Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1866 — Page 2

THE EAGLE j A. J. HILL, Editor. DEGATUK, INDIANA. FkTiiAl, February IG, le>U(3. **LW - ‘ = j •■Protection to Farmer*.” In noticing oar strictures in a recent article of the Fori Wayne Gazette, that paper says: “I! the Eagle intends to charge that we ever advocated a national debt as a national blessing, it misrepresents us, and we ask it to point to a single sentence or word, we ever uttered, admitting of such interpreta'ion. or take back its charge as untrue. Will it do sc? It is unnecessary to point out words or sentences to maintain our charge. The Gazette favors a higher rate of tariff than now paid; the higher the tariff the lees imported—nothing imported, no revenue—no reduction of national debt. It advocates the exemption of 8300,000,000 of capital from taxation —no tax is paid on that capital—no reduction of the national debt. If not a blessing, why not use all available means to liquidate it? Will v e Gazette answer? The Gazette states our position as follows: ••That it were better for the farmer of Adams county. who raises a given amount of wool, to Send it to Europe to be made into cloth and returned to him, than to have it manufactured in bis own county. That it were better for the farmer to depend upon a foreign market for bis wheat and corn and potatoes, than to create a market for al! these in his own county.” We will say this: If the foreign manufacturer can transport the raw material from this country; the food to supply his laborers; manufacture the same into goods, snd return them to us at prices that would be ruinous to our manufacturers, who have everything at their doors, let them go to min or employ their capital in some other enterpise. We do not pretend to any great amount of shrewdness in driving a bargain, but one thing is certain; we do not propose to hire Mr. Shoddy with his capital of 8530,000 come to Decatur and manufacture goods for the people o( this county, pay him the value of them iu the markets of the world, ten cents per yard ex>ra for •protection,” with the addition of the difference between our currency and foreign exchange added on. The account would stand about thus: Value of the goods, .... 15 Tariff, 10 cents —(Home manu'ac'.urer adds but nine cents to prevent importation,) ... 9 D-fference between our currency and foreign excb ing *, . . 5 §0.29 1 Here is fourteen cents out of every twentv-ninu paid to Mr. Shoddy, over and above what legitimately belongs to him, that he may prosper; as the Gazette says to prevent us all becoming farmers JO one man in a thousand may become rich an 1 999 become poorer. Neither is Mr. Shoddy going to divide this nice little transaction with, his employees, or encourage the farmer by paying a few cents extra for his produce. He will grind both with the hardest bargains be can impose, and invest the money in Government bonds, so that it cannot be taxed—he has made a bargain, and the Gazette calls him a great patriot. Yet according to the Gazelle, Mr Shoddy is laboring for the good of the people; he asks that the farmers be taxed to support I iin, while he has his ibou • mils in bank, and has money enough to Uribe Congr ss to keep up a ruinous tariff f>r his benefit. Poor Shoddy! No won’ der we have “hard times,” and if we persist in this course Mr. Shoddy will get the tariff Government ought to have, and those who have to pay the national debt will have nothing to pay it with, because none but non tax payers are making money. The favored few will become millionares; the mass bankrupt. The argument of the Gazette that w» will all have to be farmers if we do not drive this bargain with Mr. Shoddy; that we will raise so much produce that the markets of the world will br overstocked; that wa will be ruined with our prosperity, is not worth a moment’s consideration The people are not such ej regious fools as the Gazette would have them. We as 3 people have a sharp eye to the profits, and the great regulator supply and demand is consulted, and causes a reasoning people to adjust their affairs accordingly, if the human family had nothing but Instinct to guide them, aueh a contingency as the Gazette portray, might arise.

