The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-04

Q9ia OF Ripon has resigned, the. .Gsapd
Mastership OF the Masons. gHhs E finbe
OF Wales succeeds. h'i io -la50nr
100 Morinons embarked to.day.."'f
The eruption Of Mount Esna con.
times. The villagers are taking pre-.
cautions as to lava streams. remote
from the cultivated portions Of the
mountain.
TolsRraphic-Am mertcan SIatlars.
FORT LRAvENwoRrH. September q
l A. M.-LIEUT. GHN. P. SHERIDAN:
The following despatch from Col.
Miles is iust received from camp, on
right bank Of Dry Fork OF Washita.
Southwest of Antelope Hills. dated
August 26: ,"We arrived here yester-
day. All we'll. Lieut.. Baldwin and
party rejoined the command on the
23d instant. He secuted Westward to
the Adobe Walls and down the Cana
dian to the Antelope Hills. and had
two affairs with the Iudians, killed one
and wounded one. aud captured po-
nies. eto. The trails, etc., OF the re-
treat, all indicate that the Indians have
gone South to the North fork Of Red
River and it's efduenoe. We are march
ing S,uth and Southwest, and have
twenty.one days' supplies. ! The H.
dians are burning the grass in our
front. Full particulars will be aent by
mail. JOHN POPE,
"Brevet Maj. Gen. Commanding"
MoNTPRLIER, W.. September q
The returns still come in slowly, but
enough is known to indicate the cleo.
ton OF Judge Peck (Republicsp) by
the usual majority, allowing for
lighter vote. The House is over
wheimingly Republican, and the Se-
nate is nearly. unanimously the same
way. The vote for Governor in ll3
towns sstands-Peck, 20, ,O04; Binghum,
8,50l. In 1879, the vote in the same
towns wss-OouVerse. 81 .636; Heaton,
(Democrat,) 10,5l3. The contest in
the Second Congressional District has
defeat OF Judge Poland. The boilers
mainly supported Hon. d. O. Denni-
son. OF Royaitou, in Winsor County.
but their advice TO their followers was
to vote for anybody to draw votes
from Bland. The exnct result of the
ballot OF yesterday in AZ towns out of
80 is-Poiand, 1852; Dennison. 6. 5.25l;
Davenport, 1890; scattering. 5S4 Iu
1872, the vote in the same towns 81 ood-
Poland, 1866; Steele, (bolter,) 2,l3O;
Davenport. (Democrat,) 1872; seat
tering. 245.
NEW YORK. September 2 The last
scandal news to-day is that both Monl.
ton and Tilton will still reserve impor-
tant documents until the trial takes
place, this being by the advice Of Ben
Butler.
The Commercial says 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 as The standard American
classification. That suoh IN arrange
ment was indispensable and desirable
no one 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 tie
satisfaction of dealers at this place, we
have heard from competent sources
that the new types nro nude too low
as compared with the long usage OF
this market. New York prides herself
for high standard in her classihca-
ton, and it was an u understood fact thut
New York low middling was fully mid.
ding in Liverpool; according to the
new type New York low middling is
little better than the old fashioned
strict good ordinary. The committee
will be treated to al excursion o-mor.
row by the New York Cotton Ex-
change.
The Democrats OF the Ninth Ken.
lucky District nominated Hon. Lam-
son Cochrane. of E,til County, for
Congress.
ST. Louis, September 3.-The Peo-
ple's Convention Nominations are !:
Governor, Gentry; Lientenar, Co
vernon, Headlee.
CINcINNArI. September 3-The In
dustrial Expositi opened to-day.
The Mayor. Governor and Governor
Hendricks. Of Indiana, are tho orators.
OMAHA, September 3.-The Repub.
lican Convention is fractions. The
Immortality of the party is foresha.
dowed thus: When every nun in the
South, be he black or white, from the
humblest 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.
New York. September 3.--The River
Belle, hence for Long Branch, wns
burned to the waters edge. She was
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