The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-01

LoNDoNy April 30.--The morning edi.
ton Of the Pail Mall 'Gaeette has been
discontinued. The 1 a sn,es- reviews the
oompents On the attrocites of the Greek
bngandsi and emphasizes the. call upon
thsi.great powers to intervene in the
sffans of Greece, to the end that similar
ousFsges may be, prevented ip future.
9 CoNHTaNTINoPLH, April ,30.-The Sui
tanih aadfessing the Council, reviewed
the eyents, OF last year and proposed to-
give every attention to reforms, the de-
velopmenti of education, trade, roads,
and military militia iand' navy, reorganization.
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R1oHMokD, ,Aprilao!lW G. Dnnham,
agent of the New, York and Virginia
Steamship Company. ono of the victims
ofthe hate disaster, died at noon to- day.
ExvStAtR Treasurer John s. Calvert is
considered dying. There are no other
deRthg from the disaster. Offers of aid
hnNsebeen received from New York,
Phllltaedielphia, Chicago, Baltimore, and
various other places.
The Legislature is now meeting ut the
Exchange Hotel
General Candy issued orders to-day
relinqutshing command of the depart
ment Of Virginia, and directing ali oei-
GERS now serving in the department. to
report by letter to General Mcdowell,
commanding the department of the East.
General Canby and his staff left to-
night for Washington.
BALTIMORE, April 30.-Thos. Hoffman,
who, with Edward Grier and Edward
Dennis, robbed the messenger of the
Harnden Express Company, in this city,
last May, aud who broke JUL and we're
recaptured in Indiana, were convicted
to-day, and sentenced to ten yenrs in the
penitentiary. l
-Four companies of the seventeenth
United States Infantry, under command
of Col. Samuel B. Hayman, arrived this
morning, en- route from Graham, N. c.,
to Daeotah. ar--iAf 3.
New YORK, April 30.-The schooner
Matte Lou sails this evening, carrying
second detachment Of colonists for the
Hyde Park ColoAy, N. G.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-The House
has voted to adjourn over from next
Thursday till the following Monday.
Judge Chase departs for Virginia and
Judge Bradley for New Orleans, on Mon
day, to open Courts. The Supreme
Court adjourned to the last week in Oc-
tobeE 2'
! General Sherman states that Indian
hostilities have not yet commenced in
the Sioux country, but he is expecting
dispatches to that effect. General She
ridan has gone to the front and will COM
mnnicate ut once in detail the state of
affairs. .
Internal revenue receipts to-day over
$500.OO0. 1ir
The Star says the various contending
v1Qrfioa in -
mental Railroad, several Eills for which
have been introduced in the House. are
about harmonizing, it is said, and will
probably agree upon one of the bills, and
urge its favorable consideration by the
Pacific Railroad Committee. The bill
upon which the compromise will be eff
footed was prepared by Senator Howard.
The Senate was not in session.
The caae Of Knox us. Lee, from Texas.
which was submitted upon written argu-
ment by Judge Paschal and Mr.. Willis,
was ordered to be re-argued at the next
term OF the Supreme Court. The cause
involves only two points-one the effect
OF sale of property by the Confederate
States and their sequestration laws
against alien enemies; the other upon
an instruction of the Judge upon the
measure Of damages. The Judge said
that in assessing damages, the jury
would recollect that whatever amonnt
they might give in their verdict, it could
be discharged by the payment of such
amount in legal tender notes Of the
United States. It is snid the difficulty
was upon this instruction, and that the
argument has been ordered because it
opens up the whole question of the con.
stitutionality OF the legal tender laws.
The case will be argued by Judge Pas
chal, Against the instructions.
The House adjourns at 4 D. m. on
Thursday. to Monday, to put the hall in
summer trim.
Schenck, by unanimous consent, and
after IN explanation, introduced Joint
resolution, prepared by Clark, OF Texas,
providing that all persons duly elected
to office in Texas shall have thirty days
from the 30th of April, 1870, within
which to file the oath of Office prescribed
in the Act of March 81, 1870; which
passed.
A national association Of medical col.
ieges assembled to-day. A resolution
was adopted, reiterating in the strongest