Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. ornczxT. paper o« tub county. DECATUR, IMP! AM A. FRIDAY, DEC. 11, 1868. ' THE SEWS. The harbor of Montreal is fro zen up. Secretary Seward is preparing to visit Europe on the expiration of his term of office. The State Treasury of Michigan contains a cash balance of over 81,000,000. The American Bastile, Fort LaFayett, has been destroyed by fire: a loss to the government of 000.The Cattie Commissioners Convention, of Illinois, that were in session at Springfield last week, recommended appropriate legislation to prevent the importation of Texas cattle, between the first of March and last of November of each year, and proper penalties for violations of the regulations recommended. Under a final decision by the Court of Appeals, of New York. Miss Sinclair has recently obtained from her former husband, Ed win Forrest, 885,000, costs and hitherto unpaid alimony. The New York Tribune says . President Johnson having had the first column of his message stolen, has now decided to send that document to both houses of Congress in manuscriptGen. Reynolds* report show? Texas to be almost as unsettled ss daring the war. He says the murders of negroes are frequent, and excite little attention, and thinks many years will be required to secure tranquility and peace. The shipment of coal by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company from Rondout to New York city this season is 1,600.000 tons an increase of 200,000 tons over last year. It is said the rise in ’ coal netted the dealers 8200,000 more than would otherwise have ' been cleared. Dr. Carnochan, of New York city, recently performed one of the feats of surgical art in the operation of ovorestomy, removirg' from the abdomen of a young woman a tumor weighing sixty-four pounds. The operation was entirely successful. It is stated that proceedings have been instituted against Commodore Vanderbilt to compel him to return 81,000,000 money received last spring, and requiring him to take back 85,000,000 worth of stock which was taken by the company of him at 70c. A telegram from St. George, three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, reports that the Nava-1 joes have commenced depredations J on the Rio Vergen and Colorado, ; and have already carried off large i numbers of horses. The ctttZTTrS aided by some friendly Indians,' pursued them and recaptured twenty horses and killed two Navajocs. The New York Timet says Gen. Howard’s refusal to be a party to a movement for extending the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau. is couehed in terms which commend themselves to the judgment of the country. The qualifying condition with which he justifies the withdrawal of the bu-! retju from the statea not yet restored, will surely be fulfilled un- J der the coming administration of Grant. Mr. James M. McCanlin, the Republican candidate for Con- ' press in the Fifth Congressional j District of New York, at the No-I vetnber election, yesterday’ commenced proceedings looking toward the contesting of the election of his successful opponent, the Hon. John Morissey. Mr. McCanlin bases his action on the allegation that Mr. Morissev had not had a legal residence in the county a sufficient length of time to cotitle him to hold a seat in Congress. A private dispatch from Wash, ington to the New York revolution says: Senator Pomeroy has a bill ready’ to present at the opening of Congress, proposing an amendment the constitution which gives suffrage to American cjtixwis of both sexes, leaving the States to fix the age when the citizen’s rights shall commence.

