warranted to be made of the ! Very best in uerial, aad made by old and expe j fenced workmen. Buggies and carriages trimmed in the latest • and most approved style. Repairing done on short notice and at reasonable rates. TFGive us a call, and we will convince you «f the truth of what we say. We PAYCASH for our stock, and consequently BUY CHEAPER than if we bought on TIME; and of courst can sell in proportion — n3B-vf Examiner’s Notice. The undersigned School Examiner of Adams County. Indiana, will hold examinations at his '•nice in Decatur upon the fourth Saturday of the 1 rollowing named months, to wit:—January, April, June, March, May. December; and upon ' «ach Saturday of September, October and No vember. Exercises will commence each day at ten o’clock, am. will please bear in mind that there ! ’lll be no private examinations given,unlesi applicant can show there is act almecessit therefor. Shool officers, and other friends of education i are cordially invited io be in attendance. App icants with whomthe examiner is not personally acquainted will be required to presentl a certificate signed by a prominent eitizen of ie county to the effect that said applicar.tsus ’ •tins a good moral character , J. R. 8080, Examiner M »y 39, W*. Adams OountT 1

| FOIIT '.I lilt ADVERTISEMEXTS. STREET EU'IIHGE, J. LESMAN, - - • Proprietor, ; ! Main Str, West of Calhoun, Ft. Wayne, Ind., i Good Accommodations at Reasonable rates I Stage office for Bluffton, Decatur,St.Mary’s, ; Kendalville,Sturgis and Auburn. n3Bi6 I MEYER A BRO.. Whois & Retail Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, French and American Window’ Glass, Dye Stuffs, Brashes, Spices, Liquors and ’ Wines, Coal Oil and coal oil Lamps, &o. FT No. 9a Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, Tn- 1 jdiana. n3Bvl>. B. W. OAKLEY Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. And Manufacturer of i TIN,SHEET IRON AND COPPERWARE AT THE GRANITE STORE. No. 79, Columbia Street. vl-1121. FORT WAYNE. IND. ! II ED EK IN HOUSE, J. EKARNS & SON, - - - Pro’s Barr St.vet, between Columbia, <fc*Main. FORT WAYNE, IND ThH House has been entirely Refurnished 1 and Refitted in good style, and every atiention • will be paid to the comfort of guests. Board er« accommodated by tlie Day or Week. n 39 ALVYEit HOUSE. Cornor of Wayne and Calhoun Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. H C. FOX, - - - Proprietor | ' General Stage C fl) r. vsiAfl i; JUSTiN”B' r U’H<T. "AVATCHES. CWffi”, JEW SILVER-PLATED WABE.itc , Jl NIOH BLOCK, FORT WAYNE, IND / All kin l-i <»t Repairing done to ir-lir. .no i warranted. v*n39 : ,I<KUNDinfHILL, -DEALER IN'Marble Monuments. HEAD STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-BLA B 8, .t : . , A c FORT WAYNE, IND. Work done to order on the shortest notice i end in the neatest manner. , ! v5n39. S. PATTERSON, Agent. ‘ "TTr F . GO M P A R E T, PORK PACKER, MILLER Hi) COMMISSION M c r c h ant, EORT WAYNE. IND. I General dealer in all kinds of Grain, Se Eisli, Sa’t, Produce, Agricultural Implemanis, d'c, Best Brand Family Flours EFLiberal advances made on .Produce,etc., I n44vfit f SIGN OF TIIE I’AhLOCK. 0. P. MORGAN No. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. 0 £ > HLC £2 QL E W II a r d w a r e & Stoves -AND— Manufacturer of Tin & Sheet Iron--1 15. TR’-a," HEt • no 15 I GUST E. SIEMON. RUDOLPH SIEM A F SIEMDN & ERO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books, Stationary, Toys And Fancy Goods, Calhonn Street, between Columbia and Main FORT WAYNE, IND. English* School Books, German and Latin Books,Tooys—a large asssortment, ” Wall and Window Paper, Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Engraving’ <frc., etc., The attention of the public is respectfully invited Most of our stock is imported directly by ourselves, which enables us our customers Great Bargains vsn3s. UNI 6 N Fl L E OMP AN Y . C SCHMIDT & Co. -MANUFACTURES ofFILES, RASPS. MILL-PICKS, STONE CUTTERS’ TOOLS Ac. ( ittinx Old Files, Ac , done to order and iVirranted equal to new. All kinds of R isp i and Files made to order Also. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Dinustic Hardware, Pine Sash and Doors, Nails,Glass, Paint, <tc.» At Factory Prices. i UNION BLOCK, oppositestate Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND. i AIT orders fr*an th« Country attended to.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 28,1864.

