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Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

FARMERs.-Adatn was a far
mer while yet in Paradise, and
after his fall he was commanded
to earn his bread by the sweat OF
his brow.
JOB. the honest, upright, and
obedient, was a farmer, and his
stern endurance mas passed INTO
proverbs.
81 Luke was a farmer. and
divides with Prometheu- tie honor
Of subjecting the OK for the use OF
man.
Socrates was farmer, and vet
welded to his calling, the glory
OF his immortal philosophy.
Cincinnatus was farmer, and
the noblest Roman OF them all.
Burns was farmer, and the
music found him at the plough,
aad filled him with poetry.
Washington was a farmer; re-
tired from the highest earthly sta
ton 70 ENJOY the quiet OF rural
lite a; Mt. Vernon, and present
to the world a spectacle OF human
greatness.
To these names may be added
a host of others who sought peace
and repose n the cultivation oi
their mother earth; the enthusi
as.ie Laflyette, the steadiasl
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21
INTERVENING TO srR. BARNUM.

A MAINE paper gives an ac-
count OF an aged preacher-95
years old, we think-whc has
lately bloomed out with "new
halr-the hair of his youth-new
teeth, and new eyes
The general health of the old
gentleman is stated to be good,
although we should not have
been surprised had the Maine
paper stated that he was occa-
si3nly troubled with cholera in
tanfum, as we'll as subject to
draft.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

&C. Here is a ch aracteristic
Western occurrence. Judge Jere-
miah Smith, old, drunk, and tTea-
sonable, blackguarded Union sol
dlers at Portland, Ind, a few
days since. Judge Bowden, full
OF righteous indignation, was
about to knock down his yoke
fellow OF Justice, when somebody
carried off the tipsy old fool,
who, however, began aglin, and
was rolled in the mud by some
indignant soldiers, until Judge
Elliott harrangued them, and in
duced them to permit Smith to be
taken ont OF town.-New York
Independent.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

CO. Major-General Ambrose
Everett Burnside, of the United
States volunteer service, Is In the
prime Of lite, having been born
At Liberty, a small town in
Union county, Indiana, on the
23d Of Nay, 1921 After being
well grounded in the usual rudi-
nents of liberal education, he
was nominated to tie West Point
Military Academy, and his name
was enrolled as a cadet in 1912.
He graduatedin 1913, eighteenth
ia a class of % members, and
was Immediately attached TO the
2nd Artillery, with the breyet
rank Of Second Lieutenant.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21
GEN. BANKS ON ruE CRISIS.

VIM - fA4A - Nv 0AAANANs
The Forty-frst Massachusetts,
regiment escorted Gen. Banks
from Boston to New York, and
was entertained with a breakfast
at the Astor House on Friday.
Gen. Banks was present and
made long speech, in which he
chiefly dwelt upon the part New
England had taken in the war.
We make a single extract:
As a Yankee he was half in
cllned to talk, but as a man of
some varied experience he hest
tated, for he thought the time
to talk had not yet come.
The people OF this land mad not
yet been sufficiently stepped in
suffering. More States must be
invaded, more hearths:ones rem
dered desolate, before the people
OF this country will conset to talk
with one another as they should.
He could not go far In what he
had TO say, but this he would de-
clare as his earnest belief, that
no power, no! not all the powers
on earth comhined, could destroy
this great American Government
when once the people had been
made to understand the real is
sue. Tremendous and prolonged
cheering. Americans, however,
Will have to learn a little. They
have, hitherto, thought there
must be short cut through ev-
erything, but here their idea Is at
fault; there is no short cat in this
war; it must be fought through
to the very end. We must fight,
and that, to with full apprecia-
ton of the men with whom we
battle, and this once understood,
the rebellion will fall even should
"untenced desolation mark ev-
cry step OF our path toward the
consummation. Should the men
in power ami intrusted with the
dread responsibility allow this
glorious Government to fall, IN
after ages, when the men who
crucified the Redeemer will be
mentioned with pity, these would
be covered with utter and eternal
scOrn.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

Pickering, the scholastic Jefier-
son, tie fiery Randolph, all
found an Eldorado of consola-
ton from life's cares and troubles,
in the green and verdant lawn
that surrounded their homesteads.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

