Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1865 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE.

VOL. 9,

I 11 ■- I DEiW FIVES’* HW TnW - House, j Decatur, Indiana, C. BURT, Proprietor, WILL stive good attention, and jmko rea ennnble eliarstot.J 1 17"’ 7 "' -1 ’ 7 :_ Phv«tc ; nn and Snrqeon. DECATUR. INDIANA. [TOFFICE—Tn Houston’s Block, second Boor ovor Drug Store. v?-nls. ~ David S?ndahaker, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW ssn Claim Ajent, DECATUR. INDIANA, ■\\TILL practice in Adams and adjoinin'; , V Comities; will securebonntie- .pensions, and all kinds of claims against the GovernTTOF'ICE.—On Main Street, immediately Booth of the Auditor’s Office. vG-n 12 V~B — S’ U'COK E. Practi al Dentist. I sm now prepared to treat nil of the le<‘th and mouth in , fjl? i scientific manner f am ;d*n prepared 'o insert .4rtific'l Teeth on Gold,! Bilrer or Vulcanite Rilhh r. fro n one tooth to' nu pnii r<* s»*t I)‘Cave<l teeth filled with gobi, tin foil or artificial bon”. Scuevv and tooth-' a*dip cured in a few minutes, all of which I will wan t’ll. Tooth brushes, too h powder-, ' fonth-ach' medicine for s'de. I r’Otfi<’* > . one i door M»nth of Nuttmah <t Crawford’s Store, in I the brick. Attorney and rmin’clor :it Law, »»! (' tTV’I. I x m t N V TTOFFICE.in Re-order’s Office. q| “TXT ILL prictice in tin* Gouris of the Tenth | V V J'itl'ri il Circuit Attend t<» the Redcmp- . tion of Land- the Paunr-nt of E-peci d ; attention will be given to the collection of j * Boun’i-**. Pen«t,.n« f and nil claim* again*t the i Govern»rrnt. v -i»*'■* Andrew' -'ii: ;. PIIYsICHV and SI’RGEOM, TS’NUU OFF! GE — M tin . opposite Meihnr* Pm \ Drv G •'» 1-^tore. vR»»42 | Dav j d Sta dabaker’s k» al estate agevc v. FOR 'hr pu’-chasr nnd sale o r 'Real I'Xtntn hr 1 the only Lt'•'•need o county, now ' f<»- sate nt his law office. in r>,.r nr, n fine J |nt f»f valuable lands situate in different parts of j Adnmsconotv wisllin *to pU’-cl»n*'O will In w 11 to I rr»’W'‘ tn hint Those 'vi-hintr to sell wi 1 do , well tn rn»n<'tn Idm No sales, no chnr jps. He i«. alsn. Livens d tn draw Deeds and -11 other •pi* rn »u»n»« of we-in'*. and will do the *ame wPh neatness nn«| di s n*.trh. Sep*, fi Fximiner’s Notice. T.IE umler-dgned School Examiner nf Adams i Cnuntv. Indiana, will Rohl examination* | Ms his office in Decatur upon the fourth Saturday j of the following months, to wif—Janu wv April. Tune. March. M-v J eromW: a p t ! Bn3n p-tflh Sn'urdav nf >entember. October and | November. Eyercises will commence each day at o’elnelc. a m. Teacher* will nleis° b'-ar in nvnd that there i will he nn private adven. unless •he ar rdi -ant can show then l is act ual neces-if y 1 therefor School oTcer*. an I ntfierfrmnds of education . are cnrdiallv invited tn he i attendance. Applicants with whn»n the examiner is not! pern mhfhv r<ina'nf.'<l ’villhe ’•enuired tn‘r»re«ent a certificate «»<rn'»<P'V a p**om» ”nt e»Gx n n of the enuntv tn the effer* fl at said applicant sustains n fjondmoral c|ia»->r*nr. J. R. BORO. Fynminer. May RP. IRfi3 Adems County, VICKS P u R G ! R. Burns. Defies the World! XLLnfIwrT.TKF.TN’TfTTTTfnVQ .I.r„n. n in j the shad*! All <*ffnrt<» COMPETITION i jrn nhy the P.O \RD I* is acknnNvle«Ge.i by j j*H that h l ' van sell a RET I'FR ar’icle nf fj >r»V’«s. Saddle*. Rridlna. Whips, and nil sued' like fcr LFSS money than nnv n'finr establishment in Nor'henc orn Indiana. without excepting Hi*, wnrh i« all warranted tn bp mndn nfth* verv beet TTV’tnrial. and made by oid .and expo- ! Tiencofl workm -n R and r»aFr?awe« trimmed In th'O'ife*! j L »nd most nr.nraw’od Q*yle P.-painng done on 1 • •ho** n.»t’cn and ■•* rp'i«nna , 'h *•■>♦<»« f hFGi«*n n« a call, and we will rnnytnen vnn | nf fbn fr’Ph nf what wo «nv Wo P\ V \ S rT o' our <tne!r. and enn«ean•••’*’’• IPV P’lF \ P F 1 ? fh-’n ;r nn TIME, and of course an well in proportion. FIR TWITE BfflTKEllfflil. P. S. UNDERHILL. -nKAT.Fn ixI Marble Monume ts, TTWxa.STOVE S !. VAXTLfcS, CARtNET-FLAR*. <fcn . *e„ FORTWAYNE, IND. Tr->rTr ilnm. tn r,- 1 -nn thn shnrnst noticn an 1 i’> the nsalast m inn. r vSaa3o 8. PATTERSON. Agent. 1

