The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-03

remainder of it is of easy construction, we
can afford to congratulate our readers on
the early terminHtion OF this work, which
will make South Carolina the thoroughfare,
and Charleston the outlet of tha immense
productions of the mighty West
Affairs in Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald telegraphs under date OF
January 81: '''af,Et
The great event in the House to-day was
the passage of the joint resolution reported
from the Committee on the Judiciary by
Mr.. Boutwell,, submitting to the State LIE
gislatnres an amendment to the Consttu-
tion providing for universal suffrage. All
the Republicans voted for it with the excep-
ton OF John A. Bingham, of Ohio; Jehu
Baker, of Illinois, and David Halsey, of
West Virginia OF course the Democrats
all voted against it. The carpet-baggers
who voted against it were Nelson, Tiff and P.
NJ d. Young, of Georgia Mr.. Bingham
had himself proposed an amendment which,
when put to vote, could command but
twenty-six supporters. This overwhelming
defeat enraged him so much that he voted
steadily with the Democrats on the preimi-
nary motions, as well as on the passage of
the joint resolution itself. No attempt at
fillibustering was made, by the Democrats
beyond the successful efforts of Mr.. Brooks
in calling the yeas and nays, in ordering the
the jointresolution to third reading It
is the opinion of Mr.. Boutwell, that the
measure will pass the Senate at an early
day -le
The Committee on Printing have finished
their Investigations of the alleged frauds in
the Interior Department, connected with
the contracts for stationery. The testimony
shows the existence of frauds far beyond
anything that has yet been stated concern
ing this matter. The Secretary of the Inte-
rior, as we'll as nearly all the heads of
bureaus, are to some extent implicated. The
Chairman of the Committee has notified
Secretary Browning that they have finished
taking testimony, and that before proceed
ing to make this report to the House, they
will hear him in anything he has to say in
extenuatiou OF the serious charges preferred
In the evidence. 1t is understood that Mr..
Browning will appear before the committee
on Monday
Another attempt has been made to secure
the rotunda of the Capitol, or the new ex.
tension OF the Treasury building, for the
purpose of an inauguration reception or
ball; but the plan failed Gen. Grant having
refused to attend. It is stated that an i'm
portant change will have to be made in the
proceedings usual Mt inaugnrations, mas
much as Gen. Grant has intinated that he
will not occupy the same carriage as Mr..
johnson, in going to and from the Capitol
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CAsEs-Mr. John
W. Forney is travelling in the South, and is
writing letters over his initials to his paper.
In a late letter from Lenoir, North Carolina.
heis ''delighted to find the people of the
State so temperate and orderly" he 'has
met great number of the Confederate ofli-
GERS, and i'll every instance found them
courteous, Intelligent and full of inuuries;"
the election Of Grant sis regarded by this
whole population ,s the best thing that
could have happened to them" and on
every side when he is not surprised he is
overjoyed at the goodness. loyalty aud pros.
perlty of the people" Whether this appa-
rent change of view has anything to do
with land agency speculations in which Mr..
Forney is said to be concerned, or results
from an honest conviction of closer in
spection of the Southern people, we do not
undertake to say. We have no noubt our
Selves however, that the virtues of the
North Cnrolinians are all that he represents
them to be.
From all that can be learned, MIR. Cush
lngs mission has been complete success,
and the SPECTATORS may now set to work
and cut through the isthmus after the emil
nenty magnanimous and liberal service this
Government has done for them through the
medium of Secretary Seward and Caleb
Gushing.