Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1868 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. D. D. HELLER, -A.ttorn.ey at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywher in Indiana or Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf. JAMES R. 8080, .Attorney at Law, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office- vlon6tf. JAB.C. BRANYAN. HOM Eli J. RANSOM. BRANYAN & RANSOM, -Attorneys at Law, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, References.—Hon. John U. Petiit; Wabash, Ind., Wm. 11. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J. R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole, Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Sayler, Connersville, Ind. .C.Bilaxyan is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnlOtf. D. STUBABAKER, -Attorney at Law, Claim & Real estate btgent, 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. RE AL ESTATE "ACE NTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, 3/Y/YO ACRES of good farming v/kJ land, 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 you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnfitf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JjEUUBFF, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE—On Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co's Hardware Store. vßnlstf. C. E. 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 Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, I.VDIAA'A. OFFICE—On Second Street over Spencer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. vßn42tf. DENESTR Y~ H. 11. TIcCOWELL, Surgeon 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. v11n49 H OTELS ~— MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Bowse, DECATUR, lA'Il., 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. vllnStf. MONROE HOUSE. MONROBVILLt, INDIANA. L. WALKER,::::::: t> Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. MM STREET-EXCHANGE. A.FREEMAY Proprietor. West Main Street, near the Public Square. FORT ItMi’A’E, IJTD. vllnllyl. HEDEK.IN HOUSE On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts. FORT WA YNE, IND. EH KEARNS,Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage lines. Also good stabling in connection with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESAfAN,Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Sts., FORT WAYNE;, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. MONROEVILLE, IND. E. O. COVERDALE, Proprietor. Mr. Coverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl.

DECATUR, IND., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1808.

JldeHd grotty Hiss Me 'Uood-Xight. Dear Mother when my prayer is said, Before you take the light, Oh, lean your head so clotfely down. And always kiss good-night; For I am happier in my dreams, And sleep in sweeter rest, If I have'_laid my lips on thinq And are pressed. One kiss, dear mother; for the love My heart keeps warm for thee; And one for all the tenderness Thy sweqt eyes look to me: Kiss me forgiveness of my wrong; Kiss me with hope and'prayer, That I should[be a better child, And more reward thy care. Kiss me for some poor orphan child To whom no kiss is given; And next for all the heppy ones ( And then for one in heaven: Kiss me for everything I love, The beautiful and bright; Sweet mother, kiss me for thyself Once more, and now good-night. gHmlloutw, [Special Ccrrespondencejof New York World.] Sergeant Batea’ Tour—His March Through the South With the Flag. Montgomery, February 21. You may have seen telegraphic mention, that an ex-soldier named Bates was carying the flag on foot throughout the South, and desired some fuller account of the undertaking. To begin, therefore, Gilbert IL Bates lives at Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin, and during the war served as a Sergeant in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. At the close of hostilities he went home, and after meeting some reverses in business, which deprived him of nearly all his little store, purchased about five acres of good, deep, rich soil and went into the grape culture.— While thus engaged and having as little idea of coming South as he had of flying, the ex-sergeant dropped into the village one eveningtoget his mail. Some accident delaying the train he waited for a while at the office and finally started home, only to remember after going a few steps that he wanted a pipe—a common clay pipe, price only one penny—and from the purchase of this pipe came the trip from Vicksburg to Washington City, as hereinafter to be described. Stepping in for his pipe, our grapeistfound the usual knot of village politicians holding high debate, the great theme being, of course, reconstruction. This was on the 14th of December last, and now let me give the story for a while as related to me by Sergeant B. himself. Most of ’em was rampant rads, had never been in the war and didn’t know anything about the feelings of the Southern people, or anything of the sort. I directed most of my conversation with one man, and he says: “The people in the South, are just as bad rebels now as they ever were. That’s so, Sergeant Bates, isn’t it?” says I, some may be that way, but I believe the greater part of them gave up in good faith and are well disposed now to the Union. “Whob!” says he, “why, don’t you believe, if the troops was to be withdrawn that the flag would be torn down and trampled under foot almost before the blue coats could get out of sight ? “Why, says he, d—n’ em, they’re just like the Injuns on the plains, They are just like the Camanches by nature. They possess no generosity.” Now, continued the seargeant, I was in a bad humor that day, not that I often am; generally I’m in a good humor, but I got a little angry, a little excited, in fact, and I can’t know what put it in mj r head, but said I, are you in earnest ? “Yes,” says he, “they’d tear the flag down and trample it under foot.” Well, says I. I’m a poor man and can’t afford to leave my family, but, if you’ll give me a dollar a day for them, I’ll go to Vicksburg—l don’t know what made me'think of Vicksburg, perhaps because it was the backbone of the rebellion—Without money, and then through the South with the flag, unarmed. So after some more talk, they drew up the writings there in regular lawyer forni and we agreed on it. Pretty soon he insisted on my receeding. “For God’s sake give it up, said he; “you won’t get ten miles from Vicksburgand he honestly believed and so did the others, and tried to persuade me not to go.— The man that made the proposition tried again, saying “I’d never get to Washington, that I’d be wiped out, and then all the neigh-