i 1 !MEYER & BRO, tWiolesalp and Rctntl Dealers in Drills and Medieines. Paints, Oils, French and American Window Glass, Dve Stuff*. Brushes, Spicp«. Liquors and , Wines. Coal Oil and Goal Oil Lamp*. <fce. j IT*No. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wr.ynn, Indiana. v6n3B , OAKTKY. Wholesale Dealer in Hardware and Stoves, And Manufacturer of TIN, SHEET IRON AND COPPERWABF, AT THE GRANITE STORE, No. 79 Columbus Street, v4n24 Fart " ayne, Ind. 1 large Fall & Winter Stock! n> READY MADE Clothing. TIEME & BRO.. Fn.hionnble Tailors, Fort Wuvne, Indiana. J. J. KA MM J. R- M’CPRDV. J.J. K VMM & CO. WUOrr«ALF AXP RKTAfL DEALERS IN Paint*. Oils. Varnishes, T!ru*he • j GLASS. WALL TAPER, Window Curtains and Fix’”r»-«. <fcc., Nn 57 C "’ uria Street. Fott Wayne, Ind. ‘ .Inly 9’. 1-C4. 1 T.AUFERTY. Na 91 C. dumhiti Stre. t. one dnnr west, of Bran lriff’s Stove and Hardware Store, PORT W YND, IND , ■V"TT M*I,D ci-v to the public in <rnnernl ih«t he \ V m <l<-t-rn inml to «. ll URV GnOTl?. Bor. I nets Hats, Flats. Carpet®, Trunk*. <Vc . <tc . • chnapnr th”’) nnv other House in the city, or | country —A’n ’ Also. TTnnw nr”h‘. Rnndy made clothing, or ] mad-- to nrdor — COUNTRY MERCHANTS J «npnli»'<l rhmnnr than nnv nthor House in the I woM nf the M 'nnf-’.in* C-il! and «n»- brfori l • nurrha*in<' elsewhere No front !»• tn Rnow |g-ods. L LATFFRTV. No. 91 Columbia Street. j v'mf] Fort Wayne. Ind i). F. (oiiipai’i’t. J’ORK PACKER. JIHEK A MIIISSIIW Merchant, : FORT WAYNE, IND. General Dealer in tl! kinds of Grain, Seeds. , Fish, S ilt. pßMiuce, Agricultural Implements, Ar , j Best Brand Family Flours. . Liberal advances made on Produce, £r. v6n44tf ;good news' UNION STOVE STORE!! ! The reaiE-rs of the -‘Eagle’’ are informed ths \SIT&A G N E W j Have on hand a very ]nrge and fine ‘•trek i COOKING, PARLOR and BOX STOVES, of the very beM patents —nonp better can be found i n the United States —wl icli we will se] at greatly REDUCED RATES. All Stovewa ranted to be as represented, or ifnot w* will refund the money have io unkind feelings. Wa have also a good stock of Hardware, Tin, Copper an<l SHEET IRON Ware, and House Furnisl I *ng go-') Is. whicli w«* are selling very low. We buy S'oyes in Cincinnati. We buy Stoves in Pittsburgh. We buy Stoves in Troy. I Wc bnv Sr.wesin Cleveland. i We sell Stoves on time. I W > ®ell for Cash. i We s-11 S»n-os cheap w- S-11 Gonn TIN w \RE. ; Purchasers will do well to call and exanun out stock , i n order tn i udre fnr themselves, a ASH A AGNEW’S. R. 11. Schwegman’s old «tnnd , No. 87 C'd imbiv Street. i T 5n39. Fort Wayne .Indiana I — Seto China and Queensware Store! I No. 69 nlumbi-i St., Ft Warne, 1 One daor east of 1 kleme's Clothing Store. HUGH KLIX Rr<p-ctfullv announces that he lias for sale, a« above, a fine as.-orl inent of , China. Qneensware, Glassware, Fancv China and Glass Ornaments lor H-ilirl iv presents, stone chins dinner Ind tea setts, common dinner and tea sells, tumblers, decanters. wine and beer ylasses, lamps, j yellow ware, stone crocks, >inp eve- • ' ‘ he in that line of business. Country dealers Will find-it tn their advantage to call and exa ' mins, as h. will sell ek.sp ) sly 23, *S 1,

“Our Country s Good, shall ever be our Aim—Will!ng to Praiso and not afraid. t<> Blame."

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDANA, MARCH 17, 1§65.

