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a?& ^arts. ?? Ihe tax bill before Congress proposes to lax Justioes of the Peaoe ten dollars. The Annual meeting of the North GaroHna Railroad will be held at|Hillsboro' on the 12th of July next. Harvesting is progressing in Alabama. The wheat orop is an average; prospects for corn are good. Some sagacious scribe says the newBpaper has become the log-book of the age j it tells at what rate the world is running; we cannot find oar reckoning without it. The defenoe of a man in Pennsylvania, sued for $25,000 for breaoh of prom ise, is that the young lady weighs 288 pounds, and it is ooming warm weather. ?? The House Committee on Foreign Belations will report resolutions mildly censuring the course of the Government on the Fenian movement. "i . An Irish gentleman hearing of a friend having a stone coffin made for himBelf ezoiaimed, "By me soul, an' that's a good idea! Shure,an a stone coffin 'ud last a man hia life time. ?At his own request, made before his death, the remains of General Scott were wrapped in a large American flag made for him in the spring of 1861 by a young lady of Washington. ??r There were formerly 700 churches in Moeoow, but the Emperor Nicholas considered it too many for a respectable community, and 300 were, by . his order, torn dowa. A Bremen letter announces the departure from that German port of 166 passengers, all of whom intend making Texas their home. Other vessels will shortly follow. ?? Judge Hill, of the United States District Court, has recently decided at Oxford, Mississippi, that the test oath for attorneys icos unconstitutional and ought not to be exacted from any member of the Bar who had been admitted to practice in the Court. New ooanterfeit fifty-dollar greenbacks have appeared at Nashville, Tenn. The bills are excellently engraved, exoept that the signature of Treasurer Spinner is not as ooaree and heavy as in the orignal. The paper on whioh they are printed is a little thinner than the genuine According to the new postal law, just approved by the President, pre paid and free letters are to be forwarded at the re quest of the party addressed from one postoffice to another, without additional postage charge, and returned dead letters, returned to the writers thereof, free of postage. A squaw in Central Miohigan had a papoos on her arm, exceedingly white for a member of her race, which fact induced a gentleman to ask if it was not a half breed, whereupon she replied : "No, not a drop of white blodfl about it?half Ingin an half Missionary." Several meteoric stones fell at Nashville on the 12th, near the railroad depot. Thev were of a bluish color, and were quite hot when first discovered. Geologists say that nothing similar has been found in any other part of the world. One specimen has been forwarded to Washington, and another to New York, for farther examination. The reoords of the Fourth Auditor's office show that during the war the naval force of the United States captured over fifteen hundred prizes, some of which were worth as high as two hundred thousand dollars. Besides these, important captures of corn, rice and cotton were made. It is stated that the navy has netted over twenty million dollars as its share in these prizes. A late Wisconsin paper tells of a farmer who, in the recent freshet, had eighty rods of line fence, running east and west, swung round by the water, carried it a quarter of a mile from its original position, and left it in an exact line north and south, and on the identical spot where he proposed building a fence, and all this without dis% -M A !i ?1 ? 4 piaoing a ran irom us ungiuai puauiuu. i\ tough story! It is rumored at St. Albans that a demand has been made on this Government by the Canadian authorities for the extradition of Generals Sweeney, Speer, O'Neill, and the other Fenian officers. Two thousand volunteers had returned to Montreal up to Monday night. It is rumored there that the Fenian prisoners wilbe banged. An immense open air meeting in favor of repealing the neutrality laws was held at Troy, New York, on Monday evening. We learn from our North Carolina exohanges, that the Convention of that State, on Saturday last, adopted an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the Legislature from electing its own members to office. An amendment was also adopted m iking it the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law for the exemption from sale under execution or other process, for debts contracted after the 1st of January, 15567, a Homestead id i&Dd id iavor or every head of a family who may be the owner thereof, except for taxes. The