The following artilce appeared in the Abbeville [S.C.] Independent Press, 7 Nov 1856, p. 1, c. 4:

"RETURNED KANSAS EMIGRANTS

We learn that a poriton of the South Carolina and Georgia volunteers, who have recently been doing good service for the South and Kansas Territory, arrived in our city [Memphis] yesterday on their way home.

They number about eighty, rank and file, and will take the cars homeward this morning.

It is much to be regretted that the severity of the winter in Kansas, added to the almost impossibility of procuring remunerative lavbor, compels our Southern volunteers to retrace their steps, adn tremporarily abandon a good and patriotic cause.

Their leader, however, General Jones, of South Carolina, assures us as that is the intention of himself and a majority of the company to return to the Territory next spring -- provided the same necessity for their services may be required there as now and heretofore. .....
[Mewmphis Appeal, 19th inst.]

The deleted portion was printed in the Laurensville Herald and posted earlier in the year.