Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1867 — Page 1

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OFFICIAL DiRgCTORY. District Officers. Hou. Rob't Lowry,Circuit Judjre. V. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Att’y. Hon. J. W. Borden,.. Com. Pleas Judge. J. S. Daily, Com. Pleas Prosecut’g Att y. County Officers. W. G. Spencer,Auditor. John McCorinel,Clerk. T«-<sc Niblick,Treasurer. W. J. Adelsperrer, .Recorder. Tames Stoops Jr., *Sheriff. Conrad Reinkiug, ] Jacob Sarff, >... .Commissioners. Josiuh Crawford, J Town Officers. Heavy B. Kiioff,Clerk. D. J. Spencei,Treasurer. William Baker Marshall. John King Jr., 1 David King, !■Trustees. David Showers, J Township Officers. Uxiox.—J. IT. Blakey, Trustee; E. B. Looker and George D. Hackett, Justices; Win. May, Assessor. Root.—John Christen, Trustee; Jacob Bottenberg and Henry Filling, Justices; Lyman Hart, Assessor. Prubli.—.John Rupright, Trustee; Ahraham Mangold and John Archbold, Justices; Jacob Yeager, Assessor. KinstANO.—Jonathan Bowers, Trustee; S. D. Beavers and James Ward, Justiess; John Hower, Assessor. W AsnixGTOX.r-Tohn Meibers, Trustee; Ts-coh W. Grim and Samuel Merryman, Justices; Ilario Maun, Assessor. St. Mazy's. —Edward McLeod, Trustee; S. B. Morris. Samuel Smith and William Comer, Justices; Samuel Tceple, Assessor. B'.ukcueek.—Samuel Eley, Trustee; C. M. France and Lemuel R. Williams, 4 Justices; Chri- tiai Coffman, Assessor. Monroe.—Joseph R. Miller, Trustee; Robert McClurg and D. M. Kerr, Justi--3’ 1 ’; Robert E. Smith, Assessor. —Solomon Shull; Trustee; Lot French and Vincent D. Bell, Justices; Alonzo Sheldon, Assessor. IT ibtfoid. —Alexander Bolds, Trustee; Beniamin Runyan and Martin Kizer, Sen., Justices; John Christman, Assessor. Wabash.—o. R. Hill, Trustee; Emanvol Conkle and James Nelson, Justices; David McDonald, Assessor. Jr.rricßsoN.—Jonathan Kelly Jr., Trustee; Justus Kellv and John Fetters, Justices; Wm. Ketchum, Assessor. Tillie of Holding Courts. Circuit Court. —On the Fourth Monday in April, and the First Monday in November, of each year. Commox Pleas Court.—On the Second Monday in January, the Second Monday in May and the Second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioners Court.—On the First Monday in March, the First Monday in June, the First Monday in September, and the First Monday in December, of each year.

CHURCH DIRECTORY. St Mart's (Catholic.) —Services every Sabbath at 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock, A. M. Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1J o'clock, P. M.; Vespers at 2 o'clock P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath, st 101 o’clock A. M. and 7 o’clock P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock A. M. Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. Presbyterian.—Services at 10£ o’clock A. M.. and 7 o'clock P. M. Sabbath School at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. DRUCB. DOR WIN & BRO., -DEALL2I INDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet aud Fancy Arlidtn, Sponges, Bruches and Ptrfumtry, Coal Bit and Lamps, Patent Jtlediccnes, Jfc. ■.MCA TIZR, : INDIANA. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully, •ompounded, and orders answered with •are and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of th. heat quality.

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ATTORNEYS. IAI. C. BBAXYAH. HOMO 1. BAXBOM. BRANIAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance A rents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, Rrtirexces.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffrolh, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler, In liannpolis, Ind. SWJ .C .Bbaxtax is Deputy Prosecntins Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. I). HELLER Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. vlons2tf. JANIES R. 8080, -A-ttorney at Law, Pension A Bounty Agent, DEOATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensions. OFFICE the Auditor's Office. vlOnfitf. b. studabaker. Attorney at Law, ■A-JNTXJ Claim & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real Estate; examine 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. ~RE AL ESTATE ACE NTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, lAUin ACRES of good farming Jvlvj land, 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. vlOnfitf ” PHYSICIANS." F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, 0J9&1 Tl7», OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman's Store. vßn!stf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DIC4TIR, IjrniAJVJI. OFFICE—On Second St reet over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. vßn42tf. S. C. AYERS, M. D., —RESIDENT— Eye and Ear burgeon. FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street, vllnfltf.

