Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE, ■OrriCIAX PAPER or THS COUNTY. DJBCATLR, IVDIWA. FRIDAY, AUG. 9,1867. Hamocratlc County Ticket » FOR AUDITOR, SEYMOUR WORDEN. IOR CLERK, A. J. HILL, POR COMMISSIONER, 20. DIRT., JACOB SARFF. THE NEWS. ' Information having reached the freedmens’s bureau, of extreme destitution in the Southern and Southwestern States, the ceased issue of supplies by the Assistant Commissioners, will under instructions from the Secretary of War, be suspended until August 20.— This does not effect the issue of rations to the sick in regular organized hospitals, or orphan asylums for refugees and freedmen. General Grant recently remarked that if nominated for the presidency it must be without exacting pledges. A letter from Fort Union, New Mexico, states that the Navajoe tribe of Indians, numbering over six thousand, are on the eve of hostilities against the whites. The published supplemental reconstruction act is said to be erroneous ; the correct bill does not deprive the President of the power to remove district commanders, as at first supposed, which it is rumored he will use in remo ring Gen. Sheridan, and placing in his stead either Gen. Thomas or Hancock. Parties in Canada affirm that a plan was inaugurated in 1863, to abduct President Lincoln and Cabinet, and that Col. Perry Windham, who commanded a regiment near Washington, was only prevented •from accomplishing it by being removed.

The late West Point graduates have been commissioned as Second Lieutenants, and assigned to Regiments. Admiral Earragut has been dined •by the Emperor Napoleon. The French Minister, Marines, members of the Imperial Cabinet and embassadors of the United States, were present. The Connecticut Legislature adjourned on the 27th ult. The constitutional amendment giving suffrage to all citizens was lost, 93 to 111. The New York Herald? s Washington correspondent says that a curious story is current, that General Grant has recently discovered that his movemets were watched by a detective, who had been persistently following him and who, it is further reported, is employed by a Massachusetts politician in Washington. The detective on being questioned by the General, said he was hunting up testimony for a congressional committee.

Persons from Fort Gibson report that the cholera is there- Twelve hundred people fled from Ellsworth City last week. The average mortality is ten per. day. Nine out of ten persons attacked die in from two to fifteen hours. The place is almost completely deserted, and an attack from Indians is expected. From three to five deaths per day are reported at Fort Harker. S:r Frederick Bruce and Mr. Seward have been trying to agree upon a plan of the cession of the British American possession adjacent to Walrussia in the settlement of the Alabama claims. Gx-Governor Mcßea, of Mississippi, and General T. C. Hindman, both write letters denying that they have turned Republican, as has been stated. The former says he never shall affiliate with that party, and has no respect for it. The latter says it is the solemn duty of every Southern nym to-register.so- that -he may resist -radicalism at every step. The Huntington Democrat publishes- a list of 138 names of soldiers, enlisted in Huntington conn-, credited la Orange.coiinty. In other words, the men were sold out under the reign of 0. P. Morton, and to make good their quota nncall, Huntipgton couhty spent >75.C00. ........

The National Debt tn Greenbacks. We do not know where the idea originated, but we notice that the Democratic papers all favor paying off the public debt in greenbacks. The proposition is to redeem the seven-thirties, as they mature, with another issue of greenbacks, and not allow the holders to convert them. If the Government, by this means, is able to pay its indebtedwith legal tenders, bondholders, or their champions, the Radicals, connot object, because when Congress made that sacred contract that Radicals love to talk about, they made greenbacks a legal tender, and if the enactment is binding as between individuals it surely ought to be between individuals and the Government. Besides the bondholders loaned the Government, not gold, but greenbacks, and surely there could be no valid objection to the proposed exchange, as it is paying them precisely the kind of funds loaned.

The interest bearing debt once funded, and what we would have to pay in interest would pay off the debt in less than fourteen years, saying nothing about the immense amount of taxable property of the bond-holders that again is made avilable for the purposes of taxation. The current expenses of the Government defrayed, and the excess remaining in the treasury would be used as a sinking fund to redeem outstanding greenbacks. Democratic papers favor this movement because it is a practical proposition to pay off the public debt in a very short time; because it will cause the burden of the war to fall upon rich and poor alike; the sacred contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Radical papers oppose the movement because they are laboring in the interest of the bond holders. What do the people say ? Are they willing to longer submit to one of the greatest outrages a Radical administration ever inflicted upon the poorer class for the benefit of the rich, when the relief sought can be obtained at the ballot-box ? Let the people ponder the question well, and when the time comes to elect representatives to Congress, vote for men who will respect their wishes.

