Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-02-08

| be regarded as sG0lnCTHf. hEViilS oGseLreu
the pcgroes about the army, studied their
temper, habits, disposition end character, he
is prepared to vouch Cor not only their capac-
ity for military duties but to risk their tideh-
ty in the discharge of them.
The Peace the North Proposes TO Us.
The following resolution has been submit
ted in the Yankee Congress. How do the
reconstructonists like it:
Resolcea by the Ssnate aud House Of Rep
rentatives in Cngrcss assembled, That no
nesotiatio ], terms Of settlement, or comprom.
Use, be entered into, proposed, yielded or made
with the rebels, directly or indirectly, until
they have manifested their implicit ana un-
conditional submission to the authorities of
the Government; and further, that however
much peace may be desired, tho present war
must he waged with ali the resources and en-
ergy of the Government, until said submis-
sion shall be secured, and the supre macy Of
the Constitution and the laws established over
the entire territory Of the Uni:- d States, as
heretofufe claimed.
The New York Iliba,c, which is kind OF
offic;alsorgap Of the Administration ct Wash
ington, ,-has long and lahored. article OF
"peace" Some poi tons OF it are significant,
taken in connection with the departure Of the
so.called "peace commissioner" for Wash
ington. The Tribune says:'
There are men who talk as if war were q
normal condition, and who start at tie sug
gestieu of-peacc as if some wrong were done
the n:tiou. But all wars must have an end,
even these carried on, as SO few ever have
been, for the highest good oftle people, though
all may not be attained which the victorious
party, at the outset promised itself. Ordina-
rilg it is u struggle of endurance. 1t is.a
question Of pluck and resources, as in all hu-
man affairs, are the ground work Of courage.
Which can hold out the loDgesti Which can
hold on; no ionger? There come always u
time WHEN the last is the vital qreston, and
when it comes, peuce,is Inevitable. We may
not have reached that point, but the 81 igns
are, at least, significant. aud wise men VIII
giye them due consideration. Unwise, Or al
least thou@htiess men, remember only that
we have been al war but four years, while
other nations have, with more or, lees pa
,ience, endored It's calauities, ten, twenty,
thirty wears, with fsr Jess at stake. TGty
do not remember that one year of moderh
warfare, in the exhaustion attending it, in its
enormous expenditure of blood and treasure,
is equal to Eve years of war century or halt
& century ago. Tie dcsoe;;on that follow
ed the thirty years CT war III Germany was
not greater, probably net 50. great, as that
Which, in TIE last four years, has been visi-
ted upon the reotliiGus States oi the SOUTH
Hall of Virginia Is : desert; Tennessee is g
barren vast the young ln=n OF Tie South
are in their graves; the OLD men are reduced
20 povcrty; AeinGustrial systeu # all the
slave States is destroyed; from Mason and
Dixons line 10 tie Rio Grande, Gesolaticn
covers the lsnd.
In the natural course OF things then. peace
is imminent 1t may be the im:nincnce Ct
weeks or Of months; certainly itcannot be de-
layed beyond tie duration OF one mere cam
paizn. Ihe North wants peace, provided
The terms and conditions shall suit it. There
is unquesiionably party at the South that
demands it, caring little what the ;crms arei
ready to acucde to anything that wa demand
It's ready to grant cur utmost denanc-
Law down its arms ard submit. Some iac,s
are known 10 us which it is not safe Low to
make public. But they must be known ere
long, and from that moment our public af
fairs will a-sfnc new: aspect.
Mr. BMir's irst to Richmcnd was neither
fruitess nor useless, or itwould not have been
repeated. Without pretending TO know any
thing ofits details, we, in common with eve,
rybody else. arrive at this conclusion. Not
less significant is the gradual but stcady &c.
cliae in the price OF gold.
We arc not more sanguine than Cur neigh
bors, ncr are we more hopeful Of or anxious
for pcace; neither do We pretend to more wis:
dom. But we hail the flash of those bright
streaks of Tie comirg day, and do net choose
to shut our eyes to them because others, with
closed cye-iids, keeFeoat the Fight. We do
not prophesy immediate peace, because we
do not mean to proplcsyat all, but We believe
the utter exhaustion of the rebels portends
theresult which exhaustion always bring to
all wars.
GREAT FIRE IN WAsHlNcroI-TuE Smith
soN1AN INSTITUTE BuENGD.-On the evening
of the 24th, a fire was seen coming from the
roof OF the main building Of the Smithsonian
Institute. A general. fire alarm was r1ng,
.nIst he eupinpS were soon un tlic ground