Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. _ _ — ■■ _ OFFICIAL PAFEK 0? TUK COVMTY. DECATUR, I ADI AAA. FRIDAY, DEC. 6,186 T. THE NEWS. General Howard is of the opinion that if properly protected in their rights by the civil authorities, the negroes can get along without the aid of the bureau as far as regards their education and employment. So are we. A specimen medal of the proposed international coin of twentyfive francs, was recently struck by the government of France, and has been presented to the President, through Mr. Samuel B. Roggles. It is very little larger than our half eagles. The suit brought by Faran <fc McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, to resist the county Treasurer's collection of the tax assessed upon 331,000 in greenbacks, as so much capital, was decided against the tax. It has been held that greenbacks were but a form of a loan, and, like ail other loans of the United States, were exempt from State taxation. The Postmaster General has accepted the tender for carrying the mails to Great Britain for the year 1868, from Hamburg, North German, Lloyd's and the Union lines, at a compensation of 15 cents per ounce, or about five cents per single rate for letters, and 6 cents per pound for printed matter, etc.— The regular days for sailing from New York being Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. This compensation is considerably less than the amount of sea postage, and secures a net postal'revenue to the department from the Atlantic mail service. General Buticr in a speech in the House suggested that if Congress should enact that all national bond bills which find their way into the treasury should be retained and cancelled, and legal tender notes to the same amount issued, the whole national bank currency would be withdrawn from circulation in four or five months, or its place supplied with greenbacks. This could be done without increasing the circulation, and save between twenty and thirty millions, paid on bonds, which are deposited to secure national Lank currency. Resist Temptation. The Devil once upon a time took the Siviour upon a high mountain and showed him the kingdoms of the world and offered them unto him if he would fall down and worship him. Some time since the Jay and Adams liepublican hinted that there was a fatted calf of Uncle. Sam’s at our service, and intimated that the acceptance would open the way for further negotiation. Last week he speaks plainer, and proposes that if we will adopt impartial suffrage, and teach it through our columns, another of Uncle Sam's calves will be ours. We, friend Jones, advocate principle, for principles sake, not for money or calves—not for the “cattle on a thousand bills.” If you are laboring for pay, like the “lawyer for a foe,” as an advocate of the party of moral ideas, why you arc simply getting your -share of the stealings, which, according to the New York Tribune amount to as large a sum as the national debt. In other words the Government honestly administered has raised money enough to pay off the actual expenses of the war, and the legacy we have left, in the waj 7 of a national debt, is the Radical stealing, bribery and corruption fund. A few months experience as a Radical editor has developed in you a wonderful adaptation to “business.” The first Radical, as we have shown, boldly stated his proposition, you with more subtle cunning make your approaches in a more insidious manner. If you are not speedily promoted it will be the first time your party failed to reward merit. Tire average full of the Ohio river, from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, is six inches per mile, and the distance, as ascertained by the Government survey, is 666 miles, giving a total fall of 36 feet in that distance.

The Double Swindle.—Why did not the Radicals howl repudiation when it occurred; when the Government was paying soldier’s in greenbacks—greenbacks that were not worth fity cents on the dollar, but which it would have been treason to refuse. What the soldier lost in being paid in depreciated currency the bond holder gained. It is too late to cry repudiation now; the repudiation, or swindle,(vide Thad's letter) occurred then. And now the bondholder after having shaved the tax payer and soldier more than fifty per cent, wishes to shave the tax payers again, the difference between the funds he paid and gold, and the Radicals cry theif and traitor at all who would prevent this second swindle. The contract Radicals, bring out the contract; we pay by that. The sauce that seasoned the soldier’s goose is good enough to season the bondholder's gander. What say our Radical friends, and especially our neighbor of the Republican ?

