The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-11
Domestic News.

Domestic News.
WASHINGTON, May 1O.-Gen. Joseph
H. Lewis, who commanded Confede-
rate Kentucky brigade, has arrived. He
succeeds Golladay in Congress.
3 p. Mn the House, the Committee
on Reconstruction proposed in lieu of
the Senate amendment, to remit the orr
ginaf Georgia bill, with sundry additions,
omitttng Che Bingham amendment; they
PROPOSE leaving the terms of Office to ju-
dicial decision. No action. The subject
TO be resumed on Thursday.
The Senate joint resolution granting
additional land subsidies with privilege
to mortgage the road to the Northern
,P6cfhc; Railroad, came up in order, the
previous question having been seconded.
The minority resorted to dilatory mo-
1tions, which occupied the time up to ad-
journment, without reaching q vote.
The House military bill was taken up
and q substitute was offered by the Sc
nate. Military Committee which proposes
reduction of the army to 25, 900 men.
After some discussion. the regulnr order,
the legislative. executive and judiciary
appTopriation bill was taken up and con
sidered up to adjournment.
s. IG5eph 81. Lewis, Representative elect
from. I'D Kentucky District, vice Cola
day, appeared and took the oath of
office.
Internal revenue receipts to-day, $685.
GOO
It is again asserted that the President
is yielding to the Louisiana delegation
and will remove Collector Casey.
~ $2o, ,O00 worth of distilleries have been
seized in North Carolina.
The Subcommittee on the Mississip-
pi and Lake Michigan Canal will report
favorably to- full Committee of the
House.
David G. Humphreys, of Alabama, has
been, confirmed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court; Thomas n. Pearne. of
Tennessee, was confirmed as Consul to
Jamaica.
New. YORK, May 1O.-Arrived = tho
steamer Arizona, from Aspinwall, with
dates to May !.
a United States steamer left Panama
on the 18th ultimo, to investigate the
dispute between Weirthous, consul at
Limburg, and the postmaster there, who
had mad personal encounter relative to
delivering the mails to the consulate.
The news from the Darien Ship Canal
isunfavorable. The Caledonia Bay route
as pronounced impracticable.
The Indians continued friendly. A
telegraph line was being built.
Chilian news unimportant. In various
parts of Bolivia heavy rains had fallen,
and roads were impossible. A terrible
storm or stones occurred at Las Playas,
Peru. Gardens. orchards and crops of
all kinds were cut to pieces It was nc
companied by slight earthquake. The
Salvador coffee harvest will be large.
Yellow fever had appeared at Costa Rica.
Among the passengers by the Arizona
are fifty-two survivors of the Oneida.
New York May 10.-The jury in the
Mcfarland trial rendered a verdict of not
guilty, after three hours deliberation.
New ORLEANS. May 1O.-The Mace
and Allen excursion got off. There was
an immense crowd; many of them pro-
mlnent merchants, lawyers, physicians
and ex-officers of both armies, from ge-
nerals down. Seventy policemen accom-
pany the train quarter Of mile out,
where ticketless persons will be elected.
The betting is three to two on Mace.
~ a despatch from Kenners, La., says
Mace whipped Allen in ten rounds
forty four minutes. Allen was badly
punished. Mace was scarcely Injured.
First blood for Mace; first knock. down
for Allen; everything passed off quietly.
The stenmer Frankfort, from Bremen.
with $50 passengers. mostly emigrants,
arrived to-day. She brought seven men
from the British barque Hero, which was
burned on the I'd. She was bound from
San Jago de Cuba to Montreal, with a
full cargo of sugar and molasses.
ATLANTA, Ga. May 1O.-Suit was
brought to-day in the Superior Court,
by Governor Bullock, against tho Con-
st'tution newspaper, for libel and slander
IN publishing the statement that the Co
vernon had sold the State railroad to the
Adams Express Company.
WILMINGTON, May 1O.-Memorial day
was celebrated here to-day in grand
style. An address was delivered by Gen.
II. d: Colston. About 1000 persons
were in the procession.
RALEIGH, May 10.-The convention of
this district assembled to-day, and nomi-
) mated Madison Hawkins, OF Franklin.
for the short term, to fill the vacancy
caused by the expulsion OF DEVICES. and
James Harris, negro, for the regular
term. The Republican State Conven.
tion assemblies tomorrow.
Gas Light Bills for Month of April.