Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. A. J. HILL, Editor. DECATUR INDIANA. FRIDAY, May 10, ISG7. Democratic County Ticket. For Auditor, SEYMOUR WORDEN. For Clkrk, A. J. HILL. For Ccmmissionkr 2d, Dist. JACOB SaRFF.

Goin? to Sue for bls Character. It will be remembered in our issue of the 26th of April, there was an article headed. “Great Excitement in Decatur! Suspicious characters in (he woods. Some things whispered in secret Very pertinent inquiries”. In remarks we then made was the following paragraph in relation to Jack Bear, a citizen of Vanwert. Ohio: During the day rumor with her many tongues was busy, and by some means it was ascertained that five men had broken jail, at Vanwert, on Friday night,! among them Nicholas Potts, but. the news did not come through' Jack Bear, who arrived here about 8 o’clock on Sunday morning, and wo might add the pas-' sengers that left him abovetown ■ were careful to say nothing of the jail delivery. Strange! Last week we passed through I Vanwert on the P. F. W. & C.' road and incidentally learned that■ Mr. Bear was going to sue us for j slander. We do not know where he intends commencing his suit, but if in Vanwert county there is one little difficulty in getting service; if at home here in Adams' county, it is all right, and by ♦way of encouragement we will guarantee the clerk’s costs paid in advance. And if he will pay our cost of the suit, we will accept service in Vanwert county.’ What say you Mr. Bear? When we penned the offensive article we were not talking at random. We meant all that we said and we have facts in our possession that would have warranted us in saying more than wo did relative to Mr. Bear, but we were not at that time particularly ventillating his case. We merely intimated that old dog Tray received greater punishment than Mr. Bear for being found in bad company, and now think instead of seeking revenge.

he should be thankful for cscap-j ing as well as he did. Your! Decaturfrinds, Mr. Bear, did not get insulted, why need you? Corporation Election. The election for Corporation officers was held on Monday.— There was considerable wire-, working among the aspirants for! office, and with some of them was more warmly contested than any previous election. The sewer question caused considerable un- ■ necessairy excitement—wo say! unnecessaiv—because it was not| in issue. Sometime since we re- 1 viewed the administration of the Board and somewhat critizised their action, consequently wo feel like placing them right on the ...Sewer question. We heard them publicly charged as being in favor of building a sewer along Second street at the-expense of (be Corporation, And upon this assertion the peeple became aryayed against them. If they had been called upon and expressed an opinion contrary to what the

’majority of the people conceived i to be their true interests and then s were defeated there would have i been some show of justice. So far as we heard, their administration was not reviewed or made an objection to their re-election, though it may have had its influence. The people get unnecessarily excited over local questions, and are very sensitive i n regard to any proposition intended to reuch their pockets, and this time declared war before they i had an enemy to fight. But ; they are excusable in using stimjulants of this kind on those ocIcasions, especially as they are fashionable indulgences of the American people. It is right that the people should zealously guard their interests, but straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel is another thing. We do not say they did so in this case, because there was no camel swallow; but they strained at nothing ; and swallowed it bad. If the I moral is found we hope it will be preserved for future leference. f We hope the new Board will) I cut out work for the Marshal and ’ let him proceed to business, as there is plenty to do to straighten out the town, and is something expected of them by the i people. I There was one hundred and I Sixty-one votes cast, a larger number than cast at any pre-i jvious election. The vote cast for the respective candidatesis as follows: For Clerk and Assessor, S. C. Bollman 70; H. B. Knoff 90, For Treasurer, 0. Brake 29, D. J. Spencer 110. For Trustee, Ist. District, .John King jr. 80, A. L. Albers 64.

For Trustee 2nd. District, David King 119, A.Bollman 27. For Trustee 3rd. District, David Showers 101, Alfred Hill 46.

For Marshal, Elias Menzel 6 E. Lyster 29, T. Burt 27, W. D. Baker 56, A. Patterson 3, P. C. Shackley 28. Deiinqext Taxes, —The following is the ' amount of deUnquint tax due from the several townships as returned by the Treasurer. Union 533 96 Root 669 12 Preble 194 80 Kirkland 232 86 Washington 1185 50 j StMarys 483 72 | Blue-Creek 293 42 Monroe 347 07 French 301 41 Hartford 523 1 ! Wabash 729 16 Jefferson 337 12 Total $5,886 15 Th anount retuned delinquent for the year 1865 was 55069,15, a difference of $817,00. The extension of time for the payment of taxes from the third Monday in March to the third i Monday in April, enabled the Treasurer to collect about $1,500,00 that would have been * returned delinquent but for the extension of time. Old Cannons.—There arc several battle worn and battle bruiised iron cannon, thirty-two and sixty-four pounders, at the New Albany rolling mills, to be melted and converted into implements of peace. If the sword there is not beaten into a plowshare, the cannon is literally melted and rolled into a railroad track. We greatly prefer to thunder, in a steam car, oyer these cannon as they will be, to having them thunder over us as they once were.— New Albany Commercial. h Corporation Finances—ln > another place will be found an ■ exhibit of the receipts and expen--1 dilutes of the Corporation of De--1 catnr, for the financial year, ending j April 30th, 1867.

