The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-18
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ENGLISH MATTERS s-EUaEN1E' GOING TO
PARIS, RTO, ETC.
LONDON, April 15.-The Queen has
sent message to the House of Com
mons, recommending gift Of SO. 500 to
Gen. Woolseley. Mr.. John Holker, @.
O., has been appointed Solicitor Gene.
raj, and has accepted. The last election
f0r member OF Parliament in Halkney
has been declared void and new cleo.
ticn ordered. Tho inhabitants of Lam
bath and vicinity are erecting tempo
rary embankments on the Thames, in
anticipation OF another high tide next
Saturday.
BREsr. April l6 The steamer
L'Amerique foundered during violent
tempest on the 14th. She was aban-
doned when on the point OF sinking.
The italian ship which saved the largest
number OF those on board and arrived
to-day, brings forty passengers and 14S
OF the crew. The Norwegian vessel
which saved thirty more of the passen-
gers has also arrived here. An English
vessel with the remainder of the passen-
gers is expected, unless she has gone to
some port on the English coast. The
duct of Capt. Rousseau, Of L'Amerique,
who they say was cool aud brave
throughout, notwithstanding the fearful
sea. This disaster is the third misfor-
tune of the kind the Transatlantic
Company has suffered within the past
six months. The Vile du Havre went
down last winter, the Europe few
weeks since, and now the I:'Amerique
is lost.
HAVANA, April 1.-THE Diario says
reinforcement Of 800 men will go to
Nuevitas; a battalion of mobilized fire.
men will go to Trecha next week. Cap
tair-General Ooncha is resolved to take
the offensive in a resolute manner. He
is pressing the completion of lists of
persons to be drafted into the militia
LONDON. April 1.-THE budget
shows, including the Geneva award, but
exclusive Of tho Ashantee war, over
1000, 900 excess. The estimates for
the next year show surplus of G5, $780,
900. The excess is based upon Giad-
stones estimates. Among the means of
reducing the excess by the present nj
nistry is the abolition of the tariff on
sugar. The abolition of the duty on
sugar moved and passed. The tariff
ceases on the 1st of May, should the
action OF the Commons become law.
PARIS. April Ill is rumored that
Eugene is coming to Paris incognito.
Stsffel has been acquitted Of charge
OF suppressing dispatches between Ba-
zaine and MacMahon.
LONDON, April 17.-Dunkeniicld,
where the explosion occurred, is burn
The morning journals generally ap-
prove the budget. The Times points to
the fact that the revenue of the coming
year is estimated on an unprecedentedly
liberal scale, and considers the proposed
reduction OF the debt small in compari-
son.
The French Government has advised
Lesseps, President OF the Snez Canal
Company, to accept the decision Of the
international commission.
LONDON, April 1.-THE Goethe, from
Hamburg for New York, is aground in
the Elbe. with cylinder broken.
Observation-Disclosures plntier..
TIE PRESIDENT AND THE BANKERS THE
ARKANSAS GUBERNAToRIAn TROUBLE
wAsHBUREE AS SUMMERS SUCCESSOR
BALD AND STONE MOUNTAINS AGAIN DIS
TURBED, ETC., ETC.
BosroN, April 17.--The conference
between the friends of Dawes and Hour
fzzled.
Morey introduced bill to supply
rations, forage and clothing to the peo-
pie made destitute by the foundations
of the Mississippi and it's tributaries,
which was referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs, with leave to report ut
any time.
WARRINGTON, April 1.-THE com NIT.
tee appointed at a recent meeting of til 9
leading bankers, merchants and capital
lists of New York, called on the Presi-
dent to-day, and presented q petition
signed by $500 persons. asking him to
veto the Senate finance bill Two OF the
delegation made speeches, in which they
spoke OF the bill as being disastrous to
the best interests OF the country and as
opposed to the pledges of the President
and the nation for an early resumption
OF specie payments. The President, in
reply, did not Indicate what his action
wonid be; he said all had their various
views, and he had no doubt if he lived
IN New York, he would think with the
committee, that the whole world ought
to think as they did. He had never
given any measure more attention than
he had this one CT the Senate bill.
His views were already known; he had
been opposed to imitation, without re-.