AUCTIONEER. C. M. FRANCE Would announceto thepnblicthat he is 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 Howee, DECJTIR, IJTD., 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. MONROEHOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,: ::::::: Proprietor, ——:o: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nSvlltf. mlTtreeuxchlgl A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT WAYJTE, IJTO. vllnllyl. On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sti. FORT FA YNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the'House. vllnllyl. IIAIERHOUSE. J. LES MAN, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Ste., FOUT WATIE, vllnllyl. ladlaaa. mobwletmge; MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERBALE, Proprietor. io: Mr. Cloverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, US’D., FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1867.

gorirg. [Published by Request ] THE LITTLE FAMILY. There was a little family, Who lived in Bethany, Two sisters and a brother, Composed this family; With praying and with singing, Like Angels in the skies, Both morning and at evening, They raised their voices high. They lived in peace and pleasure For many a lonely year, And laid away their trea«ure; Beyond this vale of teaiw, Though poor and without money, Their kindness was the same, Their house was ever open, To Jesus and his friends. But whi’e they lived so happy, So poor, so kind, so good, Their brother was afflicted, And rudely thrown abed; Poor Martha and her sister Looked to the Lord and cried; But stll he grew no better, But lingered on and died. The Jew wentto their sisters, Put Lazarus in die tomb; They went there for to comfort, And drive away their gloom; When Jesus heard the tidings; Farina distant land, How swiftly he did travel, To join that lonely band. When Martha saw him coming She met him on the way, And told him how her brother Had died and passed away; He blessed her and he cheered her, An! told her not to weep, For in him was the power, To wake him from his sleep. When Mary saw him coming, She ran and met him too, And at his feet a weeping Rehearsed the tale of woe; When Jesus saw her weeping He feb a weeping ioo, And wept until they shewed him, Where Lazarus was entombed. He called away the cover, Looked tinon the grave, And prayed unlo his father, His loving friend to save; Then Lazvus rose with power; Came from’the gloomy main, Within full strength and vigor, He wa’ked upon ths ground. So if we but loveJssus, And do his holy will, Like M:i> tha and her sister, Will always use him well; From death he will relense us, And take us to the skies; And bid us live forever, Where pleasure never dies.

From ilie Albany Argus, How the Public Treasury is Swamped—Profligacy orVnited States Senators. Congress continues to create new offices and increase salaries. — There is an array of 20,000 office holders connected with the Treasury Department alone in this country, at this hour, sucking out the life blood of the masses. We have some of them in every congressional district laying up from five to seven thousand a year for services which thousands of honest, capable men would be glad to perform for one-third of what they receive. Congress has raised the pay of its own members to five thousand a year beside pillage and plunder. This salary is about fourteen dol lacs per day, for eve y day in the year, Sundays and all, and probably more than than thirty dollars a day for the actual time spent. [To this should be added an average of 82,000 each year for mileage.— In other days, Cong ressmen took a large number of newspapers on both sides in politics, from their State and elsewhere, but now they very largely commute for money. —Editors IntAei'jencer.] The amout of plunder they get is past finding out; but, byway of illustration, let us give some samples of it upon a small scale, and leave you to judge what it must be on a large scale. We have a copy of Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 54, Thir-ty-ninth Congress, Seeend Session which is a detailed statement of payments from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 3,1866, published

