Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1865 — Page 1

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ntnrn mito cots 'burt ttquseT Deratnr, Indiana, c. BITRT, PrnTirietor, VTTILL <’ivc good attention, and r< ’ n '' sonabb- charges n’7-<-6 y._ F. V'.TFLLEFF. phvs?«; »in and ’•'iirsrpnn. DECATUR. INDIANA, ■rrOFFTnE—Tn Houston’s Block, second ■ floor ovpr Drug Store. v9-n!5. ___ < David Studebaker; ATTORN EY- vt-iaw AND C!n*m DECATUR, INDIAN,A., XTTU.L praclWe in ATmis and adjoining VV Connti.-: will-rear.-bmintie'.pensions, nnd nil kinds of chi ns against the Govern(ErOFFTCE.—On Main Street, immediately i South of the And it,t’s Office: v6 - n l a ( JAMI'S P. 8080. Attorney nnd Counselor nt Law, . I.FCtITR. IVIHtNA. ITOEFiC".in Recorder’s Office, rp , , ■wwrfV [, ~- > ••'■ ■ in the ('o-irrs of th" Fenin VV icin’ I'lrenit. Attend to the Redomp ■ tion of Latnh. the Pa nvmt of Taxes. Especial : attention will be given to th" collection of, Bo.iT.ri-s. Pensions, and all claim- against the . Govermrent. T “PIL SORG, VIHWHV and SURGEON, DECATUR. TKtlflKA OFFICE—Main St. opposite Keibers <fr < Bro’s th v ‘od-ore. vdn42 1 V I’, Practi al Dentist. ~7^**•, I Din now prppwd tn trpßt nil H - we-« <• ■’ • tip tpp li ;u»'l mouth in a srit’iiiifie innuT>nr 1 utn nl«n •prepared ♦<» insert A’ific'l Teeth on Gold, Silver or Vulcanite Bnh’i r. fro n one tooth to jin entires TWavr<l tooth filled with irold. fin foil or artificial bone. Scupw and tooth ache cured in a few mlnntes, all of which I will warrart. Tooth•hru«hna, tnn'h powders, tooth ache medicine C»r «-»1e. TT’Otfico. one door smith of Nuttraan <fc Crawford’s Store, in the brick. _ vP - n23 David Studabaker’s P't’. ESTATE AGFNEY. FOR the purchase nnd sale of Real Estate bv the only Licensed Agent in the county, now offer" for sale at liisliw office, in TWntur. a fine lot of valuable lands situate in different parts of Adams county Those wishin" to purchase will I" well to come to him Those wishing to sell will do well toenmetob ; m Xos-.les.noeh-.nres. H" is also T.icens- d to draw Deeds and -11 other m'strnn ents of w-'ting. and will do the same with neatness nnd dispatch. . ° Examiner’s Notice. rivtE n- e-i-v-d Febonl Tv-miner of Adams | r,'„,.,tv. Tn liana. Will hold examination at hi° n«-i> IWnlnr ..non the fourth Saturday of th.’ f-dlowine r.-i-nod rnon’tis, to wit .Tanu . t ..... Mm-ch. V v. lec.-mh r: and upon'e-ch S-.’nr lav of September. October and i November. Exercises will commence each day at ten o’rlootr am . , Tpnrb<»r« Will nip'll bonr in nvnn that tnpre . will bn n« nrivnfp examinations given. unless ' the aynb.’ant can show thorp is actual necessity ■ therefor , School nthpr friends nf pducation are rn-ditillv invited tn ho i nttondincv with whom the examiner is not ; person'dlv rfinnintml will bp *nn’iirod tn nrps- , ent a certificate cirnv'd Bv a ”nt citizen i of the’ cmuity tn the ofi’. , c r fhnt said applicant sustains a tyood nvvG J. R. BOBG. Vximiner, MayW. 1R63 Adems County. VIC K s R URG I R. Burns. Tn his T’no of B” tjq - Defies the World! 4 LL other TJKFTVSTTTTTTinVS thrown in .A the Jrvh*’ yn_p hv the BO 'RD D is nrknowlpd<rp.i by ?B1 that he pan sell n BBT PBR ->rtic|p of n’-tvt'.oQS. Si<bil ,,> *. Bridles, Whips, and all such like 1 fcr TFSS mnnev than anv other establishment in NorMmns orn Tn linna, without exception Hie work is nil warranted to he made of the verv best material, and made by oid and experienced workman B”fr<*ies nnd rnrrin'ros trimmed in th'*latpst and most npnrnved*stvlp. Repairing done on short n.»t : cp nnd nt reasonable rates. of the truth of what wp say. Wp P\Y 0 \S TT of mir stork, nnd consequent!v RtTV CHF\P ER than if wp bought on TIME, and of course l < an sell in proportion. FOB TWIR'E IDmiISFIIEITS. P.S. UNOERHILL, -DEALER IXMarble Monume ts, HEAD STONES, MANTLES, CABINET-SLABS, <fc c , &c., FORTWAYNE, IND. Work don" to order on the shortest notice jind in the neatest manner vsuu39 S. PATTERSON*, Ag n nt.

