Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
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SHARP FIGHTISG IN CHINA.
Commodore Rodgers ReSents the InsuIt %
IL. Our Flag. -------.

Commodore Rodgers Resents the IIssuIt %
The Coreans Defeatea ana Driven from,
Their Forts. -H D..
.Ts. t' 30 CoREA, June %.
To The Secretary Of utc Macy. 'ti nsl
The Coreans not apologizing for the
treacherous attack on the tenth, we landed
on Kang Noe, and took and destroyed the
lower fort and munitions. On the elev-
enth we took another fort and then stormed
and captured the stronghold. Five forts
were taken. The troops as, reported were
eleven thousand. There was desperate
hand to hand fighting IN the citadel. The
ordnance destroyed was four hundred and
eighty-one pieces, principally small brass
pieces, and smaller arms very many.
Fifty flags were taken. There were
counted two hundred and forty-three dead
Coreans around the citadel, Our killed
was three; the gallant Lieutenant Nc
Kee first inside the citadel was killed by
bullet and spear; Marine Dennis Hanahan
and Landsman Seth Allen. Our nine
wounded are all out of danger and doing
well. CSigned1 JOHN RopGERs.
The Cotton and q rain Crops.
New ORLEANS, July 1.-The Commit
tee on Statistics and Information made
a report upon the growing cotton and
grain crop with dates from the 18th to the
18th of June. The following is a sum-
mary:
MISSISSIPPI.
Cotton, reduction of acreage twenty to
twenty-five per cent. with an average of
half to to three quarters the yield of last
year per acre. Corn acreage has increased
twenty-five to forty per cent The latest
reports Indicate short yield per acre.
TEXAS.
The information received is mostly from
the northeast portion of the State. The
reduction of cotton acreage is from % to
80 per cent, with corresponding increase
in grain. Cotton is two weeks backward,
though with favorable season, an aver
age crop is expected '-r
s- TENNESSEE.
The information is confined to the west
ern part of the State. Cotton has decreased
in acreage from 5 to 12l per cent, with
prospects for an average yield per acre.
There is considerable increase in the acre
age of acknowledged prospects.
EE59HfyW E ALABAMA e .,u. ..
The reduction of the cotton acreage is
ten to twenty per cent. The crop is three
weeks backward. The average production
per acreage will be less than last year.
The increased acreage of grain is from
twenty to thirty per cent, with fair pros
pect.
GEORGIA.
The cotton accounts are meagre, en-
bracing the west center and center of the
State, and thence northeast. The de-
ORC i'm iS from turantNy n fiji ny
three and third per cent. in the North
east and twelve and a half to fifteen in
other sections heard from. .
The condition is unpromising One-half
to thrce-quarters per acre of lest years
yield is expected from corresponding in
crease of acreage.
ARKANSAS.
Cotton, reduction of acreage twenty-five
to thirty-three per cent with proportion
ate increase Of gain; the proportion is
generally good except in the southern
portion of the State, where not more
than half of last years yield per acre is
anticipated. The grain crop is very pro-
missing.
LOUISIANA. t..t. .
Cotton, reduction ofacreage ten to twelve
per cent The crops are three weeks back
ward, and are considerably injured espe-
cially in the low lands by rain and lice.
Corn is nearly sufficient for home con-
sumption planted.
ISuIsIuN IdentiGed-B Bow en- sstfd TO he Par
doHed.
OXFORD, Miss, July "a negro wit
ness identified three whites and two ne
graes among the prisoners Us being present
at the recent lyiiching who are now un-
der examination before the United States
Court.
NEW YORK, July 2.--Fhe Hcru1d says
the President has pardOned Bowen, the |
bigamist and eX-Congressman. The doe
ument was signed at Long Branch yester-
day
SAvANNAH, July 3.-On Saturday last
Twenty-Five armed negroes went to the !
plantation Of Angus Red, in Barnwell |
county, :. c., about twelve miles below |
on the Savannah river. Arriving f.
lt the family residence the party fired n |
volley into it, killing ThOs. a. Lowe and |
seriously woundng Red and his wife and |
mother. After disarming Red the negroes |
returned to Paul +. Hammond's planta-
ton where the deputy Sheriff tried to ar
rest them but without success, as they re-
fused to disarm. The negroes, however, |
promised TO go to Aiken and stand an in
vestigation.
RoeheTort Pronounced Insane,
PARIS, Sunday, July ,, Midnight.-The
elections were uneNciting. The city is
calm. Gambetta is elected.
RochefOrt is pronounced insane.