Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24
WASHINGTON.
TESTIMONY. IN SOUTHERN tCI.AIMs
~ 1cc lAAAi y CASES. t8IlA
Fort Rascomh Attnckcd hy Indians

Fort BascO'nb Attacked by Indians f.
WASHINGTON, May let is asserted
that the Southern Claims Commission is
about establishing an order that evidence
in all claims under three thousand dollars
may be taken at home, witnessed. In
larger cases they must come here.
1t is stated that Reverdy Johnson urges
the ratification of the treaty. q
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-An order is
sued from the War Department, contain
ing the Presidents kuklux proclamation,
concludes: The President directs that
whenever an occasion shall arise, the regu-
lar forces of the United States stationed
in the vicinity of any locality where of
fences described by the act approved April
the 10th, 1871, may be committed, shall,
in strict accordance with the provisions of
the said act be employed 10y their command
ing officers in assisting the authorized
civil authorities of the United States in
making arrests of persons accused under
the said act, in preventing the rescue of
persons arrested for such cause i'm break
ing up and dispensing bands of disguised
marauders, and of armed organizations
against the power and quiet ofthe lawful
pursuits of the citizens in any State.
Whenever. troops are employed in the
manner indicated in this order, the COM
handing officer will, at the earliest oppor-
tunity, make full report of his operations
to the proper supreme authorities.
Gen. Gorden Granger telegraphs from
Santa Fee that Fort Bascomb was surpris-
ed by % hostile Indians, and that 200 cat
tie and ponies were captured by them.
The Kentucky Republican Convention
adopted resolutions censuriDg the refusal
of the charter to the Cincinnati and South
ern Railroad. - 2 tA
ANNAPoLIs,.NIay 22.-The work shops
and engineers buildings at the Naval
Academy has been partially destroyed by
| fire. Loss, $50, 900.
CHICAGO, May 22.-The Assembly was
engaged on Saturday on educational ques-
| ti0ns.
CINC!NNATI May 22.-Bishop Clark is
very low, and scarcely able to recognize
his friends. Hf4s -ists W. sFF-. n
CHICAGO, May 22.-The Presbyterian
General Assembly adopted resolutions of
| fraternal greeting, and transmitted them
| to the Baptist Assembly.
NEWARK, n. j. May 22--Dr. James b.
/ Cutter has been convicted of three abor-
| lions.
! TORONTO, May q. 1.-Two distinct earth
| quakes..were felt here on Sunday, also at
Quebec, Ottawa, and other places. There
| was no damage DONE. rTaP- p
| New YoRK, Nav %. Bonner denies the
report that he will trot Dexter at Chicago.
The Foster uial is progressing. No new
! facts have been elected.
/ BAEaIAIORE, May 22.-Numbers 2l %
and 23 fsEarp street, have been burned Ash
engine exploded, killing J. Harris Weaver,
a member of the City Council.
| WASHINGTON, May 2l.-ColfaX tainted
during session to-day. 1fhtl gff
Corcoran continues to improve.
1t is proposed that q force vote be taken
on the treaty by the night session to-mor-
| row night.
The Directors of the Central Bank OF
Brooklyn, are liable to its depositors.
Baron Gerolt, who has represented Prus-
STA here for twenty years, departs this
week.
Colfax will be required by law and has
certified to the District Attorney the contu-
macy of the Tribune correspondents which
will bring the matter to the cognizance OF
the Grand Jury. The Senate still holds
them prisoners.
The following are the nominations to.
day: Bird w. Gray, Judge of the Eastern
District of Texas Samuel Wakefield
Postmaster at New Iberia, Louisiana
Senator Sumner made personal eXplana-
tiOns. The speech attributed to him in
the New York Herald is bogus.
Edmonds denied having abused the press
in secret session. -......
Motions for discharging the contuma-
cious reporters were made by George
Owen under rule. Eew
WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The Commit
tee on Foreign Relations have spent
twenty hours in considering the treaty
1t was considered yesterday as the Com
mittee of the whole, and by Monday viii
be reported to the Senate without amend
ments, when several amendments will bt
/ offered, but it is thought they will be re
jected, and as a whole, be adopted proba
bly, on Tuesday.
Earl de Gray informed several unin
formed Senators that the ratification of thu
treaty in England was an affair of thu
crown, and was only submitted to Parlia
ment for the information of that body.
| YANKTOwN, DAKoTAH, May 16.-JohI
AIcBath alias Jamison, native of New
York, was hung 10y a mob for several muir
ders