The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-05


tries of Europe, and from which wo
condense the following:
According to the statistics of Mr.
Germain Sarrat. the number of men
taken from their families in France
by war, between the years Of 1871
and 1914, amount to the appalling
number of 4,556, 600.
The amount of money expended in
war by the English Government,
during the same period, is set down
at the enormous sum of 81. .075, 900. :
600.
The amount of written debts Of
Europe incurred almost entirely for
war purposes. amount to $40, ,SS5,
100, 900, of which amount Great Bri-
tain alone expended $;3, 33S, OOO,O
The losses thus stated are only the
surface estimates Of the expenditures
OF life and force, and if the inquiry
was pushed into all the ramifications
of private loss and outlay, the totals
would amount to ten-fold the sums
officially stated. If we penetrate
farther beyond the bloody tinsel veil
called "C!ory," to gaze upon the
moral and social residue of crime,
shame, sorrow and degradation that
are literally the cnput moTtuuna of
every war, such Il spectacle would
meet our gaze us would chill with
horror and remorse any being but the
relentless arch-enemy OF man.
ISHUMASrry OF y FREuDMEN' BU-
KEAU AGENT. San Antonio
(Texas) LedgeT gives the following:
During the late unusual wet season,
one Of the agents i'll this city, be-
longing to the educational branch of
the Bureau, III order to obtain pos
session OF (: room occupied by u poor
negro woman, with three or four
children. procured Il dray. thrust her
and her helpless little ones out of the
house, and had them taken off on the
dray and deposited out upon the open
field adjoining the new Episcopal
Church. There she WAS in the rain
and mud. unsheltered, nncared for,
with one OF her children sick and
she weak and destitute. In that for
lorn condition, they were seen by II
charitable lady living near BY. The
lady "a former slaveholder) had the
desired relief promptly furnished.
But, alas! too late to save the life OF
the sick child-it died. Another lady
"a former slave-owner) had the dead
child properly dressed and carried off
to be buried. Since then, the woman
herself and one or two of tho other
children have gone to that bourne, ,
supposed and hoped to be beyond the
reach of the Freedmens Bureau"
MORE REBELS Greeley says the
insurgent Cretans appeal to the
United States tor mediation in their
behalf against the tyrannous rule OF
the Turk. 1t is bnt natural that a
people struggling against oppression.
and fighting for their liberties, should
look to the United States for sympa-
thy and aid. The former they can
not fail to command; and let us hope
that their appeal to our Government
will not be made in vain. Our nu-
t;onai and time-honored policy for
bids our intermeddling with the com
plications of European politics; but it
ought not to prevent It's from throw
ing our influence on the side of an
oppressed and suffering people.
AS between Russia and Poland, and
as between the. Confederate States
and the United States-for instance.
PRESENCE OF MIND. In Yarmouth,
Mass, a few nights since, Mrs. Eli
zabeth fisher. While engaged. az put
ting Il strange kitten ont of her house,
discovered man wrapped in quilt
under a cot-bedstead in one of the
rooms. She refrained from making
any alarm, but continued calling the
cat, and having hastily put on some
clothes, went to a neighbor for as
sistance. On her return with aid,
the intruder, finding his presence
discovered, succeeded in escaping,
leaving his hat He had searched
some drawers where valuable papers
We're kept, but found no money
therein.
ANOTHER EARTHoyAKE- We have
the pleasure of recording another
Earthquake" in the far West. An
election took place in Montana Ter
rltory, on the 4th instant, and the
Democrat ticket was carried over the
radicals by majority of 1000
Thus it is throughout the West.
Kentucky gave nearly SO. 900 against