The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-15

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Tuesday Morning August Is. 1871.
.RuMonHD E11nIoFaA:N AIIiIAasoosE. II Is
hardly conceivable that. the .rumors of
proposed or suspected alliance between
France and Russia nsagainst Austria and
frussia, or any other European powers,
are based upon any solid Foundation.
There are mnny circumstances at present
involved in the mist Of European poll
tiosS no doubt, which would render suoh
ON alliance not improbable; but the atti.
tude ofsthe Gzar; towards the Emperor
William, for the past twelve months, has
been go paipably partial. that any posi-
noh Involving. hostility would, at this
time; be astounding. It ,is difficult to;
tathom the, wsya Of the great. and
Princes are pro verbally not tobe trusted;
but tile speck- Of war which the cores
gbndents have. just. discovered is a very
apoohryphal,atom, to'say. the most FIT.
"GovERNon" BgrhER, 1T isi, slated
that, while Gen. Butler is supported for
GSvStpoE 81, ,Massaohu by only two
Of the leading Repu ubiioun journals; and
idisNHSsnead: by hest oss them, lie las a
considerable following OF what are called
';ells, and ends" othefrwtae known as
th8fepresentatives Or ,H..'vftdt principles:.''
Tojbegin WITH, though5 coming late into
the, e,Republioah party.,1he is now what, lis
consideredta an advanced Republican,,
beihg as fati .fffohtiot. that party as az
hswas Of theD Democracy when he;voted
iH:the Oharleatoh pon7en.ion sixty. one
tinaek for Jefferson .Dayisto In the next
Rlapet he appears; Gs ,a representative OF
tAY Irish Catholics and Fenians; insist,
ibS that the Orangemenshoula.not have
bSsH allowed to parade INN NeM York. and,
alsoegoing in for a,ssvigorous foreign
policy" toward England. He. thirdly,
eKpecta the support OF Radical tempe-
rahoa' men on the ground that, h. v was the
anshora of,the' first profibitory law in
Mnssaahusetta, though the iaot is not
urged that he is said to have taken fee
OF $500 afer drafting it. Gen. Butler
Was also 'one OF the! earliest advocates Of
the, reduction Of the hours or labor in
the mills. even when he knew tEat ho
aEIayed hi himself thereby, against the
wealthy manufacturers. and thus the
laboD MOVEMENT ID relied on for him.
The woman suffrage party also receives
the e'light. >of hia oountenance. i''I have
come to.theI eonclusion.' - says Gen. But
ler,,e''ehat the Constitution Of the United
States hAs'grahted the right,of suffrage
toawoment aa against all State laws what
eyer:".' The constitution OF Massaohu-
setts requires majority Of votes to elect
q Governor, and il Bntler. is defeated in
the Republican. Convention, and still
runs. the election might he, thrown into
the Legislature. The Republican majo.
rity. last year was only about s, 900, and
Buffers cspauity OF, directing; favoring
giances so many different ways, ought to
ASSURE him double that number. -iir
50; - i - 80 = - 49,! ..:ai
TgEAsynrR, IF T. AnKAn:. The following is
from the New York Nation: .:i 4; X
We had an impression. which We can
not now instify BY, reference to the pro-
per sources, that one effect Of the lax
Payers Convention : In South Carolina
was to extort from the State Treasurer,
Mr.. Niles G. Parker, a promise Of hearty
oo.operstion with a committee which the
Convention proposed to, sat to work at
his books, in order to discover the truth
or talseh0od OF the Irregularities charged
against him and the Legislature ooniofnt.:
Iy.sHWe did mot, for our part. believe
that Parker wenld do anything of the
kind. any more than we expeot Hall and
Connolly to make "a; clean breast Of it
when they offer to do sos In fact. there
appears in the Charleston papers letter
from him TO ME-! j. Scott, chairman
Of the Conventions committee. who, il
aaama had annIiad 70 a i.nr;.lai:.. -