The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1864-07-12
Editoria! Brevltles.

promoted 10 the vavaut Lieutenant Gener-
alship in the army of Tennessee, occasion
ed By the death of the lamented General
Polk.
The Richuond Sentinel, Of the "a ins,
concludes lengthy editorial on the war as
follows: "The Southern skies, we repeat ,
are growing brighter Have patience. A
few more efforts "a. little while longer Of
suffering and deprivation, and go sure as
there is just Providence ruling the affairs
Of men, our independence will be achieved,
peace restored to our land, and the now
desolate homes of our people be again the
abodes Of plenty and hospitality.
CENTRAL BUREAU, CoLUMBlA.-Cars will
be despatched for Lees and Beaurcaatd's
armies July l5; for Johnston's army, July
l9. Address NJ. IaBorde, Chairmcn, Co.
lumbia, &C.
A new conscript denounces the colscrip-
ton uct rs "a relic Of the barbarous ages"
from the fact tnat he has been drawn in
Atlanta and quartered at Dalton.
The happicst augury Of peace, (says the
Mobile Register) which the telegraph wires
have flashed to us for two years, is the nc.
tion of the Democratic Conventions oc Ken
lucky, Ohio and llliLois. They have sent
delegates to the National Convention, with
instructions to vote for peace platform
framed upon the principles Of Long 3
speech.
In the recent cavalry fights in Virginia,
when the Yankees found they would be
captured, they cut the throats of their hor-
SEES and destroyed them.
Information has been received that a
Yankee fleet OF gunboats and Monitors is
ready and about to sail from New York TO
attack Mobile.
The Confederate States steamer Atlanta
was launched at Montgomery last Saturday
The boat cost Sl25,OOO, and 100000 feet
0: timber were used in her contradiction
Her length is l65 feet, her extreme breadth
40 feet, and her carrying capacity about sos
tons. The Atlanta is the second largest
gunboat ever built at Montgomery. Her
machinery is ready, ard will be put on in n
few days.
Who are the happiost men They who
live To benefit others-who are always
ready with II word to encourage, smile to
cheer, look to persuade, and a dollar to
assist
Gen. Johnston is represented Gays. the
Caroinidn) as having Withdrawn his army
from lis late position with 50 much dcib
Grafton that not even an old bucket was
lost From the beginning to the end OF
the campaign, he has played the game oi
war as cool!y as if he were seated at Il
chess. board. This last move, We think
will be hisF final one-his next will be tu
deliver battle upon the banks Of the Chatta,
hoochee, # Sherman should dare to take
up the gage he will there throw down
Gen. Johnston has issued n strict order
in which he forbids all sui ordinate com
mnnders 70 give any data TO repQJlers anC
correspondents. a staff officer will visi
the correspondents aud inform them that il
they do no, desist from giving exaggerated
accounts of small affairs, or the details o.
operations, they will be excluded from ia,
lines, il non combaiants. The Memphi,
appeal considers this order right and pro
per and sees in it, besides, valuable aux
iliary to the editorial fraternity, in saving
10 il tiIhe now lost in pursuing and sitting
long winded communications.
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