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DECATUR EAGLE, ISMTID EVERY FRIDAY MORNING A, J. HILL, FUBLtiHBR AXD PROPRIITOR. •FFICK—On Monroe Street in the second Wary of the building, formerly occupied by Jesse Xiblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription! •no eopv one year, in advance, $2 00 -If paid within the year, * ■at paid until the year han expired, 300 rrXo piper Will be discontinued until all •rrerai(e« are paid, except at the option o e publishers. Terms of Advertising: •ns Square 1 the space of ten lines bre■visr] three insertions, v 4 B»ch subsequent insertion , ou 10-Xo advertisement will be considered less Than onesqnare; over one square will be counS,d and ch.irg.id as two; over two, as three, Ac. gj-.I liberal dis'ount from the above rates ■made on all advertisements inserted for a period longer than throe months. ETl.ocal Notices fifteen cents a line foreach assertion. Job Printing. Ws are prepared to do all lends of Plain and pansy Job Printing at the most reasonable aatas Owe us a call, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. Special Notice. TO ID VEKTISERS.- AU advertisements la Uta for a specified time, and ordered out before: iLOsssirationofthetiineipecified, willbe charged : gs regular rales fortho sameup to the lime they | ■re ordered out. uwellumT An Englishman’s Review of General Sherman—The Grand March Down to 'the Sea. The fo’lowing is from the London Athenieim’s review of Major Nichols book, the •’Story of the Grand March. ” It I will be found of interest; . “ A iter Savannah fell into his power all 'nonsense about hie being drawn from his ■base and flying to his ships died out among us. The Horse Guards began to l ■Study his remarkable march; and the Duke of Cambridge went to preside at a| meeting of the United Services to hear an I .xplanation of it in detail, brom that | oirv forward, simply because we began to I •know him, Sherman became our hero of. •the war, and once or twice newspapers ■ventured to say that the South would be wor.quered by his rr ns. ’ “At Gaylesville. Sherman may be said to have stripped lor the great march. He was going to Richmond —a distance like, that from Palis to Bucharest; and all that! way of a thousand miles be would have , to pass through an enemy’s country. For some part of his long journey he could . reckon on no help, no stores, no forage, , eave those waifs and strays which his keen eye could see and I is strong arm seise. Aware that he might have to fight , f&r every mile of ground, for every beast ( of burden, for every sack of corn, a sharp and short command from headquarters |, reduced th. army to its best fighting and I , inarching power. All the sick were sent back. Non-combatants were driven off i from the camp. All impediments, such ns horses, tents, chairs, tables, were left I behind. Gustavus in Pomerania, Napier tn Scinde, were not more peremptory than Sherman in Georgia. But the great General never asked a soldier to put up ■with worse fare and worse lodging than he reserved for himself. He slept in his blanket on the ground. He fed on hardtack, and when the Secretary of War, his guest, dined with him at Savannah, ho apologized (or the appearance of potted ■meats and fruits on his table as luxuries unbecoming a soldier’s mess. The troops bad that undoubted faith in his genius ■which Napoleon inspired in his army, and Nelson in his fleet. When hs ordered things to be done which they could scarcely understand, they merely said, “Well,'be can’t make a mistake;” and then they did it. “Nothing like this flinging of an army of 70,000 men from their base into a vague field ot operation had ever been seen. A movable column is at best a perilous trial, even when formed on a small scale and sent into the territories of such foes as France encounters in Algiers, and England in India. The nearest approach movement was the famous final march after the Aima when the] allies broke up their camp and passed, from their bate at Old Fort and set off in search of a new one at Balaklava. It was a dangerous feat, contrary to rule, and has been sternly condemned. Yet this change of bass was an affair of a day; ths French and English ships were at haqd; and the materials of war were all onboard. Sherman had no supplies to, fall back on Between him and ths sea'

