Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1867 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. • WJ— - - OFT ICI AL PAPER OF THB COUNTY. DEUATIJRr 1X1)11\T FRIDAY, DEC. 27, IS6tT~ THE XEWS. Intelligence received from Spain say the Spanish Government have made a formal offer to the American Minister atMadrid, to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to the United States for one hundred and fifty million dollars in gold. The terms of sale are fifty million dollars in gold to be paid in cash on the signing of the treaty and formal delivery of the islands to the United States. A second fifty million dollars in gold to be paid one year thereafter, and the third instal ment to be paid at the end of six years. Great excitement prevails over the news of the extinction of slavery being one of the consequences of the sales. The national pride is disposed to grumble a little over the transfer, but the general feeling, except among the oldest families, is one of satisfaction. It is, of course, known that owners of slaves will be fully compensated out of the purchase money. Commodore Bissell's account of the disaster to the Monongahela is published. Only four lives were lost and the vessel, though ashore in the town of Frederickstadt, St. Croix, may yet be saved. It is understood that the majority of the members of the Indian * Peace Commission, will recommend in their report, that the In-' dian bureau be withdrawn from the ' Interior Department and made a■' seperate department by itself un-1 der the charge of some competent i military officer, and not attached : to the War Department. Hon. Eugene Casserly, Domecract, was elected United States. States Senator for California, on ■ the 20th inst. From papers on file at the State i Department, it appears that Minis- ■ ter Hall has been for some time negotiating for the purchase of Cuba, with fair prospects of success. The British legation and consuls to Mexico have been withdrawn, and it is expected that all European legations will follow, leaving the United States sole occupants of the diplomatic field in Mexico.

From Mexico. Advices from Mexico state that Senor Romero ,-ts about to return to Washington as envoy extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary to the United States. Mexico will also send diplomatic agents to the President of the American Republic, with information received in the City of Mexico relative to contracts made in the United States, for arms aad munitions of war during the French intervention, and a decree about to be issued by President Juarez consolidating the' bonds issued therefor, and specifying in detail those recognized by the Republic. Parfjro Diaz was on the road to the capital with’ trophies captured at Q ieratc.ro. The Mexicamjournals object to the holding of the secret session by Congress. Robberies continue everywhere in Mexico, and organized bands of brigands are numerous. Later —Havana dates from the city of Mexco to the Uth have been reeivc.l. the National Congress was opened 0:1 the Bth instant. The hall was crowded. President Juarez, in a low voice, delivered the opening speech, die thanked the United States for the friendly feeling shown and the moral support given to Mexico during the war for independence. He justified the executions at Querataro as necessary acts of justice. He returned into the hands of Congress the extraordinaay powers which he had assumed, and before they-tiad expired promised that foreigners should bo protected, whether treaties were made with thait governments or not. Sonor Esquel Montez, president of Congress, replied, thanking the people of ’Texico for their conduct during the war, and declaring that the United States was their •only ally; and also denying the accusation that the prisoners of war had been ill treated, and pronouncing the recognition of the republic by foreign governments unnecessary, and concluding with the declaration that Mexico was fully able to defend herself. The Mexican newspapers propose minister Romero as minister of foreign aft sirs. An Envoy from Peru was on the ro t I to Mexico to effect an alliance between the two countries. ’

