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Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15
EXAMINERS COLUMN.


Mr. EpIToR;-In my communica-
tion of last week, | notified your
readers that no more certificates
would be given, unless the appli-
cant possessed sufficient knowledge
to teach all the branches required
by law to be taught in our com
mon schools. find I'M the "School
Journal something that materially
strengthens me in the position 1
have taken on this point.
The Examiner of Hendricks
County called a convention of the
Township Trustees for the pur-
pose of considering and transact
ing business pertaining to schools.
The following resolution was
adopted at said convention:
Resolved. That We ignore the
practice of Trustees requesting
the Examiner to give certificates
to unqualified teachers: and, in the
future, we will not make such re-
quests when more competent
teachers can be had.
1t was also recommended that
each Trustee take the Indiana
School Journal for the benefit Of
his office. In the last, they are
not in advance Of Randolph Co.
The Journal is already in the
hands Of several OF our Trustees.
and Mr.. Rugg has decided that
each Trustee is entitled to a copy,
paying for it out Of the Township
fund
As to the convention of Trustees.
I had contemplated such move.
but did not intend calling it until
the first Monday in September,
when the several reports from the
townships can also he made, and
other necessary school matters be
attended to at the same meeting.
Randolph is not to be the hind
most car of the Educational
Train," neither il she to he
switched off the track for some
other train to pass her, while ! am
conductor, and backed mp by n
good, intelligent crew of pas
sengers.
Since your last issue, | have
further information from Mr.. Rice
concerning the Teacher Institute,
to he held in this county. The
month Of August is filed by ap-
pointments. hence ours mnst be in
July. I suggest to teachers, and
others interested in the matter.
that we convene in Winchester on
Monday, July Goth, and hold until
Saturday 25th.
Mr.. Rice SAYS. "Get an appro-
priation of S3C from your County
Commissioners. They have the
right to make such appropria-
tons. and have done so in some
counties in this State. Circulate
subscription paper among your
townspen and the educational men
of your community. Get the
people of Winchester to board
teachers free. or at a nominal price
Make no charge for tuition, and in
this way get ont the young men
and ladies. BY pursuing this
course. vou can make the influence
Of the Institute extend to the re-
motest corners Of Your county.
This is not the way TO make money,
hut the way to do the greatest pos
sible amount Of good"
Mr. Rice's plan certainly is
benevolent rs well as practical: and
| have often felt. in sentiment
with Dinter, who labored SO
ardently for popular education
in Prussia, when he saws. "T viii
look upon every child in Prussia
rs one who will, in the day ot
Judgment, testify against me if
do not al in my power for its cdu.
cation. p IIIATT.
To b. Coatinucd.)
FUTURE DEMAND FOR LABOR
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15
For the Journal.
DESOLATION.
BY J. b. HARRISON.

Though the tempest throes of anguish
Force the rigid lips apart,
Hers is woe too deep for vailing.
Not tear-drop laves her heart:
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15
NEW GRAVE YARD.

The Undersigned has laid of a New
Grave Yard, Immediately adjoining the
old one on theNest, IN lots l5i, BY lYi /,
zee; square. which he Offer 10 sell on rea :
sonsbie terms. Those desiring 20 secure
family burial place can now do so bv
calling early on DAVID HEASTON
May al, 1854
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15
SCHOOLS.

