The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-18

Orr TowN-SuAIL IT PRosPER.-We
,lo earnestly desire the town of WidchcS-
ter to prosper. Such desire is born OF L
uublic spirit within us, and what we are
roing to say will be for the good of the
whole regardless Of consequences to our
self.
Now, Winchester is an old town, and Il
larger town than many at 4 distance sup
nose It to be. Winchester has IL character
abroad as II place Of education. 1t follows,
then, that we should be governed by
sound and efficient Municipal law, so as
20 attract strangers and give Il feeling OF
security to residents. Neither OF the two
requisites mentioned are secured under
our present Municipal management we
have II Board of Aldcrmen-clcvcr, high
toned and prominent men, and we would
say no word to give them offence. We
have Il most worthy gentleman for Mayor,
and TO him we mean no offence. TO none
uf them do we mean offence when we say
that the present Municipal management
of Winchester is Il perfect farce. We DO
not blame them, for they are servants Sc
lcc,cl by the will of those who are I'M
willing to pay them anything for their
labor. if they were to perform any. Here
in /, potcnt the Righteousness Of the free
1oayd effort last year. To expect Alder
men and Mayor to meet weekly or BIZ
monthly to attend to public affairs ana
charge nothing is the height of cupidlonS
s~plishncss. They will not do it, and no
reasonable person can blame them. How
does it stand. We have a Beard, but so
far into the year 1873 we might as well
have had none. We are not abiding now
TO the abscncc0f gravel upon our dusty
streets. or the want of ditching and drain
are, &c, and which want will be sorely
felt within a few wccks-nOthin9 OF this.
We merely wish to notice that the Corpo-
rate laws under which Winchester could
and ought to prosper, amount to Il mere
farce. Nobody. except law-abiding men,
cares a farthing for them, save now and
then some poor devil who is too poor to
litigate and is ignorant of the general dis
rcpute attaching. Such a lily is taken up
and fined. but The hornet breaks through
with ease.
plants from different substantial citizens
of Winchester, in regard to the conduct
of Young men who belong to what we call
"rcspcctablc families" They get togcth-
or. drink. and, being excited by drink,
conclude to 80 OH a bum" They feel
brave and fearless. They shout and sing,
and think themselves entitled to especial
ptiyilcgcS-cycn to shooting their unl,w-
fully-carricd pistols and breaking in
to houses. They disturb the sleeping
public with their orgies, and concoct all
sorts of plans to keep up the fun they went
out in search OF. Suppose, now, we had Il
night oiliccr-one who, for u fair salary
would patrol the whole town-onc brave
enough, at the risk of his life, to ferret
ont these disturbers of the peace-do you
not Eno,c that very soon we should have
u general prosperity? Most assuredly
Peace and health arc what people gener'
ally seek VINO come 10 "llchcs'ci' p"'
peace they can ncvcrg get under the prescn'
regime.
some one may ask why the Town Con
stable docs not attend to these nigh
mauradcrs. We'll, sir. the Tow ConstL
bic can very justly be excused. lie get
about enough OF "A salary to pay for til
flour he may use in one year, and to cx
meet him to he on hand night and da,
would be to expect him to -tarye his fam
ily and himself. II the Corporate authori
ties will meet and take vigorous measure
for the abatement of these nuisanceS, b,
appointing some efficient and bold man II
night policeman. we Will not near th'
complaints We do.