Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1869 — Page 2

THEJBAGLE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. DEC4TIIt, HDinV ■y- - ~ - - == FRIDAY, JAY. 8, 1869. THE YEWS. Much destitution among the poor in Montreal, and - soup kitchens havo again been opened. Horace Greeley publishes a re-, ply to Senator Morton, arguing that his plan of resumption has already been tried and failed. A large sale of condemned or' dinnnee stores took place at Fortress Monroe, recently, consisting of old cannon, muskets, saddles, etc., damaged during the war.— They brought fair prices. During the past few days several witnesses for the United States havo been before the Grand Jury, at the instance of the District Attorney, for the purpose of giving evidence on which to base a new indictment against John 11, Surratt.

A loaded shell exploded and demolished a furnace in Ford & Kimball's iron foundry at Concord, New Hampshire, fatally wounding one workman and slightly injuring a visitor. A sleighing party at Jackson, V ennsylvnuia, last Thursday,! while going-to an entertainment, endeavored to cross a pond on which the thick ice immediately let the sleigh through. Thirty people are reported to have been drowned, none but the driver escaping. The transactions in stock at the Union Stock Yards, of Chica- * go. last year, amounted to 865,000,000. ‘ The total receipts of articles received in the Chicago market« last year amounts to 8297,550,000. The Tammany Hall General Committee ro-electcd the officers of last year. Hon. M, W. Bates, ex-United States Senator, from Delaware, died ut Dover, on Friday. H * About thirty clerks and attaches wore removed Saturday from the Custom House at New York. During last year, 4,410 new building*! were erected in Chicago at a valuation of 820,540,000. — There arc now nearly 40,000 new buildings standing in the city. ' —General Sibley, and a body o f infantry, left Atlanta, Saturday night, for Savannah, to preserve ponce. The new Mayor and City Council were installed Saturday. The Minnesota Legislature convened last Monday. Messrs. Ramsey, Donnely and Wilkinson arccanvassing their chances for the United States Senate, though the former has the inside track. The French Minister was recently robbed, at Washington, of j a gold watch and several medals of honor, which had boon presented to him by the Emperor of France. The thief climcd a lightning rod, j and entered the window of the up- j per story of the building. " The watch case manufactory of Wheeler Parsons <fc Co., No., 42 State street, Brooklyn, was robbed Thursday night, of 85,000 worth of watch cases. Henry P. Baldwin of Detroit, Governor elect of Michigan, took the oath of office at Lansing Fri- j day. The Legislature convened I there la=*t Wednesday. The new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, was thrown open to the public on Saturday noon. The Falls House carriage, containing Hollis White, Vico President of the bridge company, Samuel Keefe, engineer, V. W. Smith, superintendent, and William Poole, editor of the Niagara Falls Gazttte, passed over followed by crowds of people. Tho bridge is the longest span on the continent.

£-*TJames A. Smith, of Jay county, to stabbed to death with a bowie knife, bv William A. Grav, says the Jay comity Republican.' ls-Gray Is a Democrat, friend Jones forgot to mention it. It, we believe, is his custom, when democrats commit crimes, to mention the fact. His in this dse, on tliat point, clearly indicates that Gray is a Radical.— Such being the fact, the Radical majority in that county will be reduced one vote. Keep tally.

VIOLATION OF lUJEVENOE LAW. | As Assessor’s CM on tie Ravage. : Wants to Reftind Black Hall Levied, A Consciences Thief. United States Internet. Revenue, a Assessor's Office, 11th Dist, Ind., V i Anderson, Dec. 26, 1868. J Mr. 11. W. Ko.veß : ’ Sir I received a letter from one Wilson, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, this morning, asking;the Assessor about that 835 00 and note you gave of 830 00. I supposed the thing was Settled; he says you told him that you had made the proper report to the Collector, that you were making a still, and also giving notice of who the still was for. When you say so you know j-ou are lying ; if so the papers in the office would show for themselves. When Igo to Decatur, on my next trip, which will boon the 7th, of January, 18G9, I will expect to pay you back your money, and give you up your note, and the thing or case will stand where it did before. In my agreement with you, I promised to suppress my evidence in the case, and not prosecute for the sum of 865 00, if nothing more was said about it by you. But when a man goes to work and deliberately lies about me, as you have done, I can have no compunctions of conscience of proceeding against him to the full extent of the law. You say in ex- \ tenuaticn thatjyou did not know the requirements of the law. I cannot help it, and you will find that no allowances-are made for ignor- ; ance. If so you and the balance j of your confrces would never be J held liable for any violation. I am very well satisfied of tho course ! this thing has taken and willingly • refund the amount you pajd me, i and then yon and all of the same 1 ilk can look out, for I neither owe you nor any of them any courtesy. I have taken a great deal of abuse of one kind another from such men as you, and others who should i know better, but that time has' passed. You can now prepare for ; a trial of the case, and if I fail it will be the first time, and I will not loose a great deal if I do. The burden of the proof will rest with you ; you caunot den}’ that you made the still, and you cannot show a permit fflom the collector allowing yon to do so ; and another thing I shall prosecute your friend, the purchaser, for buying the same without a permit, nud you ' will find that neither your nor his ignorance will avail you anything. | Hoping vou feel as easy as I do, A * Iremain,