bors would blame him for it.” But it was no use. I was determined to go then and just here the plucky grapist looked as firm as if he'was at his gun ready for ac tion. Then he resumed : This is the agreement: To enter Vicksburg without money and carry the United States flag from there to Washington on foot, through all cities and towns and by all collections of people, and carry the flag unfurled. Os nights and during storms to furl the flag provided I passed through no such cities or towns and by no such collections of people. And to travel by night and at all times to be unarmed. To employ, if I wished, one person asji guide, but to have no person or ‘ persons to protect me day or night, though any accompany me who desired voluntarily. One dollar a day to be paid my family in case I got to Washington, but if the flag was insulted or I, while bearing it, the one dollar a day to be forfeited. That’s the agreement, and the way I came to take the walk, and up to the present time; the feeling has been intense. Confederate soldiers have come from forty-five miles off my line to serenade me and take me by the hand. In three cases women have come with their children and cried, and the old men would show tears. Here, at Montgomery, just outside the city, a young lady decorated the flag with laurel and flowers. Her father, a large planter who sufferecj a good deal I guess, in the war had his cotton burned, a large amount of it, his gin house burned, and the ladies’ carriage filled inside with brush and turned upside down and burnt by Willson, or some of them, came out with me when I started, to bid me goodbye, and put one hand in mine and one on the flag and burst into tears, broke completely down, and it was some minutes Ijefore he couid get out his utterances.— The tears run down his cheeks. Some thought I might apprehend men in liquor,, and of course I’ve met some drunken men, but ; the most they would do would, be to take hold of me, or touch the flag and say—you know how men in liquor do—they defied anybody to insult that flag or tlje man that had it. That’s the way drunken men would do—challenge anybody to insult Sergeant Bates or the flag. Deputations from towns to the right and left of the line would meet me, and invite me to pass through their towns and visit them; and they have sent money to my wife and children in $ great many cases. I have gone out in citizens dress, and gone among all classes in disguise, especially confederate soldiers; and they all say, “Give us the Constitution and an equal chance; that’s all we want.” One old gentleman came up to me, I was resting, and had the staff in my hand, and he grasped it and comes up longside me and says : “You’re North and I’me‘South, and that’s as it should be, both under the shadow of the flag.” Whole towns would come out to see me. Soon as the flag, would heave in sight, whole towns would turn out and run—here the sergeant grew excited in his reminiscence and half rpse from his chair and waved his arm aloft—run like a charge of infantry to welcome me and extend the hand of friendship. Before noon, as I would be walking along, I have had invitations to dinner all along In one day there were fifteen (15). I counted ’em. They would run out and say; “Come, sergeant dinner’s all ready and you must stop and eat.” You see if I’d stopped before dinner, I could not have gone five miles a day.— At Vicksburg all crowded out to see me and every body wanted to shake hands, and they crowded around, so the Mayor had to open a path through for me to start.— Every body wanted to shake hands and almost every hand had money. I refused all but one man’s hand.—I saw it was white—a gentleman’s hand—it clasped mine and left a silver half dollar- That I kept. At Salem ex-Governor Moore— Governor of Alabama, when the ordinance of session was passed—wanted me to take quite an amount out of his private purse, and wanted me to stay at his house jso that it could be seen that the rebels woulden’t hurt me. And now, said the sergeant, breaking short off in a most amazing manner and taking a dip into politics, I tell you the Southerners are fighting negro equality alone; not the flag. Don’t you think so ? And to this query what would your correspondent do but just the very thing he did dp, assure the sergeant that on that point his head was as levgl as his heart was stout. Receiving this assurance. Sergeant Bates recurre4 to his under-