ASTWashington Dispatches to the Herald has the following paragraphs in relation to the impeachment of the President, and paying the Government indebtedness: A strict count shows that under the most favorable circumstances not more than forty votes out of one hundred and ninety can be relied upon in the House who are in favor of impeachment. Os this number several arc said to be doubtful, and should the tone of the forthcoming message of the President be decently moderate many who are now inclined to listen to arguments for impeachment will throw their votes and influence against it. It is stated this evening that a prominent member of the House Financial Committee, said in conversation that if the question be brought before it to-morrow the House would vote to issue one hundred and fifty million dollars in greenbacks, withdrawing the national bank currency and replace it with greenbacks and with them pay off the national debt. Sound.—ls you would enjoy domestic peace and tranquility marry a homely women. The witty Jean Paul on this point, observes. “Amid all the safeguards of the domestic hearth about which so much has been written, I know of none quite so sure as to marry an ugly woman. One can then bind his brows with the sweet garlands of peace and security, and leave his wife behind him for two or three days which the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces. It is said the use of postage: stamps is to be discouraged by | the Department, which will issue in future only stamped envelopes. These will be issued of all sizes and of all rates of postage, and to encourage their general use, they ‘ will be sent to any address, when ! three hundred are ordered, with ' the printed notification on the back ) to return to the w riter if not called for at a specified time. This remailing, also, will be done free of postage. - — The papers are wondering over the story of a Hindoo girl marrying an idol. But that is not so unfortunate as the Yankee widow who married Sumner, the negro idolator. And it seems that as a husSumner is no better than an idol.—Weu* York Day Book. Sumner has been idle ever since he married her. At least he hasn’t done anything.—ZnJ. Herald. The Capitol at Washinton will cost before it is completed, twelve million dollars more. Additional expenditures have been made during the past summer for the improvement and ventilation of the legislative halls, but it is not probable that they will accomplish the desired end. A “tin” wedding was observed in Gloucester, Massachusetts, after a rather unusual manner. The wife eloped with a young fellow taking with her ail the “tin” he had saved for ten years. The discovry ot her absence closed the festivities. Thad Stevens went to Washington, the other day, on a bed, and we now learn from an Indianaplis dispatch that Moxa, the rotton Morton, will set out for the capital, the same way on the 18th. Oberlin College has upwards of eleven hundred students, about five hundred of them being females and about forty negroes. A new carriage manufactory which will make coaches and carriages with India rubber bodies, has been started at Bridgeport, Conn.

The Radicals—Their Man and Brother. A correspondent of the New York Tribune writing from Charleston, South Carolina, says : Conspicious, on election day was a delegation from the Ogeechee river, who marched to the voting place in military array. They had been promised by one Bradley, once a colored attorney from Boston, that if they would vote his ticket they should have a mule and forty acres of land given them.— The white and colored Radicals of Savannah did not vote, on questioning one of the latter, as to why he did not vote he said : “I can not do it sir. I can not assist in keeping men of my color deluded by such low lived scoundrels. We ought to live peaceably with our old masters. The prosperity of the State depends upon there being a good feeling between all classes.” I said: “Then, if that is your feeling, why didn't you vote what they call here the ‘white mans ticket’ ?” “Oh, I couldn’t do that,’, he replied, “because I am for the Republican party, which saved us and gave us freedom ; but I am sorry every day that it permits such men to represent it,’’ and his idea is true.— The great body of loyal whites and intelligent blacks stood aloof from the polls. They grieved to tlo it—they la-1 mented the lack of discretion on 1 the part of the national Republican committee which threw the control of the canvass into the hands of such adventurers as this man Bradley, but they could not help it. The men who voted feel aggrieved and angry because his ridiculous promises were not kept.— The rebel sympathizers have already taken advantage of this feeling, and begun to Operate upon the voters. Unless he, and such as he, shall be discountenanced, the effect will be to throw the vote of this ignorant mass into the hands of our political enemies in the future. No one who is absent can have any idea of how strong the tide is that way setting already. As an ardent Republican who shared some humble part of war and national unity, I have born testimony only to what I have seen.

