The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-17

PAS oA''SASAS. AL ONeI IIle cltY
people We're complaining of bursted
water-plpes. Some of the streets
were covered with solid sheet of ice
formed from the water escaping from
the mains. Gas pipes were also frozen,
III consequence of which some sec
tions of the city were wholly deprived
OF light. The ferry boats had much
difficulty in crossing the rivers, and
the steamers arriving from various
points were completely enveloped in
ice. Such cold had not been expe-
rienced before for years.
/ A special despatch to the Baltimore
San, under date of Washington,
January IL, says: The protracted
Republcan Congressional caucus last
night is the subject Of a good deal of
comment to-day The Conservative
Republicans look upon its result as
something of a triumph for their side
of the issues involved. The radicals,
ut the same time, do not feel that
they have conceded much in accord
ing to qualified negro suffrage in this
District, in place of what is termed
universal suffrage. The caucus, by a
two-thirds vote, agreed to support
the hill now pending, with the modi-
tica54ons proposed by Judge Hale, of
New York, viz: that only those
colored men shall vote who can read
the Constitution of the United States,
and those who have served in the
army. 1t was claimed that this was
common ground for compromise,
and would preserve harmony in the
party. Thad. Stevens became quite
indignant over this, and insisted on
universal suffrage or nothing. 1t is
understood that tomorrow the bill
will be recoEmitted to the Judiciary
Committee of the House, to be modi-
fed as proposed in caucus.
Secretary McCulloch was again in
conference with the Ways and Means
Committee to-day, in explaining his
financial measures, and why he de-
sired prompt action on them. The
principal objection of the committee
Was the. clause of the proposed bill
repeating the law providing for a
sinking fund.
When the Presiden. of the United
States and Lieutenant General Grant
lifted their voices few weeks since,
in vindication of the loyalty of the
Southern people, that most notorious
of the great family of political turn
coats, John ". Iorney rushed into
the arms of the conservative party,
and seemed to us to ''burn his ships"
q If fn rnrIa,.
The radical members of Congress,
however, having returned to Wash
ington, after the Christmas HOLIDAYS,
resolved in their wicked determine
ton to make an issue with the Presi-
dent upon the question of reconstruc-
ton, this wretched Dalghetty has for
the forty-seventh time deserted the
conservative and fitted back to the
radical camp. If we placed the
slightest faith in the Pythagorean
doctrine of the transmigration of the
soul, we should believe that when
the famous bat mentioned by Esop
as deserting alternately the birds and
the beasts departed this world, his
soul fitted at once into the carcass of
John W. Forney.-Richmond Times.
The approaching termination of
the Reciprocity treaty between Can
ada and the United States has stirred
up the Montrea! Board of Trade to
some decisive action on the canal
question. They yesterday passed a
resolution affirming the necessity of
at once enlarging the Weland Canal,
lengthening and deepening the St.
Lawrence locks arAd constructing a
new canal from Champlain to the St.
Lawrence. The prospects Of con-
federation, according to the showing
OF the Canadians themselves, do not
brighten. A paper published in
Ottawa, the new provincial capital,
laments that the maritime provinces
continue hostile to the Quebec scheme,
and prefer increasing their trade
facilities with the United States to
amalgamating with their Canadian
neighbors.
Every little while we read in Eng
land of the death of some person
from eighty TO hundred years old,
who belongs to the history of the
eighteenth century. A few DAYS AGO
died Lady Augusta Jordoo Hally-
burton, the only surviving child of
King William " and the celebrated
actress Mrs. Jordon. Her children
were all well provided for.