The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-21
Domestic News,

CHARLESTON, May 2O.-.Arlivcd.-
sohooners Ida Richardson and Surprise,
Baltimore; schooner Altoona, Balti-
more.
BosroN. May 2o.i-Gilmore's shoe fac
tory, at North Rainham, was burned to-
day; loss $50, 600; incendiarisnl.
NEW York, May 2O.-Lydia Thomson
won the $1,000 match against 2.34.
George Patchen, also, won the $1,000
match against 2.44. The race between
Amber and Aeteroid, yesterday, mile
heats. was awarded to Amber. It is ru-
mored that the rider of Asteroid was
bribed.45T4
CINorNNAr1, May 2O.-The General
Synod Of the Reformed Presbyterian
Churcli OF North America, yesterday,
elected Rev. DR.. Mcleod, of New York,
Moderator; Rev. DR.. Steele, Of Phila-
delRhia, Secretary; and Rev. Woodside,
OF Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary. On
taking the chair, Dr. Mcleod made q
short address, alluding to his connection
with the Synod, as stated by the clerk.
for thirty-fiye years. He looked upon
this as crisis in the history of the Re-
formed Presbyterian Church, and hoped
the Synod would not be governed by a
partizan spirit in its deliberations. Re
ports OF Presbyteries were received.
All those that referred to the subject of
union with the United States Presbyte-
rlan Church, favored it, except the Feast
ern and Philadelphia Presbyteries, which
were opposed to the union. The Ohio
and Chicago Presbyteries do not refer
to the subject.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2O.-In the Pres
byterian Assembly this morning the
Moderator read a congratulatory dispatch
addressed to the Assembly by the venera-
BILE DIR. Elliott, who was Moderator of
the General Assembly of 1888, Mt which
time the memorable schism occurred.
WASHINGTON, May 2O.-In the Senate,
the Pacific Railroad bill was placed on
taxation. The House is fillibustering
over adjournment. The House Commit
tee on Pacific Railroad considered the
ns-continental ronte, but no result
arrived at. The clerk of the committee
says they are fighting among themselves.
and the result will be, they will get no
road at all.
In the Senate, the entire day was de-
voted to the bill enforcing the fifteenth
amendment.
In the House, bill to compensate the
officers and sailors of the Kearsage for
the destruction of the Alabama and np
propriating $4,000 out of the Japanese
indemnify fund, passed.
message from the Senate was re-
ceiyed announcing that the Senate
had amended the House resolution of
adjournment by fixing July Is.
Ihe Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has written very sharp official letter to
party In Albany who, it seems, has re-
Gently brought charges against mer-
chant Of that city for violation of the
internal revenue laws, which, upon in
vestigation, proved groundless. The
letter takes the ground that these self
appointed detectives and voluntary spies.
who make it O business to bring charges
against honest men for technical viola
tons of the law, have no claim to be
considered other than as disreputable
personages, and he administers q very
severe rebuke to the parties in question.
Internal revenue receipts to-day
$897,O 1000.
Supervisor Bridgelard, of Texas, re-.
ports that the grand jury of that State
have found fifty-four indictments against
parties there for revenue frauds. Several
ex'reyenue officers are among those in
dicted.
Congress will adjourn on the 18th of
July. - -
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