Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1868 — Page 1

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Vol. 11.

ATTORNEYS. D. D. HELLER, -A.ttorn.ey at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Offioe. vlons2tf, JAMESR. 8080, Attorney at Law, DEOATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Offioe- vlOhGtf. JAB.C. BRANYAN. 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, Connersville, Ind. XKtT J.C. Branyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. STUDABAKER, .Attorney at Law, -A.KTD 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. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE7ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA,* 3AAA ACRES of good farming , vJF’LfVf land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild tanfffoT ■ 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. No sale, no charge. vlOnGtf PHYSICIANS. ~~ F. A. JELLEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DECJITVR, LTDU.Y.t OFFICE—On Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co’s Hardware Store. vßnlstf. C.L. CURTISS, Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. Having permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office in Houston’s Block. Residence at the Burt House. v11n36 ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, nKCjimi, OFFICE—On Seoond Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf.

DENESTRY. A. J. RAUCH, Opperative & Mechanical DENTIST, DECATUR, : : : : : : : : INDIANA. All work neatly executed and warranted to give satisfaction. Call and examine specimens. OFFICE—With Dr. Jelleff, over A Crabbs & Co’s Hardware store. v11n39 _ hotels. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howie, DEC.ITIR, IJTD., 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. MONROEI HOUSE. MONROEVILLE, INDIANA. L. WALKER,:::::::: Proprietor, —:o: This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. HTtEtWngl A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT W.irXE, LTD. vllnllyl. HEDEKIN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. PORT WAYNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. HAV ER HOUSE? J. LESMAN, Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. HoWTcW. MONROEVILLE, IND. E- G. COVERDALE, Proprietor, i ———:o:Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IjSTD., FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1868.

gHmlUwuiL FFrom GenerAl’D. H.Hill ’a “Land We Love.”} General Jackson—-Ills Duel with Dickerson. Seeing some recollection of Calhoun and other illustrious dead | in your magazine, I deemed it i right to forward to you a leaf of my “Scrap Book,” before some accident might render impossible its appearance in print. It is the duel of Gen. Jackson, the details of which I received from the lips of Dr. James Overton, a man of fine erudition and brilliant parts who, in spite of the fact that the life-long torments of dyspepsia incapacitated him for any active participation in public affairs, may justly be considered the father of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. He came to Tennessee in!818, and settled in Neel’ys Bend of Cumberland river, opposite to the Hermitage. Being a Democrat and gentleman, he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the house of the hero of New Orleans. He died two years ago, an octagenerian, in full possession of all his strong mental faculties. Gen- < ,eral Jackson was never communi cative on the subject of this duel and the Doctor related it to me as he heard it of his own uncle, General Thomas Overton, a neighbor and bosom friend as wellfes second in this affair of Old Hickory. General Jackson and Dicker - son’s father-in-law had some misunderstanding, probably about horses and.-horse-racing. The son-in-law undertook to resent the affront. He, already a good shot, repaired to Natchez, and spent there six months, his chief employment being practice with a pistol. Returning to Nashville. Dickerson dispatched one of his friends to Jackson with a letter extremely abusive of the General, and reflecting on the virtues of his be loved wife. The messenger stated that if the General would not reply with a challenge, the letter would be published in the newspapers. The challenge was sent. Colonel Archibald Overton, who was a brother to the Doctor, and who at the time studied law in General Jackson’s office, saw the instruction given to the second, General T. Overton. It concluded in these words, “accept no apology; nothing but his blood will satisfy me.”

Time and place were appointed and the affair, it seems, was well known in Nashville; for, among other facts to give it publicity, Dickerson offered 8500 as a bet that he would kill his antagonist. Jackon’s and T. Overton’s families had no knowledge whatever of the affair. On the appointed day, Generals Jackson and Overton, without saying a word or creating any suspicion about the aim of their journey, started for the rendezvous. Dickerson was not on the ground, and they waited a considerable time before he and “his second arrived. General Overton who was as imperious as Caesar, and as stormy 7 as a tempest walked up to receive them : “Gentlemen, why did you let us wait so long; or is it your manners to let old men wait for young ones ?” His policy was to confuse Dickerson, but he could not succeed. “Dickerson one of the bravest of men, and his handling of the pistol the most skillful I have ever seen,” were the words of General Overton, which assertion, coming from one who passed through the seven years of the revolution without furlough, and who, on account of the unjust attack upon his friend forever hated the man —goes far to establish the unquestionable bravery of Jackson’s opponent. The next policy of General Overton was to gain the power of giving the word, and the third to extract Dickerson’s first fire; and to guard against General Jackson fireing too soon, it was agreed that his double spring pistol should not be sprung. General Overton threw up, who according to his own acknowledgement, could, at pleasure, turn up head or tail. The lot of giving command naturally fell upon him, and he ordered the two antagonists to their respective pegs. The terms were : “To stand with heads down and arms close to the body, until the word fire was given.”— While in expectation for the command, General Overton saw, or imagined that Dickerson, who seemed very anxious to fire, move his right arm, whereupon he stepup to him, took hold of both his arms and, in stentorian voice, exclaimed: “Mr. Dickerson! keep your arms still, sir, and remember the terms of this duel!”. Then quickly gave the command. Dickerson fired, and General Overton knew his principal was wounded, because he saw the dust fly from