taking, and gave a running diary | of his tramp as follows,: Agreement had been made 14th December, 1867. Started from Edgerton, Wisconsin, on the 14th January, 1868, and reached Vicksburg, Mississippi, within ten days I thereafter. Soon as they knew I was in the everybody came to see me, and in particular every Confederate officer in the place.— I delayed four days, and it seemed as though the people could riot do enough for me. They gave me everything—Bo.ots, socks, a suit of cloths, *and so on. The citizens bought the silk, and some dressmakers or milliners made it up. The Mayor gave me a letter signed with the seal of the city, commending me to the courtesies of the people throughout my trip, and Colonel J. M. Partridge, an ex-Confederate, presented me the flag in a very neat speech. I left Vicksburg at noon on the 28th of January, the day being cool and pleasant when I started, a large crowd, with a brass band, seeing me off. Towards night it snowed but I pushed on, crossed the Big Black, and stopped that night fourteen (14) miles out. From Vicksburg to Selma I followed the track of the railroad, and the passenger trains would stop as I would meet them, and the conductor and passengers kept me suplied with papers and give me apples, oranges, money for any little thing on the way, and so on. ■ January 29.—Stopped at Clinton, Mississippi. Quite a village and it seemed as though the whole town turned out to welcome me. January 30.—Reached Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and found quarters provided for me at the hotel. The acting Mayor received me with an address at the capital, and, by request, I left the flag on the Speaker’s desk in the convention hail till mopning. January 31.—1 went in and got the flag off the deck. The convention was hi cession, and rose. They were white, black, and yel low; the hall was filthy; some were dressed and others poorly; poorly, I mean, for men in their position as members of a convention. That night I stopped at Brandon, Mississippi, and here there was a large crowd to receive me. Two citizens came out on the road to conduct me in. A splendid dinner was prepared for me and a number came to see, them General Robert Lowery, an ex-Confederate General. February I.—Left Brandon and reached Moulton Mississippi, a little place, and here Colonel C. W. Taylor, formerly of the Confederate army, offered me the hospitalities of his house.

February 2.—To Lake, Mississippi. This is a small place, but there was a great turnout. I stopped here by invitation with Captain Clark, ex-Confederate, and before leaving his wife gave me a horn drinking cup made by her husband while a prisoner at Lookout, and I’ve found it about the most useful thing given me in the trip—so convenient to drink from the springs by the way. February 3.—To Hickory, Mississippi, and entertained here by Mr. A. Gray, magistrate. Here on account of storm, remained two days. On the second night a large number of old Confederate soldiers came in, some of them, from forty-five miles away, bringing their old army fiddles, and gave me a serenade, and shook me by the hand. The crowd came in from both sides ofthe village, and said there wasn’t a man, womafi or child for miles back in the country that hadn’t heard of Sergeant Batess carying the flag. February s.—Left Hickory and arrived at Meridian, Missisippi, just on the Alabama line. Was met here by Mayor Henderson, ex-Captain Confederate States Army, and tendered the hospitalities of the city, and found rooms provided for me at the hotel. February 6.—Left Meredian and entered the State of Alabama, with colors flying, at four p. .m. Was met there by a large number of citizens, and taken for the night to the residence of Mr, A. R. Clay, a large land-owner, living near a little place called Cuba. February 7, —Arrived at Coatepah, a village, and met, as usual, by a turn-out of citizens. February B.—Arrived at McDonnell’s Bridge, and found a deputation from the citizens of Demopolis, Alabama, awaiting my arrival. Was taken to the house of Major Pierce, ex-Confederate States, during my stay. Here I Stayed over Sunday, 9th. o February 9.—lmmense number of people eame to see me. February 10.—Left, and arrived at Uniontown, Alabama; whole town out tq welcome me; wag the

