The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-05-22
" Winchester and the Future.

AT no time within our memory. OF
IN the memory Of many great dea
older, has Winchester bid so fair for
Improvement in every respect thai
tends to make it town Of note,
First, we occupy a position that is
not exce|led by any other in the State
of Tennessee for a town All who
have ever lived here must know that.
Located in no low or sickIy swamp,
but near the beautiful Cumberland
mountains, where the air is pure, sa-
lubrious and bracing, and where many
springs Of purcst and sweetest waters
gurglc forth, how, then, can it be
othcwise than healthy and pleasant
70 live in such a vicnty2 We are
aware that our town does not contain
large and handsome ediices, such as
Gone places can boast Of; neither have
we such luxuriant and beautifully or
namented gardens, with walks paved
in shells Of snowy Wilderness, and sur
rounded with costly ratings Of tanci.
fully turned iron no, we may alIud"
TO these az attractions in some Of our
distant cities, bat how impotent are
such when compared with the attrac,
tons which nature with matchless
skill! his thrown around Winchester
ThS' picturesque mountain scenery
tb;.. ,stretchc9 out into a great semi
c}tic before the gaze Of the delighted
bcholder; the craggy peaks that rise
proudly above other tall ridges, and
they still above others, as the eye fol-
lows the descent; and at this delight
ful season Of the year, the inter3per-
sion Of moving green amid the crag-
gy rocks that rise in huge masses
among the tops ofthc talIest surround
ing trees, present a scene at once gor-
geous and imposing-a spectacle more
engaging than proud edifices and lofty
steeples, and far better calculated to
impress the beholder with just APP
probation Of the grand and the beau
tiful. The ingenious efforts Of art
soon become insipd to the city inhpb-
liant, but nature,
Whose unceasng hand
Rolls round tho seasons Of the changeul year."
will ever render our mountain home
lovely still. Winchester is trul y
beautiful home! While writing these
lines, we see from our window the
majestic mountain, "robed in azure
hue" while there intervenes a success
sion of fields richly dressed in verdure
and slirted by beautiful groves of
trees, whose leaty tops seem to the
eve a solid mass Of living green.
In short, we are obliged to believe,
all things considered, that Winches-
ter is one Of the most desirable places
of which We have any knowledge. 1t
is true, that, as it is an inland town, it
can never be Of great Importance in
commercial point of view, but only
look at the railroads amongst us, and
around in our midst, completed and in
course of construction! Even now
we are connected by one continuous
line of railway with the Atlantic and
the great Father of Waters, and with
the most important Southern cities.-
Soon, too, we will have the whistle of
the cars almost upon our square. Our
position, it must be at once seen, is an
enviable one, and destined, beyond
doubt, soon to he more so. 1t is idle 10
talk about Winchester going down.
it cannot be- Though for many years
it has remained almost on standing
point, yet now all forebodings Of its
decline may be cast aside, and lis fu.
:urc looked up1n with aattering pros
poets.
In August next. elections will be
held iii the following States: Ala.
hama, Arkansas, Kentuckey, Tennes'
see, North Carolina, Texas and Mis-