Griffin titar says: "We Dotice one of the nicest young men in town, busily engaged from early dawn till (even shade,' driving a dray and electioneering for work. If this boy will stick, he will make a man of himself. If we were a young lady, we would rather by far, take the chances of life in oompany with this young drayman, than with one of the numerous exquisite youths who parade the streets in fine clothes furnished by impoverished and too indulgent fathers, seeking situations as clerks in stores, where they can dawdle over counters, and peddle tape and ribbons." A great exoitement was created among the adherents of the negro bureau in Mobile, a few days ago, by tbe marriage in that city of a former slave of Gen. Beauregard to a white woman, by tbe name of Jones, a teacher of the freedmen. The oouple have left for tbe borne of tbe woman's parents in tbe North, where there will doubtless be a great jubilee over this manifestation of civil rights when tbe pair arrive. As tbe unfortunate female's parents were doubtless Abolitionists, and are now in the Badioal faith, they cannot but be rejoiced at tbe progress that has been made by their docile offspring. There is, we believe, still a vacant panel in tbe rotunda of tne Capitol at Washington, which patiently awaits its inevitable fate, in the form of some hideous daub of a "national painting." It is the panel next to that famous "shin pieoe" where the talent of the artist was exhausted in painting the well developed legs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. As the JacobinB are doi.btless proud of the late splendid triumph of American valor over a feeble, old an helpless prisoner, let Congress appropriate fifty thousand dollars for a gigantic painting of the "Placing Shackles upon Jefferson Davis." It is a magnificent subject for an accomplished artist. The cold, damp, cheerless cell, the small iron bedstead, the fragment of monldy bread, the overturned tin oup of dirty water, the bold assault of a dozen stalwart, armed soldiers upon a feeble old prisoner, the heavy manacles and the uplifted sledge hammer of the Herculean blacksmith, are splendid materials for ? nfiffAnnl ninfni?o Ao O rtOrfoin V\AAL a gicav uabiuuai jjivcui w uvt vwtu ^Vwv ic license is allowed to artists, Head Turnkey Miles should be introduced looking at this noble and inspiriting exhibition of American valor and humanity through a double-barred window.?Richmond Times. ?b.? tfttqnim YORKVILLEa S. C. THUB8DAY M0BNIN9, JUNE 28,1866. OUB TEBMS~IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable in "greenbacks." When payment is made in specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for six months: SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. 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IT Subscribers who find a (X) oroBs mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. THE "SITUATION." The question of adjournment still remains unsettled in Congress. The House resolution to adjourn upon a fixed day in July, has not received the concurrence of the Senate. The latter body prefers to await the action of Tennessee in relation to accepting the reconstruction programme. The radicals are evidently anxious to admit somebody into the Union before adjourning, and hope that Tennessee will array herself in readiness for initiation before that time. They fear to go back to their constituents with an eight monthB session of empty labor. Such a result will prove damaging to the future success of many of the party. The new Army Bill whioh has occupied an unusual amount of time and discussion, has been adopted by the House. It provides for a standing army of 50,000 men, besides making other important obanges in tko nrorcnizfttinn nf oomnnnifia. eto. It * w " ? r 1 ? prohibits any person who served in the civil or military service of the late Confederate States from entering the United States army at any time. The Secretary of the Treasury, who has proved himself beyond question an able and practical financier, has sent to the House a communication advising an additional enactment to the direct tax bill, authorizing the Southern States to assume the amount of direct taxes due from the citizens of the same. He also advises, in view of the impoverished condition of the South, that the collection of taxes be suspended until an opportunity for assumption by the States is afforded. He also suggests that the sums realized by the Government from property bid in by the Government and re-sold, be allowed to the States as credit for taxes. These views are urged in consideration of the impoverished condition of the South?the scarcity