The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-08
Telegraphic...American News.

PARIS, June 6.-The grand prize of
Paris, open for all three year old colts
and fllies of every nationality, was won
by Salvador, the winner of the French
Derby. Eleven horses ran. Among
them the following English horses:
Claremont, Cambnllo and Seymour.
LONDON, June 6.-The corporation of
London has resolved to invite the Mayor
of New York to the International NIuni-
clpal Banquet, which is TO be held next
month in the Guild Hall.
The representatives Of the LIVERPOOL
transatlantic Steamship Companies
have come to on agreement in regard to
the rntes of freight and passage fares.
The ship Niagara, Capt. bIacFarlane,
from New York, May 10, for Liverpool,
has gone ashore ut Holyhead, and will
probably be IL total wreck. The crew
were saved.
MADRID, June G.-Gen. Jovellar, for
merly Cnptaih-General Of Cuba, has been
elected to the command of the army of
the centre. The rumors which have for
some time been in circulation of the
coming marriage of King Alfonso with q
German princess, and of the Countess
Girente with Bayerian prince, are un-
founded.
The Carlist General Saballs, with 1000
men, has attacked Blanc, md been re-
pulsed with loss of sixty killed.
HAMILTON, ONTARIO, June 7.-An in
cendiary fire here, on Sunday, de-
stroyed seven stores and dwelling houses,
and large quantity of lumber and
moulding frames; total loss $50, 900.
LONDON, June 7.-Messrs. Oder &
Wicks, delegates appointed by the Fede-
raj Union of Agriculture Labor to make
examination of the Mississippi valley,
for tho nnrnOpo of oooorfo;n;nr 70
bllity for settlement of emigrants, will
leave for the United States in two weeks
Three members of tho crew of the
American schooner jefferson Borden,
were brought mp at Bow Street Police
Court, to-day. Miller, the Russian Finn,
made statement, in which he attacked
the seamanship of the captain, md re-
iternted the charges of cruel treatment
OF the crew by the officers. The maUis-
trate ruled that sufficient evidence had
been educed to send the prisoners to the
United States, which will be done at the
expiration Of fifteen days.
Edward Welby Rugin, the English
architect, is dead.
HAVANA, June IA duel took place,
yesterday, between DR.. Algernon Sydney
Curtis, of New York, and Salvador Cur
tereal, tobacco merchant of Havana
and New York. The combatants had
been intimate friends for many years
and lived together in New York They
fought without witnesses, md the Doc
tor was severely wounded ut the fifth
fire, when Curtereal shot himself dead.
The charge was illicit intercourse with
the wife of the tobacconist; which the
Doctor denied. The wounded man is
under police surveillance.
OTTowA, ONT, June IA fire yester-
day morning, at Hull, destroyed Gill
mans large steam mill; loss estimated Mt
$500, 900; insurance $75, 600.
Telegraph!c.-.Foreign News.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The Sioux
chiefs, Red Cloud and others, held
long and earnest council on Wednesday
evening, in regard to signing away their
hunting privilege in Nebraska for
$4,000, and finally reached the unani-
nous conclusion that they would, under
no circumstances, sign until they have
consulted the wishes of their people.
They also determined to leave to-day for
their home in Dakota. Yesterday morn
ing, the Commissioner of Indian Affhirs
had an interview with the chiefs, in
which he assured them the Secretary of
the Interior regretted that they had de-
clined the proposition made them, and
stated that he had come to make another
proposition, which was that they should
take the agreement with them and talk
aamong themselves, one copy at the
Spotted Tail and one at the Red Cloud
agency, and that they sign it there and
send It back as soon as possible. He as
sured them that the President saw it was
impossible to press back the white
man from all that country of the North
Platte in Nebraska. The Indians were
asked to give. up o title, which is
of no value to them, to the country be-
tween the North Platte and the Niobrara
rivers, and In return for it they would
get the right to occupy and live in the
country North of the Niobrara and South
Of the Nebraska line-the very country
that they ore living in now and that they
desire 30 much. In reply, Spotted Tail
said that he concurred in the opinions
expressed by the Commissioner; that he
was willing to receive the money for
giving up the right to hunt buffalo, al
though the sum was small; that he wished
the money held here while he went back
and endeavored to induce his people to