A citizen of
Polk county, Tennessee, communicates, through the columns of the
Dispatch, some interesting neighborhood news to the volunteers from that county, selecting this medium because the officials of the
Lincoln Post Office (not yet abated as a nuisance in the county) send all letters addressed to the soldiers of the Confederate army to the dead-letter office, at
Washington.
It is quite refreshing to read so unsophisticated a relation of home news in the columns of a newspaper.
But what an admirable example we have in the simple statement of the letter: "The young ladies of our county, many of them, have been working in the corn and wheat fields, and say, ‘'as long as they (the volunteers) stay to fight, we will make them something to eat!'’
Wheat noble women they are!
Can they ever be other than the wives and the mothers of freemen?
No — never!