The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03

money, Without success. II is under.
stood himilar ihstfuotlon th osesent
& lMsw HGEh ,hs, ha,e Ibsea nseestoall
oTotal dismissals 700. 49, ''1'
Otis rumored that G.. w. Schof1eld,
OF Pennsylvania, will be appointed
Postmaster. General. Creswell still
preaides.
The commissioners to examine the
mouth OF the Mississippi are: Army
Engineers-Gens. Wright aud Alex
ander and Col. Comstook; Civil Engi-
neers-W. Miner Roberts, j. D. Whit.
comb and Mr.. Sicklcs; Coast Survey
Prof. Mitchell. i,,Yt
Conant was installed as Assistant (
Secretary Of the Treasuryto.day.
A. @. Buell.. correspondent OF tho
Detroit Free Press. has been indicted
on criminal libel TOR publishing in
that paper that Zack Chandler wps
dRnnk in the Senate. The cl,se comes
up in September.
The Trustees of the Freedman g
Bank have nominated Robert Purvis,
looiored.j OF Philadelphia; Postmaster
General Cresswell and r. Leopold,
com missioners to settle up the concern.
The work will require two years. 1t
ia thought, with proper management,
ninety.three cents on the dollar will
be realized. sits.- 81.
First Lieutenant Ohas. P. Eagan,
18th Infantry, has been appointed
Captain in the Subsistence Depart.
ment. Ir
Probabilities-For the Middle States
and the lower lake region. clear or
clearing weather. Southwest winds,
shifting to North west and Northerly,
stationary or falling temperature aud
rising barometer. For the South
Atlantic and Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather and local rains East of the
Mississippi Rivsr, Easterly or South
erly winds, high temperature and ris
ing barometer. For Tennessee and
the Ohio Valley, clear or :s:s weather..
Northeast winds, shifting to South
east and South, stationary or rising
temperature, rising barometer in Ten
nessee and the Ohio Valley.
NEW YORK. July 2.-The Church of
England Synod and two Presbyterian
Synods are meeting here. The ques-
tion under discussion is on the Epis.
copal Church unions with each other
and with the Canadian Presbyterian
Church.
The Merchants Exchange has re
port from Piotou, that there is no
foundation for the reported loss of the
Faraday.
The Tri6,tne says editorially: "Tbe
President OF the bankrupt Freedman ,
Savings and Trust Company at Wash
ington, and the Cashier of the branch
in this city, endeavor to explain in an
other column several CAUSES of it's fail
nre. Little stress is laid on the chief
cause, which was the withdrawal of
deposits in all the branches for the in
vestments sold in Washington and
largely in the warrants Of the Board of
Public Works. Explanations are more
plentiful with the company than good
securities. but they will hardly satisfy
the unfortunate depositors"
Henry Gfinnell, we'll known for hay-
ing fitted out an expedition in 1850 to
search for Sir John Franklin, died re-
Gently. He was seventy five years old.
A gentleman named Ames died yes
terday morning, at East Orange, N.
j.. from alleged hydrophobia. His
family do not know that he was ever
bitten by dog.
Moses Jordan, seventy years of age,
committed suicide by jumping from q
second story window of the Sherman
House. in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
he leaves an estate estimated at $780,
600 to $500, 600. with few il any rela.
tives to claim it.
A conductor on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, named Lemoes, caught
his foot in rail at Benwood, ". Va,
on Saturday, and before he could ex.
tricate himself an approaching train
ran over him. GsHG,n
Princess d'Oubril, wife of the Rms
sian Ambassador to this country, was
drowned at Potsdam yesterday.
Teiegra aphic-Commercial Reports.
COLUMBIA, July 2.-There was a
good demand for cotton, yesterday,
ll2 bales having been desposed of, q,
16(9151 for middIing.
New York. July 2-Noon. Gold
opened at 10N-now 1879. Stocks
active and stronger. Money easy, at
3. Exchange-long 4.8SE; short 4 o..
Governments active aud better feeling
than at opening. State bonds quiet
and steady. Cotton quiet; sales COY
uplands 173s; Orleans IL. Futures
opened steady: July l621.32, l6 % 80;
August II l.l6, IT'S; September
I Ii.