Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1867 — Page 1

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OFFICE.—On Second Street, in the second sforyof Dorwin &-Brother's new brick building. Term* of Subscription. One copy, one year, in advance, $1,50 If paid within the year, 2,00 If paid after the year has expired 2,50 delivered by carrier twen-ty-five cents additional will Be Charged. BSTNa paper will be discontinued until all aPrerages are paid, except at the option of thp publisher. , . / Rates of Advertising. One column, one ypar, $60,00 One-half column, one year, 35,00 One-fourth column, one year, 20,00 J6@“Les,4 than.one-fourth column, proportional rates Willbe charged. Legal Advertising One square [the space of ten lines brevier] one insertion, $2,00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 Bfiy*No advertisement will be consid-ered-Less than one square; ever one square will ba.coanted. .and. charged as two; oyer two as three, he. ' 4@“Local notices fifteen cents a line for .each, insertion, S&-J leligious and JEducatianal No- . Ikes or Advertisements, may be contracted for at. lower rates, by applica°^ce' Js@rDeaths and Marriages published as news—free.’ or^'ClAl " DIRECTORY" - District Officers. Hon. JRob't.Lowry,.. . -. ,£irciiit Judge, r. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Ats y. Hon. J. W. Borden, ~ Com. Pipas Judge. T.B. Daily, Cpm. Pleas Prosecut’g Att’y. r County Officers. W. 0. Spencer,..Auditor. John McConnel,Clerk. Jesse Niblick, .’. . . Treasurer. W. J. Adelsperger, .Recorder. James Stoops Jr., . Sheriff; Conrad Reinking, ] Jacob.Sarff, . Josiah Crawford, J Town Officers. Henry B. Khoff,. Clerk. J). J. Spencei, . . Treasurer. William Baker,.Marshall. John King Jr.‘, ] David King, !■ ......’. . Trustees. , Dayid Showery,. J. . * Township Officers. Uxto’x.-—diH. Blakey, Trnstee; E. B. . Looker and. George D. Haokett, Justices; ifm.'May, Assessor. Root.—John,Ottristen, Trustee; Jacob Botf’cnberg arid Henry Filiin'g, Justices; Lyrnin Hart, Assessor, Pnr.Mj:.—John Rupright, Trustee; Ariraham Mangold and John Archbold, Justices; Jacob Yeager, Assessor. Kirkland.—Jonathan Bowers, Trus--tee; 8. D. Beavers and James Ward, Justices; John Hower, Assessor. Washington.,—John Meibers, Trustee; Jacob W. Grim and Samuel Merryman, Justices; Harlo Mann, Assessor. St. Mary’s.—■Ed'ward - McLeod, Trustee; S. B. Merris, Samuel Smith and William: Comer, Justices; SSmuel Teeple kAssessor. _• j» ‘ ", ; Bluecreek.—Samuel Eley, Trustee; C. M. France and Lemuel R. Williams, Justices; Christian Coffman, Assessor. ■Monroe.—-Joseph R. Miller, Trustee; Rdbbrt McClurg and D. M, Kerr, Justices; RobertE. Smith, Assessor French.—Solomon Shull; Trustee; Lot French and Vincent D. Bell, Justices; Aloqzp Sheldon, .Assessor, HARrttonD^—Alexander -Bolds,' Trustee; Benjamin Runyan and Martin Kizer, Sdn.j Jtaitiees; John Christman, Assessor. Wabash.—O. H. Hill, Trustee; Emanuel Conkle and James Nelson, .Justices; David McDonald, Assessor. Jefferson.—Jonathan Kelly Jb., Trustee; Justus Kelly and John Fetters, Justices; Wm.-Ketchum, Assessor. Tfime of Holding Courts. ' CiEcugf the Fonrth Monio Ajiril, andHhe Firrt-Mnnday- in 47eremb«r, bf eaehJyear. . . Common E&sas Court.—?On the Second Monday iri January, the Seiond Monday in May and the Second. Monday in Sep-, temper, of each year. Commissioners Court.—Op the First Monday in March, the First Mojqday in June, the First Monday ill September, and the Firpt. Monday in- December, of each year.. CHURCH DIRECTORY. , Bt. Mary’* (Catholic, y~rßervices every Sabbath at 8 o’clock and 10 o'clock, Ar Mt -Sabbath Scbqol-or..instruction in Catechism, at 1 j o’clock, P. M.; Vespers at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath, at 10} o’clock A'. M. arid 7 o’clock P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock A. M. Rev. I). N. Pastor. Bresbytebian. —Services at 10} o’clock A. M., ajul 7’6’?lqck P. M. Sabbath School at 2 o'clock P. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. t ’ . DRUGS. —-U—» ■ — 111' fi « M a- l IMIRWf W & BRO., DrugSjMsJicißeSjCkefflicals, Perfumery, Coal v Oil and Camps, ».Hia ■_ D^T^R,y. : M -j-y:: e Phy si mahs’ Prescriptions ’ carefully «*4pM*M,iiMd'bxd«ft>- answered' wit* care and Phyririfctw firomr the- ce.atry Witt' find- our ■teefe Vs Radiomen tifompteUf warranted gonrilne, and es ths best qnißly. »’