We often fancy we suffer from
ingratitude when, In re ality, We
are suffering from self love.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

pers, and all because YOU didn't
take my advice about the ham
mer in the first place The poor
old 'un tugged and pulled and
pouted, and says he Well, now
that IS cur'ous, | swun to mas
sey. There can't be no tacks
way out In the middle of the
floor here, can they?' To make
sure, the old bhnd-pato was 90
ing down on his knees to take a
mouse-cye view, when all of a
sudden ne gave a start, and ne
says, says be: 'Why, pears to
me, Sammy, YOU'RE SrANDlN' on
THE GARRETT YOURSELF And so
he was-so ne was saws the
Honest Abe, smiling into the fire,
''and that was the reason why
the carpet had stuck in so many
Places
/" Now" SAYS the Honest
Abe, pokihg the Democratic chap
in the ribs with his knuckles, ..if
your organization wants me to
move more vigorously in this
war, tell them not to be standing
on nv carpet all the time. 9th
erwise, | must still be tacking a
bout"
The Democratic chap had
boen slowly rising from his chair,
as this small moral tale drew to-
wards its exciting conclusion,
and at the last words he fed the
apartment with quivering wach-
seal.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

Law is not something wrought
out by mans ingenuity; nor IS 1t
a decree Of the people; but 1t Is
something eternal, governing the
world by the wisdom OF Its CON-
mands and prohibitions' whatev-
e-;s inst is also the true law; nor
can this be abrogated By any
written enactments.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

Two planks in The Democratic
platform, to be strictly adhered
to in the next session OF Con
gress:
/. Reputation Of the war
debt, by an organized resistance
to the war tax.
2. Reputation of the Ma
tional taxes, that the pay OF the
soldiers must stoP.-Galiipol:s
Journal
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21
New Series,
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GENERAL mitchell.


The following noble poem, occasioned
by the death Of General Mitchell, th'
soldier-astrononer appears in the New
York Eoeaing POST;
"OLD STARS"
Hing b. the Heassns NTH biack."
His mighty life was burned away
By Carolina's fiery sun;
The pestlence that walks by day
smote aim before his course seemed run
The Consultations of the sky,
The Pleiades, the Southern Cross,
Looked sadly down to see him die,
To see a nation weep his loss.
III.
"send him to US" the stars might cry
"You DO not feel his worth below;
Your petty great men do not try
The measure of his mind to know,
"Send him 10 Us. This is his place,
Not mid your puny iealousies;
You sacrificed him in your race
OF envies, strifes and policies.
"fIis eye could pierce our vast expanse,
His ear could hear our morning songs,
His mind, amid our mystic dance.
Could follow all our myriad throngs.
"Send him to us. no martyrs soul,
no hero slain in righteous wars,
No raptured saint could e'er control,
A ho!ier welcome from the stars"
VII.
Take him, yc stars, take him on high,
To your vast realms OF boundless space.
But once he turned from you to try
lis name on martial scrolls to trace.
VIII.
That once was when his country's call
Said danger to her flag was nigh,
And then her banners Stars dimmed all
The radiant lights which gemmed the
sky.
Take him. loved orbs! His country's life.
Freedom for all-for these he wars;
For these he welcomed bloody strife,
And followed in the wake of Mars.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

Take him. loved orbs! His country's life
Freedom for all-for these he wars;
For these he welcomed bloody strife,
And followed in the wake of Mars.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

His mighty life was burned away
By Carolina's fiery sun;
The pestience that walks by day
Smote aim before his course seemed run
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

EOiIN y. CROWLEY, " D.. Ply
% sician, andSurgcon, Winchester, Ind.
Graduate of Philadelphia College OF med
icine, and Philadelphia Lying-in Charity
Hospital, embracing Practical Obstetrics
and Diseases of Females.
Having been Assistant Demonstrator of
Anatomy. and having spent three years IN
the Hospitals and Dispensarics OF Phila-
delphia, and being supplied with excellent
Surgical Instruments, he Is prepared TO
perform all operations in the various de
partments of the profession.
g Particular attention paid to diseas-
"a Of the Eye. OFFICE,-WashingtOn
street, near the north west corner of the
Public square, Winchester, Ind. ma'6l
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

Take him, ye stars. take him on high,
To your vast realms OF boundless space.
But once he turned from you to try
Ills name on martial scrolls to trace.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

"Send him TO Us" the stars might cry
"You DO not feel his worth below;
Your petty great men do not try
The measure of his mind to know,
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

That once was when his cOuntry's call
Said danger to her flag was nigh,
And then her banners stars dimmed all
The radiant lights which gemmed the
sky.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

"Send him 20 Us. This is his place,
Not mid your puny jealousies;
You sacrificed him in your race
OF envies, strifes and policies.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

