Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1867 — Page 1

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Union.—J. H. Blakey, Trustee; E. B. Looker and George D. Hackett, Justices; Wm. May, Assessor. Root.—John Christen, Trustee; Jaeob Bottenberg and Henry Filling, Justices; Lyman Hart, Assessor. Preble.—John Rupriglit, Trustee; Abraham Mangold and John Archbold, Justices; Jacob Yeager, Assessor. Kirkland.—Jonathan Bowers, Trustee; S. D. Beavers and James Ward, Justices; John Hower, Assessor. Washington. r— John Members, Trustee; Jacob W. Grim and Samuel Merryman, Justices; Harlo Mann, Assessor. St. Mary's.—Edward McLeod, Trustee; S. B. Merris. Samuel Smith and William Comer, Justices; Samuel Teeple, Assessor. ' BlVecreek.—Samuel Eley, Trustee; C. M. France and Lemuel R. Williams, Justices; Christiav Coffman, Assessor. Monroe.—Joseph R. Miller, Trustee; Robert McClurg and D. M. Kerr, Justices; Robert E. Smith, Assessor. French.—Solomon Shull: Trustee; J,ot French and Vincent D. Bell, Justices; Alonzo Sheldon, Assessor. Hartford.—Alexander Bolds, Trustee; Benjamin Runyan and Martin Kizer. Sen.. Justices; John Christman, Assessor. Wabash.—O. H. Hill, Trustee: Emanuel Conkle and James Nelson, David McDonald, Assessor. Jefferson.—Jonathan Kelly Jr., Trustee; Justus Kelly and John Fetters. Jus tices; Wm. Ketchum, Assessor. Time of Holding' Courts. Circuit the Fourth Monday in April, and the First Monday in November, of each year. Common 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. Mary’s (Catholic.) —Services every Sabbath at 8 o’clock and 10 o’clock, A. M. Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at o'clock, P. M.; Vespers at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. - Methodist.—Services every Sabbath, at 10J 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 10J o’clock A. M., and 7 o’clock P. M. Sabbath School at 2 o’clock P. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. DRUGS. DOIIWH & BRO., -dealers inDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet aud Fancy -Articles, Sponges, Brushes and Perfumeru. Coal Oil and Lamps, Patent Jtledleehes, tfc. DECA TURp. INDIANA. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compoanded, apd -orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from ■ the country will find, our stock ®f complete, warranted genuine, and of ths best quality.

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ATTORNEYS. JAS. C. BRANTAN. HOMER J. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM. .Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. H. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler. In liannpolis, Ind. KxT J.C.Brantan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnlPtf. B. D. HELI/ER, .Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibcrs’ Hardware Store. v 1 Ons2t f. JAMES-rTbqBO, -Attorney at Law, 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. vlon6tf. "dTsTUDABAKER, -Attornev at Law, -A-tntxj Claim & steal Estate Agent, DECA T UR, INDIA NA. 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 tabling to Real Estate Agency. He is also a, Notary Public, and is prepared to draw De"d«, Mortgages and other instrumentsof writing. vlOnlltf. REALESTATE ACENTS.

JAMES K. 8080, LICENSED R‘AL ESTATE AGENT. DECA TUR, INDIANA, -fl 'd good fanning n ,V * f v load, 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 vou wont your land sold he will sell it for you. Fo sale, no charge. vlOnfitf PHYSICIANS. F • A • JEEEEFF 9 Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman's Store. vßn!stf. ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, iF.VDI.f.r.I. OFFICE—On Second Street overSpeO" cer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn-12tf. C.“ AYEifsrM. D., -RESIDENTEyc and Ear Surgeon, FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. OFFICE—No, 80 Calhoun Street, vllmfftf. c. m/francS Would annonneeto thepublicthat ho is a regularly licensed auctioneer, and will attend nil Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire, Ohio. !■- HOTELS. MIESSE. HOUSE, Third St., Opposite, the Court Dowse, DIT.ITIR. IJi'B., I. J, MIESSE, ::::::: :: : : Proprietor. > In connection with this House there is a Stage run to and from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which connects with trains running both ways. vlln9tf. MONROE HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER, :::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommpdate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. iTN "sine® A.FRIIEMAN, Proprietor. West 'Main Street, near the Public Square. fort fr.ir.ri:, inro. yllnllyl. HEDEKIN 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. IgAYEIRIIOIJSEr J. LESfIAH, Proprietor. Corner Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROE VILLE, IND. E. G. CdVBRDALE,.. .. • . Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 1867.