News Item s. The Mexican minister received a dispatch on the Ist, of May ; stating that Miraman is dead; I the Imperial forces disbanded; I Marquez completely defeated; s Quertaro taken, and Maximilian hidden. The European peace conference meets on the 12th, of May. Lord Stanly, Secretary of State for foreign affairs, will represent England, and preside over its deliberations. New York city was visited with a fall of snow that covered the i ground, on the 3d of May. It is said that President Johnson is having compled a list of army officers nominated by him and rejected by tho Senate, with the military record of each. It will doubtless prove an excellent commentary upon the rule of action of the Radical Senate, and! give the key note that governs tho party. The working-men of Chicago have been on a strike since the first of May, when the eight hour flaw went into operation. Employ- ■ ers refused to give them the same wages.for eight hours labor they j had for ten; several large factories, were forcibly stopped by thestri-i kers, and a grain elevator burned, A terrible tragedy occurred at! Gosport, Ind., last week, by which JohnS. Johns the station and telegraph agent was brutally murdered. After the murder tho desk Has robbed of some §250. A Coroner’s jury found a verdict charging Willis McMinny with the murder. Epon his being arrested the greatest excitement prevailed, and the people were with great difficulty restrained from executing summary venga uce upon tho m urderer.

The Mississippi Injunction Case. The Misissppi injunction case was heard in the Supremo Court to-day. Robert J. Walker made an argument for the petitioners denying that Congress had the power to pass an act beyond the range of judical inquiry, and contending that the Constitution provided for .IWch cases as this to be brought before thav court. In replying to Attorney General Stanberry’s remarks ot last Friday, Walker maintained that political questions had not been excluded from this court, and in support of this position he referred, among other and more iccent cases, the military commission and test oath questions, upon both of which the Supreme Court had pronounced their opinions. Mr. Walker quoted various decisions in refutation of the Attorney General’s views that this court has jurisdiction in cases not involving money and hind: and in conclusion, while speaking of the desperate and wholesale sweeping out of ten States of the Union by the reconstruction act as directly contrary to the Constitution of the United States, he, said, a broader bill of attainder in penalties had never been passed. It reduced ten millions of loyal and disloyal people to bondage, and substituted the gleaming sword and the bristling bayonet for constitutional guards and the courts of law. When Mr. Walker had finished it wanted twenty minutes to throe o’clock. After consultation, the court said they would hear Attorney GcnerafStanberry in reply on Monday, to which time the court adjourned, There was nine Lodges of i good Templars .organized in this ! State during the last two weeks.

1 Connecticut legislature—Governor English aieshngc. | The Connecticut Legislature was organized May Ist Governor English, in his message, 'says: The situation of public ' affairs in every aspect is imporjtant. He urges that as citizens of a common country we should strive to extinguish vindictive resentments engendered by the late civil war, waged to maintain the supremacy of the Ftdieral Constitution and integrity iof tho Union. He states that the |groat object of tho Union. He j states that the great object was not yet attained—tho Union was j not restored. The States deJnied participation in Congress. Should tho measures be persisted in it will transform the Republic into a despotism. He deems the course of legislation pursued by Congress as wholly unwarranted, and as fatal to tho Union and Constitution as the doctrine of secession. The legislation of the Thirty-ninth Congress, to a large extent, was a series of usurp ations and infractions of the Constiution. he argues that Congress has no more power under the constitution to establish military governments in the Southern States than to institute orders of nobility in England, and claims that Congress assumed that power only for the purpose of more thoroughly accomplishing the subversion of the State authority. If Congress can legislate for those States, it is not difficult to forseo that a like interference in other States, and the right of States to regulate their internal affairs in their own way is henceforth subject to the caprice of Congress. He speaks of the Senate as abrogating power to select as well as confirm, but as to dictating to the President in regard to his appointments it was on purpose to absorb functions which legitimately appertain to other branches of tho Government. That it Was proposed to take pardoning power from the President, where the Constitution had conferred it by an expost facto proceeding on Congress. Ho does not doubt the tacit submission of the Southern people to submit to rule provided for them, but serious questions arose from the precedent established by Congress. He recommenced theadoption of tho law to make eight hours a legal day’s work, and invokes divine assistance in the performance of his duties.

