Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. D. D. HELLER, Attorney at Law, DEOATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vlOns2tf. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, Pension & Bounty Agent, DEOATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensio-s. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlon6tf. Do STUD AB A KER, -A-ttornev at Law, ■A-JXTXJ Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. y practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real Estate;-exaraine titles and pay taxes, and other business per taining to Real Estate Agency. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL EST AtFaCENTsU JAMES HL 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. . DEOATUR, INDIANA, lA/YA ACRES of good farming . * J vJ VF l ft Pd, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm or wild land he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlon6tf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JEULEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DEFTER, IJVDMJWa. OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bellman’s Store. vßnlstf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE—On Scoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf, S. C. AYERS, M.D., —RESIDENT— Eye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vlln9tf. AUCTIONEER. C. 81. FRANCE Would announceto thepublicthat heis a regularly licensed auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire, Ohio. HOTELS. ~ MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howse, DECJUTVR, IJVD., I. J, MIESSE, : : : : : : : Proprietor. This House is entirely new, neatly furnished, and is prepared to accommodate the public .in the best style. Board by the day or week. vlln9tf. MONROE HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, This- House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, iind at tdaSbnable rates. nfivlltf. Ml STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT HMtWE, IJCD. vllnllyl. HEDEKUV HOUSE On Ban, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. El.I KEARNS, . Proprietor, Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. BI AVER HOUSE. •T. LES MAN,Proprietor, Corner Calhoun, and Wayne.Sts., '" l ' FORT.TVAYXE, vllnllyl. Indiana, MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE, MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDAEE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also, a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IK'D., FRIDAY, AUG. 16, 1867.

To the Victims of Radicalism. Work! Work! Work! With pick and shovel and ax! To pay New England’s protection, Your own and the bondholder’s tax! Work! Work! Work! There are millions of negroes to feed, And the cost is hitqhed on with the bondholder's claim. And the sum of New England's greed! Tug! Toil! Sweat! Still harder each day than before, It will go to keep niggers and bondholder’s up, And the wolf away from your door. Work! Work! Work! From dawn to the 4usk of day, For our hopes are crushed with a weight of debt That the toil of your life wont pay! You gave your son to the war! The rich man loaned his gold! And the rich man’s son is happy to-day, -AIM year’s is under the mould! You did not think, poor man— You can scarce believe when you’re told, The sum which the rich man loaned to the war Was the price for which you were sold. Your son was as good as his! And as dear, perhaps, to $?oul But yours died for his and your daughter now For his must wash and sew! The bondholder rides in his carriage! He is one of the privileged few, Who handle with pride his Government bonds, But the drugery is left for you! Nay, do not pause to think, Or sigh for your children or wife, For your moments are mortgaged to hopeless toils, The rest of your weary life! Amount Received From Customs and Internal Rev&a nue and Cost of Collecting; of the Same. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing from Washington, gives the following facts in regard to the revenues of the Government—the Receipts and the cost of collecting them : That upright judge in Pennsylvania, who decided a few weeks ago against the constitutionallity of that act of Congress which makes paper money a legal tender continues to be abused by the radical newspapers all over the North for the righteous decision. The judges fortified in his opinion, however, if any fortification was necessary, by a very high authority, namely: the Secretary of the Treasury himself, who says in his last annual report: “The issue of United States notes as lawful money was a measure expedient and necessary in the great emergency in which it was adopted, but this emergency no longer exists. The strength of the Government has been proved by the manner in which it has carried on the greatest war of modem times. It only remains for the vindication of its excellence, that all powers exercised for its preservation, but not expressly granted by the Constitution, be relinquished with the return of peace.” I have endeavored to obtain a statement of the receipts from customs, and from internal revenue, for the year ending June 30,1867, with the cost of collecting the same but the data are as yet imperfect. During the year ending June 30, 1866, the receipts from . internal revenue were $lO 906 98417, and the expense of collecting’the same was as follows: Assfessor’s compensation and expenses $965,090 90 Assistant Assessor's <®mpensatiou - 3,068,9'64 00 Collector's compensation and expenses 2,161,710 14 Commission on sales of stamps 736,700 46 All other expenses 707,246 77 Total expenses $7,639,700 46 The returns for the last fiscal year will probably not vary. considerably from 6266,000,000.