AbOut the Senate Finance Coniniitiee’s Report. The Senate Finance Committee • have presented to Congress their report, in which they urge every I I objection against making provi-I ! sion for the redemption of the 5-20 ' bonds with legal tenders. They i show in their report that they are I I laboring in the.interest of the na- I ■ tional banks. While pretending ' | not to decide the question as to ' I the legality of redeeming 5-20 ■ bonds with greenbacks, they proi pose to substitute other bonds for ' them at maturitv, which shall be i • i clear and explicit as to the rate ; ' of interest, and the kind of funds ' that they shall be redeemed with. | i Then, should the holders refuse to ) ’ make the exchange, will be the I time to determine whether by their : conditions they—the 5-20 bonds—- • cannot be paid in lawful money’. ~~~j There is one thing the Commit- ; . ’ 1 i tec failed to explain, and that is ( : why the 10-40 bonds at G per cent. ; interest are worth more than 5 20's? And why, if they could obtain money at 6 per cent, inter- ■ est, principal and interest payable ; in gold, did they issue bonds with i interest at seven and three-tenths I percent., if those bonds were really, as the Radicals now claim, payable ;in gold, principal and interest ? I The truth of the matter is, as the i debates in Congress show, at that ■ time, Congress was afraid of get- I | ting an unwieldy gold debt on : their hands, and to make the 5-20's and 7-30's desirable as an invest- ' ment, they offered a higher rate of j gold interest with a principal to be • paid in lawful money, which ! they now wish to back down from, i because it wculd be millions in the I pockets of the people. This substituting one kind of bonds for another comes with bad j grace from a party, whose organs with remarkable unanimity, have ■ declared was repudiation. If the : Government has a right to redeem ■ the 5-20 bonds with one kind of paper promises, it has the right to i redeem them in another; if it is re- : pudiation in one case it is also in i the other. One is the promise of ' the Government to pay in gold, without interest, at some future i day ; the other the same promise, ’ with interest, and if we have a choice of evils, and this Finance Committee’s argument shows we have, let us choose the least, and afford some relief to our over taxed people. Since the Radical party has been in power the capitalists of the country have been consulted, and all financial legislation, from bebeginningto end, step by step, has been in their interest. And now with our people impoverished by a complete system of official patronage thrown into the lap of capital ; while groan’g under these burdens, we notice this same eoatroling power still bowing in the dust, ' ready to do their bidding. There was some excuse during the war, but now, relieved oi‘ our great extremity, it is but just and right that the Radicals should step in between a people who are paying more taxes, per capita than were ever paid by | any people before, and this with the heavy capitalists of the country virtually exempt from taxation, and for once do something to protect them from a set of cormorants, who for years Lave been swindling, plundering and stealing from the people, just as they dictated to Congress. The eyes of the people are becoming opened; they are impatiently waiting for relief, a re lief that is within the power of ( Congress to’ grant, failing in which > their indignant constituents will ■ consign them to political graves ’ from which there will be no resur- ' rection. i The joyous young reporter of the Gold Hill, Nevada, Hews, ap1 pends this paragraph to a notice 2 of a wedding: “We noticed yes- (. terday a new practice in the mark riage business, and we rather like , it. All the gentlemen present, _ kiss the bride, and all the ladies I kiss the bridegroom ; after which, . j all the ladies and gentlemen kiss , each other. We solicit an invita- , ! tion to all the marriages tn and a- . i bout Carson. We feel like a young j 1 colt to-day.” How pleasant must ; be the profession of journalism out . i West! J’ ; ' ; — ♦ «— r —— I Tne Milwaukee Sent hf el says that 850 new buildings, costing 82,- ?! were erected in that citv during th? past season.

Particulars of the Clerkenwell Explosion. The Herald's London special has the following particulars of I the explosion at Clerkenwell Pris|on : None of the prisoners con--1 fined in the jail got out. The street opposite, which was parallel to the prison, is narrow, and i built with house almost entirely . demolished, and rendered untenaI ble by the crash. The firemen were immediately summoned, and are now employled digging in the ruins for the dead. Forty persons—men wo i men and children—have been i found to be wounded. Four have already died. A house which stood in the street directly opposite to where the breach has been blown in the prison wall has been suspected for some time as a Fenian headquarters. The ruins of the dwelling and the. prison wall, • arc guarded by a strong force of- - The street highway has : been ripped up to a considerable j distance by the explosion, and the : walls of the jail have fallen, to some . extent, into the breach, revealing ' the interior of the prison yard.— ■ No damage was done to the pris- I on building. The whole city of London is , terribly excited by the fact of this : sudden and daring attempt. Every- ' body feels alarmed for the serious reason that no one can foretell where the next blow of this description may fall. The Government is becoming i exceedingly active. All the Fenian funeral processions projected in Ireland, in memory of the Manchester convicts, have been strictly prohibited and measures of a still more stringent character, are looked for on part of the Executive ! and it is feared, or at least deemed ! very probable, that some trouble I will come from the Fenian movement in Liverpool. Eist of officers ot the Monon? gahela Passengers of the De Soto, Washington, December 16. The following officers of the steamer Monongahela are on board ! the DeSoto : Surgeon W. T. Hord Chief Engineer J. Q. A. Seigler, Lieutenant Harrington, Ensign Lyohs, Midshipmen B. S. Richards J. N. Hemphill, A. B. Carter, L. V. Hancel, Second Assistant Engineers J. C. Vanhovenburg and C. J. Hobringhurst, Third Assistant H. W. Force* The De Soto left St. Thomas at noon on the sth of December, making the passage in six days and a half. Although considerably damaged by the earthquake, she leaks but little. The earthquakes were of frequent occurrence from November 18th up to the time the De Soto sailed, but they were not of great violence. The principal damages was caused by the first one, which shook the buildings to pieces, and the smaller ones that followed only served to knock down the remaining few which resisted the first shock. The De Soto’s bottom was temporarily repaird by the divers from the Wrecking Company’s schooner Competition, from New York. The officers and crew of the De Soto are all well. Arrest of a Negro Leader of an Insurrectionary Movement. Montgomery, Alai, Dec. 16. The Advertiser contains information of the arrest of George Shorter, a negro of this city, a lead-1 er of an insurrectionary movement in Bullock county. Shorter claims to be from one of the Northwestern States, and says he was sent South by the radicals of that region to establish a government. When the deluded negroes of the neighborhood heard of it they gathered in considerable numbers, and clamored for his delivery to them for summary punishment. They would have put him to death but the whites interfered and persuaded them to let the law take its course. Shorter was imprisoned in the county jail at Union Spring. A letter of Shorter’s to the negroes has been published, showing the nature of the organization he had effected. In this letter Shorter decreed the death of Jerry Treasur, of the revolutionary organization. Captain Bryce, agent of the freedman’s bureau, recently took keys and liberated a number of prisoners confined by the proper civil authorities. General Leslie Combs, of Ky., who was captain in 1812—the compeer of Clay, Webster, Crittenden, and the friend and companion of Generals Harrison, Tyler, Winchester and Scott—may be seen daily in the streets of Lexington straight as an arrow, hale and hearty, and looks as if he might live for twenty years to come. He has not an unsound tooth or grey hair in his head, and never carries a cane. Only the other night he went out hunting with some boys, and had the good luck to capture three possums and a coon. The Government has given away 184,81’3,900 acres of land, now owns 1,831,998,100.

