Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-06-15
NEW YORK.
Miscellaneous,

NEW York, June 14.-Gov. Dix signed
the State supply bill to-day.
Several horses died this week of distem-
pernear Hampstead, Long Island
President Grant and family returned to
Long Branch this morning.
The publishers of an indecent paper call
ed The Echo, in Newark, were fined one
hundred dollars to-day.
A grain elevator and thirty thousand
bushels of wheat were burned at Cresco,
Iowa, yesterday.
Two-thirds of Maxwell, Ontario, was
burned to-day. Loss heavy.
Yellow Fever.
A waiter on the steamer Yazoo, running
from New Orleans to Savannah and Phil
adelphia, arrived here by rail from the
latter city, and died in the hospital from
unmistakable yellow fever.
New YORK, June 14.-Governor Dix
has signed the New York cotton press bill.
NEW YORK, June 14.-Gen. Sherman
aid conversation with a reporter last
evening, and is made to say of Gen. Davis,
concerning his indictments of Capt. Jack
and the preparations for hanging him and
some of his associates, eff the state
ment is correct, there is no doubt that Gen.
Davis must have exceeded his duty, and
he would have been held responsible for
his acts. He should be guided by military
rules and the law. We all know they are
murderers.s The President himself says
they are murderers, and had Gen. Davis
shot them while they were being pursued,
[ do not think he would have exceeded
his duty. He did not do this, and could
not afterwards shoot them in cold blood"
Gen. Davis report to Gen. Scofeld, Gen.
Sherman said, "may differ from that pub
hshed in the papers. Davis is too experience
ed an officer to do anything that would
bring odium upon the army or lay himself
open to military court martial for exceed.
ing his duty as an officer"
The General thinks there will be no diff
hculty about disposing of the Modocs un-
der arrest. Those found guilty of murder
will be hanged or shot, and if it is proved
that there was an agreement for general
uprising among the tribes, others will re-
ceive the same punishment, as a warning
to Indians. He remarked, however, that
it was pity the guilty Modocs were not
shot at first, then all the commission bust
ness and expense would have been avoided.
AS to the killing already of a few pris-
oners, General Sherman says those who
committed the deed are low blackguards
and murdererS, who had nothing whatever
to do with the army.
A Boston letter says that the new secret
anti-liq uor legislation party has rapidly
eAeendeu lOUSeS all over MaSSacuuSettS.
There are nineteen branches and nine
thousand active members in Boston alone,
controlling fifty thousand votes through
the State.
what is Democracy, and who are Dem.
ocrats2" is the appalling conundrum pro-
pounded by the Louisville Ledger. The
definitions are as multiform as the letters
required to spell the word. Sometimes
Democracy" means eternal hostility to
the Constitutional Amendments Some.
times it means anything calculated to
boost party patriot into an office. In
fact, it can be made to mean whatever the
managers elect. In this latitude its mean
ing depends wholly upon the end sought.
Ii it be policy to fraternize with the Re
publieans on Republican platform, THAT
Is M, Democracy" If it be policy to cry
d. Oh the Niger" then THAT is Democ.
racy. But, to tell the plain truth, 'De-
ddh ooa as party organization, is
uead, and the pail bearers, who have been
carrying the corpse about the country for
a oen years, ought to bury it.-Men2ohis Av-