"iIis eyo could pierce our vast expanse,
His ear could hear our morning songs,
His mind, amid our mystic dance.
Could follow all our myriad throngs.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

"Send him to us. no martyrs soul,
10 hero slain in righteous wars,
No raptured saint could e'er control,
A holier welcome from the stars"
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21

The following noble poem, occasioned
by the death Of General Mitchell, the
soldier-astronomer, appears in the New
York EceRing Post;
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
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mics in array against her authority. We
find, substantially, only fugitive masses, run
away property owners, whiskey drinking
mob, and starving citizens with their wives
and children. 1t is our duty to call back
the hrst, to punish the second, root out the
third, feed and protect the last. Ready only
for war, We had not prepared ourselves to
feed the hungry and relieve the distressed
with provisions. But to the extent possible
within the power of the commanding gener-
al it shall be done. He has captured a
quantity of beef and sugar intended for the
rebels in the field. A thousand barrels of
those stores will be distributed among the
deserving poor of this city, from whom the
rebels had plundered it even although n some
of the food will 60 to supply the craving
wants of the wives and children of those now
herding at Camp Moore and elsewhere, in
arms against the United States. Captain
John Clark, acting chief commissary of sub
slstence, will be charged with the execution
of this order, and will give public notice of
the place and manner of distribution, which
will be arranged as far as possible, SO that
the unworthy and disolute will not share its
benefits.
BY command of Major-General BUTLER.
GEORGE C. STRONG, A. A. G., Chief of staff.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06

cigar IN his mouth, and some "fne cut~ in
his pocket, and he says "bullv" and "r;gbt
off," and all slang phrases he can learn Ev-
cry other word is an oath, and he hardly
Knows that ne is profane. "It swears ITSELF"
The western city youth refnes his wicked
ness by drinking wine, smoking meerschaums,
ana don't swear real hard till he gets tight.
linen he makes everything "look blue."-
"hlskey and women are the curses that are
running the young men of the West.
l would like to travel over the New Eng
land as have over the Northwestern states.
that | might see if the young men of one are
as bad as those of the other. If they are,
God help our country thirty years hence 1t
would seem that this war would wake up
young men to the awful responsibility that
rests upon them, for soon the men of to-day
will be in their graves. But no, some of
them enlist, fight well, drink, and die others
stay at home, drink, swear at Jeff Davis,
drink again, and think naught of the future.
They are republicans or democrats because
somebody else is, and were they South they
would go with the mass. They don't think
for themselves. There are a precious few,
however, who do think, have principle, and
they are the ones on whom reliance can be
placed. Educators have yet mighty work
to do in the West, and they must have a
bolder moral tone. They do not make their
influence felt enough. MIS-.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06

A REBUKE OF SECESH WoMEN.-A story
is told of Gen Dumont, in command at Nash
vile, Tenn, which shows that he inclines to
treat the malignant secesh women IN the
style threatened by the doubtful order of
Gen Butler:
"a famous physicians female household
deported themselves so rudely to our soldiers,
once or twice actually splitting in their faces,
that the general ordered the house to be put
under guard with orders to let no one pass
in or out The doctor, who was in the coun-
try at the time, was greatly incensed on find
ing his access to his own home debarred by a
guard of soldiery on his return, and forth
with went to headquarters, boiling over with
rage. On stating the facts, the general calm
ly replied that he was not aware of giving
any order to put the complainant's house un'
der guard. Insisting that the fact was so, he
pointed to his residence, which was in sigh,
and near at hand, as evidence, for the guard
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
THE WESTERN GENERALS.
GENERAL HALLECk.

Major General Halleck is a native of Onei-
da county, n. Y. He entered the military
academy at West Point as a cadet in 1885.
stood third in the class and was breveted
second lieutenant of engineers in 1889. In
1915 he was appointed first lieutenant. In
1S47 he was promoted for his gallantry in
California. In 1868 he was appointed cap
tain of engineers. He is the author of a
book on "Bitumen and its Uses," and-a Sc
ries of lectures on Military Science, delivered
before the Lowell Institute in Boston. He
was a member of committee to draft the
constitution for the state of California; had
previously been secretary Of state for the ter
ritory of California. In the naval and militia
ry operations ON the Pacific coast he was
chief of Commodore Shubrics staff. He is
an astute lawyer-a man of fortune, and is
now comparatively young man, being only
43 years of age. His grandfather, now in
his hundredth year, is living in tEe village
of Western, near Utica.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
The Homestead Act.