We do not need legislation to make any discrimination, that will result in building up one portion of the communily at the expense of the other; that protects capital and oppresses labor. Every statute enacted that interferes with free trade is for the benefit of capital; oppresses the mass, and however ingeni-' ously it may be worded, is made in be- ’ half of capital. The remarks quoted by the Gazette, male by Gen. Jackson, at that time, no doubt, were appropriate, but the same state of facts do not now exist. Now we have abundance of capital, improved machinery, and for years have boasted of yankee ingenuity and skill. And in a fair field, without special favorse ’‘protection” can compete with the world in ail tiiat is necessary to our comfort in manufactures and the mechanic arts. And when men swindle the people as our I manufacturers have during the last four years, by the combinations they Lave entered into, it is an outrage inat the people cannot continue it they would avoid general bankruptcy. And no one Laving an interest in the welfare of the masses would ask for a continuance of these swindles, much less defend them. But the most ridiculous position the Gazette has taken in this controversy we have yet to notice: “If the f.rmera of Adams county are not able to payjtheir taxes this year as the Eagle asserts, how would they be better able if the Urge amount now raised from import duties, and paid by foreign merchants, was added to their present assessments’” It puts forth the argument advocated bv the Whig p irty years ago, but which , died before that party. Let us examine . it. Mr. Ats an importer; he buys good* 'in England nt $ 1 per yard, enters them at the custom house and pays fifty cents per yard tariff, in the shape of duty. He sells them to the consumer, and charges j ■ iu addition to the first cost, the duty paid Government, and his margin for profits. If the editor of the Gazette should happen i to putchsse them he would pay the duty, not the merchant. The consumer of lor- , eign goods pays fl' e du’y—not the (or- , eiga manufacturer —not the the importer—not the retail merchant—but we again reiterate the consumer. Will the Gazette make the correction? _ «■ NEWS ITEMS. The Military Co.i.miitee of the Hous* lately voted to leport the bill era aling the grade of generals in the Army of the United Slates. The pay i» in creased over that of Lieutenant General • 130 per motth; there is no increase in ■ allowance or communication of any kind. By the arrival of the steamer L'Vei - pool", we h »e foreign advices to the 23 I alt. The Emperor Napoleon, in hi-! speech on the 221 to the Corps Legitla--1 py, said “that arrangements are now being made to withdraw the French ' troops fiom M.-xico, and it is hoped this will pacify the people of the United S ales.” The release of Mosby from confine• mem was made on the order of General , Grant, who, thought Mosby did not actually surrender (he disbanded his force;) nevertheless considers him entitled to ■ the same protection from molestation a» was accorded to the armies of Lee and Johnston. It has tern ascertained that individuals engaged in purchasing honorable ■di ichaiges from soldiers dispose of the same to conscripts who evaded the draft by fleeing to Canada. The names of discharged soldiers, by means of a chem- ’ icnl process, are removed and the name ■ of the purchaser substituted. ■ Rebel Treasury Secretary Trenholm . has tesiified that at the downfall of I Richmond the Confederacy had but three hundred and twenty thousand dollars in specie; that neither Jeff. Davis ’ nor any other member of the Cabinet ; took any of this but that it waspaid out to the soldiers of Johnston's army. It is reported that a resolution is about to be offered in the House of Represin-j tatives, providing for the adjournment of the present session of Congress on the grst of May. Ex Governor Morehead, of North Carolina, has been arrested for interfein<r with the sals of some property previously advertised to be sold. ToeUoited S Date yisterday admit | led the Senators from Colorado to seats in that boJy, pending the decision in ’ their case. 1 It is stated that ths Judges of the > United Slates Supreme Court are equallydivided on the question of the constitu- ’ 1 (tonality ot the test oatb. Senator Doolittle yesterday ptesented the credentials of Hon. John Pool, Sen etor elect from North Carolina, which • were ordered to lie ou the table. It is proposed to erect a monument to the late President Lincoln io New York, and 5i5,000 have already been sub1 scribed toward the object. ■ It is said (bat one of the Indian chiefs . now in Washington, has been married eighty-five times. i II is stated, Secretary Well has expressed himself in favor of the i epeal of I the Congre»eiou»l test oath.