of money, and to save from confiscation the property of many against whom the Government has no cause of complaint. Congress had not, at last advices, taken any action on the subject. Thad Stevens is up again, with another: ? i x tt;_ : constitutional amendment. ma mat, is au ; effort to allow Congress to impose an export i duty on cotton. The previous question was called, and debate upou the measure stifled. The House in this instanoe, how- i ever, proved refractory and rejected the j measure by a vote of 61 to 59. Raymond seems to change sides upon every question that comes up. He recently j voted for the Civil Rights Bill, and bus- j tained its passage over the President's veto. He voted for the Constitutional amendment in the House, yet has reoently delivered a lengthy speech in opposition to it, and announcing himself as a supporter of the President. He is crazy. THE WAR IN EUROPE. Oo oar oatside pages of this issue, will be found an interesting statement of the oanse of quarrel in Europe, as also a synopsis of the Treaties of 1815, by whioh several important principalities were obliterated and alioed out to ambitions sovereigns. There seems at this time, to be a sort of ominous quiet between the contesants across the water It is regarded as the pause that always precedes the shook of oonfliot. The peaoe Congress has broken up a failure, and the parties are apparently gathering their strength in order to give the utmost force to the first shock. Wheth er this intervening quiet will bring peaceful measures again into discussion, remains to be seen. All intelligent observers Beem to ooincede the opinion, that the war has virtually begun. The enthusiasm of the lower classes in Europe iu favor of the war is one of its strangest features. The quarrel does not rest upon questions in whioh the masses are interested, but on the contrary involves nothing further than ambitious projects for dominion. With Prussia and Austria this is espeoially the case. Italy is enthusiastic, because a part of her territory is yet to be rescued from the Austrian grasp. The motives impelling her people to the conflict are thus more excusable. We have felt an interest in this gigantic European question, because its settlement, if by arms, is one that will effect, to a large extent, the material interests of this country. The South will espeoially feel its weight. Her ootton will decline just in x?? a.t_ 1 ji iL.i proportion to me uumuer 01 spiuuiezs mat the war stops in Europe. All foreign productions will appreciate just in proportion to the reduced manufacture entailed by the war. Breadstuffs and provisions, that we import more or less of, will rise in prioe, as the demand to supply the vast armies in the field increases. The drain of money from this country has already affected us seriously, and may continue to do so. For tbeso reasons the South would gladly see the sword hung away in repose in every country in the world. THE NEW ARMY BILL. That clause in the new Army Bill prohibiting any person who served the late Confederate States either in a civil or military capacity from entering the army of the uuueu oiaica, unugu us quluo buiuuc iu uui affliction. We can now listen to war rnmors, and hostile Congressional debates against Great Britain, Mexico and other offenders, without any fears of ever being dragged out again to dig trenches, or become targets for rifle practice. We are decidedly pleased with the arrangement. We shall now advocate war fiercely and persistently, whenever the slightest provocation for it arises. We think the United States ought to lick Great Britain at once for her past offences. Cuba might, at the same time, be wrested from that crazy old power?Spain, and Maximilian unseated in Mexico. Our voioe is for war decidedly and emphatically! FIBES. The mails from neighboring Districts in this State, frequently, of late, bring the painful news of heavy losses by fire. The pretty little village of Darlington was a few weeks since, almost demolished by this element, through the work of incendiaries. A few days later a second attempt was made to destroy that portion of it left by the ravages of the first conflagration. The populous little town of Newberry, has been more recently the scene of one of the most destructive fires that has ever visited the up-country. Property of great value, the result of years of industry, was swept away almost at a breath. The frequency of these occurrences in our rural towns, must bring painful apprehensions to property owners residing in them. It would be well for us in view of such accidents, to make better preparations to meet them, should such occur