The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-15
Telegraphic REPORTS:

1nertafNd documents whichha been sub,
mittedto a seaect committee of FarliaI
ment iconcerning The South AmeriSaIs
loans, o motion was introduced sumrnbn.
ing the printers of this journal to the
bar Of the House to answer for breacn Of
privileges. The motion met with con
siderable opposition, and after long de-
bate on the liberty and responsibility OF
I the press, WAS adopted. In the House of
Commons, the Chief Secretary for Ireinnd
said that the law regarding the bearing
of arms in Ireland would not interfere
with the American team Of riflemen.
| LONDON, April 14.APnul Boynton ex-
plotted insBoulogne ;lmrbor in the pre-
sence of 90, 600 persons.
| Baron BrunnOw, the Russinn diplu-
mat, is dead. ,..,
LONDON, April 14.-The New Market
handicap was won by st. Leger,
| PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-The centen-
NAL celebration Of the organization of
| the Anti-Slavery Society commenced tlris
! morning, in Concert Hall. Vice-Presi-
| dent Wilson called the assembly to order,
and in short address stated tie charac-
ter of the meeting and sketched tho pro-
gress or the organization, claiming that
this was the Oldest society of this charac-
ter in the world.
1
man Wheeler had a private consultation.
yesterday. with both parties. The pros
pect OF adjustment seems better.
| ME.1PHIs. April ii. Five negroes were
arrested for stealing registered letters ut
Grand Junction. One turned States
evidence, and told where the money was
| buried in tin can.
| SouAN, n. j., April lit is supposed
o vessel foundered on the beach lust
night. The body Of Il sailor, n trunk, a
spar and several wine baskets have been
found on the beach. A vessel fired dis
tress signals from to IL =. NJ
JERSEY CRY, April IA. The Demo-
Gratis elected a majority of the Aldermen
and Directors Of Education.
| NEW YORK. April IA. -Chns D. Thomp-
son. agent of the COrt Foundry and Ma
chine Company, ut Providence, is a de-
fnulter in $1,000. When captured. he
was concealed in European steamer.
He shot himself fatally in the head.
\ foot of snow fell throughout New
York yesterday. Trains arc little he
hind The snow, with the srverest
Northwestern Of the season, prevailed
throughout New England It ceased
showing here ut o'clock this morning.
HI0HI.AND, Pa, April IL. The picket
guurd fired four times Monday night ut
men trying to break through the lines.
Ii Ii said two men were shot md severely
! wounded.
PHILADELPHIA. April II. The Barnegat
onlce reports no steamer ashore on Bar
negat. and that it is IL false alarm.
WAsHINGroN, April H. Gen. 4. F..
Shira. COmmissnry-General of Subsist-
ance. is dead; aged 64
Inquiry ut the Post Office DEPARTMENT
/ AlOwQ fhot in fha oI.rok H..
Bard's accounts AZ Postmaster Mt Atlanta,
involving disbursement of some 800, 600,
and closing his account, there il a ba-
lance OF twenty-three cents in his favor.
The Post Office Department has inforna-
ton that parties who have secured con-
trncts for II large number of mail routes
IN the Western States are systematically
Offering to sub-let them, thereby assum-
ing in effect the position of mail route
brokers. One party in Kansas has sent
out postal cards. inviting bids for sub
letting specific routes and stating, in q
printed postscript, that he has sixty-tiye
routes to dispose of, and will send cata-
logues on application. u, tji
Prohabilities-For New England, the
Middle States and South Atlantic States,
generally clear weather will prevail,
with slight rise in temperature. variable
winds. mostly from the North and West.
and stationary or rising barometer.
Commissioners Smith has receiveI n
telegram from Indian Agent Seville, of
the Red Cloud Agency, saying that
messengers have been despatched from
Craggy Horse and Black Twin, to in
duce them TO come to Washington with
the Sioux delegation, which expects to
reach Cheyenne en- route. about May /.
IT is said that General Shiras, who
died to,day, will he succeeded as Com
missary- by Col. Amos Beck
with, one of the Assistant Commissary-
Generals.
Leander c. Dyer, of Tennessee, has
been appointed Consul at Odessa, Rus
sin.
NIw YORK, April II. The Republi-
cans Were generally successful at the
elections in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
yesterday. In halfway, the Democrats
elected their whole ticket.
Extract from Beecher's cross-e1aminn-
ton: found Mrs. Tilton in bed in the
left-hand room front; informed her of
the charges her husband made against
me; she was dressed in white: l do not
know whether she had retired for the
night; .she-was i'll, and.I suppose. had
retired for the night, being confined to
her bed; said Ind just come from an
Interview with her husband, and he had
made serious clnrges against me. When
l said he charged me with alternating her
Affections from hhn, she shoWed ;respon-
siveness she Shed tears, which feli down
her checks, and by the movement of her