Twenty-three Senators are said to be ' in favor of the Presid-nt’s reconstruction policy in the South. We shall soon see. The Governor-General of Canada, L >rd M.rnck, is expected on the steamship Australian, now nearly due at New ; York. The bill oroviding for the premanenl location of the Capital of Western Virginia at Buckhannon, passed the House , yesterday. The gambling houses of New Orleans have been closed, by order of General. Sherman. The credentials of Hou. George S Houston, of Alabama, were presented by Senator Guthrie lately, and ordered to lie on ihe Senate table. A bill to open the po’h at seven A. m , and clo e them at sundown, has passed the New Jersey L -gislature by a strict Repubican vote. Horace Greeley has been elected President of the American Institute. Why A. 11. Stephen* Accepted the Fatted States Senatorship from Georgia. II jw the Hon. A. H. Stephens came to accept the Senatorship is seen in the following correspondence, which We find in the Macon Telegraph, of the 31st;— Ind, Herald. .Milledgeville, Jan. 29, 1866. Hon. A. H. Stephfnt. Esteemed Sir—We have read with Jeep regret your letter to the legislature withholding the use of your name in connection with the senatorial canvas; but while we grant to you the right of refusing a candidacy for a seat iu the United States Senate, yet, at the same lime, we claim to have also the right to I bestow upon you this trust, involving as it does, important consideration. We' leel, sir, that a vast majority ol the people ol the Stale are looking to you as the man for the crisis As the representatives ol that constituency, desirous \o Curry out this manliest demonstration of the public will, we now ask, will you serve if elected? (Signed,) 11. 11. Casey Wm. Gibson, Caliborne Spead, James M. Jesse A. Glenn, J. 0. Gartrcll, Ben D. Moore, P. B. Bedford. O. L Smith, George S. : Owens, J. A W. Johnson, P. J. Strumr B. A. Thornton. Mlit.KDtiiviLLE* Jan 29, 1866. Messrs. H. li. Casey, Jf’ai Gibsonand atk rt: Tiie right claimed bv you in your note to rue of this dale 1 do not wish to be understood as at all cnlli.ig in question. in reply to your interrogatory I can . Ohly say that I can not imagine any j probable case in which I would retuse to serve, to the best of my ability, the people of Georgia, in any poritiou which might be assigned tome by them or their represent itives, whether asssigned with or without my consent. Years truly. (Signed,) Ai.'.’.xasdkr 11. Sr ei'UßNs viTi'E to imffiMn , State of Indiana,) gg Adams Cousty i Court of Common Pleas Adams county. May Term. A. D., 1866. Mary Ann Smith, ) vs. Franklin B. Smtb, Eliza Jane Benzol, | Jasher Beazel, j Caroline Hirshberger, Petition for Partition. Abraham Harshkerger, ' Samuel Smith, ' Barclay Smith, Marv Smith, Job Smith. J | f appearing from affidavit filed in live above 1 eu'i.led cause that Eliza Jane Beazel.Ja- : sher Beazel, Caroline Hai >hb-rry ai d Abraham Har-Jiberry, tour of the above m ined de i ft-ndauts are non residents of the Stite of lu- ! diana. VJOTJCE is therefore hereby given the said x\ Eliza Jane Beazel, Jasher Be.zel, Caroline i ar-hberry and Abraham Harshberry. that they appear before the Judge of the Court of I Common Plea-, of Adams county, on the first day of the next regular ter.u of said Court, to be held at the Court House in the to rn of Decatur, on Monday toe 11th day of May 1866, i and plea' by answer or demur to said Complaint or the same will be heard aud deter mined iu their absence. Witness my hand and seal of said < > Court this 9th dav of February, j LS ( 1=66. ' ' J oHX McCOXX EL, CLrk. Feb. 