Toots In the Jay and Adami Republican. We some time sinde took occasion to criticize the position of the Jay and Adams Republican during the campaign, and remarked that the course pursued by the Editor had entailed a loss upon the party, not only ill the county of Jay, but Adams also. Men or parties cannot publish to the world falsehoods, without paying that penalty that a departure from truth, always, sooner or later, demands aa the price of tnfhmy. This we asserted and now re-assert, was the cause of the reduced ladical majority in Jay, at the October election and the increased democratic majority in Adams. In his reply to our remarks, made in the Republican of November 19th, the Editor lacked the moral courage to assail the position we had ■ taken, but proceeded to review and elaborate upon what he con-' ceived to be our mistakes; a very ; convenient dodge to an unpleas- • ant subject. In an attempt to justify his aa-' sertion. made before the election.l that Jay would give an increased radical majority, he quotes some eight Democrats that had left that county for their country’s good, an t names the offences. It is in exceeding good taste (?) and we commead the charitable Chris tai a spirit tEst caused you to give it pcbiiottT. And farther, we comj v.xy discretion in not pubUsEing s list c: your radical i’rieuis. who. aceordlag to your version of the story, were in the —-r~ boat. There were no changes in favor of Democrats: eight Dem ocras bad left the county, yet roar majority on the State ticket was reduced some fifty. We may safely conclude, adopting your logic, that filly-eight radicals were travelling the same road the eight Democrats had taken. . In the same article he defends j Mr. Baker, Clerk of the Jay Circuit Court, who gave his word as a gentleman, to Mr. Bergman, that he would be at his office after dinner and attend to the naturalization of the parties that Mr. Bergman accompanied for that purpose. After dinner Mr. Baker was not to be found, hjs promises , to the contrary notwithstanding, j The following is the Republican's excuse for Mr. Baker: “But on the Saturday before the October election, George Bergman, Jr., came to town driving a ; wagon loaded withe eight Dutch- | men, all appearing as Dutchy as if 1 they was just landed or had been . imported for the purpose of filling j the places left vacant bj’ the eight that had left us. To see the Democratic candi- 1 date for land Appraiser, himself a I deserter, hauling about the streets : 1 eight foreigners unacquainted with ' ! the English language searching for j 1 an officer who could, with few words spoken through an interpreter, and with a few scrtaches made with a pen ■ on paper, metamorphose this wag- i on load of strangers into American i citizens, so that by the help ofi their votes a drunken Lowry might be elected to Congress, drunken Blair be made Vice President, and a drunken Bergman be made Land Appraiser in Jay coun ty. The eight foreigners who obtained their first papers on Saturday were hauled again to the polls i on Tuesday, and when the Demo cratic ticket was put into their 1 hands they did not know what to , do with it. They first threw their I tickets about the floor, but under 1 the instruction of their Democrat- ‘ iic driver, they pieked up their 1 tickets and handed them to the 1 proper officer. When the political contest is ' carried on honorably, and confin-! ;ed to the people who can under- | stand the great interests of the ; State, we can then calculate the I numerical strength of the parties ! in the State, districts and coun- i ties. But if the Democrats bring; the wild Iri?h and the newly arriv- ; ed Germans and the Kentucky scalawags to help them carry the elections, we cannot estimate the results in advance of the official returns.’’ ■» Mr. Baker is the servant of the people—not party. He was called 1 upon in the discharge of his duty ■ as a public servant to issue “first papers” to eight foreigners, who ( ! wished to declare their intention,| . in a legal way, of becoming Amer-! . ican citizens. Jones says they ! were “Dutchmen” and we infer i from his argument that they had > no rights that “loyal” men were . hound to respect; Baker by his • absence says ditto. Jones at I, ■***