Tie following are the main provisions of
the homestead bill, which has passed both
Houses Of Congress, and become law.
All the lands owned BY the government
are open to settlement under it in quantities
not exceeding l60 acres to each person.
Any person who is citizen of the United
States or has declared intention to become
such. who is p years old, or the head of a
family, or has served in the military or naval
service of the country during this rebellion,
can make the entry on payments of ten dol
lars and the fees of the Register and Receiv-
er of the Land Office. That is all the set
tier has to pay at any time. The act takes
effect the lst day of January next and re-
quires residence and cultivation of five
years to perfect the title.
ANY person can enter under this act land
on which he has pre-emption claim.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
WHAT Is A GENTLEMAN!

Two great errors, coloring, or rather dis
coloring, severally, the minds Of the higher
and lower classes, have sown wide dissension
and wider misfortune through the
society of modern days. These
errors are in our modes of interpreting the
word "gentleman.' Its primal, literal, and
perpetual meaning is, "a man of pure race, /"
we'll bred, in the sense that a horse or dog
Is well-bred. The so-called higher classes,
being generally of purer race than the lower.
have retained the true idea, and the convic-
tions associated with it, but are afraid to
speak it out, and equivocate about it in pub
lie; this equivocation mainly proceeding
from their desire to connect another meaning
with it, and a false one-tha. of ga man liv-
ing in idleness on other peoples labor''-with
which idea the term has nothing whatever to
do.
The lower classes, denying vigorously, and
with reason, the notion that gentleman
means an idler, and rightly feeling that the
more any one works the more Of gentle
man he becomes, and is likely to become
have nevertheless got little of the good they
otherwise might, from the truth, because with
it they wanted to hold falsehood, namely,
that race was of no consequence it being
precisely as much consequence in man as in
any other animal. The nation cannot truly
prosper till both of these errors are finally
got rid of. Gentlemen have to learn that il
is no part of their duty or privilege to live
on other peoples toll. They have to learn
that there is nc degradation in the hardest
manual, or humblest servile labor, when it is
honest. But there is degradation, and that
deep, in extravaganza, in bribery, in pride,
in taking places they are not fit for, or in
coming places for which there is no need
1t does not disgrace gentleman to become
an errand boy, or day laborer, but it dis
graces him much to become a knave or a
thief, and knavery is not the less knavery
because it involves large interests, nor theft
the less theft because it is countenanced by
usage Or accompanied by failure in under,a-
ken duty.
1t is an incomparably less guilty form Of
robbery 10 cut purse out of mans pocket
than to take it out of his hand on the under.
standing you are 10 steer his ship up The
channel when YOU do not know the sound
ings. On the other hand, the lower orders
and al. other orders, have to learn that ever,
vicious habit and chronic disease communi
cafes itself by decent, and that by purity o.
birth the entire system of the human bod,
may be gradually elevated, or, by reckless
ness of birth, degraded, until there shall bs
as much difference between the well-bred ant
ill-bred human creature (whatever pains ma,
be taken with their educationi as between {:
wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. An.
the knowledge Of this great fact ought TO re
gulate the education of our youth, and th'
entire conduct of the nation.-RuskiA.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
GENERAL M'CLERNAND.

General McClernand won his spurs during
the present war. He was leader in the
Douglas wing of the democratic party, and
in 1860 occupied seat in the House of Re
representatives.. He also figured conspicuous
ly in the Baltimore and Charleston conven-
tons. He was opposed to Breckenridge in
Congress, and he opposed him again at Pitts
burg. He left his seat in Congress to take
up arms in defense of the government. As
a soldier, he had his first trial at the battle of
Belmont, and came off with flying colors.-
His administration of affairs in Cairo was
very satisfactory. At Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson he won fresh laurels, and for his
bravery he was created major general. He
is about 40 years OF age, tall and graceful-a
true gentleman and true soldier.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-06-06
GENERAL BUELL..

General Buell. is a native of Ohio, gradu-
ate of West Point, and in the meridian of
life. He has been in the service twenty
years; was in the Mexican war. When the
present war broke out he was in the regular
service in California. Congress made him a
brigadier general, and gave him command Of
a division of the army of the Potomac
When General Anderson resigned his COM
mand, General Buell. was appointed to take
his place in the department of Ohio. 1t was
under his supervision that the army that
marched from Bowling Green to Nashville
was raised and disciplined. On the recon
struction of the departments he was created
major general. He is maa of great ply
scal strength and power Of endurance; has
light hair, blue eyes, and wears full beard
He is 40 years of age. Though slow te
move, he is terrible in execution.