Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. DECATUR, INDIANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1868. DEIIOCRATIC_STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, T. A. HEADRICKS, of Marion. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, A. P. EDGERTOA, of Allen. FOR SECRETARY...OF STATE. GENERAL REUBEN C. RISE, of Boone. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH V. BEMUSDAFFER, of Franklin, FOR TREASURER OF STATE, JAMES B. RYAN, of Marioji. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, NOAH S. LAROSE, of Cass. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. A. 0, PACKARD, of Marshall. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN R. PHILLIPS, of Davies. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, SOLOMON CLAYPOOL, of Putnam. THE NEWS. The election in Rhode Island resulted in the re-election of Governor Burnside. The California Radical Convention met at Sacramento on March 31, and selected delegates to the Chicago Convention, and adopted resolutions indorsing Congress in its reconstruction measures and impeachment, and favoring Grant for the Presidency. General Hancock has assumed command of the Military Division of the Atlantic, Headquarters at Washington. At an election held in Ellsworth? Maine, on March 30, the Demo-, cratic ticket w’as elected by an average majority of 150, a gain of; more than 300 votes from September last. Idaho advices have been received to March 28. The Ida Elmore and Golden Chariot companies, inthe Owyhee district, have strongly fortified their mines. Several collisions have occurred underground, resulting in the killing of J. C. Holgate, of the Goldefi Chariot. and Frank Meyer, of the Ida Elmore, and wounding' of a numder of others. It is expected the fighting will soon commence aboveground. The parties num ber 50 well-armed men on each aide. The authorities are endeav- j oring to quiet the difficulty. The .Tribuns editorially states : “We have assurances from Washington that Gen Grant finds it not with his duty as a Bwdier to announce it as his opinionthat the only hope for the peMp of the country is the success | of th\ pending impeachment trial. He fe&s that national security demands the removal of the President.” A dispatch from Minister Van Valkenburg, dated Hiage, Japan, March 2, states that the Tycoon has abdicated and the Mikado is sending more troops towards Jeddo. Rio Janeiro advices to March 11 •re received. The allied forces had taken Ascencion, the capital, and were passing to the rear of Humaita. The allies now have 40,000 men, 14 iron clads, pnd 20 wooden vessels in the neighborhood, while the Paraguayans are reported to have only 12,000 men. On the 11th of March, the allies stormed Humaita, and, after a disperate resistance, captured 15 Isrge guns and a large quantity of stores and ammunition. The whole land force was engaged.- The Brazilian fleet forced a passage of the river and reached Ascencion City, which had been evacuated by the Paraguayan troops and citizens. The garrison at Montreal are under arms, and the volunteers all over the whole country have received orders to hold themselves in readiness. Greek fire has been discovered in the Irish parts of Montreal, and the Government claims to have news of Fenian preparations at Buffalo and St Albans The move is said' to be for the purpose of pressing the conscription bill through Parliau«ut -

A Greenback Nightmare. The Jay and Adams Republican ? is very loth to show the skeleton : in the Radical camp. When he is with one of the poor men of his party who is pinched and gaunt with famine—the result of paying the bondholding aristocrats taxes, he thinks perhaps, peradventure, nevertheless, there may be a bondholding aristocracy in this country —one vote gone if we don’t admit the skeleton, says he—aside. Yes, yes, says ragged Radical, you are a man of Truth, Mr. Jones, and Honor too, Mr. Jones. You had a great deal to say about repudiation for some time back ; about “national honor;” about “moral patriotic feeling.” Whenever there was any argument advanced by the b'ondho.lders denouncing the redemption of bonds with greenbacks, and calling it repudiation you published it. You wrote several articles yourself,, Mr. Jones; you talked very hard about this greenback question up in Adams county, last fall. This, Mr. Jones, was all before our State Convention, and I was truly glad, ; Mr. Jones, to know that such a resolution was adopted. And now if that is the doctrine of our party, why don't you write approvingly about it ? Now you are a man of Truth and Honor, Mr. Jones, and know the Kansas Republican Convention declared right the contrary from our resolution. — The New York Tribune and Harper’s Weekly are fireing shells from “rifled guns” against what they call “milk and water Republicans,,” in Ohio and Indiana.— Now, Mr. Jones, you’r a Preacher, and you j ust give these bondholders fits only just half as hard as you worked for them before the State Convention, and I am all right, for I will believe a man of Truth and Honor, and a Preacher, if he will only give me his word, but if you are keeping your mouth shut just ito fool poor men like me, why I am going to vote with the Pendleton men. Look here, Mr. Jones, pulling out a greenback and reading from the back : “This note is a legal tender for all debts, public anil private, except duties on imports and interest on public debt, and is receiva ble in payment for all loans made to the United States.” Mr. Jones, when a ilian gets

