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Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-10-30
The CENTRAL PARY Nrw VoRK.

The CENTRAL PARK, New Work.
Central Park contains $40 acres,
which cost nearly $500 an acre,
or a total Of S3,7ss ,57l. The inn
provements to January l, 1863,
cost SO: 5S3, 674,or total cost of
81 ,372, 425. The assessed value
of the three wards surrounding the
Park were, in 1856, before it was
commenced, $40, 000,OO and it is
now estimated at $50, coo, 900.
The average daily force. employed
on the Park during It's preparation
was 5000, and on some days 5000
workmen were engaged. The higl.-
est point OF the Park is at Eighty
Second street, where it is l40 feet
above tide water; the lowest point
is at One Hundred and Seventh
street, where it is a few inches be-
low tide water. The new reser-
voir covers l06 acres; is about
thirty feet deep, holds a thousand
millions of gallons of water, and
cost a million and a half of dol
lars. Around its rim is a walk
for pedestrians; outside OF that is
a bride path, and beyond that
again is beautiful CARR age drive.
Five miles of bride path have been
completed: eight miles OF carriage
road; eighteen miles of foot path.
Ii is five mile drive from the Bat
terry, or lower part Of the city to
the nearest Park gate, which is in
Fifty Ninth street. The Park is
bounded by two parallel lines, east
and west, Of Fifth and Eighth Aven-
ues, and is half mile broad by
nearly three miles long.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-10-30
APPOINTMENT

NOTICE ia hereby given tina, the under.
signed has been appointed Executor of tie
last will Of Daniel WOLF deceased, late o:
Randolph County.
Said estate il supposed to be solvent
l6 WILLIAM FULGHDN. Ex'r.
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Henry WARD BEEc4ER, at las,

-HENRy WARD BEEcHER, at last
accounts, had returned to London,
where he was announced TO speak
at Exeter Hall, on the 20th(yester-
day), John Bright in the chair. 1t
is possib that lie may also speak
in Birmingham before returning to
this country, but this is not certain.
The Sunday School children of his
church intend TO welcome him with
a grand musical entertainment by
the German and other bands.
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$1,000 CASH

~ Nd some good Western Lands, to
trade Tor an improved Farm in this county
Apply to
myl-f3 c. A. AVERY.
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that We will
~ sci. at snblic auction, on Saturday the
DIST day Of November 1863. Mt the residence
of John Campbell deceased, late Of Ran.
dolp County, all his personal property mot
taken ov the widow consisting of horses,
hogs, cattle, corn in the field, Farming uten.
sils. household furniture &c.
a Credit of nine months will be given on
ali sues over three Dollars. the purchaser
Civ NJ lis note with approved surety, waiv
ing valuation and appraisemcut law.
REBECCA CAMPBELL,
JOSHUA c. WARD,
l6 Admir-.
Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-10-30

SECRETARY Stanton. a newspaper
writer says. attends to his own mar
ketinS early in the morning.
The National LuteHioencer suq-
gests a separate car on RAILWAYS for
I Dbacco- chewers rs well rs smokers
The suggestion meets the universal
approval OF the ladies.
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ADMINISTRATIONS SALE.

NJ Office is hereby given that the un-
1 \ dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Alice Cox deceased, will offer for sale at
public cutlery at The late residence of the
deceased in White River Township, Ran
dolph County, on Monday. November 9th,
ls63, the personal property of said estate.
consisting of one mare, cows, sheep, wagon,
farming utensils. household and kitchen
furniture and other articles. Sale to com
mence at . o'clock, A. VI. Terms
Sums of three dollars and under cash.
A credit of IL months will be Civ
en- on all sums over three dollars, the pur-
chaser giving his note with approved sur
ETY., waving valuation and appraisement
laws. JOB HARRIS,
10th mo. 18th 1853. Is Admir-
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APPOINTMENT.

