Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE OWCTAt PAFBR Ct TH* COV*tl. DECATUR, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUG. 33,186 T. Democratic County Ticket »0* AVDITOB, 81TM0UR WORDIM. TO* CL«R*, A. J. HILL. to* •OMMISMO.XSB, 2d. Mir., JACOB SARFF. THE YEYFfi. A Galveston, Texas, dispatch reports the yellow fever raging terribly at that place. Twenty deaths occurred on the 12th; thirty-one on the 13th, and twenty-nine on the 14th. Over one thousand cases were in town on the 16th. The hospitals are overflowing, and the managers ore calling for extra help. The internal revenue office is closed, and the employees are all sick The Sultan, on his return to Constantinople, received the address from the Grand Vizier whom he left in charge of the government during his absence. In his reply the Sultan, after recounting his recent journey to Western Europe, says as the result of his observations that he is prompted to inaugurate a new era of progress for the Ottoman Empire, and promises to submit his measures of reform for the benefit of his subjects. General Rousseau has arrived in Washington. He has been detailed, by the President, to receive on behalf of the government, our recently acquired Russian territory, and will meet the Russian commissioner there for that purpose, and proceed to Sitka with him. A prominent leather dealer of Philadelphia sold two sides of leather weighing one hundred and two pounds at twenty-five cents per pound, amounting to $55 10. The leather is the hide of an extra fatted ox which was killed at one of the barbacues preceding the election of Gen. Harison to the Presidency, about twenty-five years ago; It was r.Tigiay’y tanned fbr belting purintt hesEgs ramsrkai ly good j paOem aids, red sxm well tan-. itww feptaacy-yes-5 ss a speumsn.

Tha lira EfessoTed See- : * retary Scan, i:- . 'iaLerai Grant is ’ ■ naw aetiiig c-fTsr. Max-mi-aaf» wxtfcrw is nor in j Belgium. iier Physicians have : 1 expressed as opinion that she was ! 1 poisoned in Mexico. * The Washington Constitution- ( •list says that Congress man Ashely, who was so conspicuous in the ' impeachment of the President, will be inditced in the District for conspiracy to displace the President through perjured witness. Lopez, who betrayed Maximill - ian, has been assassinated. The T 'resident’s policy toward j the millitary commanders will bethat of gradual decapitation.— Sheridan will probably be the first victim and Pope the next. Should other commanders profit by the fate of these two, and gracefully fall in the Johnsonian policy, they will be allowed to remain in office for a long, time, and may not be stirred at all, if they support the policy heartily and earnestly ; but when Sheridan is re-, moved and the rest tender their resignation, there will be no obstacle in the way of their retirements. A bill is being prepared by Southern Radicals, which will provide for confiscation, a re survey of the land of the seceeded States, and grant preemptions to negroes and Union soldiers. The remainder to be sold, the proceeds to be employed in reenabur sing loyal men for property destroyed and confiscated by the rebels, and the balance to be used in the. payment of pensions to disa : bled soldiers. We don’t wish to preempt. —— — •>—-— ■ w I . ■ The Traitor Lopez.—Colonel Miguel Lopez, the traitor, after Belling Maximilian and his Gen-* feral, went to Puebla to visit his wife. His reception was decidedly Cold,: His wife advanced to meet him, leading his little son by the band, and addressed him thus: •'Sif, here layout sbn ; we can not c.nthimin two. Take him. Yon are a hasp coward and traitor. You have betrayed your country and your benefactor. From this ,we. are strangers, for I.sliall thi? day'retfirb to my family. Go.”

Protectloa. There is a loud cry coming from the eastern manufacturers. They have large stocks of goods on hand which they are unable to sell, and they have little prospect of a market The friends of protection, of the Radical party, have been piling tariff amendment upon tariff amendment, for the two-fold purpose of raising revenue and protection to home manufacturers, until the tariff nearly amounts to a prohibition, in fact does as to the coarser grade of fabrics, that are consumed by our farmer* and mechanics. The result is, on these articles Government receives no revenue, while the tariff has enabled the manufacturers to charge prices for their goods that has not only stripped these classes of their money, ’ but placed them in debt, and now they are unable to purchase, except articles of the strictest necessity. What our merchants can’t, sell they don’t buy; the consequence is the immense stocks of goods accumulating at the manufactories. As long as they could sell they could double their capital every two years, but having robbed their customers, they now begiu to feel, in a slight degree, the measure of distress tbey have imposed on others. -Our Radical friends love to dwell upon the benefits of protection ; of home markets, and very many other pretty stories, which practically carried out enrich the manufacturer, and rob the working classes. Protection is just as beneficial to the manufacturer as untaxed bonds to the bond-holder; it makes the burden of the public debt fall upon the tillers of the soil and the mechanics of the country’, and leaves manufacturers without competition, and without taxes .to pay. No wonder our people are unable to purchase their goods.

