Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-16
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WAR OF RACES In LOUISIANA.
Eighty to One Hundred Negroes Killed,
Fire at springfield, Massachusetts.
HON e NEWS.

HOME NEWS.
Fire I'm Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, April 14.-In addition to
the two Chickopee Mills and the engine
and picker houses, two stores well filled
and part of the railroad depot, wish 1,500
bales of cotton, were burned to-day. F-s
bloody Fight. a. ~
NEW ORLEANS, April 15.-The steamer
Southwestern brings the following from
Grant parish: About 400 negroes had bar
ricaded themselves in Coifax Court House,
well armed. A force of $50 men from the
surrounding parishes gathered and made
an attack on the Court House at o'clock
Sunday. The negroes took refuge inside
the Court House. After considerable fight
ing the negroes displayed flag of truce.
Several detachments moved on the Court
House, when the negroes opened fire upon
them. Capt. Harderat was shot in the
bowels, it is feared fatally. The detach.
ments retreated outside the breastworks.
As an only means of dislodging the me-
groes, the Court House was fired. and the
negroes were shot as they came from the
burning building.
1t is reported that so or 100 negroes were
killed. There were none to be found for
miles around. The riDgleaders and white
allies escaped. The Captain of the South
western confirms the above. He saw Is or
20 dead negroes and brought 2 wounded
whites to Alexandria. All was quiet when
the Southwestern left Colfax Sunday even
ing.
ALBANY, April ia chimney of a
burned house fell to-day, burying five lit
tie girls. One is dead and three will die,
the fifth was seriously hurt. $50
BOSTON, April 15.-The insurance on
the Cbicopee Mills Company was S613, 600.
The Mutual Company, of Boston, loses
100000. sE1
The Case of Phelps, Dodge q Co. -
NEw York, April 15.-rrhe firm of
Phelps, Dodge & Co., will publish to-mor-
row detailed statement of their recent
difficulties with the Government, the par
ticulars of which are as follows: The law
requires that all imported goods shall be
assessed for duties at their true market
value, but that the invoice accompanying
shall declare their true and actual cost. In
practice, however it is the custom to as
sess duties on actual cost, when this is in
excess, of market value and at market
value when this is in excess of cost. ~
1t was not charged that the firm had
ever invoiced any goods at less than their
true market value, but the difficulty arises
in respect to certain comparatively small
items, unusual sizes of tin plate, specially
contracted for months in advance of de-
livery, the firm furnishing the raw ma
terial to the manufacturers and receiving
in return the finished product The mar
ket value of these goods, in consequence
of fluctuations in the value of metals, was
sometimes different at the time of ship
ment from the contract prices, more or
less, and as there was always possibility
of some reductions in consequence of q
variation in the price of the raw material
in the final settlement, the cost itself was
not fixed but contingent. Under such
circumstances, the shippers in Liverpool,
without due consideration, met the prac-
teal difficulty created by the law by max.
ing up the goods on the invoice when the
cost was less than market value, and
making small reduction when the mar.
ket value was less than cost, the changes,
as the investigation subsequently, showed,
being far more frequently in favor of the
Government than against it.. EsNkAsA
SYNoPsIs.-The account goes on to state
that no attempt was made at concealment
and the base conduct of a clerk, who de-
strOyed the memoranda which showed ap.
proximated balances favorable to the Gov
eminent and placed those advantageous
to the firm in the hands of the officers, in
stead of apprising his employers of the ex-
istence of errors so they might be cor
rected. - i
The firm threw no obstacles in the way
of speedy investigation and explains the.
law bearing on the subject, giving the in
stances wherein it had been violated and
the manner of SO doing, and concludes
with an appeal to the public as to whether
itwas reasonable that house of its mag
nitude could stoop to scheme for defraud-
ing the Government of a few thousands
revenue for time extending over period
of several years. : =
The. steamers Antwerp and Minnesota
brought Z, $50 passengers. 81
A boy, for, stabbing a teacher in the
house of refuge, was sentenced to five years
in the States prison. -, -
The run on Hoboken bank has wholly
ceased. .h rsIU
London papers at hand to-day, state
that the first dispatch received by the
owners of the steamship Atlantic, an
nouncing the loss of the vessel, attributed
the disaster to the watch on deck mistak-
ing the Sambro for the DEVILS light. g Z
Murderer i'm Custody.
MEMPHIS, April 15.-An unsuccessful
attempt has been made for the release on
awrit of habeas corpus of Vaughn, under
arrest Tor the murder of Gen. Hindman.
1t is understood he has made a Confession
g duplicating persons in Helena. but the po-
lice authorities refuse to give any infornia.
ton concerning the case. y, - -
PHILADELPHIA, April 15.-John Sidney
Jones, who was arrested for firing his
store, was declared insane., On his way
to the asylum he escaped from third
story by water pipe. His estate is valued
at $50, 900.
FOREIGN.