The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-01
News Items.

New YORK, November 2S.-The Weralds
special from Toronto says the news re-
garhng the contemplated Fcnian rising
Din ireland has caused intense excitement.
: Tho Globe, Telegraph and Leader, issued
extras, which were eagerly purchased. If
rumor is true, the Fenian movement, so
1ar from doug the prisoners under SEN
tence any good, will Infinitely harm them;
and from the tenor of the London Times
article, copied to-day in the daily papers
the hopes that were heretofore indulg ed in
by their friends, may prove fruitless.
special from Montreal says arrange
ments for the removal Of the Fenian pr-
soners from the Jail in this city to Sweets
burg are completed. The prisoners will
be accompanied by strong military guard
Fears are entertained of u raid from Yer
mont to Sweetsbnrg 10 release them The
greatest excitement is manifested in this
city over the news OF the outbreak in Ire
land
The anxiety to hear from the Fenian in
surrectlon in Ireland is very great. The
very meagre and unsatisfactory telegram.
purporting to have come over the cable
give rise to the belief that the English
Government Is exercising a Gems Sorship
over the Atlantic telegraph, or that the
sensation news IS manufactured by inte-
rested parties in the city. Arms and
officers are known to have been sent to
1rSland from this city. One regiment of
State militia has furnished $50 men as
ofhcers, and large accession is expected
from the British army.
A special to the Herald, dated Toronto.
November 26, says the Rev. J. A. ATTAIN
preached last evening, in the Episcopal
Cathedral at Kingston, to large au-
dlence,ln III favor of annexation to the United
States. Also, that a meeting is called in
montreal to discuss the benefit to be de-
rived from annexation.
At Il meeting of tho Rnnr1,1inop Now,
Assoclatlon to-day, it was resolved to meet
III Washington, December g. and to remain
II session until Congress adjourned
special despatch from Nashville saws
nan dozen franchise bills have passed
tlrst reading in the House; all of them en-
brace III their provisions colored suffrage
and two of them the universal amnesty
feature. 1t is now generally thought that
bIli guaranteeing qualified negro suffrage
will become a law but present indications
the amnesty doctrine.
A bill has passed the Legislature pro-
vldlng that in all trials. civil or criminal.
IN any OF the courts of Tennessee it shall
be good ground of challenge for cause"
as to the competency of any Juror, that
such person IS not qualified voter of this
state The bill also provides that person
guilty OF rape, as now defined by the Ten
h nessee statutes, shall suffer death bv hang
|5Aostg, but the jury may commute the punish
nor more than twenty years.
tIfty-seven radical members of the Ie-
glslature have published a call for Union
Convention, to meet in Nashville next
FEBRUARY, to nominate u candidate for Co
vernon
Washington letter says bill has been
prepared, and will be introduced during the
first week OF the session Of Congress- re-
peallng the Act of July, 1862, which en-
powers the President to grant full or con-
dltlonal pardons to persons engaged in
rebellion. If it becomes law, it confines
the President to the constitutional power
to pardon after triaf and conviction 1t is
part of the radical programme.
Dispatches from New Orleans say the
radicals are again endeavoring to breed
mischief: The State Executive Committee
has issued an address and resolutions, de-
nouncing the President as a traitor and
sympath1Zer with rebels and usurper
and calling upon Congress to abolish the
present rebel State Government and give
them a military or provisional one, with
negro voters as the basis. Gov. Wells is
no party to it, and says he can run the
machine without the assistance of these
revolutionists
ST. LOUIS, November 25.-Late Montana
advlces relate fearful stories of the crimes
and desperate lawessness of the s.rourhs''
and adventurers in Virginia City. A few
days ago. desperate encounter occurred
IN saloon, which resulted in the instant
killing, by knives and pistol shots, of seve-
raj persons and the severe .wounding of
many others. 1t is also stated that every
thing Is at starvation prices; that the wea-
ther was very cold, and that great destitu-
ton was prevailing.
New ORLEANS, November 29.-Advices
from Vera Cruz, of the 24th and Tampco
or the 10Th, state that two French and two
Austrian frlgates were in the former port
ana one Austrian in the latter MaXimilian
Is living IN private. Gen. Orizaba BaZaine
Is at the city OF Mexico. The Imperialists
had only four or five towns the rest of
Mexico Is IN the hands of the Liberal party.
At the city of Jalapa, the Imperial rarri-
son surrendered to the Liberals on the
11th inst, and the garrison was treated "a
prisoners of war
WAsHINGroN, November 23-It is stated
that Gen. Garfield, member of Congress
from Ohio, purposes, on the first dav Of the
next session, to give notice of bill pro-
vldlng for the assembling of the fortieth
Congress on the fifth day of March next
the day following the adjournment of the
present Congress. Any such move, how
ever, will be opposed by great number of
radical members.
The Republican, Of this morning states
that there Is not only no Authority what
ever for the crossing Of our military forces
over the Rio Grande. but a positive order
against such movement. In connection
herewith, 1T says that if it should prove
true, Gen. Sedgewick will have violated
orders, and will be forthwith relieved from
duty and ordered under arrest.
Although no formal official communica.