Your* Jfttrhly, JOHN C. HANSON, Assessor’s Clerk. P. S. Suppose you publish this j in the Buzzard. The Editor may smell carrion in it, and he has my , permission to lash me naked as often as he pleases, which I see he j would like to do from a former number of his unextinguishable | paper. N. B. How are you tar and i feathers, rotten eggs, etc. Mile- . age is nothing to it. Here is our respects to Mr. Hanson. He evidently seeks notoriety, and we feel disposed to gratify him !hrough our co’.umns. In a former number of our paper we i had occasion to remark our opinion of a miserable sneak of an informer, and all that we had to say there and then, Mr. Hanson, by j his confession, in his letter given ; above, will consider personally applicable to himself. We do not propose to defend or apologize for those who arc guilty | | of violations of the United States j j revenue laws, with the intention of | defrauding. But on the other hand, ! j we think, unintentional technical | 1 violations of the law, from ignor- | ance v where the Government is | not (feframled, should not bo prosecuted. The people when they know the law, so far as our knowledge extends have no desire to j violate it. And the officers enj trusted with the collection of the revenues, if gentlemen, should take pleasure in imparting that information which would prevent these technical violations, instead of I mystifying the people and watch ing for opportunities to prosecute and harass to seenre hush money, |or the informer's fee. This seems

to be the course of Mr. HansonHe has informed several different parties in this place that the fees and emoluments of his office were unsufficient to support him. That he was obliged to institute these prosecutions to support himself and family. This, to us, would indeed be an humiliating confession. Mr. Hanson acknowledges no duty to the Government. Self is the only party interested. Acting upon this principle, he informs himself of violations of the law, not to prevent frauds upon the treasury, hut to put money into his own pocket. Place the highway robber beside such a man, and in our opinion ho is the more honorable man of the two. The former takes your money counting all the risks; the latter only when he feels himself safe. Mr. IlansOn talks about “paying hack” the money when he comes to Decatur, then he will have no “compunctionof conscience” in prosecuting Mr. Kover, and his friend, to the full extent of the law. What! Mr. Hanson proceed to prosecute! Indeed! Oh yes, he says he will “willingly refund the amount you paid me and then you and all of the same ilk can look out.” People in this section general!}’ look outNvyhen in the presence of individuals having the enviable reputation of Mr. Hanson.

John C. Hanson, as Assessor's clerk is a public character; as such we have reviewed his conduct, in sqch a manner as we conceived to be our duty. As John C. Hanson we care nothing about him ; as Assessor's clerk, we feel an interest in him. We may have made plain statements, but we felt judging from his letter to Mr. Kover, that it was necessary to portray him in strong colors, or he would not see himself as others soe. him. Having said this much we leave him, and address his principal. From our knowledge of Ilervey Craven, we believe him to he an honest man, and one that will not tolerate dishonesty in his subordinates. Mr. Hanson in his con duct toward Mr. Kover has shown himself dishonest toward the Government, beyond the shadow of a doubt. Knowing these facts, Mr. Craven has a duty to preform, that from our knowledge of thp man he will not hesitate in executing, and that is discharge Mr. Hanson.