During the same year the receipts from customs were 8179, 016,651 58. total receipts from all sources were $558,032 620 06, and the total expenditures were $520,750,940 48. The balance in the Treasury July 1, 1866, was $132,887,549 11. The receipts of internal revenue for the last three years have been as follows: 1864. .$117,145,748 52 1865211,129,529 17 1866 . .310,906,984 17 The receipts levid and collected on people’s incomes during these three years was is follows : 1864.7. .$14,719,279 58 1865. ...••■ 20,567,350 26 1866 w . ; J.. .60,894,135 85 The report of the Secretary of the Treasury says: “The actual annual jjost to the Government for the collection of its customs for several years can not be determined with accuracy, because the expenses of revenue cutters performing the duties of vessels of war, have been paid from the appropriations for customs. They will, however, it is believed, not fall short of three and a half per centum of the receipts.” In the report of the Commissioners of Internal Revenue, made November 30, 1865, Mr. Rollins says : “I caused the costs/of assessing and collecting the internal revenue of the fiscal year 1865 to be carefully ascertained, including the saleries and authorized expenses of revenue agent, special agents, and inspectors of revenue, the contingent expenses of this office, including its pay roll, and the cost of revenue stamps, but exclusive of its printing and the office of the Public Printer, and find that the percentage will not exceed three per eent.—to be exact. 2 75 per cent. The recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury for the gradual reduction of the volume of the paper curren A with which the country is flooded,-have not been heeded. On the other hand, for every one hundred dollars in specie, which is coined at the mint at Philadelphia, a million of dollars of paper money is manufactured by the paper money machines in this city. This work is all done in the Treasury building, and although it is conducted in compartive secresy, yet it is possible for favored persons to obtain a sight of the whole process, and curious enough it is, too. All the materials used in the wbrk arc m anufactured in the Treasury building. The paper is made in a paper miil of peculiar construction; the inks of various colors are made in ink mills in the vaults, and the steel plates are engraved by the best French and American artists who work in large and handsome rooms. The money mills run constantly, and sometimes day and night. Each note passes through a hundred different processess, and hundred different hands, and yet I believe, not a single one has been lost or stolen about the building. The notes, when entirely finished, are put up in packages, packed in boxes, and sent away by wagon loads daily. The Hudson, New York, Register tells of a man named John Weson going into the woods near Boston Corners, after berries.— While he was at work picking them his eyes lighted on something hidden under a rock which looked like a box covered with moss.— John examined it closely and found it was a bdx, and on opening it found five thousand dollars in silver pieces of Spanish coinage. Among the number were five hundred Spanish dollars done up in a bag, on which was some writing, but so destroyed that it was illegible. None of the pieces bore a date later than 1808. The finder has been living for several years past from hand to mouth, working at odd jobs in the summer, and in leisure time picking beries. It is a miserable thing to live in : suspense; it is the life of a spider, '

from the Ma con (Ga) Telegraph. A Veto Message From Andrew Jackson. Correspondent sends us the following, which he thinks would have been the sentiments and about the language of “Old Hickory,” had he lived to be President of the United States in 1867 : Executive Department) Washington, July 22, 1867. J To the self-styled Congress of the United States: I return to you the bill you have recently passed, and which has just been presented to me for my signature, without my approval of it.

This bill without any just reason, and without any necessity ' for it, and like the bills to which it refers, destroys and sets aside the civil government of ten States of this Union, and establishes militarygovernments in each of those States in lieu thereof, and that, too, in a time of perfect peace, when they are at peace not only with their sister States of the Union, but with the whole world, and . when no resistance is offered or attempted to be offered by citizens of these States to the Constitution, the laws, authority or Government of the United States—nor has any such resistance been at- ’ tempted within the last two years and over, as you very well know. This bill, therefore, seeks most openly and palpably to violate and destroy not only the Constitution of the United States, which we have all taken a solemn oath to support, but the constitutions of the individual States, and each and every one of you who vote for it is a perjured traitor. — And each and every one of you, by your own corrupt choice, have made yourself so. I can not and will not become a perjured traitor, too, which I would make myself if I were to give my sanction to this nefarious bill. It can therefore, never become a law by my consent—and that consent will never be given. Nor can this bill ever become a law without absolutely abrogating the Constitution of the United States, and which “by the eternal,” shall never be done while I have the power to prevent it. And if you still so unecessarily and recklessly persist in the passage of this bill over the Constitutional objections to it I tell you now, it never shall be carried out or executed, unless it is done over my dead body. lam sworn to support protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, as well as you are ; and although you may and have openly disregarded your solemn baths. I will not so disregard mine, but will keep and preserve it with my life if necessary. The people repelled the late effort to destroy the Union and they will as earnestly and successfully repel your unhallowed efforts to destroy their Constitution, and with it their rights and | liberties; and this they will do in less time, and at the sacrifice of less blood and treasure, I hope, than it cost to preserve the Union.—■ But at whatever cost, the Federal Constitution, as well as the Federal Union, must and shall be preserved, It was for the preservation of these, and these alone, that they fought before and for their preservation they will fight again, if a heartless persistence in your wicked measures to destroy both should make it necessary. The responsibility is with you. ANDREW JACKSON, A French chemist, having proved by practical test that fresh milk can be kept sweet and good for almost any given period, has received a prize of fifteen hundred francs from French Academy of Science- Hereafter darywomen can keep milk sweet as long as they please, “in spite of thunder.” Wait for others to advance your interests, and you will wait until they are not worth advancing.