in accordance with an act passed in 1841. and certified by J. W. Forney, Secretary ofthe Senate.— It is a pamplet of 87 pages, about 10 by 6 inches, in the fine print, giving items of contingent expenses of the Senate, which, in the absence of Southern Senators, is composed of 52 members. We have added up some classes of these items with the following results, which show sufficiently the character of these contingent expenses : For pocket knives, 504 in her, For pen knives, 405 in number 1,204 60 Making 914 kinves for these 52 gentlemen, in one year, about 18 each; average cost $2 43; amounting to 2,322 90 703 pairs of shears, about 14 pairs each, cost 325 00 Sponges, 864 76 7,137 pairs of scissors, about 22 pairs each, at a little over $1 a pair, 9,180 10 210 pairs of kid gloves, about 4 pairs each, at §2 50 a pair 525 00 116 dairies, . 206 75 204 portfolios, nearly six jaoh at about .5.4, 1,104 00 446 pocket books, 8 each, at flbout S 2 50, 1,019 50 309 brushes. 324 50 556 pin cushions,. 60 00 1.085 boxes of pens, 1,895 64 2,808 lead pencils, 725 33 Newspapeis and magazines, 3,266 60 2,886.1 reams paper, 3,092 29 1,807,1-54 envelopes, 10,904 97 Other items, such as paper weights, cork screws, cords, erasers, feather dusters, chamois skins folders, pen wipers, blauk books, ink stones, eyelet machines, pamphlet cases, copy books, paper files pen racks, stationery cases, gold pens, dies, key rings, match cases fluid, silk .taste, card eases, memorandum books, combs, cologne, soap, pomade, toilet powder, lemons, are scattered though the book in quantities sufficient to supply all their friends, or to set up variety stores in the country.— In the House the rule allows each member so much for,stationery, to be paid in stationery or money, as he choose, but stationery is furnish in addition for all comnrttees, and the practice is for members to saply themselves from that, furnishe l to committees, and then take the allowance. REPEATING IT AT THE ADJOURNED SESSION IN JULY.

On m )tio.i of Mr. Spaulding, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, on the Bth of July last, an order was adopted to allow the same amount to members for newspapers and stationery for that brief adjourned term as allowed fora short term of Congress. If they will thus rob the people in small matters, what may we not expect on a large scale ? Is it any wonder that these men amass immense fortunes; that so many of them are able to be traveling now in foreign lands, rioting in the luxuries and splendors of wealth. From tho National Inteligenear. REMARKS. In respect to the pay in a large way w r e shall have something to say hereafter. It may be remarked, en passant, that, were the Treasury Department disposed to publish the facts as to the monstrous lavishments of public money by Mr. Secretary Stanton upon political favorities and for electioneering purposes, such publications would sink the radical party in hopeless defeat and destruction. As an example, we may mention the paying of 8150,009 for the old steamship Illinois, which was not sent to sea, and by a trick was got rid of by leting the authorities of New York have her for quarantine purposes. Her estimated value by officials of the Navy Department to j whom the ship was offered, was i 860,000. This transaction took place (a proposition of the Quartermaster General for appraisal being suppressed) just before some important elections in States that were supposed to be closely balanced between parties. There are Indianians who are posted on the subject. There is no end to the like profuse and excessive profligacy of Mr. Stanton. So monstrous was his wild wasteful expenditure for ships and vessels that it probably far exceeded that of the Navy De-

partment, with its thousands of ships, grim sentinels at every port or inlet from Hampton Roads to the Rio Grande. The treasury records should also be unsealed to exhibit the vast treasure that was allowed ia defiance of law over the heads of controllers and auditors upon accounts under the military head. They should be unsealed, that the people may know of the vast amount of money that has been lost by defalcations of public officers. Their t 9a®es should bejtaowa, and the radical influence that keep them in office or prevent their p •osecution. It were interesting to know what partiality existed, and.why it existed, in reference to allowances for railway transportation? For instance, why was the Bale more and Onio Railroad Company paid for services which it never performed ? Why one-half cent a mile more was paid to said road for passage of sold ie s ? Why the value of labor and materials ofthe Government was not deducted from the charges of said company for construction or repair after rebel raids upon the road during the war ? Whether Government did not make expenditures for construction when damage had arisen from other process or i ijury than by destructive rebel incursions? Why said railroad company received over a hundred thousand dollars yearly for carrying mails, which iu fact, were not carried at all on the main stem of the road ? Why said company were allowed to purhase upon credit millions of dollars of Goveenment rolling stock, thus being enabled thereby to realize every dollar of their

