Show THE NATION our oar distant readers beyond the reach of daily j ele eie grama will f ind find on our first page variety to catchup catch up again the thread of history such aa as it is written in passing life nothing of any very special interest beyond what we publish has occurred recently either norther north narth or south both the federal and i confederate troops have had their little successes but the waterloo of the war has baa yet to take place charleston should be a rather uncomfortable city from Gil mores attentions tent ions but richmond Ria ric limond ilmond seems to enjoy perfect security at the present time that the south should be in a terrible condition of summering suffering and misery is a very natural conclusion from such a desolating war and from sheer exhaustion she might have been expected to cave in long ago but so far as the language of their congress and thein their president can be trusted there is no more appearance of an end to hostilities now than there was a year ago or at any time B ince since the war began south 1 ern politicians doubtless look forward with I 1 interest to the forthcoming presidential cam laign io the north and with the hope of benefiting by a change of rulers in washington they will hold on an vigorously to their cour course e for independence the north claims to have felt but little I 1 the e war except in the vacant chairs around the family fireside As asan an article of commerce it has been immensely popular the press has found it an source of interest to the reading public multitudes of men have been lifted from obscure obscurity ty to position and laim claim attention which their names never before belore inherited and e fore tore penniless are now wealthy by contracts and for the continuance ot of this excitement this fame this mania for wealth we doubt not that ten times as many secretly pray as ever have been found inthe in ahe the tented field battling for their heir extinction with the south frantically desperate and the he north increasing in wealth we own that our vision of the end of the war ia is still dim and obscure and we yet see nothing on which to pin a hope of its speedy termination but the tho irre march of a napoleon whether the laurel la is destined for a grant a mcclellan or a new man is left for the future and much of that history will commence with the approaching presidential eier eler election tion |