N Office is hereby given. that the I'M
Y dorsigncd has been appointed Admin
istrator Of the Estate of Andrew ]. West de-
ceased. late Of Randolph County Indiana.
Said Estate is supposed to be solvent.
THOMAS ". REECE,
Oct. Sd, 1863. IL Admir-.
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THE NEW REGIMENTS.
To TIE pooP'e q Indiana:

To he Po0P'e q Indiana:
Being charged with the organiza-
ton OF the new Indiana regiments,
] present the following inducements
TO rapid recruiting:
l. The new call for 800, 900 men
10 fill I'D regiments does not inter
fere with the eleven regiments al
ready commenced, which, If raised
by November 10th, will hold their
independent, perfect organization.
2. The large bountics are not
contingent upon three years OF ser
vice, but will he paid whenever
the regiment is discharged, however
short the service.
g. The new regiments will be
credited to Indiana upon the call for
300, 900 men, or upon the draft
which will follow the failure to fill
the quota.
4. The war is narrowed to such
issues that the prompt enlistment OF
the new quota must end the rebel
lion. Examine this IN after for your
selves.
a fair survey of the map, which
every citizen should maze for him.
self. will show that large territory
has been regsined-that the federal
armies control the great fields of
southern supply-that their people
are over-crowded in their restricted
domain, and that the rebellion must
risk IT'S all In the resistance that may
remain 10 lis two great armies. So
long as the Army ofthe Potomac
Is adequate to watch Lee, and give
full occupation to his forces, it only
needs that our troops in the South
west be so augmented as to over
whelm Bragg and occupy the lines
covered by his armies. With this
resuI, realized, the fall OF Richmond
l. only a question oft,me. Success
In Georgia, and It's relating terri
tory, is final success. The enemy
accept this issue, and fight to avoid
tina. calamity and protract the strug
gle.
Our plain duty is to realize the
splendid results. Were the new
quota in NE field, you would know
that The end was near. To delay
enlistments, is therefore to protract
the war. Prompt enllstments make
short cnlistmentS. Some have de.
manded SIX months troops, upon the
idea, that a large army, expedI-
tiously raised, would close the war
In that time. Three year enlist
ments, will turn to six months en-
lstments, If thus we close the war;
while the moral effect of prepara-
ton Tor any emergency is greatly
enhanced by such recruiting
The popular heart of Europe
how warns towards your cause, and
and expects of you fresh vigor.
The people have renewed the pledge
to prosecute the war. Now, vindi.
cate this pledge, and let instant eff
fort be made TO have the new regi-
ments ready to take early part in
the crowning struggle to overwhc!m
rebellion by the fresh display of
your patriotism and power.
Thus shall Indiana anticipate the
draft, and maintain the credit which
has become a part of her glory in
every phase of this war for freedom
and national independence.
BY order of the Governor.
HENRY b. CARRlNGToN,
Brigadier General, u. S. V.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29

the middle of the school, and thence roars
his commands. This functionary, with
one glance, takes stock of the new arrival s
power Of equitation, and orders a helper
to bring in one of the stock chargers for
such riders strong old horse, knowing
all the lodges of the school, and accus-
TONED, so far as his mouth is concerned,
to the most remarkable handling. He
comes in, perhaps, with snort and
bound, but stands stock still to be mount
ed-a ceremony which the pupil seems to
think consists in grasping handfuls of the
horses name and dinging himself bodily
on the horses back. The stern man in
boots advances and gives him proper in
struction, off starts the horse, and takes
his position at the end of little process
sion which is riding round the school,
Then upon the pupils devoted head comes
Hood of instructions Calling him by
name, the riding master tells him that
Position is everything Don't sit on
your horse like sack Body upright,
elbows square, clutch the horse with that
part of the legs between the knee and the
ankle, toes up, sir-this is managed by
pressing Ihe heel uOWu-Wnere are yOu
turning them toes to, sir Keep 'em
straight pray l-Tr-r-ot At the first
sound of the familiar words the old horse
starts off in the wake OF the Others, and
the rider is jerked forward, his hat gradu-
ally works either over his eyes or on to
his coat collar, his toes go down, his heels
60 up, he rows with his legs as with oars.
When the word Cantarr ' is given, he
is reduced to clinging with one hand to
the pommel, but this resources does not
avail him, for at the command Circle
left p the old horse wheels round unex-
pectedly, and the new pupil pitches quiet
ly off on the uncovered aoor.-AH the
Year Round
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
Mr.. Dicey on our War.