XSTThe Anti Slavery Standard gives Chief Justice Chase a doubtful compliment, when it says one of the reasons that the President is not impeached is, that it would injure his chance for the Presidency, and benefit that of a rival candidate, if he, Chase, was compelled to preside at the trial. The Radical party is a collossal machine, with many diverse interests, which will sooner or later collapse the magnificient buble ; then the legislation of the country will be directed to promote the interest of the people instead, of party, self, and rich bond-holders, as now.

It is a humiliating spectacle to the people, when a great party must make a political machine of the Supreme Court to advance its interest, but it is no wonder when once corrupted that the Judges composing it should use their official position to advance their own interests, As it stands, the President should be impeached; would be, but that it would injure the chances of the Chief Justice from receiving the nomination for the Presidency. The Last Radical Joke.—The committee on resolutions of the New Jersey Radical Convention, in its address, declared: “We have restored the Union.’, Well, yes, it looks like it, doesn’t it ? If the Union is restored, what are you going to do with a new reconstruction act ? A Union of States and military districts. Austria and Hungary Russia and Poland, England land, offices for the radicals, suffrage for the negro, and disfranchisement for everybody that refuses to vote the radical ticket, “A live man locked up in a sepA wired skeleton with a radical wire puller. The Russian army in 1865 consisted over 800,000 men; This number can be increased in time of war to 1,180,000, and counting the irregular troops, to nearly 1,5000,000. The population of the Russian Emire is upward of 60,000,000. Maximilian, in his will, left the families of. Miranton ' and Mejia one hundred thousand dollars each, ’

A Grim Joke. The elephant can, with his trunk, pick up a cambric needle or rend the stately oak of the forest. The military commanders of the “five districts of the South” can not only revise a constitution but can abrogate the simplest local laws and usuages at pleasure. One of our exchanges tells a story of Commander Sickles, which ought to make our friend Pierson grateful that he is not within the Sickles bailiwick. In Charleston, as here, smoking is prohibited in the street cars. General Sickles does not always go abroad in his four-horse carriage, and recently he condescended to ride with ordinary folks in the street cars, but he forgot to observe the rule, “no smoking permitted.” The conducter called his attention to the fact. “What did you observe ?” said the General. “Merely desired to inform you,” said the man, in the blandest manner possible, 44 that passengers are not allowed to smoke in the cars. It is contrary to the rules.” “Ah! indeed,” replied the great man, taking out his watch with the utmost nonchalance. , . “Indeed! Then you shall consider the rules suspended for the next half hour.” This is a capital joke, no doubt, though old fashioned Republicans may not “see it.”— Brooklyn Eagle. Domestic Relations of the Grand Turk. We notice that, during the Sultan's visit to London, the English papers took particular pains to prove that Abdul Aziz was a model of virtue in all those respects in which the world has heretofore supposed him to be eccentric. In his domestic relations, and as a family man, we are told he is the most exemplary of mortals. He is the “husband of one wife,” to whom he is devotedly attached and wonderfully faithful; he treats his children after the style of a model father, and his house-hold arrangements are all conducted on the strictest principles of chastity and morality. If all that is said about the Grand Turk be true, he is a pattern whom Englishmen might well follow after, but which i few of them can hope successfully to imitate. We should, therefore, hear no more of his seraglio or his eccentricities.— New York Times.