As it is, and Whe Cares. We extpaetthe following from the New York Times, (Rep) and ask for it the thoughtful perusal of every citizen, who thinks more of his country than he does of his party-. The Times says. “Men who earned their country’s gratitude by soldierly service have been striken down with the tomahawk of faction. Couch, Swift and Slocum are names that rise to the lips as types of one class of devoted Unionist who have denied rewards at the disposal of the Government for no other reason than that they are Unionists simply, not Radicals. And though Rousseau was saved, it was after a contest so bitter and persistent, that his case really furnishes another illustration of our view.— Distinguished civillians have fared no better than gallant soldiers. Neither character nor capacity, neither fidelity to the Union nor .aptitude for public service, preserved eminent public men from the mortification of rejection by this reletless partisan tribunal.” “Relentless partisan tribual” well expresses the Senate of tbo United States.—But, “who cares is the general exclamation- of a people on the (Jqwn grade to despotism?

The Herald's Charleston special says on Senator Willson’s arrival in that city several committees and distinguished eitjizens, also a number of colored men, called upon him. Some sixty or seventy prominent whites, including a large number of leading secessionists, signed a letter of welcome to Mr. Willson, tendering tho hospitalities of the city and inviting i him to addres them on the poli- , tical topics of the day. ! A mass meeting of the colored citizens was held at the African , church, in this city, last evening to discuss the question of“ how i shall wo vote.” About fifteen hundred persons were present, and the speakers were both coloicd and white. Resolutions were unanimously adopted pledging the colored voters to support the candidates of tho Republican party and no other.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

An Exhibit Os the Receipts and Expenditures, of the Town of Decatur, for the financial year ending April 30 1867. RECEIPTS. On acc't Show License, 6 00 On acc’t Judgement M. Whitridge, side walk in-lot No. 225, 25 00 On acc t Taxes collected, 379 00 Total, §4lO 00 EPENDITURES. On acc’t repair of sower under Munroe street, 13 70 On acc’t- of street crossings, 83 03 On acc’t of stationary, 1 34 On acc’t of services Town Officers, 118 18 On acc’t expenses of election, 8 CO On acc’t of Att’y fees, 3 00 On acc’t interest on orders redeemed, 17 26 On acc’t Publishing Ordinances year ending April 30, 1860, 50 00 On acc't publishing dog Ordinance, • 2 50 On acc't amount due Town officers year ending Apjil 30, 1836, 51 62 Total, §3Ol 68 The above shows the Receipts and expenditures, while the following shows the operation of the Treasury and the true condition thereof for the year ending April 30, 1867. RECEIPTS. In the Treasury, May 1, 1866, . 57 Received or. acc't licenses, 6 00 Received on side walk Judgement In-lot No. 225, 25 00 Received .n acc’t Taxes collected, 379 00 Total, §4lO 57 DISBURSEMENTS. Orde-s redeemed by Town Treasurer, 400 84 Balance in Treasury, 73 §4lO 57 Outstanding orders, Town, 95 65 “ “ Side walk, 43 27 Total. §143 92 Attest, A. BOLLMAN, Sam. C. Bollman President. . Clerk, T. D. May 10, 1867, vilnsw3.

License Notice. Notice is hereby given to the citizTlSof Hartford townsh.p, Adams county, Indiana, that Jacob Staley will apply to the Boar 1 of Commissioners of st id Adams county, at their next session to commence cn the first Monday ot June, 1857, at the Court House in said county, for a license, for one year, to sell vinous, malt and intoxicating liquors, in less quantity than a quart, at and in the building situated on the following described premises in the town of Buena Vista, in Hartford town ship. Adams county, Indiana, to wit; In lot number seven (7), in said town, to be used and drank as a beverage on said premises. JACOB STALF.V. May 19, 18G7, yllns. License Notice. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Washington Township, in Adams County, in the State of Indiana, that the undersigned will present his petition to the Board of Commissioners of said Adams County, at their June Session 1867, praying for a license to sell spiritouf, vinous, malt and other intox : cating Liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time for one year, at and in the building situate on the following described premises, in the town of Decatur, in said County and State, towit: Commencing at a point eighteen feet east of the south west corner of in-lot number 274 in said town, thence running north 66 feet, thence east 15 feet, thence south 66 feet, thence west 15 feet to the place of beginning, owned by Adolph Hart, to be drank and used on said premises as a beverage. CORNELIUS RADEMOCKER, May 10, 1867. vllns. newHSa c klSne : rjxoM Decatur to Ittonrocville, Where it connects with the trains running each way. For passage enquire at the Burt House or Post Office in Decatur, and the Monroe House at Monroeville. B@”This line is much the safest, best and quickest route from Decatur to the Railroad.' u4vll PHILLIPS & WALKER. MONROE MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. LYMAN WALKER, ::::::: Proprietor. This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, apd at reasonable rates. ‘nfivll.