in our midst. Each town and village should organize an active and efficient fire department without oounting the expense. Insurance agenoies are also important as a means of equalizing losses, that would otherwise fall heavily upon single individuals Attention to this subject in time, may save many from loss. # pnsT nPT?Tm?.R We publish in this issue a list of post ofhoes opeD in this State, showing that only about seventy offioes have found post masters that can take the oath. This District has but four offices, so fur as we know, now open. The subject is one of so much importance to every community, that wc feel constrained to urge it again to the attention of the people. If there be any person, male or fe* male, who can swallow the "iron clad," as it has been appropriately termed, let an application for appointment be forwarded to Gov. Ore, and this avenue of intelligence, again be unobstructed. The Test Oath will not be repealed soon, and it is idle to wait for it. Good foe Greely.?He says: "We admit?nay, we assert and maintain?the right of the surviving Confederates to honor the graves of their dead kindred and compatriots. We would not inquire into their impulses and motives. If an act is right in itself, its motives may be presumed a good one." EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Diary of Dr. Craven, Post Surgeon at Fort Monroe, and for a long time the medical officer in charge of ExPresident Davis, has been given to the world in book form. We publish extraots from the work on oar outside page of this is8ae. Its simple reoital of details?the bloody inhumanity it exposes, and the high bearing of the illustrous captive, whose' martyrdom was that of the people he represented, must bring painfnl sensations to all who read this work. History most sometimes be impartial. The oountry will blnsb, if shame be not forever lost, for that portion of it Dr. Craven has been bold enough to give to the world. A freedman'a Convention is to assemble at Augusta, Ga., in Jaly. The object of the meeting is to memorialize Congress in regard to the right of suffrage, and the trial by jary of their own color. At Grif. fin, Georgia, George Pitts and Henderson Beck, have been eleoted by a large majority of colored people as anti-Bareau men. At a meeting of the colored people both these delegates denoanced the "Bureau" as mischievous and creative of disturbances between the raoes. They are willing to trust the laws of the State and their old masters and friends for justice. The Bureau agent at Griffin is represented to have said, with an oath, that he would not allow the negroes to speak disrespeotfally of his Bureau, and arrested the delegates, who were afterwards released by civil authority The fact of Mr. W. B. Reed, of DkilnJ/tlnkin fliMvnaainn on fkn flnninv Jl uiiuuci^uia, apptauug ao iiuo uvuivt counsel of ex-President Davis, has aroused the wrath of some of the Radicals in the oity of "Brotherly Love." A Mr. Hancock, who is a member of the city council, at one of its meetings a short time sinoe, relieved himself in this way: Mr. Hancock?1 wont go down into hell and break the ashes of the grave to teach the attorney who would go South to defend Jeff. Davis, the contempt in which the people of the city hold him. I would have William B. Reed there, that every flapping shred of the flag may remind him of the shrouds of bis murdered victims. Mr. Hetzel?I move to inolude Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. Mr. Hancock?Well, I only say that with Thaddeus Stevens I am heart and hand. [Applause.] I belong to his band. There is only one thing left in the land now, and that is the flag; and I trust that we will ever hallow a day that shows us how despotism was broken up. Suoh an unhallowed idea as Jefferson Davis being pardoned is preposterous, and ought not to be entertained. If 1 would see a traitor going to Heaven, great God I 1 would go the other way. It will be remembered that a month or so ago, the Secretary of the Treasury and C.S the Postmaster General, requested Congress to modify the test oath. The matter was referred to the Committee on the Judioiary, whioh reported adversely. Among other reasons for their deoision, they asserted that there were a sufficient number of "loyal" men in the South, who volunteered in the Union army, to fill all the Federal offices. To prove the statement the following table aocompanied the report: Virginia, 85 North Carolina, 3,675 Georgia, 142 Alabama, 2,471 Florida, 1,286 Mississippi, 681 Texas, 2,444 Arkansas, 8,627 Tennessee, 17,S37 The Marion Star, in commenting upon the report, says : "And in South Carolina, to her undying