The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16
American Intelligence.

ALBANY, March 14.-The Assembly,
tonight, passed to third reading the
South MuJd classification repeal bill,
appointing an election for O new board
OF directors in Jnly, and amended 80 as
TO require the directors to be citizens
and residents OF the United States. The
Dill Is similar to one passed tonight by
the Senate, except that the Inter prohi-
bits director of the Atlantic nnd Great
Western Railroad from being director
in the Erie Road.
LATER.-The Erie classification repeal
bill finally passed the Senate, tonight.
by 26 to 2. Several motions to amend
were voted down.
COLUMBUS. Ono, March 15.-Hon.
Samuel Galloway is hopelessly slok.
CONCORD. N. H., March l5.-Addi-
tional returns reduce St,aw's probable
majority to 1900.
WASHINGTON, March 15-In the Se-
nate. Trumbull is defending himself
from accepting fee from Andrew John
son, in the MoOardle case Trumbull
was retained by Gen. Grant.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.. March 16.-The
directors of the NJ. E. r. r; have agreed
to endorse $1,000 900 Of the boids of
the Augusta aud Port Royal Railroad
The Georgia road is to get 81. 200. 900 Of
the stock, which will be controlling
interest. The matter is to be submitted
to tue stockholders of the Georgia Rail-
road for ratification.
NEW ORLEANS. March 15.-the recap
ture OF Zacatecas by the Government
troops is officially announced, after sig
nal defeat OF the rebels, who had con-
centrated at that place. The rebel lead
rpsk r. -
cavalry.
NEW YORK. March 15.-The Hudson
River is open to West Point.
The Herald figures the actual Erie
deficit at S5l. .0OO.OOO
Special .Matamoras dispatches reiterate
the recapture of Zscatecas by the Go.
vernment.
WASHINGTON, March 15-Evening.-
Ordnance General Dyer is very i'll.
The Southern Claims Com mission to.
day heard the cases of VIM. Coleridge,
OF Savannah, Ga, for hotel property
used for hospital purposes, and Commo-
dore Edward Middleton, for rice taken
from his plantation in South Carolina.
In the House, the Committee of Com.
merce was instructed to inquire partiou-
iarly into the nature, extent or objects of
an alleged combination of railroad inte.
rests. known as the South Improvement
Company, designed to control oil the
avenues Of transportation, from the oil
region in Pennsylvania to the seaboard,
to tn" oppression and injury of tho pro.
ducing Glasses. After several votes upop
the st. Croix Railroad, the following
substitute was adopted, by 81 to IS. It
is telegraphed as having an important
bearing upon land subsidies. The next
vote was on the substitute offered by
Ketchum. providing that all the lands
granted by Congress in 1856 and 1864
for the construction of the St. Croix and
Lake Superior Railroad, such grants
having expired by Limitation, are de.
clared forfeited to the United States. and
shall henoeforward be subject to home.
stead entry and settlement, under the
Homestead Act of May 20, 1862; and
that no part of such lands shall be se-
Looted by or inure to the benefit of any
railroad company, under any assumed
grant by the United States; and that no
land embraced in the grant to the st.
Croix Railroad Company shall in any
case revert to the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company, and repeating oil Acts or
parts OF Acts inconsistent with this pro-
vision. This last clause, about the
Northern Pacific Railroad, was added to
the substitute on motion of Banks.
Probabilities-The barometer will oon-
tinue rising on Saturday from the lower
lakes to Florida, aud Eastward to the
Atlantic, with Westerly and Eortherly
winds and clear but continued cold
weather. The pressure will diminish
over and West of the Lower Mississippi
Valley, with winds veering to Easterly
and Southerly, and will continue d.
minishlpg from the Lower Missouri Val
Icy to Lake Superior. and gradually ex-
tend Eastward over Michigan and the
Ohio Valley, with winds backing to
Soutborly. with rising temperature and
increased cloudiness. Dangerous winds
are not anticipated for the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
CINCINNATI, March 15.-Dodworth's
distillery was burned to-day.
SAN Francisco. March l5.-All New
York mails to March 7 havo been re-
ceived.
New YORK. March I5-Evening.-
Eries advanced to Az, with considera-
BILE activity.
Another of the numerous children
bitten by mad dog, in Brooklyn, has
dIod nf hu6r0rhol,o