The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-28

words ensued, and Eastman finally drew his re-
yoiyer and shot Minor twice, killing him almost
instantly. He was tried before the county court
OF Rappahannoek county and acquitted
The Situation In Europe.
JOHN Mitchell, in his last letter to the New
York Daily Ne,os, gives the following interesting
birds eye view of affairs on the continent. His
letter is dated Paris, July 13:
The armistice does not go. Admitted in princi-
pie by all the bellgerents, it is found inadmissibe
in deta accepted in the abstract, it is repulsed in
the concrete. The Prince Napoleon was to have
gone to the headquarters OF his fatherin-law, Vic
tor Emanuel, to arrange the matter, as far as
Italy was concerned and his departure was even
announced by semi.official journals. He has not
gone: he is still in Paris. For the Emperor's cou-
sin to paa undertake such mission and to have to
would never do. Evidently he could not be Dispatch
ed upon such an. errand without a. previous
kept at home is a plain indication that the En-
peror does not believe in anv armistice at all In
fact, neither Prussia nor Italy will consent to
cessation Of hostilities fer single day, without
havitg the conditions of peace previously settled
that is,to say, that peace must precede armstice
or, in other words, that the parties must fight it
sition Of the Emperor Of the French is now a sin
gular one, and perhaps somewhat provoking &C
Gordingly the official journal Of Vienna mot Of
Paris however), affirms that he has announced
to the belligerents his purpose Of EARNED me-
diation )" and further, that he has pronounced
that it is 'his will" not to suffer Austria to lose
that he has made any such declarations, and will
not be believed until 1t is supported by better
thority than the Vienna newspaper, which wishes
so much that 1t were true. 1n short, it would
amount to declaration of against Prussia
aud Italy, and a most unnatural alliance with
Iria..-I Tue. Prussians have now passed clear
thEough Bohemia, and are in Moravia at Zwittau
ana at lgIau, within three or four days' march of
vienna; 1t seems that in the communicafions
which have passed between the Tuileries and
King Williams headquarters, Prussia has never
tor an instant. departed from her original and
fundamental pr gramme-that there can be no
peace until Austria ceases to be a German nowsr o
II !. IL Is the will Of the Emperor Napoleon that
Aoaeia sha aintain cher great POSITION in the
that she shall have no position in il. whether
great or small; and how to reconcile those two
Wills Wills Italy also, as il she had won, instead of
demands; she will have neither peace nor frnce
unti Venetla is ceded to hor; and not only Yeneta
but the half Of the Tyrol also. IF you take good
Rhastio Alps cuts the Tyrol in two; on the nortbo
ern side al the wators flow toward the Danube.
oa tne I sonshern they form the Adige which falls
On the northern side the people are Germans
md speak German; on the south they are Italians
md spssk ltailan SO the principle Of ''nationai
lee" comes in; and In the name Of that princinie
italy claims the whole o. .ha splendid Valley of
he Adige as far as the mountains above Brixep.
t is &C valley as fine as that OF the Shenandoah.
hough it has much less arabic land; but then 1t
country OF vines, silkworms and orange trees
Sith hne towns, Trent and Roverodo, and o popu.
alton OF three hundred thousand, A railr6od
uns up the valley through its whole length, form
ne valley OF the Adige is the great gate of Italy:
.nd, lndependentIy of the consideration Of nation
ty. the Italians say there is also the necessity
"a vatershed Of the chief mountain chain, as France
&c In Savoy and Nice. Excellent reasoning m.
the place does lie very
AXE 1t? This they are going to try. .'
THE DATTLE AT KIssINaEN. L
There WAS not much talk OF armistice tbree
liver ssale. Two Armies, 81, 900 and CO. 600 srone c
respectively thundered at each other for eight
lours, with a general result unfavorable to the
mentioned in the campaigns of ,he First Napo.
cen; this is quite small stream, in the northern
part part of the Kingdom of bavaria, flowing from
,ts valley is bordered on the west by the wooded
3pesssrt mountains, which echoed that day other
music than the hunters horn. One thing is estab-
ished by this battle-tlat the Prussian needle.
gun may meet it's ma ch. The Bsyarian troons
ire armed with a very superior kind of rifle. hay
nng great precision at long range. The Prus-
ng eonned nc. p&g its
ards Besides, as the soldiers do not lift it to the
u 'nonder bnt press It against the haunch, it's fire
3avarians held their own at the battle on the
'aale The Prussians, II is true, after hard fight
ng, forced the passage OF the river, but the
~. 10 SUN continued ana as.they advanced they
yere ' egaln encountered by the Bavarians at q
lace called Nlidlingen, and driven back into Kis.
ingen and out Of it again-that is, I suppose
,ack across the river II this Munich account OF
ne matter DC true lfor we have not yet the Prus-
ian one), it may give the Count Won Bismark oc.
asion to reflect that, after all, he may not be
Die TO ride roughshod over all Germany, as he
expected. - o
On this subject Of the war will only add that
Up TO the present day, the 18TH there is no armis.
ice and no agreement, Tor tho slightest pros.
'ecs OF an agreement upon any possible terms Of
AIn New York the examination Of the alleged OK. I
ntsa Hpmnv Hna or United States Treasury