trumped up accounts in millions of dollars, byway of extra charges ? What wonder is it, in view of these rivers of profligacy, funning to the deep gulf of 35,000,000,000 for war expenditures, (as stated often by Mr. Thaddeus . Stevens,) that the people should ■be sinking under excessive taxation? What wonder is it that | portions of the Republican press i are clamoring for the taxation of bonds ofthe Federal Government ? , Wiiat wonder is that profuse and lawless expenditure to carry elec- | tions, and make fortunes for thou- . sands of shoddy snobs, has thorI oughly corrupted and depraved I the leadership, great and small, of ■ the Republican party ? Is it then , strange that the party is in a state lof “dissolution and thaw” i throughout the country, and that i its has been shivered to I dishonored fragments in Con- . necticut and California, and that i there is cheering prospects of its ■ utter destruction in the great cen- | tral States at the October and November elections ?

Great Commotion Among the Gum In the city of Podunk, Mass., a great excitement exist among the misses, growing out of some recent developments made by an ex-employee in a spruce gum manufactory. It seems the man had been discharged, and to revenge himself he divulged the process of manufacturing the quids which young female America masticate with such velocity and apparent satisfaction. He says the gum is made of certain parts of gum arable,.gum tragacanth, a small quantity of resin and fat. The fat used is not lard, that being too expensive, but is a substance expressed from the dead’ hogs, cats, dogs and other animals found on the commons of the city. This is not the worst of it. After the various ingredients are melted together in a huge kettle a certain kind of alkali is put in for the purpose of whitening the gum. This alkali is the same that is used by dyers with indigo to give a deep and permanant blue to flannel. “Tite bates,” says Josh Billings “air a luxuary, inasmuch as they kause a feller 2 forget all his other miseries.”

The Tax on Production. Our former article showing that all taxation rests upon the pro- [ ducer instead ofthe consumer, has I ’ drawn out several replies, none of’ which affect our main position.! At the request of several corres-' j pondents we proceed to offer some further suggestions illustrating this truth. If our currency were gold, and every dollar hereafter issued were to be clipped or otherwise cut down iu value, the laborer who took it for his wages would suffer all the loss he must experience, not when he paid it out but! when he took it in. Whatever diminished value t'.ie dollar has. the truth remains that he receives so much less for his work. Even if it depreciates on his hands the result is the same; he finds that whatever he may have thought he was receiving for his labor, the purchasing value of the money is all that he did actually obtain. If a mm earns only one third of the flour he consumes, the tax oii floor would only be paid bv him ! as far as h j ear.ie 1 th? p ice. Sup- ' pose the duty was five dollars per barrel, and in place of costing ten dollars the price w.is th is advanced to fifteen. If he consumes j three barrels per year, when he has ! earned this fifteen d oilars he has ' paid all the tax which hi i year'sconsumption costs him. Theo th-: er two barrels being given hi n, it' makes in diffarenee to him on! their ace o:i it if the price were ten or fifty dollars. A farmer raises wheat, oats, I

j corn and hay as the pro b.ict of h's ' labor. Just so far as the tariff" on goods imported raises their relative price it dimiiislies th? purchasing power of his products. He pays this tax if he buys not a dollar of any foreign prodcut. He is paving it with every hour of toil throughout the year. For it makes no diflerenee in the result whether part of a man’s product is taken j away from him or the purchasing power of the whole is diminished If a farmer raises one thousand busliles of corn, worth one thousand dollars, any tax which diminishes its purchasing power to: ninety cents per bushel, comes to the same thing as a levy on him of I one hundred bushels of corn, i

Whether he keeps fie corn on hand, sells it for in > lev. or exchanges it for goo Is, lie has submitted to the tax : h > has so much less in hand. Whatever comes as an exaction upon th' product of labor is, therefore, paid by the producer in his capacity of laborer, and not by the consumers as such. We know that it is difficult for nrui vto see this truth. The man who once worked for two dollars per day, when the currency depreciates flf-

ty per cent, obtains four dollars. ■ but is no better paid. lie may count over and • over again the pretty pictures he has received, and flatter himself that as long as he is not called upon to pay them ; out he is ready earning twice as much as in the olden time. Bat | this is only fiction. It is not when ■ he pays out the money but when •he receives it that h4«ubmits to its ’ depreciation. If be were paid in the new currency only the two ' dollars, he would receive but half as much for his work as he did be- ■ fore the currency jlepreciatiou.

