Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1867 — Page 1

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. Hon. Rob't Lowry,Circuit Judge. I. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Att’y. Hon. J. W. Borden,.. Com. Pleas Judge.. J. 8. Daily, Cora. Pleas Prosecut’g Att’y. County Officers. W. G. Spencer Auditor. John McConnel,Clerk. Treasurer. W. J. Adelsperger, .Recorder. James Stoops Jr., Sheriff. Conrad Reinking, ] Jacob Sarff, L... . Commissioners. Josiah Crawford, J Town Officers. Hsnry B. Knoff,. Clerk. D. J. Spencer,Treasurer. William Baker,Marshall. John King Jr., ) David King, L . Trustees. David Showers, J Township Officers. Union.—J. H. Blakey, Trustee; E. B. Looker and George D. Hackett, Justices; Wm. May, Assessor. Root.—John Christen, Trustee; Jacob Bottenberg and Henry Filling, Justices; Lyman Hart, Assessor. Preble.—John Rupright, Trustee; AOraham Mangold and John Archbold, Justices; Jacob Yeager, Assessor. Kirkland.—Jonathan Bowers, Trustee; 8. D. Beavers aud James Ward, Justices; John Hower, -Assessor. Washtxotom..—John Meibers. Trustee; Jacob W. Grim and Samuel Merryman, Justices; Harlo Mann, Assessor. Br. Mart's.—Edward McLeod, Trustee; 8. B. Merris, Samuel Smith nnd William Comer, Justices; Samuel Teeple, Assessor. Bluicrebk.—Samuel Eley, Trustee; C. M. France and Lemuel R. Williams, Justices; Christina Coffman, Assessor. Moxroe.—Joseph R. Miller, Trustee; Robert McClurg and D. M. Kerr, Justieec; Robert E. Smith, Assessor. Frbxch.—Solomon Shull: Trustee; Lot French nnd Vincent D. Bell, Justices; Alonso Sheldon, Assessor. Hartford.—Alexander Bolds, Trustee; Benjamin Runyan and Martin Kizer, Ben., Justices; John Christman, Assessor. W abash.—O. H. Hill, Trustee; Emanuel Conkle and James Nelson, Justices; David McDonald, Assessor. JrrrßßSox.—Jonathan Kellv.Tr„Trustee; Justus Kelly and John Fetters, Justices; Wm. Ketchum, Assessor. Time 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 ■•ach year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St Mart’s (Catholic.) —Services evary Sabbath at 8 o’clock and 10 o’clock, A. M. Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1} 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. 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. DRUGS. DOR WIN & BRO., -DIALERS inDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet aud Fancy Articles, Sponges, Brushes and < Ptrfumtry, Coal Oil and Lamps, Patent JUedicenes, ffc. DECATUR, INDIANA. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with earc and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted gcnwinc, and of the beat quality.

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ATTORNEYS, JAS. C. BKAXTAX. BOMIB 1. MAMOU. BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance A gents. 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. CWJ.C. Boast ax Ii Depnty Proseentlnc Attorney. . vllnl9tf. D. D. HELLER Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, orer Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, -aJxrxj Pension & Bounty Agent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensio-s. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnGtf.

D. STUD AB A KER, Attorney at Law, -A.TSTX3 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 instrumentspf writing. vlOnlltf. REALESTATE AGENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming ,O vFVF land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If yon want to buy a good farm or wild land he will sell it to you. If vou want your land sold he will sell it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlon6tf PHYSICIANS~ F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DEMTIR. IJVJ9IJIJV.fr OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßnlstf. AATJREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, LA'DIAA'A. OFFICE—On SeoondStreetover Spencer & Meibeyj’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. STU.* AYERS, M.D., —RESIDENT— Eye and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street. vlln9tf. C. M. FRANCE Would announceto t-hcpublicthat he is a regularly licensed auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire, Ohio. 77 HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howse, DECATUR, 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. MONROE HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT WAr.ri, IJTD. vllnllyl. HEDEKUV HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE? J. DESMAN, Proprietor. ' Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYUE, vllnllyl. Indiana. iiolLinxW MONROEVILLE, IND. E. G. COVERDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insuraaso Agent. vllallyl.

DECATUR, IN TD., FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1867.