tempts to justify Baker’s course with the highwayman’s plea that “might makes right.” Under this rule the highwayman takes your purse; Baker by a usurpation of. power denies eight persons who are knocking at the door asking for the right of citizenship; of a privilige that the law gives to all, no matter how humble or “Dutch” they be. And the highwayman is quite as justifiable as Mr. Baker; the principle is just the same in one case as the other. This is another illustration vs radicalism. With them the ends justifies the means, right or wrong. The application of this principle enabled Massachusetts soldiers to vote as they pleased, in Indianapolis, in--1864 ;it has stuffed ballot-boxes whenever necessary to produce a radical victory; it has squandered : the people's money and made the national debt twice what it would : be had our finances been administj ered by honest men; it has placed • the ballot in the hands of negroes 'as ignorant as Hottentots, and who know as little of the science of government as a mule, yet he prates of carrying on a political contest honorably (?) and confined to the people who can understand the great interests at stake. Your doctrine is sound, friend Jones; it wins, and may be stated ; in brief thus : No opposition that radicalism can interpose against the Democratic party is wrong, ! and your argument bears convincing evidence of the truth of our position. It is high ground for the great party of moral ideas to take; the same precisely the devil did, ■ when he took our Savior up into an exceeding high mountain. Abstract Report of the Secretary of War. Secretary Schofield’s report gives the strength of the army, Sept. 30th, at 48,081, which will be ' reduced to 48,000 by January i 1869, by the expiration of the term of service. All volunteer officers, except one, have been mustered out of the service. At General i Sherman’s suggestion authority was give in October for the muster of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, from Kansas. It may be reasonably expected that a considerai ble reduction of the army will take ! place during the year. The Secretary recommends the reduction be made by the discharge of incompetentofficers, by ordinary casualties and by consolidation of regiments: and that four regiments of veteran ! reserves be disbanded. The dis- ' bursments of the pay department ' during the last fiscal year amounts to 860,000,000; for construction, I 82,500,000; bounty claims, 825,- ' 000,000. It is estimated that 865,682,380 will be required for the ! next fiscal year. The estimated ; deficency for the current year is, 813,975,000. CongreM. Washington dispatches to the i Chicago Timet of the 6th, says i that a quorum of both houses is already registered at Washington, | and that the session will be opened Monday. Senators and members concede that the leading features of the session will be the financial and I national suffrage questions. West'cm men, it is understood, do not i favor the latter proposition. The ' funding bill passed at the close of i the last session and vetoed by the . President is to be again introduc- ' ed, but does not meet the approval ■of the committee of ways, and [ i means. General Kilpatrick, minister to j Chili, has applied for a three ( 1 months’ leaves of absence, which, report says, will probably be grant- , ;ed by the state department. He . ‘cameffiome to take part in the ; presidential campaign, and has been making stump speeches in the eastern and middle state. * He is the man whom Congressman Rogers branded as a horse-thief. IHe is the man whom the rebel I General Forrest has denounced as being all that is mean and vile. He is the man who stands accused 'of employing as his orderly during the war a girl in malp attire. He is also charged with introduce- i ingas his wife among the Chilians ’one who was not his wife. He is famed for his intemperate habits. In view of these facta, would it j not be well to grant him a longer leavo of absence than three I months ?

THE SUCCESS Cf our One Dollar Sale has caused such A COMPLETE REVOLUTION IN TRADE. That in order te supply the demand occasioned by our constantly increasing patronage, we have recently made importations for the Fall Trade, direct from European Manufacturers, Amounting to Moarly 8500,000. So that we arc prepared to sell every description of Dry and Fancy Goods, Silver Plated Ware, Cutlery, Watches, Albums. Jewelry, <fcc., Os better quality than any other concern in the country for the same uniform price of One Dollar for each Article. With privilegeof exchange from alarge variety of useful articles, not one of which could be bought for TWICE THE AMOUNT in any other way. The best Boston and New York references given as to the reliability of our house, and that our business is conduc ted in the fairest and most legitimate manner possible, arid that we give greater value for the tribney than can be obtained in any other way. All goods damaged or broken in transportation replaced without charge. Checks describing articles sold sent to agents in clubs at rates mentioned below. We guarantee every article to cost less than if bought at any Boston or New York wholesale house. OTR COMMISSION TO AGENTS Exceed those of every other establishment of the kind—proof of this can be found in comparing our premiums with j those of others for clubs of the same sise, in addition to which we claim to give better goods of the same character. We will send to agents free of charge, For a Club of 30 and Three Dollars — one of the following articles: 1 dox, good linen shirt fronts, 1 ■ set solid gold studs, all wool cassimere for pants, fine white counterpane, large sixe. 1 elegant balmoral skirt. 