'AAb~o oti AOlASiu, Cl ddlo llSl MOlO
Matthew 4, /.
SCHOOLS.
Nothing interests me more than
the conducting of schools I have
been greatly surprised at the lack
of interest almost universally
manifested by the citizens here
In this neighborhood | know of no
family that is not worth from ST.
600 to 100000, except ONE, and
/ would positively be ashamed to
have such a building for stable
as this district has for a school
house.
An OLD LOG Hut, half chinked
and daubed, half open, puncheon
floor and benches, an old stove,
burnt out and fit only for old iron,
and chunks of wood for q part of
the scholars to sit on, constitute
the house and furniture. The
teacher-"Peace, be stillr' Said
he to Capt. Means, Of the 115th
Ohio, and myself, Biography, and
doin' sums in the head, is the
fanaticalist notions extant. Sing
in Biography, United States,
Washington (here he sung! is a
humbug."
By the way, will ]. B. Harrison
give some reason WHY singing or
chanting in teaching location
Geography is, in his estimation,
san absurd humbug?'
But ] was going to say that the
above school is a fair sample of
Kentucky schools. The most
miserable thing of the name I ever
saw till I came 10 Kentuckv.-I
There seems to be no interest i'm
anything in Kentucky of an intel
lectual kind. The negro is the
general topic of interest.
We came near having the con
traband question in this company:
4 negro came here with another
company; REVEREND requested
mo to return him or give his
whereabouts: but I replied that 7
would have nothing to do with the
matter, save to arrest, rs n spy.
his Reverend highness. or any
other man, coming 70 my camp on
a NEGRO hunt. The Reverend
thought | was UNCHRrsTIAN and
unkind. | informed him that I
was no negro catcher. and that if
one Of my men were to do such
dirty work, | would shoot him.
There are no such dirty dogs here.
WV. ID. STONE.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15
From the Hartford Press.
UNDER THE LEAVES

Oft have walked these woodland paths
Without the blest foreknowing
That underneath the withered leaves
The fairest buds were growing.
To-day the south wind sweeps away
The types Of Autumn splendor,
And shows the sweet arbutus flowers
Springs children, pure and tender.
o prophet souls. with lips Of bloom,
Outvieing in their beauty
The pearly tints Of ocean shells,
Ye teach me faith and duty.
Walk life's dark ways, We seem to say,
With Loves divine foreknowing,
That where man sees but withered leaves
God sees the sweet flowers growing.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-05-15

General Rosecrans is forming a
fatigue Corps Of freedmen Who have
come into his lines.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
The Righs Spirit.

The Courier newspaper, which has lust
been revived in the beautiful city of Match
ez, Mississippi, upon resumipg the publ
cation of his paper, the editor speaks
words of truth and reason. Would that
all mep in the South were Ike him. He
says:
Through the courtesy and kind feeling Of
tee gentlemanly United States officer com
handing the Natchez post, we are AGAIN n'aced
in possession of the Courier establishment 40
its manager has already endeavored to secnra q
living for himself and those in his ASSOCIATION
by mechanical industry, he bends to the worI
with right gracious disposition and a WILING
heart, trusting to the liberal patronage of Iongs'
tried friends and new acquaintance for the rs
ward OF his tolls. In times like the present
men may differ as to matters of policy. but
there is one thing very evident from the siSns
before us, that the people of this great Misss-
sppi valley will find it for their interest and
mutual welfare to strike hands again as Amer
leans in common cause. 1t will be our aim
to lay such information before our readers from
time to time as may lead to conservative deci.
slOns. and once more cement Americans in the
bonds OF united. prosperous and peaceful
government
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
General Meagher's Letter.

General THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, the
Irish American patriot, and brilliant ora
tor, was invited to address Union meet
ing in Ohio, but being unable to attend,
sent a letter, from which we make the
following extract:
THE EFFECT OF ELEcrIEa vALLANDlaHAM.
Electing Mr.. Brough, Ohio vindicates and
fortifies the National Government Elect;ng
Mr.. Vallandighanl, Ohio atandons, and, so far
as one State can do So weakens and prostrates
it. Electng Mr.. Brough, Ohio stands true to
the splendid soldiers who from the rocks of
Getty. burg, hurled back bold invasion-fron
the bluffs Of Vicksburg brokethe letters of the
Mississippi consecratng it to freedom and the
untrammelled service OF o united people, and
who, at this very hour, rain a dese-7 ed chas.
tisement on the city in which the national f,ag
was first struck down. and the torch of treoson
tossed aloft as the signal of revolt. Electing
Mr. Vallandigham, Ohio turns her back On m
these brave men, disowns their service dis
cards the victories they have won, sends them
a vote of reputation instead Of vote Of
thanks, and, instead of cheering them on in
their enterprises, casts cloud between
them and their fame, their proud memories.
their exalted purposes and hopes, making them
feel that they have poured out their blood in
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Important to Enrolling Boards.