— ■ ■■■- — ■ ■ r■■ ■ . From the Little Corperal, AUTUMN WIND. What is the wind saying, Up in the trees today? Do you hear him sighing softly, Summer has passed away? He is telling the tree how its branches, Must soon by the storm be tossed, And its bright, green garlands colored By the pencil of the frost. And then, how the leaves must scatter, Touched by rougher hands, Far and wide, like the ebildren, Os broken household hands. How the golden days will linger Yet for a little while; 4-nd the peace as the Indian summer Come down like a parting smile. And, hark! to the fading flower He is talking of bloom again, Though its leaves may all be scattered In the chilling cold and rain;

After the frosts of autumn, After the winter snows, A warmer breath shall waken The violet and the rose. But his voice has a mournful cadence, Talking in grove and dell; For of all the? e old companions He is taking his last farewell. Tho’ he will come with the spring time, And revel among the trees, And ripple the sun-lit watbrs, Afresh and gladsome breeze, Yet these will all be lying Brown and withered and dead, While the glad, young leaves are springig In the branches overhead. And this is the order of Nature The old are passing away, And the young are springing upward To the warmth of ane early day. Emily F. Bugbee. Diggers, Niggers and Chinese. Radicalism has macle an important discovery. This important discovery has been made since the California election. It is what may be termed an opportune (for radicalism) discovery, in view of the California election.

The gist of the opportune discovery is contained in the following extract, which is being published by radical newspaper editors with much satisfaction, and a very cordial indorsement: “The people of China are not inferior in talent and skill to those of the west; and if, in every department of mathematics, of philosophical research, and of mechanics, or modes of investigating the resources of the earth and the changes of the heavens, they become well versed and skilled, so that they can apply their knowledge, this will daily add to the strength of the nation.” The intelligent reader can at once see the drift of this hearty commendation of the disciples of Confucius. It has a direct bearing upon future elections in California. It looksto the redemption of the golden state. It forecasts a human brotherhood which includes Chinese, and excludes—when possible—all Democrats. Until the late disastrous—to radicalism—election in California, the radicals never for a moment supposed that a Chinaman was a man a brother. They never suspected that he of the pig-tail was a member in high standing of human brotherhood. They did not dream that the pig-eyed celestial was an important unit in the great philanthropic total of universal suffrage. Until California responded to Washington, it was not for an instant supposed that a ally might be found in John Chinaman to assist in cherishing the gigantic demagogue. A few years ago, to radicalism the African was the coming man. At the present moment the Chinaman is the coming man. He is the rock upon which radicalism is building its hopes of the future. Jacobinism is sagacious. Three or four it saw its dissolution, and, to avoid it, is so changed the war that it was enabled to add the African to its ranks. Now

again forces disolution, and it has suddenly discovered a new and valuable reinforcement in the intelligent Chinaman. Radicalism promises in the future to be a much mixed, if not a very respectible affair. In five years, what there is left of it will be composed about as follows: Niggers, Puritans, Chinese. In view of this future composition of the radical party, there is sagacity in Jhe Pur-, itan leaders to establish the 3ogma of universal brotherhood. If established, five years hence, it will be the only link that will connect the party with the decency, sense, and white people of the American continent. Failing to establish universal brotherhood, the condition of the party will be none of the most pleasant. We suggest that, in case the nigger and Chinese populations be not deemed sufficiently broad for the future radical party,’ an effort be made to secure the co-operation of Mexico. As a State in the Union, or the disunion, Mexico could be depended upon fora radical majority every time. Radicalism may have forsecn this ;and, if so, one can explain why radical newspapers and orators have so ardently sympathized with Juarez and Ins cut-throats. All this was perhaps but laying a foundation for radical majority when Mexico becomes a part of our disunion. — In such a case, the ’future of the radical party will be slightly different, —thus: Niggers, Puritans, Chinese, Mexicans,

Digger Indians. When the party becomes exclusively composed of these elements ,it will have become clarified, and will be a very pure article of radicalism- Now it is “working,” and is throwing out the white, decent .respectable conservative element. In California, the mixture has “worked” itself to the point where it is .about ready to receive the Chinese preparation. In Montana and Maine, it is effervescing rapidly, and will soon be as pure as it is in Tennessee, where there is no a member in it above the grade, intellectually of a bootblack, and morally of a hen-roost robber.

In less than five years the country will see radicalism reduced to its propper elements. We shall see the radical ticket composed somewhat as follows. For President—Escobedo. For Vice President-Tchee-Fung. For Senator—Cuffee Black. For Dispenser of Pap—Reverend Slick Sneezer, formerly of Massachusetts. Ridiculous as all this seems, it is not only possible, but probable. It is just as sure that radicalism is losing tho decent Caucasian element, and will absorb the nigger, Chinese, Mexican, and Digger Indian elements, as it is that leaves absorb light and moisture, — Chi. cago Times. A man in Sacrosanct, New Jersey, was fined one dollar for working in his garden on Sunday, and fifty cents each for two swears in which he indulged at the ingRecent developments prove, so a Havana paper says, that the leaf of the potato is a perfect substitute for tobacco. Then we shall soon have cigars of “Mercer-filler” and “Pink-eye wrapper.” Sixty years ago there was scarcely a craft larger than a canoe on the Western lakes. In 1841 the lake trade amounted to 865,000,000, and it is expected to reach 81,000,000,000 by 1870. The Cuba telegraph was opened to the public on Wednesday, tlie 11th ult. Congratulatory messages passed over it between Sect’y. Seward and the Captain Gen. of the Island.

