The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-30
Domestic News.

CHARLESTON. June 9.--Arrived--
Steamship Charleston. New York.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-The reference
OF the salt and coal tariff to the Com
mittee, defeats action this session.
In the House, Senate bills amendatory
of the bill Of 1867, protecting the rights
of actual settlers; the confirming entries
to public lands in Alabama in certain
cases; establishing aud protecting na-
tional cemeteries, passed and go 10 the
President. The Reconstruction Com
mittee postponed the amnesty bill to
December. A majority of the commit
tee will try end make the postponement
plausible, by argument, that the present
session is too short. The Texas Pacific
Railroad bill passed the Senate at n late
hour last night. The company is au-
thorized to construct a continuous rail-
road and telegraph line from Marshall,
Texas, to San Diego, California, Ella Ell
Paso. The gauge of the road is to be
i've feet; the capital stock of the COM
pany is to be one hundred million dol
lars. III aid of the enterprise public
sections per mile in States, and forty
sections per mile in territories. In the
construction of the road American iron
or steel must be used exclusively The
company is authorized to issue its first
mortgage bonds to the amount of forty
thousand dollars per mile.
In the House, the report of the Con-
terence Committee on currency was de-
feated, and new conference asked The
line OF argument was, that the bill re-
ported by the Conference Committee in
volved contraction. The vote against
the bill was SO to 1872.
In the Senate 1000 copies of the if
teenth amendment enforcement bill was
ordered to be printed.
Cameron's motion to reconsider the
Texas Pacific Railroad bill, to restrict
branches to 10000 tons foreign iron,
failed. The tax bill was resumed; the
amendment reducing the duty on coal
and slate to fifty cents per ton, failed
Is to 20. The tariff on live animals is
twenty-five per cent. al Ualoren; breed
ing animals free. except from Mexico and
Canada: The present dnty OH opium is
retained.
Internal revenue receipts to-day,
S697, ,OOO
The New Orleans, Florida and Gulf
mail to Havana has been awarded to
Sandford Hite, OF st. Louis, with sub
sldy OF sos, 600 per annum for four
tosio' AHo 4nltlhl pOluI Is llXcu nt New
Orleans.
BosroN, June 29.-E. Porter Dyer, Jr.,
former cashier OF Newtonville Bank, was
sentenced to six months imprisonment
and S36, 900 fine.
New YORK, June 29.-Morals Lcmus,
the Cuban Minister to the United States,
is dead.
PITTsDURG, June 29.-During terri
ble storm, which prostrated houses and
trees, the lightning fired 1000 barrels of
oil, and the tank of the Eclipse Refinery,
which exploded. The burning oil, float
ing down the river, burned the Sharps-
burg bridge. One person was burned to
DEATH
RICHMOND, June 29.-Jeter Phillips.
who was to have been hung Friday, for
the murder of his wife, has been respi-
ted by the Governor, until July Odd.
Thermometer to-day 80 degrees. A vio-
lent thunder and rain storm visited lis
his evening.
SAN Francisco, Juno 29.-E. M. Hol.
brook, ex-delegate from Idaho, has been
assassinated OF Idaho City.
New ORLEANS, June 29.-The British
ship st. Lawrence, loading for Havrc,
with over 2, 900 bales of cotton and other
cargo on board, took fire and wns pump
ed full of water. Tho ssel and cargo
will be saved in q damaged condition.
''Mark Twain" writes about the new
crime insanity" as follows: Insanity
certainly is on the increase in the world,
and crime is dying out. There nre no
longer any murderers-none worth men