The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-26

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They will have to 60 back to the House
for the 16tion' or that body. .5Nii' $ =
II In the House oil Representatives, on
the Oath, Mr. Spraeue presented 1.-THE
petition. of, Mrs. Eliza Potter, PRAYING
compensation for moneys expended BY
her during tho late war in caring for
sick and wounded soldiers of the
UnifedtY Stases army, confined in rebel
prisons at Charleston and Columbia,
5. O.. (which was referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs. "a
The Senate. in executive session,
confirmed John A. Campbell to be
Third Assistant Secretary OF State
Benjamin F. Shields, to be Collector
OF Customs at Galveston; Adam Wolf,
Surveyor OF Customs at Nashville
VIM. IL. Mcconnell, Receiver OF Pub
lic Moneys at Huntsville. Ala, and
James Ct. Jones, United States Mar.
shall for the Southern District Of Flo
rida.
The Ohio House of Represen tatives.
yesterday. passed bill providing for
compulsory education.
Woman suffrage Ras been defeated
in the Boston House of Representa-
tlves by vote Of IS yeas to 1926 nays.
The United States Treasury has
commenced the payment of the March
interest on the teu-forties without re-
bate.
Gov. Kellogg and the Conservative
caucus have dispatches informing them
that Messrs. Burke and Leonard, no "
at Washington in the Conservative
interest. have accepted Wheeler's pro
position. The majority OF those pre-
cent in the House expressed themselves
favorably. and Kellogg is anxious for
some adjustment before Congress ad :
journs. McEnery protests against the
compromise of the 1872 election.
The Democratic Senators and Rap
resentatives of the Alabama Legisla.
ture, to day, without exception, signed
an emphatic protest against the momo-
rial presented in the United States Sc.
nate, yesterday, by Mr.. Spencer. They
declare that the charges in the memo
rial are false and unfounded, and ap-
peal to the legislation OF the General
Assembly OF Alabama ns conclusive
proof OF the falsity of the charges re-.
ported to have been made by the Re.
publican members thereof.
Gladstone has published another
pamphlet on the Vatican decrees in re-
ply to DR.. Newman and Archbishop
Manning. He maintains his oriRin,.l
assertions and eulogiz,s Newman,
whose secession he considers the great-
eat loss since Wesley. He acknow-
ledges that the loyalty of the mass Of
Catholics is unchanged, bat combats
Manning's assertion that the claims of
the Roman Church have not been
changed by the Vatican DEGREES.
Pampeiuna has been supplied with
large quantities OF provisions and am.
munition.
The Venezuelan revolution is over.
The leaders are allowed to leave the
country. Wm. J. Sharkey has been
arrested on the charge Of threatening
to kill the captain and parser Of the
steamer Crescent City.
Mexican advicas report volcanoes in
violent eruption. The earthquake da-
mayed houses and churches at Guada.
lajara, and extended to San Crestsbal,
where several persons were killed.
District Attorney Phelps says tho
State Department has declined to de-.
mand the surrender Of the escaped
murderer, Sharkey, now in Havana, as
no e1tradition treaty exists with Spain,
but he advised Captain Curtis, of the
steamship Crescent Oity, whose life
was threatened by Sharkey. to make
complaint to the Havana authorities,
and the arrest of the ruf1ian, which
was announced by telegram from na-
wanna, shows that the captain acted on
this ndvice.
In reply to card published in tho
New Orleans papers. by certain promi-
nent citizens. in relation to Consorva-
tiyes in Washington. stating that Gov.
McEnery had lost the confidence OF
the people Of the State Of Louisiana.
the Conservative committee here desire
to state that they have at no time,
either directly or indirectly, indivi.
dually or collectively. in any manner
expressed any such opinion, bnt have
refrained from treating in relation to
the questions of 1872. except in so far
as compelled 30 to do in the Wheeler
propositions, and now declare that had
any such opinion been expressed in
their hearing or within their know.
ledge. they should not have hesitated
to promptly deny and correct the samo
as unfounded in truth.
McEnery protests against compro.
mise OF the '72 election. Governor
Kellogg and the Conservative caucus
have despatches that Messrs. BDrke