Immense Political Fraud* Proposed. Crowds of Blacks Taken to tbe Free States to Tote—-Ohio to havea Taste of Southern Radicalism. Several gentlemen of the highest respectability, whose names will be given to any person desiring them, have directed our attention to the enormous frauds that are contemplated by the radical party at the ensuing election in Ohio, on October 9th. Each of those gentlemen chanced to be at the State line, where the Edgefield and Kentucky Road terminates at Clarksville and Louisville Road, upon a different day, and each found from thirteen to fourteen cars filled with blacks who had been brought from /Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Southern Tennessee, and are going , Northward. A majority of them did not know where they were going to, but said that the “Board was sending them somewhat to vote.” Some of the more intelli9 gent ones said they were going to Ohio for the purpose. They were to go through Louisville without stopping, and all their expense s were to be paid by the freedman’s bureau. They were to vote as they were told, and were assured that the bureau would take care of them and see to their getting farms for doing as they were directed— How long this tide of immigration has been going on it is impossible to say, nor can it be known wether the negroes are to shift for themselves after the election or to be taken back to their homes to the far South. Os course the expenses of this great modern Glentworth fraud is borne by the sactimonious managers of the freedmen’s bureau out of the United States. How will the North like it when she finds that the taxes wrung from her citizens to support the freedmen’s bureau are used to carry out monstrous colonizing schemes to override the will of the white people ofOhiobythe votes of ignorant blacks from Georgia and other Southern States. The end, in the opinion of radical politicians, sanctifies the means, and to carry the Ohio elections, blacks are sent through at the expense of the United States in thirteen and fifteen car load batches. The people of Ohio may with indifference hear of blacks crowding our white voters and taking possession of every poll in Memphis on election day. How will they like it if they find that the blacks from the South have carried the election in their own State ? The blacks are the ignorant class in the United States. They are thus the best material to be used in political frauds. More intelligent men might not be so easily the tools of demagogues. More intelligent men might fear the penalties of voting where they have no rights or of voting many times at the same election, but the blacks taken to Ohio know nothing of the

legal penalties they risk. They will do just as they are bid by their unscrupulous leaders. Ohio will learn practially what confering on black masses political powers means; or, we might say, will mean, when they acquire the right, which is only partially allowed in certain localities, as in the greater_ portion of the state only very bright mulattoes are allowed to exercise the franchise. -— » a—■ Origin oe the Term Newspaper.—ln Haydn’s Dictionary of dates, it is said that news is not as many suppose, deriven from adjective new. In former times tween the years 1694 and 1830) it was the prevalent practice to put over the periodical republications of the day, the initial letters of the compass thus: N

Importing that these papers contained inteligence from the four quarters of the globe; and from this practice is derived the term newspaper.

A Gigantic Work-The Mississippi Bridge at St. Eouis. We have seen the plan, and jve may be allowed to say, who have ' certainly seen some of the greatest bridges in the world, but this will cap them all. In mere length there are many that surpass it. There is the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, which is two miles long; there is the bridge over the Nebudda, which is a mile and a half; there is the bridge from Bassein to the main land, which is over . three miles in length. But none of these bridges are marvels, because in none is there an exi traordinary breadth of span. The style adopted by Captain Eads is somewhat similar to that used in the structure over the Rhine, be- , tween Copleniz and Ehernbreit- ■ stein, but the span there is only . three hundred feet. The bridge ; over the Thames at London, call-, ied Southwark, which is nearly of | the same material, but infinitely ' more clumsy, and with an expen- . sive waste of material which by no I means adds to the intrinsic strength, ■ has a span of two hundred and j forty feet. But it is the great > feature of our bridge, which will • cost nearly five millions of dollars, j that it will accommodate two double tracks of rails, one broad gauge, the other narrow, foot passengers and street railway cars, and will not interfere one whit with navigation ; for of the three arches which together will span the shores of St. Louis and Illinois, the central one is five hundred and fifteen feet and the two side ones four hundred and ninety-seven feet.— The two piers which will support these glorious arches will be such tremendous masses of masonry as

I to take back the mind involuntary Ito Cheops and Cephrenesc and their pryramids among the yellow sands of Egypt, and within sight of the tranquil, winding Nile.— Soundings made recently in the river have indicated a remarkable change in its bed. The high water being compelled to flowthrough the narrow channel framed bj’ our wharf and the rivetted shore of Bloody Island, has cut out the sandy bottom eighteen feet lower than when the same soundings were made last April. Yet this location is perhaps the narrowest place in the river within fifteen hundred miles of its mouth.— From this cause it has been absolutely necessary to place the foundations of the piers upon the rock itself, which is’from sixty to seven-ty-five fcqt from the sandy bed.— Taking' this into consideration the deepest part of the river will be a mass of masonry two hundred feet in width and with a breadth tapering from fifty-five feet to forty feet. The other will probably be a hundred and seventy feet in bight, as the rock is met with some thirty feet nearer to the river bottom. It will be allowed by all that this will be a stupendous undertaking.

