The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-04
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The eruption OF Mount A,na con.
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cautions as to lava streams, remote
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT m.t,sr..i
FoRT LRAvENwoRrR, September O.
1 A. M.-LIRUr. GBN. P. SHERIDAN:
TbS following despatch from Ool.
Milea is just received from camp, on
right bank of Dry Fork of Washita,
Southwest of Antelope Hills, dated
Auguet 26: ,".Ws arrived here yester.
Gay. ali w5.:. L;oa.. Baldwin and
party rejoined the command on" the
23d instant. He scouted Westward to
the Adobe Walls 'apd down the Cana.
dian to the Antelope Hills. and had
two sffairs with the Indians, killed one
and wounded one. and captured po.
nies. etc. Tie trails, etc., Of the re-
treat. all indicate that the Indians have
gone South to the North fork OF Bed
River and its efdaence. We are march.
ing S,uth and Southwest, and have
twen.y.one days supplies. sThe In-
dians are buEping the grass in our
front. Foil particulars vii! be aent by
mail. JOHN POPE.
'.Brevet Msi. Gen. Commanding"
MoNTPHLIER. W.. September a.
The returns still come in slowly, but
enough is known to indicate the elec.
tion Of Judge Peck (Republican) by
the usual majority, allowing for
lighter vote. The House is over
whelmingly Republican, and the Se-
nate is nearly. unanimously the same
way. The vote for Governor Ia !i9
towns sstands-Peck, &c, ,OO4; Bingham,
8,50l. In 1872. the vote 10 the came
towns wRa--CouVerse. 81 .636; Heston,
(Democrat,) 1858. The contest in
the Second Congressional District has
been . very hot one, end results in the
defeat Of Judge Poland. The boilers
mainly supported Hon. d. O. Denui-
son, OF Royalton, in Winsor County,
bnt their advice to their followers was
to vote for anybody to draw votes
from Bland. The exact result of the
ballot of yesterday in AZ towns oot of
80 is-Poiand. 1852: Dennison. s, ,25l;
Davenport. 1880; scattering. 584 In
1872, the vote in the same towns stood
Poland, 1866; Steele. (bolter.) 2,l30;
Davenport. (Democrat,) 1.872; scat
tering, 245.
NEW YORK, September 2-The last
scandal news to-day is that both Moul.
ton NJ SN}ffnn wi1t ofi III
tant documents nntil the trial takes
place, this being by tue advice of Ben
Butler. , tfj il
The Commercial say 8 the special COM
mittee of the National Convention
Cotton Exchange, after much discus
sion, adopted uniform standard of
classification Of cotton. which will be-
recognized ras the standard American
classification. That suoh an arrange
ment was indispensable and desirable
no ono can deny, the only danger was
that the types might be made too
low or too high, ard as. we understand
this point has not been settled to the
satisfaction of dealers at this place, We
have heard from competent sources
that the new types are made too low
as compared with tAa long usage OF
this market. New York psides herself
fora high standard iu her cassifi
ton, and 1t was an U understood fact TINT
New York low middling was fully mid
ding in LIVERPOOL; according to the
new type New York low middling il
little better than the oid.fashioned
strict good ordinary. The COMMITTEES
will be treated to an excursion to-mor
row by the New York Cotton Ex-
change.
The Democrats Of the Ninth Ken.
tucky District nominated Hon. Lam.
son Coohrane. of Estiil County, for
Congress.
ST. Louis, September 3.-The Peo-
ple's Convention nominations are:
Governor. Gentry; Lieutenant Co
vernon, Headlee.
CINCINNATI. September 3.-The In
dustrial Expositi n opened to-day.
The Mayor, Governor and Governor
Hendricks, Of Indiana, are the orators.
OMAHA, September 3.-The Repub.
lican Convention is fractions. The
Immortality Of the party is foresha.
dowed thus: When every man in the
South, be he black or white. from the
hnmblest dug out on the land to the
stateliest mansion on the sea. side,
shall be safe in his sentiments and his
person. then, and not till then, has the
Republican party performed its mis-.
sion.