Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-02
SPECIAL DISPATCHES.
The Railroad Excitement Increasing.
stanton Again Promises to Pay.
Alabama Receiver Fails 10 give Salts
fpctfOn.
[srECIAL no DAILY CHRONICLE.l

Alabama Receiver Fails 90 give SatiS-
nsctiOn.
ESPECIAL TO DAILY CHRoNICLE.]
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, July 31st, 1861
The railroad excitement is still increas-
ing. William Keavy, General Passenger
Agent, who is regarded as n reliable gen
tleman, who left ON Friday for New York
as the agent Of the. employees, telegraphs
that he interviewed Mr. Stanton to-day
and that all will be right very soon. STAN
ton himself telegraphs that the employees
must be paid and that he will start with
the money for that purpose as soon as pos
sible. He denies Kirby's Long Branch
story, and says he is working hard for the
road.
ChattanoOgiausp prefer thatStanton should
hold the road, if possible to raise the mon
ey. The Alabama movement promises
nothing definite for Tennessee creditors.
business men are not encouraged by the
present situation.
The Times practically advised the en-
ployes to hold the road by force against
Stanton, but now calls them rioters for
pursuing the same policy ii advised. Ha-
tired for Stanton isNlts motive.
Letters from creditors below threaten
trains running before money is forthcoln-
ing.
Clanton, the Receiver appointed by Gov.
Lindsay, who is no railroad man, but is
Niit'il hitii WI blt hCIlibCIutlC Slulc NOill-
mittee of Alabama, bitterly denounces
Stanton, and through the Times to-mor-
row proposes to show that Stanton tried to
bribe Gov. Lindsay.
The city election to-day to determine
the location of site for the new court
house, voted the site on the hill near the
depot.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 29.-Two
frogs were taken up bodily last night on
the tack of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad and taken away by II body of men
not identified. Rails were also taken up
and the switch torn apart SO that trains
could not run out or in from the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad track. The Of
ficeof the Alabama and Chattanooga Road
is closed, and nothing doing there. 1t is
believed that Superintendent J.C. Stanton
would have left New York to-day but for
these new developments and troubles. The
employees still stick to their text as report-
ed in special last night. Three trains at
Trenton, Georgia, present Southern ter
minus, were attached by Dade county, and
seven engines and corresponding num-
ber of ears were attached at Meridian.
CHATTANOOGA. July PA petition is cir
culating against the removal of tho Postoffice
IL recites that such removal would be of great
injustic to tho business men and the majority
OF our citizsns. The petition is signed by sew
eral hundred prominent men. Meanwhile
the work on the new building isprogressing. 1t
is q very handsome structure with an elegant
yellow sandstone front, which is we'll adapted
for such use, save in an out-Of-thc-way loca-
tion.
Rumors concerning the A. n. G. Il. r., in
crease and multiply, as during the war. Ono
can believe nothing he hears and only half h
sees. Gov. Patton wns in the city to-day, which
fact may have some significance.
Maj T. j. Carlisle, Stanton private and con-
fdcntial secretary, has returned from Cincin-
natl
.CHArTANoouA, July 2s,--Geu. j. +. Clam
ton, who was appointed by Gov Lindsay a. Re
ceiver of the Alabama aud Chattanooga Rail
road, arrived here yesterday.
He spoke to the employees at Kaylors Hall
this afternoon, and was followed by Governor
Patton. tt-..
Both spoke of the magnunimity of the State
of Alabama, and the necessity of running the
road but could make no definite statement as
to what the State would do for the employees
Capt. :Slayton and G. o. Whitney, creditors
of the road, followed and stated that the State
Of Alabama was worth more to-day and had
been benefited more by the construction Of the
road than if it had never been built, and could
afford to lose the entire debt. .f-..
After theSpeaEing was over, the employees
held meeting and adopted resolutions to the
effect that the road cannot until their claims
arc paid in full, They seem to be in dead ear
nest.
TIE present terminus of the road is Trenton, |
Georgia, the farthest point South TO which !
trains are now running. There Is great excite |
ment in the city.