16. -tw By A. J. Hill, Deputy. No tic 3 to Noa-Rosidsots. Statz or Is»iax*,) gg I Adams County. J 1 Court of Common Pleas, Miv Term, .4.D 1860. George Long, ) Lewis Long, John Long, vs. Emanuel Long, E ison Brown, Petition for Partition . \ Elizabeth Brown, Eliza Brown, Isaac Baron*. ■James Essex, Susan Essex, Peter It Long, ) IT appearing fr»m affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Elizabeth Brown, Edson Brown. Emauuel Laing aud Peter R. Long, four of the above uarny -; defendants are non n-yhl-nts of ”<e State of In Ji ina. is therefore li --..-by given the sard Tv Elizabeth Brown, EJaon Brown, Emanuel I Long, and Peter li. Long, that they appear before the Judge of the Court of Common Plea* of Adams county, on the first day of the next regular term of s‘id court, to be held iu th* Court Hou ein the town of Decatur, on Mon day the Mth day of May l*b6. aud plead by ! answer or demurer to said complaint, or the same will be heard aud determined in their absence. Witness my hand »nd seal of said ( Court this dth day of February, f ’ j 1566 ■ JOHN McCOXXEL, Clerk. Feb. 9. 4w By A. J. Hill, Deputy,

New Drug Store! 801LMH S ABEISPEBGBR, DECATUB, IND., I HAVE just opened, iu their rooms, in Numbers’ New Block, East side of Second Street, a large and complete stock of Pure Drugs & Medicines, I CHEMICALS, PAINTS. OILS, VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS, WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY, BRUSHES, PURE SPICES. Perfumeries and Fancy Articles, in great variety. Pure Wines & Liquors, For Medicinal Purpose*. 'Patent and Proprietary Medicines, in great variety. Letter, Cap and ' ■' Note Papers, Envelops, Pens, Pencils, Inks, dte., 1 Cigars, Tobacco and Snulf. Kerosene or Coal OIL, Coal Oil Lamps. In fact everything usually kept in a “FIHST CLASS DRUG SRORE.” —— ;oi— — CALL AND SEE USJ Prices—Cheap for CASH. We would say to the public that wo have secured the services of a PRACTICAL DRUGG.ST; and Physicians and Custouwrs can rely upon having Prescriptions correctly compounded at all hours of the d iv or — D >n’t forget the place—Number*’ New Block, East s'de of Second street, Decatur, (nd Feb’y 9, iß6<s. ly. Toilet Articles, A FIXE assori.ment—Buin’s. Lubin’s and IK L’hdouS Perfumeries. lldr Oils, Pomades, Puff Boxes, Cosmetics, and Toilet ar- ' tides, with a fine assortment of Fancy artic ' les, at BOLLMAN 4 ADELSPERGER’3 New Drug tore. Coal Oil and Lamps. - I )EST of C>al Oil, with a large assortment 1J of Coal OH or Kerosene Limps, Chim • neys, Shades. Wicks, and Coil Oil } of all kinds, at lowest rates, at BOLLMAX ± ADELSPERGER’S New Drug Store. Pure Spices. i L Cinnsmivn, Mace. Casia Buis, Cloves. Nutmegs, Ginger, Allspice, Peperaud Spices j of all kinds at BOLLMAN ± ADELSPERGER’S ’; New Drug Store. Flavoring Extracts. i -— TEMON, Orange, Peach, Pine Apple, Rose, A Raspberry, Strawberry, ViniUa, <fcc.— V"erv fine and at lowest rates, at ’ BOL'.MAN <fc ADELSPERGER'S New Drug Sore. Brushes’. Brushes! PAINT and Varnish Brushes. Sash Tools, Scrub,Shoe, Cloth, Tooth, Nail, Hair aud Flesh Brushes, in endless variety, al BOLLMAN 4 ADELSPERGER'S New Drug Store. U indow Glass. OF all size*, at prices tv suit the times at BOLLMAN A ADELSPERGER'S New Drug Store. r I''RUSSES an< Shoulder Braces, of Ihe most 1. approved make, with a large stock of Surgical Instruments, at BOLLMAN A ADELSPERGER'S I New Drug Score. IF you would have nice, light, healthy : Bread, use the American Dry Hop Yeast, I for sale at BOLLM AN A ADELSPERGER'S New Drug Store. BLACK. Carmine and In-ieilibm I <<., atBOLIMAN A ADKLSPKRGER'd.

