Smyrna times., 1865-06-21
Written for the "Smyrna Time. :
A Home Missionary Wanted

"l>SlOnhTR wanted.
Some readers of the Smyrna 7"u.s may .av
we had enough on this topic last week ami
too much on any subject, even THOUGH il l,. d,
good one. is diStantcful But | think much
more can yet be said than has b, IN and Iwi,I
that some one more competent than Iny.,lI
would take the matter in hand and bIina it L..
lore the community arraycd i'll all it's inter-.
ting cOlOrI
have tor some time past felt SO deeply sh,,
necessity OF something being done, for the IT,
formation Of those Immoral ones, who in I.,n
don lhrasc0logy, are termed City .ir0Ls
that | could not refrain any longer from taking
an humble part in bringing before the colnmna
nifty an idea, which if carried out would sue
cesstuly cOunteract much Of the evil of which
We complain.
A number of our citizens, (propcrty holder
have been annoyed for many years on occount
ofthc frequent dcpredatiOns committed on their
mtenantCd houses For the last four years,
the civil war that has ragged in our country,
has called off a number Of our inhabitants, both
white and colOred, who were the usual ocru
pants of small tencments. The population be
ing thined on this account, many houses for
; mcry occupied by good tenants, and yielded =
good income to their owners, were left tenant
less. And who that has owned any such, vii!
not say, that it was utterly impossible to Keep
them either locked, or nailed up? When the
dark mantle Of night was spread over our town.
the ucDICUaCOfS SClZcu tIG opportunity, DGOk''
the locks OF the doors, Opened the Windows,
broke the sashes, and tore down parts vi the
interior building. When a house becomes va
, cant, one of the first things that is done, is to
throw stones at the second story windows, and
break out all the glass. This ugly ASPECT serves
as a sign to let the dtmnrallzcd know there l.
i no nhabitant there Then the work Of de
! motion begins, and in the course Of few
weeks, the house is partially destroyed. NJ
fastening can secure it, and no ownership l.
sacred, if it only be found i'll a retired street,
or little out of town.
t The same kind Of depredatiofts are commit
e ted on fencing around gardens and lots and
! whose vision has not been Disguised. by the
4 ragged appearance Of pale enclosures, made -
+ by the destructive hands of those who are =
I disgrace to a civilized community?
n Perhaps some laay say, and what has all this
h to DO with Home Missionary? Would itn9t
: be more expcdicnt for TIE civil authorities to
; take such III hand, and deal with them accor-
a ding to law? As it regards legal proceeding
l. the great difficulty i, to find prootagainat those
It outlaws. They take the hour of darknesa,
T., when deep sleep talcth upon the law abiding
II citizen. As We have no watchnen, they vlo-
e late its solemn hours with impunity.
r Now what cannot be done by law in such
It cases can be effected by faithful Missionary.
y BY his efforts they can be found preached 70,
% and caught i'll the gospel net: " hat the ""
in such cases fails to accomplish, the gosl"t l.
adcduatc to effect. All those diaholical ,rt-
= originate in the heart And when those heart
, that prompt men to such proceedings are chan
ii gcd We will here no more complaints OF houses
Is being demolished, or the torch applied to bull
,e dings by their hands.
is A YANKEE NoIIoN.-Dr. Dio Lewis. the
latest apostle Of Gymnastics, is the principal "t
lie what we may perhaps term Hygelnlc Educa-
+ tional Seminary for Young Ladies' at Licking
Nybn Ibaolnra
le Weld is one of his associates. We hear that,
c. at recent closing examination at this seminary,
W one of the exercises I'VE may so characterize
le it, consisted ofa careful measurement Of the
10 waists ofthe pupils respectively and u com
n parson of the result in each instance with a
at record preserved of similar measurement at
De the opening of the term, showing an average
40 net gain OF q inches in circumference since the
c. lst of October last. Some girls who entered
upon the term invalids had meantime been
ed trained to walk ten miles without fatigue
an while their intellectual progress had kept full
It. pace with their physical. \ veteran graduate
u, OF Harvard declared that he had never Ilstcnt
he to Latin recitations at that renowned nvcr>i-
de ty equal TO those of the girls at Lexington.
Ia The subject of Physical Educatiou-or rath-
X er, of the simultaneous and symmetrical dcycl-
IA opment of the intellectual and ph. ~ical pow
or ers-justly commands increased attention. Yet
IL the interest taken in it Is by no means - gen
'o- day is not remote when to educate the brain
W and neglect the muscles Will be deemed as mis-
he taken and absurd as to provide schools for 2
IA part of our youth and insist that the residue
ne shall have no public teaching whatever.
tor tor Mrs. SIGorRNEY.-Lylia Iuntly Sigour.
M ney, pOctcSs of reputc, died last week at hrl
Of residence in Hartford, Connecticut. She va
es born at Norwich, September LIST, 419l, So thai
pse she was nearly seventy -four years of age. Sh,
IN, Y. !
lie when only l9 years old. Afterwards She re-
,sc moved to Hartford, where she also opened
oh school. In 1915 she published her first book
Ses with the title of . Moral Pieces in Prose and
,ro Verse" In 1919 she was married to Charlie,
~, ~ SicOurney a merchant of Hartford. She ha,
rS' published forty or fifty Volumes the most in
~ tcresting being an account of visit to Europc
in 1910, called Pleasant Memories of Pleas
NJ, SAINT Lands. Her poems arc graceful pro
"s ductOns, and full of generous and pioss feel
ing, but none of them of much force.
THE PROVISIONAL Governor or GEORGIA
james johnson, who has been appOintcC
Provisional Governor of Georgia by the PreSi
dent is resident of Columbus in that State
and was formerly Democratic member of Con
grcss. From 1851 to 1858, at the time tha
President johnson was in the House. GoSern
or johnson is indorSed by the most reliable
Union men in Georgia as one who never swcr
we'd from the faith, and who has borne man.
prosecutions because OF his | mon sentiments
The eight Union men of the Georgia dclcra
tion here are perfectly satisfied with the selec
ton Gov. johnson is a native of North Car
olina, but no relation to the President.
BY far the most important event which ha
yet occurred in the way of Church rceonStruc
,v ton in the South is the recent organization @
on- an Annual Conference of the Methodist Eps
IN coral Church in Fast Tennessee. Bishop Clarl
Of having constituted the Conference by the trans
.t % fer of six ministers from Conferences "t th'
a de Ioval States. admitted into il no less than T.
I'M ms ministers from the Southern Methodist Church
.ed ea The new Conference starts with the member
ed, shin of 4, 49i. and has preachers stationed il
lcre Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. A
IN ,br ministers accepted in the most explci
terms the rigid anti-Slavery rule of the Metho
AM" anu dist Episcopal Church.
the Vallandigham says without slavery the South
ats. ern States will become more pOpulous, pro.
gal porous and powerful than any other section.
If he believed SO, why did he fight so strongl
,ost in favor of continuing slavery? Nallandighan
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