Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1865 — Page 2

THE EAGLE I; b wca - ~ ~ -- -•—»■ •— ' r A. J- HILL, Editor. i “ DECATUR , INDIANA. ; 1 - . 11 FRIDAY, December 8, 18«5. LATEST NEWS. i 11 An entire family, consisting of Mr. Daniel Walrath, his wife and a daugh-1j ter twelve years of age, murdered in j; Herkimer county, New Y ork, on Monday , night. Mr. VV. was shot through, ( the head, Mrs. VY.’s bead was mashed : iii, and the child’s throat was cut. | The entire number of Indians inhab- ! rang all parts of our country amounts to ' about 418,000. The estimated number; in the unexplored Territories is 30,000;I in Texas, 24, ICO; of the tribes living in , New Mexico, 92,130, in California, 32,231, in Oregon, 22,733, and Utah il,500. Considerable excitement was created ; in Charleston when General Sickles as-1 sumed command of the department of South Carolina, as successor to General i Gilmore, the people there thinking that , it indicated the displeasure of the Pres- | ident at their shortcoming in the way of reconstruction. The Postmaster General will recommend in his report that the advertising of the letter list be left to the Postmaster of each city, who, in his discretion, may select any journal, instead of giving it to the one having the largest emulation. The track of the LaCrosse R 'il Road was torn up and a bridge burned, eighteen miles from Milwaukee, on Monday night. It is supposed to have been the work of farmers who mortgaged their farms along the road to the amount of 81,000,000, which mortgages are being, foreclosed. Mure trouble is anticipated. The Nova Scotian arrived at Portland yesterday bringing five days later news from Europe. The London papers are still discussing the Adams-Russell correspondence and the liberation cf the Shenadoab's men. The ‘Emperor of the French has reduced his army 1,200 officers and 42,000 men. The Emperor of Austria will soon be crowded King of Hungary and Crotia. A special dispatch states that Hon. Herschel V. Johnson adds the weight of his opinion to the behalf that no Southern member will be admitted to Congress. A battle took place on the 17th inst., in the Northern part of Nevada, between Lieut. Conner, with sixty California Volunteers and a howitzer, and a large band of Indians who had fortified themselves in Black Mountain. Daring the engagement one of the volunteers was killed and two wounded, while 120 of the Indians were killed, but few escaping. All their horses, arms and ammunition were captured Officers of the Treasury Department have seized a counterfeit plate of the 1040 bonds of the denomination of 85, , 000, so well executed that the spurious . notes would have been very difficult of detection. The murderea of General Ribert McCook Frank Gurley, is to be executed at Huntsville, Alabama, next Friday, by command of Gen. Thomas. Gurley was elected Sheriff of one of the counties in that State. • The Secretary of the Treasury, it is stated, makes no secret of the fact that his forthcoming report on the finances will be merely an enlargement of the views recently promulgated in his Fort Wayne speech. Colonel Bravo, of the Liberal army, arrived at Kansas City last Friday and left immediately for Washington. Heia; bearer of dispatches from Juarez. He | states the Liberals have 25,000 men under arms, and 75,000 more can be put in the field as soon as sufficient means are raised. A trial trip of the ram Stonewall has pretty well demonstrated to naval men that Commodore Craven exercised a great deal of discretion in declining to attack her with the Niagara. The question of an increase of the regular army will be a prominent one before the next Congres. The Mississippi Legislature adopted a bill permitting negro testimony in all cases except where whites only are interested. An effort will be made in the next Congress to reduce the Government taxes full one hundred million dollars. It is reported that Maximilian’s Cabinet, are considering the subject of declaring war against the United Slates. It is believed by some persons that Preston, King is not dead, aud that he will turn up shortly with his reason restored. The consolidation of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway, and Mississippi and Wabash, was coasuinated at Peoria yesterday. Four thousand bales of Government, cotton were destroyed by fire at Colum- j bus, Mississippi, on the 25th ult. Loss The fire was the work of an Mcendiary. STATE ITEMS. Child Found Da to. —Last Sunday a ; male child, supposed to be about twelve , hours old, was found in tho river at 1 Wright’s Landing, in this county. It j 1 was in a garden seed box, and had a. 1 calico dress wrapt around its body. |