’S.’ia." kMbdwabe . STORE. *.— JELLEFF S JTUB.IB.IKEI)' Announce to the public that they have on ■ hand a general a»eortmeDt of I • HARDWARE, ■ I And are daily receiving addUloDi to lheir j stock, eongwtiag in pan of COOKSTOVES, I parlor and Box Stores, m all varietlisand , jtyles y iuund iu tucliuu establishment; a l»o a general aeaurtiueut ot Shelf HARDWARE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS. C tllff. Mechanic’s Tool*, Harness, Saddle and Car riage Trimming-; and for Builders, I. ! ..-GILS A.VB GUSS, ' Batts, Hinges, Locks, etc.,etu ,in faet every ! ihiag lor Biudiug purpo»es. Alsu; BAR IRON, , Steel, Wagon Iron,Springs. etc , and to ! which we invit** the special attention of nnr-• chusorg.always to sell at the lowest I market rates. Store in the Trager butl-iine. < Give us a call. -TELLFFF STI DABAKER. , | Decatur, Oct. 21,186.5. I SEW STORE I ' AND NE AV STOCK OF ■ . IIEIDM.HIE CLOTIIIXG. i FIRST DOOtt WEST OF NIBLICK AND CLOSs’ BOOT AND I SIIOJC STOSS. The undersigned take pleasure in announcing to the public that they have just returned from the Eastern markets with au Entire New St jck » Os men', and Boy’s Clothing,consisting in part of Overcoats, Dress Coats, * Pants, Vests, S.iritsJ Drawers, Men’s Underwear, ! etc., etc., I i Os which wa hav. a full assortment of all j styles of goods. Also ill* largest and bast I stock of i: Hats and Caps Ever brought to this market Those do •Airing any thing in our line are respeevfully invited to give ui a sail and exauiioe our Goods and Prices. W<* have n larjje stoek of evsry thin? fei ■ tainin? to nnr trade, but which it is impos j sible to enumerate in our advertinement !nj conolnsion we wodd ear, wo shall rely apoiJ 1 honoaty for dealing, and cheap £oods,ss hoM t» <vw? Mstnmars. win w Wa

the £ W YORK ST6J; 00 COLUMBIA Mbq , fort wayxe, u , m headquarters DRY GOODS Trade, Partie* vi.iting Fon W„ k , wil! . . I ihcir interest to look UrLt * “GJ .lock kept al tk* ‘ ** niv ion non, 1 LRS Os dceifpu.. 1, Muekr,t,Cnn, Taodßll) ,.. i from $5 to *»00 p. r „ u . OLO AKS — L *dll! find iu>fl * qu.tled by any in the rny. Garments, from $1 0 to >3oo fU t Beav.r, Tricot and Cloth, Bhi and mantles, at $7 9 10.lt, } A large stock of Cm ini' by the yard—aho ouull Button-, Gimps, etc for CioiU. SlLKS—Choice styles of Fiuo DrrAs Mb Solid Colors. Stripes, ueal ChiM'in Figure*—also elegant Silk» fur Im ding and Party u e, rim Mt. itLi... stuck of Plain Black ui »cn •' prices. DRESS COODS —Rrel.lihhFopli.l &pi Empress Cloths. ConM Broche Poplins, French M»rirwi( sl'o 1,20 to St’.OCpcr Merinna. BoinlarinsA, Alpatii’A Laines, with a lar*« aid«hoic«if.n tion not enumerated. 1000 BKL.HOR tL SKIRTS-h «.l newest styles for Ladiet act wear. HOOF SKIRTS—In our Hcop Skirt ipd niviit av11] be iuund the «r.tO, r u Duplex r-'ipticand Thouiwu’iPM 1 Uruwii Skirl's, with other ctitki: makes of Muups—iu all lh« laude. DOMESTIC GOODS —We keep in ■»* stock—Table Linens, M«*lic«. h” lings. Tickings, rtripea, Ph* Flannels, Satinets, Cassiweni,L' kets, Prints, Cotton Bags, Cotton Yarn,tie. ! HOSIERY, Embroideries, ’ White Go A Woollen Yarn< I FANCY GOODS notions. With everything alee j |t |p class Dry Goods House e* n • NEW YORK STORE* 90 Columbia Street* ROOT &