The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-01

jsoope Of his authority. but where tho
1 power is divided, there must be joint
action before any presumption can arise.
Mr.. Justice Davis delivered the opinion.
In the case OF the Dubuque and Sioux
City Railroad Company Of Richmond,
and another from the Supreme Court of
Iowa, the court sustained contract
made between parties in August, 1860,
in pursuance of which the defendants
here erected an elevator ut Dubuque for
the use of the company on stipulation
Tint they should have the handling of
all through grain, at one cent per bushel,
| for term of fifteen years. The COM
] pany sought to avoid the contract, on
tho ground that it was contrary to pub.
iio policy 10 allow the defendants TO be
tax-gatherers on tho grain coming over
the Mississippi at Dubuque and in con-
fict with the Acts of June and July,
1865, regulating mmerce among the
several States. The decision il that
while these Acts were designed to re-
lieve trammels on transportation be-
tween different States previously exist.
ing, and to prevent the creation Of such
trammels in future, they were not in.
tended, even If it were competent for
Congress to authorize it, to invade the
domain OF private contracts and annul
all such as had been previously made on
the basis Of existing legislation. Mr..
Justice Field delivered the opinion
PHILADELPHIA, March 3l.-The oar
pet weavers ut u meeting to day deter
mined to adhere to the strike Iu Ken
sington alone IL shops are idle.
! NEW York. March 31.-The decision
of Judge Benedict, in the Sanborn case,
| ko1 fn Ea lo1i kx~ -,
point made by the United States Dis
trict Attorney. that Sanborn illegally
took money which was collected by
Hawley and Vandewoken, both Of whom
we're in the employ Of the Governments,
and such collections should have been
turned into the treasury; also, that the
contract between Sanborn and the Sec.
retary of the Treasury specifically holds
that he (Sanborn) could not recover any
money, unless he personally collected
it. The District Attorney puts in evi-
dence the preliminary letter OF the Sec
retary of the Treasury, Interpreting the
contract that SanbOrn must make his
collections himself
A Havana letter of tho 255h snys that
incendinry fires among the cane fields
are raging all over the island, and the
| destruction OF property is fearful. The
| Maria plantation, in Rem adios, consist.
| ing of about 800 act8e Of sugar cane,
was destroyed on the 18th. In the juris.
dlction of Cienfuegos, eighteen planta-
tions were burned. On the East.
Ian plantation, tho owner and his sou
and three others were killed aud the
place burned by negroes. formerly tho
slaves OF the estate. Every eirort has
been made to capture the perpetrators,
who are said to be insurgents, but thus
far without success,
WASHINGTON. March 31.-In the So.
nate, Fenton, of New York, presented
tho memorial Of tho recent CONVENTION
of taxpayers Of South Carolina, asking
relief against misru!e and corruption
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
NEW YORK, March 3l.-It is uudcr-
stool thnt the Government will try
Charles Cailendnr during tue next criml-
nal term, on an indictment charging
him with accepting bribc of SIG, ,OOO
from the Ocean National Bank Of this
city, to influence his Official action ns u
bank examiner.
The war between the great railway
trunk lines, on the subject of carrying
immigrants, is assuming an interesting
shape, and is likely TO prove beneficial
to tue immigrants, as it will result in IL
great reduction of rates as long us it
lasts.
WASHINGTON. March 3l.-A percm-
tory summons from the Committee Of
Ways und Means has been sent for San
born. A nice question arises, whether
the committee will wait on the felony
trial. progressing at New York.
Mr.. Lawton, of South Carolina, MI.
dressed the Committee on Railways and
Canals on behalf of Il narrow gauge rail
way from Port Royal to some point on
tho Missouri. The company simply ask
u charter.
The Senate. by vote Of % yeas to
27 nays, struck out the fourth section Of
the finance bill rs reported by tho com.
mittee. This section provided for IL
gradual retirement of tho legal tenders
as the additional national bank currency
should be issued; such retirement to be
in the ratio of seventy per cent. Of the
additional national bank circulation,
until the volume of legal tenders should
be reduced to $500, .000 Several
amendments offered by the friends of
specie resumption were rejected.
In the House, Dawes presented mo.
mortal from the South Carolina Tax
Payers Convention, reoiting the leading