The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-17
American Int.lIigenec.

New YoRK, March. 16.-Jay Gould ha.
resigned his dictatorship in Erie. III
testified before the Legislative com mittee
tnat the charges ngainst Judge Barnard
OF corruption in Erie affairs, were IN.
founded. Gould paid Tilden $40, ,OOO
IN 1869, as retaining fee in Eric affairs
Horace Greeley, in an editorial on the
cincinnati Convention. says if free trade
ls to be made plank in the platform
ne asks to be counted out. Ali he nsks
is. that there be left freedom to all
classes on economic questions.
About 60, 900 men will ioin in the pro.
cession on st. Patriok's Day. with fifty
bands OF music. The military will nun.
ber 5000. wa : -
Eighteen smallpox cases yesterday.
Ihe Jury for damages in the Westfeld
disaster have disagreed-one Juror hold.
Ing that the defendants were not liable
attribnting the accident to dispensation
OF Providence. Eleven Jurors favored
verdict against the company.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, March I6.-Mrs.
Jane Ruth, charged as an accessory ia
poisoning her husband. has been dis.
charged. 49,
LOUISVILLE, March 16.-The Eren;no
Sun newspaper has set.
a Matamoras special says q despatch
from the Mexican Secretary of War re-.
lterates the capture of Zacatecas and the
rout OF Trevino.
MEMPHIS, March 16.-A cotton suit
seizure, involving 5000, 600, decided
against the Government, in the District
and appealed to the Circuit Court. has
been remanded to the District Court fo,
new trial.
LOUISVILLE. March 16.-A suit against
Police Judge Price, for refusing negro
testimony before the State Court. has
baen authorized to be dismissed -tbe
Federal Court holding the judge iuati.
fable in obeying the State law. Judge
Ballard added: II do not think Con.
gress has power to enact law to pre.
vent him from 30 doing"
PHILADELPHIA, March 16.-Mace and
O'Baldwin have deposited $500 forfeit
for $4,000 fight, in Virginia, July 16.
The new iron steamer, GEORGE W.
Clyde, has sailed on trial trip TO,
Charleston.
WAsHINaToN, March 16.-The 1yi
6une's Washington correspondent ha.
information from an unouestioned
source, that Sumner has consented to
preside at the Cincinnati Convention.
The Senate was not in session. Ia
the House, there was debate only. Sher.
man, in speech yesterday, said the ta
riff could safely be reduced $40. OOO, O0O
but he warned Senators that if tea and
coffee were admitted free, reduction
must stop there. Sherman fayors q re.
duotion on textile fabrics.
Tom Murphy, formerly Collector Of
Customs, before the Retrench chment Com.
mittee, testifies that he was not ipflu.
enced by Grant, Porter or Babcock. in
the Leet & Stockings order business
affairs. Chant wanted Leet to leave
New York, on account of the scandal
Probabilities-Th barometer will con
tlnue falling from the upper lakes to the
Gulf, and Eastward to the Atlantic. with
rising temperature. The area of rair
over the Lower Mississippi Valley will
probably extend by and on Sunday
morning over the Southern States very
generally. Increased cloudiness will pre-
vail over the New England and Middle
Statos tonight, with probably threaten
ing weather on Sunday, especially owe,
the latter. The winds will yeer TO Tho
North westerly. over the upper lako re-
gion tonight.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, March 16.-Tbf
early train hence for Boston was throw
from the track by broken rail. Twen
" persons in tho smoking Cur were
more or less injured.
BUFFALO, March 16.--The Ohio
street elevator, owned by the Erie Rail
way Company, and leased to CLARK