honor, not one man, to speck her bright and glorious escutcheon. The South Caroliniaos, to a man, fought for and sympathized with a cause that they had been educated to believe was just, and now this committee can find not one who can take the "test oath" as enacted July 2d, 1862 " . Good News to Merchants ?Our citizens will be pleased to learn that freights have been reduoed on the South Carolina Railroad, and an era has been inaugurated by the Company that calls to mind the pal mier days before the war. Wo cite as instances, reductions on the freights of tho following articles: Oats to 10 cents; Corn to 12 cents; Salt to 70 cents; chartered cars to $60; coal and ice to 85.25 per ton ; and 25 per oent on stock. Arrangements have likewise been made for the early re-building of the depot, and the commencement ot the old system ot receiving and forwarding. General Super- | intendent Peake has also issued orders for the reconstruction of the platform at the Charlotte Junction, so that freight may be shipped through from Charleston without the present delay and inoonvenience Freights may then be paid here, instead of at Charleston. All this work will be accomplished between tbe first and fifteenth Jaly. An improvement.of this description has long been desired, but the difficulties with which the Rail lload Company have h:;d to contend, have measurably prevented tbe consummation so devoutly wished for.? Columbia Carolinian. J. Wilkes Booth ?The Natchez Dem ocrat says a letter from Berlin, received by a gentleman of that city, states, positively, that John Wilkes Booth, who killed President Lincoln, is in Berlin, playing an engagement at one of tbe theatres of that city. It adds that be expresses great surprise that there should be so much credit attached in this country to the story of his death. 1ST" Hon. Jefferson Davis has been made an honorary member of the Ladies' Memorial Association of Petersburg, Virginia. Mr. R. A. Hamilton paid the fee. LOCAL MATTERS. HEW AEVEBTISEMENTS. G. R. Ratchford A Co.?Dissolution of Co-Partnership.. Geo. W. Me!ton?Only Notice. John G. Steele?To the Traveling Public. Floyd, Dobson A Co.?Crushed Sugar. ? ? ? _A B and c sugars. " ? ? -Rio Coffee. ? ? ? ?Java Coffee. ? ? ? ?Madder. ? ? ? ?Summer Clothing. ? u ? ?Cheese. W. A. Moore?School Notice. M. Martin it Co., Charlotte, N. C.?New Foundry and Machine Shop. T. S. Jefferys?Cotton Wanted. G. R. Ratchford?Hoop 8klrts, Ac. " " ?Bonnet Flowers, Rucbes, Ac. ? ? ?Turkey Red Yarn. " " ?Summer Casslraeres. Ac. " " ?Ladles, Misses and Children's Shoes. " " ?Yeast Powders, Ac. " " ?Pickles, Preserves and Cheese. " " ?Assorted Nails. Neighborly. We are indebted to the ooartesies of oar neighbors, Messrs. Homesley & Asher, for a ehoice pair of new soissors. Poor editors (for editors are always poor) are generally an appreciative sort of folks and know how to valne a fiiend when chance may give them one. Messrs. Homesley & Asher inform ns that they are permanently domiciled in this town, and want to sell scissors, and other things generally. Everybody mast not try to pass themselves off as editors. School Examination. Rev. W. W. Carothers principal of the White Oak Spring Academy, in this District, subjected his pupils to a very | creditable examination on Tuesday. After | the close of the academic exercises, the visitors present were invited to a bountifnl table of good things, prepared by the patrons and friends of the sohool. The occasion was one of muoh satisfaction to both . the children and their visiting friendsWe have been kindly furnished with a liberal sample of the "good things" the table afforded, which verifies our opinion of the taste exhibited in the affair. Public Meeting. We would again urge that the public meeting called for on Monday next, reoeive a geneial attendance. Every section of the Distriot snouia do represented ia it. jlh objects are of that character that appeal so warmly to all the tenderer sympathies of onr hearts, that we hope none will forget to do them jnstioe. Other communities throughout the entire Sonthern land, are zealously engaged in the pious work of rescuing from oblivion, the names of those they hold dear in memory. The ohoioest offerings of the heart have been laid upon the ashes of those who "sleep in the silent camping ground of the grave." We are late in the pious work that duty, honor and affection alike require of us; but we are not too late to do something. There ?? "A nnmfllflas h*rn-<rravfiH anionc ns to ",v ? ? ? - o ?o adorn with the flowery tributes of our love, but the names of those who rest far away from as, may be gathered together, and guarded from the