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, How Prei'arei) Coefeeh are Made.— i The Baltimore American, which admits ■ itself’ to be a great lover of coffee, says it has recently received two serious checks to this enthusiasm. One was the asstuance of an old traveler from the East that his ( Mocha was not Mocha, and the other is telated below: Visiting recently the Commissary Department of one of our large military ’hospitals, we noticed several barrels of 1 i 1 i dried coffee grounds, the purpose where<>f excited our curiosity. The polite < ' commissary informed us that they receivI ed twelve dollars a barrel for the grounds and thus added materially to the “Slush • Fund.” “But what is it purchased fur?" c' we persisted. “Well.” said he, hesitaitmgly, ‘it is rearomatized by the transe forming hand of modern chemistry, and put up in pound papers, which are deeo- : rated with attractive labels and high ' sounding names, and sold at prices which , I create astonishment at the small margin left for profits.” —A Washiogton correspoudent insinI nates that some of the prime movers of the late Ladies’National Diess Refoim still go through the streets decked with beatiful French bonnets, and trailing 1 along the pavement yards of costly fring- ' ed silk. I —Milwaukee, it is said, manufactures j more leather than any city in the West, j The Wisconsin Leather Company alone, ■last year, pioduced more thati '.all a ’ million dollars worth of leather. Two additional large tanneries ate now in pro--1 cess of building. — Said one to Mrs- Wesley, “How '' can you have the patience to teach the same thing twenty times oyer to your ’ child?” “Why,” said she, “if I had said it ' only nineteen timeA and give tip I should have lost all ray labor, It was the twentieth time that fixed it.’’ —ln the united States Senate, the ' other day, Mr. (Handler said he was free from the prevalent disorder of “ constii tution on thte brain.” It would be more ■ to bis credit, and also to the credit of Michigan and the country, it he was free (from “whisky on the brain,” —[Newburryport Herald. Any young lady, who will slide around the room in a pair of slippers on a woolen drugget or carpet, for a short time, with, out removing her feet from the floor, and not in meantime coming in contact ■' with any other object, may touch off the ’ gas light with the tip of her four finger. This, though philosophically explained, is curious, and may be made a p leasing exercise at our social gather ings. The world has a million of roosts for a Yuan, but only one nest--home.