' A New Iron Fortification. The Californians have of late turned their attention to the mysteries of invention. We notice that one of their iron men has invented a new iron fort. The main principle of this fort is evidently taken from the Ericsson-Cole .monitor, for it is a revolving turret. But besides revolving, this turret, floating in a deep reservoir protected by heavy earthworks with embrasures, is entirely out . of sight when not engaged in firing, being raised or lowered for duty by machinery worked with compressed air. The gun sights for lateral range are fixed in the turret in such away that the guns, eight in number, can be sighted before opening the ports. The compressed air, forcing the gun out, takes up also the recoil, retiring before its pressure, so that but little is expended. The claim is for security and rapidity of firing. The danger evidently is of jamming and consequent disabling not of one gun, but of the whole fort.— New York Times.

Wbat a Bondholder S3F« Azbout Paying the Debt In Greenbacks. Below we give a letter received from of the most respected gad patriotic citizens in Noble county, on the subject of paying the bonded debt of the nation in greenbacks. The writer is himself a bondholder, and he shows that upon his $20,000 in bonds, which originally cost him but 87,000, he draws twelve hundred dollars per annum in gold amounting on the original investment to eighteen per cent, per annum, worth, at the last quotation, 36} per cent, more than currency. If the 820,000 which Mw Young holds in bonds, were now paid in gold, and that gold sold at current rates for greenbacks, his investment of 87,000 at tbe commencement of the war, in addition to the large interest he has drawn semiannually, would netjumtweniy-six thousand one hundred dollars, or over nineteen thousand dollars, besides a high interestFor the loan of seven thousand for six years! AU of which has to come from the pockets of the people in the shape of internal revenue taxes which it is said, costs in fees of assessors and collectors, fifty cents on the dollar to collect. The letter of Mr. Young, patriotic as it is in the highest degree, presents the modus operandi by which the laws of the United Statea enacted by Congress, enables the rich to grow richer and tbe poor poorer. We give it below : Sarahsville, Ohio,) Sept. 17, 1867. \ Editor Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio:— Sir: In reviewing the speeches of those patriots and statesmen of Ohio, Thurman and Pendleton, on the political issues of the day, I, although a bondholder, indorse their views in regard to the finances of the country to the letter, and I go further, and say that every financial act of Congress for the last six years has been done with an eye single to the benefit of the capitalists of the country. It was all hatched and matured under their supervision. Now for the proof: The first paper issued by the Government, during the war, was exiled "Demand Notes.” They were receivable by the Government for duties on imports, hence they were at par with gold. They were circulated all over the country to the amount of three hundred millions. The next issue was of "legal tenders.” Now you could pay your debts with the legal tenders, but you conld not with the demand notes, if objected to, hence the legal tenders were sought after instead of the demand notes; the result was that before the 'commonality of the people were aware of tho real value of the demand notes, they were all hoarded up by the capitalists, their net profits in this issue being about one hundred millions. I had seven thousand dollars in

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gold at the commencement of the war; I sold the same in the first year of the war at 40 per cent, premium, which brought me nine thousand eight hundred dollars in legal tenders, exchanged them even for demand notes, kept them eighteen months, and then sold them for twenty thousand dollars, legal tender, and bought 7-30 notes at 99 per 100, converted them into 5-20’s even; here I have twenty thousand dollars in 5-20’s, and two hundred dollars in greenbacks to spare. lam now, and have been drawing .from the Government twelve hundred dollars in gold per annum on seven thousand dollars,

almost jeighteen per cent, interest, and the principal advanced from $7,000 to $20,000! and two hundred dollars to pay the preacher, if I thought he was deserving it.— Verily, is not S. P. Chaser great financier ? I, as before stated, indorse the Democratic idea of paying off these bonds at any time after five years in legal tenders—the same currency we bought them with, though they are worth now but 71 to the 100. When I bought my 5-20’s of the agent I was informed that the interest would be paid in gold, and the principal in currency. How long the laboring masses of the country will endure this, time will determine. More anon. Yours, respectfully, William’J. Ywng.