The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-02
by Te1egrapn.
NexYa Items.


WASHINGTON, May I.-Surratt's IS
trial is set for the 25th May.
Seward received the Japanese to-
day.
No definite programme regarding
D1r. Davis. The court meets on
Monday, when his counsel will de-
mand trial.
Eleven thousand applications have
been received by the United States
Marshal of the Supreme Court for
the position of Registers in Bank
ruptcy. There are less than $50 np-
Polntments, and it requires the labor
OF corps of clerks to file and endorse
the papers.
The New Almadin quicksilver mines
We're sold for So, 100000.
The Prize Court of Cndiz has de-
clared the capture of the Queen Vic
toria illegal.
The King, in closing the North
German Parliament, said: "The time
has arrived when our German father
Land is able to uphold its place, its
rights and its dignity, by its own col
lective strength" The King closed
his address by asking God to bestow
his blessing upon his dear fatherland.
Bismarck declared the session closed,
amid tumultuons cheering for the
King.
RICHMOND, May 1.-The new street
car arrangement went into operation
to-day. but few negroes availed them
selves of il, though many whites are
refraining from riding.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-The watch
case factory of G. w. A. Pequignot,
near the Central Police Station, was
entered before 10 o'clock, last night,
the safe blown and $4,000 stolen, in
Guiding 129 watches.
John S. Jones, telegraph ope-
rator in Gosport, Indiana, was muir
dered in his Office last night.
Half of Crittenden, KY, including
the Masonic hall, was burned to-day.
Jessup Il Moore's paper works, in
Rockland, near Wilmington, Del,
were burned to-day. Loss $500, 900.
A Fort Laramie despatch says the
telegraph supply train, seventy miles
West of Fort Laramie, was attacked,
provisions destroyed and stock driven
Oft. Work is impossible on the line,
without an escort.
New YORK, May 1.-George Pea
body, Gen. Preston, of South Caro-
lima, John G. Sake and John w.
Forney sailed in the Scotia to-day.
Hartford, May 1.-The Connect
cut Legislature organized to-day.
Gov. English, in his message, SAYS
the situation of public affairs in every
aspect is important. He urges that,
rs the citizens of common country,
we should strive to cxtinguish the
vindictive resentments engendered by
the late civil war, waged to maintain
the supremacy of the Federal Con-
stitution and the integrity of the ma
tlonal honor. He states that the great
object was not yet attained-the
Union not restored-if ten States are
denied participation in the National
Government by the action of Con-
gress. Such measures, if persisted
in, will transform the republic into q
despotism. He deems the course of
legislation pursued by Congress as
wholly unwarrantable, and as fatal to
the Union and Constitution as the
doctrine Of secession. The legisla-
ton of the thirty-ninth Congress, to
a great extent, was series of usurpa-
tlons and infractions of the Constitu-
tion. He argues that Congress has
no more power, under the Constitu-
tion, to establish military govern
ments in the Southern States than to
institute m order of nobility in Eng
land, and claims that Congress as
sumed that power only for the pur-
pose of more thoroughly accomplish
ing the subversion of State authority.
If Congress can legislate for those
States, it was not difficult to foresee
like interference in other States,
and the right of States to regulate
their internal affairs in their own way
henceforth.
FROM THE NORTH. editor of