The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-12-01

J fathers fought, the friends of constitu
tional liberty would have reason 70 re-
joice.
. But read the following extract from
his letter under the caption Of
WINCHESTER.
"This is a pleasant little town OF
some twelve hundred inhabitants. 1t
is neither rich nor fast, but simply
slow, quiet, attractive and pretty. All
the enterprise within the corporate
limits might be consolidated and made
useful in running saw-mill, without
any danger that the saw-mill would
run too fast Flom year to year and
from decade to decade, the town
changes in appearance very little. o.
casionally on old house disappears and
a new one grows up by insensible de-
grees on its site. but there is no rapid
expansion of the corporate limits, i'm
mense fuctuaton of town property,
wild speculations in corner lots, and so
on, as is frequently the case in the
West. If the town does not grow, the
citizens comfort themselves with the
thought that it holds its own magnili
Gently, which it does. When man
dies who has spent the good portion
of his lifetime here, he is consoled in
his last days by the reflection that his
property is worth as much as when he
bought it.
"But the pride of Winchester is in
her schools, and deservedly so. There
are two female colleges here which will
rank with any in The South. Scholars
attend from nearly all the Southern
States, and the annual examinations,
which take place in June, are largel,
attended by the relatives OF the stu
dents from the South. and by the pub
lie generally, who take an interest in
educational matters. Winchester has
two great holidays, one in June at the
annual examination, and the other in
December, at vacation.
"Taken all and all, heaven and per-
dition are about as thoroughly mixed
here as in other parts of this unac-
countable and mysterious world. Ia
king the number CT inhabitants into
consideration, there are no better
schools nor more regularly attended
churches in the State than in Wlnches-
ter, nor more groceries. The church
es and groceries are both numerous,
and both we'll patronized. Or the lat
ter there are five. That does pretty
we'll for tcYn Of twelve hundred in
babit.nts. But seriously. it is strange
tL:t place that depends almoet en-
ti.ely ro- its vitality upon female
sci ools, should tolerate SO large num-
Der of gcog shops.
1.-TWO large female colleges, repre-
senting two of the principal religious
denominations Of the country: and five
groceries, in one little town of twelve
hundred inhabitants, should moi
think would 60 well together. Tha'
so many groS-shops are nuisance
|, (some people thinl: that one is, car
hardly be denied, but how is tho
f nuisance to be abated9 1t can not b'
done, and the coed people of Win
f chester, who take pride in her schools
and regularly attend her churches, will
have to take the evil with the good. !
r is ever so in this world. There was
3 proposition up before the late Consti
tutional Conyentionto GLOW every in
corpora;ed town to vote upon the ques
= ton as to whether they would alloS
D tippling or not, but the proposition
' failed, as has every other Temperance
D move ever attem pted to be naugurata'
in this State. The world IS given t.
:. the pleasures of the cup, and the onl.
e remedy is John Bishop Halls earth
l. quake and general wipins out of th
4 entire human race. q
"The bar of Winchester is an abb
: one, and has been for thirty years
a There is no town in the State OF 1t
IS size that can come up to it in this pei
i ticular. Within the past year 1t ia
a given tia State a Supreme Judge an
u this division a Chancellor Hon. A
d S. Colyar, recent candidate for Cove
e nor, is a Winchester man. In the pas
u its bar has been as famous as now, an
{ the young men coming on will haV
ID to burn coal oil. over Blackstone
. maintain its ancient reputation"
10 STEVENSON HOTEL.-We had occ'
a sion to spend night at Stevenson
&c short time ago, and, of course, mac
=. the arnnaintance of Mr.. VanHOrn, u