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ATTORNEYS. D. D. HEtLEIL Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA, Will practice "his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Borg, over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. vlons2tf. BOBO, Attorney at Law, Pension & Bounty Agent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws' Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and colle'cts Bounties and Pensions. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Offtte - - vlon6tf. D. STUDABAKER, Attorney at Law, -AJKTID Claim &Heal Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; bay and sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business per taming to Real Estate Agency., He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instrumentsof writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE ACENTS/ JameFrTbobol LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, of good farming . * JvJvy land,, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale,. If you want to buy a good, farm of wild.land he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. Fosale, ho charge. , vlOnGtf PHYSICIANS. F? A. JELIdEFis Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’S Store. vßn!stf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. A YERS,IK, -RESIDENTEye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vllnOtf. -!■! » i i- UNI ,u 1 • f,. _ AUCTIONEER. C. M. FRANCE Would announceto the public that 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,. DECATUR, IJI'D., 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. vllnStf. MONROE HOUSE, MONBOEVIU.E, INDIANA. A/; ::: : : :■, Proprietor, This House is prepared to accoihmodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. WJTIIEET EXCHAIGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. EOR T IJTD . vllnllyl. HEDEKIV HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WA YNE, IND. EM KEARNS, Proprietor, Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. ■'.‘. j vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J". LESMAN, . ... . Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and- Wayise its.p FORT-WAYME, vllnllyl. Indiana?MOMILK ■ raw MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDAUE,.. .. . . Proprietor. Tb aTsow Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vlliillyl,.

DECATUR, FRI DA Y, AUG. 23, 1867.

’ A DREAM OF SUMMER. YB JOHN G. WHITTLES. Bland as the morning breath of June The southwest breezes play; And, throng its haze, the winter noon Seems warm as summer’s day The snow-plumed Angel of the North * Has dropped his icy spear, Again the mossy earth looks forth, Again the streams gush clear. ’ The fox his hillside cell forsakes, The muskrat leaves his nook, I The blue bird on the meadow brakes Is singing with the brook . - ‘’Bearup, O, Mother Nature’ cry Bird, breeze and streamlet free, “Our winter voices prophesy * Os summer days to the!” So, in these winteiw of the soul, ( By bitter blast and drear, O'erswept from memory’s frozen pole, Will sunny days appear, I Reviving Hope and Faith they show i The soul its livin-r powers, j •r.OU I . Aud nowbencath the winter’s snow i. Life gems of summer flowers! i , The Night Mother of the day; The Winter of Hie Spring, Arid over upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling, Behind the clod the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall: For God who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all. Dead Broke. BY THE “FAT CONTRIBUTOR.” We found a mar seated on a curb-stone, near the Post Office, last night, muttering to himself apparently, as there was no one else to mutter to. We felt constrained to ask him what he was doing there ? “llain’t doniu’ nothin’,” was the reply. ... r. “Where do you belong ?” “Don’t belong nowhere, ami nowhere don’t b’Fong to me.” “Who are.you?” ... “I'm Broke.” , “Well, suppose you are broke, you have got a name, haven’t you ? What is it?” “I tell ye I’m broke—-Dead Broke; that’s my name, and that’s my nature. .My father was broke before me. If he hadn’t been I wouldn’t be Broke now; at least, not so bad. My mother was a Peasley, but she wanted a husband, and she got Broke, that’s my dad; and Broke got me. I’ve been broke ever since.” For a few moments the unhappy D. Broke hurried his face in his hands, and seemed lost in the most doleful reflections. Then raising his head, he. exclaimed bitterly: “I wish I.hsd been born a colt.” “Why do you wish you had been born a colt ?” “Because a c>?lt ain’t broke until he is two or three years old. I was Broke the moment ! saw the light, and I never got over it. It is hard to be broke so young.” “How did your parents come to call you “Dead Broke ?” “Well, ye see, as soon as I was born something seemed to tell me that I had got to be Broke all my life unless I could get my name changed by act of Legislature, and that, you know would be an sibility.”“How an impossibilify ?” “Are you such a blockhead as to suppose that a man can get anything through the Legislature when he is Broke ?” “You are right. Go on.” “When the conviction forced itself upon my infant brain, confused ag it was by recent experience, that I' miist be Broke all my life, I felt there was nothing left to live for, and lost all consciousness at once, ' (I have fbtmd only ’of it since).” is dead,” cried my mother, wringing her hands.” i p “I revived, alas! but Dead Broke became my name, and I have been dead broke “My name has’been fatal to me all through life. The smallest boy