religion he falls . out with the devil in earnest; this I have heard you say many a time, and he will come over on the Lord's ' side. Now if you have experienc-; ed a change of heat on the greenback question, just publish what Thadeus Stevens.and Benjamin F.; Butler have said on this question, | and add yopr own remarksconfirm- I ingtheir position. ! About this dodging negro suf- ' frage and stealing Democratic; thunder nice, friend Jones, we have the word of the Radical delegate to your State Convention that the Radicals did do it. and he has repeatedly boasted of it, consequently we leave the matter for you to settle between you. * r Good-bye Mr. Jones; we'll watch the shells. Associate .Instire Greer’s Position In the McArdle Case, The position assumed by Associate Justice Greer, oftheUnited ! States Supreme Court, when the McArdle case was called upon Monday, gives rise to considerable ' comment. After J udge Black con- ; eluded his remarks. Judge Greer submitted the following paper, which was read: Er, parte—William H. McArdle —This case was fully argued in the beginning of this month. It is a case which involves not only the liberty and rights of the appellant in this case, but of millions of our fellow citizens. The conntry had a right to ex- > pect that it would receive the im-1 mediate and solemn attention of the Court. By the postponment of this case this Court has subjected; themselves, whether justly or un-1 justly, to the imputation that we had evaded the performance of a duty imposed upon us by the Constitution, and waited for legislative interpostien to supercede our action and relieve us from our l responsibility. I have only to say. “pvdet hoe npprobria (Hotel non htatuiuM repeli,” or. litterally ; translated. "I am hshamed that I such an approhrinm should Recast upon the Court and that it can not be refuted." . ■_ Mrs. Anu S. Stephens thinks a lady’s man is perfectly contemptible—a handful of foam drifting over the wine of life.

OFFICIAL VOTE • ' —. , Cast at the Democratic Primary Election, of Adams County, held on Monday, April 6th, 1868. TOWNSHIPS. ■ ■ 5- o &sgs•§§ 3. g- £ “ CANDIDATES. § T.® 2 gp O 3 £ o'l£ 3 C : .* 2. 2 ® •-2- 'F g 3 ; : : : . j? r : : i : : « -,. I I FOR TREASURER. D. J. Spencer 30 16 23'15 71130 30'12 22 71 32 8 360 Jonathan Kelly, jr 4 1 2 191 82425 2 12'6 84' 187 John Dirkson 24 63 7-0 1 3 1 — 15| 32| | 182 John Meibers 31 33 34 47 131 13 24 55 26 445 10 454 C. L. Schirmeyerlo 12'; 3011 52 2131 2! 6 ; 134 - FOR SHERIFF. j James Stoops, jr,. 00 130 162,00 270 00 00 96 68 94 88 92 .... FOR COMMISSIONER, IST DIST. ! Ferdinand Rcinking 43 53 98:54 23 21 4 9 78j 8, 278 Charles Conradoo 1 21! 8 5 2! ' 2 39 George Lucky.. 52 75: 44 55 241 59 55 82 57 81 77 77 965 FORCCMMISSIONER, 3rd DIST. | . ! I Josiah Crawfordloo 129 164 00 265 00 00 93 68 94 87 83 .... FOR LAND APPRAISER. ;■ ' ' j i ‘ Andrew Barkley' 96 98 149 88659 -2 3 s|. 6< 2 515 Isaac M05er.;,...1! 2| 8 22: 80| 71'52|52:55i71’37 l 450. Daniel Morrow|| 2 29| 4 35|105|