infamy of future history. The means of doing this, requires thought, discission and work. For this, the people are invited to assemble on Monday, and devise tbe necessary course. Let all spare time for tbe work, and make tbe oocasion one of honor to tbe District and its brave dead. The Confederate Debt,?The President, on the 18th instant, sent a message to tbe House in response to a resolution con. oerning the provisions of law and ordinances of tbe late insurgent States on tbe subjeot of tbe Confederate debt. The following faots are gathered from the papers enclosed : Oq the 10th of October last the iNorth Carolina Convention, passed an ordinance prohibiting the payment of all debts created or inonrred in aid of the late rebellion. In the Legislature of Sooth Carolina in December, a resolution reported by the Committee on Federal relations was passed, to the effect that they had not the necessary information to enable them to aot advisedly in relation to repudiating the debts inourred in support of the war. They oalled on the Comptroller Genefal to furnish it, and until it should be forthcoming they could make no definite recommendation upon the subject. The Georgia Convention in November passed an Ordinance rendering nail and void all debts created for the purpose of carrying on the late war against the United States; the Legislature, besides, passed an Act prohibiting in any way the payment of tbe money. The Convention of Alabama passed an Ordinance forbidding tbe assumption of any part of tbe Confederate debt. The Florida Convention in November declared the debt null and void. The Mississippi Convention in August ..I?J ?l>o fkr^inonnA ?f Sanecainn. and iCpt'aiCU IUO \/IU?UMUVV W? WVVVWW-J ? j the Legislature passed a law prohibiting the Treasurer from paying any debt until authorized to do so by tbat body. From the papers in possession of the State Department it does not appear that; the Treasurer has been ordered to pay any part of the debt incurred in the late war. The Texas Convention declared the Con-1 federate debt null and void. Gold Sent to Europe?The specie exported on freight from New York and Boston within the last fire weeks foots up 1 as follows: Week ending May 19th, 88,763,295 Week ending May 26th, 11,354,840 Week ending June 2d, 6,873,278 Week ending June 9th, 5,835,300 Week endingJune 16th, 6,153,199 | Total, five weeks, 838,079,912 The Wheat Crop.?Recent advices from all sections of Virginia authorize the announcement that the wheat crop now being harvested, though short as to quantity, will prove superior in quality to the orop ofj any previous year sinoe the beginning of; the late war; and we consider it altogetherj probable it will oommand a price satisfactory even to the farmers themselves. - - ' iontriimtoml. BYJAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. 25 JUKE. 1866. Bound Dances. As Pope says of vice, so the experience of society seems to be with the round danoes: We first endure, then pity, then? embrace. The Cholera. The last week's offioial report of the deaths in New York city, gives six as the number of deaths from Cholera. The at* most vigilance is said to be observed to prevent its spreading in the oity. The University. The regular examination in the U- S. C. is to oommenoe on Tuesday, the 26th instant. It will probably oocupy several days. Then follows the Summer vacation of three months. , < The faculty are about to issue a circular, stating oertain studies upon which students hereafter applying for admission into the University, must be prepared. We hope much good from this movement. Southern Text Books. We are advised that Professor Venable, formerly of the S. 0. College, is preparing a series in Mathematics, beginning with elementary Arithmetic and going up to the highest grades taught in our first-class col leges. Prof. Venable is universally known to be eminently capable of such a task Tt is time for the South to get some sort of independence. We bid this work and all similar undertakings a hearty God speed. The Arrests. Lost week we mentioned the outrageous re arrest of a Mr. Eagan of Lexington District, who had been released from the Albany Penitentiary by order of Judge Nel-1 sod, of the Supreme Court. We take pleasure this week iD Doting the fact that be has been again released, this time by order of PresMeat Johnson. It is to be hoped that bis case is settled ; and that the farce of liberty and despotism will be played no farther. The News this Week. Never in one week have we bad thrust upon our attention 'hree more important items tbso come into this week. First, the European War. Second, the certain and officially reported