The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-20
TnI.HGEAFHIo
Foreign Affairs.

proclamation, warning the rioters to dis
perse, under the seyerest penalties for q
continuance of disorders. Fighting
continued lust night, stones falling like
hail.
LONDON. August Dispatches just
received give lnter news from Belfast
The rioting still continues. -Four per.
sons we're killed in the streets this morn
ing. There is much complaint by peace
abio citizons of want of vigor by the All
thoritles IN snppressing the riots. Ruff
fans, with pistols in their hands, stalk
through the oity. A whole section is
given up to the rioters. The populace
are divided into hostile Catholic and
Protestant mobs. Whenever they come
in contact, there is a fight. Troops,
endeavoring to stop the Disturbances.
They have been obliged to fire into the
rioters on both sides Numbers have
been wounded.
The steamships Adriatic, Holland and
Idaho, from New York for Liverpool,
and tho Thuvingia, from New York for
Hamburg. have arrived out. The Hol-
land brings 1874 bales of cotton, the
Adriatic !, 18l aud the Idaho 3 3,30l bnles.
LONDON, August 19-4 2. M-Advices
from Belfast up to this hour state that
shots continue to be exchanged in the
streets, though it is not known. that the
rioters have concentrated in large nu>!:
bers at any point. A telegram from
Lurgan, Ulster County, on the Belfast
and Ulster railway, says serious disturb
anees are in progress there. The autho-
rites OF the town have called upon the
military forces to aid in restoring order.
2. MA later telegram from. Bel
last says reports are current there that
the city is about to be placed under mar
tlal law. The same telegram states that
the military are now charging the rioters
In the centre Of the town.
MADRID, August 9.-Reports are our
rent that Ministers and other high off
cials have received warning OF fresh
outbreak, to be attempted shortly by the
partisaus OF ex-Qneen Isabella, and that
the occasion will be seized upon by the
Carlists to renew their attncks. It is
certain that fears of a new movement of
some kind are entertained, and active
preparations to meet it arc in progress.
American Matters.
WASHINGTON, August 1S. The follow
ing correspondence has inst taken place:
WAsHINaToN, August II. 1872.
10 J. J. Bryan. Mayor Of Chattanooga,
lam.
SIR: have the honor to transmit
herewith an autograph communication
in reply to an invitation which you en-
trusted with me to lay before the Presi-
dent of the United States and his Oabi.
net, to visit Chattanooga and Lookout
Mountain. The President having sub.
mitted the same to his Cabinet, has. as
yon will perceive. been obliged, with
much regret, to decline the invitation.
Though he finds it impracticable to visit
Chattanooga. nevertheless, he kindly
sends his best wishes for its future pres
perity. Respectfully,
SAMUEL BARD,
Chairman Committee of Invitation.
ExEoUTIvE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, August l6, 1879.
10 Hon. j. J. Bryan, Mayor Of CAana-
S1R: At the hands of Gov. Samuel
Bard received the kind invitation of
the Mayor and Boara of Aldermen and
Board OF Trade. Of the city of Chatta-
nooga, for myself and Cabinet to visit
your city and Lookout Mountain, some
time during the present summer.
have delayed the final answer to this in
vltation to consult with the Cabinet on
the subject am compelled, most re-
luctantiy. after this consultation, to in
form you that it is not practicable for as
to accept. I assure you, however, and
through you the gentlemen to whom we
are indebted for the invitation, that I,
on my part, highly appreciate the COM
pliment; doubly. because it is indepen.
dent OF political or party predictions,
ut time, too, when party feeling runs
high. I should enjoy visit to Ghatta-
noogs under ordinary circumstances, and
particularly 80 as the guest of the oiti-
zens without respect to party. My de-
sire is to see harmony, concord and pros.
perity exist everywhere in our common
country. With renewed assurances of
my appreciation of the invitation to visit
yonr city, and with my best wishes for
its future prosperity, subscribe myself,
very respectfully. your obedient servant,
(Signed) q. 8. GRANT.
The statement was recently published
that British claims to the aggregate
amount OF Sl17. .0O0. 900, have been filed
before the British and American Claim
mission. On inquiry OF all the OH.
GERS of the Commission it is asoertained
that the statement is entirely erroneous.
and that OF the aggregate amount of
claims in the twenty cases disposed of.
the award has been less than three per
cent