- -! DECATUR EAGLE, ! ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING I rr ' D - 2 * CALLIX. r . d HUDGEL. CALLE!! A II [I f) RK L, PUBLISHERS ANP PROPRIETORS. OFFICE—On Monroe Street in the second . story of the buildinsr, f.rmerly occupied by ' Jesse Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription; ; One ropv one year, in advance, lit 50 I I If paid within thp year, 0 on If not v.-lid until the veer has expired, 250 I XTNo paper will be discnntinned’nnfil all i a r. rapes are paid, except at the option of the i publishers. Terms of Advertising; One Square ffhe space of ten lines brevier] three insertions, <g.o eq ' Each subsequent insertion, ' 5q ' TTNo advertisement will be considered less < , than onesunam: over one square will b.-enun-I led anil chnrpetl as t wo; over two, ns three. 4-c. ■ 1T”.4 lit'i-r.il tils ount fin,l, the above rates I made on all ndvertisom..|,!s inserted for ape rind longer than three months. (KTEocal Notices fifteen cents a line for each ' insertion. Job Printing. We are prepared to do all kinds of Plain - n J 1 Fancy Job Printing at. the most reasonable i nites ovens a cull, we feel confident that satisfaction can he given x ' -= I OUR CAPTIVE SOLDIERS. — A UNION SOLDIER TO SECRETARY STANTON. Twenty-five acres of homestead, Meadow, orchard and spring, And amid the laden fruit trees. I he voices of song birds ting, Where the rippling stream glides light I v By the fields of rustling corn, And the wintry hearth shines ruddy When the summer days are gone. 1 left that dear old homestead In the north, to join the fight. To brighten our country's honor, Or die to set her | To fight ’mid the smoke and rattle, Where the deadly bullets hiss To find a death in battle, But nut such a death as this. Twenty-five acres of Mire, Cut by a filthy trench; Stumps, and swamps, mid briar, Vermin, offal and stench, Through that black ditch is crawling j The drainings of a sink. Rippled with living corruption, And this we have to drink. Thirty thousand wretches People this region infernal; Fa hers, brothers, husbands, In misery seeming eternal! Twenty-five acres of whi’e men—(Oh. happier those who fell!) Whenever new comers enter, They whisper “Is this hell?” I Naked, with nothing to shelter Against the hot sun’s rays; Hunger, wasting, starvation, Dying a hundred a day, Horrors no tongue can utter. Horrors of whjch could boast No black hole of Calcutta, No pen on the African coast. Oh ! you have brought us to it, And left us in our despair, (No hope of exchange or succor,) As you sit in your cushioned chair, Think what will be yonr portion hi the future —not one of bliss! To-mmrow I II cro-s the “deadline,” And make an end to this Stockade Prison, I Andeisonville, Georgia, )’ STEPHEN GIRARD, The North American Review, lor January, says : NA'itlun the memory of many persons still alive, “old Girard,” as the famous brnker was usually styled, a short, stout, brisk old gentleman, need to walk, in his swi’t, awkward way, the streets of the lower part of Philadelphia. Though evtryihirg about him indicated that he I had very iitile m common with his fellow- [ citizens, he was the marked man of the city tor more than a generation. IlisasI peel was rathei insignificant and quite uoprepo»««?»t3g. His dr»n wag »!d-

I fash’oned and shabby ; and he wore the J pig-tail, the white neck doth, the widebrimmed hat, and the large skirled cnat !of the last century He was blind in one eve: the other, though his burly eye { brows gave some character to his cotinte i nance was curiously devoid of expression. He bad also the absent look of a man i who either bad no thoughts or was absorb ied tn thought ; and he sliuffl.