in school always broke me in playing marbles. I broke more windows than any other boy playing base ball. I always broke down at recitations, and had my head broke every clay by the school-mas-ter. When I left school I went to clerk for a broker. One day there was a heavy deficit in the accounts. I was afraid he he might think that I had something to do with it; so I broke. They caught me though, and put me in jail; but I broke out.” “Out of jail . “No, d—it-, broke out. with the small-pox.” “What did you do next ?” “After the court had disposed of my case, I was allowed to go into the brokerage business again.” f “How was that ?” “I broke stone in the Penitentiary, dog on it. After I got o.ut I broke everything; I broke my promise, broke the Sabbath and broke the pledge.” “Was you ever married ?” “Yes, (sighing deeply) matrimony broke me up worse than anything else. My wife was a regular ripper. She broke up my furniture and the dishes, nearly broke my back with a flat iron, aud finally broke my heart.” “By running away ?” “No, indeed, by sticking to me.” “You have had a hard time of it.”

“All owing to my name. But bad as I disliked it, it’s mine; I come by it honestly. You would not*think any body else would want to be in my place, would ye ? but there are thousands of impostors all over the country trying to pass themselves off for me.” “In what way ?” “When they tell their creditors that they are ‘Dead Broke.” There was another pause during which the unhappy possessor of an unfortunate name could be heard to sob. At length he broke out-~ “It will be a simple and fitting inscription for my tombstone, though.” “What?” “Dead Broke.” Remarkable Ocean Race. A remarkable ocean race, between two clippers, is noticed I>y the San Francisco Times. Two elipper ships—the Morton and the I’rima Donna—sailed together fro mt the port of New York on the 14th of February, they were towed outside Sandy. Hook side by side, so near to each other that conversation was maintained by. the two commanders. Large sums were wagered by the friends of these ships bn their respective favorite reaching this port first.— The vessels Crossed the equator, in the Atlantic,on the same day, although not in the same longitude. They entered the Straits of Le Maire on the same day, and came out of them on the same day. They crossed; the equator, in the Pacific, on the same day and in the same longitude. Both ships arrived at San Francisco on the same day, within three hours of each other, after a race of sixteen thousand miles. These facts, says the Times demonstrate the accuracy that has been attained in the science of navigation. The Paducah (ky.) Herald relates a good story of a devout preacher thereabouts, who met with au amusing mishapen, while leisurely walking up the street, with a bundle neatly wrapped in a newspaper under his arm. He was very sanctimonious, and looked as though the very thought of drinking a glass of ale or beer would shock his moral sensibilities to such a degree as to throw him into spasms. Leisurely and sanctimoniously he peregrinated when suddenly a loud, splashing report on his left caused him to dodge and jump as though he was shot—but he wasn’te An examination showed that the bottle of ale “under his left arm” had bursted.