The New York Times, abiding to the
recent decisions of Judges HALL and MEL
SON, in regard to the power of Enrolling
Boards to reverse their own decisions,
says:
1t is important that all Enrolling Boards
should bear this decision in mind and govern
themselves accordingly. 1t is all the more inn
portant since the suspension of the habeas COR
pus. That suspension IS an unpleasant thing. and
we trust the Enrolling Boards, and all officers
of the government, will do everything in their
power to make it as little burdensome as pos
sible.
We should say that the suspension of
ha6eas corpus was can unpleasant thing. +"
1t is decidedly unpleasant for man to be
kidnapped by a Provost Marshal's guard,
and forced into the army, without an OPP
portunity of proving that he is not liable
to do military duty. We concur with the
Times in the expression of the hope that
the Enrolling Boards will do everything
in their power to make this unpleasant
thing" as little burdensome as possible.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
The ssThunderer, and the Cana.
dams.

The London Times of the 18th has an
editorial on Canada, to the effect that
she could no more exist as an indepen-
dent nation by the side of the United
States, than q lamb beside wolf She
has to choose between union with the
United States and annexation to the
United States, and it says by the choice
they will abide.
The Times then puts the question to
the Canadians, who, it says, have an un-
willingness to raise reasonable force
to resist invasion. Which course will
they chooses To fight freely for the de-
fence Of their own homes, or to be
dragged at the lannon's mouth to feed an
allied struggle in the heart of distant,
foreign, unhealthy country.
If the telegraphic synopsis gives fair
notion of the editorial, it is certainly the
most remarkable article that has lately
appearedin the Times, and will set D 'ARoY
MCGEE and the whole brood of Canadian
alarmists, into fever of excitement.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Troops for Rosecrans.

It will be seen by the news in another
column that two entire corps a. ormsee are
now on their way from the Ohio river to
reinforce RosEoRANs, and by the follow
ing, that another corps is on the way up
the river for the same purpose:
Persons arriving here from below Cairo, to-
day, assure us that great movement Of troops
is in progress up the river from Vicksburg.
The destination and object are not known, but
may be guessed.
The railroad between Louisville and Nash
vile is pressed to the utmost of its transporta-
ton facilities to meet the military demands of
the government. Very heavy trains of cars,
full of soldiers, are continually leaving Louis
Chicago Journal, Wednesday,.
Never in the history of the war have
such bodies of troops been moved from
one army to another as are now coming
from East and West to reinforce ROSE
GRAMS. Within week, at the utmost, he
will have an army twice as large as that
with which he fought the battle of Chick
amauga.
As long as We hear of no disaster to the
Army of the Cumberland, we should rest
assured that all is going WELL A few days
will tell the story, and we have the great
est confidence that we shall then learn
that RosEcRANs has begun to move again
upon the vital region of rebellion.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Burnside and Rosecrans.

Should BURNSIDE arrive in time to be
of any benefit to RosEoRANs, the question
of priority in command is likely to come
up. BURNsIDE's commission as Major
General is older than that of RosECRANs,
and hence the former is ranking officer.
1t is to be hoped, however, that he will
not insist on his claims in that respect.
The country has but very little confidence
in the man who caused the massacre at
Fredericksburg and the illegal arrest of
VALLANDIGHAM. Besides, the President
is authorized by special legislation of Con-
gress, to place an officer in command of
his seniors, and we presume he would ex-
ercise his power in retaining RosEoRANs
as commanding general.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Ohio Militia Organization.