lay 300 miles of Savannah swamp and sand. A hundred water courses crossed his path. He would have roads to make, morasses to turn, rivers to bridge and cross. Where was he to find food for that mighty host? asked one of his aides-do-camp. With thirty day’s rations in stock, he was going in search of his enemy and his supplies. It was an original and daring adventure; one to have puzzled a martinet like Raglan, and enough to have driven Aulic councilors mad. But the officer, and men of the Northern army put their trust in the man who, in their belief, could not make a mistake. “Where he puts us,” they i would say to each other, “we are going in, and we are dead sure to whip the rebs —sure.” It is the spirit in which battles are won and Republics saved. “His staff is smaller than that of any brigade commander in the service. He denies himself and bis staff the luxury of a house. He has fewer servants and fewer horses, than the regulations allow, fie has just refused the commission of Major General in ths regular army, on the ground that such exilted rank should be kept in reserve by the authorities until the war is ovir, when the Government wid be able to Compare and judge men’s services with greater coolness. As he comes plunging along, we see the man’s character in the way in which he rides. The road is occupied by a brigale in motion; he turns into the fields, dashing through brush and briar, wading through streams, floundering in swamos, so long as these will yield away; and when forced to take the road again, you see that he pulls up t.is horse and halts until : the brigade has passed. The smooth ' path, he says, is lor the man on foot. Men with rifles and kits, not the General and his stiff, have the first right to the road. Can we wonder at the trust in which sharp lawyers and solid farmers follow such am m? One day, looking back, the men saw a line of fridges in their rear in flames. "Guess, Char ley,” says a trooper, ‘‘Sherman has set the river on fire.” To which Charley ■ answers, "Well, if he has, I reckon it’s ! all right.” “By marching through the heart ol South Carolina, instead of skirling the i sea, Sherm in pierced the State in its ( most vital pari. It was the boast of Davis I land Breckinridge that the sa was not j j | necessary to the South. The ports might • be given up, and the South would be', stronger for the loss. Their strength , [lay inland. Well, Sherman marched in- h ' land, shutting up one Confederate Gen-[ j eri l in Atlanta, another in Branchville, a ( third in Charleston, and a fourth in C;- ; lumbia. These Generals never knew ; where the blow would fail, and it never t I fell where they thought it likely to do. ( I As Sherman moved up northward, leav- . [ing Charleston on the right, Beauregard j was confident that he would have to as- j saull Branchville, a great railway center, j and a post from which he could equally ; menace Charleston and Augusta. Branch- ( ville was, accordingly, strengthened with ] works, and occupied tn force. [ f “But Sherman cut the railway lines, I c turned the place, and compelled the en-1 1 riny to abandon their works and guns. j t Branchville passed, and Columbia gained, ! i Charleston fell of itself, as Sherman had [ | foretold in Savannah. “Sherman’s genius comes out brightly t in the war. He was not one of the fighting I ( Generals. When it was necessary to hit t hard, as at Averysboro and Bentonville, ■ no Hooker, no Hood c uld strike more i vigorously than he; but the peculiarity ol i iiib march is that it was a great cam- i paign conducted without a great battle. ( “But Sherman cut the railway lines, turned the place, and compelled the en- i emv to abandon their works and guns, i Branchville passed, and Columbia gained, ; Charleston tell of itself, as Sherman had i foretold in Savannah. I “Sherman’s genius comes out brightly I in the war. He was not one of the fight- , ing Generals. When it was necessary to i hit bard, as at Averysboro and Benton j ville, no Hooker, no Hood could strike > more vigorously than he; but the pecu- s liarity ot his march is that it was a great campaign conducted without a great battle. It it be the highest praise of genius that it produces magnificent results with trifling perturbation, Sherman well desei ves that praise. It is doubtful whether the history ot the war furnishes an example of such splendid military achievements at so slight a cost of life.” ■ The Cholera—A Remedy. ( The last news reports two hundred dy- ! ing a day in Paris from cholera. The i Loudon correspondent of ths Cincinnati ■ Gazette gives the following account of the spread of the dread disease it, England. , and the probability that medical science may master it: “It is yet a race between the cholera and the frost, and thus far the cholera keeps ahead. In Paris there were lately . . one hundred cases in one day. In South- , 'ampton the cases are but few as yet, but 1