Rottenness of the National Bank System. The disastrous failure of the Unadilla National Bank is perhaps only a premonitory symptom of the financial crash which every citizen feels is impending over this country. The crash may not arrive this year, or next; yet that it will come, no one entertains a rational doubt. Our whole financial system is a fabric without a foundation. Here and there speculation dislodges the loose quicksand that has sustained a column, and the arch so unsubstantially supported, tumbles down. Other and disconnected.arches may not be affected thereby; but another will fall, and another until, by and by, the whole fabric will come down with a crash. The rottenness of the whole national bank system is illustrated in the case of the Unadilla bank.— The liabilities of that concern are variously stated at from half a million to amillion ; while its assets, it is said, will be insuficient to pay ten cents on the dollar.— This refers to other creditors than those who hold its pictured promises to pay. Its issues, probably are somwhat better secured, by the bonds which the law requires shall be deposited in the national treasury. These bonds constituted probably about all the capital the bank had. Money to purchase them may have been borrowed, or the funds of depositors may have been used for the purpose; so that, in reality the bank, when its debts are paid, may have had no capital at all.

That a bank should be able to gain public confidence upon a foundation no more substantial than this may appear surprising to some slow going old fogies, ■ who still suppose that to carry on the business of banking requires money. The time when it did require money was before Mr. Chase invented our wonderful national banking system. Under the system, all a man needs to establish the biggest kind of a bank is a face to borrow, and an indisposition to pay. The system is rotten to the core, and is as certain to collapse as a bubble is when the shining surface is pricked. It is a question of time.— Chicago Times. Tunnell under the Atlantic. The Home Journal says a project is on foot to start the gigantic undertaking of a tunnell under the Atlantic Ocean, in order to connect the New and Old World together by means of submarine railway. The most eminent engineers, both in America and Europe, have been consulted, and they have up a report which is perfectly feasible, and only requires time and money to carrry out, while the capital, although stupendous, will be forthcoming. I So far as calculated approximately it will require five hundred million English pounds, or two billion five hundred million dollars.— Plenty of capitalist are ready to engage in this marvelous undertaking and as soon as the plans are arranged, the money will be advanced. The proposed plans are in themselves the wonder of this skillful age of engineering science. An extremely verdant agricultural laborer, having scraped together ten pounds, took it to his employer, with the request that he would take charge of it for him. A year after, the laborer went to another friend to know what would be the interest on it. He was told ten shillings. “Well,” said he, “I wish you would lend me ten shillings for a day or two. my master has been keeping ten 'pounds for me a year, and I want to pay him the interest for it.” A New Orleans editor says he counted 172 alliigators in a sail of six miles along a bayou. An exchange thinks this a stong allegation.

Necessary Fruita of tlie Military Bills-- A Southern ▼lew. The Charleston Mercury says: Let the military act be carried out in whatever way it may, we may be assured, as its fruits, of several things: 1. No representatives from thtf Southern States will be admitted to seats in Congress, and no State be admitted into the Union, unless they are of the radical party. All, therefore, in the Southern States who support their scheme of reconstruction, must be allies and members of this party, or encounter the disappointment of seeing efforts end in nothing. 2. There will be no finality in the existing acts of reconstruction. All the chief leaders of the radical party in Congress openly declare that they have further conditions and exactions to enforce upon us. This is exactly the course they have pursued, in all times past. Every concession or compromise we made before the war was but the prelude to further encroachments. But here, the military act does notimport that it is a finality, whilst its real authors openly avow their determination to enforce other conditons. 3. But supposing that the Southern States radicalized are admitted into the Union, and no further terms are exacted of them—they will not have peace. On the contrary, all the elements of discord, confusion and violence will be sown broadcast throughout the land. Tennessee, we presume, is a safe exemplar of radical reconstruction—with this difference, however, in the other Southern States—that they have a larger clement of negroism, and, therefore, of barbarism, to enhance its atrocities. Radicalism can not triumph in any Southern State, unless the black population is arrayed against the white. A war of races, will be inaugurated; and their siieeess, in combination with the negroes, implies negro rule, and negro rule means negro governors, negro legislators, negro judges, negro magistrates, constables, mayors, policemen, etc., and as thc’sequel to this sort' ot domination', 7 that we arc to have war.

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4. There is another consequence to follow, the ascendency of the ■ radical party in the South, which includes the North as well as the whole fabric of the Government of the United States, as a free Government, is to be over* thrown, and a centralized despotism erected in its stead, A Pithy Sermon to Toung Men. You are the architects of your own fortunes. Rely upon your own strength of body soul. Take for your motto Self Reliance.— Honesty and Industry. For your stars, Faith, Preservance, and Pluck, and inscribe on your banner, “Be just and fear not.” “Don’Ky take too much advice, keep at th a helm and steer your own ship.—. Think well of yourselves. Strike not. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Assume your sition. Do not practice excessive humility; and can’t get above your level. Water don't run up hill, put potatoes in a cart over a rough road, and the small ones will go to the bottom. Energy and Invincible Determination, with a right motive, are the levers that moves the world. The great act of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Don’t chew. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink. Don’t steal. Don’t deceive. Don’t tattle. Be polite. Be generous. Be kind. Study hard. Be in earnest. Be selfreliant. Read good books. Love your fellow man, as well as God, Love your country, and obey the laws. Love truth. Love Always do what your cppcience tell you to be a duty, and leave the consequences to God. The first time Jerrold saw a celebrated song ffriter, the latter said to him:

“Youngster, have you sufficient confidence in me to lend me a gujna ?” “Oh, yes, ’’said Jerrold, “I have all the confidence but haven’t the guinea.”