The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-11-03

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home from Mexico, at the expense of the
public treasury, the remains OF her slain,
and deliver them TO their respective families.
1t is her sacred, her parental duty, to ;io this.
She must do more: her intrepid sons who
have fallen in battle have left to her as their
common mother, the fame OF their deeds
and memories 1t is IL noble legacy, and
must be preserved forever. Let u marble
monument be erected i'll front OF the State
House, ON which the name and rank OF
each: and the day and spot on which lie lel',
shall be engraved that i'll all time to come
they may be known. Thus not only will
her heroic deal be honorcd, but her youth,
i'll every generation, going up there 10 read
the immortal register. shall be filled with
the inspiring hope Of placing their own
names upon it. l.YcCRGUs.
Posr OFFICE EXrENsEs.-lt is recorded
that the earliest posts in this country, were
established by William Penn in l6GS, and
it was not till twenty or thirty years after
that any more general system was thought
Of Franklin, the first general deputy post
master Of the colonies, was appointed in
1853, with salary between him and his
confederate of G0OI, " if they could get it,"
Frankl lin made such effort to improve the
condition oflhe office, that he brought him
sciiin debt of 930I, instead Of gaining his
share Of the 6OOi Through his cxcr,lons,
! however, letters, which used 10 take six,
were passed from Phla:lcl phia 10 Boston in
three ccks- AT that time there We're only
sixty post offices in the whole United States.
In l79G, there were but scvcnty-fivc, with
1915 miles of post routes, aud nett total
revenue Of So ,Gl7, Of which Philadelphia
contributed one-lo,rth. In 1913, il took
forty days TO write from Portland, (Maino,)
TO Savannah, (Gcorgia,} and receive an
answer; in 1918, twenty days: III 1899,
twelve days. In l7GS; lhiriy-two days be-
tween rhiladrl phia and lexington; Ill 1910;
sixteen days in 1890, eight days. In 1898
there were nine persons employed in the
General Post Office in 1916 fifteen per-
sons; in 1899, one hundred. In 1893 tho
number of post Offices was 1853; tho
amount of postage, 5l,235,077; miles of
pos;-roadS, l34,SlS. In the year ending,
June, 1876, according to the last annual,
Report of the Postmaster Gcucral, there
were l4.o6o post Offices, the mail was
am"nn,;nr to- ~ aSS az rQ",ef, distance
pcnsc Of s2,665, ,07S.-Boslon Jourual
TIE LEpEIos IN MExlco.-This class
of vagabonds, corresponding very nearly to
the M-=~romi Of Naples, is extremely nu
merous in Mexico. Ward estimated the
number in the city as high as twenty thou
sand in 1923, and their number is probably
t much larger now. The recent excuses
committed by them are by no means unex-
, pectcd; the true character Of the wrctches
r and The necessity Of keeping them continu-
ally Under military restraint, have long
been known.
t Intelligent foreigners living in Mexico,
} and men of property there, have long feared
this Identical calamity. AS at present in
r formed, we are willing TO believe that the
, destruction Of property by them has been
very grea;-probabIy the Mexican cstim tie
: Of two or three millions lost may not be ex-
, aggcrated, but we are not at al! prepared to
, believe that General Scott has sustained
f any such loss rs is pretended nor, upon the
evidence advanced, do we think that he
, probably bombarded the capital after Santa
: Anna abandoned it, He would avoid such
, n measure if he could possibly do so.
5 We have seen some late speculations in
t the public prints about the re-inforcemcnls
which have been sent or are en- route for
: General SCOTS col umn. Without under
taking to be very precise as 10 the numbers,
we think we may venture to state, from the
, data which we have seen, that, without
counting General Pierce's detachment,
which has actually joined Gen. Scott, but
counting in Major Lallys corps, the re-E-
! iorccments destined to join him can scarcely
fall short Of sixteen thousand troops; and
; this, too, independent Of the two new regi-
ments which have just been called into SER
vice. The whole column of Gen. Scott in
the field, when collected togother-and this
operation was rapidly advancing to its full
ma,unty-will give him from twenty-five
thousand to thirty thousand, and. nearer the
: last number than the first, and perhaps even
exceeding it =,
The Baltimore Clipper of this morning
makes some allusons to the last rumor