MEYER & BRO.. Wholesale and Retail De i'ers :a Drills and Medicines. Paints, Oils. Trench nnd American V\ indow Glass, Dye Stuffs. Brushes, Spieps. Liquors and Wines, Coal Oil and •Coal Oil Pumps. <tc. T?*No. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wavne. Tn- , di ana. vGn3B B. AV.' OAKLEY,! Wholesale Dentor in Hardware and Stoves. And Mnnnfac'urer of TIN, SHFETTRON AND COPPEPJVARE, AT GRAMME CTORS, No. 79 Columbus Street, v-In2l Fort ” nvne, Tnd. Large Fail & Winter Stock OR- READY MADE Clothing’ T T EVE dr BRO.. F a s h i o n n 1j 1 e Tailors, Fort Wayne. Indiana. : — J. J KA MM J R M’CURDYJ.J.K \MM & CO., wnor.rsiu: anp retail ua \lvus in Paints. Oils, Varnishes. Brnshe . glass, wall paper, i Window Curtains and Fi.x'nr. s, I No. 57 CotT-w.iA Street. Fore Wayne, Inu. July 2 i. ISGI. I. LVtWJfrv, :NG 91 C-'bimbia Sfrc* t on*: f’onr west of | Brandrifl’e Sieve find Hardware Store, FOTtT T V YGSI, HvD., ■YTTDUT.D a’to Gip public in ? ner-il ihnt he W is dpf‘-mined m s<-ll DRYGOODS. Bon nets Hats, FlaN. Cnrpet% Tfu-ks, Jp . <(c . cheaper than nnv other House in the city, or I countrv — V« Tni.s.'tfZ.p I Also, H 1 ip-rmde. linn dy made clothing, or 1 made to n*-(ipr— U'arranfe/1. COTJITTRT MERCHANTS supplied cheaper flinn anv ■ -’her House in the of the M mntnins. G ill and see before J purchasing elsewhere. No trouble to show goods. ' T. LATTFERTY. No. 91 Coin mb i i Street, vsn4l Fort Wayne, Ind ij. F. Comparet, PORK PACKER. HILIEB s ranii™ Merch a n t, FORT WAYNE, IND. General Di-nb-r in tl! kinds of Grain. Seeds. Fish, Salt, I’r .Once, Agricultural Implements, Ac , Best Brand Family Flours. Liberal ad.A’ances made on Produce, <bc. v(ji-.4 Iff GOOD NEWS’ UNION STOVE STORE! I The readers of the “Eagle” are informed tha ASH & AGNEW Have on 1 nnd n very large and fine ‘■trek COOKING, PARLOR and BOX STOVES. iof the very best patents —none better can be found i n the United —wl ich wp will sei at greatly REDUCED RATES. All Stoves wa ranted to he as represented, or if nt* w; will refund the money and have to unkind feelings. Wa have also a good stock of Hardware, Tin, Copper i and SHEET IRON Ware, and House Furnist ing goo Is, which we are selling very lew. We Iniv Stoves in Cincinnati. We l»nv St ives in Pittsburgh. Wp bnv Stoves in Troy. Web.iv Stocesin Cleveland. We sell Stoyes on time. Wp sell Stoves for Cash. Wp sell S’nvps cheap. Wp sell GOOD TIN WARK. Purchasers will <lo well *o rail nnd exnmin our stock ,in order t/> judge for themselves, P i ASH dr AGNEW’S. R. 11. Schwegman’s old <1 and , No. 87 Columbia Street. v5n39. Fort Wayne,lndiana Sew CJi inn and Qiieensware Store! No. 69 t olumbta St., Ft. Warne, ! One door east of 1 Jiierne's ClotJiing Store. HUGH KLIN Rpsp.-ctfiilly announrps ihat he has for sale, ns above, a fine assortment of China, Qiieensware, Glassware, Fancv China and Glass Ornaments for Holiday presents, stone china dinner and tea setts, common dinner and tea setts, tumblers, decanters, wine and beer glasses, lamps, yellow ware, stone creeks, nnp everything else in that line of business. Countrv dealers Will find it. to their advantage to call and exa mine, as he t-'I ’H r 1 p. Jnlv 2:1, ’6l.

