The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-12
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Toreign AHairs.

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Toroign Anairs.'
LONDON. May 1.-THE Pos. confirms
the report that. negotiations regarding
indirect damages are dead. It states
positively that England has withdrawn
from the Geneva arbitration.
MADRID. May 1.-THE Government
officially announces the insurrection
over.
Dispatches from the frontier towns OF
Navarro report that remnants OF the
Oarlist bands are flying from Spain into
France.
A royal decree is published, granting
full pardon to the Havana students who
we're convicted of violating the graves in
Oastaron Cemetery, near that city. and
sentenced to chain gang.
LONDON, May 11.-Seamen al Liver
pool threaten to join the strike.
American IntslIigenec.
RAwINs, WYOMING TERRITORY, May
1.-THE convention has instructed it's
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
to vote for Grant.
NEW YORK, May 10. 81. Phelps, q
jeweler, was fatally shot by burglars,
whom he discovered in his house. The
burglars escaped.
james Oooney. hailing from Savannah b,
Ca, confesses to killing Robert Gala
CHER, in drunken fight.
Wallace & Shoonaker's sugar refinery
was burned to-day. Loss in stock 1925,
600; 4 'chinery $3.50, 600; building $780,
QUO. A later despatch. however, puts
the total loss at $500, 900, with an in
surance of $3.50, 900.
800 carpenters, at meeting last night,
resolved to strike for So. SO per day of
eight honrs. 5000 carpenters will join
the strike. The carpenters strike in
Brooklyn is over. The bosses yielded to
eight hours.
MATAMoRAs, May 1.-THE city is still
under martial law, though several dis
asters are reported to the revolutionists.
CAMARao, May 8.-Trevino, with his
entire force, has departed for the interior,
abandoning the line OF the Rio Grande.
Diaz is in Jalisoo. rapidly organizing.
Il IS reported three of Rocha's battalions,
pronounced in the mountains of Du-
range. killed their chiefs and captured
Government provisions and munitions.
Trevino states that an important move
ment is aloat, to concentrate the revolu.
tionists and capture the capital.
NEW York, HAY 1.-THE Radical
Reformers adopted wonderful oonstitu-
ton. Mrs. Woodruff spoke, prophesy-
ing that from this convention would
issue power that would shape the
world. Mrs. Woodruff and Fred. Doug
lass then were nominated for President
and Vice President. Amid great confu-
sion. q delegate nominated Spotted Tail,
saying, 1Indians before niggars." An.
other suggested, thnt i: Douglass de.
clines, o heather Chinee be nominated
instead. The convention broke up in
an uproar.
ALBANY. May 1.-THE Senate passed
the constitutional amendment, prohibit
ing appropriations for sectarian schools
The Assembly impeached Judge Bar
nard, and appointed board of managers
to prosecute the case before the Senate.
NEW YORK, May 11.-Several addresses
were made, hoping for peace between
England and the United States, and re-
conciliation between the Methodist
Churches North and South.
VIM. Cullen Bryant delivers an address
at the Inauguration of the Shakespeare
statue, on the Esd.
WASHINGTON, May lit is under
stood that the Senate Committee on De.
HoionoJ Appropriations have agreed to
abandon Morrill's amendment; while the
House Committee is determined to stand
by their substitute. The probability is
the whole matter will be dropped, and
that the decision Of the Supreme Court
will govern.
The President was at the capitol, to-
day, consulting with Senators. The
consultation continues tonight. at the
White House. Nothing has transpired,
but 1t Is thought it means amnesty.
The nomination OF James @. Palmer,
Chief OF the Naval Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery, has been confirmed.
Senator Davis has leave of absence for
the balance of the session of Congress.
In the Senate, bill to amend enforce
ment occupied the entire dey. The pro-
sent position of the bill will give two
inspectors of election at every voting
precinct. who must be recommended by
at least ten voters.
The committee of conference had q
two hours session to-day. Tho Senate
committee withdrew the Morrill, amend.
ment, but the House committee persist
ed in its substitute.