Louisiana Convention. New Orleans, November 27. In the convention to-day MrWickliffe, White, of New Orleans offered the following resolutions: That we hereby utterly repudiate all desires for class, and all desire to Africanize the State. That wa do not as a party or a people desire or mediate or countenance bloodshed or revenge, and that all we claim is equality before the law for rdl men, without distinction or race or color or previous condition. That we deprecate the sentiments expressed in a leading article in the New Orleans Republican in its issue of 23d instant, and denounce said article as uncalled for incen diary and dangerous to the best interests of the party, and declare that said article does not represent the sentiments, wishes or purposes of the radical Republican party of Louisiana or the coioreft race.’ The resolutions were discussed amid great excitement and were finally tabled by a vote of 06 to 31. Negro Rule.—The Chicago Times says; “Now let it bo understood that either the white men or the negroes of the South have got to rule. If the people have declared anything in the elections of this fall, they have declared that the negroes shall not rule. Any scheme disfranchiseing so Large a number of the whites as to give the political supremacy to the Wacks will be condemed by the people.— No christening which Can be given to such a scheme will save it from the popular reprobation. Political cant is fast losing its power to deceive. If it be true that “a rose by any other name will smell as sweet,” it is equally true that a skunk by any other name will stink as strong. The nostrils of the public will scent negro supremacy, under any sounding title which may be devised for it.” An Item for Tax Payers.—The Henderson county New Jersey, Democrat, states that there are twenty-eight thousand negroes on the Peninsula in Virgina between Williamsburg and Hampton, a distance of thirty-six miles, who are supported with rations furnished by the Government at a cost of 3160j--000 monthly, while five companies of cavalry are required to patrol the country to prevent depredations. Efforts have been made to find them employment; fields where their labor would be rewarded, have been ascertained, and Government offers to send them thither free of charge, but they persistently refuse to leave. Here they remain a heavy tax upon the Government. Cheyenne now has two daily papers. The Argus and Leader.

Morrill’s Finance Bill. Mr. Morill has introduced in the Senate the following bill, which was ordered printed: Be it enacted, That on and after the 4th day of July, 1869, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay in coin all United States notes not bearing interest and com- . monly called legal tender notes I which may be presented for such payment at the treasury office at Washington, or such places as may be designated, or shall be given by the Secretary of the Treasury. Section 2. And be it further enactedj That hereafter, and until January 1, 1869, whenever there shall be in the Treasury of the United States, after paying the interest and coupons falling due on the Ist of January and July, in each year, and deducting from the gold certficates of deposit the excess of co in over and above the sum of 75,000,000, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized and required from the first day of January and Jujy as aforesaid, to sell the same in such manner as in his judgement will promote the public interest. He may receive in payment thereof Uuited States notes, notes of uational banks of the United States, United States compound interest notes and United States three per cent, cer tificates. Suction 3. That all national ! banks having less than twenty per centum of specie on hand on their respective capital shall hereafter, and after July 1, 1869, be and are required to keep and to hold in coin all interest received on United States bonds, which may be deposited by them, according to law, with the Treasurer of the United States, provided that this shall not be so constructed to and anything to the amount of the reserve of said hanks. Section 4. That on and after the 4th day of July, 1869, all national banks shall be and and are hereby respectively required to return and pay in coin, on demand, all their bills issued for currency of the denomination of five dollars and under, when presented at the counters of said banks: and all bills of a higher denomination so issued and presented may and shall be paid either in coin or United States legal tender notes. Section 5. That any national bank which shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be applicable, shall be deemed to have forfeited its charter, and the Comptroller, upon receiving satisfactory evidence of the same, shall proceed to close and wind up the same as in other cases of forfeiture, provided by law, and in lieu of any such bank, may authorize a new national bank, with an equal amounf of capital, to be located in such States as may have less than their due proportion of the whole amount now authorized by law, provided this bill shall not authorize any increase of the present aggregate amount of circulation of the national banks. New Indictment Found Against Jefflf Oavis. Richmond, November 27. The confederate Secretary of War, Seddon, was before the grand jury ail the morning. This afternoon General Lee was before the jury, and questioned about two hours. The jury lias found a new indictment, which is about six times as long as the old one, but only presents some facts more in detail. On the 22d March, Davis will be taken into custody by the Marshall on this indictment. General Lee and Mr. Seddon were recognized to appear as witnesses. Extract from a letter of S. C. Chandler, professor of Geology and Mineralogy, East Middlebury Vt. “Messrs, R. P. Hall & Co., Nashua, N. H. Gentlemen : Some time since when I was in your city, delivering a course of Geological Lectures, I procured a bottle of your Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer, for the use of myself and family, and I am happy to state, its use has proved all that you have claimed for it. I have recommended it to my friends and neighbors, and in every instance has it given perfect satisfaction. This I regard as due to you and the public.” The Morse Telegraph Alphabet has been taught to the deaf mutes at the New York Deaf and Dumb Institution. It is reported that they can detect the sound of a drum when they cannot distinguish that of any other musical instrument and by this means they are enabled to read by the Morse alphabet any communication that may be made to them. They indicate that they first feel the sound at the soles of their feet; thence it rises up the legs and communicates with the sympathetic nerve. The interest on the national debt is about two thousrnd dollars every hour-—day and night—the [ year round. . ’ i

