The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-02-07
News Summary.



The Missouri Senate has voted to make
habitual ih.empetance for one year
good cause for divorce.
The longest word in Eliot's Indian Bi
bic is in Mark, l; 10, Wuueppesi,,uk-
qn'sunnoowoh.unkquah, and signifies
"kneeling Gown to him."
The next session Of the General Con
ference of,hs Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, will be held in New Orleans on
the first Wednesday 10 April next.
In Alabama, this week, a law goes in
to effect prohibiting any person Of color
from owning or carrying firearms, under
a penalty Of three months imprisonment,
and 500 Zoe.
The Vieksburg Herald strongly urges
the re.sssembling Of the Convention of
the State OF Mississippi. and there are in,
dica'io"s that Judge Yerger, its Presi
ueht, IaVora X.
The North Carolina Legislature has
passed bill TO punish horse stealing. Il,
provides that the thief shall receive one
or more public whipping, for the fist
offence. and be hung for the second.
The United States Direct Tax on Real
E'ta'e is now being collected in Mecksn.
burg county, n. =. The tax is eighty
cents on the 500 value of all land. in
the county, and the valuation Of 1860 is
taken as the standard.
The Greeuville Mountaireer reports
three homicides in that District last week.
Thieving Of bacon, horses, and ar,i,les Of
Isss value, is common almos, everywhere.
Lave the guilty clear idea Of the road
they are ,ravellingi Justice will surely
overtake them.
We understand that Gessral Saxton
has been relieved from the command of
his Department Of the Fre-dmen', Bureau:
and that General G.rdner, a man far
more acceptable to the people Of the
south and especially Of South Carolina,
has been appointed.
Gensial Sickles, Comnanding Depart,
msnt Of Sou,b Catolina, has prescribed
regulation. directing tha, all laws shall
be applicable alike to all the inhabitants;
no person. shall 10 held incompetent to
sue. make complaint, or testify, because
Of color or caste.
A series Of -d;torisls, said to have been
written by the late rebel Governor Ma
grath. at the instance Of General Sickls,
and urging that The success Of the Con
federacy would have been misfortune to
the South, have been published in ore of
the Charleston papers, and created con
siderable comment.
The Houston (Texs.) Telegraph say. ::
It 's amusing 10 notice the rivalry among
the negroes 10 obtain employ ment rom
emigrants from tho North, who are going
10 Try their hand at the planting business
the coming season. They expect TO have
an easy time and to eat n, the same Ia bic
with their employers.
The Supreme Court Of T.nnesses La.
decided that "Confedera'e money" i, no,
money, ys, the Com mis.ionsr. OF In ernsl
Revenue require every msu in the 80
called Confederate S. .ates." whose income
in 1864 WAS 10 "Confedsrsrs money" 10
estimate that income a, what tho "Con
fedsra's money" Was worth or estimated
at in United States currency.
The Columbus (Gsorsia) Enquirer, oi
the 18th, says: "rhs alscrIty with
which Planters have made contracts with
the negroes willing to birs-engagiug 10
give them comfortable quarters and sub
sistsnee and fair wage.-is the bes, an
aver that could be m ,de to the radical
charge that hatred towards The negro !,
The prevalent feeling At the South.
The Baltimore Ameriean's correspon
dent ssysi Or the 1000 po.,oflicss in
the dis!oyal States. about 2. 900 have beer
rs'oPensd. Nearly 500 Of these have re
cs'ved PosImis,ressss, because no mau