The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1864-11-22
EditoriA! Brevities.


''u'eu'es tue late election stain ia the North.
ana shows how Lincoln's satanic tool, Seward.
worked the wires. FIRST, he cuItiyat.s n manic
oy reported rebel raids to come from Causd,
winch makes the foolish people welcome the
presence ol the military, and hen he sentenc.s
To imprisonment for lie At hard labor" two
Ne"'oc'auc state agents, a. a warming TO all
'"e rest who have hccm engaged in collecting
'otes Tor Mcclellan. How thankful We shou,1
'e That we have escaped all political and social
connectI"" with the people who submit to such
tyranny.
Under The act of February IL, 1854, (says
the Columbia GWdrdian,) there hav. been re.
e'ulted Ia this state, up tn the frs, of Novem.
oer' 1881 men, AS follows: Accepted tor
he'd service, s,ii4; Tor light duty, ,by4 vol.
u"teers; 66S. The rIemptions for tn, ssme
period amount TO 1851 OF which numt.er p
sSs were tor physical disability aud S.u43 ior
other causes. We are indebted 70 the courtesy
ot DIR. ,, Oiin Dauney, Che. Surgeon, tor
these figures.
A Scotch blacksmith being asked the mean-
ing OF metaphysics, explained as follows: "WLeu
party that listens dlsna ken what III, party
who speaks ueans, aud the patty who speaks
d's"a Ken what he Inraus hnscii-that is met
sphysicS.'
Ihc days OF cavsy charges, suci as were
mauc hy Aurat. h,lEaud and others under Ma.
po.eom, atc probably "umhere... cavalry waul
r,s T., ,,, ;tL al.
pea At long rang. rrted musket-, 10 cavalry
could moNc " c!.i. <. .oN,r any great eSten, OF
oi.cm sr""ud. In N.poisou, days IL only re.
q"rcI uas. OF u lr.nIrcl 90 hundred osL
ht'y >~'I-, ";Ich was.hc pr.ct,caI h,yt OF the
eiicr"mL rang. ot the uu-k,'s then ia use-
T"s space could Le rHpi9ly uAyctsed, but the
Case Is di!icI"ut nhciI infantry are armed with
"eapo"s oi shrce times the effective range Of
those OF iorner days. A column of cavalry is
shattered before it eau deliver its charge.
lhe Washington correspondents Of several
Journals assert that eilorts arc De,ng made to
iduce Lincoln ~ send Commissioners u Rich.
mond To sound the .ulhoIiiic. Oh the .ubtect
oi peace.
Private \. d. Otto aud Georgs. Shre~ith, OF
Company Il, Lucas BalLallai,, WHO were con
victei oi descrsou by general court martial,
were shot To death with muskctry OH ames,
Island last Friday forenoon.
Yankee paper estimates that over City
Thousand negroes have pe'ished Of starvation
ead misery IA ths Department ot New Orleans
alone, wIt,in tie past two yea,s OF freedom.
The Washington government has received
information that Capt Se,nmcs has gone to
take charge OF the sea Kng. a large staunch
screw steamer, built at GIa-go~ in lsda
The Yankees are running, plIlaging and burn.
ing the county toe miles around Atlanta. Ia
Dekaib County, a short time ago, they seized
Eve negro women, and in the yard. ia the pres
encc oi the white family. several OF whom were
grown females, they violated their persons. In
one neishborhood ia the same county, they
violated the persons OF SIX respectable ladies.
The Information OF these crimes come To the
Columbus Sun from q source not to be ques-
tioned for IN ,inent.
The Republicans have discovered a tremen-
dous conspiracy 10 destroy Chicogo. by escaped
prisoners trom camp Douglas. Large quaint.
lies Of arms in the house oi rebel sympathisers.
Several hundred citizens have been. ARE sted.
including Gen. Marlnadukes broth er.
The human pulse has in every age been con.
sulteI - an index Of heath or disease. The
pulse of person In health beats about seventy
times minute. aud the ordinary term Of lille is
about seventy years. stimulating liquors, or
food INDUCED intemperstely, crowd thssnslural
puisatoa into half their period Of years, conse-
Quebtiy lie becomes extinct al forty or forty
five. when tsmPe' ate habits would have exten.
ded u 70 much greater period
General Logan, formerly a Western member
Of Congress, but recently ia cainmaud Of the
| 18th corps OF the Ysnkee army, has beea sp
pointed 70 the command of Atlanta, and de.
, olaTed military Governor Of Georgia, by Abra.
ham Lincoln. His governments bids fair TO be
as unsubstantisi ss that Of the redoubted Sancho
I Psnss, over the .pocrypIal isl.nd OF Bsrs.sri..