“Our Country’s Good shall evsr bo our Aim—Willin’ to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDANA, FEBRUARY 21, 1863.

Tar’ ST S BS2 DECATUR EAGLE. ’ i i ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY' MORNING BT D. J. CALLEX. r. d. HUDGEL. C All EX S OI’DGEI, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETOR’S. OFFICE—On Afnn r ne Street in the second of the building, f rmerly occupied by Jesse Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription; ’ One copy nno year, in advance, J? 1 50 1 If paid within the vear. *'J 00 ■ls not i- iiil until the year ha« expired, f? 50 I IE; No paper will bp discontinued until all a n rages are paid, except at the option of the ' publishers. Terms of Advertising: ' One Square [the space of ten lines brevier] three insertions, £2 of) Each tni nt insertion. 50 • 73 No advertisement will be consid ,! i*e<i less . than one square; over one square wiH b»> co nii ted nnd ch-irgcd ns two - , over two, as three, < fr c. | I.- A liberal dis ount from the above rates . made on ad advertisements inserted for ape ' riod longer than three months. Tj Local Notices fifteen cents a line for each I insertion. Job Printing*. We are prepared to do all kinds of Plain .-nd . Fancy ~ob Printing nt the most rea.onable j rales G.ve ns a call, wo feel confident that i satisfaction can be given. f NO MORE DRAFTS! I BEFORE ELECTION. “Good people, vote for Abe, The Union to restore, To liberate the negroes And end this cruel war, i We’ll have no more conscriptions,” ‘ Said the Lincoln men and laughed ; J “So vote for Father Abraham, If you'd avoid the draft.” 1 “As soon as rebeldom I Shall hear the glorious news | Os Abt abatn’s re-election, | 'I hey’ll tremble tn t heir shoes, ; They'll throw away their arms.” I Said the Lincoln men and laughed ; ! “So vote for Father Abraham, ■ If you'd avoid the draft,” “Jeflf Davis and Rob Lee Will go to Mexico, And Beauregard and Hood will hide Themselves in Borneo, They'll give us their plantations,” 'aid the Lincoln men and laughed; ! “So vote for Father Abrahatn, If you’d avoid the draft.” SINCE THE CALL II took them at their word, I voted for their man. And sat up all election night To hear how shoddy ran. The telegraph did tick. T'he Lincoln men all laughed. And said, “the Copperheads are sick; There'll be another draft 1” No Copperhead am I, But still I felt quite sick. To think the draft should follow My vote for 5 be so quick, I asked the emocrats How is this? they laughed, And said. ’’How are you conscript? ; You VOTED FOR THE HR \ I <!” A WONDERFUL DREAM. It was during the year 1861. in the thriving little town of Argentiere, near the loot of the Cevennes Mountairs, in, France. The day was charming. Many of the inhabitants were traversing the highways, enjoving the agreeableness of I the weather. Among the number there I was a tall young man, apparently not more than twenty-five years of age. In his right hand he carried a cane, and in his left a small carpet bag. His gait was quick, and from hi» expression he appeared to be bent upon some important errand. I n this manner he went along, occasionally glancing around to view the surrounding objects. He had hardly gone more than a quarter of a mile, when he came to a small street, which was in the suburbs of the town. He turned and pro- 1

I ceeiled up this. Presently, after walking 1 but a short distance, he arrive I at an inn. Here he hesitated ; and. after viewing ! the exterior, he muttered to himself the following words: “It is very singular that this is the ' first inn I have seen throughout my route. ■ However, I will put up here.” So saving he entered the building, and. ! having registered his name, was shown I Ito a room. After Ordering his dinner he I went into liis apartment *o rest himselfHis order was immediately responded to ; and, after lilting, be prepared to retire, I intending to partake of a long and hearty | sleep, so that early th" next morning he , might visit the various merchants of town. ;He accordingly went to bed, and w’s soon wrapt in slumber. Whils thus I sleeping he had a dream that made the (strongest impression on him. We will I give it as from the lips of the dreamer : “T thought I had arrived at the same | town, but in the middle of the evening, which was really th? case ; that I had I pul up at the same inn. and gone immeI diatelv, as an unacquainted stranger would do, in order to see whatever was j worthy of observations in the place. I i walked down the main street into another street apparently leading into the i countrv. I had gone no great distance j when I came to a church, which I stop- ‘ ped to examine. After satisfying my curiosity, I advanced to a by-path which , branched off from the main street. Obeyling an impulse which I could neither accoutit for nor control, I struck into this i path, though it was winding, rough and (unfrequented, nnd presently reached a I miserable cottage, in front of which was a garden covered with weeds. I had no great difficulty in getting into the garden, for the hedge had several wide gaps in it. I approached an old we ! l that stood ' solitary and gloomy in a distant corner ; and looking down into it, beheld, without anv possibility of mistake, a corpse which i had been stabbed in several places. I counted the deep wounds and wide gashes. There were six.”

