Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. OTf ICIAL PAPIB OF TUB COU2TTT. ■ ■l_ Wl .■■■■■, ~ DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUG. 16,1867. Democratic County Ticket FOR AUDITOR, 81YM0UB WORDEN. TOR CLERK, A. J. HILL. TOR •OMMISStONEH, 2d. Dili, JACOB SARFF. THE NEWS. The Indiaaapolis Herald argues that the Registry law passed by the last General Assembly is unconstitutional, and advances good reasons in support of its position, among them the Constitution of the State. The investigation in regard to the pardon of Sanford Conover shows that Ashley, Butler and other members of Congress laid a plot to convict President Johnson, with false witnesses, in the plot for the assassination of Lincoln. It is said this can be proven by the most irrefutable evidence. For their trouble they were to be splendidly rewarded. A nice set of fellows indeed. The oft repeated rumored resignation of Secretary Stanton is assuming tangible shape. It appears that the Secretary and President have disagreed for more than a year; that the breach has been growing wider daily, and that the President has looked for his resignation, all of which Stanton is cognizant of, but hangs on. Finally the President, several months ago, wrote him a letter asking him to resign, but from some cause it was not sent until last week. If Stanton persists he will be removed, the tenure office bill to the contrary notwithstanding. No man having a particle of self respeet would, after what has passed, remain in the Cabinet, and no other man in the United States would, if we except Ben Butler. Francis Joseph is reported to Lave declared, on hearing of the execution of Maximilian, he would never again sign a death warrant. There are 50,000 girls and young women employed in the shops and manufacturing establishments in New Fork. Their wages average five dollars a week. The question arises how can they live on such a trifle ? What suffering misery and even degradation must be hidden under such a life.

Twenty thousand New York daily papers are distributed to news dealers along the Hudson river every day. Two hundred dailies are thrown from the baggage car of the newspaper train every morning, iu front of various private residences between New York and Albany.

Temxesske Eijectiox.—The Tennessee election by which Brownlow was re-elected Governor by a large majority was one of the most outragous farces ever enacted upon any people. The Louisville Journal speaking of the result said:” Not a tenth part as much -freedom of suffrage existed in Tennessee on Thursday, as was permitted by Louis Napolean in 1852, when he got himself elected Emperor of France.” It was the machine voting of the negroes that elected Brownlow. The Radical negroes were organized and every conservative negro was threatened to have his life taken if he voted for Ethridge, Negroes were imported and furnished certificates of registration kt the saloons and offices opened for that purpose near every voting precinct. All that was required to get a certificate and vote, was a pledge to vote for Brownlow. In this way thousands of Kentucky and Alabama negroes voted, who had no moro right to vote than a nixie, -

White men iu the South have no right that a negro is bound to respect, and that a white radical, u.ider the military rule cannot rob Them of; Radicalism in Tennessee is only what it will be thorughout the South. Look out for a war of r l ies; the Radicals are fast inaugurating it. The Irishman was right when he said: “They tell xue the nager is going to be the w’-it-rnjsn in the future ''

Surratt Trial—We publish in another place a synopsis of Judge Fisher's charge to the jury in the Surratt case. The Judge is charged with being prejudiced, in his decisions during the trial, while the prosecution has left no stone unturned, and pursued a father discreditable course in the final argument against the prisoner.— The jury retired to debate upon their verdict on the 7th, and the probability is that they will disagree. Since the above was written we have further intelligence that the jury informed the court that they could not agree, they standing eight for acquittal and four for conviction, when they were ordered discharged and the prisoner remanded to jail. The jury would have agreed to find him guilty of the plot to abduct the President, but that was not what was wanted. A MeanlngleM Formality. In noticing the late so called election in Tennessee, the New York Times remarks, “the triumph of the Brownlow faction proves only the success with which it has manipulated the registration of voters. As an indication of State feeling or policy, it amounts to nothing. When a man in office posesses the power of disfranchising his opponents, his election or re-election can be considered only a sign of thorough, unscrupulous work—not of moral strength or personal or political popularity. And when he outrages propriety by appointing candidates as registrars. and so enabling them to adaptthe lists to their own convenience, the fact of their election follows as regnlerly as night follows day. Indeed, the Tennessee election was, on the whole, a meaningles’s formality. With four-fifths of the whites disfranchised, and with the registration altogether in the hands of brownlow and his men, what signifies the vote of Thursday last ?”— lnd. Herald.