Impeachment. The President’s trial is progressing The only news we have is the examination of witnesses. The testimony is too lengthy to attempt even an outline of. So far nothing has been developed not expected by the defence. The President would not be removed could he have half as fair a trial as the meanest criminal of the land. As it is he will be convicted, and that only by the strictest partisan ruling. The tijal is hardly a format farce. Before the articles were adopted by the House, it was determined that the President was in the way of forcing Radicalism upon the South with the bayonet. This Is the only question in it, and as they have determined, so will they carry it through—regardless of consequences. The following is the Associated press report of the President’s line of defence: Thus far nothing is known as to what line of defence is to be takers, but there are indications that it will be assumed as a starting point that the acts of the president within the line of his official duty are not to be treated as criminal, unless it can be proven that he was prompted by corrupt or bad motives. This position his been sanctioned by the supreme court of the United States; it is asserted, in the eases of Commodore Wilkes, of Jenkins vs. Waldron, and of Martin r.«. Knott. In the last named case, Mr. Justice Stitfey, delivering the opinion of court, says: “Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person to he exercised bmlirm upon his own opinion of.-UlKin facts, it is a sound rule of construction that the .statutes constitute him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of these facts. Every public officer is presumed to act in obedience to his duty until the contrary is shown.” "Whether a satisfactory defence can be built upon this light foundation remains to be seen. It will be difficult, however, toprove that the laws which the president has set at defiance left him any discretionary power, or that bis official action has been untainted ’ with malice and wilful enmity, ifj not with corruption.

Do You Call this Repudia* tion! On the back of the legal tender i notes issued under the act of February2s,lßG2, the following pledge | is given: “This is a legal tender for all | debts, bublie and private, except i duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangei able for United States six per cent, j twenty years’ bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United ' States after five years.” The “five years” have expired. Is it repudiation to redeem the ! bonds with these notes ? Again : see back of notes issued under act of July 11, 1862, and read the fol- [ lowing:. “This note is a legal tender for all depts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on , public debts, and is receivable in payment for all loans made to the ' United States.” There we have it; “is receivable in payment for all loans made to . the United States..” Can anything ; be inore explicit ?The bondholders i issued greenbacks to the Government, and the Government says its notes shall be received in payment thereof. Now that green - backs are worth considerable more than at the time the bondholders l?aid for their bonds, as they are J “exchangeable for United States r ; six pCT cent, twenty years’ bonds red .vmable at the pleasure of the United States after five years,” we would ag-un ask: Is it repudiation ;to redeem the bonds in greenbacks ?— PiUtbury Pott,

The Bonds. One of the ablest political writeers in the country, in a recent letter; presents the following novel but practical views upon the public debt question: Shylock will have his “bond!” There is great truth in George Francis Train's warning., “Gold means repudiation!” Train says “dishonor.” Well; perhaps so.—

There is “honor among thieves.” What it is precisely has not been well defined. When I was a young lawyer I was’ employed to defend a poor family against tjie exactions of an old usurer, who had managed, with a small original loan, to sponge up all the profits of their labor for fifteen years’, and was then in the act of reducing wife and children to abject poverty, by a forced sale of land and negroes, under a specie demand, in 1841, when the banks were in a state of suspension, and the financial cricis had prostrated all credits, and destroyed all property values. Under the circumstances, 1 had no scruples of conscience in the case, and when the large claim was reduced lo a small one, and I had arested the collection of that in specie, and filed a motion in court to set aside the judgment for a substantial variance between that and the verdict, with faint prospects so success, I listened with the utmost serenity to a long lecture from the inhuman old money glutton, upon the “immorality” of the plea of a jury, and the captivating charms of “honor.” I was pleased to hear even the self laudation of the rusty old human alligator, who had laid motionless as a log in his swamp until the green moss had grown uponhis back, waiting for the Opportunity to destroy my client. He had been his generotis benefactor, forsooth ! He had loaned him precious dollars in his need. He had not desired to lend him money. Other customers had promised a larger interest, and gainful speculations had invited to other investments. He had been moved by t'.ie desire to benefit my clint. And so Moses was fain to net his “princpal.” which is his principle, too, and patch up a sort of character for humanity.

Let “the bondholder” beware ! The scales of justice may mete him the actual amount he advanced to the Treasury, if he shall be disposed to be content with that; but if his greed for gold should betray him into a deinand for the blood of the poor, toiling millions he will never got even that. The cries of famishing women and children will hush all his clamors for the blood money he would extort from the cracking sinews of the honest laborer. There is in this world of ours a diviner majesty than the cent per cent.—the sanctissima clivitram majestas!— Shylock had his bond, and the dog in the fable let go the meat in his mouth to catch the shadow, and both lost all! Yes the bond is written, “but blood is thicker than water,” and briglrtcr than printer’s ink! The old Scribes used to say “it is written,”- That did not touch the divine authority of the eternal, omnipotent truth! The bondholder's case belongs to the court of the IMiatta, whose judges are sworn to decide it according to the decree of the people. So, honor or dishonor, gold means repudiation, and repudiation will cease to lie the badge of infamy, and will become the battle word and battle cry of six millions of over-taxed, down-trodden, dee perate people. The very top of the Olympian Hill will tremble beneath the rush of the war chariots whose fervid wheels will flash the lightning and roll the thunder of the popular acclaim as thbse galling bonds and tvranous chains are tom away from the muscular arms lof emancipated labor! “Gold" is notin “the bond” even. The people are just, but nut to be trifled with ’ A uv

Cotton frauds involving 830,000 have been uneartherod at New Orleans.

