Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. OFFICIAL PAPER. OF THE COUNTY. DEC AT UR, TWIAXK FRIDAY, MAYS, IS6s7 DEM()CR\TIC_STATE TICKET. - . - FOR GOVERNOR. T. A. HEADRICKS, of Marion. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, A. P. EDftERTOxA, 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 Marion. FOR CLERK OF SURREMF. 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. COUNTY TICKET. „ 1 for Treasurer, JOHN MFJBERS. FOR SHERIFF, * JAMES STOOPS, Jr. FOR COMMISSIONER, Ist DIST., —GEOROE LUCKEY. FOR COMMISSIONER. 3nO DIST.. JOSIAH CRAWFORD. FOR LAND APPRAISER, ANDREW BARKLEY. THE SEWS. The New Orleans Tribune, owned and edited by negroes, has fail- i ed for lyant of support. The Pic- : ayune complimented it highly on j the ability and integrity of its j management. Senator Yates has written a letter acknowledging his intemper- ■ ance. declines to resign, and prom--7 do better. Mrs. George D. Prentice died at 1 Louisville, Ky., on the 26th ult. I The English expeditionary force j into Abyssinia have successfully accomplished the object of the expedition—releasing the English cap tives held by King Theodore, who was slain in the final assault upon Magdala. The interior of the stronghold is said to have presented an extraordinary scene of barbaric splendor. The troops plan dered the place of its valuable gold and silver plate and rich jew- 1 els. Among the trophies.- m.ro twenty-eight cannon, five thousand stand of arms, and a large quanti- i tv of shields and spears. The [ English loss was fifteen wounded. ■ The King's sixty-eight killed, and j two hundred wounded. The army ' will at onoe return to the seaboard. The negroes of North Carolina and South Carolina have adopted ted the Constitutions submitted to them ; the former by some 7,000 majority, the latter by some 43.000 majority. Georgia has given about 4.000 majority for the Constitution.—.' Bullock is elected Governor by some 3,000. The Democrats have a majority in the Legislature, but some members, it is thought, will he unable to take the bath, unless thev imitate Radicals. Bills were introduced in the House on the 28th ult., for the admission of North Carolina. South Carolina, and Louisiana to representation in Congress, and referred to the Reconstruction Committee. In addition to the two hundred gold and silver medals and diplomas awarded Americans at the Paris Exposition, an additional hundred were received on the 28th. ThedTstrlbrition will be made in the course of a week. Napoleon and General Dix are not on speaking terms. Napoleon is displeased with the General because he said he hail doubts of the stability ofthe Imperial Government. Impeachment.—The lmi>eachment stock is declining, and manv now think the President will he acquitted, hot we cannot concur.— The argument of the President’s counsel was very effective.. but no argument can reach conspirators—conspirator* who ignore all rights, precedents, and constitutional obligations. and are determined to remove a.I obstacles that they think will prevent a aocceaaion to power, and will give them control of twenty million of otti«*es.

BONDED DEBT AND 1 AXATioir? _ A Letter from Hon. A. P. Edgerton Reviewing the Great Questions to be Settled by the Elections this Year. i : — Ft. Wayne, Ind., April 23. Gentlemen : I have received - your favor of the 21st instant. I can not be in your county on the 30th of May. as I have an engagement for another county on that day. My intention is to commence '4he canvass at the earliest day possible, consistent with my business duties and obligations, and to keep it up until the election.— There is work to be done everyi where; and it should be timely and judicious work. I certainly will be with you sometime during the summer; and, if 1 can do any i good, perhaps more than once. The position of the Democratic j party ofthe Northwest is now true i and strong enough to enable it to j carry every State whose people j are not given up to believe that the radicals, “by the experiment of war,” have saved the country and > i the Constitution, is certainly one ! !of that class. The war, as a war I 1 in a military point of view, was a ' success, and has ended ; but the Union is neither restored nor reeonstructed. Thousands of Lives' •— - I 'anWnnTTlons of money have been lost, but the country is in a transition state to consolidation and ' despotism. Constitutional phrase- ! ology is preserved to mislead the < credulous and confiding of the ! radical party; but constitutional i rights and liberties have no exist i ence. I fear, but in a free ballot ■ I and a fair count out at the next e- i [ lection. The liberties of a people ; ' are not generally violently wrested , from them, but usurped by stealth :as ours are now being usurped. In [ the Roman territory absolute mon- I I arehy was abolished. It will be j 'so here if we do not watch and 1 I work. . —Ji 'lt is wonderful that the man , who labors—who produces—who I owns anything—docs not see that hehasbe.cn laboring, for some-1 thing he has not obtained. There is no war. yet peace has no victories, no triumphs for him. He has no more hours exemption from la-1 bor, no more tools, no more machinery, no more lands, nothing increased, but taxes; ami they come to him in every conceivable form which the ingenuity of the ■ untaxed can invent. Taxes direct taxes indirect: taxesJnciileutaL tu.. encourage domestic industry ; and

