The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-27

IdyINdsToHR DEAD--cAR11sr, REPORTS
OF sUOCEssRs, 4O., co. iAg alat 6s48 ~
MADHD; January s24..4The 'OSriist
\ forces have withdrawn from Santander!!
4 HAVANA. January %, pia KEY WEST,
January 24.-On the might of the Goth
instant, as band of negroes made a,xaid
nto Trinidad Valley and burned Maya
CARA, Oaslaiai and Sacra Faipalid p1anta.
tions. They carried of all the slaves
from Meysgara plantation and COM
pletely destroyed the machinery by
knocking 1t into pieces. The other two
plantations suffered less. 1000 insnr.
gents have surrounded Manzanillo. The
Government proposes to again embargo
aeveral Of the estates which were lately
released. Sl, l;af !, 4is.sr ti3
LONDON. January 26.-Dr. Living
stone died. in the interior of Africa. Of
dysentery. t
MADnID, January 25.-AdniraI To-
pete has iFoturned from Oartagena, and
resumed the duties OF Minister of Ma
rincs. The publication of Iqnolidad
newspaper is again suspended for a
month,
BAYoNNE. Jsnuary 25.-The Carlists
report that Santandre aud Portugnaliti
surrendered Internationally to their
forces on the 22d instant, and that the
entire Segcyia battalion and q number
OF artillerymen and engineers, and l, 400
Remington and 400 Mimic rifles and two
cannon fell into their hands.
Observation-Disclosures Matters.
THE B'NAI B'RITH-MARINE DIsAsrEH-
FORGED CHECKs-THE PRESIDENT ON
LoUIsIANA-EARTHouAK 4o., 40.
WASHINGTON. January 25.-The fol-
lowing may be confidently accepted as
rejecting the views OF the President
upon the Louisiana and kindred oues-
tons:
Acting in accordance with the consti
tutional requirements that the President
shall, from time to time. give Congress
information of the state Of the Union,
he Is nov. engaged in the preparation of
message. which he will submit to the
Cabinet, before transmitting it to Con.
gress.ts4 This message will, according to
the present understanding, be confined
to plain but elnborate. stateme ent of the
facts attondingsthe Federal proceedings
IN Loqisiana in support of the United
States judicial decisions which he had
no authority to disregard .swhatever may
have been his own opinion. upon the 20.
!itical questions affected By. them. It is
positively known that the President has
not .interfered, in. any way "! .h the
question relating to tbs seats either in
the Senate or the Holse Of Representa-
tives of. the Louisiapisns OF both par
ties who have called upon him. he has
repeatedly said that such questions pro-
perly belong to Congress, the Oonstitu
tion making each house the Judge OF the
election returns and qualifications OF it's
own members, and that the considera.
tion OF snch questions. involve the sub-
ject Of the legality Of the authority
under which the certificates OF elections
issue, 80 tho ono question necessarily
affects the other, and both could at the
same time be determined. This. in
substance, is the reply he has unresery-
edly given to those who have interro-
gated him on the subject of bill pro.
posed to be passed by Congress, order.
ing o new election in Louisians. He
has discouraged Ruoh legislation, and.
while thus opposing Congressional in
reference, he has had no hesitation in
Saying to visitors that there was no
doubt that the late election in Louisiana
was an organized fraud, from beginning
to ond, for the benefit of those now in
possession of the government of that
Estate, and that there has never yet been
p fair count of tho votes, the results
having been reached by dishonest means
too we'll known to BIZ repeated, It is.
therefore, not probable that tho Presi.
Sdent will, on his forthcoming special
message, make any Recommendation for
now election, his opinion, as recently
privately expressed. being that Congress
8has no more right to order q new cleo.
lion in Louisiana than it has in anv
4other State because OF local conflict, nil
these States being equal in the Union,
Rnd, as such, entitled to the same gene.
ral protection from illegal or unconsti-
tutional interference by any branch of
the Federal Government as they are
3against invasion or domestic violence
BESIDES, there Are mems to settle the
Louisiana and all kindred cases, with.
out resort to Congressional action or or.
dering new election.
Senator Thurman disavows auy for.
NAL consultation with Messrs. Carpenter
and Butler over the new election bill
for Louisiana. Neither has the Senator
any knowledge of how the Democrats
will vote. The proposed bill is similar
to Carpenters Of last session. with the
exception that, instead OF having the
election conducted by registrars np.
pointed by Judge Wopd. it shail be voo