The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-25
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to 6. The question of guage was dis
cnssed to adjournment. Total number
of lncorporntors, now, 116.
London kilograms from various parts
OF the country report showers greatly
helping the crops, though the weather
is is, still warm and the ground very dry.
The Irish cables have been restored, and
communication is perfect.
Hoar's resignation tnkes effect upon
tho appointment and qualification of his
successor. Ackerman is here, but the
impression exists in high quarters that
the formalities preceding qualification,
will require month. The President
has signed the Department of Justice
bill, which greatly increases the patron
age of the Attorney General. Hoar will
continue to exercise the functions of his
Office until Ackerman can qualify, dur
ing which time, the patronage of the
Department of Justice will havo been
expanded.
Advices from London, Mt the State De-
partment, report the incarceration of the
American Consul, at Leith, Scotland,
for misdemennor in connection with the
Bolton masquerade.
Internal revenue receipts to-day nearly
81 100000.
General Longstreet is here.
1HoAo VIII w u AuluOr1Cy duu uaJOTlLy
report on the Hatch imprisonment in
San Domingo. The majority report ex-
onerates General Babcock.
The President has himself declared
that he intends to remove Motley, the
Minister to England, but it is untrue, as
has been stated, that he intends Fish to
take his place. The President has never
SO intimated to Fish, though the latter
can have the mission, if he should want
it.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
directed payment of interest due July I,
on and after Tuesday next, without re-
bate.
The President has signed bill paying
loyal citizens for taking the census to
1860.
In the Senate, bill making the 4th of
July, Christmas and New Years and
thanksgiving days legal holidays in the
District of Columbia, passed, and goes
to the President. Tie bill declaring the
bridge between Philadelphia and Cam
den q post road, passed. Fowler and
Thurman spoke against Sumner. Thur
man said the resolutions were very
grandiloquent, but what good would
this piece Of rhetoric do the Cubans?
He was IN favor of saying to Spain, and
in the simplest words in which it can
be expressed, that you not only ought to
| recognize tho independence of Cuba,
but you must do it. He would now
move to strike out the second and third
sections of the resolutions. Casserley,
also, spoke against the resolutions, but
was interrupted by the regular order
tax bill--when the income tax was
stricken out by vote of 34 to 90. After
which, the bill WAS made the special
order for Monday. A new apportion-
ment bill WAS introduced in the Senate,
Ill session, tonight.
The Democratic members and Sena-
tors issued an address to-day. They
have strong rensons to hope for a fayora-
BILE result. They beg their Southern fell
low-citizens not to risk loss, by electing
persons who cannot take the test oath,
or under disabilities imposed by the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
They will certainly be excluded full
Congressional committee has been ap-
pointed.
RALEIGH, June 24-The argument in
the case of Gen. w. +. Bennett, ex-
Supervisor Of Internal Revenue, of North
and South Carolina, charged with OF
preston while in Office, was given to the
jury yesterday afternoon. The jury is
hung, and it is thought that no verdict
will be reached.
NEW YORK, June 24--Arrived--
Steamer Sidonian, from Glasgow. Sailed
steamer City Of Manchester.
CHARLESTON, June 24.--Arrived--
schooners Robert Palmer, New York,
and D. " Streaker, Baltimore; steamer
Emile, Georgetown.
| GALVESTON, June 24.--The Senate
passed the House militia bill by vote
of Is to 5. Previous to tho vote, thir-
teen conservative Senators bolted; they
were brought back by the Sergeant-at-
Arms and released, to make quorum.
The bill passed. Eight Senators are still
under arrest. There is great indigna-
tion at the bill and the manner of its pas
sage. One correspondent has been ex-
PEELED from the floor and galleries, for
calling Mrs. Gov. Davis and other fe-
males, lobbyists. A bill giving the Co.
vernon power to appoint all civil officers;
another all registration officers, and an
| other to organize State police, of which
the Governor shall have the appoint