Tbe Negro Vote South. The probabilities are there will be a majority of negro votes in Virginia under the military reconstruction acts. It is believed that about ninety thousand negro voters have been registered, while the whites, who could have registered to the number of one hundred and twenty-five thousand, are according to the computation now made, several thousand behind the blacks. That the negroes will act compactly in politics, and make strenuous attempts to elect their own special representatives, black or white there is little doubt; and that much bitterness of feeling between the two races will be engendered in the contest for political supremacy is evident from the present course of things. The large preponderance of registered blacks, over whites, in a portion of Eastern Virginia, has filled the people with gloom and alann.— Ind Herald. Rebel State Debt Responsibility. A paper which has Mokton on the brain, says, the idea that Govenor Morton ever has, or ever will favor any such monstrous and foolish proposition, as that one consequence which would flow from the admission of the doctrine that the rebel States are conquered provinces, to-witthat we would be called upon to pay the rebel debt,” “is simply absurd.” If such a doctrine ”is simply absurd,” it is one which Govenor Morton advocated with all the force of his logic, and all the influence of his position, when he thought that he and Andrew Johnson were cheek by jowl, and long before the. President ever suggested the idea publicly.—lnd Ilerald. Taxation.—This burden upon the people ought to be lessened; but instead, we are called upon to pay $35,000,000 for carrying on the military governments in the South during the fiscal year. This 836,000,000 is just so much to be added to rent food, fuel and clothing, so much subtracted from wages and salaries. This unnecessary burden falls with crushing weight, as usual, upon those who are the least able to bear it—the workingman, the mechanic, the day laborer, the artism, the farmer the salaried clerk, the men of small incomes, and others of that class. “We, who put down the rebellion, have the right to dictate terms to conquered rebels.” “We who put down the rebellion,” the New York Tribune, who did not help as much toward it as the jackass that helped drawthe army wagon.

A Tough Story. —We overheard the following a day or two since, which was considered by the listeners to be “tough,” especially when it is known that the hero could notbe tempted “to lie.” One gentleman was telling of a hen’s nest that he constructed with a “trapdoor” in the bottom, which the weight of an egg would open. This being placed on a barrel, ‘the biddie,” after laying one looked for it, finding nothing, laid another, and so continued to do for several honrs. “Oh, that is nonthing,” says our friend from “down east“my father made a nest of that kind and placed it, with the hen upon it, over a hogshead, and she laid it full of eggs. The next day beset a dead hen upon the nest and she hatched every egg in two weeks.” We all know that Americaus “beat all creation” in every thing, they undertake. We should judge, from somewhat extensive observation in this city, that we are now beating all the world, including Germany, Bavaria and Munich, in the consumption of lager. It is sold, we believe, in something like 3,000 places in town, and the lager beer brewers say that their trade this Summer is tremendous; it is drank wholesale and retail by Americans as well as by Teutons, and we understand that the contest as to which of these people can drink most is sometimes close and exciting. Wc are sorry to hear that a great deal of the lager now sold is shockingly bad.—A. York Times. Herschel V. Johnson has written a letter giving his views of the political situation, in which he condems the reconstruction measures, has but little.hope of escape from the power of Congress, advises the people to register, but not to give their consent by their votes to the government which is forced upon them. He says things can not be worse if they refuse, but they should never give their consent to be slaves. The whites can defeat the scheme if they will unite and act, and much as he deprecates, military government he would rather have it than such a government as will probably be inaugurated under the reconstruc tion plan.

It is Working.—The doctrine lately laid down by Congress that the Southern States are conquered territory and have no farther rights under the original compact of Union, seems already “ to work.,’ A dispatch to the Northern papers states that “ the demands of the English Government for losses from the defunct confederacy are based on the theory of the absolute conquest of the Southern States.”— Detroit Free Press. A society has been formed at Munich for the collection of cigar ends. An appeal is to be addressed to all smokers in Bavaria to give their cigar ends to the society, instead of throwing them away, it being intended to apply thc proceeds arising from the sale to the clothing of poor children. It is calculated that upwards of £500,000 a year may be obtained by this means. Importance of a Single Vote.— Theßoston Advertiser says : “The importance of a single vote has often been demonstrated. Now we have it again. A single vote elected a Governor of Louisiana— Sheridan’s.” To which the Baton Rouge Advocate adds: “ If this foolishness is continued, some of these times a ‘single vote’ will elect a Governor in Massachusetts.” It is reported in Paris that before he entered Queretero, Maximilian shipped for Europe a story of the French exhibition to Mexico, written by his own hand, and the manuscript is in possession of Due D,onmall, for publication in the French capital. Brownlow-will soon be deified. One of his Tennessee admirers says that “thedevil seems to have made a concentrated attack upon the Lord, the Legislature, and Governor Brownlow.” A company is forming in France for the purpose of trade on the Niger. Some of pur radical leaders who had great experience in trading on the “nigger,” should be made president.. Senator Yates, of Illinois, has relapsed. Chandler asked him to drink, and he eonidn’t refuse, and since then the supply of whiskey in the West is rapidly diminishing. The cost of supporting the army in the Southern States, during the present year, is estimated by the treasury department at $35,000,000 to 840,000,000. — - ' Mt i j> ,! ' w i '■ Chinese laborers are thought to be practicable in the North. As workmen, they take it Coolie. There are about 26,000 sporting men in New York, according to the World 1 s enumeration.