At this moment he awoke with his hair ; on end, trembling in every limb, and cold ' drops of perspiration bedewing his fore-head-awoke to find himself comfortably ! in lied, his carpet bag lying near him, ami the morning sun beaming through bis ! curtain Wha' a difference! He sprang ; from his bed, dressed himself, and, as it was vet early, sought an appetite for breakfast by an early wa'k. He went accordingly into the treet, and strolled along. The further be went the stronger became the confused recollect! n of : the objects that had presented themsel- . ves to his view. •‘lt is very strange,” said he to | himself; ‘‘l have never beer, in this ' i place before, and I could swear that I’ve seen this house, and the next, and that to : our left.” On he went, till he came to a corner i of a street crossing the one down which; ;he had come. Before long he arrived at j ; the church with the architecturalfeatures ’ that had attracted his notice in the dream; j ; and then the high road, along which he ; had pursued his way, coming at. length ; to the same by path that had presented jitself to his imagination a few hours bej f ore —there was no possibility of doubt or mistake. Every tree and every tyrn was ; familiar to him. He hurried forward, no longer doubting that the next moment would bring him to the cottage ; and this was really the case. In all its exterior appearances it corresponded witn what he had seen in his dream. Who, then, co ild wonder that he determined to ascrtain whether the coincidences would hold good in every point? He entered the garden and went directly I to the spot where he had seen the well ; but here the resemblance failed ; there; was none. He looked tn every direction, j examined the whole garden, and even went round the cottage, which seemed to be inhabited ; but nowhere could he . find any signs of a well. He then hast-1 ened back to the inn in a slate of excite- j tnent hard to describe. He could not’ I

make up his mind to allow such an ■ x’raI ordinary coincidence to pass unnoticed. ■But how was die to obtain a clue to the awful mystery ? He went to the landlord, and asked him directly to whom the cottage belonged that was on the by-road near Co him. “I wonder, sir,” said he. “what causes vou to take such particular notice of that I wretched iitlle hovel'? It is inhabited I by an old man and his wife who have the .character of being very unsocial. They scarcely ever leave tha house, see nobody, and nobody goes to see them. Qf late ' their very existence appears to have been forgotten, and I believe vou are tile first 1 whN, for years, has turned your steps to the lonely spot.” I These, details, instead of satisfying his curiosity,only roused it the more. BrerjcI fast was served, hut he could eat none, and he felt that if he presented himself to the merchants in such a state of excitement, they might think him mad. He walked up and down the room and looked out of the window,endeavoring to interest ■ himself in a quarrel between two men in i the street. But the garden and cottage preoccupied bis mind and, at last, snatched up his hat, he made liis way io the i 1 street. Hastening to the nearest magis--1 trr.ro. he related the whole circumstance briefly and clearly. “It is very strange,” said the officer, •‘and, after what has happened, I don’t ' think it would be right to leave the mat- ' I ter without further investigation. I will i place two of the police.at your command; I : you can then go once more to the hovel ■. and search every part ol it You may, t: perhans, make seme important discov- > ery.” . ' lie allowed but a very few minutes to elapse before he was on his way, ac- ' companied by the two officers. After knocking at the door and waiting for some time, the old man opened the door. He received them somewhat uncivily, but showed no mark of suspicion whin : they told him they wished to search the house.

