The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-26

will sit until Easter. 100 Fathers desire
to speak on infallibility.
HAVANA, June 25.-The cholera is de-
| creasing, and no fears are now enter
tanned of its becoming epidemic.
Domestic News.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.-The Fire
Works exploded to-day; several were
hurt--one fatally; cause--spontaneou
! combustion.
John a. Bingham, resident manager
of Adams Express, is dead.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The Senate
adopted an amendment to the copyright
law, taking Jurisdiction from the Dis
trlct Courts, placing it on the Congress
sional library.
The Judiciary Committee of the House
reported resolution in tho Woods
Porter case, directing that Wood be i'm.
prlsoned in the jail of the District of
Columbia for three months; the report to
be called for action next Thursday.
The Senate majority reports we're sub
mltted, recommending an indefinite post
ponement of Hatch's case.
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The Conference Committee on Cur.
rency was in session all day. No posi-
tive result reached, though the South and
West will have IN increase of banking
facilities to the extent of s45,OoO,OO0
three per cent. certificates and of
$50, 900, 900 taken from the East. Gold
banks, probably, will be authorized a4
Hbitun,.
Heaton, member of Congress from
North Carolina, is dead.
The House Conference report on the
Banking bill, adopted the report of the
Judiciary Committee, with accompany
ing documents, embracing q resolution
imprisoning Woods, who assailed Porter.
for three months, was recommitted, or
dered to be printed, and made the spe-
cial order for Thursday next. The House
then went into Committee on miscella-
neous appropriations. $4,000 was ap-
proprlated to repair the Custom House
in Petersburg. The Conference Com
mlttae demanded report on the copy
right bill, when Heaton's death was an
nounced. Adjourned.
In the Senate, Abbott introduced bill
authorizing the consolidation of Western
North Carolina Railroad; the Whining
ton, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad,
and Spartanburg and Union Railroad,
under the name of the Western North
Carolina Extension Railroad Company,
for the purpose of constructing q rail
road to Cleveland, Tennessee, and es-
tabllshlng route between the Atlantic
ports of North Carolina and South Caro-
lima and Pacific Ocean, by way of the
contemplated Southern trans-continen-
talrail road.
| RALEIGH, June 25.-The canvass is
about open in earnest. Nearly all the
Congressional Districts and Counties
have made their nominations in the olec.
ton which takes place in August Diff
ferent candidates have taken the field.
Notwithstanding the late heavy rains,
it is now ascertained that the crop pros
poets are fair.
LEXINGTON, Va, June Sat the
commencement exercises at Washington
College, the Cincinnati grafton was de-
delivered by Erastus b. Kentlschnitt, of
New Orleans, La. The yaledictory adj
dress, by George Il. Peters, Jr., of Ten
nessee. Address before the literary So
cieties by Bishop E. NJ. Marvin, of Mis-
souri,. The President, Gen. Robert E.
Lee, conferred the diplomas upon the
distinguished graduates, of which there
were quite q number. Honorary ap-
pointments Of Resident Masters we're
awarded to Lucius Desha, Jr,, of Ken
tucky; Frank A. Waddell, of South Ca
rolina. and Ernest benjamin Kentlsch-
nit. Honorary scholarship was con.
ferred by the President on Il. D. Hazel,
of Arkansas; Harvey B. Ferguson and
W. II. Taylor, of Alabama; Charles A.
Merriwether, of Kentucky, and Wm. D.
Pastoll, Of Tennessee. The prize medals
were won by j. L. Logan, OF Salem,
Va; Charles 3. Perry, of Nashville.
Tennessee, and Frank S. Moody, of Tus.
caloosa, Ala. The commencement ball
and alumni supper were brilliant affairs,
and made for persons coming specially
hero for the purpose, from all sections of
the Union. The exercises have closed.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker, formerly
Attorney Of Virginia, has been elected
Professor ut Law in the College.