.. Fly Away; BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE, Fly away, fly away, With a song and a smile, Fly away, fly away, To that dear, little isle, Where no tumult disturbs, And the smallest green bowers Seem made for the shrines Os the mammonless hours. Flyaway, fly away, And the long sighed for clime Shall be blessed by the harps Wit,h a soul soothing rhyme, That shall seem like an echo There goldenly rolled, From the paradisc-choirs Os the poets of old. Fly away, fly away, With a song and a smile— For the summer, at last, Calls us all to the isle; Not for ignoble sleep, But for long needed rest, That shall give us new strength For the wars of the West. gHgrHhuimig. Regularly Sold. Two gentlemen from New York, one of whom has been in California nearly a year, and the other just arrived, were accidently overheard in the following conversation at the Sutter House, Sacramento# The new comer was lamenting his condition, and especially two beautiful daughters who were just budding into womanhood—when he asked the other if he had a family. “Yes, sir, I have a wife and six children in New York—and I never saw one of .them.” After this the couple sat a few moments in silence, and then the interogator again commenced: “Were you ever blind sir?” “No, sir.” Another lapse of time. “Did I understand you to say. sir, that you had a wife and six children living in New York, and had never seen one of them?” “Yes, sir—l so stated it.” Another and a long pause of silence.—Then the interrogator again inquired: “How can it be, that you never saw one of them?” “Why,” was the response, “one of them was born after I left.” “Oh !ah !” and a general laugh followed. After that the first New Yorker was especially distinguished as as the man who had six children and never saw one of them. A Good Example. An exchange thus records the good example of a prominent Democrat, is the proper dissemination of Democratc principels: “One of our subscribers came to our office one day last week and renewed his subscription for another year. He then ordered a copy of the paper to be sent to his brothers and one to his workmen, and paid for them a year in advance, remarking that these were times when men ought tq read the truth.” We record this example of an humble but earnest Democrat with pleasure. It is worthy to be followed by others. Let the people read sound papers and understand fully the aim and objects of t6e Jacobin leaders, and there will be a change in public opinion. Old men should encourage the young men to take and read Democratic papers. Let them grow up with correct principles. We commend the above to the consideration of our friends in this city. Peace or War. A Paris letter in tber Afessager de Toulon, says: “The experiments with small cannon are still* going on.. The other day one was tried at a distance of 1,500’ yards on a cluster of trees which were all cut down in a few minutes, just as a field of corn’ falls b'efore a steam mowing machine. The effect was terrible. Five or six men armed with such and engine might destroy a whole regiment in a very little time. To attenuate the terrible ravages of fire arms, and to restore to the bayonet the importance that seems to be escaping it, competent military men are occupping.themselves with the organization of night attacks. The tactics of such nocturnal combats are studied with great care at the schools of St. Cyr, the Polytechnic, and of the stall. Lastly, much is being done in the way of constructing gunboats which can be taken to pieces and carried from place to place.” Diving belles —lady bathers.