Will it be Tolerated. A Savannah paper states that at the negro meeting in that city of Monday night, that pestiferous black rascal, Bradley, “told the negroes there present that if they failed to get their rights at the ballot box, they must fight for them; that they could use revolv-ers-as well as policemen, and that one negro could whip two white men any time.” ■ As one of the leading objects in garrisoning the Southern States with soldiers is to prevent sbeial disorder and curb all acts that naturally lead to it, we call the attention of the military to this incendiary language. It is very certain that no white man would be allowed to make such inflamatory appeals, and we would be glad to know why the military conservators of the peace should discriminate in favor of the black man.— J/acon Georgia, Telegraph. The Cattanooga Union tells the following story, whose hero eclipses Rip Van Winkle: “In the accident of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, which occurred on Monday, the side occupant of one of the second class coaches was a steeping negro. The car was pitched down an embankment fifteen feet high, tearing away the tracks in its crashing decent, and. yet, strange to say the shock did not in the least disturb the snoring darkie, who was only aroused by some persons j searching for wounded in the' wreck.’ ’ Stanton has not proven a profitable investment to the United States. He lives of hundreds of Union soldiers by refusing to exchange what lie called' healthy prisoners for skeletons.— He cost the people hundreds of million’ of dollar's in hiring old rotten vessels of party favorites, that were of no use to-the Government np'f to any one else. He is now costing the people millions of dollars in a struggle to retain a place which he has shown himself’ unworthy to fill, and from which he ' has been properly removed. What has Congress done for the Poor Man ?—When Republicans ask laboring men to vote their ticket, let Them inquire what has Congress done, JJiis session to reduce the taxes of the poor man. or contribute to the prosperity of the country. Absolutely nothing! They legislate for the negro—per petuate the Freedmen’s Bureau-at a cost of many millions to the white taxpayers, and are spending hundreds of thousands in inaugurating impeachment as a method of partisan warfare. Radical Intolerance.—The radical school board, of Manchester, New Hampshire, since their election, have discharged the female teachers in that city who were Catholics. These radicals are tolerant people. Freedom of opinion with them is an inestimable blesssing when you think just as they do. The elective franchise which is only a political privilege when used against them, is an inalienable right to all who use it in their favor. . —

A gentleman who had been a justice of the peace of thirty-five years, was not allowed to register in the State of “West Virginia” because he purchased a horse named Stonewall Jackson; the Registrar remarking “that he’d be d—d if any ‘troqly loll’ man would own a horse bv that name.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS .Votice of Survey. Notice is hereby given that I will, on the Ist day of June, 1868, at nine o'clock a. M., commence the survey of section number thirty-six, in township twen-ty-seven north, of range number thirteen east, and the perpetuation and location of lines and corners thereof. Said survey to commence at the south-east corner of said section, and be continued from daylodav till completed. H. C. PETERSON, S. A. C. Nathan YoCXG, Applicant. April 10, 1863, w 3. Ji'otice of Survey. Notice is hereby given that I will, on the 4th day of June, a. d., 1868, at nine o’clock, A, M.. begin the survey of section one, in township twenty-six north, range thirteen east, and the location and perpetuation of lines nnd corners thereof. Said survey to begi-> at the north-east corner of said section, and continue from day to day till completed. . _ , H. C. PETERSON, S. A. C. Peter Grose. Applicants. April H», w3. A'otice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the Copartnership heretofore existing be tween the undersigned in the Hardware business, under the name of Spencer and Meibers is dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be conducted by W. ft. Spencer, at the old stand. Those knowing themselves indebted to the late firm will call and settle with W.G. Ppenjter, who alone is authorised to collect the indebteness to saidlfirm. W. G. SPENCER, Feb. 11, I*lß. JOHN METHERS, W ND tM of ISO Useful Articles for ONE DOLLAR EACH, and full particulars of the most popular Pale in the world. Address tOWLE 4 CO. 7 Tremont Row, Boston, Maas vlld4Bw3

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