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First Class Dry Goods House. The public are respectfully invited to call and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. They will find it to their advantage; financially, as my prices cannot be undersold. GEO. F. RUSSEFL. Aug. 9,1867. vllnl9yl. Sale of Town Property. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at private sale, on and after the 24Z h day of August, 1867, at the Law Office of J. R. Bobo, in Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, the following described Real Estate, to-wit: The undivided four ninths part of Inlots number twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty-five, in the town of Pleasant Mills in Adams county, Indiana. TERMS:—One third of the purchase money to be paid down, one third in six and one third in twelve months from date of sale, with security to-my satisfaction, and interest from date. ISRAEL REMP, Aug. 2, w 4. Guardian. Notice of Attachment. State of Indiana, ) ■Aslams County, J Before Robert, McClurg, J. P., of Mon- . roe Township, Adams County, Indiana. Thomas Hendricks 1 vs. f Attachment. Samuel O. Clemons.) Whereas Thomas Hendricks, plaintiff in this action, did, on the 24th day of July, 1867, file his complaint, affidavit and bond in attachment proceedings against Samuel O. Clemens, defendant, And whereas, on the 26th day of July, 1867, a Summons issued against the said defendant which was returned, endorsed “not found,” and at the same time attachment issued against the goods, chatties, rights, credits, moneys and effects of said defendant, and the rights, credits and effects of said defendant in the hands of John Hendricks were garnisheed, And whereas, the trial of said cause is set for hearing on the 23d day of August, 1867, at 2 o'clock, p. m., Now, therefore,, the said Samuel O. Clemens is hereby notified of the said proceedings, and unless he appears and answers, the s ime will be taken by default as confessed, heard and determined in his absence. ROBERT McCLURG, Aug. 2, wB. J. P. By.. . Petition to Sell Real Estate. Stnte of Indiana, 1 Adams County. J ‘ In the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, September Term, 1867. Notice is hereby given, that Mark Aspy, Administrator of the estate of Edward H. Shepherd, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent; his personal being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the Court of Common Pleas of said county. Witness my hand and the seal of •Is. s.l . said Court this 7th day of June, . 1567. JOHN McCONNELL, Clerk, By. AJ. HILL, Deputy. June 14-w4; ,

CRABBS, MOSES & RICE, HEAR QUARTERS -IOR ALL KINDS orCLOTHING, HA TS J CAPS, BOOTS $ SHOES, • GROCERIES, QUEENS WARE, ft., Which we are offering at GREAT BARGAINS. We have added to our trade a well selected stock of CARPETS! of which, we will-stall times, keep a good assortment, and at reasonable prices. Our Goods nre of the best quality and styles. Great bargains are to be had in the following articles of Staple Dry Goods. 100 Pieces Prints, from lO to ZOcts. 100 “ Sheeting, “ 12 cts. up. §0 “ Delains, 25 cts., old Price. 20 “ Ginghams, 15 to 50 cts. Cottonades ftom 25 to 50c—Buy Soon. All Wool Cast meres from 75c to SI,OO per Yard less than last Year.