Arrest of Bradley.

JosephH. Bradley, the attorney of John H. Surratt, was arrested in Washington, on the 14th inst., charged with sending a challenge to Judge Fisher, before whom Surrat was tried. The arrest was made under a law of the District to prevent dueling, under which the sending or accepting a challenge is punishable with not exceeding five years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. The following is a copy of the note: WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 1867. Hon. George P. Fisher—SIR: In the altercation which occurred between us when you returned to the court room, after the adjournment, on the second of July last, you observed that you were sick, and were then pleased to add: “You know where to find me, and I hold myself responsible in every form for whatever I say or do,” or words to that effect. After which you applied to me most approbious [sic] epithets. I told you I could wait, and I am grateful to find that you have recovered, and that the trial of this pending case being now closed, we are both at liberty.— That no time may be unnecessarily lest, I beg you will let me know as soon as you conveniently can, when it will suit you to meet me out of the district, that we mav arrange to our mutual satisfaction the points of difference between us without incurring the risk and odium which might accompany any controversy here or in public. With the same view, I take the liberty to hand you this note in person, and am, sir, Your most obe't ser't, JOSEPH H. BRADLEY. ---<>--- Desperate Fight With Indians Etc. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15. An Omaha dispatch says information has been received at military headquarters that on the 2d instant, five miles from Fort Phil Kearney, an ox train and wagons transporting supplies, escorted by Major Powell with a small force of infantry, was attacked by two hundred to three hundred Indians. A desperate fight ensued, lasting three hours, when Major Smith came to the rescue from the fort, and the Indians retired taking away all their dead but five and driving off all the stock. Major Powell reports sixty in [sic]dians killed. His own loss was Lieutenant Jennes and five men. He attributes his successful defense to the long range new breech loading arms. The Indian alarms continue along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. Only day trains are allowed to run. General Augur and Superintendent Denman say that Turkey Foot, the chief of the Cheyennes, is alone guilty of the Plum creek massacre, and is now camped ninety miles south of the Platte river.

About the National Debt. The Detroit Tribune is not pleased, on the contrary, is very much displeased, with our advocacy of the payment of the national debt in non interest bearing obligations of the government of the United States just exactly as individual debts are paid. It puts the case to to us in this wise: “The government had to have money in order to prosecute the war for the Union. It had to raise it upon its bonds, and it could not have raised it without making those bonds payable in gold, or converitble into other bonds that should be payable in gold. It borrowed on its promises to pay in gold, and it received the market value for those promises to pay in gold. Last spring was it necessary that the community should have flour, even at nearly double its ordinary price, where is there a shadow of difference between the case of a five-twenty bond and that of a note given for flour at $lB per barrel ?” The difference is here, if the TW&ane intends, as we suppose it does, to lay down a perfect parallel; the courts—the judicial branch of the government —hold that the note of an individual payable in gold, whether it be given for flour at 318 per barrel, or even for the precious metal itself at one hundred cents on the dollar, can be legally cancelled by the tender of United States Treasury notes; the Tribune and the other organs of the bond aristocracy insist that the five-twenty bonds can be cancelled only by the golden pound of flesh. This is the difference which we contend should not exist. Having great reverence for the majesty of the law and the decisions of the courts, we bow in humble submission to them, and only ask that the government in its dealings with individual citizens shall observe the same rule that it prescribes for their dealings with each other. Will the Tribune be good enough to inform us whether it considers a promise to pay in gold in exchange for depreciated currency extorted from the Government in the midst of its necessities any more sacred than a promise to pay in gold voluntarily given in exchange for such excellent flour as we get from Michigan white wheat ? Will it tell us what justice there is in permitting the flour purchaser to liquidate in greenbacks, while the purchaser of paper worth only 36 6-13 cents on the dollar is held with Shylock firmness to the strict letter of the nomination of the bond?— Rochester (W. T.) Union.

