The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-14

that. in their opidipfs MulofF is in
ao1nd gnystca[ heSith adeptEsly sane,
that heavy rains and .caterpillArs are in
'fssslsg oaAagA .'MsiS'1s'y Msg 1srae m.,ou., Rive,
rising. 80. -''
san FnAso1soo, May 1s.-There is
great anxiety for the steamer Pacific.
long overdue. ..
WASHINGTON, May 13.EThe, British
American Parliament, as far as heard
from. are adverse to the treaty. Several
Senators have amendments to the treaty.
and many are preparing elaborate
sepeeches. A three weeks session, at
least, is probable. /. The Attorney-Gene.
raj decides that Revenue Commissioner
fleasanton erred In exeDptipg dividends
from tax Tor tho five months ending 1870.
Ihe decision will impose tag of MANY
thousands upon banks, railroads and
other corporations for time named.
Probabilities-It is probable that the
North Carolina storm will slowly move
!Enstward,s without extending into the
interior. No material change is indi-
Gated Tor Sunday East Of the Mississippi.
cloudy aud rainy weathet are probable
West of Iowa. .-.-
The following is fuller statement of
tue Attorney Generals decision: Claims
ior 1etundlng tax under. Act Of July IA,
1870. were allowed by the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue and presented to
the Secretary of the Treasury for an
proval, who submitted the following
questions to the Attorney General, who
in each instance answered affirmntiyelv.
!s the tax on interest or coupons paid on
bonds or other evidences OF debt i'm.
posed BY the fifteenth section of the
above Act, applicable to interest paid
between August l and December 81,
1910! Ehe same question regarding tax
on dividends of earnings, incomes or
galnsP Also. should officers and en-
ployees OF the Government. Senators
and members Of Congress, be taxed on
salaries for the Eve months in question?
The Secretary of the Interior has
gone TO Philadelphia. The Secretary of
War has returned. No change in Cor
coran's condition. Tho Iroauois and
Wiooming have been ordered to be
lifted for seq Immediately.
Returns at the census Office show the
colored population in all the States and
Territories to be 1857 900, gain of
S.56- looths per cent. since 1860. The
States stand in the following order with
respect to tho oolored population: Geor-
South Carolina. North Carolinn, Lou.
ieiana, Tennessee, Kentucky. Texas.
Maryland, Arkansas, Missouri. Florida.
.Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska, District
Q! COLUMBIA. Nav Jersey, Illinois, In.
diana, Delawars, West Virginia, Kansas,
Massachusetts, Michigan. Oonneotiont'
Iowa, Rhode Island, California, Wiscon-
SIT, Maine, Vermont, Nevada, Mirnes-
sotn, New Hampshire and Oregon.
BAIgIEoRE. May. .13. The steamer
Isaac Z: Smith exploded her drum to-
day Several persons were severely
ecalded and otherwise injured.
4 New YoRK, May 13.-Wm. Tweed was
installed Grand Sacham of Tammany at
its eighty-third annual meeting, last
night.
The stallion Leviathan is dead.
ST. LOUIS, May 13.-Rev. j. D. Ful-
ton, OF Boston, delivered ON address be-
fore the Southern Baptist Convention.
urging union of the Northern and
Southern Baptists..
BosroN, May 13.-The House defeated
female suffrage. by tie vote-6S to 60.
The Senate defeated bill regulating
hours OF labor in factories by large
majority.
The Fifth Army Corps Society, with
only one dissenting vote, resolved to pc.
tition the President to reopen General
Fitz John Porter's case.
SCRANTON, PA, May 3.--No progress
in reconciliation Of the mining troubles.
NEW ORLEANS. May 1a.-Vinoent Bay
onna and Peter Abriel were hanged at
II o'clock to-day, for killing sailor,
about year ago. robbing him Of Sl2
and throwing his body in the river.
Both men behaved with GOODNESS to the
last: After religious rites, they were
pinioned; when Bayonna stepped on the
scaffold. he looked at the crowd and
calculated "Cdogo," and spat upon
them. The execution took place in the
parish prison yard. A large crowd
gathered around the prison. The Spa.
nish, English, Belgian and French Con.
suls petitioned the Governor to com.
mute the sentence TO imprisonment for
Lie. but acting Governor Damn declined
doing so.
SAN FRANo1sco, Nay 1s.-The Grand
Republic has arrived. She brings for
New York 854 packages tea, 344 pack
ages silk; also. 8sl packages ten and 8
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