The Largest Mountain.—The United States can boast of the highest mountain in the world —that is, the mountain of debt and taxation which radicalism has piled upon the energies and earn ings of the people since 1860. Iu this state a pleasant addition of one or two hundred thousand is being made to it, as a means of getting the word white out of the constitution. Such a luxury is cheap at that price in these times; and the “dear people” ought to be thankful for it. What’s a few dollars of taxation by the side of negroe and unqualified Indian suffrage. Those who take bread from the mouth of their children to pay taxas for such a purpose ought to be proud of the privilege —of course they ought! What is starvation compared with the privilege of being the equal of a negro or an untutored savage?— Detroit Free Press. The Cost.—An exchange well says, “out of every dollar the laboring man earns, about sixty cents is taken indirectly to keep the indolent negroes, to maintain military despotism over eleven States, and enrich abolition officials. This is why our poor men are kept poor, and our laboring men complain of hard times. It is the high prices and high taxes that takes their money, and it is the negro bureau, military despotisms, and abolition officials, that make the taxes high. To get rid of these, adicalism must be voted out of power.”— lnd. Herald. The Zeidler's correspondent of Berlin maintains that an armament is going on in France. The policy of the French Government has not taken up decided ground in any particular direction. It adds, perhaps the French policy will shortly find cause to occupy itself with thoughts of annexing the Hatien races, either from Spain or Italy. The Journal of Commerce, in dilating upon the recent bank failures, says: “The recklessness, the extravagance, and waste and theft which have ruined thousands, in and out of these banks, came chiefly from the influence of vicious currency, not necessarily connected with any national banking.” ! The Paris correspondence of the Pal! Mall Gazette says the French Embassador of Berlin has been in- • structed to demand an explanation ; for calling out the Hessian contingent of 250,000, whieh was not to assemble till next year. 5 : . > The First National bank, which failed at New Orleans a few weeks ago, swindled the government out ’ of *500,000. There were five hun- : dred individual depositors who t suffered also. The Mobile Times declares for General Grant for next President, j and Senator Fessenden for Vice 1 President. -, There is a bootblack who has a : bank account of *lO.npo

i Judge Ffsher’a Charge to > the Jury in the Surratt’s > Trial. Washington, Angust 7.—in the Suratt case to-day, after some dis- ’ cussion upon immaterial points, ! Judge Fisher .charged the jury at ! length, concluding as follows: . I have seen from the observations which have been adressed to you, you will infer first, that a con- ’ spiracy formed in time of war to take the life of the President and ■ Vice President of the Republic, and the heads of the Executive departments, for the purpose of aiding the enemies of the Federal government by throwing it into anarchy and confusion, is treason as heinous and as hurtful to the people of this country as conspiring the death of the King or Queen of Great Britain is to the subjects of that realm. Second—That every person engaged in such conspiracy as long . as he continues a member of it, is responsible not only for the act of treason, but for any murder or less crime which may flow from it Third—That the Government may waive the charge of treason against any or all of the conspirators, and proceed against them for the smaller crime of murder, included in the greater crime, treason. Fourth—That the indictment for a murder resulting from the prosecution of such conspiracy the evidence of the entire scope of conspiracy may be considered in estimating the heinous character of offense, laid in the indictment. Fifth—That it was necessary to aver in the indictment, the fact that Abraham Lincoln, the victim of murder, was at the time of its commission President of the United States; or to prove it, in order to allow the jury to take that fact into account in determining the heinous character of crime, it being a fact of which the court will take judical cognizanc. Sixth—That he who does an act by another docs it by himself, and is responsible for its consequence in criminal as well as in a civil case. Seventh.—That although an alibi when clearly established forms a complete an unanswerable defense, mere absence from the immediate scene of a crime resulting from conspiracy unrepented of and abandoned by the party will not avail him if he was at some other place assigned him, performing his part in that conspiracy. Eighth.—That this plea is’ unless clearly made out, always regarded with suspicion, and a circumstances weighed against him who atemptedit, because it implies an admission of truth of the facts alleged against him, and the correctness of inferences drawn from them. Ninth—That the flight from the scene of the crime; the fabrication of false accounts; the concealment of instruments of violence, are circumstances indicating guilt. Tenth—Although a confession in the slightest degree, tainted with the promise of favor or by duress or fear, is not admitted as evidence against him who makes it, and yet if made freely and voluntarily is one of the surestjevidences of guilt. As to the credibility of witnesses you are the exclusive judges; you see them face to face; you know whether they are confirmed or unsupported, or contradicted, by other witnesses of credit, or other circumstances; you are to judge whether their testimony has been impeached, and consider every matter that will shed any light as to what has been truhtfully or falsely deposed by any witness; you will dilligently collate, compare and carefully weigh and consider ah the testimony in the case on the both sides.