Resolutions of the Hew York Democratic State Convention. The Democracy of New York, in convention assembled, make the following declarations: 1. That we pledge ourselves to redeem New York from corruption and misrule, as the first great step to the restoration of the Union and constitutional government. 2. That regarding the national debt as a sacred obligation, we demand economy of the administration of revenues, simplification of and equality in taction, and currency for the benefit of the people instead of corporations, to the end that the public faith may be preserved and the burdens of taxation lessened. 3. That we denounce the effort of the radical party to retain the power it has usurped by establishing negro supremacy in the South by military force, coupled with the disfranchisement of the mass of the white population, as an outrage upon Democratic principles, and an attempt to undermine and destroy the republic: and that we stigmatize the refusal of that party in the State to submit the question of negro suffrage to the people as a cowardly evasion of a paramount issue in the pending struggle. 4. That the revelations of corruption in the management of the courts, the confessed degradations of the Legislature, the resort to extraordinary commissions to control nmnicipalities, the demoralization of the revenue service, and the fact that the party holding power over Congress, the judiciary, th Executive, and the army, has failed to bring peace, solidity, and the army, has failed to bring peace solidity, and credit to the country demonstrate its utter incapacity to administer government, and the necessity .of arresting power from such hands. 5. That while we approve of an excise law which shall be applicable to the whole State, and secure public order, we are, as we have ever been, hostile to legislation which, under the pretext of moral reform, invades private rights, subjects citizens to vexatious searches and seizures, and interferes with social and religious customs, and that the excise law passed in April, 1866, by the Republican Legislature should be repealed. 6. That we reafirm the do ctrine of Wiljiam L. Marcy, in the Kotza case, that adopted and native citizens are alike entitled to the protection of the American flag, and we call upon the Federal Govern ment to enforce it. 7. That the profound gratitude of the nation is due to the gal lent soldiers and sailors who won imperishable honor in the ranks of the army and navy of the Re public. Impelled by a deep and patriotic desire to maintain the Union and the laws, they can not be seduced into sustaining an}' policy that proposes to subvert by military despotism the civil and constitutional liberties for the security and perpntuation of which they imperilled their lives. A Leaf of History. Pollard the Southern Historian, gives the following account of the manner by which General McClellan became aware of the intended movements of General Lee. When he moved to Boonsborough and Hagerstown, to await Jackson’s operations, there curiousily fell into his hands a copy of the order which General Lee had prepared at Frederick, detailing, with exactitude, the proposed movements of the several portions of his army. The paper had been conveyed to General D. H. Hill, who from some cause of dissatisfaction, and a characteristic fit of impatience, tossed it to the ground, and, lying there forgotten, was picked up by a soldier of the Federal array and forwarded at once to McClellan, who thus became possessed of the exact detail of his adversary’s plan of operations. Trial ofJeflf Davin. Richmond, October 8. In view of the trial of Jeff. Davis, double the usual number of petit jurors have -been ordered summoned for the fall term of the. court. The Hon. James Lyons was to-day furnished with a copy of the indictment against the accused. General Welles, of Alexandria, it is understood, is engaged on the side of the prosecution. The prosecuting attorney, Chandler, leaves to-night for New York to consult with Evarts, who will assist him. Good fields have an in-grain carpet.

Ilia Massachusetts Denntracy. At the Democratic State Convetionof Massachusetts, on Tuesday, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved. That each State in the union is free, sovereign and independent, and entitled to exer- | ciseand enjoy every power, juris- j diction and right which is not ex pressly delegated to the General Government in the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, That the burdens imposed, upon the people through an absurd system of taxation and a vast expenditure of money for the support of a corrupt and extra va ; gant administration of the- Grew- : al Government, and to meet the . expense of a large standing army demand our serious consideration and a speedy reform, that taxation may fall equally on property ai l labor. Resolved, That those members • of Congress who have passed laws ' outside of and in defiance of the i Constiution for the purpose of ' subordinating the civil to the mill- I tary power have trifled with the! safeguards of justice, liberty and peace, and are guilty of perjury and usurpation. Resolved, TTTat the real sympathy and regard of the Republican party for the soldiers who have so bravely fought the battles of the country are to be found in the action of the Republican Senate of the United States, which has refused to confirm the nomination of any soldier to office, however faithful and brilliant his services in the field., unless- he voted the ticket of the party. Resolved, That the increase of the State debt, during the war, of upwards of 40,000,009, and the wasteful extravagance of the party has added to rather than diminished the debt, is alarming, and de man Is a change of a I ni listration of the State government. Resolved, That the Democratic party is now, and always has been in favor of aiding and protecting the interests of labor by any legitimate means, because it is the main basis of all material prosperity, and because' the happiness and well being of the great mass of the nation must always depend upon the prosperity of labor; there- | fore we are in favor of any legislative measures to enable the laborer to secure the fair and just reward for his labor, and of the immediate repeal of those unjust and unequal class laws whereby consumers and producers are alike defrauded by monopoly and speculation. We are also in favor of a system by which men and women who labor may be entitled to invest and use their earnings in co-operative effort, and obtain such a just and fair share of the profits of labor and capital com bined as will enable them to regulate and control the hours of their own labor, and such a system should be encouraged by all proper and necessary legislation. Resolved, That we distinctly reaffirm and avow, without reservation, the traditional Democratic principle of opposition to all legislation that infringes on the private rights and liberties of the citizens ; and we especially oppose the- extraordinary and odious method of the enforcement of the laws by systems of espionage and by subsidized spies and informers. A Negro Citizen. We will start off now with a little squib, which goes to show there is a sensible darkey in Arkansas. The joke comes from a correspondent at Cumbyville. Scene: Registration office— Darkey approaches to register. Registrar— “Do you wish to register ?” Cato— “ Yes, sar.” Registrar then goes on to explain what the object of the registration is, and among other things stated that it makes Cato a voting citizen of the United States. He is here interrupted by a nig exclaiming: “Yah! yah! yah! If de United States wants me for a citizum, she must be most played out!” Registrar sits down confusedly. In his remarks the African displayed more common sense than some white people (so-called) are capable of, — La Cross Democrat, A diamond in the rough state was found at Camden, Mississippi, during the war, but at the time was considered of no value. Since then it has been examined, and in the opinion of intelligent men it is worth fifty thousand dollars. It is in the possession of Dr Tom Cotten, of Camden. New Hampshire has made a million and a quarter out of countryboarders this season.