In presenting ourselves, under our new film, to solicit your patronage, we will only say that our facilities are such that we will be enabled, at all times, to carry out our determination to keep always as desirables stock of Goods, in our line, as can be found in this County; and we shall offer them at prices that will compare favorably with the Western Markets. We will pay the highest market price for "WOOHs, wishes, Black Salts, and cowtry produce CRABBS, MOSES & RICE. Decatur, June 7. vlln9tf. W. G. SPENCER J. MEIBER3. —-- NEW STOCK O3T* HARDWARE, .A.T • I . SPENCER & MEIEEBS\ DECATUR,: :: : : : ::::::: INDIANA. hocks,

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H. B KNOFF, - AMBROTYPEE! I PHOTOGRAPHER, —— Would inform his patrons and customers generally, that he is always ready to accommodate them with all kinds atfd styles of Pictures known to the art, at cheaper rates than they can be had elsewhere. Special attention given io the taking of children’s pictures. He has <m hand a choice assortment of Photograph Albums, Card Pholograqh Specialties, Rose Wood If GiU Frames, Cord and Tassels, Rose wood and Gilt-Mouldings of differerent widths, sold to suit purchasers, at low rates. Also Charts, Battit Scenes, Bible Scenes, ft. CALL, AYD SEE VS. Decatur, Ind. May 4, ’66 ts. B. D. ANGELL, -MANUFACTURER OI- i FRENCH YOKE SHIRTS, Flannel Underwear, NECK-TIES, BOWS AND SOABFS, MASONIC, 000 FEUOWS f and other societies, ClotlxlxLß <fc RogaH*{Sendfor Circulars.) AtscJ. Dealer Xxx ladies’, gentlemen's & children’s FUHNISIUNG GOODS, No. 64 Calhoun and No. 2 Berry'Sts., FT. W.I ITJVF, IJVB. Send for Instructions for self measurement. ■ vllnllyl. henry j. ash. ». h. m’culloch. ASH & McCUULOCH, —DEALERS IM— . STOVES, fIARDWARE, GLASS, Sash, Nails, Furnishing Goods, and . FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Also, Manufacturers of Tin, Conner and Sheet Iron Ware,

Ho. .87 Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The best Coal Oil and a complete a»sortment of Lamps always on hand. vllnllyl. FIANTOS! O. Xl. ECXJJU, Nos. 53 &. 51 Calhoun Street, FORT WAYNE, INI)., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos, American Organs, Melodeons, and dll kind of Small Instnixnoiitß. Sole Agent for Wm. Knabe & Co's Pianos, Baltimore; and Stienway & Son’s Pianos, New York. Also agent for Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Machines. Parties desiring to purchase will do well to give me a call. vllnllyl. DAVIS & BYERS, BOOK BINDERS, Blank Book Manufacturers, No. 25 Calhoun St., Opposite Court Douse, FORT WM YJTF, IJTD. Particular attention paid te County work. RjF*Magazines, Music, and old Books bound and re-bound in any style desired. Petition for Divorce. State of Indiana, 1 Adams County, j ‘ In the Court of Common Pleas of Adams •County, September Term, 1867. John Walls, j vs. T Divorce. Sarah F. Walls, J ‘lt appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that. Sarah F, Walls is a Non-resident of the State of’lndiana, Notice is therefore hereby given the said Sarah F. Walls, of the filing of this cause of action, >nd that she be and appear before the. Hon, Judge of the Court of Common;Pleas, on the firs t day of the next regular term thereof, to be held at the Court House, in. Hie town of .Decatur, in the said County, on Monday the 9th day of September, 1867, and answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in qer absence. _ Witnes my hand and the seal of (t.s.) said Court, this 9th day July 1867. JOHN McCONNEL, Clerk. July 12-w4. By A. J. Hili, Dep. Petition for Divorce. State of Indiana,! ' Adams County, J ' In' the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county, September Term, Robert Manly, j vs. I-Divorce. ' Julia A. Manly.) t . It appearing from affidavit filed in the above cause that. Julia A. Manly is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the above namdd Julia A. Manly, that she be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Courtof Common Pleas, at the Court House in the town of Decatur, on the first day of the next regular term thereof, to be held Monday, the 9th day of September, 1867,’and plesd by answer or demur to said complaint, or-the same will be heard and determined in her Absence. . ■ • Witness my hand-and seal or said (ps.) epurt, this the. 15th day of Juaa, 1867. - ' JOHN MoCONN ELL Ole rk. -l July® w 4 By A. X..HIIIL, .Dsp’y