The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-30

the Texas and Pacific Railway Company,
and making provisions as to the issuing
OF mortgage and land grant bonds, &c.
Ihe motion was agreed to without diyi-
sion, and various verbal amendments
reported from the Committee on the
Pacific Railroad were adopted. After
some explanation and discussion, during
which it was stated by Wheeler that the
Dill did not increase the land grant, the
olll was passed, by 103 to %. It goes
back to the Senate for concurrence in
tho verbal amendments. Tho Senate
amendments to the House bill authoriz.
Ing the Commissioner OF Southern
Chains to appoint special commissioners
70 take testimony was concurred in. The
Senate amendment to tho House bill for
the relief OF purchasers Of lands sold for
direct taxes in the insnrrectionary States
was concurred in.
Probabilitles-An area of quito low
barometer will probably movo Eastward
over the upper luke region, aud severe
storm, cloudy weather and rain will pre-
vail from the Ohio Valley Northward
and Westward, and extend Eastward
over the Northern portion of the Middle
States, by or on Tuesday morning, and
possibly over the Southern portion on
tuesday. Easterly to Southerly winds,
with cloudy and threatening weather, are
probable for New England. Easterly
winds, veering to Southerly, with in
creased cloudiness, for the Southern
States. Brisk aud high winds are proba-
BILE for the upper lakes. and extend to
tho lower lakes during tonight und on
Tuesday morning.
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BITTER MEDICINE NOT DAILY Foop.-
Tue Cincinnati Fot6s5reunl, the organ of
the German Democracy of the West.
prefers Charles Francis Adams, of Mas
sachnsetts, among all those whose names
have been mentioned in relation with tho
Presidency. by that assemblage. In
connection Herewith, aud as showing
the platform upon which he (Mr. Adame)
stands, we publish his letter to the Pitts
burg 8th of Jannary Jackson Convention
for 1871. He said
BosroN, january 6, 1871.
4Ndlcolm Hay, Esq, Secretary Of tie Com
miHee.
DEAR SIR: By some accidental DELAY
your letter OF the 18Th ult. reached me
only this morning. feel much honored
IN receiving tho invitation to visit Won at
Plttsburg. My engagements at home,
however, prevent me from mo ring at
this time.
Neither am mach in the way of ex-
pressing sentiments on present political
topics. The country has passed through
II violent convulsion, and is now slowly,
put steadily, recovering itself The
main object should be to restore hurmo.
ny and inspire mutnnl confidcnce among
all the jarring members. Our Govern
ment draws Its life from the ready con-
sent of the governed
When the distinguished hero, whose
name your association bears, uttered
those memorable words: "The Union
shall be- preserved!' he und oubtcdly
rested bis faith upon the spontaneous
cooperation of the great mass of the
nation, responding to his call ir the re-
gular and legitimate channels prescribed
by the organic law. He never contem-
plated the use of bnyonets IN controlling
the forms OF collecting the general sui.
frage.
Our safety, MS u nation, lies in going
BACK to tho first principles, and forget
ting that force has ever been resorted to
us painful necessity to preserve them.
What was bitter medicine should not
be turned into daily food. Very truly,
yours,
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Nor should that "cullnd pusson" for
get that he is farmer and a laborer in.
stead of belonging to protected rings OF
capitalists, in whose interest Grant and
his partisanS run the Government Ha