his coat. Jackson instantly cried out, “General, I can not spring my pistol!” whereupon the latter more vehement than ever, turned upon him with “Spring your trigger, G—d—n it!” Jackson did so and Dickerson was shot dead. Many years after, Dr. Overton asked his uncle whether Dickerson really moved his arm, or he imagined it moved ? The old man, upon his word of honor, declared that he could not tell. And whydid you Fuse such violentlamguage toward General Jackson? The answer of the old soldier was that according to his personal experience, a wounded man does not for a few seconds feel his hurt so much as to disable him to" master his actions; but if these few seconds fly by, the chance of retaliation is over. He wanted, with his storming, to awaken all Jackson’s enegies. A few years before General Jackson’s death, Dr. Overton happening to ride with him in his from Tyree Springs to Nashville, on the road they were conversing about this duel with Dickerson, and the old hero uncovered his bosom to show the wound received in the encounter. “Why! General, it seems to me you must have stood very badly to receive such a wound,” remarked the doctor.— The old man became silent, and did not recur any more to the subject. N. B. The father-in-law of Dickerson was Erwin, and his second in the duel a Dr. Cattal. I spell the name according to Dr. James Overton’s way: Dickerson, and not Dickinson, as it is written by others.

Brevities. The “White Fawn,, has already cost $125,000. ' There are 4'8,000 cigar and tobacco manufacturs in the United States. Half those who die in New York city are children under five years of age. More than 20,000,000 brick were manufactured iu Milwaukee last season. In Iceland the clergyman kisses his congregation all around before preaching. A niee proceeding. A man in New York fell from a scaffolding sixty feethigh the other day 7 , and sustained no serious injury. Braddock’s grave is in Fayette county, Pa. His only monument a shingle nailed to an adjacent tree. Menkem is laid up with inflammatory rheumatism at Omaha.— She played Mazeppe with the mercury 7 at four below zero. Bounty money to the amout of $50,000, is annually expended in Minnesota for the slaughter of wolves. Napoleon recently got up a serenade for himself, with a band consisting of 400 drummers and 1,600 musicians. The last of the “Crooks” has appeared at Nashville, as a melodrama called “The Red Crook or Story of the Lost Cause.” An Indianapolis carpenter fell a hundred feet from a church steeple the other day, and strange to say he was not killed. Lord Lyons, the British Embas. sador at Paris, recently appointed gets $50,00 a year salary, and was paid $40,000 outfit. At Quincy, Illinois, a bridge is constructing across the Mississippi which will cost $2,000,000. It will be completed in about a year. Queen Isabella is in unsuccessful quest of a proper person to marry her eldest. The Queen was a belle, and her daughter is a belle. Ah! A man in Havana, attempted to elope with three women on the same evening. The enterprise was too complicated, and he ingloriously failed. A minister at Crestline lately telegraphed to the chief of the Cleveland police that some thief had stolen all his manuscript sermons. A Chicago court has decided that young laidies of seventeen are too old to be—well, spanked was the word used in court, but it seems indelicate. A judge in Maine refuses to hear divorce cases this term, because the cold weather is likely to bring the parties together again if they are let alone. The fence of a graveyard in Richmond, Ind., bears this insciption in large white letters: “Use —’s Bitters if you want to keep out of here.”

Questions for the Northern Industrial Classes. Who is at present keeping white mechanics and laborers from seeking employment in theSouth ? Who is making a barren waste of the most fertile and productive section of the Republic ? Why is the burden of taxation so oppressive, and employment so scarce ? Why are there to-day hundreds oTtlidusands of'“white ’men " and women in the North living in dread of starvation within the present year ? Why are the commerce of the North and the ship-building interests almost totally paralyzed ? Why is the South threatened with a war of races and civil law trampled under foot in that section ? Why are millions of white men not represented in Congress ? Why have all the guarantees of the Constitution been broken down and the rights of free.born Americans subjected to the arbitray will of irresponsible satraps ? Why are thirty millions of white men taxed for the special benefit of a class who pay no taxes on the great bulk of their property ? Why should there be over two thousand millions of dollars exempt from taxation ? Why should there be gold for the bondocracy and greenbacks for the millions ?