The Findlay (0.) Courier thus speaks of the withdrawal of men ! from that (Hancock) county into the war. 11 says! The Effect of the Draft.— •The last draft, that of the National Guards, is mure seriously felt ;by the agricultural portion of thei community than any heretofore.— In some townships full one-half of, the working population have been • taken out,and this at a time when their presence and labor is most i needed. The crops which theii familes depended for maintenance! .during the coming year, ought; now to be put in; but the imploy- ! ments of labor must now stand idle, and famlies left to suffer.— We know many large famlies of ’Childern left without any means J i of support whatever, and who must live off the charity of their neighbors. And all this for what? To ■ satisfy an overweening desire on the part of Governor Brought! to show authority by tendering aid that was not asked for. \\ hile ■ the West Governors, whose States supply provisions fur a large portion of the East are so eager to depopulate their States; we see > iio such eagerness on the part of the Government of the Eastern; 1 States: the producers are to b?ta- ’ ken away from their labor, while 5 the c.insumers are left at home. ■ This is true Abolition policy—labor must everbe subserx ient to capital.” It will, by.and-by, be found ‘ out l>y all fools and tyrants that men who are engaged in raising ■ food are more usefully employed for the country’s service than they are when conscripted as food ‘ for gunpowder. From the Portsmouth (0.) • Times, t»f Saturday. The following highly important letter of the Secretary of tht* Treasury written to a prominent Republican of Portsmouth; has recently come into our possession. As revealing the policy and motives that controlled the Administra- ■ tion and the leading statesmen of the Republican party just previous to and at the time of their installment into power, it is of great value, and should be .given publicity to aid iu making up and explaining the history of that critical period of the country. It is a literal copy of the original in our possession: Washington, Feb. 9, 1861. Dear Sir:—Thanks foi your note and explanation of that vote. 11 may be usefu I. There is a greaterdisposition to compromise than I like to see. Bitt 1 hope the . best. Half a dozen of the Border State gentlemen have been in our room to-night, Etheridge and Stokes, of Tennessee. Adams and Bristow, of Kentucky, Gilmer of Xorth Carolina and others I really sympathize with them, but see no reason why we should sacrifice permanently a large power to help them, for the purpose of gaining temporariZy a little one. Yuurs. cordiallv, S. P. CHASE. The abolitionists used to. cry, “no party,” and denounce Democrats as traitors because they kept up their own party organization. Now thev have resolved th mselvs into two parties and the fight between them is as bitter as it is between the rebels and the abolitionists. The fact is the more separate party organizations there are opposed tu the Democracy the t better it is for the country. FFe hope the miscegens will divide themselves into fiTy different parties,

1 ! The recent atrocities of the irfcbelsat Fort Pillow, have found ■ their counterpart in the action of a federal Lieut. Go', during the ;retreat of Banks on Red river.—• The telegraph informs us that i“Lieut. Col. Parker. 3d Rhode’ Island Cavalry, gave orders tc his men, on the* Superior, to lire on • every white man, women; and! ■ child seen on shore as Zlic boat’ ! came up. The order was executed. Two or three unarmed citi-,' |zens, below here, waved their hats! i to the boat as a friendly recogni • ;tion, but were tired upon and fell' I from their * horses, They were I •doubtless Union men, as all rebels! . citizens have left that part of the 1 parish.” The butcheries of Fort Pillow are met in dtvilshness by the butchries of Red River, and so we go. These things tire the natural j results of this inhuman war, and we are growing to be a nation of barbarians—every day our hands are dyed the deeper in fraternal blood. • —Zt is said that the rebels cap-! • tured at Mansfield two wagons! loaded with paper coZlars; and ; that Gen. Dick Taylor returned ■ the collars through a Hag of truce, j with a lettei to General Banks, in! which the facetious rebel said:— ■ “I have boiled, baked and stewed! • these things, and can do nothing! with them. We cannot cat them. I They area luxure for which we! have no■ use, and I would likej th n-.-fore, to exchange them for a| i like quantity of hard tack.” The; i joke is a g“ d one, and has conval- . sed the Western boys, who have! no great admiration for the “Libj erator of Louisiana.” When the! Western troops passed Genera! Banks’ headquarters, coming into Alexandria, the other day, they ! groaned, jeered, and called aloud, “How about those paper collars?’

