The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-05
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IAtSUuS Oh Inc jJlStr1cG, anu prOml-
nent officer of the Interior Depart
ment, is dead. s
The amnesty proclamation, it is ex-
pected, will be issued to morrow, The
list of exceptions will be quite short.
The Cabinet Grant and Browning
being ahsent) accorded with the Pre-.
sident,, except Seward, who feared
the Presidents exceptions from the
amnesty list are imprpdently e4clu-
sive.
The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the malfeasance in regard to
cotton and other abandoned pro-
perty, report that many of the largest
operators are dead, while the ma-
jority lost their gains BY subsequent
operations and the decline in cotton.
The payment of the loyalists' cotton
claims, recently decfeed by the Court
of Claims has been suspended by
the Secretary of the Treasury, ut the
request Of the committee.
Hon. Thomas N. Stillwell, of In
diana, has. been appointed. Minister
to Venezuela.
L. w. Scott, of Tennessee, has
been appointed Consul al Matamoras.
Secretary McCulloch has been in
formed by those in tho Presidents
confidence that his resignation will
not be accepted.
The radicals elected the Mayor in
Wilmington, Del, by 27O majority.
The radicals carried Vermont by
$4,000.
The extent of troubles in Porto
Rico are unknown. Reinforcements
have left Spain for the island.
New YoRK, September 4.-The
Southern Famine Relief Committee
held their final meeting to-day. The
total cash receipts have been $780,
$685., and has all been expended. The
number of bushels of corn purchased
is 175,3
The Persia has arrived, with dates
TO the 25th ultimo.
Just before starting, it was disco
vered that the new cars bearing
Queen Victoria from Carlisle were too
wide tc pass through the bridge.
The harvest is progressing satisfac-
torily. Us
The cholera is epidemic in ,Rotter-
dam and vicinity. It has also broken
out in the Southern portion of the
Alps.
The Spanish insurgents and the
troops have had fight at Castonia.
All but thirty of the insurgents were
cut to pieces. French officers, to
whose border, the insurgents fled.
surrendered them.
The sanitary report of the Island
of Cuba, for the month of July,
states that there have been 1,219
cases of yellow fever, of which 226
resulted in death. There were also
134 death from the smallpox.
CHARLESTON, September AR
rived Steamer Alliance, Philadel-
phia. Sailed-Steamers Everman,
Philadelphia, and Upton, Boston.
AUGUSTA, September At is not
true, as stated in the Northern pa
pers, that Gen, Pope suppressed the
Albany Neps. It is also denied that
private instructions have been issued
forbidding freedmen running for the
convention.
MONTGOMERY, September 4.-The
Conservative State Convention met
to-day. Thirteen out of sixty-two
Counties are represented, and there
is considerable enthusiasm. There
are eighty-seyen delegates, of whom
twenty-five are colored.
RALEIGH, September 4.-The Re-
publican State Convention assembled
to-day; sixty-six Counties are repre-
sented-several by proxy. The pro-
ceedings were harmonious, and n
permanent organization was effected.
Gen. Joseph G. Abbot was elected
President, and Gen. A. Dockery and
Hon. Robert p. Dick are among the
Vice-Presidents. A committee to
draw up platform was selected. A
mass meeting was called for tonight.
Up. M.-The Republicans held a
mass meeting, at fuckers Hall, to-
night. A band of music was in at
tendance, and hymns and hozannas
were sung. There were several CO.
lored speeches-all of which we're
extremely radical.
New ORLEANS, September 4.-Four
deaths from yellow fever yesterday.
The Board of Health, last night, de-
clared the fever epidemic, but de-
scribes it as being of mild type.