duties prohibitory, for protection Ito New England manufacturers to | secure to them higher prices; tax- ; ■ es that ■•Manacle freeborn babes to liberate the sturdy slave." Well may the thinking man ask. 1 are these taxes never to cease ? Must they continue to increase? Why not? Is it not the radical dej cree that we must Ije a Nation—i not the United States—and nations must tax vigorously, for their strength is in standing arm-' ies and privileged classes, not in | equally taxed and prosperous : and contented peoples. And then i is not the property—the productive industry of the country—mortgaged in perpetuity to pay a debt which represents nothing hut what war has destroyed ? The Government debt, which is a mortgage on all industry, represents , nothing that can earn a dollar! It' is neither an arm or a leg, a horse or an ox. a plow or a hoe, an acre i of land, or the bare seed which shall, in time, bring grain. It is I a war debt, which, in ail nations, represents destruction ami an op pressed and impoverished people. [ Yet industry is to be annually taxed. beyond its profits, to maintain this debt, to make it money; ami its untaxed ami gold exacting I holders are “to eat out our substance” without-. labor. These 1 bondholders say this debt is just because it was incurred to save the , life of the Nation, and must, therefore. Ik? paid, interest ami princi-' 1 pal. in gold. To save the b/e of ; - the Nation ? Daniel Webster said, e “The Constitution of the United States, is a written instrument, a recorded fundamental law. It is I the bond, and the only bond, oft J the union of these States. It is r all that gives us a National char-I actor ” Is that constitution ear J yd ? But who is to pay this debt ■ - which now makes taxation in ev- i s cry form necessary? Not the j bondholders! They sav they are exempt by the law.’by the contract. Who made a contract to exempt • wealth, or the abilityto live with - out labor, from taxation ? Such a > contract is void, in every element . from the beginning. It is against public policy. an outrage upon equal and exact justice, and is no f law for anv penpip. The greatest • good of the gr< atest numbdr de

■ mands that thers should be no such law. There is nd binding force, in an unjust law, upon a • people vdiose constitution is not 1 inviolate. But the money lenders 1 the bondholders, made this daw i j to enable them to convert a depreciated indebtedness, and therefore to the extent of the depreciation. [for depreciation was payment] into a mortgage debt to be paid by the nation’s industry, dollar for dollar, in gold. Its spirit is, “Let the people work for us—bondholders —and our bonds shall tell u.s how much work they owe us.” When the people understand these things fully, knowtheir rights and their strength, they will say: “Let us work for ourselves, and we will remove these burdens; there shall be no untaxed man among us; no man shall take our labor, our gold, and withhold his own.— We will pay what we honestly owe, not what is dishonestly held against I us. The bondholders must ac- ■ c6pt payment as we propose, and i must help pay the. debt, interest 1 and principal, and must be taxed, as we are, for all other purposes, ■or the debt can never be paid.— ;If your law makers have dishonestly ami unjustly sought to bind us. we will not be parties to the unjust contract, nor shall it be en- ■ forced against us. If what was ; done because of an imagined nei cessity, and, at the time, accepted I by the money lenders, is now to ibe repudiated by them, because we. in good faith, tender to them what they contracted to receive we say stop the supplies. “and let ouiAhborTKCfor ourselves only.” It is thus the people think, and when they shall act, they will be free again. With a declaration of principles, by our National Convention, in favor of the whole people, our success is as certain as it is necessary to the life ofthe Union. I believe it is as essential to the restoration I of the Union and the maintainance ■of constitutional liberty, that the l Democratic party, with its veneration for the rights of States, should ' be restored, to power, as I de that I food is essential to animal life, j Thanking you for the kind expressions in your letter of invitaion to me, I am yours, A. P. Edgerton. To Messrs. A. B. Carlton, A. J. Hostetter, Bedford Indiana. X3rGencral„ Meade having decided that a]l persons elected in 'Georgia to the State Legislature, or to fill fipimty offices, must take the test oath, by the provisions of the reconstruction laws, Foster [Blodgett, the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, lias published a card, requesting all Republicans thus elected, and] unable to take the oath, to forward] their names to him, at Augusta, Georgia, as soon as the result of Jdio-eKctom- is juadi- knvwtf; that steps maybe immediately taken