Sensible Boys i A son of Scranton, the founder of Scranton Pa., joined the ranks i of the labours in his fathers founderies, that he might learn the 1 practical part of the iron business. The son of a well-known and wealthy New York publisher used to i leave his elegant home every morni ing, with his tin pail, in the garb . of a laborer betake himself to a ma- , chine shop to labor as hard as the hardest, that he might learn the j business. We also know the son ■ of an eminent college proftssor who is doing nearly the same thing. ,—Ye io York Gazette. The “son of a wealthy New j York publisher,” alluded to above, is Gilbert Jones, son of George Jones, of the New York Times. IHe graduated from the New York Novelty works after a regular and severe apprenticeship, with ' all the honors. And he is now in ; " ’manufacturing tasji’.SSei in the : city of Brooklyn, on his own ac- ' count—a business for which his i mechanical knowledge and exper- ! ience admirably qualify him. And I young Jones is not only a first 1 class machinist, but quite as much of a “gentleman” as if hehad graduated at college and had regularly rounded offseasons at Saratoga and Newport.— Troy Daily Times. The son of the “eminent professor,” is William W. Tyler, son of professor Tyler, of Amherst j College. Young Tyler graduated '[ at Amherst in 1864, taking the I second highest honor in his class, I and immediately commenced servj ing a regular apprenticeship in the I Ames Company’s Works at Chicopee, where he has remained aver j since, not only studying the business theoretically, but learning to do with his own hands all kinds of work. The great need of the country and the age is for liberally educated men in the mechanical and industrial departments, and if more young men would graduate from college into a machine shop instead of the already overcrowd ed professorships of law, medicine and divinity, they would do a good thing for themselves and the world. —Springfield Republican. A Suggestion to Democrats ! The New York Tribune, in com- | menting upon the result of the | elections just held, makes the following sensible suggestion: “Flooding the country with printed matter on the eve of an election is a desperate resort, better than nothing, and that is all. No reliance can be placed on it; little good ordinarily comes of it But begin now, and systematically insure that every man that has a vote shall have a newspaper if he will take it, and all is safe.” Tiiis is a hint which Democrats should take advantage of. Thorough and general information up 2 on the questions at issue before the country and which divide the political parties, is all that is necessary to secure the triumph of the principles and policy of the Democratic party. Democrats should see to it at once that sound Democratie newspapers are placed in every Democratic family not onlv, but with every voter in the opposition who is willing to take them. Democrats shoultf see to it at onee that Democratic newspapers have a general circulation among the people, for there is no more certain way of influencing the public mind and securing thg triumph of sound principles at the ballot box. And we add begin the work now—put it not off until the canvess becames heated and excited and party passions and prejudices have become aroused and intensified.-‘Did. Hearld. October 9. The sub committee of the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Maryland has a Republican form of government, met at the Capitol.— Frank Thomas, of Maryland, was elected chairman. Mr. Marshal of Illinois, and Mr. Boutwell, tff Massachusetts, were present.— The other member not having arrived very little was accomplished to-day, but it is the purpose of the committee to prosecute their labors steadily so as to be able to report to the House on the assembling of Congress! .The printing of the impeachment testimony has been resumed at the Government printing office. The whole will be completed and furnished members to the committee before the meeting of Congress. The Yonng Men’s Christian Association of Brooklyn, New York, are about to try the experiment of theater preaching this winter. They have engaged the Academy of Music for Sunday night services, and are thinking of hi rein g the Park Theater and Hooleys for the same purpose.

