Furlongs.
Editors Dispatch:--I take the liberty of communicating what has always seemed to me the very clear object of the law of furloughs recently passed by Congress. The difficulty of reconciling the two portions of the section quoted," grows out of the erroneous idea, I think, that it was intended to make sixty days the minimum as well as the recruited of the furlough. My interpretation of the law is, that while in no case more than sixty days shall be given, the War Department shall arrange a discriminating scale, curtailing the time in proportion to distance to be traveled — i. e. suppose, merely for illustration, such a scale as this:Texas volunteers, 60 days.
Louisiana and Mississippi volunteers, 55 days.
Alabama volunteers 50 days.
Georgia volunteers, 45 days.
South Carolina volunteers, 42½ days.
North Carolina volunteers, 40 days.
Virginia volunteers, 38 days.
