Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-10

FOREIGN NEWS BY THE CABLE
miscellaneous and Washington News
HOME NEWS.
DEMOCRATS AWAITING EVENTS.
Hendricks not Committed TO the Cincin
uati Convention.


Curc,co May AT the meeting of the
Don,ocrotice Editors, representing eighteen
Journals il was resolved to await the action of
tboDcmocratic Convention, when, if the Cincin-
matt nominees were endorsed, they will receive
the hearty support of the Democratic press of
Illinois.
INDrANAPoLIs, May 9.-It is authoritatively
announced that Hendricks will not be commit
ted to Cincinnati and will be governed by
the Baltimore Convention.
New YORK, May 9.-In the Executive Com
mittec the motion to Indefinitely postpone the
National Democratic Convention was lost
Baltimore was selected as the place for holding
the meeting by vote of to l. Cincinnati,
st. Louis and Louisville were the contestlng
cities.
Bingham paper mill was burned
There was one case of suustroke here yester-
day.
The warehouse of Samuel ID. Tempkins, %
West street, filled with cotton, caught fire at
six o'clock this morni lg and is still burning.
The loss will be heavy. The cause of the
fire Is unknown.
At meeting tonight, Fred Douglass, pre-
siding, the following from the Vice President
was read
VICE PRESIDENTS CHAMBER,
Washington, May Z.
DEAR SIR: Having voted recently in the
Senate upon the question of civil rights, to
which you refer, / need not make any extend
ed statement as TO my views upon it, for actions
always speak more loudly than mere words, but
if that vote needed justification, as it does not,
the travelling experience of your delegates to
the National Calored Convention at New Or
leans, as detailed by Frederick Douglass, ST.,
in the National Nc,r Era, would be its fullest
vindication.
If orderly, sober citizens of the United
States, entitled by its Constitution to equality
before the law, cannot obtain food and lodgings
at hotels like the rest of mankind, or even av-
erage accommodations on railroad trains after
paying firSt-class fare we should either ac-
knowledge that the Constitution is a nullity, or
should insist on that obedience TO it by all, and
protection under it to ALL which are alike the
right and duty of the humblest well as the
most influential throughout the land
Respectfully yours OIL
SCHUYLER CoLFAX.
To Messrs. E. S. Atkinson, j. I. Downing F.
Douglass, Jr., J. w. Lebagnes and T.. S.
Barbados.
The death of Buchanan Rcade is hourly APP
pretended.
Hiram Livingston, retired merchant is
dead, aged 70 years.
Judge Pierrepoint Isham is dead, aged 20
years.
Twenty-one missionaries sailed for Europe
today. Numerous memorials were read at
General Conference to-day on secret societies
against ividious distinctions of race or color in
electing of officers, and various:other subjects.
Judge Caldwell proposed delegation of six to
convey fraternal greeting to the NJ. Z. Church,
South, to meet in 1874, and cndeavor to effect
an organization with that body. The latter
clause was Withdrawn and the motion carried.
DOVER, May 9-The Delaware Republican
Convention instructed their delegates to vote
for Grant and Colfax.
RICHMOND, May 9.-Lewis Mckenzie, Re-
publican delegate at large for Virginia to the
Philadelphia Convention has returned his ere
dentials and declines attending that Conven-
ton and has pronounced for Greeley and
Brown.
PARIS KY, May 9.-The court house and
the Clerks Office were destroyed by fire. The
records were saved.
MIxNEAPoLIs, DIINN., May 9.-The Repub-
lican Convention requested its delegates TO
Philadelphia to vote for Grant and Colfax.
MoSTGoMEKY, May 9.-The Alabama Dem
Ocratic Convention meets in June.
PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-In the Medical As
ISOLATION a resolution was offered by DR.. Hor-
ner, of Virginia, that members Of the Associa-
ton should discourage the use of Alcoholic
stimuli in their remedies, which was adopted.