Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1867 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. U». C. BBANVAN. ROMIR 3. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM. -Altorneys 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 lianapolis, Ind. B®“J.C.BRANTANis Deputy Prosecution Attnmer. jllnl9tf. D. D. HELLER, .Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiona or Ohio. OFFICE.—With Dr. Sorg, over Spencer & Meibers' Hardware Store. JAMES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, Pension & Bounty Agent, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Lands, pays Taxes, and collects Bounties and Pensions. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor's Office. ylo,n6tf. D. STUDABAKER, Attornev at ILaw, •ZSLKTXJ 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 pertaining to Real Estate Agency. lie is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSEU REAL ESTATE AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming . vFVF land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild lond 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. Fosale, no charge. vlOnfitf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DK€d TUR, IJVBUM* OFFICE—On Second Street, over Bollman’s Store. vßnlstf. DR. S. C. CURTISS, Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Having permanently located in this place, offers b’s professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office in Houston’s Block. Residence at the Burt House. vllnoG ANDREW~SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DKATIR, UTDIAITd. OFFTCF—On Second St reef over Spesccr & Meibers' Hardware Store. vßn42tf. AUCTION EE~R. C. M. FRANCE Would announce to thepublicthat he is n ’’egulurly licensed auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales, whenever requested, upon addressing him at Wilshire. Ohio. 14107 ELS. 7 MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howse, DUCATIR, LTD., I. J, MIESSE, ::::::::::: Proprietor. In connection with this House there is a Stage run to and f-om Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which connects with trains running both ways. vlln9tf. MONROEHOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the beet style, and at reasonable rates. nSvlltf. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT RMPAE, IND. vllnllyl. fIEOEKLV HOUSE On Parr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WA YNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House.vllnllyl. ■ MAYER HOUSE. ZBSJfctV, Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MoWIHgI MONROEVILLE, IND. K. G. COVERDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1867.

THE OLD RED CRADLE. BY FRANK M. BAKER. To and fro! to and frol See the old red cradle go! Timed by tunes which years ago Mother sang us, sweet and low! Youthful mother, as you keep Vigils o'er your first born’s sleep, Tell the thoughts now running deep Through your mind, for oft you weep! •‘Oh, it seems but yesterday, In this cradle oft I lay; Mother sang as I to-day, In the years fast fled away. “Here my brother oft Ive lain, Watched his slumber, soothed his pain; Now he’s sleeping with the slain— Brother, will you wake again? •‘Here my baby sister lay, When her spirit left tte clay; Empty cradle, on that day Mother laid thee, sad awayl “Years you've lain in garret old! Forms you held have turned to moldl Once again you're called to hold Treasure richer far than gold?” To and fro! to and fro! Old red cradle, oft thou’lt go! Timed by music, sweet and low, Mother’s songs of long ago.

What we Pay Tor Necessaries Because of* Taxes. The question of taxation is very naturally exciting public attention. We arc pressed to the earth by taxation and the working man begins to see that ruin is inevitable, unless there is relief. In this extremity he looks around for help. Fortunately the means of relief are in his own hand.- Let him change bis rulers. No change can be made for the worse. Hon. S. S. Cox, in a recent speech, said: “You are the victims of a cunning system of tax, which demands reform. Nothing like it existed so long in any land. You say “taxes are needful to pay the expenses of the Government.” This I grant; but lam not speaking of the taxes that go to the Government. I am speaking of those which go into the pockets of the rich. I will show you what taxes these are. The word taxes includes custom house duties as well as internal revenue taxes.— Now, observe this : that as things exist to-day, of every SIOO paid by the people of the country in the shape of taxes, not over S4O dollars go to support the Govern meut.

