The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-24
Congressional Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, January 22.-In the Senate,
the amendment to the bill charging the
powers of the Freedmen's Bureau, which
proposed to restrict its jurisdiction to the
limits of the States lately in rebellion, was
disCn Ssed. Mr.. Wilson spoke in opposition
to it.
Mr.. Cowan, of Pcnnsvlvania, said that il
such Bureau must exist its operations
ought not to be felt in the loyal States.
The question was taken and the amend
,nent rejected.
In the House, Mr.. Finke introduced a
bill to repeal the test oath; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Mr.. Williams introduced resolution
calling for the trial of the leaders of the
rebellion by court martial or military COM
mission, asserting that it would not an
swer the purposes of justice to have them
tried by tribunal Of justice in the South,
where their peers would be persons equally
guilty with themselves in crime.
The House Committee on Freedmen's
Affairs intend making tour Of inspection
through the South.
GENERAL GRANTS REpoRT-H1s
THEORY OF WAR.-General Grants
theory Of war is simply this f: ct have
ESQ, 200 men to the 100000 of the
enemy. I shall not attempt any stra-
teglcal movements; I shall not try
myself in the open field or rase cam
pdgne against Lee; but I will fight the
enemy whenever can, in the convic-
tion that I will make him lose as many
men as | do, and that at last, when I
have reduced my army to $50, 900, he
will only have $4,000, and that 1
must then win. He saw no position,
practiced no grand maneuvre, but
kept on pressing his enemy con-
tlnuously on an outer circumference,
and eventually moving round from
right to left, till his line wheeled
round and stood facing the point
from which it had started. He saw
that it was not Richmond but Lees
army which was the heart and soul of
the Confederacy, and he hammered
away till the head of his hammer
was nearly hattened and destroyed
but ut the same time other tremen-
dous armies were hammering away
at the Confederates OF similar princi-
pies, aud the terrible rule in arith-
metlc was worked out But who,
seriously and candidly speaking, will
pronounce that such a system is en-
titled to the praise reserved for high
efforts of military genius Not
General Grant, for he appeals to the
great end IN view as the Justification
of his practice. He can certainly
say that whereas his predecessors
filed every ditch with dead, and
marched forwards or backwards over
slaughtered thousands of their men,
he alone plucLed victory from the
holocaust, and that the slain of
Spottsylvania and Petersburg were
the ramparts over which he strobe to
success. On future occasion we
shall examine the report, which is
worthy of most attentive examina-
ton, and is entitled to very high
praise, although it does not, we
think, deserve all which has been
said of it in America. OF Grants
genius for the work to be done there
can be no doubt. He appreciated
the situation and the forces of the
combatants in the clearest manner
and if the American Congress revives
the rank of General, as is proposed,
in his favor, he can take it with the
consciousness that no one on the
continent is so worthy of the posi-
tion.-London Army and Navy Ga
eeHe