Another instance of shame aud sin, aud ; to cover which the terrible crime of i murder has beon added.— Firt’ay lievc'Uc. The Vincennes Sun of Friday contains I the following account of a “Flight and I Foot Race; ) “On Thursday, about l|o’clock ?. M. i the man Jenkins, confined in jail on a I charge of counterfeiting, attempted to j take French leave of our worthy Sheriff LaHue. while some of tho prisoners were ; being fed. He rushed out uncerrnon-1 iously, leaped a fence, and sped like a deer for tho timber. The alarm was | quickly given, however, and in a short I i linoe a crowd of persons were in hot pur- ; suit, and after over a half mile chase, the criminal was overhauled by young ' James Reel, who was in advance of other I pursuers, and proved too fleet for Jen- ; kins, who had tumbled over into a fence ; corner pretty well used up ” A country Justice named Helse, recently married a couple at the Lahr House, Lafayette, and that being out of i his jurisdiction, tho marriage had been I pronounced by the lawyers illegal, aud the Justice liable to be punished for a | violation of the law. But the trouble i did not end there. A few days after tho ! event just described, a soldier took his I Susan Jane to a preacher and requested to bo spliced. The gentleman of the cloth was in glee at the prospect of soino scrip, and told them to stand up. But before proceeding he called for the license. To this the soldier replied that ; he had been engaged to Susan J. four I years, and though that license enough. I The clergyman couldn't see it. Soldiei | offered to procure an order from General Reynolds, who was in the city. The clergyman declined, and concluded by telling the soldier that lie had better take the girl and go to Holser. “You can go to hell yourself,’’ replied tho indignant blue coat, “and if it was not in your own house, I’d bust your head for you.’’ Synopsis of Legislative Proceedings. Indian xpolis. Nov. 27. Mr. Hanna introduced a joint resolution on the subject of State taxation; which was referred to a Committee of one from each Congressional District. A bill to pay the balance of the quota of Indiana to the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg was referred to the Committee on Finance. After the introduction of several other bills, and their reference to appropriate committees, aud the reading of House bill defining misdemeanors, etc., the Senate adjourned to two o’clock this afternoon. in the House yesterday, in the absence of the Speaker, Mr, Hendricks was Called to the Chair. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, returned the black laws repeal bill without amendment, recommending its passage; it lies on the table. Mr. Prather, from the Committee on Federal Relations, returned the resolution of the House instructing our Senators and I requesting our Representatives in Con I gress foi amendment nt the Constitution of the United States so that the right of suffrage shall be uniform throughout the United States, etc , with a recotumondation that it be indefinitely postponed. Nov. 28. Senate.—A bill legalizing the acts of Notaries Public after the expiration of their commissions, was passed. Tho bill [II. R 43] to repeal the act to establish Courts of Conciliation, etc., after a lengthy debate was passed —yeas 28, nays 14. On motion, the special order for two o’clock—the habeas corpus bill—was postponed and made the special order for I ten o’clock this morning. House.—Majority and minority reports 1 were submitted by members of the Committee on Judiciary in reference to the disposition of the amendment to the Constitution [II. R. I.J A bill compelling railroad companies to furnish transportation for all live stock that may be offered, and requiring them to charge uniform rates therefor, was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. A resolution instructing the Wardens of the State Prisons tu make a report concerning prisoners was adopted. A bill amendatory of the Divorce Act was introduced. The School Commissioner bill, [H. R. 87] after some debate, was indefinitely postponed. The bill amending the fourth section of the Justice’s act, so thai in State prosecutions his warrant may be served in any part of the State, was passed on the final reading. A joint resolution was introduced and passed to a second reading instructing oar Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence to secure the passage of a law by which the soldiers and officers of the war for the suppression of the rebellion should be placed on an equal footing as to pay and bounty, according to the length of I time they have served. Nov. 29. Senate.—The special order. House amendments to Senate bill, No. 196, concerning the writ of habeas corpus, occupied most of the morning session; the Senate refused to concur by a vote of ' ay as 15, noes 29. In the afternoon, the special order being the ccnsideration of the bill [S. No. 66] to provide for the registry of voters, etc., I after some debate it was recommitted. The till for the relief of the Treasurer ‘