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guest here of Mr. J. M. Hudson, a former Confederate soldier. February 11.—Arrived at Selma Alabama, at five p. m., and was met by a deputation from the citizen.'* of six gentlemen, and exConfederate officers; was taken to the chief hotel and welcomed by one of the committee in the name of the citizens. February 12.—Stopped over in Selma to-day and at night there was a big meeting; ex-Governor Moore and ex-Governor Parsons made speeches. Thundering applause greted me when I came', in with the flag. 1 thought the flbor would come through. February 13.—Another meeting was held to-day, and, with cheering, a resolution was adopted about the flag. This is the resolution referred to: .ResoZtied, That we heartily approve of each and every principle embodied in the Constitution of the Unithd States, that we regard the flag of the Union as the sign and symbol of those principles, and w&solmnly pledge ourselves to support the one and uphold and defend the other.”

February 14.—Left Selma and • arrived at Benton, Alabama. There was a big crowd here, and I was met and welcomed by Dr. Williams of that place in a speech, the citizens giving “three cheers for the flag.” A very nice dinner was prepared for me here, and after dinner a special new canoe was ready to carry me to the other side of the swamp. I arrived at night at the White Hall plantation near Montgomery, and received a very warm welcome. February 15.—Reached Montgomery, once the capital of the Confederacy, with the flag unfurled and was met outside the city by a number of the citizens and many ofthe infantry and cavalry stationed here, with whom I stayed till Monday morning, 17th, when the citizens reception took place. I've never had any interruption offered me, and have been most kindly treated everywhere along the route. With tins ceased the sergeant, and shortly after took his leave.— For his personal, Sergeant Bates is thirty years old, five feet nine inches, solidly built, has a soldier like air, and a steady pleasant face, with the sqare, firm, determined jaw that marks the American as a man supereminently fit to do andj dare. When traveling, our walkist wears a suit of black velvet, jacket and pants made for him at Vicksburg, a black velvet cap on the navy style, large, has boots up to the knee, and a belt, girdle and socket for the flag staff. The staff made of cotton wood, is very 1 ight for its size and length, and to it is fastened the flag fashioned out of very hadsome, stout silk and surmounted, by two heavy silver tassels—all a present from the citizens of Vicksburg. Here at Montgomery, the quondam capital of the late so-called, the sergeant met with a very enthusiastic reception, and departed yesterday morning, after five days of feasting and speechifying and present making. Quarters were assigned him at one of the hotels, and a formal reception given him on Monday morning last—-brass band, open carriages, .marshals on horseback, and so on—isucqieded by a banquet; which banquet was, in the first place, good, and in the second place largely contributed to by the skill of a gentleman of color, late a delegate in the Alabama Black Crook, who, since the decease of the ‘(constitution,” has turned his attention from governmerit to grills and yumbo. Long may he wave in this latter department of reconstruction! Wednesday the Sergeant ascended to the dome of the capital, and, over the halls where the Alabama, ordinance of session was adopted, and the first Confederate Congress met, waved the flag to the four quarters of the globe. That night a splendid crimson silk sash, heavily embossed and fringed with gold, and bearing the inscription, “From the Ladies of Montgomery,” was presented, and so, after another night of festivity, for a ball followed, the ex-Union soldier, who was not afraid to trust himself alone, unarmed, penniless, with flag in band, to the “rebellious” South, went next morning upon his way. By some time in April he trusty to reach Washington, his journey’s end and thence hies homeward to Mrs. 8., and one child about six, another, tiny, wee “doddie,” of three. His way lies by Columbus, i Milledgeville, and Augusta,’Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; and so on to Washington. Let us hope ’ without a hair touched, the stout 1 Wisconsian may make his state- 1 ment good—to travel from one !