PROSPECTUS FOR THE HERALD For IS6S. The importance of the political ; canvass for the coming year can--1 not be over estimated. The isunes which the elections of 1868 will I decide, will, to a great extent dei termine the character of the Gov- ! erament, and its destiny for the future. The question now presented to the people is, whether the old Government, as claimed by the men of the revolution, shall be restored, or whether a new GovI erment, ignoring State rights and i obliterating State lines, when an I overshadowing centralized power j usurping the control and direction of the domestic policy and institutions of the States, shall succeed it. The Herald will continue to maintain and defend old-fashion-ed Democratic doctrines. It will sustain, as heretofore. The supremacy of the white Equal taxation, not exempting any description of property from its.eqnal and just contribution for the support of the Government, general, State, county and municipal. The immediate restoration of the late rebel States to the former relations to the General government “with all the dignity, equality and rights unimpaired.” The constitutional rights of the several states to determined the qualifications of voters. The reduction of the expenditures to the lowest limits consistent with the public safety to diminish the burdens of the people. All will admit the necessity of enlightening the public mind upon the great issues which the people will be called upon to determine, and that no agency is more potent to that eadthan the press. The newspaper presenting itself daily’and weekly, has a powerful influence in moulding public sentiment. It becomes, therefore, the patriotic duty of all who entertain the belief that the only hope of maintaining a free, b true and an economical Government is in the supremacyof Democratic principles and politics, to see that paders advocating those doctrines and measures have a general circulation. As an inducement for the friends of the Herald to assist in extending, its circulation, the proprietors offer the valuable premium list, over 83,000, to those who shall procure the largest list of subscribers, as follows:

To the person who will send us the largest number of new yearly subscribers previous to the first day of Febuary, 1868, wc will give a laid up life policy of 81,000. To the person sending us the second largest list we will give a seven octave rosewood piano, valued at $650. To the person sending us the third largest list, we will give a fine two horse farm wagon valued at SToO. To the person sending us the fourth largest list, we will give one of Singer's celebrated sewing marines, valued at 885. For the fifth largest list we will give one of Singer’s excelsior sewing machines, valued at $65. For the «ix th-largest list we will give one of Lamb's far famed knitti?.g machines, valued, at 860. For the seventh largest list we wall give a premium Buckeye wine and cider press, valued at SSO. For the eighth largest list we will give a morning glory parlor stove, valued at S3O, To every person who will send us a list 20 sub'Scribers we will give a splendid photograph album, valued at $lO. For further particulars see prospectus in the Daily and Weekly Herald. These inducements should be sufficient to place the Herald in the hands of every Democratic family in Indiana. Terms of the Weekly Herald — Single copies one year, $2; clubs of ten one year, $1 75; clubs of twenty or over, one year, $1 50. No paper sent until the money is received. Remittances may be made by postoffice money orders, drafts, bank checks, or by registered letter. Address, HERALD COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Played the Coward. —S peaker Colfax, who was so anxious to have the President dangling in mid air, and Stanton back in the War Department, while stumping Ohio for negrosuffrage, shirked the rosponsibilty of voting on the impeachment resolution. He did not ask that his name might be called as a Representative from Indiana, as he had done upon other occasions when extreme radical measures were being put upon their final passage. When it came really to the pinch his courage was of the Bob Acres kind, and he stood upon his reserved rights as Speaker, declining to vote unless there was a tie. The turn which matters had taken was rather damaging to that peculiar grin that usually lights an biscoutcaancc.— Detroit Free Press.

