The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1864-01-13
Editoria. Brevltles.

. Ia our future people will meet to talk
only of what they have done for the sausr,
aud many a son and many daughter sur
rounded by wealth viii! envy those who's.
fathers have left them no legacy but life
made useful and death made glorious, in
the achievement, of our liberty and indepsA.
dspce.
More than 10000 Africans have psrishsd
in Memphis and It's visiniiy under the treat
msnt of tioir Yankee bsne efactors. The
negro has become a pest TO every newly
formed Yankee community in the Valley Of
the Mississippi. Liberated slaves have ever.
run the North. western States. Every where
they are Instances, and every where are ha-
ted, despissd, ma!rsatsd, and consigned to
filthy hospitals or left to pifer or s,arrs.
The Nswburyport Herald says it has 20
liable information that there are in The Brit.
ish provinces at least forty thousand men
who have deserted from the United States
service. IL ~ probable that there are at
least as many moro in those provinces who
have fled lhilhcr 10 avoid The \ ankee drafts
and If to these Le added the number who
have deserted and come o"sr 10 our lines,
the probability is thai The whole number Of
Yankee dsserters and fugi,ivss from the
draft would exceed the force Of soy army in
the field.
Psrsons writing to soldiers or sendisg
them papers, should pre- pay the postage
Over 300 letters Ter soldiers, besides a
large aumSsr Of papers, Oh which the pos
tngs had not been pre- paid, were remai.ing
in the army post office on tho Gr.t Of Jsnu-
ary.
The Yankee papers ssy that the CAoo.
law chief MsCurtnin, has declared for
peace, says his trihs i. for peace, aud asks
for sn interview with the Yankee General
AcNsill.
A writer n a Richmond paper proposes
that the govsrDsnent possess itself with all
the gold and silver plate in the country for
tie use Of tho treasury, aud 10 serve ss n
pasis oI DctteF eurTency.
The present Congrs.s expires On the
18th of February. Proposition. invs been
made to assemble The new Congress a.
sosn as the old ono expires, but 90 final
xstion has been had.
Gen. Joseph T.. Jshnston has issusi sa
order transferring ths command Of the AR
my Of the Mississippi to 1t. Gen Polk.
w. b. Ryls, Of Wilkinson, Cs Ga, .
few days ago slaughtered y hog which
weighed, II grsss, eleven hundred sad
twssty nine pounds.
A Pos, Ofiss has been established for
the special asc % M odstisn Of the army un-
der General Johnstos, to which all mail
matter for suy division Of the army should
be addressed. The Office 10 intended ~ So
moved with The armv and 10 remain in sp.
GRAFTON so lsng ss the present organization
10 maintained.
A college student being examined in
Locke, whore he speaks Of osr relations 10
the Deity, ~ss asked, "Nsst relations do
~s most neglect = when he answered, with
much simplicity, "Posr relations, sir"
In the present condition Of the sountry.
says an exchange paper, which is already
suffering from a deficiency Of producers
and masufaeiursrs. the great SiaIeulty bs.
ing to feed and eloihs those VINO are al
ready in the army, il 10 impossible 10 con.
csivs matdsr project than 10 make sell
diers efthe entire popuIaiion.
The Ashsrills N. C News, Of the 24:h
ul.., says tho Yankee, lately in Clay and
Cherokee counties in that State seem TO
have gone out at the same hole through
which they come In, first doing, however, a
considerable amount Of misshi.f, pillagisT,
Plundsnns and burning, Yankee like. Tn.y
robbed the .hsriG OF Clay county Of all lie
sensy in hi. possession. and thsn destroyed
oil his papers. They destroyed all the corn
and bacon ,hst they couldn't est.
W. lssrn that enc Of our Confederate
Quartsru'asters has bean disc s~ered to bs
dsfaultsr ia the small SUN Of ss 900 900.
The Legislature Of Alabama, at its re-
cent session. passed n stringent law with
reference TO the preservation OF the writ Of
habess corpus invioIabls. II gives citizens
no right which they did not posses before
under the sanction Of the law, but in this
era when seIns Legislators manifest dispo.