The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-04

providing for qualified negro suffrage
here. 1t gives the right to vote to
owners of real estate, owners of per-
sonal property of q certain amount,
educated negroes, negroes who have
7 been i'll fixed industrial pursuits for
five years, and negroes who have
served III the army or navy. AL the
radicals are opposed to it.
The President has been much in
consultation with Democratic mem-
bers of Congress-, and his policy,
long since marked out and announced,
will soon begin to be developed. If
the Senate are disposed to make war
ON the President, by refusing to con-
bolder steps, the President is quite
ready to meet them on their own
ground. Something startling in this
direction may soon be, looked for.
The project of equalzing the boun-
ties to soldiers will probably be aban-
doned. The subject has been ex-
arnined by competent authority, and
1t Is said that it would seriously de-
range the national finances, and add
80, ,O09, 900 to the national debt.
The National IteUigence1' publishes
the advertisement of the Austrian
Minister, offering his furnished resi-
dence for sale or rent. This is taken
as all intimation that Count Wyden-
bruck contemplates being recalled at
an early period. He must be, if Mr..
Seward adheres to his declarations to
Mr.. Motley, for the Austrian troops
destined for service in. Mexico are
| surely coming over. It is said that
the recent decision of Attorney
General Speed, that arms may be
sent across the Rio Grande to the
Juarists in Mexico, will be made the
subject of an immediate diplomatic
correspondence between the Marquis
de Montholon and Mr.. Seward.
The correspondent of the Balti-
more Suu writes:
The new project of reconstruction
from the committee of fifteen is the
subject Of much remark 1t was de-
sirabIe to many to know what the
President thought of it. That is we'll
| ascertained and known. The Presi-
dent and at least some of his friends
are more opposed to it than they were
to the first plan of the committee.
The Democrats in and out of Con
gress are all hostile to it, because it
excludes their party from power for
the next seven years, at least. Some
of them say that it will not go
through both houses of Congress by
the requisite two-thirds vote. But
that Is to be seen before long. The
Republican party in Congress is :.
unit upon it, and they command both
houses.
The next question is whether the
| joint resolution proposing the amend
ment will be ratified by three -fourths
of the States. There will be opposi-
tion to it from those Northern States
which will lose some representation
by it; but, as the Legislatures are
Republican, it may receive the assent
OF all of them-making twenty five,
exclusive of Colorado. Tennessee
may accept it, making twenty-six; but
if Colorado be admitted, it will re-
quire the ratification of thirty States.
The Republicans express surprise
that any opposition should be made
to the scheme, except by the Sumner
radicals, for it takes the negro suf-
frage question, as they say, out OF
politics.
The District negro suffrage bill is
to be modified so as to qualify the
right, inasmuch as the plan of forcing
universal negro suffrage upon States
and communities has been abandoned
even by many OF the extreme radicals.
The cholera is again raging at the
lower quarantine. Five deaths have
taken place, and thirteen additional
cases been received on board the Fal-
con since DR.. BisseI made his last