20 yards brown or bleached sheeting, good quality, yard wide; 1 elegant 100-picture mo- ! rocco bound photo album, 1 double lens stereoscope and 12 foreign views, 1 sil-ver-plated engraved 5 bottle Castor, 1 elegant silk fan with ivory or sandalwood frame, feathered edge and spangled; 1 steel carving knife and fork, very best quality ivory balanced handle; 1 handsome beaded and lined parasol, 20 yards good print, 1 very fine damask table cover, 1 pair best quality ladies’ serge congress boats. 1 dozen fine linen towels, halfdoxen Rodgers' best silver desert forks, 1 ladies' large morocco traveling bag, 1 fancy dress pattern, half doxen elegant silver plated engraved napkin rings, 1 doxen ladies' fine merino or cottoa stockings, gents' heavy ! chased solid gold ring, 1 pair ladies’ I'xut balmoral boots, 1 elegant delaine dress jnttern, 1 violin and bow, in box complete; 1 set jewelry, pin, ear drops and sleeve buttons. For a Club of 50 and Five Dollara— Black or colored alpacca Dress Pattern; set lace curtains; pair all wool blankets; engraved silver plated 6 bottle revolving easter; beautiful writing desk; solid gold scarf pin; 31 yards very fine cassimere for pants and vest; set ivory balanced handle knives with silver plated forks; elegant satin parasol heavily beaded and lined with silk; pair gents' calf boots; 30yards good print; 30 yards good brown or bleached sheeting yard wide, or 40 yards jyd wide good quality; ladies' elegant traveling bag; square wool shawl; plain Norwich poplin dress pattern; 1 j yards double width cloth for ladies cloak; elegant engraved silver plated tea pot; 3 yards double width water-proof cloth for cloaking. For a Club of 100 and Ten Dollars— rich merino or thibet dress pattern; pair fine damask table cloths and napkins' to match; pair gents's french calf boots; heavy silver plated engraved ice pitcher; very fine all wool cloth for ladies’ cloak; one web very best quality brown or bleached sheeting; 7| yds fine cassimere for suit; elegant poplin dress pattern; elepant English barege dress pattern; beautiful English barege shawl; set ivory balanced handle knives end forks; ladies’ or gents’ silver hunt- , ing-case watch; Bartlett hand portable sewing machine; splendid family bible, steel engravings, with record and photograph page*; 25 yards good hemp carpeting, good colors; pair good marseilles quilt; good six barrel revolver, elegant fur muff and eapc; single barrel shot gun; silver plated engraved six bottle revolving castor, cut glass bottles; very fine violin and bow in case; set ivory balanced knives and forks. Presents for larger clubs increase in the same ratio. Send Money by Registered Letter. Send for our new circular. PARKER It CO., Nos. 98 A 100 Summer Street, v!2n3l-30 Boston. Dr. Burton’s TOBACCO ANTIDOTE, Warranted to remove all desire for Tobaech. It is entirely Vege'able and harmless. It purifies and enriches the I blood, invigorates the system: possesses great nourishing and strengthening power, is an excellent appetixer, enai bles the stomach to digest the heartiest food, makes sleep refreshing and establishes robust health. Smokers and : Chewers for sixty years cured. Price fift/ cents, post free. A treatise on the injurious effects of Tobacco, with lists of references, testimonials, he.. sent free. Agents wanted. Address Dr. T. R. ABBOT, Jersey City, N.J. Bold by all Druggists. vl2nßl-36 CARPETS— Dost Pat ths Hiob PbiC«s!—The New England Carpet Co.. |of Boston, Mun. esMblisbed nearly a , quarter of a century ago, in their present location, in Hall ’■ over 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 85 and 87 Hanover street, have probably furnished more houses with carpets than any other house in the country. In order to afford those st a disI tanee the advantages of thsir low prices, propose to send, on receipt of the price, 20 yards or upwards of their beautiful , Cottage Carpeting, at 50 cents per yard, with samples of ten sorts, varying in price from 25 cents tos3 per yard, suitable for furnishing every pari of any house, J vl2nll«30.