Washington Correspomlene of the Cincinnati Chronicle. Annexation of Biluh Columbia and Lower California. An old rumor, to the effect that the transfer of British Columbia would be accepted as a settlement in full of our claims against Great Britaiu, is being revived. That settlement would doubtless be quite acceptable to Gea. Grant, who is known to be favorable to ■ our obtaining possession of an unbroken coast line of the Pacific. Knowing something of the view's expressed in the past by the general, I am disposed to believe that Jan effort will be made by his adj ministration to secure possession ! of Lower California and the portion of Sonora which, originally ; included within the Mesilla valley j purchase, would, if that had been consummated, »have placed the head of the gulf of California within the boundaries of our territory ! instead of being them, as now, forj ty miles up the Colorado .river.— . The annexation of this territory can easily l>e arranged with the Mexican government, and the Lower California is already under a sort of sale to a company of American citizens, of whom Marshall O. Roberts and Gen. Butler are prominent members. There is another reason why Mr. Seward will be careful not to excite the ; ill-will of the incoming adrninisI (ration by any settlement of the ' Alabama claims, which will not be • | entirely satisfactory to General Grant. Though Mr. Seward wants nothing (because he is sure nothj ing can be got) for himself, he is still anxious to oblige his friends i. or that portion of them that have continued to “hang on the verge” of the republican party- All that element in New York politics are •till desirous of having Mr. Evi arts retain the attoruey-geueralcy. j 1 find prominent gentlemen who , believe his remaining in the cabi- ' net is a foregone couclsion. That will rulcFenton out, probably sus tain Courtney, and prevent Spinj ner from going to the head of the f treasury, of which it is believed , there is some probability. ? S The negro cemetery at Rich- , mond, Va.. furnishes subjects for 9 northern medical colleges.

Peace in Arkansas. It is but literal truth to say that not a day passes in which there are no reports of murders and outrag es by the militiain Arkansas. On Sunday, it took five prisoners from the jail in Marion, in that State, tried them by drum head courtmartial, carried them to the woods, and shot them to death. Memphis newspapers report that the names of Doctor McKinzie and John Thorpe, two well-known citizens, were given. Atrocites of this kind are so frequently perpetrated by the militia that they cease to excite surprise, although they add to the horror pervading all the people of the state. Professedly to preserve order and protect the people, hands of murderous wretches are organized under the name of militia, and, under such lawful authority as a car-pet-bag state governmeutenn confer, are sent marauding through the state. The wicked and bloody work of these gangs of white and black ruffians lias been going on for weeks, and the newspapers have been filial with accounts of their infernal barbarities and excesses. Peaceable and law-abiding men have been murdered iu their homes and while at work in their fields. Houses and barns have been burned; and generally there has been a carnival of riot and bloodshed.

A few days ago, we wero told that Graut had sent somebody down to Arkansas to see about matters there. On yesterday, came the intelligence of the five murders to which we have referred From this, it appears that Grant's agent has not vet attended to his business. Are the people of Arkansas dependent upon tho will and discretion of the general of the army for the security of their lives and property. If so, let him be held responsible for the task imposed upon him. If the Ku-Klux mob a negro, or burn his cabiu, or lynch a carpetbagger, the Jacobin press is filled with denunciations of what it is pleased to term the lawless and revengeful spirit of the southern whites. That press, however, has no anathemas for slaughter\nUd arson committed by Brownlow’s mercenary and criminal gangs, or the desperate and merciless “militia” now devastating Arkansas and murdering and lynching her citizens. Had five negroes, instead of five white men, been taken from .the jail at Marion and shot to death, there would have been such a combination of wails and maledictions iu the Jacobin party as would have made “tho welkin ring.” As it is, the reports of the murders arc printed simply as matter of news in the columns of the radical press. Not many four notorious and hardened criminals, whose outrages and crimes had kept a county in Indiana iu alarm and terror for years, and who had repeatedly and with success defied tho penalties of the law, were taken from the jail, at New Albany, in that state, and murdered by a party of lynchers. The atrocity sent a thrill of horror through every person possessed of a heart and respected law. Senator Trumbull, with commendable promptness, introduced a hill in the United States Senate to guard against the repetition of such crimes. In Arkansas, as good men ns can be found in the state have been murdered by the militia, and this lias been done daily for weeks. — Why does Mr. Trumbull’s heart stir with emotion in contemplating the lynching of desperadoes, and why is it still and unaffected in reading of tho barbarities of the Arkansas militia \-rChicago Times.