to have their disabilities removed by Congress/ We call the attention of “our member.” General Shanks, to this paragraph. General, you just introduce a bill that all the implacable rebels and double-dyed traitors that are now Radicals be relieved from the necessity of taking the test oath. It will pass like hot cakes. General. Then think, how it will forward the Congressional plan. You will receive the thanks of the truly “loll,” and furnish the world with another example of the I consistency of Radicalism, when we consider that nearly all the Radical candidates, who are ‘‘natives to the manor born,” were leading secessionists. Under the heading of “A man i and a Brother.” a Chicago ex change furnishes the following?! Au unpretending slab of humble bass wood atone end of the square ; aperture in the sand where the emancipated dust of the veteran rc- ■ poses tells the passing traveler, in this simple manner, the tragic story: Sam, A native of Yahoo County Miss. Born a Slave; Bred a Slave; lie starved to death afree American citizen. His • Career was brief-an excellent field ham! and a loyal soldier, and a patriotic citizen, who voted often ami earnestly; being suddenly deserted by hiscarpet bag friends, he sickened and died of too much I Liberty and too little—Grub. et e'en tlio«e bones from insult io pro* tec*. Some frail memorial Mill, eree'ed nieh " iih uncouth lines and 'hopeless sculpture deck'd. Implures the paasinjt tro'il.leof a sigh. Empress Eugenie used to be known as the l>est looking and worst dressed woman in Enrope. She is iu> longer the best looking. • hut she is know nas the best dress“l.

Impeachment, Etc. We take the following from the special dispatches to the Indianap olis Daily Sentinel, dated Washington, April 28th : Few spectators were in court, owing to the fact that Manager Williams had not completed the reading of his dolorous composition. Mr. Sumner, always abounding with amendments, proposed ainending the rules to require only a majority vote to disqualify, after two-thirds shall have convicted and removed |£ie President. This rule, if adopted, may be the innocent means of saving the President, as some of the Senators may not vote for conviction upon such conditions. Williams resumed reading regardless of the patience of his auditors, quoting at random, and traversing the whole range of ancient and modern history. After the tecess which followed Mr. William's speech, the audience was treated to a scene not put down in the bills. Mr. Butler arose, under great excitement and asked leave to make an explanation relative to the Alta Vela question, and the paper signed by the impeachment .Managers. The expose made by Mr. Nelson had rendered the Managers uncomfortable. Nr. Buttler's statement only confirmed all that had been said. Mr. Logan made a desperate etlbrt at explanation, but was refused *' - y , - ----- Air. Nelson rejoined with more warmth than good taste, intimating that the proper place for setting questions of personal difficulties was outside the chamber. He was called to order and apologized. This episode greatly annoyed Mr. Evarts, who' was waiting to commence his speech. When order was restored, this frail human being, but intellectual giant went straight to work, occasionally casting a glance at the manuscript before him. Expecta i tion ran high, but Mr. Evarts far j surpassed it. Groesbeck’s was a [ great speech, but Mr; Evarts took , larger views of the subject. His) description of the powers of the ; Government—personifying and . bringing them all within the wall ' of the Senate Chamber, there in ; deadly strief —was a picture of rare grandure and beauty. Who ■ is not familiar with the, Presidon- ! tial oath? Yet when Mr. Evarts) described its nature and character Senators were observed to exchange glances. He bad looked upon Congress as violating that sacred instrument in the attempt to throttle the Supreme Court and | in order to defeat the great public interests, and deny protection to individual liberty, the indictment made. The impeachers look wild, mid wlien be Foaelted—the-qirextruru ofthe Senate as a court, Manager Butler disappeared, and the other Managers looked like poor men at j a frolic.

The Speaker introduced the o- . pening paragraph of Judge Spen- ! ccfs speech, acting Manager of Impeachment of Mr. Peck, which was a bomb shell. Mr. Spencer said no party feeling entered into the consideration. He should scorn himself if he could allow party feeling to influence him on such an occasion. Mr. Evarts, leaning forward, repeated, “Yes, scorn himself.” Mr. Evarts continued, commenting on the argument of Manager Butler, “the Senate not trCwurt.” and stepping forward, exclaimed, “This is not a it is a scaffold, and you Senators are headsmen.” A feeling of awe ran through the whole chamber, and thrilled every hearer. “Ah, Senators, you are told by Mr. Butler that you are not bound to observe your judicial oaths. I tell you,” said Mr. Evarts “and tell you upon high authority that thou shajt not take the name of the Lord, thy God. in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.” The effect of the question can be better managed than discribed. — A more solemn scene was never witnessed in the Court or Senate, and under its influence the -Senate ■adjourned? To-night impeachment stock is at a discount. The current of opinion has set so strong that the President will be acquitted, “So outrageous has been the course qf the revolutionists, that many of the most influential Republicans have l>ceome : seriously alarmed. I have good authority for saying that Chief Justice Chase declarad within a few tiays past that tho tinie had come when all lovers of constitutional lil»*»rty should band together in opposition to the Jacobins. This declaration was not made only once, but several times, and he docs not conceal the fact that he fears the worst unless tho are arrested in their revolutionary eourse. He also expresses grave doubts a« to the qualification of the President of the Senate to act as President of tho United States. He would have to unite both and as ho could only discharge the <bities of one, by virtue of holding