“Very well ; as fast and as soon as you please,” was the reply. ‘‘Have vou a Well here ?” “No, sir ; we are obliged to get our ' water from a spring about a quarter of a j mile distant.” They searciied the house, but discover-; ed nothing of any consequence. Mean-1 while the old man gazed upon them with , an impenetrable look, as if he could not, understand whv they were intruding on his property. Finally,’they forsook the j cottage, without finding anything to cor-; roborate their suspicion. They, how . ever, resolved to inspect the garden. By! this time a number of persons had col lected together outside, having been 1 drawn to the spot by the sight of a Strang- I er with two policemen. They were asked if they knew anything of a well in those 1 parts. They replied they did not ; the ! idea seemed to perplex them. At length an old woman came forward, leaning on a crutch. “A well ?” said she. “Is it a well you are looking for? That has been gone e, . . these thirty years. I rememb-r it as if; ;it were yesterday ; how I used to throw > , i stones into it, just to hear them splash in ■' ‘ i the water.” “Do vou remember where that well used to be ?” asked the gentleman. “As near as I can recollect,” replied.! the woman, “it is on the very spot where ; you now stand.” , He suddenly started, as if he had trod i | den upod a serpent. They at once commenced digging up the ground. At about; twenty inches deep, they came to .1 layer of bricks, which, being broken up. revealled some rotten boards. These were easily removed, when they beheld the dark 1 I mouth of the well. “I was quite certain that was the spot,” j said the old woman. “What a fool you were to stop it up, and then have to travel so far for water 1” A sounding line, furnished with hooks, was now let down into the well-—the ; i crowd hard pressing around them,breath- , I

lessly bending over the black nnd fetid • hole, the secrets of which seemed hidden ’I in impenetrable obscurity. This was repeat;; I several limes without any result.. ' At length, penetrating below the mud, ' < the hooks caught tn something of considerable weight, and alter much lime and i effort, I l>ey succeeded in raising it from t the obscure hole. It was an old chest. The sides and lid were decayed, and it ■ needed no locksmith, to open it. Within • it they found what they were sure they . would find, and which filled the specta- • tots with horror-—the remains of a liui man body ! ■ The police officers now rushed into the 1 house and secured the old man. As to his wife, she nt first could not be found. But, alter a fatiguing search, she was ■ discovered beneath a pile of wood, being much bruised by the heavy logs above I her. By tliis time nearly the whole population of the town had collected around ■ the spot. 1 The old corp! ■ were bn tight before the proper authorities and separately exith’f’n1 ed. The man persisted in his denial most obstinately, but his wife at once confessed Ihat she and her husband, a very Irae ’ i time ago,had murdered a pedlar who pos- ' sessed a large sum of money. He had passed the night at their house, and they, taking advantage of the heavy sleep that , I encompassed film, bad strangled him.af'er which they pl-med hi s body in a chest. • The chest was then thrown into the well, 1 , and the well stopped up. The two critu- ; (Inals had reason to believe themselves I tree from detection, ns there were no , witn ss to the crime, a:, 1 its tram a had ■ been carefully concealed. Nevertheless ; they had not been able to hush the voice s'of conscience. They fled from their fel- . low men. They wi re intimidated at the • slightest noise, and silence thrilled them with fear. They 1-. 1 often thought es firing to some distant land, but some inexplicable influence kept them near tho i remains of their victim. Terrified by the • leposi’ion of his vi e, the old man made a similar confession, and, six weeks after.

the guilty couple expired on the scafJ fold. -. . ... ——_____ MEMORY.—Everybody has a memI ory, but every one has not the same natural affinities, and therefore every one . does not remember with equal facility I the same sort of things. One man has a jturn for nature objects, and like De CanI Hoile or Cuvier, carries in his memory I myriads of plants or animals The turn of another is more for the facts of his feI Ilow-creatures. and like Themistocles, he \ -an name each one of the 20,000 of his ; Athenian follow-citizens—like Cyrus, he can name every soldier in hie army. A thin! has a propensity for languages, and like Mezzofanti or Alexander Murray every won) he reads or hears in a (or■gn tongue, is a nail fastened in a sure place, and becomes a lite long fixture. And the taste of -a fouith is critical; he loves diction, choice, sublime, emphatic and like the Emperor Claudius, he can repeat the Iliad nnd Odyssey ; Ilk ■ Gilbert Wakefield, he has by heart the whole of Virgil and Horace, nearly all the Bible, and the best part of Homer ano Pinder to the bargain. Sir Wiliam Hamilton tells some marvelous stories in his lecture on “Memory.” B n Johnson could no only repeat all he had writte. but whole books he had read. Niebuhr it his youth was j employed in one of the public offices of 'Denmark, where part of a book of accounts having b --n lost he restored it ■ from his recollection. Seneca complains f old ti-e, b -cause he cannot, as he once did, repeat two thousand names in the order they were read to him; and avers 'hat on one occa-ion, when at his studies, two hundred unconnected verses having ■ been pronounced by dfferent pnpils of his (■receptor, he repeated them in a reversed l order, proceeding fron the last to the first, uttered. A quiek nnd retentive memory, both of words nnd things, is an ii,valuable treasure, and may be had by any one wl o will take the pains,

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