I of Clinton county, after considerable debate, was ordered to a third reading. The bill regulating the fees of county .officers, eta., [S. 226] with amendments : was agreed to, and finally passed by aj • vote of 31 to 13. The Senate adjourned until 9 o'clock : i this morning. House.—Numerous petitions were pre-' ■ sented asking a cuange of the Liquor Li-! i cense law. The balance of the session was occu- , 1 pied in the consideration of tbe special order, viz: the consideration of the bill I I [IL R. 218] to amend sections 3 and t of the license act of March 5, 1859, and i I prescribing penalty in case of a second or subsequent conviction, the question being on the third reading. Various amendments were proposed and voted down or laid on the table, and finally the further consideration was postponed until this afternoon at two o’clock. Dec. 1. Senate.-— A good portion of the morning session was occupied in discussing the merits of the bill establishing a State Normal School. Several amendments were agreed to, and, after amending tbe title, tbe bill was passed to a third reading. H. R. bill 137, requiring certain duties of the Commissioners of the State Debt Sinking Fund was read the secmd time. The balance of tbe morning session and the entire afternoon silting was occu- ' pied in discussing tbe bill Irom ths Committee on Finance, [H. R. 47,| to in- . crease tho powers of the Board of Sinking I b und Commissioners, and to authorize i said Board to loan any moneys belonging I to said Funds in Indiana State Bonds and Stocks, and providing for tbe cancelling of such bends or stocks payable to said Funds, with sundry amendments. On motion, the bill was recommitted, after which the Senate adjourned until nine o'clock this morning. House. —Sundry memorials and petitions were piesented asking a change in the license law. Several new bills in relation to judicial matters were introduced and referred to the Committee on the Organization of . Courts. ' i Tbe bill from the Joiut Committee on I the State Debt [H. R 285] for an act to ' provide a State Debt Sinking Fund, etc., passed to a second reading, and then was laid on the table; it being ordered that 800 copies thereof be printed (or the use of Senators and members of the House. The consideration of joint resolution [IL R. 1] amending the State Constitu- | lion by striking out the thirteenth article ■ thereof, being in order, it passed the final reading in the Hon e—yeas 51, nays 41. FrGsxdcnt’a Proclamation. Restoration of the Writ of Habeas Cor. I pus. Washington, November 30. ’ i The proclamation bas just been issued ' by tho President of the United States of America; 1 Whereas, By the proclamation of tbe President of the United States the 15'.1i ' of December, 1863, the privilege of the ! writ of habeas corpus, in certain cases 1 ; therein set forth, was suspended throughout the United States; and, Where is, the 1 ‘ reasons for that suspension may be re- ’ I garded as Laving ceased in some of the i States aud Territories; now, Therefore, be lit known that I, Andrew Johnson, Pres- ' ident of tbe United States, do hereby ' proclaim and decree that the suspension afores tid, and all other proclamations and 1 orders suspending tbe privilege of the ' writ of habeas corpus in the Stales and * Territories of the United States, are revoked and annulled, excepting as to the ’ States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, ! North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, the District of Co- ’ lumbia, and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. ’ In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ’ Done at the City of Washington this 1 first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eigli. huudred olio ' sixty-five and of tbe Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. 1 (Signed) ANDREW JONSON. By the President: W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. The Shenandoah. The liberation of the captain and crew ' of the Shenandoah is said to have been unconditional, the British Government being of opinion that there are no legal ' grounds upon which they could be detained: 1 LIBERATION 01 THE CREW THE MIN PAID OFF. I From the Liverpool Courier, November 9, ; We are informed that the order for ■ parole was received by Captain Paynter, -of the Donegal early in the afternoon, immediately after it was communicated to Captain Waddell. Captain Waddell i then came ashore and had an interview with some Southern gentlemen, after I I which he returned to bis ship and paid i off and discharged the crew. At seven o’clock the men left tho Shenandoah at the Rock Ferry Compay’s steamer Bee, aid at eight o’clock they ■ were landed upon the George’s Landing i stage. But few spectators were present ’I to witness the arrival of the orew so re- ! nowned for their explott owing probably I to the fact that their parole was not known i even to themselves un.ii a short time ' before their lauding. Each of them ; brought on shore a large quantity of ■luggage, and they appeared to have no

lack of money—facts which appeared i> I attest that their long cruise bas uot been • unrewarded. The news of their arrival soon spread, and crowds of persons collecting on the stage formed themselves, into groups, around the sailors and endeavored to draw them into conversain. ' These attempts, however, rarely sue- ■ ceeded, and when they did, it was ev-1 ident thut the men spoke rather to avoid curosity than to satisfiy it. The men, indeed appeared to be themselves quiet in the dark as to their position, and J I though under the impression that “ I they had done with the Shenandoah for good and all, appear to labor under a ; fear of committing themselves or their • officers by some rash statement. Some of them eagerly questioned the by- i slanders as to what the English people j thought of the Shenandoah, and two or : three of them expressed the greatest sur- I prise that the officers of that vessel should ; even have been suspected of pursuing: their work of destruction with a kuowl- : edge, of the termiutation of tbe war. 1 r The men, though exhibiting a mar- j ked reticence on matters connected with : the discipline of the ship, speak freely of ■

