'Then there is Gideon Pillow, who has undertaken a contract for digging that 'last ditch,' of which you have heard so much. I am afraid that the white 'feathers will fly' whenever _that_ Case is opened, and that Pillow will give us the slip. 'The sword of the Lord' isn't 'the sword of Gideon' Pillow--_that's_ certain--so I shall bolster him up no longer. Gideon is 'a cuss,' and a 'cuss of cowardice.'' We are glad to see that the good cause has so stalwart and keen a defender in Tennessee. * * * * * We have our opinion that the following anecdote is true. If not, it is 'well found'--or founded. Not long since, an eminent 'Conserve' of Boston was arguing with a certain eminent official in Washington, drilling away, of course, on the old pro-slavery, pro-Southern, pro-give-it-up platform. 'But what _can_ you do with the Southerners?' he remarked, for 'the frequenth' time. 'You can't conquer them--you can't reconcile them--you can't bring them back--you can't do any thing with them.' 'But we may _annihilate_ them,' was the crushing reply. And CONSERVE took his hat and departed. It is, when we come to facts, really remarkable that it has not occurred to the world that there _can_ be but one solution to a dispute which has gone so far. _There is no stopping this war._ Secession is an impossibility. If we _willed_ it, we could not prevent 'an institutional race' from absorbing one which has no accretive principle of growth. It is thought, as we write, that during the week preceding July 4th, _seventy thousand_ of the Secession army perished! They are exhausting, annihilating themselves; and by whom will the vacancy be filled? Not by the children of States which, under the old system, fell behindhand in population. By whom, then? By Northern men and European emigrants, of course. But European intervention? If Louis Napoleon wants to keep his crown--if England wishes Europe to remain quiet--if they both dread our good friend Russia, who in event of a war would 'annex,' for aught we can see, all Austria and an illimitable share of the East--if they wish to avoid such an upstirring, riot, and infernal carnival of revolution as the world never saw--they will let us alone.