The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-29

liberal government has held Office for
twelve years, and in late election cleri-
calls aud ultra liberals were found side by
side. It is to he hoped that n nation
noted for the harmonious union of order
and freedom, for its prosperous mer-
chants and thriving artisans and agri-
culturists, will not soon become the sccne
of war.
a DISTINGUISHED FRENCH OFFICER.
The Army and Navy Journal thus speaks
of General Trochn, q French officer:
"As Won Moltke was hardly known to
readers out of Prussia anterior to The
splendid campaign which ended at Sl.
dowa, the man to whose brain will be due
whatever of successful strategy shall
characterize the French arms in the com.
ing war. is as yet unnamed. Gen. Louis
Jules Trochu is to-day undeniably the
best soldier Of Franco. He is now fifty-
five years of age. A graduate of the
Staff School of st. Cyr, he was made
lieutenant in 184O, and promoted to q
captaincy in 1843. His first staff service
was with that fine soldier, Bugeaud, in
Algeria. Chef d'escadron and major in
1S46, and lieutenant-oolonel in 1853, his
first European service was in the italian
campaign. AT the commencement of
the Crimean war he was made chief of
tho general staff, and by reference to
kinglake's History it will be seen that in
oil conferences with Lord Raglan, Trochu
rather than st. Arnaud or Canrobert
was spokesman on the part of France
Throughout the campaign, having been
nude general of brigade in 1854, he oc
cnpled this position of, confidential staff
OfflPnr Of tho ~,
Office analogous to that of Geneisenan un-
der Blucher, given in just recognition of
his military ability and skill. In 1864
he reached his grave of general of divi-
sion. Two years after he was charged
with the preparation of plan to re-or-
ganize the army. Instead Of, as has been
suggested, lacking the imperial conf.
dence, he has it in the most nattering
degree. His essay upon organization,
II 'Armee FTancdiSe, published in 1867,
ran through ten editions. Trochu is
known to have anticipated the event of q
war with Prussia. A recent pamphlet
from his pen, which unfortunately can
not be obtained in this country, develops
an immense deal of study Of the Rhc.
nish frontier as fighting field, and pal
pably indicates the national impulse ns
occupying the strategist's mind. Should
the war survive its first battle fortnight
and promise, as seems very likely, to be
long one, Trochu's name may chance to
appear at tho head of the French armies. I"
ENGLAND AND THE WAR IN EUROPE
RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES THE
POWERS OF THE FUTURE. urging that
every effort should be made for the main.
tenance of peace, we are moved more by
moral considerations than by those OF
traditional European policy. We may
say Mt once that wo care very little about
the balance of power, which, within the
last two or three years. has Significantly
disappeared from the preamble to tho
mutlny act A war between Franco and
Prussia would be war for the left bank
of tho Rhine, and would no doubt bo
fought out until the capacity of the one
TO conquer or of the other to defend that
debatable land was fully decided The
military result of such q war would
affect us but little. The time has passed
when it could matter to England whether
any Western power possessed few
square miles more or less, or the com
mand OF this or that fortress. Since the
last settlement of Europe, States have
come to maturity in the world which
threaten to dwarf the ordinary members
- ,--S A-"' PSph % olCLu. lclSSlu anu tuC
United States are the powers which the
next generation will look upon as the
most formidable. Moreover, the inter.
csts and attention OF England are chiefly
concerned with her own growing colo.
MES, and with the vast populations of
Asia. The result of Franco -Prussinn
war is Of little moment to us politically,
but we have an interest, in common with
the whole of Europe, that the two most
advanced nations Of tho continent should
not plunge into n contest, tho effect of
which may be to divide them for gene
ration by an enduring hatred. How much
the real strength of civilization may lose
by such convuson, it is Impossible to
Ioreteli We can only be certain that
the Importance Of Western Enropc. the
principal field of human progress, will be
diminished, perhaps permanently. by a
fratricidal strife. e.-L0ntion Times.
last Thursday night, DR.. J. C. Car
roll. OF Laurcns County, Ca, was killed
by Mr.. Curtis Bats, under the following
circumstances: DR. Carroll was on his
way home from Dublin, and called ut the
house of Bats, after night-fall Bats,
hearing the noise in his ynrf1 or,} tbn