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the piague has made a viru ent attack upon the village of Theydon, skirting Epping Forest, and close to London. I suppose there never was a stranger case of fatality than that which descended upon a family in this village. A Mr. Groombridge, a farmer, bad been to Weymouth, and while there he Lad a severe attack of illness. He, however, got better, and returned to his home on Sunday, September 24. On Tuesday, the 26tl’, Mr. Groombridge was attacked, but recovered, although left in a very delicate state. On Saturday, the 30tli, a little daughter of Mr. Groombridge was attacked and died in about eight hours. The same night a boy who used to sleep [ in a room in one of the outbuildings was taken ill, but has recovered. These pa | tients had been attended by Dr. McN ,b. sen.. Dr. McNab, jr., and Dr. Clegg. On ‘ Monday Dr. McNab, sen , was seiz 'd, [ and died on Tuesday morning, about ten hours after he was fitst attacked. On Tuesday another daughter of Mr. Groombridge was taken ill, but has recovered. L’he next the housemaid was attacked, but has also gol over it. The disease had not left the house: for on Friday last Mr. Groombridge was again attacked by it, and died alter an illness of ten hours. A man named Riley, a farm laborer, at work on the premises, was attacked by it on Friday night, and died early on Saturday morning. The mother of Mrs. Groombridge, a lady eighty-seven years of age, also caught the disease on the same day, but is at present alive. Mrs. Groombridge had git over the attack of cholera, and was doing very well, until she heard that her husband was dead, and then she said she h id nothing more to live for. She refused to take food or anything that was proper for her in her stale of health, and the consequence w is lint she soon sank and died. The next victim is Mrs Saville, a poor woman who went to lay Riley out. She was attacked a d ly or iwo alter, and died on Tuesday the IGth. The cases amount to twelve in number, and have resulted in live deaths A Government Commission has been appointed to make inquiry into the nature ol the disease. There is gteat alarm at Theydon, and it is I ared ill >t the disease ' may rush with panic stricken villagers I into L n son. “Meanwhile, it really seems that med ■ [ ical science is about to master the disease. I have, I believe, before written to you j of the great discoverv of tlie influence ol ■ ,-x’remes of cold and heat in influencing [ ( the great sympathetic nerve of the spine. . Dr. Chapman, the discoverer of this, succeeded in gaining a verdict from the med- : leal fraternity that he really is able, by I the application of bags ol ice to the spine, , to overcome diabetes, initial paralysis, , and some think even epilepsy. So com . pi-te has he mastered the sickness ol | pregnancy that his discovery has been i brought into great repute. Sea sickness i is entirely prevented by his ice bags. The j i Doctor studied carefully the nature of i cholera, and concluded that diarrhea i, English, Asiatic and other choleras, are all various degrees and intensities of one disease. He had found that he could < control diarrhcea, and he believed be ; could conquer cholera. Armed with ice < bags, he nurried to Southampton when , he heard that cholera had appeared there. The powerless and despairing physicians there gladly allowed him to try his ice cure, and there can be no doubt whatever i that his success, though as yet limited, i lias been such as to amaze the medical < faculties of the country, and draw from , the physicians of Southampton a unam- ■ mous vote to try ice hereafter in every case. In every case circulation was withiu five minutes restored to the extremities ol the patient, which before had , been as marble- Each patient declared i himself or herself much relieved by the i ice. Out of six cases, Dr. Chapman has ; brought lour into a fairway of getting better; two died—both women, one of i whom was very weak, and aged seventythree; the other a habitual drundaid, living in a very filthy den. The other cases Were equally severe, some of them mote so, and at this date the patients seem convalescent.” GENERAL JACKSON. How he Received the Sobriquet of "Old Hickory’’—Au Interesting Historical Reminiscence. [From the Jackson (Miss ) News ] All Americans are familiar with this sobriquet of Gen Andrew Jackson; yet very l«w know how it was earned by the old hero. I happen to be able to inform your readers. In 1836 I was intimately acquainted with Col. John All»n, United States Agent of the Chickasaw Indians, rest ding in Vuntotoc; and with his brother, i Cape. Wm. Alen, then a merchant in that town. I Larned from Capt. Wm. i Allen that his father was a near neighbor and devoted friend ol Gen. Jackson i and that he and bis brother John served i .as soldiers in hia escort, in all his campaigns, and camped at ths same fire and