the other, he should resign the presidency of the Senate. He ' would not then be in a position to discharge the duty of the office of . the President of the United States, on the other hand, the Union of she two are wholly incompatible. The propriety of amending the law so as to order an immediate ' presidential election, in event of Mr. Johnson's removal, is being discussed amonix radical Congressmen to-night, and this course will probably be pursued, to the serious interruption of President Wade and his new Cabinet. ——— — - — — — ~ 1 Judy says, in relation to certain demands that Peru is about to make of Great Britain, concerning ships of war built in British waters for Spain, that it is notlikely John Bull will be much frightened by Peruvian bark. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS License Notice. *•*=— Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Washington Township, Adams County, Indiana, that the undersigned will I apply'to the Board of Commissionsrs of ' said Adams county, at their June session. 1808, for a license for one year, 1 to sell spiritous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, in less quantity than * quart, at the premises situate as follows, in the town of Decatur, Adams . coiriity, Indiana, to-wit: ••■-Commencing at a point eighteen feet east of the south west, corner of in-lot number 274 in said town, thence running north CO feet, thence east 15 feet, thence south 66 feet, thence west 15 feet-, to the place beginning, owned by Henry Vogelwede. To be sold and drank on sail! premises .is a beverage, ' CORNELIUS RADEMOCKER. May 8, 1867. w 3. JVolice of .lltnclinitn!. Stete of Indiana, 1 Adams county, j ' Before James 11. Ward, Justice of, the Peace, May, 30th, 1868. Elizabeth Wilson, < 1 vs. I Attachment. Daniel Longbarger, J Notice is hereby given that Elizabeth Willson, plantiff in an action pending before me against Daniel Longbarger I for debt, has attached the goods and | chatties of said Longbarger, and garnisheed Henrv Folk; and William Folk as ( I debtors of said Longbarger. Now then the said Daniel Longbarger is hereby ! notified that said matters, in said suit, will be heard and determined by me nt I my office, in the Township of Kirklaud, | in the County of Adams, in the State of ' 1 Indiana, on the 36th day of May, 1868, j at the hour of lOo'cloek P. M., on said dny where said defendant can answer said complaint. James 11. Ward. . May 1, w 3. Justice of the Peace. Jf'otice of Survey. Notice is hereby given that I will, on the 11th dny of June. 1868, at nine , o'clock a. M., commence the survey of section number tlflrty-fouv, in township i twenty-seven north, of range number I fourteen east, and the perpetuation and location of lines and corners thereof.— ; Said survey to commence at the southwest corner of said section, ami be continued froinday to dav till completed. ; Smith, Applicant. May 8, 1868, w 3. , Appointment Administrator.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed Admiuis- i trator of the estate of Mary Ann Aspy, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. MARK ASPY, Mayl,wl. Administrator, Administrator s Sale. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator ot tho Estate of Mary Ann Aspy, deceased, will sell at Public Auction, nt the residence of Hugh Glancy, in Monroe- township, in , Adams county, in the State of Indiana, ■ on Satvray, May 23, 1868,' the following articles of personal property, to-wit: j Two bead of Horses, a lot of Sheep, | Geese, Farming Utensils,'Household and Kitchen Furniture, Cook Stove, and various other articles. fERMS: —Sums under three dollars • cash; three dollars and over a credit of ' nine months, by the purchaser giving ; his note with approved security, waiv i ing benefit of valuation laws. MARK ASPY, May 1, w 3. Administrator. License Notice. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Hartford Township, Adams County, Indiana, that the undersigned will i apply to the Board cf Commissioners of said Adams county, at their June sessiqn L for^license_tojte.U_apiri.Ut ous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, for one year, in less quantities than a one quart at a time at the following described premises in the town of i Buena Vista, in Adams county, Indiana, i to-wit: lu-lot number seven (7), in said town, to be used and drank as a beverags on said premises. May Ist, 1868. JACOB STALEY. Notice of Surrey.

Notice is hereby given that I will, on the 15th day of June, 1868, at nine o'clock, A. M., begin the survey of section thirty-four, in township twenty-eight, north, of range fifteen east, and the perpetuation and location of lines and comers thereof. Said survey to begin at the north-west corner of said section, and be continued from day to day till complete!. —<- H. G. PETERSON, S. A. C Witiirt Db«b, ) Applicanl . CaetsTtAs Mitch, J 11 May 1, w i. WAN FED.-Teachers, Students, and other intelligent Meh and Women, in a business paying SIOO to S2OO per month, according to ability. For particulars. address ZEIGLER, McCCRDT & CO., Lombard Block, Chicago. 111. vllnlP.

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