The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-06

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MADRID, October 5.-Martial lew. has
been proclaimed in Andalusia and Uasa-
slofa ,ie7 < 5aGa s..,..l 4oiiteqdh - $50 81,
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WAsHiFS FSa0&&J IOc OctbBdsI I6l The ladhil
nistratioP is on the defensive regarding
the charges Of complcity with the gold
speoulators. |Y> . rt7rr11-JJ
The Supreme Court will probably hear ca
the Yeyger .bddsas corpus case on Friday.
The case involving the constitGtionality
of the cotton tax win be soon-asgued.. :,
The internal revenue officials here fear
thai, COLLECTOR McGea,i is killed or has alb
sc6ndea, as nothih&has beSn heard from
him since the 21st Of August.
There was full Cabinet meeting to-
day.
BENZ. B. Elory has been appointed
collector of the Third Mississippi Dis
trict. - ~
Hoar decides that Sherman's recent
order, excluding claims against, and
attorneys prosecuting claims before, the
war department, is illegal.
Supervisor Prisbfy reports forty stills
seised. !, Il ,0q9 g cations 81, spirits captured,
huu tulfCys4V6- men -hff66teQ IN the VIZ
gsnss n9uhHtatiny by squad Of ,1 Federal
i5amsnael Rorsuue, anegro member of the
North Daroiina. Legislature, on trial here
foT lafceny, has been acquitted
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srCoNoeRD. M HI, October o5.-The
stofm at this oint iis, violent The tele-
gt&ph North is interrupted, the river is
rising fast, ahd tie, damage is considera-
LAfEn--.FullM reports Of the flood
show that .sH I'm snse am cunt of damage
has besna doh e q 7Btidges ana factories
have BEEN swept sway and several dives
Troy. N. Y, October 5.-The flood is
nptecedented.' Threepersons have. been
drowned.
HAhgRoaD, Conn.,, octoberz 6.-Pros-
tra5Ad telegraph lines prevent returns
HsEfford has gone Democratic by 700
majority: '
sNaw YORK, October 5.LThe Herald's
Madrid special reports that Espera Cuer-
re- troops lost twenty killed and thirty
eight wounded. The Republicans, !, 900
strong, after losing forty killed, sixty
wounded, and q number captured, re-
treated to the mountains.
PHnADELPH1A, October 5. The flood
is subsiding and freighting and travel has
been resumed"
STAuNToN, VA, October 5.-A man
named Mcclellan, from PENNSYLVANIA,
was killed at Charlottesville, to-day,
while attempting to leap on a railroad
train in motion.
Great preparations are being made
here for the Valley Agricultural Fair,
which commences Tuesday next.
RICHMOND, October 5.-The Legisla-
ture convened at noon, with full at
tendance, in the House. A temporary
organization was effected, with VIM.
Mclaughlin. of Rockbridge, rs Speaker,
and 81. G. Jones, of Albemarle, Clerk,
and adjourned till to-morrow. when per
a Wells Republican, protested against
any officer, temporary or permanent,
taking his seat who had not taken the
iron-clad oath.
The Senate net, with Lieutenant-Go-
vernon Lewis, in the chair. The organi-
zation is not yet completed, but it will
be that of the caucus last tnight-Davis,
old incumbent. Clerk; Writ Harrison,
old incumbent, Sergeant-at-Arms; Mi
nor, of Loudon, first, and Abraham Hall.
oolored, second Doorkeeper
EVENING. G.-The Senate elected all the
officers named in the noon despatch-a
Wells Republican making the same pro-
test as was made in the House. The Se-
nate then adjourned until tomorrow,
Both parties CAUCUS tonight. The
Wells men will repair their ticket for
Speaker, Gen. D. B. White, who was no.
minated for that position last night, be-
ing regarded as Objectionable he having
challenged General Butler when in this
city. 7!fN'f
The Wells Republicans ran regularly
nominated ticket for officers in the Se-
nate to-day, which received six votes.
There is little talk about the senator
ship, in view of the more immediate in
terest in the choice Of Speakers and the
caucnses tonight.
Robert Douglass, Private Secretary to
President Grant. was in tllis city to day.
INDIAyApo11s. IND. October 2.-T6e
accident at the Fair Grounds, this aftor-
noon. was the most heart-rending that
has ever occurred in this vicinity, and
has cast q gloom over the entire city.