The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-07
News Items.

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News Items.
-SAyAsNAII, May. g. The ship Col.
.conda,with immigrants for Liberia,
arrived to-day. S42f'i'a74i.
ATLANTA, May ,6.-1tis understood
that the test oath will not befeouired
Of Legislative members, and that the
Legislature will be assembled at Mil
ledgeyille as provisional body to
take action on the Constitutional
Amendment and then adjourn. O.
ToRoNTo, May 6.--Altogether. Sc
ven suspected Fenians have been ar.
rested, Certain papers with Fenian
prociiYities are forbidden.
MONTREAL, May 6.-The tug Re-
lief capsized to-day, and the captain
and firemen were drowned. hl,]-.
New HAMPSHIRE, May 6.-The
State Convention adopted resolutions
fayoring Grant and impeachment.
Letters we're read in Convention from
Butler and Washburne, giving asst,r-
ances of conviction.
WAsHNGToN, May 6.-In the
House, Stevens was called to order
by the Speaker, in his Alta Vela ex-
planation, and withdrew it.. All that
was read was very caustic on Nelson.
Carey's resolution, withdrawing the
tenth article, was not entertained, by
strict party vote. The House then
went into Committee of the Whele;
with the understanding that the
speakers would avoid disclosing pro-
ceedings. ,a ,',1 ''',,'
Denneily says he was misunder-
stood in the House. He neither de-
sired, nor does he desire, reconcilia-
ton with Washburne. His PROPOSE
tion to take drink meant nothing of
that kind. '-- -;.l,'.
The impeachment court was dense
ly crowded. Bingham concluded in
effect as follows: "Shall it be said
in history hereafter, that through the
detection OF the American Senate,
the fair fabric of American liberty
crumbled into dust. and the name of
our Republic faded away before the
nations9 It is the spirit of justice,
of liberty, of equality, that makes
our Constitution respected every
where. 1t gives the people the right
to make their own laws; and it is
this right which is challenged by your
recreant President. He claims the
power to make the laws, to be dicta-
tor. II he is allowed to do sc, hit will
be by the voice of the Senate, not
by the free will of the American peo-
pie, or through any neglect of their
representatives. Will the Senate set
him above their Constitution, which
he has violated, aud which he swore
to obey? Perhaps he was saying too
much, but he asked Senators to re-
member thai. he was speaking to-day
in behalf of violated Constitution
and laws; of the rights of free peo-
pie; that he was speaking in the
name OF half million of braves, who
slept IN death to-day-who had died
that the nation might live. It only
remained for him to thank the Senate
for their attention, and to demand,
IN the name of the House of Repre-.
sentatives, of free people, the
conviction Of this accused President,
who stands guilty before God and
mansof the high crimes and misde-
meanors of which he stands i'm
peached. Applause followed, when
Chase ordered the galleries cleared.
The doors were then closed, and a
resolution to admit official reporters
was lost. Summers resolutions dis
cussed to adjournment.
Grant sent o message to Congress,
covering q communication from Can.
by, detailing the evil effect of COM
pelling State officers in North and
South Carolina taking the test oath.
Many good men acting with the
Union party can't take it, and other
good men who could, decline taking
it, feeling that un worthy motives will
be attributed to them. Grant ex-
presses no opinion on the subject,
and merely transmits Canby's letter.
The protest of the white people of
South Carolina against the Constitu-
tion, was referred to the Reconstruc-
tion Committee.
The Ocean Bird, with $727, 600 in
treasure, has arrived.
The Pope tainted recently, and
was, for some hours. thouphE To he