This loss would fall on h‘m as he worked, not when he paid the money out for articles of consumption. He give his toil for a less I equivalent, and for precisely as ' much less as the difference in the i purchasing value of the medium of i the payment. He does not see this as plainly until he comes to use the currency, but the date of his discovery does not affect the period of his loss. The man who has money taken from his purse does not lose it when he desires to disburse it, but when it is abstracted. If there were no circulating medium of exchange, and the whole trade of the world were carried on exclusively by barter, this would appear much plainer to those not

familiar with the fictions which go so far to deceive the masses. Then it would be seen that the force 1 production of any article of ecusumption is a tax to the extent of its increased cost npon every other producer; and that no universal compensation for such a waste is possible in the nature of things. The substitution of a standard of measurement which has a fix'-d conventional value, but is liable t > constant fluctuations iu its purchasing power, goes very far to conceal the sophistries of those who are themselves misled; or hope to profit by such a deceit.— New York Journal of Commerce.. The Iridoscopc. The Irklcscope is the name given to a new instrument which has recently been invented, and by the aid of which an Individual is able to see all that is going on his own eye. li is simply an opaque shell to cover the eye, pierced in the centre with a vensmall hole. O.i looking through steadfastly at the sky. or any diffused light, the observer may watch the tears streaming over the globe of the eye, note the dilation and contraction of the iris, and even see the aqueous humor poured in when the eye is fatigued by a long observation. It is needless to say by the aid of this instrument a man caneas : ly find out whether he has a cataract or not. If he has, he will only see a sort of veilcorering the luminous disc, which is certainly simple and curious, and no doubt dacites attention in thoso who are anxious to know more of themselves. An “Iridoscopa ’ that will give a very good idea of what a .more perfect instrument can accomplish’ may be readily extemporized by making a hole with a fine needle in' the botom of a small pill box. —Jf. and S. Press.

No. 25.

j No Love Fowtlers for Her. The first day after the arrival of the Camp Hunt party from this city, in Covington county, the. boys were visited by two of the “piney woods” girld. After a very pleasant chit-chat and when about to depart they were invited, to take a social glass. This they readily accepted, and onr handsome young druggist friend went to work to fix up something extra nice for their fair visitors. I hey eyed him very closely during the operation showing most concern in regard to the grating of the nutmeg to finish off the drinks. The glasses were handed to them, hut the nmarried female hesitated awhile before putting it to her lips. Finally, she turned her back and was observed blowing oil the nutmeg before gulphing down the draught. The boys could’nt divhie the cause of her lie-llaney or the object of her blowing. In a

; day or two, however, it was explained to their amusement, by I some young men from the same ; house. .They sa'd -the “gals" : thought them cocktails could nt j be beat, but that the youngest one ) declared she was too sharp for ' that fine “city buck ’ who fixed | them up. “He conld’nt get her to drink his love powders what he put on the top of the dram ; he could’nt come it over her if she was a “piney woods taekey 1 No : love powders for her.” — From the \ Wonfuomeri/, Alabama Sentinel.

An old resident of Jamestown New York, reports that in 1806. : when that town was first settled. ' the village common was cleared of ' stumps by fines imposed on those I who got drunk. The penalty for I getting drunk was to dig up a large stump, and for getting only tipsv, a smaller stump. The removal of every stump in about i two months, was the result. i Tho American steamer Quaker City has arrived at the Crimea. — i On Tuesday last the excursionists ; were received by the Emperor and Empress of Russia, who are spending the summer in the Cridmea, and were warmly welcome to Russia by their majesties. A statistician estimates that every marled couple may calculate upon 4,194,304 decendants in about five hundred years. Why is a fire paradoxical? Because the more its coaled the hotter it gets. — Punch.