The negroes on the Ogecchce river, in Georgia, are resisting jthe authorities, perpetrating all kinds of outrages, and threatening, to “have the heart’s blood of every white man” in that section. These white men, being mainly “redhanded traitors,” will, of conrse, receive but little sympathy, from “the great loyal heart,” in the inconveniences they suffer from these attempts to vindicate the Ethiopian claim to citizenship.— Chieago Times. The military have interfered, and quiet now reigns on the Ogeechee. The “men and brethren” have succumbed to federal power, and “Liberty [to rob and murder] lies bleeding.”— Times. The citizens of Morristown, N. J., are complaining of theic. dog-taxes, which amount to from two to throe dollars per head. A co-operative sausage mill is the remedy. Lard oil is now exclusively used in the light houses. Sperm has been superseded and petroleum is too dangeruos. Alaska contains about 370,000,000 acres, and was purchased at a little less than two cents per acre. A vincyeard is to be on the bat-tle-field of Chickamauga by a French company. Thirty thousand Florida oranges are sold in Charleston, S. C-, every week-

FRUIT HOUSE PRICE LIST. MSF BEf MM i* ISF'AII Goods reduced 20 to 25 per cent. On tlie Dollar. War-prices Denude c<l under. Goods cheaper than before the war. We are bound the. People shall have their Goods at living prices. We retail all our. goods at wholesale prices, {hereby saving our customers paying two extra prices. Everything sill as advertised, or we will forfeit double the amount.“f6fl

KTotico Our Xilst of Prices.

FLOUR. ' Best Quality Red Wheal, f* bbl., 800 2nd “ “ “ “ oto7 00 TEAS. The universal satisfaction our $1 and §1,25 Teas are giving is sufficient guarantee of their increasing popularity. We purchase direct of the Importer, in large quantities, thereby saving our customers the profits of the Speculator, Jobber and Wholesale men, which is from 10 to 20 cents on eneh pound. Every pound warranted or money refunded. "Young Hvson, good, slb $ 80 to §1 00 do do best, do 125t0 1 40 Imperial, good, do 80 to 100 do best, do 1 25 to 1 50 Gunpowder, good, do 1 00 to 125 do best, do 1 50 to 1 60 Oolong, good, do 70 to 80 do best, do 1 00 to 1 25 Japan, good, do 75 to 100 Chinese Mixture, do 1 00 to 1 25 COFFEE. Good Rio, lh, 20 to 22 Best Rio, “ 26 Extra Rio, 5 lbs. for 1 00 Ground Coffee, ft lb, 15 SUGARS. Good Sugar, brown, 1? lb 10 Best do do do 12J do do white, do 14 do do crushed, do 10 do do powdered do 16, \ FISH. No. 1 White Fish, i bbl., §4 50 No. 1 Pickerel, do 4 00 No. 1 Trout, do 4 50 No. 1 lleiring, do 2 60 No. 1 Mackerel, do 7 00 Np. 2 do do 4 50 Noil Mackerel, in Kits, §1 25(771 50 No. 1 White Fish, do 1 2501 50 No. 1 Cod Fish, f* lb 5 No. 1 White Fish, do 5 All our Fish warranted good or money refunded. DRIED FRUITS. Dried Apples, P lb 10 i do Pcnches, do 14 Currants, do 12J Raisins, do 17020 Cherries, do 20 Blackberries, do 15 Pared Peaches, do 20025

NEW YORK STORE! ' ' , ' 1 ' ’ r- * 0 Root & Company, 3STo. 90 Coltfrn'bia Street, FORT WAYNE, DRY GOODS DEALERS, Opening this week of a fresh and attractive stock of Black and Brown Ant vac ha n Cloakings,28 and 32 inches Super Velvet Cloakings , Velveteens sot 1 Valking Suits, ° „ Colored Plushes for Sacques and Jackets, Black Moscow Bearer Cloakings, English Waterproof, in new mixtures, American Black Rep. Silks, for Suits, The Boulevard and Buchess Skirt, f Great Bargains in French Merinos, •Veit? Shapes in Hoop Skirts. * - Special attention is asked to our superior stock of IxidiesGentlemens, Misses, Hoys and Children's MERINO UNDERWEAR! . Os wjiich we have on hand every size and quality. ' ~ * v11n24 . ROOT AND COMPANY.