A note of Warning. The Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, while felicitating itself upon the “great radical victory” in Tennessee, has the honesty to confess that the triumph is the work of despotism. The Springfield Journal thinks it a matter of congratulation that all the unreconstructed States will follow in the wake of Tennessee, but hdnesty being uppermost, acknowledges that “the way in which this is to happen gives thoughtful men some anxieties for the future.”— We quote a very remarkable passage from this candid paper “The foresight that the negro vote is to control everything is not having a favorable influence upon the white people of the South and we can not forget that the whites constitute two thirds of the population of the States that are to be surrendred to the control of a mass of ignorant blacks, and that these whites must inevitably become the dominant class very soon, whatever happens this year. **** * » ♦ * We know what the Hunnicutts and other leaders of the negroes have threatened, and what hopes and purposes they have raised among their credulous followers.— Sh%ll we see Brownlow despotism and anarchy extended over the entile South for the next ten years; and order preserved only by keeping the eight millions of whites quiet under the rule of bayonets ? If our statesman could have taken a glance into the future they would have seen that “universal amnesty and universal suffrage” was the true solution.— This would have averted the peril which is now so obvious-—re-con-struction by a minority incapable of governing wisely or of holding a power permanently, except by the continued support of the General Government. When the whole people of the South come to be again enfranchised as they must be, what have we gained by the temporary ostracism of the largest and most intelligent portion but their fixed dislike? We might have done infinitely better than this. A new anaesthetic has come into fashion of late in Paris. It is quadrichloride of carbon, which possesses an agreeable smell of quinces, and can produce insensibility in less than a minute. This insensibility may be maintained with or without loss of consciousness; the effects cease speedily when desired, and are not followed by vomiting. It has also been successfully used for obstinate headache.

Paragraphs. -Sir Morton Peto is good for about half a cent on a dollar. -The registration in Alabama foots up thus: White voters 39,352; colored 58,830; total 98,182. -John Paul, of the Springfield Republican, says he is a great comfort—a whole female seminary could find shelter upon hi* manly bosom.

-Twenty-eight of the alumni of the Andover Theological Seminary died last year, at an average age fifty-nine and a half years. -General Breckinridge and lady continue to live in Paris, as guests of the family of Mrs. Burbank, of Kentucky. -Northern knaves are selling land scrip to the Georgia negroes. They purport to be good when the Government confiscates. -A young man was jailed in Virginia, the other day, for the crime of suggesting that one of the registrars was not a gentleman. -A new block is going up in Omaha that wifi cost over $150,000. A numder of private residences, costing from SIO,OOO to $30,000 each, are also going up -The event that has made the most noise in the world lately, is the popping of the question by the King of Abyssinia to Queen Victoria. New York News. .-Chicago is an Indian word meaning wind.” These aboriginal linguists, says an exchange, deserves to rank along with the prophets. -A Pittsfield, Massachsetts, woman wore $30,000 worth of diamonds at a wedding party lately. Her husband was a quartermaster of the loyal strife. -Miss Charlotte Thompson, the actress, manages a plantation in Alabama successfully. Her cotton crop this year is said to be one of the best in tha State. -A horrible monstrosity has appeared in Louisville—a pig with a human face. It lived thirty-six hours, and cried like a child and grunted dike a pig while alive. -The editor of the Bangor, Maine, Whig says he knows of but one-man who is perfectly happy and contented, and he is an inmate of the poor house of that city. -Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon delivered recently, said that more public men of eminence had started from the business of type setting than from probahly any other occupation. -The Davenport brothers have a rival in a new wizard who has made his appearance in England. He not only shuts himself up in a box, but gets out without opening the door. -The debt of the New England States in 1866, was as follows: Connecticut, $10,000,060; Vermont, $1,567,500; Maine, $5,803, 681; Massachusetts, $25,555,747 ; New Hamshire, $4,160,818 ; Rhode Island, $3,628,500. -It is said the French Emperor will be one or two hundred thousand dollars in debt before the exhibition closes in consequence of the magnificent entertainments he has so constantly given during the summer.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE. The first business year of the firm of A. CRABBS & CO. will close on the Ist day of September, 1867, and we would say to our customers that we shall expect and require a settlement with each and every one that is owing us, by that date, and those whose notes and accounts are due we -shall expect prompt payment, as we cannot buy goods without money. We accommodated you by waiting on you, now please oblige us by paying up when we need it. A. CRABBS & CO. Aug. 23, w 2. Meat Market. For the purpose of supplying the citizens of Decatur with fresh meats, the undersigned will have for sale, at bis shop on Second street, formerly occupied by I. G. Baker as a shoe shop, on Tuesday and Saturday Mornings, of each week during the season, a choice supply of fresh Meats. Give me a call. ELI ZIMMERMAN. vlln2om3. “Beyond the Mississippi." A Complete History of the New States and Territories from the Croat River to the Great Ocean. BY ALBERT D. RICHARDSON. >SF*2O,OOO Copies Sold in one Month.-®# Life and adventure on Prairies, Mountains, and the Pacific Coast. With oyer 200 descriptive and photographic viewsof the scenery, cities, lands, mines, people and curiosities of the new States and Territories. To prospective emigrants and settlers in the “Far West,” this History of that vast and fertile region will prove ah invaluable assistance,' supplying, as it does a want long felt of a full, authentic, and reliable guide to climate, soil, products, means of travel, etc., etc. AGENTS WANTED.—Send for Circulars and see our terms, and a full description of the work. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 148 West 4th Ft., Cincinnati, Ohio, virusowi.