DIR. M'Clintock the foreign correspon-
dent of the New York Methodist furnishes
that paper the following;
"The September number ofthe TStoltu
Mdgasine contains a excellent "Retro-
spect of The War" by Edward Dicey,
one of the most iudicious, intelligent, and
kind of English writer's on the American
struggle. l believe his "Six Months in
the Federal States" has already been re-
printed at home certainly, if it has not
been, it ought to be. One of the opening
sentences of this article in the Victoria is
the following; "There is something that
absolutely jars upon ones nerves, in the
tone in which people in England habitual-
ly speak Of the American war.n This
sentence expresses the sentiments of an
Englishman who understands the case it
expresses still more truly the feeling of
every American who travels in England
MIR. Dicey sums up the results of the war
very sensibly. "Supposing, either from
the prospect of foreign interference, or
from internal exhaustion, that peace
should be made on the ground of each
party holding its own, the most favorable
frontier the Confederacy could claim
would only give her seven States, namely,
Virginia, the two Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Even
this would be more than she could reason
ably expect, as large sections of Virginia,
Mississippi, and Florida are occupied by
federal troops and are governed from
Washington. The Conlederacy would. in
Il 10 L.. -
tant power, hemmed in on every side by
free nation hostile to her peculiar institu-
tions. In shorter words, this two years
OF war has brought about so much, that in |
the event of disruption being carried into
effect, the dominant power in the New
World will be free and not slave one.
Ii any other wars could show as clear |
gain to humanity as is conveyed in this
simple fact, there would be less reason to
of the uselessness of bloodshed. !" |
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
Long nresses.

The "Autocrat' of the AH1nhc MonLtly
gets off the following:
"But coniound the make believe women
we have turned loose in our streets, where
do they come from Why there isn't a
beast or bird that would drag its tail,
through the dirt in the way these crea-
lures do their dresses. Because u queen
or a duchess wears long robes on great
occasions, a maid of-all work, or factory
girl thinks she must make herself a nui-
sance by trailing through the streets pick
ing up and carrying about with her-bal
that's what l call getting vulgarity into
your bones and marrow. Making believe
be what you are not is the essence of
vulgarity
Show over dirt is the one attribute of
vulgar people. If any man walk behind
one of these women, and see what she
rakes up as she goes, and not feel squeam-
ish he has got tough stomach.-I
wouldn't let one of them into my room
without serving them as David did Saul
al the cave in the wilderness-cu of her
skirts
Don't tell me that a true lady ever
sacrifices the duty'ef keeping all around
her sweet and clean to the wish of making
vulgar show. l don't believe it Of
lady.
There are something's which no fashion
has any right to touch, and cleanliness is
one of these things
If woman wishes to show that her
husband or father has got money which
she wants and means to spend, but doesn't
know how, let her buy yard or two of
silk and pin it to her dress when she goes
out to walk but let her unpin it before she
goes into the house, there may be some
poor woman that will think it worth dis
injecting,
1t is an insult to a respectable laun-
deross to carry such things into house
for her to deal with.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
Major Annie E. Jones.