CANNED FRUITS, Peaches, ft can, 85 Tomatoes, Corn, and Peas, *i? can, 25 Pears, and Whortleberries, *• 25 Blackberries, and Cherries, “ 25 Strawberries, and Grapes, “ 25 TOBACCOS. Best Navy Plug, fl lb 60 2nd Quality do do 40 Fine Cut, good, do 40050 do do best, do 75c@l 00 Best Smoking, do 25 2nd quality, do 15025 OTHER GOODS. Good Molasses, ft gallon, 50 Extra N. 0., do $1 00 Golden Drips, do 1 26 Choice Syrup, do 0 10 Market Baskets, each, ' 15tof0 Bushel Baskets, each, 30 to 50 Half-bushel measures, each, . 60 Wash Boards, each, : 20 Water Buckets, each, 20 Wash Tubs, each, 75c01 25 Brooms, each, _ 16025 Best Saleratns, ftdb 10 Coffee Essence, 6 boxes for. 25 Indigo, ft ounce, 6010 Starch, ftlb 10 Matches, two boxes for 5 Star Candles, lb 23 Tallow do do 17 Best Nutmegs, ft ounto, .. 10 Best Pepper, ground, ft lb 80 Best Pepper, unground, f* lb 45 Best Mustard, • do 30 Best. Allspice, do 40 Baking Powder, English, do 10 Washing Soda, do '7 Soap, f'bar, 7011 Cinnamon, ft ounce, 7 Cream lb 40 Clibese, do 10015 Good Whiskey, ft gallon. §1 00 Good Whiskey, in qrt bottles, each, 35 We guarantee to our customers a saving of 26 cents on the dollac Families at any distance can have their orders filled and shipped to them with the same care ami attention ns if they were present and any goods not satisfactory can b 6 returned and the money refunded. We al«o pay cash for butter and eggs in any quantity, and sell all other goods at proportionately low prices. Address all orders to the FORT WAYNE FRUIT HOUSE.

CMIBS, « * EE, «•. •'.,/« > ' • - j * DEALERS IX : .1 t■' i .L - FOREtCN & DOMESTIC - DRT BOOM, IIATS & CAPS., BOOTS 8l SHOES, s Groceries, Q V E E JYS If R E, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, KOTIOM, &c., DECATUR. IXDIAXA. of the above goods will be sold very cheap for Cash or Country Produco. v12u3l TIN WARE! »■ AND STOVES! H W. KOVER, Second Street , Oppotile the Clerk't Otffee,

nVC.ITUR, 1.V8., EESI’ECTFULLY announces to the i citizens of Adams county, and the public in general, that lie keeps constantly on hand it large assortment of STOYES, -Sl'Cll A»&00K, PARLOR AXD OFIFCE STO VES. A latgo stock of TIN AND JAPAN WARE, Os his own manufacture, always on hand. 110 Is also prepared to put up Lffining Ms and- Tin Spouting, and in fnct is prepared to do all kinds of work pertning to his business, including COPPER SMITHING. He is prepared to fill all orders in liii line, of his own manufacture, either at Wholesale or Retail, at lower prices than can be furnished by any other house in the county. ©•iy'Call and examine his stock. Repairing done to order. vlOulltf V w FIRST IN THE MARKET 1 ft J. G. FLEDDERMAN, Merchant Tailor, No. 3ft Main Street, Fort Wayno, Znd. f HAS just returned from the East, with the choicest and largest assortment of FAIL & WINTER GOODS Ever exhibited in this market, which he is ready to make up in the moskfashionable styles, at prices which cannot fail to please. A large stock of Ready-Made Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods kept constantly on hand. Owns and examine before buying elsewhere. good coat makers wanted, vllnll J. G. FLEDDERMAN. • ■ ■ SheritTs Sale. Abraham Yocum ) Court of Common ' vs. [ Pleas, Adams oouatjr, Jacob Shaffer, j Indiana. BY virtue of a decree issued out of the Adams Common Fleab Odnrt, sirested to the Sheriff VT Adbrns county, in favor of thVWaiiKilf arid spall"* the defended, I will offerfor sale according to law, at the OouH House door in the town of Decatur, Adama eounty, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o clock A. and 4 o’clock P. M., on SATcnnAT, Ja*ua*t 16th, 1869, the following described property, to-wh: Beginning in section twenty-one, township twenty-eight north, range fourteeif east and fronting on north side of the Piqua and Fort Wayne road, am) bounded by said road and on the north and north-west and north-east apileast by land belonging to John TfHl Mid on the south and sonUi-eastby a let belong' ing to Franklin Lord, containing twan-ty-eight one hundredth* of an acre, be the the same more or lose. Taken ae tbo property of aaid Jacob Shaffer to satisfy *aid mortgage this 17th day of November, 1868. JAMES STOOPS. Jr., Dec. 4, 1868. Sheriff,