The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1865-11-11
News of the Week.

4 INC OiSElCbs give lne siQN.-s JSues IL oIC, ior
Governor, about 500 votes over Gen. Wade
Hampton,
President ) ohnson has appointed the
first Thursday in December as day Of
national Thanksgiving for the blessings
of peace sud civil liberty, and aversion
from tie .calamiies of foreign war, pes
thence and famine.
1t is reported on reliable authority that
the President contemplates committing
the sentence of Captain Wirz to impris
onment for life.
General Joseph E. johnson has been
appointed President of the Nation al Elk,
press Compsuy, recently organized in
Richmond, Va. . - ..E
Havana advices confirm the mutiny at
Jamaica. Many revolving murders Of
the whites had taken place and great
alarm prevailed.
Information has been received at the
Freedr:en's Bureau, Washington, from
the Chief Medical Officer in charge of
the freedmen in Alabama, that the small
pox IS raging all through The State, aud
although every precau,ion has been ta-
ken to prevent its spreading, rew cases
are appearing daily, and probably will
continue to do so through the winter.
Private letters from western Texas say
the Confederates who went to Mexico
when the Trans Mississippi army surreu.
dered are returning. disgusted with the
Mexicans. a
Secretary Seward has notified Cover
nor Johnson, Of Georgia, that the Pres
dent cannot recognize the peopl g Of any
State as having resumed its relations of
loyalty to the Union that admits as legal
Obligations contracts or debts created in
their name 10 promote the war Of rebelI
ion. 'a.s"' "sH .'.
Col. James Farrow, Of Spartan burg,
!hss been pardoned by tho President. 1t
has been generally supposed that all the
members of,iha South Carolina Conven.
ton were pardoned; bu! this is a mis-
take, as exceptions were made in several
cases.-Ph@air. ..t...r
Emerson E,heridge has been acquitted
Of the charges preferred against hrm be-
fore the Military Commission at Colum.
bus, Ky, and is now at his home in
Dresden, Tennessee.
WAsHINGTos, Nov. 2-The Cabinet
is getting close upon a unit in support Of
the Presidents policy Of reconstruction.
Those who have superior means of
knowing at the War OI.ca, state that
Mr.. Stanton NAV leave the Cabinet very
soon. Sharp diteren ces between himself
and the President are not favorable to
his remaining with honor.
The proposals for mail service In the
States of Virginia, West Virginia. North
Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, to
commence on the first day Of January next,
were this morning opened in the contract
Office OF the Post Office Dcparlna On [, accor.
ding TO law. The mum Der is comparatively
few, surprisingly so when it is considered
that large proportion Of this service is for
mail transportation 80 near here. Some
two hundred of .he most extensive routes
are already in operation, and Offices are
being daily re opened at the depot.
The receipts from iIternal revenue yes
terday. amounted to s2,lo0,S35,7l.
Hon. James L. Orr. Governor elect OF
Sou.h Carolina, was parGoned some
weeks ago, but as that State Las rot re.
pudiated the rebel debt, she has failed
to prepare herself for official recognition
as State loyal to the Union.