Let mo give you an example.— There was entered for consumpi tion into this country during the year ending June 30,1865, according to the official report published by the director of the bureau of statistics, 577,909,973 pounds of brown sugar. The average cost of this sugar was, according to the sworn declarations of the importers, less than three cents a pound, gold—say, three cents, or altogether $17,310,299, gold. The cost of brown sugar to the workingman, even if he bought it at the wholesale cargo price, throughout the year, was, on the average, about eleven cents per pound, gold. So that he actually paid a tax of eight cents a pound, gold, on all the sugar he consumed. In the aggregate this amounted in the year alone to the sum of 46,160,798 dollars, gold. Now, if you will look over the accounts of the receipts of the United States Government of taxes on sugar, you will find that there was received but 17,606,620 dollars, gold. And yet the people of this country paid taxes on this article, as I have shown, to the extent of 46,160,798 dollars, gold. What became of the enormous difference, amounting, in this instance alone, to 28,554,178 dollars, gold ? Need I answer ? Need I tell you that it went into the pockets of rich capitalists ? Need I tell you that it was part of the reward of treachery and cunning, of false patriotism, of false politics, and chicanery and robbery ? Nee4l tell you that it was one of the fifuits of

one of the thousands of devices which, under the guise of war measures, and “necessary measures,” are practiced upon you before your very eyes ? You will observe that I have been careful to obtain the exact number of pounds consumed (that is, paid duties and withdrawn frombond forconsumption in the United State) the cost price in gold; the exact amount paid for duties and received by the Government, in gold ; the wholesale market price at New York during the same period, also in gold, and the total sum paid by the people, in gold. Had I quoted the latter sum in currency, as I had a right to, for the people’s wages were paid in currency, and at no higher rate than before this heavy tax was laid, and had I stated the actual, the retail price, about twen-ty-five cents, my illustration would have been stronger. The difierence between the total first cost of all this sugar and its total cost to the people is what the latter pays as a tax. You see, also, how much of this tax found its way into Government coffers.— You see the enormous sum of wealth which, in a single year and on a single article, is, by the process I have described, sucked out your substance. I would illustrate the same with regard to salt, tea, cotton goods, etc. There are over ten thousand different articles taxed with custom duties in this country. and the total amount yielded in 1864 and 186.5, was 77,949,508 dollars. Since that time the number of articles taxed with custom duties has been increased and the rates of duty have been raised, so that for the fiscal year ending July 30, 1866, the yield was 170,046,651 dollars; and for the fiscal year ending July 30, 1867, it was, as estimated a year before by the Secretary of the Treasury, 160,843,774 dollars. The product of these taxes for three years was, in gold, 417,839,933 dollars. If the people were fleeced rfi much on other articles—and the tariff on others is heavier—the entire sum of which they were robbed during the last three years amounted to no less than 672,000,000 dollars, or enough to buy and own all the capital stock of the four great trunk lines of railroad from the Atlantic

to the Mississippi, and to enable you to draw and possess the dividends every year for your own benefit, or a sum equal to one-fourth of the public debt! Turn to the other branch of the revenue and you will perceive precisely the same results. Step by step, unfalteringly, undeviatingly • the taxes on imports have been • gradually raised, until they are nominally fifty per cent., and really three hundred. Step by step, and with the same selfish motive, the internal taxes have been alternately raised and lowered. Now, prices can only be affected through two agents; one is taxation, the other is currency. 1 have shown you how the taxation device at every step has sweated prodigious results in the pockets of the harpies that are preying upon us before affected by legislation. There is another and equally potent means by which the earnings of the industrial classes rray be preyed upon without their knowledge and converted to the use and benefit of the indolent and the rich. This is by affecting the price of merchandise through a change in the currency. When your rulers left the Constitution and made legal tender of paper, they left the currency of God and Democracy —gold. You are the sufferers.— Let me illustrate- Recollect always that the value of all things depends upon the relative supply and demand. For instance, if there are ' twice as many sums of ten cents seeking to be sold for coffee as there are ponnds of coffee seeking to be sold for ten cents, then the ; price of coffee would be twenty cents per pound. If on the contrary there are twice as many 1

