The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-25
American Intelligence,

WASHINGTON, January 23.-Captions
and the first paragraph of two column
telegram to the New York Tribune are
az follows: "The return of Southern
Unionists with the same old story of
murder. intimidation and oppression
Crude Idea of the Power of Congress
What they Ask-A Proposed Measure of
Hehef--By Telegraph to tho Tribune.
from Washington, d. c., January %.
In one respect Washington to. .dav Wears
an aspect similar to that which it wore
during the troubled days of Andy john
sons efforts to ward reconstruction. and
that ls IN the appearance on tho streets
and IN public places Of Southern Union
lists. They swarm in tho Capitol corri-
dors now rs they did then, and the
burden of their complaint is tho same
old. old story of murder, intimidation
and proscriptiye oppression. The rebels
nave got the upper hand of us again,
they say, and we are suffering moro than
you can imagine, and more than tho
Northern people cau DO made to be-
lieve."
Information received Mt tho Treasury
Department that Mexico had recently
extended free zono proves incorrect.
Toronto, January 23.-The weather
Is intensely cold. with q heavy snow.
{ DClOW zero.
NEW YORK, January 23.-Snow, with
driving East wind, commenced this
morning and continued all iny.
The Fenians continue to decline ar
rangements for conrtcsies until the arri-
val of their comrades.
NEW YORK, January 24-The HeralTs
special reports that the Prussian frigntc
Medusa fought the French gun-boats
Curvnlenx and Brenieux, on the Pacific,
sinking both. The French frirate Cecil
has left Montiycdio, in charge of the
Medusa
Three persons were killed by n boiler
explosion at st. Paul, Indiana.
Twenty-Five car loads of silks and teas
are coming from California
There is uneasiness about the shin
Lookout, 180 days out from New York
for San Francisco.
!he russians unSuccessfnlly attacked
DIXON. The bombardment has nearly
silenced st. Denis.
A special to the Herald says, by de-
cree OF the House, absentees will be
searched and the contents uscd for pub.
lie purposes.
A house was burned in Bergen, by the
explosion of lamp containing DeSoto
Oil. A woman and child were badly
burned.
TRENTON, N. j., January 24.-Both
houses this morning elected Frelnghuy-
sen to the United States Senate by n
Joint vote Of forty-two against thirty
two.
HARTFORD, January 24.--David Ly-
man. President Of the Air Line Road. is
dead.
RALE1dn, January 2l.-The board of
managers filed, to-day, their replication
to Governor Holden's answer to the arti-
cles OF impeachment, and the case is re.
gularly at issne. The trial will com
menco in good earnest Monday.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, VIA HAVANA Jonu.
nry 24.-The Panama news at hand is
unimportant. The West Indies and Pn.
clflc Companys steamship Crusader was
wrecked, on the 9Th, off Carthagena.
The mails and passengers were saved.
A telegram from the British Cabinet nm.
nounced the erection of Jamaica into q
principal military and naval station fo,
the West Indies. Private letters confirm
the fact that the Hornet, with Col
Ryan on board, had arrived at Port. au
Prince. and was waiting for cargo O.
arms and ammunition from New York
Three Spanish gun-boats arc watching
her.
ST.. JoHs's, January 24.-The cabl,
between Placentia and St. Pierre ha
Iailed, but it will not interfere will
european business that goes direct frcn
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