end of the South to the other unarmed, alone, on toot, without money, and with the stars and stripes in hand. So far he has met the open palm instead of theclencfied fist, and henceforward may all the gods still wait upon his way. An Assistant Conductor. One of our readers the other day seeing a paragraph about two young men of Charleston shipping before the mast, was reminded of two young friends of his in Mississippi, who finding on their return home that their “expectations” had disappeared, leaving nothing but their paroles, heroically “accepted the situation” of brakesman on a railroad. By-and-by they found themselves in Jackson, with a brief interval of leisure, which they invested in a call on some of their lady, friends, by whom they were cordially received. It was already known, or soon discovered, that they were both railroad men, and a young lady asked one of our hefo.es what his position was. From rough experience in past years he. had learned that in the eyes of the world station makes the man, and being a little doubtful how a knowledge of his actual employment would be received, replied that he was a “check agent.” “Ami what are. you ?” was the question to his comrade. He had a moment to think, and answered that he was “assistant conductor.” “But,” said the fair querist, “I did not | know that there was more than 1 one conductor.” “Oh, yes,” was the ready reply, “Pete Kirby starts the train and I stop it.” — Southern Paper. Ten To think the more a man eats, the fatter and stronger he will become. To believe that the more hours children study at school, the faster they learn. To con elude that if exercise is good for the health, the more violent and exhausting it is, the tpore good is done. To imagine that every hour, taken from sleep, is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is larg enough to sleep ip. ’ To argue that whatever, remedy causes one to feel immediately better, is good for the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudicial, Roping that somehow or other it may ba done, in your case with impunity. To advise another to take a remedy which you have not tried yourself, without making special inquiry whether all the conditions, are alike. To eat without an appetite, or continue to eat after it is satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and weary waking in the morning. pretty llprd Deacon Johnson, of Indiana, is a great temperance man, and sets a good example of total abstinence, as far as he is seen. Not long, since he employed a carpenter to make some alterations in his parlor, and in repairing the corner near the fireplace, it was found necessary to remove the wainscoting, when, lo ! a discovery was made that astonished everybody. A decanter, a tumbler and a pitcher were cosily reposing there, as if they had stood there from the beginning. The deacon was summoned, and, as he beheld the blushing he exelained: “Wall, I declare, tha’t is curious, sure enough. It must been old Bairis left them when he went out of this house, thirty yeafs ago.” “Perhads he did,” returned the carpenter, “but, Deacon, the ice in the pitcher must have friz mighty hard to stay all this time.’’

Productive of Neither pect, Peace or Prosperity. The action of the Senate, telling Mr. Stanton not to obey the President, reminds us of the incident related by a traveler, whq, in passing a farm house, hear 4 the father giving his son directions as to some work about the farm, and the vixenish mother in tte doorway, advising the son “nqt tq mind anything -the father tells him.” The traveler addressed the lad with “You don’t seem to have a very high veneration fqr the old gentleman ?” “Oh, that’s nq : body but father! we don’t care aqy thing about him! Mother and I don’t! Nor don’t the rest qf us? and Bill and I have almost gqt the dog so that he won’t mind him!” With such a state qf feeling no family or go verment could Iqng maintain the respect of the neighbors or world, and certainly never could be prosperous and trappy. —Enq. The marble columns of the building in Philadelphia oqce used for ths United States Bank are to be-given away to be recut intq soldiers’ monuments.