pounds of coffee seeking to be sojd for ten cents, as there were sums of ten cents seeking so be sold for coffee, then the price of coffee will be five cents a pound. This is what we call the natural price, or the relation between supply and demand.” A True History of Kilkenny Cats. A correspondent from Ireland gives what he vouches for as the real origin of the story of the cats of Kilkenny: During the rebellion which occured in Ireland in 1798, (or it : may be in 1803,) Kilkenny was . garrisoned by a regiment of ; Hessian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie together, in one of their barrack rooms, two cats by their ! respective tails, and then throw them face to face across alinegenI erally used for drying clothes — The cats naturally became infuriated, and scratched each other in ■ the abdomen until death ensued to . one or both of them, and terminated their sufferings. The officers of the corps were . ultimately made acquainted with ’ these barbarous acts of cruelty, and punished the oflenders. In ordered to effect the purpose an officer was ordered to inspect each , barrack-room daily, and report to the commanding officer in what . state he found the room. The cruel soldiers, determined not to lose their daily torture of the wretched cats, generally employed one of their comrades to watch the approach of the officer, in order that the cats might ba liberated and take refuge in flight before the visit of the officer to the scene of their torture. On one occasion the “lookout man” neglected his duty, and the officer of the day heard ascending the barrack stairs while the cats were undergoing their customary torture. One of the troopers immediately seized a sword and with a single blow they divided the tails of the two cats. — The cats of course escaped through the open windows of the room, which was entered immediately by the officer, who inquired what was the cause of two bleeding cats’ tails being suspended on the clothes line, and was told that two cats had been fighting in the room, that it was impossible to separate them, and that they bad fought so desperately that they bad devoured each other and’ with the exception of their two tails, which may have satisfied Captain Schummelkettle, but would not have deluded any person but a beery Prussian. The Journey of Life. Ten thousand human beings set forth together on their journey.— After ten years, one third, at least have disappeared. At the middle point of the common measure of life, but half are still upon the road—faster and faster, as .the rocks grow thinner, they that remain still now become weary, and lie down and rise no more- At threescore and ten, a band of some four hundred yet struggle on. At 90. these have been reduced to a handful of thirty trembling patriarchs. Year after year, they fall in disminishing numbers. One lingers, perhaps a lonely marvel until the century is over. We look again and the work of death is finished.—[Bishop Burgess. There is gjeat truth in the remark of the Louisville Journal, that “A little nerve is needed in advertiseing as well as in using any other effect means of success. Your men who have no more nerve than a wet rag, advertise little or not at all, and they succeed little or not at all. You may suppose that we are giving advice ’ that we think would benefit ourselves. Yes, we do think it would benefit us, but benefit yon immeii- ’ sely more. Think a little, and you will agree with us. And if you agree with us, be wise enough to act accordingly.” One of the sublimest things in j 1 the world is plain truth. 1i

The Payment of Bonds in CurrencyWashington, Nov. 20, 1867. To the Editor of the Chronicle: Will you do me the favor to publish this letter, from one of the soundest and most intelligent Democrats I have ever seen in Congress, upon the subject of the currency ? I publsh it without asking the writer's leave, because I believe such wholesome teachings to be necessary at this moment. Thaddeus Stevens. Evansville, Ind , N0v.15.

My Dear Sir—l have just fin- ; ished reading in the Cincinnati Commercial, with care, attention ' and with great pleasure, your reply to your neighbor, Gyger, in ! reference to the payment in “legal : tenders” of the principal of the ■ five-twenty bonds, and am very glad to find that our opinions on that subject perfectly coincide. — I voted for the bill with a perfect understanding that, as the bill was silent on the subject of the payment of gold for the principal, i that was to be paid in GovemI ment currency; while as to the inI terest of these bonds, it was speJ cially provided that gold should be paid; and I have always regret- . ted, as I have told you freqnentj ly, that I voted for it at all, beI lieving as Ido that no such disI tinctinction should be made, and that all bonds of the Government should be paid, principal and in- , terest in the currency of the Gov- ■ ernment, which they had declared, should be a “legal tender” for all I ■ debts, public or private, except in ■ those cases—the ten-sorties— I where express provision was made I for the payment in gold, both for principal and interest. j I recollect very well, in a con ' versation with you, that you told Jme “it. was a singular anomaly that, in a government like ours emphatically a governnient of the people, our brave and gallant fellows who had lost an arm or a leg or perhaps both, in the service, or the widows and orphans or those who fell battling for their country . should be paid in treasury notes, | when the bankers and millionaires .of Europe, who had no sympathy for our cause, but who had invested in our bonds at probably eighty cents to the dollar, should be paid in gold.” And you were right. Ido not believe the folly of those who arc urging the argument of “repudiation” in case the bonds are not paid in gold, will have strength enough at the close of the next Congress to carry them over the pons asinorum.— You may rely on it, the “Great West,” irrespective of parties, are solidly against paying gold on the the principal of those bonds, and it will be with great reluctance and misgiving that they will pay the interest in gold ; and I will say, that the party, whatever it may be, which indorses such a policy in the Presidential election next fall, will be so far beaten that their own dogs will not know them when they come from the polls. I am sincerely glad to learn that your health is so far restored as to enable you to attend the com- , ing Congress. You will no doubt ; have matters of deep interest on j which to adjudicate and questions of great importance to consider. ( My earnest desire is that all may , tend to the union, harmony and ( best interest of the Republic. ( Very truly and ( sincerly yours, John Law. ,