the circumstances which led the Shenan- 1 doah to terminate her privateering car- ! eer, namely, the meeting with the ship ; Barracouta, which the crew are unan-1 imous in alleging as the first source I through, which reliable information | was received of the termination of the | war. Many of the orew of the Shenandoah ' are Liverpool men, and these, imine-:. diately ou being landed, drove off to i; their homes. Tho men declare that they j are at perfect liberty to do what they j choose, and that their discharge, is unconditional. At all events, they have been paid off in America dollars, and many of them will no doubt to-day be on their way to other parts of the county- _ A Personal Collision at Richmond, Indian a. Yesterday afternoon, about five o’clock, while Hon. Geo. W. Julian was waiting in the lady’s room of the depot at Richmond, Ind., he was approached by Sol. Meredith, Esq, who, after speaking a few words struck him (Julian) and |>artially knocked him down. Meredith then drew a cowhide from uni der his coat and proceeded to apply it to I Mr. Julian, continuing until by-standers i interfered. The immediate cause of the j difficulty we have not learned. The I remote cause is, we siqq'ose, political i jealousy, Mr. Meredith was lately a canI didate in the district for a nomination to |Co igress, hut was defeated by Mr. •Julian, which we suppose, was in accordance with the wishes of the people, and it is not probable that the knock down argament which Mr. Meredith has tried will be effective in changing the j views of the majority who exercise the elective franchise in that locality.—Cincinnati Gazette. 1 We were to-day informed by a lead- i ing Republican, who represents himself as h iving an exact knowledge of the facts, that Meredith struck Julian over the head from behind, knocking him down, and then got upon him: that Julian raised with him, and would have ■ turned him, when Meredith’s friends . rushed in and Julian was violently ; thrown upon the floor, striking his head I so as to become almost insensible, when Meredith seized hitn by the throat and used the cowhide.— lnd. Herald. A Waif in the World’s Wise Wilderness. —Yesterday morning a woman at one of the stations west of Adrian, on the Michigan Southern and N rthern In- | diana Railroad, took the train east for | Toledo, bearing a young child in her I arms. She was seated by the conductor I beside a young Isdy just returning from a visit to her friends in the West. When near Adrian, the woman asked her traveling companion to hold the child while she proceeded to the baggage car to see to her trunks. The train moved on to its i destination, bearing the now affrighted I young lady and helpless child, but the mother did not return. It was a trying position for a modest young girl to be placed in. To return to her home after a prolonged absence, with a child, apparently but a weak old, was too much for girlhood’s shrinking nature to endure. So a philanthropic lady, older in years, relieved her of her burden, and society of j its miseraJZcs. The child was brought to this city, and from hence conveyed to the home of its benefactress. Talb or a Watch.—On Saturday last, officer Mergenthaler, in making an arrest of a man named William Murphy, discovered upon his person a valuable watch, ' connected with which is the following in- ; teresting story: Something like nine or ‘ ten years ago, • young man connected : with • London bank was presented with the identical watch by a number of his friends, and, in the gratitude of the aw- ] ment, he declared his intention of wear- ■ ing it nearest to bis heart until his dy- [ ing day. Shortly afterward he came to this country and to Chicago, where he 1 obtained a situation in a railroad office. : In about two years the watch was stolen j from him, and the loss so affected bu | mind that he fell into habits of dissipa- . ■ tion, became discontented, and eventually I returned to England. Although diligent' • search was male by the police, no clue was ever obtained to the Jost watch, until it was accidentally discovered as above' ’ mentioned.— Chicago Republican. i

HARDWARE ’I STORE. — i JELLEFF & STCDAB.IKER; I Announce to public that they have on 1 i hand a general of i HARDWARE, I j And are daily receiving additions to ffieir I stock, consisting iu part of i

COOK STOVES, Parlor and Bos Stoves, in all varieticsand ! styles usually found in such an establishment; ' I also a general assortment of Shelf I HARDWARE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, CUTLERY, ‘ j Mechanic’* Tools, H&rntgg, Saddle and Car* riage Trimmings; and for Builders, SAILS AO CIASS, | f Butts,Hinges, Locks,etc.,etc..in fact everything nocesaary lor Building purposes. Also BAR IRON, Steel, Wagon Iron,Springs, Bolts, etc., and to which we invite the special attention of purchasers, always promising to sell at the lowest market rates. Store in the Trager building. Give us a call. JELLEFF STUDABAKER. Decatur, Oct. 21,18115. NEW STORE AND ■ NEW STOCK i HEAIHADE OLOTIIISG. riasr coon west or niblick and cross’ boot and SBOB STOLE. I 1 i The undersigned take pleasure in announc- , 1 ' ing to the public that they have juat returned , from the Eastern markets with au Entire New Stock Os men’s and Boy’s Clothing,eonsisiiug in ' | part of Overcoats, Dress Coats, ! Pants, ■i Vests, Shrits, r Drawers, ’ Men’s U nderwear, etCs, etCs, [ i Os which w« have a full assortment of all 1 styles of goods. Also the largest and best ' stock of Hats and Caps . I ‘ Ever brought to this market, Those de- • siring any thing in our line are respectfully . i invited to give us a call and examine our i F Goods and Prices. I J * We have a large stock of thing per- 1 . I taining to our trade, but which it is impossible to enumerate in our advertisement. An conolusion wo would say, we shall rely upon honesty for ilualiag, aud cheap goods, as the i, best recommendation to our customers | Oct. ST. JJS McLEAX, BRO

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