OFFICIAL VISIT • or rm Superintendent of Public Instruction! f Gr. VxT. I£OSS, Superintendent of Public Instruction, will meet the Trustees and other School Officers, of Adams County, at the School House, in Dee*tur, on Tuesday, May 14, 1367, at 2 o'clock P. M., and at 7 oolock p. m., will deliver a public address, in the M. E. Church; to which all citi* zens are cordially invited. 8. C, BOLLMAN, May 3, 1867. 8. E. A. C. SUMMIT CITY WOOLEN MILLS! FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, 200,000 Pounds Wool Wanted! For which we will pay the highest rates ia cash. We will also pay cash for hard soapand lard, suitable for greasing wool. To our' customers and all others who have wool to manufacture, we can offer a larger and better assortment of goods of our own manufacture than heretofore. Having added new machinery, we are making goods in style and finish, equal to any made in the eastern manufactories, and greatly superior in weight and quality.— Our facilities for custom Carding, spinning and Frillinc, arc such that we can execute it promptly. Having steam power in connection with our wjter power, experiened and attentive workmen, and greatly reduced prices, wo hope not only to retain the patronage heretofore received, but greatly extend this branch of our business. Wool for sale or manufacturing, should be in good condition, thoroughly cleansed and free from burrs, for Carding or Spinning, as no work will be warranted in these departments if the wool is not in good order. FRENCH, HANNA & CO. vll-n-l. 4cuLicense Notice. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Washington township, in Adams County Itdiana, that Andrew Sorg will apply to tho Board of Commissioners of said Adams County at their next session to be held at the Court House in the town of Decatur in said County on the first Monday in June 1867, for a license for one year to sell Spiritous, Vinous, Malt antj other Intoxicating liquors in less quantity than one quart at a time, in the basement story of the building situate on the following degcribed premises in the said town of Decatur to wit: Commencing at tho north eastcornerof inlo\ number fifty nine in said town, thenep running south west at right angels with second street fifty feet thence south cast parallel With second street twenty two feet thenco north east parallel with the first described lino fifty feet to second street, thence northwest along second street twenty two feet to tho place ofbeginning to be used ns a beverage .a said premises. ANDREW SORG. May 3d, 1867, _ Sheriff’s Sale.

In the Court of Common Picas Adams County -1 ndiana. Mary Studabaker } VS. 1 Irvin D. Simissen J By virtue of an order of sale to tne directed and delivered by the Clerk of said court in the above entitled cause, I have levied CJon and will erposo for sale at Public auction, «t the court House door, in Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, between the hours of one and four o'clock P. M., on Friday, May 31st, 1867. The rents and profits for a term not to exceed seven years of the following described real estate viz. The undivided fifty four hundred and eightynine twelve thousandths parts of the following real estate to wit: the sonth east quarter of section eighteen (18) and fractional lots No. five (5) and six (6) in said section eighteen (18) all in township twenty-five (25) north, of range fourteen (14) east, in the said county of Adams in the State of Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgement upon which said order of sale was issued, with interest thereon and costs, I will, at the same time and manner ftforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises Taken as the property of the defendant to satisfy said order of sale, this 30th day of April.lß67. v JAMES STOOPS, Jr., . Map. 3, 1867. Sharif JAMES R. 8080, Licensed Real Estate Agent, DECATUR INDIANA. A.CRES of good farming land, sev ,vui ‘er.il Town lots and a large quantr*. ty of wild land for sale. Ifyou want to buy a good fare, or wild land, he will sell it to yon. If you want your land sold, he will sell it for you. No no charge. May 4ih, 1866. vlo-n6-ly. JAMES’!?. 8080, ATTORNEY AT LAV/, <t PENSION 4 BOUNTY AGENT DECATUR, INDIANA. UTOFFlCE—Opposite the Auditors office. Draws Deeds. Mortgages, and Contracts, Redeem Lands, pay Taxes, and collects Bounties and l, i-nsions. May 4t.h, 1866, vlo-n6~ly. ANDREW”SORG’; PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—Main St., opposite Meibers ro.’s Dry Goods St >:e . vßn49 FTATjELLEFFr Physician and Surgeon. DECATUR, INDIANA. O’ OFFICE—Second floor over Bollman* Store, v9,-nls. DOR WIN &. BRO'3. BEAtxnS IS Drugs, Medicines, & Chemicals, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, ' Sponges, Brushes,Perfumery, dec. KEROSENE OR COAL OIL AND LAMPS: Physicians* Prescriptions carefully com pon ided and o dors answered with care and despatch. F.-rmers and Physicians from th« country will find our stock of Medicines com. plets, warranted genuine, end of the bewt quality, . ~