-d along on his enormous feet, looking neither tn the righ' nnr the left. There was always a : certain look of the obi mariner about him. though he had been fifty years nn inhabi ■ tant of the town. When he tode it was in the plainest, least comfortable gig in Philadelphia, drawn by nn ancient and i ill-formed horse, driven always by the master’s own hand at a good pace. He chose still to live where he had live for fifty years, in Water street, dose to the wharyes, in a small and inconvenient house, darkened liv tall store houses,amid the bustle, the noise, and the odors of > Commerce. His sole pleasure was to visit, once a i day, a little farm which he possessed a few miles out of town, where he was ; wont to take off his coat, roll up his shirtI sleeves, and personally labor in the field and in the barn, hni-ing corn, pruning I trees, tossing hay, and not disdaining even I ! to assist in butchering the animals which |be raise ! for market. It was no m-re ; ornamental or experimental farm. He) marie it pay. All of his produce was > carefully, nay scrupulously husbanded i | so] I, recorded, and accounted for. He' ; loved his grapes, his plums, his pigs, and - I especially his rare breed of canary birds ; but the people of Philadelphia had the lull benefit of their increrse—at t| l( . , highest market rates. Manv feared. | m my served, but none loved this singu ; lar and lonely old man. If there was i among the very few who habitually conversed will- him, one who understood and : esteemed him, there was but one, and he j wa« a man of «uch abounding charity ■’hut, like Uncle Toby, if he bad heard I that the devil was hopelessly damned, would have said. “I am sorry for it.” I Never was there a person more deslitu e i than Girard of the qualities which win I the affections of others. His temper ; was violent, his presence forbidding, his usual manner ungracious, his will inflex ■ ible, his heart untender, his imagination ' (lead. He was odious to many of his fellow citizens, who considered him the i hardest and meanest of men. He had' Hived among them for half a century, but ; he was no more a Philadelphian in 1830 1 , ■ than in 1776. He still spoke with a ■ French accent, and accompanied his words with a French shrug and gesticula-1 i tion. Surrounded with Christian church ' es, which lie had helped to build he remained a sturdy unbeliever, and possess1 ed the complete works of only one man— Voltaire. He made it a point of duty to labor on . Sunday, as a good example to others, jHe made no secret o( the fact, that he considered the idleness of .Sunday an in- i ■ jury to the people moral and economical I He would have opened his bank on Sunday if any one would have come to it. For his part, he required no rest, and would have none. He never travelled. j He never attended public assemblies or amusements. He had no affections to gratify, no friends to visit, no curiosity to appease, no tastes to indulge. What he ■ once said of himself appeared to be true, that he rose in the morning with but a i ° ! single object, and that was to labor so I fiard all day ns to be able to sleep all night. The world was absolutely nothing to hitn but a working place. Hi. scorned and scouted the idea that old men should cease to labor, and should -pend the evening of their days in tranquillity. ••No." he would sav, “labor is the price of life, its happiness, its everything ; to rest is to rust ; every man should labor to the last hour of his ability." Such was Stephen Girard. This is an unpleasing picture of a citizen of polite and amiable Piiila ielphia . It were, indeed, a grim and dreary world, wherein should prevail the principles of Girard. But ten whst this tusn bat done