messed with him during the Creek war. They were certainly great favotiles with him; and he rewarded them for their riendahip by giving them lucraiive appointments in tlie Chickasaw nation while he was President. In conversation with Captain Allen about General Jackson, on one occasion I asked him how he acquired the name of “Old Hickory.” 1 give his replv, as Well as I can remember, in bis own words: “During the campaign which included the battle ol Emuckfaw Creek, the army was moving rapidly to suprise the Indians, and we were without tents. In ' the month of March, a cold equinoctial [ rain fell on us, mingled with sleet, which I lasted Several days. The General was (exposed to tl.a weather, and was sutf- ! uring severely with a bad cold and sore ' throat. At night we bivouacked in a ’ muddy bottom, while it was pouring down rain, winch froze as it fell. My brother John and 1, finding th it he was unwell, became uneasy ab >ut him. although he did complain, and laid down upon the blanket by the camp fire with his soldiers. Seeing him wet to the skin stretched in the mud and water in his suff ring condition, we determined to t r y and make him more comfortable. "We cut down a stout hickory tree, in which the sap was rising, and peeled the bark from H in large flakes; cut two forks and a pole, laid down a fl >or of bark and dead leaves, and roofed it, closed one side, or rather one end of the structure, against the wind with bark, and left the uther open. We then dried our blankets, and male him a pallet in the tent we had constructed. AVe woke up the old General, and with some difficulty persuaded him to crawl in. With his saddle for a pillow, wrapped in our dry blankets, and iiis feet to the fire, he slept snugly and soundly all night, well cased in hickory bark. “The next morning, an old man from the neighborhood camo into camp with a jug of whisky, after imbibing quite freely niinself, he gave us all a treat, ns tar as the liquor would go. He seemed to be a kindheaited jovial, and patriotic old old fellow; a sort ol privileged character, in his couit.ry. While staggering about among the camp fires lull of fun and whisk?, he blundered upou our little i hickory bark tent, which immediately arested bis attention. After eyeing it lor a moment he exclaimed: What sort ot ■an outlandish Indim fixin is this,’ and gave it a kick, which tumbled down the queer looking structure, and completely buried the old hero in birk. Ashe struggled oat of the ruins, and looked fiercely around for the author of the mischief, the old toper recognized him, and exclaimed; “Hello, Old Hickory! come out o> your bark, and join us in a drink.’ “There was something so ludicrous in the whole scene that respec tier his presence and r uk could not restrain our mor - riment. He very good humoredly joined us in laughing at the mishap. As he rose up, and shook tlie bark from him, we nil gave him a uittr ‘Hurrah (of Oid Hickory.’ This was the first time he ever hoard these words, which were afterward shouted hy the millions of his countrymen whenever he appeared am ong them.” 1 will only add that Capt. William Allen of Davids>n county, Tennessee, who died in Pontotoc in 1837, was distinguished for courage, integrity and strict veracity; and the above may be regarded as a true account of the origin of the nickname of Gen. Andrew Jack. son. The Cholera—The Ice-Bag Remedy. In a letter to the London Times. Dr. John Chapman gives an interesting ac count of the result of his treatment of cholera patients at Southampton, by the application of ice-bags to the spine, already noticed iu our London correspondence. He states the point of his theory as follows: That the nausa, vomiting, copious discharge of the well known "ice water” stools, cold sweat and peculiar odor from the body, are due to the combined action ol the hypertetnic spinal oord and sympathetic nervous centers, in the same manner as they induce phenomena cf the like kind, thaugb less in degree, in casos of summer diarrhea, and of sea sickness when it is accompanied with diarrhea. That cholera is neither contagious nor infectious in any sense whatever, except through the depressing influence of fear. That cholera may be completely averted. and when developed, cured by modifying ths temperature of ,tbo spinal region. After detailing the symtoms of two cases of cholera which fell under his observation, Dr. Cahpman offers the following suggestions lor the use of the ice-bag: ]. The cold must be applied along only a narrow strip—not more than four inches broad in the adult—down the very centre of the back. 2. The cold must be dry, not w»t eold.