Why should there be special leg i islation for one class of the popul lation. to the serious injury of the • interest of every other ? i Why should the great agricnl ’ tural population of the West be made tributary to the manufacturing lords of Yankeeland ? If the national banks are ena- ’ bled to make twenty millions oi dollars a year but of the industrial -elasses bytheirspeculations in tht necessaries of life, why are they tolerated ? If negroes are fit for freedom, why has a great poorhouse system of their support to be kept up at the expense of Northern industry r Why is it that the products ol the South have fallen off to so great an extent ? Why are murders and outrages and robberies so fearfully frequent all over the South ? If the war was prosecuted for the preservation of the Union, why are ten States kept out of it ? If the South is permitted to fall under negro domination, will it be fit for the habitation of of white men ? The industrial classes of the North will find an answer to all .these questions in the destructives. It is to them we are indebted for the evils by which the country is threatened. And the worst has yet to come, The negroes refuse to work, and the great productiveness of the South is lost to the country. The white men of the free States are oppressed with taxation, that they may be sup ported in idleness. Os the four or five hundred millions of dollars which are raised upon the industry of this section every year, a large proportion is expended in the devilish work of reversing the natural order of the races. Workingmen of the North, will you, can you endure this infamous this hellish work ? Do you not see that the perjured, plundering, Constitution-breaking, law-defying gang called Congress is striking at your rights, at your freedom, at your dearest interests, through its policy of re-construction ? There has not been a single act of legislation, a single measure passed in Congress that has not been aimed at you. It is you that the National Banks are fleecing. It is your families who are made to suffer that the South may be Africanized and converted into a wilderness. It is out of your pockets that the tax to pay the interest on untaxed bonds is paid. Nearly one-half your labor is mortgaged for the support of a priviliged class. Your loaf of bread is ten cents, because the South, instead of contributing to the resources of the country from its fertile soil, is a drag a tax upon your industry. Look into radicalism and you will find in it the true cause’ of all the poverty, all the misery, all the wrongs from which the whole country is now suffering. The remedy is in your own hands, and the time is hastening on when it can be applied. Organize and be prepared for the day of action, the day upon which you can settle all saores with the party of anarchy and ruin,. the party which seeks to maintain its power through the sacrifice of every right and principle vindicated in the great revolution. Organize for the salvation of

the Republic, and to rescue it from ‘ a beastly degrading mongrelisin. Organize to save this land for white men, and to make it the j white man’s inheritance. Organize to protect yourselves I and families from the conspiracy j of an unconstitutional Congress, j and from the nefarious designs of; an unprincipled, heartless bondocracy. Organize for the emancipation of eight millions of our own race and blood fromtlie -most-galling,-; crushing, grinding despotism ever j inflicted upon a people. Think of what they are to-day i suffering. Think of their ruined homes, their wasted fields, their prostrate trade, their hundreds of poverty stricken widows and orpans. Think of the fate with which they are menaced. Think of the outrages perpetrated by a half savage race, instigated to their de- ’ viltries by radical fiends and cut throats. Think of all this, and resolve in your hearts that tiie accursed party which has wrought all this woe, which has brought this flood of evils upon the land, shall, when the day of retribution comes be crushed into the earth under the tread of your triumphant majorities.— Metropolitan Record.

Dining- a la Arab. . A correspondent of a London journal having dined in the Arab custom at the Exhibition, makes a note in the English fashion ; , “There were nine in the party. As we were ushered into the dining apartmeat, a servant handed each guest a towel, and held a metallic basin, while another poured water over the hands. We were seated on cushions, on the floor, ■ around a circular metallic table, about eighteen inches high, with a rim around it. In front of each guest was a spoon and a piece oi bread. First came soup, of which each dipped. Then boiled fowl was placed in the center of the table, and rapidly and gracefully carved by the Governor with his fingers. ’ He then, with his fingers passed a piece to each. .The greatest compliment an Arab can pay is to pass to you a leg of a fowl, after having first bitten off a mouthful to himself. Then came eleven other dishes in rapid succession, each served in the same manner—even dishes that were like our pets and puddings. The cooking was all good, and seasoning excellent. After we arose from the table, came long pipes—cltiboux, and cbffee—preceding which, however, the ceremony of washing the hands was gone through with, and they needed it. We were soon ushered into the main hall of the house, and witnessed an exhibition of dancing, accompanied by Egyptian instrumental music. The dancing women are the most beautiful of all ‘the fair and frail’ of Egypt, and dance as did the daughter of Herodiat—which I should say, was all the worse for the daughter.” Straws show, etc, especially such straws as these: Thad. Steven’s own town, Columbia, Pennsylvania, has lately given a Democratic majority, for the first time in twelve years; the charter election in Watertown, in this State, gives a Democratic majority of one hundred and fifty-six against a radical majority last year of ope hundred and forty-seven; in the largest vote ever cast in the charter election in Newark, in Wayne county, the Democrats, a few days since, elected their entire ticket by forty majority —a gain of fifty-four on last year’s radical majority of fourteen: and in Canandaigua the Democrats elect two out of three trustees, all the Assessors and the Treasurea; the election last fall gave the radicals about one hundred majority. These straws indicate the reaction which is elsewhere manifest on a larger scale.

