The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-10
Tele.r.ph,c-Fer.,ea An.,r..

Teiearaphtc-Ferot9 Affairs.
LONDON, July s.-Bourke, Unde..
Secretary OF the Foreign Department.
introduced in the House OF Commons.
to-day. bill amending the interna.
tional copyright law, which was read
once.
MADRID. July 8.-The Republican
army has been re.organized. It is di-
vided into two corps. The first. under
Gen. Moriones, will operate in Ma.
varre, and the second, under Zaballa,
will watch the Ebro district. The
strength Of the combined army e1-
reeds 30, 900 men, with 79 guns. Gene.
raj headquarters at Taffala.
PARIS, July Sit is stated in AL
phonsist circles that Isabella intends
to publicly revoke her abdication Of
the throne Of Spain.
Immediately after adjournment Of
the Assembly to-day. Cabinet Coun-
Gil was held. at which Ministers ten.
dered their designations. MaoMahon
peremptorily refused to accept them,
and the Ministry remains constituted
as before. The President will send q
message &c the Assembly to- morrow or
next day, in which he will announce
bis determination to retain the powers
conferred upon him for the time as.
signed by law, and will insist on the
necessity for a complete recognition of
his power by the Assembly. A Cabi.
net Council will be held tomorrow, to
definitely decide upon the terms of the
message.
CoNsTANT1NoP1E. July 9.-The Sui
tan has written to the Khedive of
Egypt in terms cordially confirming
good relations between the Porte and
Egypt.
PARIS. July 9.-The Republican
journals of this morning consider that
yesterdays proceedings OF the Assem-
bly, demonstrate the powerlessness of
that body, and declare that dissolution
is the only remedy for the unsettled
political situation. It is probable that
several motious for dissolution of the
Assembly will be introduced at to days
sitting.
HAVANA, July o. The Lieutenant
Governor of Holquin has issued an
order requiring all store.keepers in his
district to receive Spanish bank bills
in trade, under pain of fne, imprison-
ment and trial for treason, should
they persist in refusing them. A plan
for five per cent. tax levy bus been
approved by tho Madrid Government.
There we're no sales of exchauge to-
day-everybody is waiting for the
promulgation of the decree ordering
new tax.
LONDON. July 9.-The Times Paris
correspondent telegraphs that Mac
Mahon, III his Forthcoming message,
will probably state he would n ot accept
the designations of the Ministers, be-
cause they defended his powers, and
he wished to save the country from o
new ministerial crisis. He will re-
quest the Assembly to hasten action on
final measures and then adjourn for
some months, and on re-assembling
proceed to definitely organize his
powers.
TcleRraDhic-Anier Matters.
NEW YORK, July 8.-Thos. J. Mason,
cashier for the broker and banking
firm of Morrill,, Fiiney & Co., was ar
rested ia, day, on charge of having
robbed his employers of n large sum
of money, probably reaching S25, 900.
He acknowledges having taken $8, 900.
which he lost in gold specu,ations.
EVANSVILLE, IND, July 9.-Albert
Jones. colored, killed his wife with an
axe; jealonsy.
SANTA FE. July 9.-General Fred.
Meyers, Chief Quartermaster of New
Mexico, is dead. The Indians are
raiding. Eight persons killed and 400
horses taken.
Boston, July 9.-Chas. Francis
Adams has been chosen President OF
the Board of Harvard Overseers.
SARATOGA. July 9.-Ten crews here
have chosen positions for the race
President Grant has secured rooms for
regatta week.
BUFFALO. N. Y, July 9.-The tug
Golden City ran down q scow ut the
mouth of Buffalo River, last night.
The occupants Of the scow-a blind
man. his wife and sou, named Joshua,
Elizabeth and Eugene Sheldon-were
drowned.
New BEDFORD. MASS July 9.-The
deficit in the First National Bank,
caused by John P. Barker, Cashier,
has been made good by his friends,
and no loss falls upon the bank. The
defalcation is stated at $4,000. Bar
ker is nearly sixty years OF age and has
been Cashier about twenty years.
New ORLEANS. July ga banker
named Wadner, after securing certifi-
,cation from the Hibernian National
i ao1