Shortly after the Department of Wash
ington was formed, there appeared at the
headquarters of General Stahl n woman,
or rather a girl, her
Annie Il. Jones, and N-u pioicssed to
have just emerged from boarding school
in the good city of Boston. She was a
hippant talker, and ingratiated herself
into the favor of the general, and received
an honorary appointment as a member
of his staff, and rejoiced in the sobriquet
Of "major,n and, as "Major Jones" became
an institution in the army She ate with
the general, drank with the general, rode
with the general on all of his hazardous
forays, chatted with the general, nursed
the general when he was sick, fought the
generals battles when she heard him
aspersed by jealous understrappers, and
when night drew the starry flag over the
heavens, she slept with her beloved color
ed maid in the neat little tent which the
general had assigned to her. She thus
lived and flou 'shed. Her orders were
wont to be o ,eye', because she was re-
cognized as staff officer. She always
had the countersign, and could pass the
pickets at pleasure. She was said to be
q girl of great dash and daring, and would
frequently venture out beyond our out
posts and for days watch the movements
of the enemy and bring in whole budgets
Of information from the rebel camps as
proofs of her shrewdness. Every one
knew Major Jones officers would doff
their hats and privates would stand at a
full "presentn as she rode by in military
feminine dignity. The visiting officers
from other commands were introduced to
Annie and admired her and she reigned
supreme as the ''she major of cavalry"
When General Hooker marched into
Maryland, and Stahl was relieved, Miss
Major Annie joined her fortunes with the
yonng and gallant Custer, with whom she
remained, retaining her rank and title,
until a general order from headquarters
rendered it necessary for him to dispense
with her valuable services, and the major
was compelled to search for field Of use
fulness elsewhere For few days she
wandered about the camps, having no
particular abiding place until Colonel
Sharp, then acting provost marshal gene
raj, thought the Interests OF the services
required that she should be removed to
Washington.
Accordingly pass was granted her to
travel as far as the military railroad would
carry her, and a sergeant of the 93d New
York was detailed to accompany her, to
guurd against any accidents on the way
Arriving at Washington, she stopped at
the Kirkwood House, where / met her
some two weeks ago. was then IN route
for New York, whether she said she was
going iu the same train which was to con
vey me- She left New York the next day
since which time | had not seen or heard
from her until yesterday, wheu learned
she had again visited the army, and after
perambulating about the camps had
brought up at General Patrick's guard
house, charged with being a rebel spy,
and it is said the proofs against her are
most conclusive.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29

PHHosoPmo.-"First class in philoso-
ply, come up. Ichabod, what are the
properties of heat 2"
"The properties of heat is to bake bread,
boil water, cook eggs, and
"Stop-next. What are the properties
of heat ?"
THE properties of heat is to warm your
toes when they get cold, by holding them
to the fire, and so forth.n
"Next."
"The chief properties of heat is that
it expands bodies, when cold contracts
them.
every good Solan. Can you give me
an example ?"
eyes, sir; in summer when it is hot,
the days are long-and in winter, when it
is cold, the days get to be very short"
"Go to the head, Solan. Boys, take
your seatsn
And the learned pedagogue was lost in
the wonder that such familiar illustra-
tion had escaped his philosophic mind.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
President Lincoln.
From the Washington Chronicle.


We are not given to much laudation of
the Chief Magistrate and other rulers of
the Republic, but the following tribute to
the President, i'll a recent issue of the New
York Times, is so just that we transfer it
to our columns with the fullest endorse
ment;
Abraham Lincoln is to-day the most
popular man in the Republic. All the
denu eiations and all the arts of dema.
gogues are perfectly powerless to wean
the people from their faith in him There
is a general conviction that he is just the
man for the occasion, and it is a conyic-
tion that is constantly growing clearer and
deeper. The more experience the country
has of President Lincoln, the more he OBJ
tains its confidence. 1t would be hard to
think of two men more unlike in some of
their characteristics than the first Pre-
sident and our present one. Yet, in
general cast of mind and heart the
latter probably more nearly resembles
Washington than any of his predeces-
sors. Without anything like brilliancy
of genius, without any very great
breadth of information, or literary ac-
eomplishment or inventive power, he
still has that perfect balance Of thoroughly
sound faculties which gives an almost in
fallibly sure judgment This, combined
with great calmness Of temper great firm
ness of purpose, supreme moral principle,
and intense patriotism, makes up just that
character which fits him, as the same quail
tiles fitted Washington, for wise and
safe administration of affairs in the seas n
of great peril"
The country will some day know what
it owes to the "supreme moral principle
and intense patriotism" of the present
Chief Magistrate, and when that debt Of
gratitude is rightly appreciated, his very
name will be household word of bene-
diction and affection. Had the President
not been specially endowed with " that
perfect balance of thoroughly sound facul-
ties which gives an almost infallibly sure
Judgment the country could never have
been guided through the crisis that has
overtaken it. In no period of our history,
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
N17sF-77--77777-
A COUNTRY OF PARADOXES.