186 7. FAinWR.: -FOR ALL KINDS OF- ' Oil Clotlxs, Notions, cfcc. CRABBS, MOSES & RICE. East Side of Second Street, ZDEC-A-Ttm, - -- -- -- - IKmiA.KT7k. * 0 Z HAVE now the largest Stock of Goods in the County; and at surprising LOW PRICES. 12,000 Yards Prints, - - - 8 to 15 pts. 1,500 Yards Shirtings, - - 10to20,cts. 1,500 Yards Sheeting, - - 10to20cts. 1,000 Yards Detains, ------ 25 cts. All other Goods at proportionately Low Prices. We have a large Stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, HlTt I 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 high test market price for GRAIN, STAVES AND BLACK SALTS. g@“All kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. Nov. 22, 1867. CRABBS, MOSES & RICE.

A. CRABBS & CO.,i - . • i -DEALERS IXSTOVES HAVING REMOVED To Delks’ New Brick Building, on the west side of Second Street, one door north of Spenoer & Meibers, have enlarged their Stock direct from the East, since the !] DECLINE IN PRICES! and offer to the Public a greater Variety of Goods and at. LOWER PRICES than ever before. W e sell FOR CASH ALONE! and by so doing can sell our Goods at - least ■ Ten Per Cent. Cheaper!! i 1 than any House that sells on the credit system. We will hereafter keep a larg- ■ ' er and more varied Stock than has ever ' been kept in consisting of everything necessary for ■ the use of the FARMERS, I MECHANICS, HOUSEKEEPERS, and in fact for all classes. We keep on hand and manufacture all kinds of TIN WARE, and sell it as low as the lowest; also do all kinds of repairing in good order and on short notice. Our Tinner is one of the best and will not fail to give satisfaction. JtjrWe invite all CASH Customers to call and see us, and we will make it to their advantage to buy of us. A. CRABBS & CO. Grain Wanted. | ■We will pay the highest market, price for Wheat, Rye, Corn, Buck [ wheat and Oats, in Good., or take the same on old accounts now due! us. A. Crabbs & Co. ■ • 1 Oct. 18. 1837. yll*23tf. |

W. G. SPENCER J. MEIBERS. NEW STOCK • OF HARDWARE, -ZX.T 3PENGEK & ME!BERS\ DECATUR,INDIANA. Locks, Latches, Hutts, Screws, JTails, Iron, DOORS A SASH* Cabinet Hartware & Can»enter Tools. HAND. PANNEL. RIP & BUCK SAWS. Chisels, •/Lugers, Steel Squares, Boring Machines. Table and Pocket Cutlery, Also a great vareity of General Hard- ■ ware being received every day. Cable Chains, Log Chains, Butt Chains, Halter Chains. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, Plows, Cultivators, Hoad, Scrapers, Grain Cradles, Scythes, Rakes, Hoes, &c. THIS BEST COOK STOVES in the market are kept by SPENCER & MEIBERS. We have also a large stock of good TIN WARE, which we can afford to sell as cheap as I any House in the County. Remember the place—one doo? north I of Dorwin ft Bro's New Drug Store. June’, 1867. 1

SANTA CLAUS! “HEADQUARTERS" at fc FOPDMB NEW YORK STORE, 90 COLUMBIA STREET, FOHT WAYNE. Fresh assortment of New Goods expressly adapted to the Holyday trade. Bargains in every department’ d i NEW CLOAKINGS, RICH MINK FURS, HANDSOME CLOAKS, BAY SABLE FURS, BLACK REAVER CLOAKS. GERMAN FITCH FURS, VELVET CLOAKINGS, SIB. SQUIRREL FURS, PAISLEY SHAWLS, CHILDREN'S FURS, PLAID LONG SHAWLS. FUR HOODS 82 to 85, BOULEVARD SKIRTS, EMPRESS REPS, 45 cts., RICH DRESS SILKS, ENGLISH MERINO’S 45t0500L BROCHE SCARFS, POINT LACE COLLARS, VAL. LACE HANDK'FS, KID LINED GLOVES, CHILDREN S LEGGINS, MERINO UNDERWEAR. WRAPPER GOODS, DELAINS, 20 Ct., > fl With our usual large andattractiv e Stock of DOMESTIC & HOUSEKEEPING DRY GOODS! Which are offered at close Cash prices. ROOT & COMPANY.