The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-01
euesnsto~n, April p, sssaeiied New York

tVuegnstown, April II, reached New York
on Wednesday.
I The German question is stu more eriti-
cal. Prussia refused to disaTm in very do
cided terms. Napoleon was marching re-
1nforcernents or cavalry TO the French gar
,rlson near the Rhine. Itaiy was making a
/ war muster, King Victor Emanuel was in
Fiorence. 1t was rumorcd in that city
that the liberation of Yenetia might be ne
| gotlated with Austria in exchange for the
ald OF Italy against Prussia.
i A brisk recruitment for Maximiian's
army IN Mexico was going on i'll Austria.
land.
The steamer Africa brings three days
later news than the above.
The German crisis continues. The news
from Vienna is still warlike. The Paris
| correspondent OF the London Times saws
that the hopes Of peace in Germany are
rapidly vanishing, and he insinuates that
| the semblance of neutrality by France few
believe to be sincere. Warlike ruInors con-
time to circulate in Vienna and at Berlin,
and the ornaments continue. A Vienna
despatch says that Prussia's reply to the
last Austrian note was received on the 18th.
| 1t declines, in laconic terms, to accede 10
the demands Of Austria for rdemobilization.
The reports and rumors are vague and
contradictory. The Independence Beige
has reason to suppose that the question Of
| armamcnts will be satisfactorily settled by
mutual anl simultaneous disarmament.
1t is informed that confidential overtures
have been made to Prussia by Austria to
| that effect
1t is reported that the French Ambassa-
dor at Berlin has been instructed to state
| that France considers radical reconstruct
ton of the confederation not as question
OF German home policy, but as one which
would admit the intervention of the digni-
tarics OF the Vienna Congress.
Abiding to the panic on tho Bourse the
Paris correspondent OF the London Times
says that one of the disquieting rumors
was that the relations between France and
the United States were such us to justify
the very worst fears on account of Mexico.
At the Cheltenham race, the staging
gave way, burying 800 persons in the
ruins, and many were severely hurt, but
none are reported dead.
The EETo.-Phe President of the United
States has just furnished fresh instance
oL his political i!i "a sagaciity by putting veto
1t would be needless to endorse, by further
argument. tho views which Mr.. johnson
has expressed. Few persons, even in the
Northcrn States, conscientiously believe
that the cmancipated slaves are qualified
to exercise the privilege of citizenship, and
IL ls no secret that the measure which has
now been RENTED for the considera ton Of
Congress Was framed rather with the OBJ
Ject o. furnishing the white population Of
the Southern States than of benefitting the
black: To measure thus conceived, the
President is fully justified in refusing his
assent. If the American people were rep
resented III the present Congress, then
indeed, 1t might be urged that he ought to
give effect to their wishes. But such is
not the case. The representatives of the
Northern States have most Illegally dis
franchised the Southern population bv de-
nylng admission to their represent atives
to Congress. and now assume to make
not only laws for the entire Union, but
laws whose special operations will be con-
fined to those States whose represent ativcs
| they do not permit 10 take part in their
councils. This is not leg sislation according
to the proper interpretation Of the Ameri-
can Constitution, and it is, therefore, for
tunate for the republic that it possesses a
President who is determined, so far as he
IS able. to correct the evils which would
otherwise spring from so anomalous a con-
dltion of things. London Times
WEST INDIES.
| Cuban dispatches to the 2lst uitimo
state that the two Spanish mcu-of-
war, which lately arrived at Havana. had
again put to sea, their destination un-
known. Gen. Dulce had received percmp-
tory orders to have. the Africans, who had
been seized by private individuals as
slaves, delivered up and removed to Fer
nando Po. \ series Of broils of national
character, between the Cubans and Span
lards, had taken place in the cafes aud
opera houses, which assumed Il serious
character. but the arrest of several Cubans
| put an end to it,
Porto Rico dates to the 18th uit state
that an earthquake was telt on the Sth
ult. In Martinique, six Zouaves, who had
mutinied, We're shot, and thirty three were
condemned to long Imprisonment.
| The cholera is disappearing from Qua
dalupe.
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