i«n r~‘ ■ ■ i ■ wtffaKi Miscellaneous Items. -A Broadway jeweler exhibits a diamond cross which required the work of forty years for itA production. -Pekin, Chinn, has discovered a petroleum bearing region -three hundred miles square near by, and proposes to have the oil fever. -They pay good salaries in Denver, Colorado. An Illinois preacher invited there, is to receive three : thousand dollars a year in gold. -The falls of the Yellowstone I are attracting much attention.— The river is precipitated over a precipice sixteen hundred feet high, and loses itself in a lake twentyfive or thirty miles in circumference. -Barnum’s new gorilla was angry and ugly the other day, and made a savage attack on his keeper, who only saved his right arm : from being torn out of its socket by great presence of mind and the sacrifice of his coat, which was torn to shreds. -Mr. Bonner is now putting up a new fire proof building for the New York Ledger, at an expense of $216,000. What is more, he can, at the present success of the Ledger, put up such a building every year. Starting a journeyman printer, he is now a millionI aire. From ten dollars a week at the case his income has run up to four thousand dollars a week the year round. -Eight hundred tons of shells have recently been returned to Washington to be emptcid and stored, and it is said that the workmen have discovered that work upon them is not dangerous, as saw-dust has been substituted for powder in the preparation of these projectiles. How many thousands of them similarly filled were fired at the rebel forces during the war it is impossible to calculate. -The New York Central Railroad Company is preparing to nniform its employes, in accordance with the act of the last Legislature. The conductors will wear coats and pants of dark blue pilot, beaver or broadcloth, the coat trimed with brass buttons. The cap will be of blue cloth, with two bands of gold lace, the lower band to be an inch and a half in width. The brakesman will probably wear a “regulation” cap only for the present. -The International Medteal Congress, which has just met at Paris, jjias decide I that cholera is hot [contagious, but is eminently infectiious, like yello’.» fever, tyhus, etc. It originates where large numbers of individuals are collected under had hygienic or climatcric conditions. It is transported along great maritime, fluvial, or land ways of communication by the travellers who frequent them.— Crowding is the principal cause of cholera and of almost all epidemics, and ventillation is the best means of preventing and stopping such maladies. To herd them together like beasts is to kill them as a matter of certainty. Individuals in an infected district must therefore be scattered, and themselves and their clothes disinfected as soon as possible. -How to Fkightzs Hous —The Southern Cultivator, of Georgia tells how a planter, who was troubled with his neighbor’s hogs managed to frighten them so badly that they never came back to destroy his crops. Finding his corn** fields depredated upon by a drove of hogs, whose owner lived five miles away, he one day caught one of the largest, a long-legged, big-boned fellow, and shut it up in a pen. The next day he found the same drove of hogs in his corn. Having a large bear skin, he called in the aid of his negroes, and sewed the bear-skin on the captured hog; then let him out. ■ The hog, in great disgust and fright at his new coat, started off, with longjumps, to join his companions, who, seeing their mortal enemy coming after them, started at a “two-forty gait” fearing the bear or thed—l would get the hindmost. The last heard of these hogs they were six miles off, tearing through the fields and woods with heads and tails “up.” They never returned to depredate on that cornfield. - — —I ——■«■»— —- " The Bed of the Ocean.—lt is stated that soundings have been made in the North Altantic to so great an extent that it is now possible to map out its bed quite accurately. This ocean is a long trough of varying depth, extending, probably from pole to pole. Its bed follows the general struct-' ure of the land. Here and there rocky peaks, like that ofTeneriffe, or huge mountains of sand, such as the grand banks of Newfoundland, reach up to or beyond the surface. Between Ireland and Newfoundland there exists a remarkable blain, known as the telegraphic plateau, which is evidently a continuation of the great water shed which, between latitudes 40 deg., north and south, surrounds the earth, and divides the waters flowing north those from flowing; south.

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