The National Debt—The Extent of Its Burden, and how It can best be Paid. A well known and inteligen! financier makes the following proposition for the payment of the debt, in a communication to the Nashville Union and Dispatch ; The debt of the United States is now in round numbers three thousand millions of dollars. The interest on which is about two hundred millions of dollars pei an nun, or about a half a million o! dollars every day the year around, every dollar of this enormous sun is paid by taxation, and the bonds not taxed. How long can any nation stand this awful load on its industry? Is there no remedy for such an evil ? I think there is, and I be lieve that even this large debt can be made a national blessing, and can be made to reconstruct the country, restore it to prosperity and happiness. How can so desirable a result be brought about ? The Government has reserved the right to pay its bonds after five years from the time they were issued, and they were bought with not only the knowledge of this fact, but also of the fact that the notes issued by the Government (commonly called greenbacks,) were a legal tender, it can not therefore be considered as a violation of contract, or a want of good faith for the Government to pay off these bonds with greenbacks- Let the Government do this say by issuing one thousand million dollars in greenbacks during the year 1868, and pay the amount of bonds, and in 1869 pay another thousand million dollars, and then during the year 1870 pay the remainder in the same way. In the meantime let the taxation bo fixed so as to yield one hundred million of dollars per annum, aud this money set aside sacredly to the exclusive purpose of cancelling and burning one hundred million of dollars annually of greenbacks. Thus in thirty years the whole debt will be wiped out by tax of just half of what is now paid for the interest; and at the end of thirty vears the country will be free of debt, whereas, under the present system, at the end of thirty years the debt will still be unpaid, and we will have paid, in that time, twice the amount of the debt in interest alone. What will be the effect of throwing this amount of paper money on the country ? Most beneficial. The immense amount of capital now locked up, doing no good except making the rich bondholder richer, and the poor tax-payer poorer, would be invested in manufactories, in railroads, in agriculture,, instock raising, and in hundreds of ways, giving life and employment to thousands of people who arc now disheartened, distressed and needy. The vacant lands now growing up in weeds would bloom in bountiful crops.— The hundred millions of dollars needed far the sinking of that amount of greenbacks would be paid without being felt, and the national debt thereby turned to a national blessing indeed. New energy—new life and hope would be infused into the country. The incubus of a privilege and moneyed aristocracy would be rid ofthe odious an opressive system of banking, now fastened on the country and eating its vitals up daily. Who can calculate the development an improvement of the country under the proposed change the owners of national banks, and perhaps others, may raise a hue and cry against the policy of issuing so much money and raise the, senseless clamor of sounds without any meaning.— Suppose the half dozen factories, and half dozen railroads, and a hundred farms, and a dozen coal mines are thereby built and set going, and thousand of persons employed at godd wages, and a home market created for every commuity, is any one injured ?—•.

Suppose, under the “inflated currency” reign, the tax collectors come round for the hundred millions annually and every man has his pocket full of money, is any body injured by that? Every man who pays a dollar of this tax then feels that he is regenerating his country, he sees that each year makes the debt less and while he is working to pay the debt of his Government it is helping him to do so, and the burthen getting lighter and lighter, every year. We then have hope, worth more than all else to man. Under the present system we work and labor, and save and pay taxes thnt bring no relie/’; at the end of the year onr heavy load remaining on our shoulders, and we begin the new year with the same cheerless, hopeless load weighing us down to the earth, with no capital invested in any enteprise that stimulates the industry of the country. A Railroad Acquaintance. A Western railroad conductor tells the following capital hit, ot which the “makes a note.” “One day last week,” ,said he, there came on board the cars, from one of the up country stations, a pretty, genteel young lady, on her way to this city. She was alone; so I waited upon her to a good seat, and made her as comfortable as possible. It was a few min-, utes before the starting hour, and she was so agreeable and so talk ■ ative, that I lingered, and we had a pleasant chat. “Afterward, when collecting the tickets, she detained me again an instant, and gave me some fine peaches, which she said came from her friend's orchard in the country; and really I began to think I had not had so charming a passenger in many a day. “Well, we arrived at the depot; and then I attended her to the carriage, handed up her carpet bag; and, after all, what do you think she said ?” Now we-thought, of course, the young lady would say very politely, “Thank you, sir”—smile like a gleam of sunshine, the carriage roll off—aud our friend John Van Dusen, the gentlemanly conductor, would bow an adieu, and with a sigh turn away, and forget the matter, and we stated that as a natural supposition. “No.” said the conductor, “she did no such thing; but just as her foot was on the step, she turned, aud with a sort of look I can’t describe, observed: “You must consider this, sir, merely a car acquaintance. You must not expect to he recognized if we meet any where else ?” John drew a long breath “What did you say ?” we asked.