SW^p—S—II^—SWi^—aSMMWSSJMSSM—IB——SOI NEW TORE STORE! Root & Company, No. 90 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNTE, DRY GOODS DEALERS, s' '»• Opening this week of a fresh and attractive stock of Black land Brown Jlstrachan Cloakings, 98 and 39 inches Super Velvet Cloakings, Velveteens for IValking Suits, Colored Plushes for Sacques and Jackets, Black Moscow Beaver Cloakings, English Waterproof, in new mixtures, American Black Rep. Silks, for Suits, The Boulevard and Ruchess Skirt, Great Bargains in French Merinos, * JVew Shapes in Hoop Skirts. Special attention is asked to our superior stock of . Ladies, Gentlemen s, Misses, Boys and Children's MERINO UNDERWEAR! Os which we have on hand every size and quality. v11n24. ROOT AND COMPANY. i8(38 . 18 6 8. NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. HAVING received the Tax Duplicate for the year 1868, Notice is hereby given, that the Treasurer is now ready to receive the several TAXES FOR ADAMS COUNTY, Treasurer’s Office, in Decatur, Ind. Toe law requires that after the third Monday of April, A. D. 1869, a penalty often per cent, on each dollar, with interest until paid, shall I be attached. AU who wish to avoid paying cost will call and pay their taxes. The Taxes for 1868 are as follows: 1 Fji" m "cprar "i? A 0 E-' » 2' OS< o s', 5 2 gS’ § g. 2 3 E 2.! ► ,X. » 3 EJ F TOWNSHIPS. g’l » . Hf * 3 ,_L_ —J _ p PoU |6O 50l I1 1 10 iT n ion • • 19100:20 1 00 25 16,10 20 101,2 10 Root "" ?... ,l«100|201 00 25,16 10 20,25! 216 Preb l" 18100 20 1 00 25 16 15 20 512 01 Kirk i an J 18100 20 1 00 25 16 15.20.25 '2 21 Washington." feloQ2oil 002516 10 20; s;'l 96 vP ‘ 8100,20 1002516 10 20 25' 21 6 nine Creek 8100 20 1 00 25 16 i0!20!25||2 16 Monroe i 8100,20 10025161020 25 216 eh 18100 20 100 25'16 15 20 ; 25 221 Hartford 8100 201 00 25 16! 10 20 20 2 11 vv“ h „h 8100 201 00 25 16 20 20 15 2 16 Jefferson 7. ’ ’ j 8100 Decatur Special. 8100 valuation, 10 cents. Decatur Corporation, 8100 valuation, 25 cents; Poll, 25 cents. From this date up to the third Monday of April next, you will find, me at the Treasurer s Office, in Decatur, to receive the above levied Taxes. After the third Monday in April, 1869, those remaining unpaid will be collected with coit, penalty and interett, as the law directs JESSE NIBLICK, Treasurer A. Co. Not. 13,1868. Bt D. J. SPENCER, P»nrrT-

R. S. PETERBOW, Attoraey at Xiaw, DKCATUB, INDIANA. PROM PT »«U»Uon »U entrust ■ ed to bln ca>». ..... I OFFICB-Ia D Studnbnker't Law <>•<». JOBPkivfixiL of every description, neatly executed at the Eaole Office

Notice of Survey. — IWILL commence the survey of section 80, in township 20 north, range 15 «Mt, on the 4th day of January, 1869, iat 10 o’clock, A. M. Baid survey to commence at the north-west corner of said seotion and be continued from day to day fill completed. By order of John Tindall and ethers. Dec. 4. 11. C. PETERSON, S. A. C.

DO WN AGAIN t Still further Reductions in DRY GOODS -ATC. ORFF & CO’S, No« 3* Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA* All our BEST dark colored Prints only 12| cents. We will’ sell you as good a print for 10 ct«._ as you generally pay 12| cents for* warranted perfectly fast colors and full width. A splendid yard wide sheeting ‘ for fl cents, as good as any 12$o sheeting you can find in the city. We claim to have the very best Sheeting Muslin in the city. GREAT BARGAINS IN Coverlets & Quilts! We arc selling a splendid Coverlet for 84.00. Our Stock of DRESS GOODS cannot be surpassed by any house in the city, and will be sold proportionately low. Wc ask all to give us a call and satisfy yourselves, and do not be huinbuged with Auction and other inferiour Goods, when you can at all times buy good honest staple Goods for the same price if not * cheaper. ’ p FURS! FURS!! We will open, in a few days, the largest stock of FURS, of all descriptions, ever brought to this Citywhich will be sold at the VERY LOWEST FIGURES. P. S. Our Furs are warranted to be new. and fresh. Millinery Goods! We are undoubtedly . theHeadquarters for Millinery Goods of all descriptions, such as BONNETS, HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ORNAMENTS, &c., which wc can and do sell 50 per cent cheaper than any other Millinery establishment. ••“We will also give great bargains in CLOAKS and CLOAKINGS. | rUaJI C. ORFF A CO.