.. 3. The ice-bag should bj conii: >e.l i [ along the whole spine only umill the r, ciamps and ulgide symptoms have been - subdued. a I 4. Tne ice bag should be continued to ■ be applied to the lower half ol the spine a until vomiting and purging cease. •I 4. The patient should be assiduously 11 watched, to guard, in the stage of reac ,: lion, against corebral or pulmonary con I geslions, the development of which will 1 ba facilitated by continuing the ice too V long in the cervical and dorsal regions. • 6. If such congestions should occur, n they will be denoted by heaviness, inil coherence, wandering, and by laborious li breathing an 1 may be subdued by aps plying the double-columned wyter'ba./, • at a temperature of one hundred and f twenty degrees, along the lower part of a the neck and between the scapeulae. ; 7. If it be necessary to induce sleep, this may be done by the same bag aps plied in the same way. > The Mercuitio ot New Orleans—The I Vici-sitmles of Life. j [From Correspondence of Mobile Register ] 4 The Crescent gives an incident in tn is , morning's issue, illustrating a feature of Southern society since the war. A relic , of the past is seen in a man, bearing upon 3 his lace and body the impress of many s years. This man walks the streets daily I bearing the marks of misfounune, amorg , the friends be had known in better veais, ( but with an appearance so change 1, one . can harely recognize in hi u the Mercuno of the Cre»ent City, the gay witiy and I elegant gentleman, who was at one time . the very leader of fashion. Seedy habI ihment. a bent body and wrinkled face, t have nearly obliterated all in him that 1 was familiar in the past. Inheriting a I great fortune, he increased it largely bv inarriige, and from bis profession at the bar, had an income of fifty thousand , dollars a year, and received a single fee j of fi ly thousand dollars upon a claim , on real estate tn the lower of ths city. ( L’hiswedthhe scattered with princ-lv | ( generosity an 1 royal prolusion. H i was I [is Lucullus al home, and his hospitalities I i | aspired to all the magnifi conce ol the [ ancient Roman nobleman. I In 1837 he gave a soiree that cost $25. . 000, and whi:h exceeded in splendor! anything ever before known here. The' t very floors over which the dancers i moved were coveted with scenic painting, the work of the most accomplished , artist then in New Orleans, and in the saloon were gaming tables were arranged , stood two baskets, one filled with bank notes and ’.lts other with gold, for the j < use of those guests who were un ortunate ' j with the fickle goddess. Thu dispenser | jot this gorgeous hospitality is now de- ■ penielil upon Ids relatives. He lakes Ins losses with Christian resignation, and . does not fly from the world or rail against it, like Timon, of Athens, bu J I moves through the world with a pleasant j and urbane manner, as if he hud still the [ princely fortune at command. Such cases as this are common since the war, and iu this “R.-lic of the past,” the Cresscent writer has been happy in bringing out one ot the best features of the Southern people. It is not a rare sight here to sec a threadbare man passing by |>is own tine house in possession of the military, casting one sad glance toward it, and then moving on as cheerful an I resigned as if he had come from the farnili ir doors In every Southern city can be seen the same noble men ruined by ihe war yet content in the thought that the sacrifice was made lor conscience sake. Nbgro Prospects.—A gentleman wri ! ting from North Alabama says: “ Oui negro population is in a fix, and a pretty I considerable one at that, the men in thmost part roaming about in the exercise ■ of their new found liberty, doing but little, and that little b id. They have no supplies, and how they are to live until. green corn or blackberry lime next year, ’ God only knows. Thousands unquestionably will, and must, die of actual star--1 vation. Their old ousters’ cribs and 1 smokehouses are eith-r empty or closed • up against them ” — Advertiser, ' Transparent Hooses.—ln the vicinity } of Surprising Valley, Nevada, is an extensive quarry of gypsum, perfectly crys , taiized, and as transparent as blocks of ice from the clearest pond. This rock natural'y breaks in perfect squares, and [ without cutting can be used lor building , purpotes. Several houses will soon be , erected of this material, and it is thought , (hat no windows will be required, as the J blocks of gypsum will admit light. A J building constructed of this material would certainly present a splendid and ( j fairy-like appearance. [! “You do wrong to fish on Sun r day," s’id a cl-rgrman to a lad he saw b so doing. "Well, Sir,” replied the boy. | "it can’t be much harm, for I ain’t eotebed oothiulj.”

