The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-30
From Washington.

Ihe department of State has re-
celved authentic information that the
three children of Rose Elyra, of New
Orleans. who were taken to Havana
without the consent of their parents,
have been sent back to her by the
United States Consul at the latter
city. Gen. Candy gave the informa-
ton concerning the abduction or re-
moval OF the children, when the De
partment of State instituted the
measures which have led to their re-
covery.
Senator Howard having returned
to Washington, it is expected that the
report of the Committee on Recon
struction, embracing the testimony of
General Lee, will be made early this
week.
Last week, the Secretary of the
Treasury made the following dis
bursements on account os depart
meats named : War, 81, ,7S9, ,7O2:
Navy, S4. 033, ,729; Interior, 81, ,9OS,-
S13. Total, $13, 1872, 264.
The great double-turreted monitor
Mlantonoma is ordered North from
this station. She carries 15-inch guns.
and is the best war vessel in our navy.
or probably ahoat
A despatch from Washington re-
ports that the Ways and Means Com
mlttee have agreed to continue the
exemption Of tax on income at 5000,
adding $50 to the exemption for every
child in family, up to fifteen in
number.
A very startling double-leaded edi-
torlal appeared in the Reconstruction
ast, of this week, which is edited by
Mrs. Swisshelm, directly charging
President Johnson with completely in
the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln. The
rawlings of this strong-minded disci-
pie of radicalism will not hurt the
President very much, it is thought.
The President yesterday expressed
his disapproval of Mr.. Stewards pro-
position for a universal amnesty on
condition of the establishment of free
suffrage
Senator Dixon, of Connecticut ic
still improving, but is not &C s1uered
entirely out of danger vet. Senator
Foot, OF Vermont, is improving IA
pidly
Lieut.. Gen. Grant is shortly to sail
for Europe, and the Navy Depart
ment are now looking up q vessel for
his accommodation. Capt. Ammen.
an old schoolluaster of the Generals.
and now of the iron-clad Miantonoma,
is to be transferred to the man-of-war
that conveys the military chicftain
across the ocean.
FRANCE AND MEXICO The Paris
correspondent of the National InteNi-
gence'' March 81 says Louis Napoleon
is in great trouble. Unless he assists
Maximilian, directly or indirectly, to
raise the needful supplies, he places
in jeopardy all the holders of Mexican
bonds in Paris and France, and there
by raises a discomfort which he might
not find it easy to appease. The
masses of the French people went
madly and eagerly into the Mexican
loan, under sort of persuasion that
the bonds were guaranteed by the
Government. There is scarcssR
working man in Paris who could
scrape together 500 francs who did
not invest in this loan.
1t really looks now as if Marshal
Forey had been instructed to make
the speech he lately did in the Senate,
and in which he said that both, more
men and more money, would be need
ed in order to try the effect of such
declaration upon the public mind,
and prepare the country for further
demands.
Altogether, matters have assumed
all uncomfortable position, and are
creating considerable uneasiness. The
Emperor Napoleon is evidently in
fix, from which he finds it extremely
difficult to release himself. He wants
to go, and he wants to stay; and
either dilemma presents difficulties
and dangers of an imposing charac-
ter, both at home and abroad. He,
in consequence, and in accordance
with his natural disposition, procras-
tinates, rather than hesitates, and
waits to see whether circumstances,
and perhaps destiny, will come to his
assistance.
a RELIABLE INFANT. The Adrian
(Mich. Expositor relates the following
incident:
A little girl about two years old,
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