The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-08
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fARIS, May Tt l8 stated that there
is crisis in the Spanish Cabinet.
LONDON, May 1.-THE Times, special
despatch from Madrid says Don Carlos
has fled towards the French frontier
Marshal Serrano. with his troops, is in
pursuit Of Pretendor, and expects to
overtake him. -
American lnselIs6ense.
ALBANY, May THE pneumatic rail-
road bill has been vetoed.
New YORK, May 1.-THE Democrat,
the Irish People aad, she .lrish Citizen,
Democratic wesklies,l publish articles
supporting Greeley aud Brown.
Greeley received oongratulatory de-
epatohes to. day from Chief Justice Chase,
Garrett Davis. Leslie Coombs. John D.
Defrees and Richard Michaeliz, editor of
the Chicago Mon Preass. Coombs and
Davis say the Kentuckians will rally to
the standard OF the life-long supporter
OF Henry Clay.
GEoRaErowN. VA, HAY 7.-Judge
James Dunlap died to-day, of apople1y.
FHbADEIpH1A. May 7.-Wni. Webb,
dlias Back. killed, In the Eastern Peni-
teptiary, this morning, his room mate,
Michael Tfinabnr, BY striking him on the
head with an iron plate. The deed was
oeAAo Cy w o0ot " uO btklu A6 uau
killed him in d quarrel. Both men were
undergoing sentences of fifteen years,
fes rape, committed few years since. on
Broad street. The prison is over.crowd-
ed. and solitary confinement cannot be
en1orosh ID all oases. 's .9i
M1LWAUKRE, May 7.-Great excite
mant prevails among the steamboat men
to-day. Boats of nearly all the lines
have been stopped by the United States
Supervising Inspectors. thus making q
complete blockade in freight business.
and doing inchi6alhble injury to the
lines I"
SAN FRANorsoo.i May IA public
meeting Of the Chamber of Comee.ee,
the committee Of 100 leading citizens,
and the st. Louis delegation, now here
in the interest OF the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad enterprise, was held this even
ing. II WAS very enthusiastic meet
Ing. It was resolved, unanimously, to
accept the propoaitioh from st. Louis.
San Francisco is to subscribe for at least
.$lO. 100000 Of the thirty-fifth parallel
road, furniAh terminal {acilities, and be
represented by three or four directora in
o board Of thirteen, and st. Louis is to
do as much Tor the enterprise.
WAsH1NaroN: May 7AEyening.
Sheldon. OF Louisiana, and, Young, of
Georgia, were active in defeating Nor
.rill's amendment, and adopting the
substitute to the deficiency bill. If it
meets with concurrence in the Senate,
at wilt give large amount OF money to
the South. -. e
In the Senate, Sumner talked about
mixed schools over the morning hour.
The post office bill was resumed.
81 900, 900 additional subsidy was given
to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
An amendment giving $500. 900 to the
Brazil mail service passed, by 25 to "a.
In the House, Beck, from the Com
mittee Of Ways and Means, reported
back the Senate bill allowing rebate
OF tax on whiskey destroyed by fire or
other casualty while in bonded ware.
houses, with an amendment excepting
the cases where the tax has been ACTUALLY
paid, which passed. The House re-
sumed the consideration Of the Senate
amendments to the deficiency bill. The
amendment in reference to the claims
for cotton seized by the Government
after the close Of the war. requiring
proof Of the loyalty OF the claimants,
came up, and gave rise to long discus
sion; the Committee on Appropriations
HoCommenUlnS On-COucurr6nCe, and re-.
porting o substitute for it. lesa exactipe
on the claimants.
Bingham made speech against the
substitute reported from the Committee
on Appropriations, bnt Peters asserted,
and proved by the record, that similar
proposition was reported at the last Con-
gress. from the judiciary Committee. by
its chairman, Bingham himself; and
Garfield added, that the Committee on
Appropriations had adopted the very
language OF the bill reported by the Ju.
diciary Committee on the same subject
The argument against the Senate amend
ment was, that the cotton seized after
the 30th Of June, 1865. and to which
alone 1t applied, was seized in violation
OF law, and in defiance OF the published
orders Of the War Department., forbid
ding the seizure of cotton after that
date. Finally. the substitute reported
BY the Committee on Appropriations,
for the Senate amendment, was adopted.
without the yeas and nays. az follows:
"That the Secretary Of tho Treasury
be; and Is hereby. authorized and d.
rectad to pay to the lawful owners. or
their legal representatives. Of oil cotton
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