4867. . FALL I WINTER. -FOR ALL KINDS OF4? Oil Clottug, RTotioxus, cfcc. CRABBS, MOSES & RICE. East Side of Second Street, DHCZATUH, - -- -- -- - HAVE now the largest Stock of Goods in the County; and at surprising LOW PRICES. 12,000 Yards Prints, - - - 8 to 15 cts* 1,500 Yards Shirtings, - • 10 to 20 cts* 1,500 Yards Sheeting*, - - 10 to 20 cts. 1,000 Yards Detains, ------ 25 cts. All other Goods at proportionately Low Prices. We have a large Stock yf READY-MADE CLOTHING, HATSi CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES. We shall keep constantly on hand, a General Assortment of Goods of all kinds, CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST. Thankful for past favors, we invite the public to call at our Store, and examine our Goods and prices before buying elsewhere. • We will pay the Lightest market price for GRAIN, STAVES AND BLAGK SALTS. ESTAII kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. Nov. 22, 1867. CRABBS, MOSES & RICE. 18 6 7’' ”18 6 7 ? HAVING received the Tax Duplicate for the year 1867, notice is hereby given that the Treasurer is now ready to receive the several TAXES FOR ADAMS COUNTY, uft-T THE Treasurer’s Office, in Decatur, Ind. If Tax-Payers will call early they will be waited upon without delay. The lav/ requires that after the third Monday of April, A. D., 1868, a penalty of ten per cent, on each dollar, with interest until paid, shall be attached. All who wish to avoid paying cost will call and pay their taxes. Bankable funds will be received at this Office. The Taxes for 1867 are as follows: .. o » h p » ° o 2- o S’ o :i o os o. 5 . 2 2 i TOWNSHIPS. o' ~ ■’ ■ K £ 5 31 "it >' “ : i: g =-1! I' ; * 1 11. ■ ■ ■■■■ ■—■ I ■■ ■ ■- ■ . -— ■■■■ II I -■> I ——. ■■ ■ ■ I» ■■■ ■ ■ — I—■ . .—-— —~ Union„ .VIA . -#IOO2OJGO 15 16 10 20 530 1 76 Poll. 60 50| 11 10 Root3loo 20 60 15 16:10 20 15 30 1 86 Poll. 60 50, ! 1 10 Preble 3100 20 60 15 161 5 20 15 30 1 81 J’oll. 60 50! 11 10 Kirkland 3100 20 60 15 1610 20 25 30 1 96 Poll. 60 501 11 10 Washington 3100 20 60 15 1610 20 5 301 76 Poll. 60 50i '| 1 10 St. Mary’s 3100 20 60 15 1(110 20 20 30' 1 91 Poll. 60 50 1 10 Bluecreek 3100 20 GO 15 16,10 20 20 30 1 91 ; Poll. 60 50| ' 1 10 Monroe 3100 20 60 15 16 10 20 15 3Q .1 86 ' Poll. 60 50 11 10 ' French 3100 20 60 15 16 10 20 15 30 1 86 ; Poll. 60 50 fl 10 Hartford . 3100 20 60 15 16 10 20 25 30 1 96 Poll. 60 50 11 10 Wabash 3100 20 60 15 16 10 20 10 30 1 81 Poll. 60 50 1 10 Jefferson 3100 20 60 15 16 10 20 10 30 1 81 ! Decatur Special, 3100 valuation, 10 cents. Decatur Corporation, 3100 valuation, 20 cents; Poll, 25 cents. From this date and up to the third Monday of April next, you will , find me at the Treasurer’s Office, in Decatur, to receive the above levicd Taxes; after the third Monday of April, 1867, those remaining unpaid will be collected with penalty and interest as the law directs. JESSE NIBLICK, Treasurer, A. Co. November 8, 1867. By D. J. SPENCER, Deputy.

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