The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-26

general character is one Specifically "a
voring q ship canal at the mouth Of the
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BosroN. March 2e.-Ohver Ditson's
music store was burned today; loss
NoRFo1K, Maroh 25. AN unknown
bark is ashore on Cutteriok beach, The
wreckers have gone'to her assistance.
NEW YORK, March 25 PLAT & Boyd,
whose books were seized by Jayne, July
16 last, have begun suit to. recover
$50, 600 damages for trespass. Other
and similar suits against Jayne are
threatened.
Vice. President Aquilera, OF the Cuban
Republic, is in the city, and reports his
visits to cities where Oubans reeide, TO
collect subscriptions and organize expe-
ditions, have been quite successful.
";-.-r...s Rernas. n, Y. March 25.-
A tenement house was burned las.
night, with q mother and three children;
her husband. with two children, cs-
capped.
CISo[NNAr1, March 25.-In June.
1872, Belle Secor. young girl, aged
thirteen, was outraged and murdered
named Mcleod aud Kimmell. suspected
rated citizens. A few days ago, Thos.
3. Douglass, of Fort Wayne, Iud., on
his death-bed. confessed that he COM
ticipated in the hanging Of tho two iu-
nocent men.
WASHINGTON. March 25.-The Post
master General wants an installment of
$500. 600 upon the S1,O0O,OC0 needed
for the post Office building. He thinks
the most economical plan would be the
erection of new building, similar to
the Patent Office.
The Committee on Expenditures are
looking into the accounts OF the United
States Marshals.
In the Senate, the Rock Island City
Council petition against the removal of
the military prison. Fifty-one firms OF
| iron founders and others in Muhoning
Valley, ask for more currency and free
| banking. a bill removing the Kicka-
poos to the Indian Territory passed.
Finance was resumed. a vote OF some
kind will be reached tomorrow.
The House met at 10 o'clock, to dis
cues cheap transportation. The Com
mittee on Banking and Currency were
| ordered to inquire into the feasibility of
having parts of the Government securi-
ties printed in different places, to avoid
fraud and forgery. Suttro Tunnel occu.
pied the great purt Of the day. It was
claimed that the tunnel was in the inte-
rest OF the smaller mines, and that $780,
600 had been put up by monopoIists.
The House resumed cheap transporta-
ton. and nearly reached final vote on
the bill to regulate Interstate railroad
commerce. 1t will be passed tomorrow.
Ihe principal feature of the cheap
transportation bill is the appointment
by the President of commission, who
shall, on data to be ascertnined by it, fix
schedules of freight for the various
lines of railroad, which rates shall not
be exceeded without violation of law.
1t also aims at preventing unjust discri-
mlnatlons between relative points Oh
the lines of railroad.
The report Of Judge Lawrence,
Chairman of the House Committee on
War Claims, 10 said committee, OH the
general subject OF war claims, was con-
sidered, and after considerable modiiica-
tlon, authority was given to report the
same to the House. Messrs. Ha2elton,
Mellish, Schudder, Wilson and Holmes
are signing statement to the effect
that, while they believed. from the e1-
animation they had been able to give
the subject, that the law applicable to
the various CLASSES Of claims before the
coon mittee was correctly stated, yet they
reserved the right to consider individual
cases of particular hardship or suiIer-
ing on their merits, without prejndicc.
This statement. is not signed by Messrs.
kellogg. Smith, Harris and Morrison,
though it is not understood that they
will make any report on the subject.
The conclusion arrived at by Judge
Lawrence is, that the Government is not
legally bound to make compensation for
property used, occupied, damaged or
destroyed in the late war by the United
States forces; but that whatever is done,
is to be considered as an act of gruce
and mercy.
Probabllitics-For Southern States,
South-easterly and South. h.westerly winds
and falling barometer, rising tempera-
ture, cloudy weather and RAIN. For the
Middle States, South-westcrly winds,
rising temperature, falling Barometer
and increasing cloudiness. Tie rivera
vii! probably rise Mt Davenport and fall
at Nashville, Plttsbarg, Cincinnati and
Louisville.
NEW YORK. March 25.-The body OF
Mrs. Burns, who, with her children,
was burned to death in Mott Haven.