Wanted to Sue Somebody.—A ’ negro went to a prominent lawyer ■ of Gallatin, Tenn., some ten days ago, and tendered him a fee of twenty dollars, remarking the time that he had understood that he was a great friend of the negroes, and that he wanted him “to Sue somebody,” and get him a horse—that he had no horse, and wanted one. The negro was clearly in earnest, and the incident is a fair .illustration of the ideas with regard to property now prevalent among his race. The Legislature of Missouri proposes to punish by fine and imprisonment parents who neglect to send their children to school at least four months in the year. A lump of silver weighing four hundred pounds was found last month in the Konigsberg silver mine in Sweden.

Social Life in Pruasla. Dr. Bellows writes from Berlin ' to the Liberal Christian. The education to cleanliness, ■ decent manners, good carriage I and respectfull behavior, which , this great camp called Prussia sej cures, is something most instruc- ■ tive to see. The soldiers do not ’ look brutal, coarse or sensual. I There is some secret about their I training which neither the French J nor the English have caught. It must be a good deal in the Geri man is not hot, but : as if made of beer, not beef—a lit ' tie cool and sluggish. The Ger- ' man military spirit is enforced and i corrected by the universal educai tion of the people. German soli diers and sailors are different from American cr English or French. They are neither drunkards, nor quarrelsome, nor reckless. The I union of a careful elementary ■ education with a universal participation soldiers’ calling, take a way the exceptional character of a licensed rudeness which belongs to soldiers when they are only a special class of the population. But, doubtless, this soldiers-life, so favorable to order and decorum, and even so chastening to youthfull passions, was another and most painfull side to it. It drills the Prussian youth to mechanical habits, represesses personal enterprise, delays the self-relying qualities in their character, habituates them to being taken care of, encourages them to lives of busy idleness, and sacrifices each to all, the people to the country. Accordingly, there is a general spirit of licentiousness, occupation with immediate pleasures, or magnifying of eating and drinking as very serious occupations, a contentment with humpie means, a patient waiting for slow’ advance ment, which it is discouraging to see in so well educated, so respectable and so orderly a people. Quick as Prussia is in arms—because her military' life is all reduced to machinery and the machinery is in the finest order and can be set in motion'in an hour—there is no other quickness about her. She is a slow country. Every practical interest lags. Her workmen are slow, and do not effect in a day three-fourths of the work of an English or American workman. It drives one nearly crazy to see how many arms there are on the levers by which the smallest object is reached. In the restaurants one man receives the orders, another carries it, a third transfers it, a fourth executes it a fifth receiv&rthe thing executed, a sixth makes it over to the original orderer. It takes twenty minutes to get a chop which would be before you in five minutes in an American eating house. There is a system of military subordination running through the whole social and economical life, and this narrows and limits everybody’s sphere, and contracts and paralyzes energy and hope. Advertising will do Anybing. It broke a path through the snow in Springfield recently, as witness the following from the Republican: “The late storm so filled one of our new and smaller streets with snow that it became almost an impossibility to pass through it, but as only two houses were on that street, and only two persons had occasion to pass through it daily, the task of breaking a path became a formidable one and the expense of having it broken would by no means be trifling. One of its two inhabitants- however, had an eye fur buisiriess. In* the Republican he inserted an advertisment offering his house for sale at a mere song. The plan worked like a charm. From immediately after breakfast until late at night, and on the next day also, a stream of hungry speculators of all sexes and nations, on foot and in sleighs and carriages, poured down the blockaded Street to secure the great bargain. Os course they were all just to late, as they were told, but long before the last had departed the last snow drift had vanished, and the street was as smooth and hard as a plank floor—and all for a half a dollar!

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A Wisconsin paper, describing a large farm which the advertiser wants to sell, adds the following: “The surrounding country is most beautiful; also two wagons, and a yoke of steers.” In the manufacture of steel pens at Birmingham, 2,500 persons are employed. The yearly product is over 725,000,000 pens consuming about 5,000 tons of steel. It rains almost constantly in Sitka, one pleasant day in a week being the average. Enterprising umbrella manufacturers should at once send out agents. Tears do not dwell long upon the cheeks of youth. Rain drops easily from the bud, rests on the bosom of the maturer flower, and breaks down that which hath lived its day. Motto for lawyers —“Brief life is here our lot”