The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-19
news hevvs Issmis..

rived Eisteamer James tAdger, New
YJFk; iyi1arque R. Ct. w. Dodge,
Philadelphia; schooner, Lilly, New
York: Fellowship r. G. Winthrop,
New York FP,tI5'f p.
sATuANTG, September 1s. Ia docu-
menti; is circulating for signatures,
.srsy 2sosTs Of parties. to request
Hon. Alexander. 81. Stephens to de-
liver an address on the present con-
dition ofathe country 1T is signed
byjseyefal members of both Houses.
Itsisireported that Governor Bullock
signed the request, in the belief that
i. Itowili do much toward restoring
peace and quiet to the, country.
Acommittee of negroes who we're
declared ineligible, left for Washing
ton, to-dsy, to present their. case to
CoS1pFeSS. ff,. lji'v ~ - EA u r.tt ~
kIoHtosD, September 1s. There
was ajheavy white frost in the Coun-
ties around Richmond, this morning.
PHIhADEbPHIA. September 49,
Heavy frost throughout New Eng
land last night Ra1au
New YoRK, September 18. james
Gordon Bennett's house, on Wash
ington Heights, was burned down
to-day. from O defective fue. Fully
insured. OK Nstr' -. Lr- Atb..,v.
The New York Herald has advices
from Sydney, New South Wales, to
August 2, Including synopsis of the
news in the other districts of Aus
tralasia.a Troubles had again arisen
with the blacks in Queensland, and
thirty of them had been deliberately
slaughtered by the native police.
Tho system of obtaining South Sea
Islanders for the culture of cotton,
in Queensland, has become q species
of legitimatized, slave trade, wanting
in fewJof the horrors of the actual
African system. Z The new Ministry
had como into power in Victoria, the
troubles with Sir Charles Darling
having been adjusted. A general
confederation of the Australian colo
nies is talked about. Queen Emma
Pomare, of the Society Islapds, has
returned to Tahiti and received a
warm reception from her subjects.
The French Governor of Tahiti was
discovered to have been q convicted
criminal, and the Queens chiefs had
petitioned, for his return. He had
had difficulty with the members of
the protectoral governments, and they
had been ordered back to France.
He had also seized on the King of
Huabine. an independent island, and
compelled him to sign q new French
treaty.
San FnANc1sco. September 1s.-
The steamer idaho, with a cargo of
sugar, from the Sandwich Islands,
was seized. The sugar was adulter.
ated with powdered charcoal, and
passed the, custom house ns low
grade. gfss
OREGON, September 1S.-The Le-
gislature assembled, yesterday. The
Democratic majority in the Senate is
four; in the House, eleven. Notice
was given of q bill repeating the reso-
luton; adopting the fourteenth
amendment. ls5i,t.
Boston, September 18.-John
Quincy Adams accepts the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor.
In his letter of acceptance, he says:
II think that two matters of national
interest areinvolved in this election
one of wl,ich ;s important. and the
other vital. The former, which I
take to be the financial question, was
not treated by the New, York National
Convention in a. manner which salts
fes my judgment, by providing for
payment of the. bonds known as five
twenties bythe surplus revenue alone,
thus ignoring what seems to me a
valuable port of Mr.. Pendleton's
plan, viz; A withdrawal of the issues
of the national banks. The Demo.
cratic party appeared to commit itself
to an indefnite extension of the in
tolerable nuisance of an irredeemable
paper currency. I am too much q
Democrat TO regard any such PROS
pect with patienoe. Lbelieye in hard
money, and therein hold myself to be
true Jacksonian Democrat" He
also criticises the reconstruction
measures Of Congress rs vital auesl
ton, saying II will not argue the un-
conatitntionality of reconstructio
as the almost unanimous disinclina-
tion of the Republicans to allow il to
undergo the scrutinyof the Supreme
Court, woald seem To confirm Che re,
ported statement of the iiamented
Stevens, that only two damned fools
in the party believed the Reconstruc-
ton Acts constitutional. Even IL