One of the most curious features of
japanese lite is the strange contrariety of
some of the customs of the people to those
of the Western nations, which is thus
pleasantly hit off by Sir Rutherford
"Japan is essentially a country Of para
doxes and anomalies, where all, even
familiar things, put on new faces, and are
curiously revered. Except that they do
not walk on their heads instead of their
feet, there are few things in which they do
not seem, by some occult law, to have been
impelled in perfectly opposite direction
and a reversed order, They write from
top to bottom, from right to left, in per-
pendicular instead Of horizontal lines, and
their books begin where ours end, thus
furnishing good examples Of the curious
perfection this rule of contraries has at
tanned Their locks, though initiated from
Europe, are all made to lock by turning
the key from left to right. The course of
all sublunary things appears reversed. n
Their day is for the most part our night,
and this principle of antagonism crops out
in the most unexpected and JiSarTe way
in all their moral being, customs, and
habits l leave to philosophers the ex-
planation-I only speak to the facts
There old men fly kites while the children
look on ; the carpenter uses his plane by
drawing it to him, and their tailors stitch
from them they mount their horses from
the off-side the horses stand in the
stables with their heads where we place
their tails, and the bells to their harness
are always on the hind quarters instead Of
the front ladies black their teeth instead
of keeping them white, and their anti
crinoline tendencies are carried to the
point of seriously interfering not only with
grace of movement, but with all locomo-
ton, SO tightly are the lower limbs, from
the waist downward, girt round with theiI
garments"
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29

not even in the Revolutionary struggle,
were such demands made upon Executive
wisdom. Thank God, the man has been
equal to the hour, and, even before his
term of Office shall expire, we anticipate
that the most cheering results will vindi-
cate, not his patriotism and integrity, for
even his worst enemies does not deny him
those virtues, but his strong, practical
good sense, his sound Judgment, and his
executive skill
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
LONDON BREAD.

London bread, Judging from the man
ner in which the bakeries are kept, can
hardly be the most palatable or the most
wholesome of food. Mr.. Tremenheere
has lately made report on the condition
Of the bakeries, which is likely to create
strong distaste against shop bread. A
London paper writing of the shop bread
says "it was prepared in loathsome, un-
derground den, reeking with filth and
vermin the hands with which the dough
was mixed were dirty and the exertion
of handling heavy masses of leavened -four
in close, unventilated bakehouse caused
the perspiration to roll off the arms and
face Of the workmen in streams into the
trough. The board on which the dough
was laid preparatory to its being fashion
ed into loaves, had served but few mo-
ments before, with filthy sack thrown
over it as a temporary couch of journey
man baker, to whom personal ablution
was a stranger" To fill up this picture
of horrors, there is one bakehouse at the
West End in which the space between the
kneading-trough and the wall was used
for nameless purpose.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
0ournaI amu @tattsmran
wILMINGrON, DEL,
Tuesday Morning, September 20, 1858

Bolts and Potts.
ny THE BARD cF TOWER HALL
Young Nimrod Potts
Loved Sally Bolts,
damsel pretty, plump, and prudent
Miss Bolts made Bonnets
And Potts made sonnets
Likewise of law he was student.
While Sally slept,
Poor N nrod wept,
Nor could his strenade awake her;
And he suspected
She was affected
More favorably to Stubbs, the baker
John Stubs prevailed
Where Nimrod failed,
Because The former did not daily
He-without stopping,
The question popping
Soon won the heart Of charming Sally.
In all things thus,
1t seems TO us
Success attends the man that's speedy;
So haste this hour
To BGNNETT's Tower,
If you observe your coat looks seely.
The largest and most complete assortment Of
Clothing in Philadelphia, selling at
reduced prices.
TOWER HALL,
No. 515 MARKET Street,
BENNETT g. Co.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-29
FIRST LESSON AT THE RIDING
SCHOOL

The next day the victim will arrive at
the school-a large barn-like building
and will find several other victims, old and
young, undergoing tuition from their
riding a man in boots, with limbs
of steel and lungs of brass, who stands in