Year: 1866

Nachod show plainly enough that tine Prussians


are perfectly able to do this. The accounts OF


these battles are conflicting, but none Of them,


not even those Of the Austrians, indicate or


claim retirement from Bohemia on tho part


of the PrussianA None of the fights were en-


gagements Of importance. They were fought


by advanced corps and raiding cavalry forces,


between the lines of the main armies. and In


volved in their result no strategic or tactical


advantage. They were fought merely for the
destruction or preservation Of nsasfisl and lines


Of approach. Both parties contested them


with persistence which plainly indicates the


Importance attached to the lines Of railroads
upon which the engagements were fought; and
it is doubtless in the district of Bohemia lying


between the present lines Of the two armies


that the war will be fought out.


The situation Is more favorable than ever
for tho Prussians. The surrender Of the Hano-
verian army will leave Lieutenant Generals
Manteuffel and Won Boyer free to rush down into
Hesse- -Cassel and establish themselves In front
of the Federal allies of the Austrians at Frank
fort, Mayence and Wurzburg. This will give
the Prussians strong, perfectly-connected and
interior defensive line, extending from Cassel
on the right through Eisenach, Leipsic, Dres-
den and Zittau to the mountain frontier Of
Silesia, and line pretty accurately describing
the southern frontier which Prussia covets and
for which she fights.


Tho PhiladclphiA Convention and tho


Political Factions.


The National Convention to be held in Phila-
delphia in August appears to have stirred
up quite breeze among the political factions.
The movements on foot to elect delegates
throw considerable doubt upon the question,
who Is to control its action and what faction
will shape its decisions. The most serious
question that will arise and the one that will
are necessary to entitle delegate to admis-
sion into that body. It is essential that some
standard shall be fixed, or such conflict of
interests and great diversity in sentiment will
exist that it will be impossible for the conven-
ton to harmonze upon any point. 1t is pro-
pOoCu VI Uc u GulUu COuVCHsiOuy duu ~ 10 tiiCIC-
fore necessary that the politicians who attend
shall present clear record on this point, or
else furnish sufficient proof that they intend to
be good Union men hereafter. There is no
use o. holding the convention unless guaran-
tees Of this kind can be obtained as indemnity
for the past and security for the future. There
is no telling what outlandish scheme may be
proposed unless everything of the kind is
headed of by fixed standard ofqualiications.


We notice that the shent-per-shent demo-
cracy endorse the call and propose to send
delegates Mozart Hall and the peace demo-
cracy are preparing to elect delegates, and we
presume that the Knights of the Golden Circle
in the West, headed by Vallaniigham, will
be dcsrous Of taking part in the proceed.
ings. We also learn that the Albany Regency
is packing up its platform timber and shipping
it to Philadelphia by way OF Buffalo and Erie,
in the hope, no doubt, OF avoiding detection
until the time comes. Now, the question is,
are all Of these interests to be admitted into
that gathering without any pledges beforehand.
Dean Richmond and his Regency associates
should be called upon to forswear the Chicago
platform and its declaration that the war was
a failure. Ben Wood ought to be called upon
TO repent for having received the twenty thou
sand dollar rebel check from Canada and pay
It over to the soldiers orphan fund as evidence
Of the sincerity Of his repentance. Fernando
should be forced to renounce all his old peace
hereses and make full confession
Of all his operations in that line, and how much
he was paid to keep up the performance, while
the shent-per-shent faction should be required
to give bonds for their good behavior. Nothing
short OF clean breast ON all these points
should be accepted. No half way business
will answer. Unless full, free and frank con-
fession of all parties is had, and that, too, in
manner that ensures sincerity and real anx-
iety to reform and obtain forgiveness, the only
salvation for the instigators Of the Philadel-
phia Convention is to establish q test oath and
require every delegate from the North to
to it.


This oath can be varied from that established
by the radicals in Congress, and so changed as
TO suit the circumstances Of this Conven-
tion. The Congressional test oath applies
exclusively to the Southerners, but this
Convention proposes to admit the delegates
from the Southern States for the purpose Of
agreeing upon a restoration plan. The danger
which this Convention has to avoid IL the su-
premacy Of that element in the North which
has ruined every party that It has touched.
To reach this evil, all the Northern delegates
should be called upon, In the absence Of o full
confession OF their sins, to subscribe to test
oath, declaring that they never indorsed the