“Why, I thought this rather uncivil, to say the least, so I replied very quickly: “Certainly not, madam. I was just going to remark that you must not feel slighted if unnoticed by me any where, except on the cars, for really, we conductors have to be careful about our acquaintances P “And the lady ?” said we. “She looked quite sadly, as she drove off,” replied John. A keener response to an example of female “snobism” could not have been made, nor better deserved. The rads are delighted. An exrebel officer presided at one of their meetings in Virginia, and a big, greasy nigger occupied a seat on the platform as vice president. So it seems that a man’s acts in the past is nothing if his political sentiments are right now. Why this bluster about rebels ? Suppose allthe rebels down South should turn radicals, wouldn’t they be angels then ? Os course they would. You can’t be sure that a dog is not cross till he wags his tail. So before you undertake to pat him, “wait for the waggin.” .. ,

- : ■ • • -- — ——>——- — , Congressional Profligacy. TTie Rochester Union, referring I to Bingham's charge that Schenck j was drunk, says; Schenck is a fair ; specimen of the majority of our I “rulers” iit C6ng*ess. A'more profligate and demoralized set of men than Senators and Representatives in the present Congress never assembled at the national Capitol. We have the evidence of Colonel Piatt, one of the- leaders of the Repuclican party in Ohio, that a committee of the last session, ascertained the fact that a high officer of the Government had robbed the public treasury of a million dollars, but smothered the matter for the time being, lest it “might affect the next elections.” In the New York Heralds recently published account of a long interview with Thad Stevens at Lancaster, the latter, m explaining why he was finally induced to accept the Sherman re-construction bill, is quoted as follows : “Some men had.their wives at Washington and their women at home, and other men their women at Washington and their wives at home, and it was impossible to keep them together. The bill was not all we wanted, but it was the best we could get, and so we passed it.” “Mack,” the well known correspondent of the Cincinnati Coritmercial, boldly makes the following charges, which he stands ready to substantiate. “It can be shown that the members of Congress own stock in the street railroads of Washington for which they never paid a cent, or rendered any other return than their votes for the acts of incorporation, and their subsequent acts to authorize the increase of fare from five to seven cents. “It can be shown that the two houses have been, time and again, influenced by the paltry consideration of free passes in their votes upon matters affecting the greatest railroad monopolies in the country. “It can bo proven that members of Congress have appeared in their seats as the attorneys for railroad corporations. “It can be proven that the members of the two houses were directly bribed for their votes on the whiskey tax two years ago.. .. “It can be proven that Senators positively agreed to confirm Mr. Cowan as Minister to Austria last winter, if he would get Mr. Johnson to appoint their relatives to office. “All of these things and a hundred more, can be proven to the satisfaction, if not of Congress, at least of the country, if the opportunity be but presented.” The man who makes these charges is a Republican, and the paper which prints them is Republican. The men charged with corruption are the immaculate patriots who sacrifice themselves upon the altar of their country by consenting to serve in Congress that the Government may be kept out of the hands of copperheads,” and who propose to turn the President out of office for misbehavior! A letter from the Plains gives the following account of an encounter a foreign scientific gentleman of the Topographical Corps, had with an “essence peddler “A few days since he saw a beautiful black and white animal running along a ravine, and shouting out to those nearest him, he start ed in pursuit. The answer camo, “Kill him! kill him!” and thus cheered the German went in for victory. He closed and grappled with the beautiful creature, but in an instant he let go the animal, and. grasping his nose he started for the camp. He had it all his own way; every man avoided him. At length, maddened beyond eqdurance, he let go his nose and shouted out, “You ish nice shentleman; yaw, you ish sehr noice shentlemans! You spheak gill him, gill him, why you no gill him den ? In mein land, die leute say sthop, sthop.” He might have continued longer, but he had to hold his mouth in order to take hold of his nose again. He vows now that when he sees another “putty little ding, he goes mit de gun, and by tam, he kills him, und den he shnst puts it up on de tent pole, by tain.'*

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