- ——— ——— ——mi Important Dispatch from the President • to the Governor of Georgia. Washington, Nov. 3. I The National Republican has the foL ’ lowing: Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 1. The following highly important dispatch from the President ot the United States has been received bora bv Gov. Johnson: , Ehecutive Mansion, | Washington, D. C., Oct. 28th, 1862. j Johnson, Provisional (Governor, -ViJ* leagevillo, Georgia: luur dispatch has been received. Th* people of Georgia should not hesitate one single moment in repudiating every siegio dollar ol the debt created lor the purpose of aiding the rebellion against the Government of the United States. It will _ not do to levy and collect taxes from a State and people that are loyal and In tha Union to pay a debt that was created to , aid in taking them out and subverting the Constitution of the United States. 1 do not believe the great mass of tlie people ; of tlie ijtate of Georgia, when left uniu- | flueneed, will ever submit to the payment ol the debt which was tiie main cause In bringing on them past and present suffeiing, the result of the rebellion, those who invested their capital in the creation of debt, must meet their fate and tike it as one of the inevitable results of th; rebellion Though it may seem hard to them, it should ai once be made known at home and abroad, that no debt contracted for the purpose of dissolving ilia Union can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people tor such purpose, (Signed) Andrew Johnson. President of the United S'.atsa. The Cholera. The Brooklyn policeman who was attacked by "unmistakable symptoms” us Asiatic cholera has we Understand, fully recovered, and is nowon duty; but il |is noliced thaldiarrhce i and dysenterio (complaints such ns usual 1 )’ precede tho j pestilence are very common, so that it is I not unreasonable to suppose lhat ths j oo.son ol the cholera has really effected a [lodgment in the Atmosphere of the »asleru slope ot the American continent. Wo j shall, however probably escape any seveiu attack of the pestilence this season on account ot the increasing coldness of the w-ather. It is true that cholera haa raged in winter time, but this occurred only once— li Russia: but Its usual Course is toll’ d.imaht during Cold weati.e» j and reappear on the approach of sum- ' mer. ; Luis Brooklyn case, if we heed tho warning it gives, may save tens of thousands ol valuable lives. It should teach us to set our houses in ord-r. The J>estileuce is certain to come to our shores, : and its first ravages will be here iu Aev York. We have however, six months’ time for prepara'ion and if we do not improve th. m it wdl be our own fault. Wa nave water enough and money enough to purify the city thoroughly, aud Iq keep it clean. I’lns may not savo us from the visitation, but it will stay ita lavages and save us thousands ot bve«, as wdl as the mor-ification of a senseless p anio.—N. Y. World. That Big Hog.—Some incredulity being niiuifiested at our report of the bundle 1 pound hog on exhibition aX the Williamsport Fair l ist week, we repeat lhat the report is correct. The bog weighed eleven hundred ami eighteen pounds, and is the property of a brother of C M. Thomas, of this place.—Fouulain Ledger. —John Henry Davis, a young ma living in Gul ord, Dearborn county, recently married a fascinating young female at Louisville, and brought her home lo his parents. Becoming satisfied that the young person was not of the right stripe,” John llenery started with her back to Louisville, for a visit, as lie said, but sneaked off the boat at Madison and relumed to Gillord. The young wife soon discovered the trick and on Friday last, arrived st Guilford, and [ seeking her Itige lord, made an assault upon him with pistol- (having two revolvers and a tingle barrel shoot- r on her p-rson.) John was completely inker by supprise and fled in dismay, by the valiant knight and blood-thiisty d»me. Thus they ran over hall a mile, several pistol-shots increased the sp-ed, until reaching a house, the man took ’ refuge, and finding a rifle, fired at tho ! pursuer when not more than fifty yards distant; but noil,ing daunted, the woman 1 ran up to the house, and finding the door fastened, quietly retired. T..e ensuing morn>ng. the matter whs amicably ar- . ranged, and the young woman is again , in Louisville, rrady to pick up another unsuspecting and unsophisiocated man, I For ail of which story the Lswrencsbqig Register i« responsible.

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