presence of Cholera in the United States. Third, the immense advanoe in the price of gold?its running up to the neighborhood of fifty per cent premium in a short time. As to the War, we are moved by a very profound indifference npon the whole matter As to the Cholera, we have reasonable hopes that it will never reach our rural retreats here in the up-country of South Carolina. As to gold, it might go up to a million for one aod not hurt us much. Low Spirits. Many regard despondency as a mere weakness?as nothing worse. To despond is wicked. It. is wioked, in its want of energy with its train of lost op portunities. It is wicked, in that it depresses others and tends to a general neglect of duty. To despond is criminal. It is criminal in its want of relianoe on Providence?in its doabt of the troth of God. Whoever desponds, of life io general, denies the truth of a promising divinity?io effect says to God : You lie. Whoever in this sense desponds, in effeot, says to God : You made a fool's experiment in putting me nere in life, and have failed; and I know more about the matter than you do. Whoever says life is little worth, differs from the God wbd thinks life of sufficient worth to warrant Him in putting the individual in it. To despond in this sense is to fling life with its duties and promises back into the face of the Giver of all, and to say : Lo, there thou has that is thine! Is all this manly ? Is it sensible ? Io it Christian ? "Enrooean War. War seems to be inevitable. It grows out of the old qoarrel about the Duchies? the old PruBsia-and-Denmark difficulty. It promises to be a big thing. On one side, at first, will probably be Austria backed by Russia, and on the other side Prussia backed by Italy .Each party can throw about three bundred-tbousand men into the field; and 600,000 men can do some ugly work, when they are thrown together in this way. Already new names are being spoken of as famous. General Fliess has the distinction of commanding the first Prussian troops upon the theatre; and General Yon Gablenz is his Austri. j opponent. We hope they will have a good time generally. Oqo thing we presume is a necessary consequence of this war?the withdrawal of Maximilian from Mexico. England no doubt will keep out of it.? She has a way of keeping ont ot ware of late. France doubtless will be in it, as soon as ?it will pay. Bismark, the Prussian diplomat, has made himself so utterly odious in France, that he has passed into a new word. Bismarker,?to Bismark?means to cheat, to lie, to dissimulate; and to say of a man that he is Biamarkiog is an insult to shoot one for. President Davis. Carlton, of New York, has recently published Dr. Craven's Diary of the prison-life of President Davis. Dr. Craven was the prisoner's attending surgeon during seven months at Fortress Monroe, and knows all about the imprisonment, and tells apparently all he knows. The newspapers favorable to the South, such as Jthe Metropolitan Record, the News, etc?have, published large extracts from j the book; and what with the book itself, and what, with those extraots, the outrageous treatment of President Davis, while stateprison erat Fortress Monroe, has been broQgbt again and afresh and with power before the reading publio. New York city is in a state of intense feeling, it is said, on the subject?feeling of intense indignation at the Stentorian at* rooities inflicted upon the prisoner.. New York city shows her sense, in thus being indignant. _ * ! Tout le monde says Staunton is a monster ; and Tout le monde is right* The description of the soene when the prisoner was manaoled with heavy iiops, by order of Secretary Stannton, ta given in all its disgusting details p-ttj irirTti in?ad and every gesture are stated jrilhrterrible fidelity and vivid detail. . OneV blood boils to read it. Oar Roman President bean himself as wel^ as nobly, as man opoid do. His indigoation and utterance of outraged feeling do honor to bim, and to as. This book is the book of the season. The world is going to read it, and to be exertis* ed thereby it is proof of the "damned spot" of infamy, that do seas can ever wash oat, apoo the honor of the government of the United States. It puts Staunton ahead of Sherman in the contest for national dishonor. . MERE-MENTION. We learn with regret from the Sumtor News, that Hon. Chancellor John A. Twaff^ is very ill at his residence in Cherawi*.