WHEN VISITING FORT WAYNE DON’T FAIL TO CALL AT TH* Head Quarter’s JET* X dry good® IN NORTHERN INDIANA. Townley, DeWald, Bond & Co’s MAMMOTH PIONEER Coraor Ooluxn.'bia cutxd. CaLhovin otx*o»ta*. Having superior facilities in a LARGE STORE and an EASTERN BUYER, Mr. R. W. TOWNLEY, whoso long residence here has made him familiar with che-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 low incurred by telling good* on credit, we are enabled te give our customers the inside or lowest prices for all kind, of Dry Goods. Good Goods «vt low Price*, Folite attention to Ovtßtomers, Oxxo Quick. Ktvyiga.ll Promt*, Govoin our EJoaling*. Our space will hardly allow of an enumeration of the many STYLES and QUALITIES of GOODS kept by us. We are in almost daily receipt of NEW GOODS. BLACK AND COLORED DRESS SILKS! IN CREAT VARIETY. HANDSOME DRESS GOODS! French merino, Repps, Poplins, Bomba zines, Alpaccas, Velours, Wool DeLains, iUous Detains, Valencias, Mohair, Prints, Ginghams. „ WHM. Tickings, Stripes, Sheetings, Shirtings, Bleached and Brown Muslins, Dayton Carpet Cham, Batts, Grain Bags, &c. WOOLEMS. 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, Counterpanes, Toilet Quilts, Pillow Case and Sheetings, Muslins, Crashes. CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS, Rugs, matting, Piano and Table Corel’s, i Shawls, Cloaks, Cloakings, Ladies’ Cloths, Ac. CLOAKS MADE TO ORDER. Hoop 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 A.T THE LOWEST RATES. ALSO THE BEST YOUNG HYSON TEA, Townley, DeWald, Bond & Co’s, CORNER COLUMBIA AND CALHOUN STS., viitjio JF’ox’t Wayxio, Xxx<JUL»>xx«..

CRABBS, Mm & RICE, HEAD QUARTERS ->O* ALL KIBDC o»W fem, clothixg, HATS $ CAPS, BOOTS t SHORS, GROCERIES, QUEERS WARE, Jc, Which we are offering al GREAT BARGAINS. We hare added to our trade a well ieleeted stock at CARPETS! of which, we will at all time*, keep a good assortment, and at reasonable prices. Odr Goods are of the best quality and 'styles. Great bargains are to be had in the following articles-of Staple DryQoods. J 100 Pieces Prints, from 10 to 20 cts. 100 “ sum, 12 cts. np. 50 “ Detains, 25 cts., oM Price. 20 * ■ Ginghams, 15 to’so cts. Cottonades from2s to 50c—Buy Sooil AU Wool CaslmeresOrom 70c to SI,OO per Yard lew 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 alway sat desirable a stock of Goods, in dur lino, te 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 priee for WOOL, wishes, Black Salts, and . COUNTRY PRODUCE. CRABBS, MOSES 4 RICE. Deeatur, June 7. vlln9lf. w. a. arises* • kaiaaxa. NEW STOCK OP HARDWARE, •A-T SPENCER & MEIBERS-, DECATUB,: :: ::::::::: INDIANA. Locks, Latches, BulU, lerevii, JTails, Iron, DOORS & SASH. Cabinet Hardware 1 Cameater Tools. HAND. PANNFL. RIP & BUCK SAW! Chisels, Jlugers, Steel Squares, Boring Machines. Table and Pocket Cutlery. Also a great vareity of General Hardware being received everyjd.ey Cable Chains, Log Chains, : “,r ; Butt Chains, Baiter Chains* FARMING IMPLEMENTS, JPfOW*, Boad Scrapers, ;E- Strain cradles. Scythe*, Rake*, Hoe*, A®. - tiiebeht COOK STOVES in the market are kept by SPENCER & MEIBER6» We have also a fargi stock of good TIN IVABE, which we ean afford M «h*P ** any House in the County. Remember the place— om dee* nerift eJDarwin Dreglet. - Ju*. 7, • '-‘*4 ’» _*