You will not disregard or reject the testimony of any witness, unless you are satisfied that he has been shown to be unworthy of pure evidence, by reason of his want of character for truth, his contradicting himself or flatly contradicted by others of better credit, or by dishonesty of purpose manifested by his conduct and inanner in testifying before you. In conclusion, you will take the case with the honest purpose to do justice to the United States and the defendant, bearing in mind that it is the office of the law to secure the punishment of the guilty and the protection of innocence. If John H. Surratt, in the honest and intelligent conviction of your judgement and consciences, is not guilty, so pronounce by your verdict, thus giving a lesson of assurance that a court of justice is an asylum of innocence. On the contrary, if guilty, pronouce him guilty, and by your verdict furnish a guaranty to the intended victims of guilt, and a testimonial to the country; and would that the District of Columbia was set apart by the Constitution of the United 'States as the theater for the exercise of the federal power which gives the judicial guarantees essential to the protection of the persons of public servants commissioned by the people of the nation to do the work safe and sacred from the presence of unpunished assassins within Rs borl?r».

The people of Abyssinia are said to belong to the Shemetic race, and to resemble the Arabs both in physical charactersitics and structure of language. The King is a Christian, and his religious faith is spoken of as very decided. His military strength may be judged of from the fact that on Jul 30, last year, in a battle with the forces of two insurgent, provinces, he is represented to have been at the head of ninety-five thousand men, and after a tremendous conflict, lasting all day, against a larger number of insurgents, whose evolutions were directed by English officers, he remained at night master of the field, though he purchased his success at a loss, of 23,000 dead and 18,000 wounded. Such an enemy situated on the remote Ethiopian plateau, England may find very difficult to reconstruct by force of arms. —. . I at a— ■ General Sherman’s opinion of Walrussia is concise, and thus pronounced: “Give ‘em seven millions to take it back, and be thankful to get off so cheap!” The various manufactories of hoop skirts in this country use up about one hundred tons of steel weekly. In Milwaukee they kill about fifty dogs a day and have a capital of from 5,000 to 10,000 to work on. The lowa Supreme Court has decided that national bank shares are not taxable in that State. A Southern paper speaks of one of its cotemporaries as a “free nigger nose rag.” .... O Six bushels of wheat to each inhabitant is the average this year. May we all get it. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS JAS. C. BRANYAN. HOMES J. HANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM, •A-ttorney’s at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler, In lianapolis, Ind. vllnWtf.

Sheriff’s Salo. W illiam Pease In the Court of Comvs. mon Pleas, of Adams George Stogdill ’ County, Indiana. Anthony D. Fox. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed and delivered by the Clerk of said court in the above entitled cause, I have levied upon and will expose for sale at Public auction, .at the Court House door, in Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, between the hours of one and four o’clock, P. M., on Saturday, Sept. 14, 1867, the rents and profits for a term not to exceed seven years of the following described real estate, viz: The north west quarter of the north east quarter of section four (4), township twenty-six (26) north, of range thirteen (13) east, containing forty acres. And on tailure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment upon which said order of sale was issued, with interest thereon and costs, I will, at the same time and manner aforesaid, offer for sale ths fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of the defend ant to satisfy said order of sale, this 14th day of August, 1867. JAMES STOOPS, Jb., Aug. 16,1867-w4. Sheriff. Notice of Attachment. State of Indiana, "» qg , Adams County, J" Before Robert, McClurg, J. P., of Monroe Township, Adams County, Indiana. Thomas Hendricks ) vs. [• Attachment. Samuel O. Clemens. J 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 0. 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 une will be taken by default as confessed, heard and determined in his absence. ROBERT McCLURG, Aug. 2, w 3. J. D. Sale of Town Property. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at private sale, on and after the 21th 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, I A ng, ?, wl, Guardi**,