1t appears from statement Of Adjutant
General HILL, that the militia of the whole
State has been organized under the new
law, and the organization recorded. There
are 80 regiments and battalions of en-
rolled militia averaging over eight compa-
mics each, and 2,700 companies OF enrolled
militia. In addition to these there have
been $50 volunteer companies organized
and assigned to volunteer regiments and
battalions. Over %, 900 Of our volunteers
are uniformed, and others are uniforming
rapidly. A better body OF men, Gen. HILL
says, was never enrolled in any State.
Some $4,000 officers have been commits
stoned.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
The Fair at Fort Smelling,

The late fair at Fort Smelling was in no
just sense a State Fair, although it was
conducted by. an organization known as
the State Board Of Agriculture The ex-
hibition of agricultural products would
scarcely have bee.2 creditable to town.
much less county. fair, in any portion of
the State that had been settled for five
years. It was ridiculous failure, bur-
lesque, and nearly all who attended
it, considered themselves eggregiously sold.
1t was decidedly prejndicial to the
interest of. the State, and benefited
no one, SO far as we know, but the owner
of the ferry at the Fort. It would not
compare with the fairs of Hennepin County,
OF six or seven years ago, or the State
Fair of 1860; although the latter embrs G.
ed scarcely anything from our best agri-
cultural counties in the central and south
ern portions Of the State. gs5og y.
We speak of the fair thus plainly be-
cause we do not wish strangers who were
present, to leave the State with the inn.
preston tDat this miserable show was any
sort Of q representation of the agriculture
of Minnesota. . z3aw GIT 9 aa.
All attempts to get up a good State
Fair will fail until orr facilities for trav-.
cling are better than they are now. When
We have arailroad running from ST. Cloud,
through the State, to Rochester or to the
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Extravaganza in New YORK.

" Never were such dinner parties given
since New York was q city as are given
now writes the correspondent of the
London Times" Delmonico's three res
taurants at the beginning, the middle, and
the end Of the dining region of the me-
tropolis, are kept fully employed; and
dinners of twenty or thirty persons at $40
ahead, exclusive of wine, are of nightly
occurrence The guests prefer the chcic-
est and most costly vintages, regardless
the paper price. Madeira at $l2 a bottle,
Chateau LATTE at the same rate, and
Chambcrtin at SIG, are none too expen /.
sive for their tastes. Why should they
be? Do not many Of these people
j, make as much as $4,000 in q forenoon
10 the rise of stocks that fuctuate as much
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09

- - -
not being capped. One Of the boys at
that moment thrusting the glass into the
case which hung by bis side, the rebel
thought he was drawing revolver, and
Immediately threw down his gun, crying
out 4 surrender. The boys Immediately
sprang forward, seized his gun, and at .
charge bayonet' drove the big fellow into
camp. When he discovered that the only
appearance Of a weapon in the boys pos
session was an. opera glass he was much
incensed, declaring he could not be held
as prisoner of war. This feat was wit
messed by Colonel Otis, who was much
pleased with the intrepid conduct of the
bows"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
A Patriotic Sentiment.

The Hon. GEORGE FL. YEAMAN, mem
Der of Congress from Kentucky, in reply
to an invitation to be present at a dinner
to be given to the Ninth Kentucky Cav
airy, concluded his patriotic letter in the
following eloquent language:
The cloud Of war is at last parting and sui
lenly drifting away. Through its broken mas
ses we catch the faint but willing CLEAN of
stars wandered but not lost, seeking return
to that constellation where the light and beauty
OF each are made brighter and more lovely by
the light and beauty of all the others. If this
cheering return to the great sisterhood of
States is not retarded by conditions demanded,
let it not be prevented by conditions imposed.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
The Defeat OF Rosecrans.