— r.. .._ . •* - for the city that loved him not! Vast and imposing structures rise on the bank’ lof the Schuvtkill, wherein at this hour six hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed, . trained and taught upon the income o< I the enormous estate, which he won by ; his entire consecration to the work of .accumulating property. In the ample grounds of Girard College, looking up it- five massivo marble edifices, strolling in its shady walks, or hy its verdant playgrounds, or listening to the cheerful cries of the boys at play, the most pathetic and ; imaginative of men must, pause before cersuring the sterile and unlovely life of I its founder. Anil if he should inquire j clftselv into the character and career of the man who willed this great institution ■ into being, he would, perhaps, b" willing j to admit that there was room in the world for one Girard, though it were a pity I there should ever be another. AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. ' The Buffalo Commercial gives to the world a new process for sugar tnanufac- | ture from maize or Indian corn, invented ;bv a citizen ol that citv. It thus dis ' courses upon the matter. Next after bread, there is no staple of food winch enters so largely into the cnnsump’ion of civi'zed li'e. or winch is so radical an eliment of good living, ns sugar; and any disenverv which facd | itates its production, or tends to cheapen i its price to the consumer, is a matter o' I great public concern. The trade and commerce in this staple commodity have steadily increased for two hundred years until it is now one nf the controlling interests in the world's commerce. (Sugar is made largely from sugar cane. I although c nsiderahle quantities are manufactured from beets as well as mapleThe annual product of maple sugar in the United States is 27,000 tons. The total production of cane sugar in , I 1858 9 was estimated at 1.307,000 ton«, j of wich the United States produced 104, j 000. Jfhe total production of be-t sugar J pro litWS in the same years, was estimated at 357.000 tons, showing how largely the staple sugar enters into the world’s consumution. And yet the supply falls fnr short of the papular demand This admitted fact has (or more than fifty I years stimulated the efforts of chemists ; and savans to discover some new and more abundant source of supply, an<l one which would not be circumscribed by local climate influences, as is the case with sugar cane. It is well known that the elements or ■chemical base of sugar, known to chemists as saccarum. exists largely in a great I variety of substances, and especially in all such ns contain starch 1 including all the cereal grains, and manv esculent veg etables. The existence of sugar in this, form has long been known, and though] ] frequent attempts have been mabe to convert it into sugar in the common edible ; forms yet it has hitherto baffled the skill of the most eminent che uists. It has been reserved, however, to the present era, and to our own rity of Buffalo, to hecom the time and place, for the solution of this great chemical mis , terr, con'erring upon the world so great j a boon. A bout a year since, a lea-ned, but obscure and poor German chemist, residing in this citv wrought nut the great problem, and successfully accomplished what the world’s chemists vainly sought for hall a century. Hi’ name is Professor Frederick YV Gcessling. We learn that a company has just been formed, embracing manv of the wealthiest men in the city of New York, and anaong ] them several of the principal sugar reoners, with a capital of a mi'iion of do’- i lars, which has purchased Professor'; Goessling’s patent, paving therefor, to ; him an 1 I>i« asaociste proprietors, the sum of SGOO.OOO. They propose to enter at once upon the narnufacture throughout the country as fast ns expedient. Experiments have already succeeded in the production of at least three and a • half gallons of syrup from a bushel of • earn, and of a quality which is pronounef ed by the most critical judges to be equal i j 0 every r»spe«t to ths best syrups free:

' V V c. .. ’.J ..i. . jy.eMJBZ.JT the sugar cane. An equivalent amount i of granulated, first-quality sugar, it is also claimed, cao be procured ; but we understand that for the present ’.he company will confine its effort to the production of syrup. Active preparations are being made, however, to enter upon the exten«ive manufacture of sugar, and it is expected that the company will be prepared . to put the new staple into the market during the present winter. The annual corn harvests of the West have reached t'i»- fabn'ous quantity ol one thousand millions of bushels— a result so ■ large, and so exceeding the legitimate, , healthy facilities of our internal com- ' merce, as to present a startling problem in regard to Its disposition. The invention of Professor Goessling happily solves ' this problem favorably to the best inteI rests of mankind, and opens a golden I road out of the dilemma which was fail ' closing around us The co-n crop of the West limitless ns it may be in the future, is now destined to become the source of the world’s supply of sugar or its equivalent syrup, and the Wust the repository ot untold wealth. Pho new era of sugar manufacture will, to a great extent, derange the old currents of trade. The West will become a great sugar producing, as well as a great corngruwing region. Its great staple will be compacted both in bulk and value for the manipulations of commerce. ;. Ihe North will be freed from tribute to , the world for the purchase of one of its m i«t important articles of consumption, and ultimately become a controlling exporter of tfiis newly discovered article, by reason of possessing an almost entire monopoly of the world’s production of ' Indian corn. We are not over-sanguine in this matter, if the new discovery we j now first publicly announce shall prove . all that is claimed for it, as we have no ■ reason to doubt that it will. The world has !ong been striving and ; waiting fur just such an accomplishment, | and its discovery at this time, and in this 1 country, would seem to be only another solution of the natural law of development and supply, which seem ever to atI lend the world’s progress and its gradual[V developing necessities. A TEMPERANCE FAMILY. Joe Harris was a whole-souled, merry fellow, ami fond of a glass. After living in New Orleans foe many years he came to the conclusion of visiting an old uncle, away up in Massachusetts, whom he had not seen lor many years. Now there is a difference between New Orleans end Massachusetts in regard to the use of ardent spirits, and when Joe arrived there he found all the people ardent about I temperance ; he felt bad, thinking with the old song that “keeping the spirits up by pouring the spirits d >wn,” was one of | the best ways to make time pass, and began to fear, indeed that he was in a pickle. But on the morning of his arrival, tho old man and his sons being out st work, his aunt came to him and said : "You have been living in the south and no doubt have been in the habit of taking a little something to drink about ; i levsn o’clock. I keep a little here for medical purposes, but let no one know it, as n>y husband wants to set the childdren a good example.’’ Joe promised, and thinking he would get no more that day he took what lie expressed it, a ‘■buster.’’ Alter he had walked out to the stable who should he meet hut his old uncle. "Well, Joe," said he, “I expect you are accustomed to drink something in New Orleans, but you will find us nil i temperate here, and for the sake of air j sons I don’t let them know that. I have . inv brandy about, but I just keep a ] little for rheumatism. Will you accept a little ?" ■ Joe signified his readiness, and took another big horn. He then continued his walk to where the boys were mauling rails. Alter conversing for a while one one of the cousins said to him. ”.Io». I expect you would like to ha»» a drink ; as the old folks are down on liquor, we keep some out here to help us work.” Out came the bottle, and down they sal. and by the time he went home to dinner he was as tight as he well could be, and all eame front risitirga "tsDper- ' wee fsntily."

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