A printer out West, whose office is half a mile from any other building, and who hangs his sign on the limb of a tree advertises for an apprentice. He says: “A boy from the country preferred.” Patience is good, but perseverance is better. While the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter’ whips them out of the ring.

Valuable Plowing Matches. Plowing matches, where they have been introduced from time to time, have been productive of the most beneficial results in such localities or districts. Good plowing and the training in of plowmen is not so easy of attainment as is generally snpposed.— The art of plowing must be learned and studied, and requires the same amount of practical experience and much more bodily labor than any other trade: and the man who is complete master of his plow, and executes his work in the best manner, deserves great credit and a higher rate of wages than is usually given him ; for, unless he executes his work in an efficient manner, his employer suffers more or less in the after culj tivation and profits of the farm.— I The consequent excitement, and the interest and emulation among plowmen, should, therefore, be encouraged by agricultural societies and practical farmers by every means in their power. Where this has been adopted, the face of the country has been strikingly improved by the change effected by | sound plowing. Large vs. Small Kernels For Seed.—Some tens, years ago I planted an ear of corn to test the difference between the product of the kernels of both ends and the middle of the same ear, and will give yon the result. The soil was just alike, the cultivation the same, and the crop very different. I planted the two first rows from the large end of the ear, the next two rows from the tip or small end; and planted all the same morning. The large end produced fair sized ears, with irregular rows much as you will find them at that end of the ear. The mjddle kernels produced large ears, straight rowed and fair. The tips brought forth nubbins only. There was not a fair car on the two rows of : corn. I have raised com, more or less, for forty years; and now plant only about half, or most, two-thirds of the kernels on each ear of corn, and generally raise good crops. Save your seed corn and hang it up in the fall.

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Orchard Culture.—We believe " in selecting a good site. V We believe in a most thorough ’ preparation of the soil. We believe in planting none but good trees. We believe in “setting” said ' trees after the most careful and api proved manner. 5 We believe in planting trees not more than two or three years old, r if bought at the nursery. We believe in pruning and training said trees. I ° We believe in getting the branch- ! es low down on the trunks. We believe in keeping those branches and trunks free from 1 moss, caterpillars and all other 1 pests. 1 We believe in cultivating an orchard. We believe it to be a great fallacy that cultivating an orchard means to grow crops in it. • Ducks vs. Hens.—lt is stated that Mr. Comallis, of the Paris Academy of Sciences, tested for a year the laying capacity of three ducks and three hens, under the same conditions, with this result: Hens 157 eggs; ducks, 617 eggs.— Ducks are more easily raised than

chickens, being a hardier fowl, and not subject to the many diseases incident to the “chicken tribe.”— A neighbor, with only a half dozen ducks in the spring, has raised - , after using eggs as needed during summer, a flock of one hundred ducklings, and is now selling them off rapidly at fifty cents per head. At this rate, if duck farming is not profitable, perhaps some one will proceed to figure up better on the Shanghaes. Cure for Hollow Horn. — Take a handful of fine salt moistened with soft soap, rub thorougly from the horns down each side of the back-bone and across the loins. Feed on green food, potatoes cut, or turnips, with a small quantity of bran sprinkled over them. Three or four applications generally effect a cure.