—Senator Collamer, a fewdajrsl ago. uttered the following tremeni ’ done rebuke to his brother Re publicans in the United States Sen ’ ate: “Ido not wish to occupy the) time of the Senate by ta’king a j bout the Constitution of the United States. 7 think it a subject al ■ most of derision here—with many) ■ gentlemen it is au object ot deri sion, as it is so in a great meas ■ ure and a man is sneered at for mentioning the Constitution, and if he has a decent respect for it f ’ and for bis own oath, is called a j ‘timid’ man. Ido not wish to ' take up much of the attention of a ' body where such a subject is trea. i ted in such a manner. —The Rev. Dr. Cuyler. of Brooklyn. ; in a recent letter from Culpepper. Va., i gives the following picture of th© results! of the war in that, region: I am ensconce 1 ed to day in the gallerv of a" deserted Episcopal Church, in the ancient, aris--1 tocartic Culpepper. Down in the broken pews on the lower floors, the Pendietions , Hille, Mercers, and other Culpepper,. i patricians, have “said or sung’’ the English liturge fora gene-ration or inorcIminediately unejer the church window lie the family of Gen. A P Hill, who was born in yonder old brick house on the corner. The tents of our soldiers stand close up to the graves of the proud old aristocracy of the days of Madison. A few rods ofi is the Methodist church, now used as a cavalry stable. ! A rich citizen of Springfield “transferred Several shares of stock to a non-r< si ‘ dent in order to evade the tax, he died, ) but now the heirs cannot find the bogus , ‘ stockholer, and the company r< fuses t'< ; sign the transfer. Abad joke for the heirs t

WOUNDED AT FREDRIUKSBURG. From a gentl inaii who arrived in this city yesterday morning, direct from Fredericksburg, we learn some interesting particulars with reference to the Scenes that are now to be witnessed in that city and vicinity, Onr informant left Fredricksburg on Tuesday morning at eleven o’clock, in C’-mpany with a member of the Army Medical Corps. They made the journey to Washington in an ambulance, driving all the way at a rapid rate 'for fear of being intercepted by 'guerrillas, who often harass trav- ! clers on the route. He states that mu J/onday. Mosby’s men were 1 within four miles of Alexandria, where they captured ten or twelve sutler's wagons, containing a quantity of medical stores. The scenes in and about Fredericksburg deified all attempt at 'description, The wounded, the i dying and the dead were to be 'found everywhere and in every direction. Every house, barn, or !other building that could afford • belter was.occupied with the suffering wounded. The streets and alleys were also filled with them, while outside of the city acres of •the fields were covered with Iho ; wounded and dying. The picture was the most heart rending that lit was possible 11 I ehold. Thousands and tens cf thousands of men living about in heaps in the burn'ihg sun. bleeding to death for lack of medical attendanpe. or ! famishing for want of nourisnment iand cure.

Our informant says that their shrieks and groans arc still ringing in his cars. Thousands were crying fora cup of cold water,' and many were dying from the beat of the sun. At the time he left, the 'number in the city of Fredericks- ! burg was estimated at 40,000,— ! Quite a proportion of them were ■ rebels, who lay indiscriminatley mixed in among the Union men 'Thp men who a few hours before had met in deadly combat, now , lay peacefully side by side. V itli ‘them the Virginia Campaign was ended. Though fighting under different flags, they had been borne (off the field together, and together many of them waiting the approach of the messenger of death. a surgeon with whom he conversed, informed him that a large ' proportion of the wounds were ! breast wounds—the ball taking 'effect in the breast? neck or head. Great numbers of the wounded were being,constantly brought in —a detachment of three or four thousand men from theambulance 'corps being engage 1 in that business. Some were brought in cars I some on wagons, and some hob- ' beled in on loot. I The impressions among the suffering soldiers was that the engagments thus far had been drawn battles, but they felt groat confidence in the result of the campaign, The soldiers were sure that Grant and his Generals were competent to lead the army on to victory; and to capture Richmond, Amid all the suffering to be witnessed the patienCexhibited was wounderful, and none of them seemed to regret that they had joined th? Union army, A soldier of the Ist Pa. Cavarly in the Potomac army, was a short time since found asleep near Warrenton, Va.. having slept 21 hours. He stepped upto captain and said, “Captain, I die to morrow, at 4 o’clock, and the war will end in June. You have no more for me to do.’ As th£ clock struck four on-the following day he died Wfthbut .1 groan

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