The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-08-31

ESS A good TREND wrote US the
other day, and asked us to tell him all
about Winchester, about Franklin
county. and about the State of Tennos.
see. And we wrote him, substantially,
in this wise: Winchester is almost like
it was When you left here many years
ago, except that upon the outskirts of
the town are now to be seen a number
of nice residences occupying ground
which was devoted to corn-fields and
grass when you left. Our Square is
the most unattractiye part of our
town, and, as a reader of the Home
Journal, you will generally know
where improvements have been made.
But the site Of the town is the same
beautiful one-commanding a prospect
that ought TO make even an anchorite
a poet and a happy man. byron, in
all his travels, never looked upon any
land more beautiful than %this-upon
any mountain more beautiful than the
grand old Cumberland that towers far
above US only six or eight miles dis.
tant. And we are sure lie never drank
any purer water than gushes forth from
a thousand gentle hillsldes all over our
county. Besides, here we have no fear
of epidcmics or dreadful diseases. The
God Of Nature seems to have favored
us in our poverty. He has given us
beautiful scenery and pure water in
abundance. but denied us the wealth of
dollars and cents. We are not a rich
people in the last respect. And yet,
there is less suffering here, perhaps,
than in any county Of equal population
in the State. And this year we have
made a splendid crop Of wheat and a
splendid crop Of corn. Nevertheless,
times cannot get much better, iinan-
cially, under the internal policy OF con-
traction which tue Federal Government
has adopted, in order to please the
bondholders and bankers. Despite the
fine wheat and corn crops, and an av-
crage crop Of fruit, you can buy real
estate IN our county at less than one
third its value before and just after the
war. The truth is, real estate is not
in the market at all, and collection Of
debts goes on with a vim which will
enable capitalists to ruin the best men
in our country. Heaven only knows
where this will stop. The only hope
we have is in the election of represen-
~tatives to Congress who will give us
more currency--men who think like
Hon. John NJ. Bright, our present
member from this district. This con
traction Of the currency was q great
wrong, and now number of respccta-
BILE people, forgetting that two wrongs
do not make y right, are ready to pro-
claim for Reputation. But this dis
grace we are sure will never be tasten
cd upon u people. The fatal mis-
take OF Mississippi will ever rise, like
the ghost of Banqno, to deter any such
terrible resort. We, who reason more
calmly, propose to elect a Legislature
that will tax the people just enough to
carry on the necessary expenses OF the
State Government, aud we will say to
the bondholders Sirs, we owe you
and intend to pay you; but, We cannot
psy now. You see that it is harder Tor
rs to pay cven one-half now than to
have paid dollar for dollar in more
prosperous times. You must wait on
US, aud it may he easier for us to pay
YOU dollar for dollar with interest add
ed ten years hence, than to pay you tit-
ty cents Oh tue dollar now. But we in
tend to pay you've do not intend to
repudiate, it Your debt against US is an
honest one. You yourselves constl-
tute a part of the people, and you
bought your bonds at low rates. You