As is usually the case in defeat to our
arms, the War Department furnishes moth
ing to the public regarding RosEcRANs'
repulse, and we, therefore, know not the
full extent of his disasters but sufficient
has reached Us to cause the belief that the
dofeat of tho Army of the Cumberland has
been disastrous in the extreme, and must
be attended by the most unfortunate re-
suits. The hope is entertained that ROSE
GRAMS may defend himself in Chattanooga,
Or at least that he will not be compelled
to surrender all of East Tennessee; but,
we are prepared to hear that he must give
up all he has won by nearly years hard
fighting and able generalship.
The country will be very apt to ask,
"Why is RosEcRANs now defeated?" The
answer is-he was allowed to be over
whelmed by superior numbers, and the
fact may be justly regarded as additional
evidence of the want of ability on the
part of those directing military affairs.
When Vicksburg fell and JOHNSTON was
driven out of Pearl river, ordinary mill
tary sagacity would have suggested that a
part of GRANTS army should be sent to
Tennessee. The rebellion has been cut
in twain by the re-possession of the Mis-
sissippi, and all its remaining strength was
upon this side. Its heart, its hopes and
its energies were in Virginia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Geor-
gia, and against these States all the mill
tary resources should have been brought to
bear. But, what was done? Instead of
sending large portion Of the Army of
the Mississippi, released from duty in
that Department by the accomplishment
of its original mission, to RosEoRANs, and
enabling him to push forward into the very
heart of the rebellion without the possibil-
ity Of check or defeat, that whole army
was directed against the rebels west OF
the Mississippi, who kept up an almost ri
diculous show of strength, as if for the
very purpose of claiming the attention of
the Federal forces that might have been
employed elsewhere in administering the
very coup de grace to their cause.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
Sumner on our ssDOmestic Rela-
a tfons.ss

The Atlantic Monthly, for October, con-
tains the widely heralded article on " Our
Domestic Relations" by Senator SUMNER,
in which he tells the country how to treat
the rebel States so as to compel ga cos
mos Of perpetual beauty and power "This
beatiic condition he proposes to attain by
Congressional Government of the entire
rebel region, with power to write on it, as
on tGbula raso, the law. At the outset
Mr.. SUMNER utterly rejects the policy of
military Governors, already inaugurated
by the President, as an imperatorial do
minion, indefinite in extent and indefinite
in duration, urging that the whole region
they are called to rule will be military
empire, with all powers derived from one
man. The bare statement of the case is
enough for him, and he holds the policy
up as tending to chrystalize the National
Government into military despotism
He insists that if new government is to be
supplied for the rebel territory, it should
be supplied by Congress and not by the
President, and that sit should be accord
ing to established law rather than accord
ing to the mere will Of any functionary,
to the end that ours may be agovernment
OF laws and not of men,"
Mr.. SUMNER shows that the Presidents
attempt TO create military governors Of
States reverses the policy of the republic,
as solennly declared by JEFFERSON, and
subjects the civil to the military authority.
eft is clear" he says, that these militia
ry magistrates are without any direct
sanction in the Constitution or in existing
laws. They are not even Major Generals
or other military officers, charged with the
duty of enforcing martial law; but they
are special creatures Of the Secretary of
War, acting under the President, and
charged with universal powers Mr..
SUMNER shows, by interesting historical
quotations, what is the inevitable result
OF such nsurpation, and that even CRoM-
WELL, at the height Of bis power, was COM
PEELED to abandon the policy of military
rulers. We wish simply to call the at
tention Of our readers to this portion Of
the article, which viii repay a careful PEI
rnsal. 9l e Z SAW e>s'4N Il iseis1 q
u r. s
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09
ssFightfng Joe HoOker.s'

A rebel telegram states that HowARD's
and SLocUM's corps of MEADE's army have
gone to RosECKANs Generals HOWARD
and SLooUM rendered their resignation to
the President on learning that HOOKER
was to be placed over them, buta dispatch
states that SLooUM withdrew his resigna-
ton at the Presidents request. HOOKER
is already in the west, and will, it is ex-
pected, supercede General BURNSIDE as
commander Of the army in East Tennes-
see. A new department will probably be
created, embracing eastern Tennessee,
southwestern Virginia, and western North
Carolina.