The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-09-20
French Reoruits-Fever, Etc.

NEW YORK, September 1.-THE Times
special from London says: Minister
Washburne advises Americans remain
ing In Paris during the siege to remain
In their houses, but to be sure and keep
the American flag flying from the roofs
or windows. The Americans, accord
ingly, take the siege coolly.
The Journal OUicicl publishes decree
this morning, fixing the price of butch
ers' meat, for the best, at twenty-one
sous.
The Project of Police has issued an
order that all wines and provisions found
IN the Imperial palaces shall be distri-
bnted to the ambulnnces.
moro hopeful feeling prevails in
Paris to-day, from tho announcement
that Lord Lyons has gone to Prussiun
headquarters, and that elections for the
constitutional Assembly will take place
on the 2d, instead of the 18th Of Octo-
ber.
All accounts from Paris describe the
French rs eager for peace.
The Herutti's special from London, the
17th, says tho special correspondent
with the French fleet writes That the
sailors express much satisfaction ut the
prospect oi the raising of the blockade
aud then return to some point where ac-
tive service will be possible. When the
f1eet lett Cherbourg, the Minister of Ma
rlne made to Admiral Willianruz posi-
tive promise TINT not alone should several
iron clad ships follow him at brief inter
walls, but, what was of the first ir,por-
tance. that tho fleet transports would
speedily Join him, conveying q force of
thirty or forty thousand troops for land
operations. The promise has been
broken in both instances and the fleet
loft to its own unaided resources. which
have been burely sufficient to maintain
the blockade of the enemy's ports.
Much of the service is tedious and un-
satisfactory. Our situation is in danger
Gus waters, abounding in hidden reefs
and shadows. No friendly lights to give
warning in night, no buoys to serve as
marks for guide by day, while we are
compelled constantly to guard against
surprises by the enemy, with small
means for retaliation i'll open ports. We
are forbidden to attack fortresses, and
could not do SO with the slightest pros
pect OF success, rs the heavy iron clads
draw from twcnty-threc to twenty eight
feet OF water, with the exception of the
Lachambeau, which combines formd-
able armament with comparatively small
draught. But little can be done with q
single ship; we might attack and kill.
but to what purpose? The forts COM
manding the entrance are situated so
high that it would be almost impossible
to elevate the guns sufficiently to effect
anything, while the ships would be ex-
posed to IL destructive downward fire.
escaping which they would encounter
moro formidable obstacles in the bay,
which is filled with torpedoes and made
unfavorable by the sinking of vessels
connected with chain cables. leaving
only narrow and tortuous channel
through which only the smaller crafts
manage to pick their.wny. Under such
circumstances, it would be madness to
attempt to penetrate far enough to bonn
bard the town by few wooden men-of-
war. It would have been piece of
senselcss temerity, and probably result
ing III another German triumph. Hence
the complete and disastrous failure of
the French fleet in the hour of danger.
Notwithstanding the heavy cost to the
country, thcro should have been no fleet
here, or one four times as powerful.
NEW YORK, September 1S.-The steam
or City of Brooklyn took $50 recruits for
France.
The disease among the troops at Gov
Sluoi . ISlauu Is mal16uant bilious
not ycllow-fever. There have been
twenty-seven cases and nine deaths, but
no cases within three days.
Baron Fl. DeRevicre, who figured here
before the war in the celebrated Blount-
DeRevlere marriage case, was killed ut
Metz.
The French steamer Lafayette was de-
tanned here for supplies for the French
army.
The brig Fl. G.. Berry, from Havana,
lost tho Captain, from cholera, and q
seaman, from yellow fever; two cases of
fever aboard.
CHARLESTON, September 9.--Arrived--
steamers South Carolina, New York !;
Maryland, Baltimore.
ATLANTA, September 10.-Immense
preparations are being mado for the
great State Fair, to come off October 10.
Visitors from all parts of the Union are
expected, and will meet with cordial well
come.
New ORLEANS. September 19.-There
were SO deaths from yellow fever for the
week ending September Is. Of these,
% wcre Italians; Frenchmcn; 3 Ger
mans; Americans; Hollanders; 2