*^"' Major Emanuel, late of the Confederate Army, was murdered on Saturday .pf laet week, by persons unknown, near Society Hill, S. C. Edwin J. JqqU, member of the House of Representatives from Richland Distriot, owing to the pressure of other business, has resigned said position. All the local electioaifi Is Southern Illinois show Democratic gai ns of from 50 to 100 per cent, over the lift vote, The Memphis, Mobile, flew Orleans, and Jackson Free Masons unite? in a pic-nic near Memphis on the 14th. Persons who bad served in both armies were present. "Jeff. Davis, a few days ago, on beiDg applied to by a photographist, declined to allow bis piotara to be taken, because be badobsnged so that bis old friends would not know him. The track of the Montgomery and West Point Bafl Road is being widened, and wben finished thai? will be a continobs broad gauge from Montgomery to New York- This work was commenced on the 29th ultimo - In Sumter County, Ga., are five men whose aggregate weight is 1,435. One of themUJEnooh Blackshear?weighs 410.?The memory of the deceased Lieuteaant-General Winfield Scott is to be honored by Congress. in an appropriate manner on the 4th of July. The University of North Carolina has oonferred the. degree of Doctor of Laws on President Johnson. It is believed the Tennessee member^/ will soon be admitted to Congress. JUpublican Congressmen have writtenUjGaii. Brown low, asking bim to convene tifo Stet^ Legislature to ratify the reoQftatruotfon amendment. The N<jw York Correspondent of the Charlestotf' j|^'sJ0kjlC merchant of Chester, South Carolina, Was relieved of his purse, contfciDing^WW^n gold, by a pickpocket in New York,'a's!?24t time since It hag \>ee n askedDwh<8ii rain Mb, doe9 ile^t aj ? course it does^WraeW time.-" In the beginnHrg^tfoman consisted of a'single rib. Now she is aflT ribs from her belt nhi of her petticoats.* Messrs. Wragg, S: G. Courtenay and J. P; O* Neill have been elected Aldermen of the city of Charleston, to supply vacancies. James Eagan, of Lexihgtd?^5 who was a short time since released from the New York Penitentiary on a writ'of habeas corpus, and upon his reUtril home - -I- -i- J L- lL. :i:, again arrested uy cue munary autuoruies, has been absolutely and finally released, by order of President Johnson." A bill has been introduced in CongreSs to pay evdiy member $10,000 per term, and "necessary travelling expenses/' The latter gives a good margin for stealing ! AserKma"proposition has been made to Head Centre Stephens to unite with Santa' Abria, for die purpose of founding an Irish Republic in Mexico. . Jeff Davis' Own Aooount of Hie Flight. Dr. Craven, for some time surgeon on duty at Fort Monroe, has published a boOk; in wbioh some-account of the doings tad sayings of Jefferson Davis is given. -Here is Mr. Davis'own account of bis flight: On leaving Richmond be first west to Danville, because it was intended that-Lbe sbonld have moved id that- direction; falling back to make a junction with Johnson's force in the direotion of Roanoke river. Grant, however, pressed forward so rapidly, -and swung so far aronnd, that - Lee wan"' obliged to retreat in the direction ofjsftioh. burg with bis main force^jnhifenb vanguard, which arrived at Danville, insisted on falling back and making the' rallying pointat Charlotte, in North Carolina. > ' In Danville Mr. Davis learned of Lee's surrender. Immediately started for Qoldaboro', where hornet and had a oonsultation with General Johnston, thenoe going on Sooth. At Lexington he received s-dis 4.1. TAIim^A. ? 4LA4.< aLL patuu iruui i/uuuntuu rcqueeuug ?>u*ii UIO Secretary of War (General BreckinrWge) should repair to his headquarter# near Raleigh?General Sherman having submit* ted a proposition for laying down arms, which was too comprehensive in ita scope for any mere military commander to decide "" b upon. Breckinridge and Postmaster General Reagan immediately started for Johnston's camp, where Sherman submitted thq terms of surrender on which an armistiee was declared?the same terms subsequently disapproved'by the authorities at'Washington. "',7? One of the features of the proposition submitted by General Sherman,: was a declaration of amnesty to all persons, both civil and military. Notiee being called fee the fact particularly, Sherman said, "I mean jost that;" and: gave as ins seaSou that it was the only way to have perfect peace. He had previously offered to furnish a vessel to take away any such persons as Mr. Davis might select, to be freighted with whatever personal property they might want to take with them, and to go wherever it pleased. * * * * #..?? ' i'c Mr. Davis waited in Charlotte until the day and hour when the armistiee ended; then mounted his horse, and, with some cavalry of Duke's brigade (formerly Morgan's), again started southward, passing through South Carolina to Washington, in Georgia. At an enoampment on the road,