WHEN VISITING FORT WAYNE DON’T FAIL TO CALL AT THK Head Quarter’s DEVS' GOODS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. Townley, DeWald, Bond & Co’s MAMMOTH PIONEER Comer Columbia eutxd. Calhoun. J9tx*eetnu Having superior facilities in a LARGE STORE and an EASTERN BUYER, Mr. R. W. TCWNLEY, whose long residence here has made him familiar with the wants and tastes of our people, and also buying and selling our GOODS FOR CASH, we are enabled to keep on hand the Largest and Best Selected Stock FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS! In the Western Country. Buying our goods at the lowest rates current in the East, and not being obliged to charge a little extra to pay for losses incurred by telling goods on credit, we are enabled te give our customers the inside or lowest prices for all kinds of Dry Goods. Geood Groodu eat low Frlcgai, Polite evttoxxtiou to Ou«tomerei, One Frice« Quicß Sales, Oxsa-gall Profflte, Govern oxxxr JDeaJU.xk.sal. Our space will hardly allow of an enumeration of the many STYLES and QU2 LITIES of GOODS kept by us. We are in almost daily receipt of NEW GOODS. BLACK AND COLORED DRESS SILKS! IN GREAT VARIETY. HANDSOME DRESS GOODS! French Merino, Repps, Poplins, Rombazines, Alpaccas, Velours, Wool DeLains, Mous DeLains, Valencias, Mohair, Prints, Gingham*. 9QISSTICS. Tickings, Stripes, Sheetings, Shirtings, Bleached and Brown Muslins, Dayton Carpet Chain, Batts, drain Bags, &c. WOOLENS. Plain Plaid and Striped Flannels, Shirting Flannels, Flannels for Dresses, Opera Flannels, White, Grey and Brown Flannels, Ac. GOODS FOR MEN AND BOY’S WEAR. Cloths, Cassimeres, Satinets, Roanoke and Summit City Jeans, Tweeds, Cottonades, Denims. HOUSE KEEPING DRY GOODS. Table and Towel Linens, Napkins, Toilet Quilts, Pillow Case and Sheetings, Muslins, Crashes. CABPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. Rugs, Matting, Piano and Table Covers, Shawls, Cloaks, Cloakings, Ladies’ Cloths, dec. CLOAKS MADE TO ORDER. Roop Skirts. Corsets, Cotton and Woolen Hosiery, Gloves, Fancy Wares, Notions, White Goods, Ac. We are determined not to lose our reputation for selling the BEST GOODS in the market AT THE LOWEST RjkTES. ALSO THE BEST YOUNG HYSON TEA, -ATTownley, DeWald, Bond & Co’s, CORNER COLUMBIA AND CALHOUN STS., Tiiuia Fort XVayne, IzxcULwnua-

CRABBS, MOSES & RICE, HEAD QUARTERS -»0B AU XWDI 09CLOTHING, HATS f CAPS, BOOTS t SHOES, GROCERIES, QUEENS WARE, J«., Which we .re offering .1 GREAT BARGAINS. We have added to our trade a well selected stock of CARPETS! of which, we will at all times, keep a good assortment, and at reasonable prices. Our Goods are of the best quality and styles. Great bargains are to be had in the following articles of Staple Dry Goods. 100 Pieces Prints, from 10 to 20 cts. 100 “ Sheeting, “ lhts.nu. 50 “ Detains, 25 cts., old Price. 20 “ Ginghams, 15 to 50 cts. Cottonades from 25 to 50c—Buy Sool All Wool Caslmeres ftom 75c to *I,OO per Yard less tban last Year. In presenting ourselves, under our new fim, 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 desirable a stock of Goods, in our line, a* 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 highast market price for ’WOOX-, ntshes, Black Salts, and COUWTBV PBODUC& CRABBS, MOSES & RICE. Decatur, June 7. vlln9tf. w. a. sriMcsa s. Mium. ——:o: NEW STOCK OJP HARDWARE, SPENCEft & MEtEEhs\ DECATUR, INDIANA. Locks, Latches, Butts, Screws, Trails, Iron, DOORS & SASH, Cabinet Hardware & Carpenter Tools. HAND. PANNEL. RIP & BUCK SAWS. Chisels, •Augers, Steel Squares, Boring Table and Pocket Cutlery. Also a great vareity of General Hardware being received every day. Cable Chains, Log Chains, Butt Chains, Halter Chains. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, Blows, Cultivators, Hoad Scrapers, Grain Cradles, Scythes, Rakes, Hoes, Ac. — — TSZOES BEST COOK STOVES in the market are kept by SPENCER & MEIBERS. We have also a large stock of good TIN WARE, which we can afford to sell as cheap as any House in the County. Remember the place—one door aorth •f Dorwin * Bre’a New Drug iter*. Jsae 7,1 Mt. *