The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-21
AmsrIcnn InteIlieenco.
NOON DESPATOHES.


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American 1nteIlIGenco.
NOON DISPATCHES.
THE CORPORATION COUNCIL AND THE NEW
YORK MUNICIPAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
POx AND AsIATIO CHOLERA-ExTENs1vE
CONFhAGRATION-FEhIAL SUFFRAGE DE.
FEATED RATES TO THE BALTIMORE
CoNvENTIoN ATTACKED IN
UTAH-MIIRD COMMISSIONER UNDER
WASHINGTON TRRATY--sHooTINd AF-
FARs-DURIRD IN A sEwER-MAR1NE
DISASTERS CONVENTIONS
FEVER DEATHS, 60, sc.
New York, September 19.-Richard
O'Gorman, corporation counsel, writes
another letter to Mayor Hall, saying
since the decision of Judge Bernard. in
Foley us. the Mayor, and others, in
which he gave quasi judicial sanction to
rumcrs which had been rife in the city
OF gross extravaganza in some of the
bills presented by various contractors
and paid out of the CITY fund, it seems
to him proper that the corporation should
take effective legal steps to recover these
moneys, If sufficient evidence Of fraud
can be obtained to sustain the action.
He asks for instructions, and Mayor Hall
responds substantially, leaving the mat
he will perform his duty regardless Of
consequences outside his duty and
sphere.
SAN Francisco, September ia
great fire is raging in Virginia City. Ne
vada, and has already extended an eighth
OF mile.
LOWELL, September 19.-Small- pox
continues, and there are humorous fatal
cases. a temporary hospital has been
erected. A red flag by day and red
light by night is used to designate in
fected places.
BALTIMORE, September President
Grant hos accepted on invitation to vieit
Carol County (AId.) Agricultural Fair,
October 3.
OMAHA, September 2o.-The new con-
stitution was heavily defeated. The
Woman Suffrage clause, which waa sub
mitted separately, was disastrously de-
feated.
BA1r1MonE, September 2O.-Tho Com
manderies have arrived from all quarters.
No disasters or sickness during the Jour
ney. The elections occur to-day. There
will be grand procession tomorrow.
This is the largest convocation Of knights
Templar ever held. The General Grand
Chapter, also in session, elects officers
to-day.
SALT LAKE CRY, September 20.-After
discharging the avowed polygamist,
(whereat Mormon journals are very Bit
ter,) United States Judge McKain
charged the grand jury TINT ''the crimes
of murder, arson, larceny, bigamy, adul-
terry and riot in Utah are the same crimes
throughout the Christian world" con-
oluding: Gentlemen, it is your duty
and mine to enforce the laws. Let us
do it without fear, favor, affection, pre-
judice, or hope Of reward"
New YORK, September 20.-It is said
that two cases of Asiatic cholera have
appeared ut Perth Amboy. The victims
were recently landed from German
emigrant ship.
WAsHINoToN, September 20. The fol-
lowing Southern roads will carry dele
which convenes in Baltimore on Mon
day, the 25th, at hnlf rates: Baltimore
and Ohio. Memphis and Charleston,
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington,
Mobile and Montgomery, Selma, Rome
and Dalton. South and North Alabama,
Ohio and Mississippi, Richmond, Pied
mont and Danville, Wilmington and
Weldon, Richmond and Petersburg,
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas, jack
sonyiile, Pensacola and Mobile, Raleigh
and CASTOR, Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta, Richmond, fredericksburg and
Potomac, New Orleans, Mobile and Tex
as. Macon and Western, Vicksburg and
Meridian, Mobile and Ohio, Western
and Atlantic, Alabama.
The full Ku Klux Committee met and
adjourned to tomorrow, when the sub
committee will report. The committee
is somewhat crippled, having spent ail
it's money.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, September 2O.-Count
Cont, The italian Minister here, is the
third Commissioner under the Washing
ton treaty.
The sentence of Lieutenant Fenno, OF
tho 17th Infantry, that he be cashiercd,
be imprisoned fve years in the peniten-
tiary, and be fined 81, 500, has been mp