The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-14

VIII soon De resumed.
American Intelligence.
HAVANA, April 12.-The official report
OF The engagement in the central de-.
partment announces the killing of
Cuban General Edwardos Agramonte as
positive fact.
OMAHA, April 12.-Another severe
snow storm in the mountains. extending
from Cheyenne to Bryan.
WAsHINaToN, April 13.-Ths meeting
last night in New York produces feel
ing of uneasiness in Administration
circles here, and shakes the Bourbon
Democracy. There seems to be grow
ing disposition upon the part OF the
more conservative Democratic leaders to
unite their fortunes with the Cincinnati
Convention.
New YORK, April 13.-Horace Greeley
last evening was elected President of the
Liberal Club. All the morning papers
give full reports of the liberal Republi-
opinion is that the gathering was the
meeting ever held in this city. The
World says: 1t is now certain that the
Cincinnati Convention will nominate q
ticket, and unless some great blunder is
perpetrated in the selection of candi.
dates, that ticket will unite all the ele.
ments of the opposition. The Demo
craoy will not put obstructions in the
way of q movement which seems to
stand on 30 strong basis, but it must
reserve its final judgment until the pre-
sent hopeful anticipations ripen into es-
tablished facts.
SAVANNAH, April 13.-The ship Tran
quebar, with Q. 700 bales Of cotton aboard,
is burning at Lamar's press. She is in
sured in tho American Lloyds and Great
Western, of New York.
SALT LAKE, April 13.-Elder A. NJ.
Musser, the Mormon telegraph superin-
tendent, said that rather than surrender
one single principle OF their religion,
the Mormons would make Moscow of
Salt Lake City, tear up the railroads.
break down the telegraph lines, and de-
stroy millions of other property. He
spoke of Judge McKean us 'dried up
and corrupt old dog" and of the Presi-
dent as ''Useless Grant," and stigma
tized he and others as corrupt set. He
included also tho Presidents wife in his
attack.
BOSTON, April 13.-The ship Secyln,
from Portland for Georgetown, was
abandoned at sea. The crew is hero.
She had five feet of water in her hold.
All her sails were lost when she was
abandoned.
WASHINGTON, April 13-Evening.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared and submitted to the Committee
of Ways and Means bill abolshing the
Office of collector and assessor of in
ternal revenue, and providing for not
more than fifty supervisors, who shall
perform all the duties of collectors.
The bill proceeds upon the assumption
that all the taxes are to be removed ex-
cept those collected by stamps.
1t is the Virginia and Tennessee, not
the East Tennessee and Virginia Road,
from which the Southern Express Cnm
pany has Withdrawn its freight.
Probabilities-The pressure will in
crease during the night over the lake
region and the South Atlantic. Middle
and New England States. Continued
brisk and high Westerly winds over the
lower lakes, diminishing in force on
Sunday. Clear and pleasant weather
will prevail very generally on Sunday
from the lakes to the Eastern Gulf onH
Atlantic coasts. Falling barometer.
Easterly TO Southerly winds and in.
creased oloudiness will extend Eastward
over the Mississippi Valley.
New York, April 13-Evenine.-
Louise Kellogg has sailed for England.
A Grant mass meeting has been called
in Cooper Institute for next Friday.
The Atalanta club crew have left for
England.
The following is the Worlds preface
to the Cooper Institute meeting last
evening: The first gun of the coming
Presidential campaign was fred in New
York York under imposing circumstances.
Ihe great tide OF national reform which
has swelled and surged for months
passed through the length and breadth
Oh tho land, with irresistible volume,