Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-07
A Two HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR
FIRE In PHILADELPHIA.
The Virginia Legislature on the Sup
Elemental Civil Rights Bill.
Large Assemblage Of Workingmen in
New York.
HON e NEWS.
Tho New Church Movement.

vices oi Ine tNelorlneu Episcopal Cnurcn,
will begin tomorrow, when Bishop Cum
Minis will preach. Bishop Cummins says,
"The Reformed Episcopal Church, is
founded on principles for which low
Churchmen have been contending and
about the validity Of its orders there can be
no question. 1t would be proud to give
the names of well known laymen and cler-
gymen Of this city, who may be expected
to give in their adhesion to the new
church, but there is abundant proof that
the spirit of a considerable portion of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York is ripe for this departure. The ac-
cession of the Rev. DR.. Goddard, Rector of
one of the largest and most important
Churches on Staten Island is good sign"
CIergymen of other Denominations as
Sympathizers.
Numerous offers from clergymen of 9th
er denominations, expressing their readi-
ness to take part in the work, have been
received. Presbyterian, Methodist and
Baptist ministers have expressed desire
to take charge of the new organizations
in this movement. From men of note in
other Christian bodies there have come
suggestions looking toward probable or
possible union between the new church
and portions of such Christian bodies.
A prominent Doctor of Divinity among
the New England Baptsts and the ed
Baltimore are among those who have
written, favOring such a step. One of
the foremost Methodist ministers in IL
linois, and President of a College in that
State, has given utterance to cordial
approval of, and unreserved sympathy
with, the movement.
Strong Coal Companies.
1t is expected that by the close of the
present month all arrangements will have
been completed for the consolidation of the
Wilkesbarre, Honey Brook and Lehigh
Coal Companies, with all their tributaries.
If the consolidation is effected, the new
concern will be known as The Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company and will
begin business with capital of $40, 900, 900.
The stockholders of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey Will be largely Interested IN
the new organization, and, though that
Company will not be merged into the COM
bination, close relation will be establish
ed. ...-...
The Bank Statement shows the follow
ing: Loans increase, So, 900, 600; specie in
| crease, s., $50, 900; legal tenders increase,
81, 625 600; deposits increase, SIC, 100000
waking Up the Wrong Customer.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. AT Hnnting-
don, Pa, last night, the editor of the Jour
nal was attacked in his Office by party OF
! roughs, as is alleged, at the instigation
of the editor of the Globe. The at
| lacking party were disarmed and kicked
out of the Office. The trouble grew out OF
publication in the Journal attacking GER
taip parties.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Jan. 5.-The
National Crop Reporters figures show that
| the corn crop this year of Illinois, Indi-
| ana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Ohio, and Tennessee is Al 200, 900 bushels
below that of 1872. The potato crop in
| the same States shows loss of IS, 900
bushels.
Resolutions of tho Virginia Legislature.
RICHMOND, Jan. 5.-Both Houses of the
General Assembly, to-day, adopted a series
of resolutions that declare there is no pur-
pose on their part, or upon the part of the
| people they represent, to cherish captious
| hostility to the Federal Administration
and reaffirming the portion of the Conser-
vative platform that they will judge it inn
partially by its official acts, &c. that the
Legislature recognize the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution
as part of that instrument, and desire in
good faith to abide by its provisions as ex-
pounded by the Supreme Court of the
| United States, and the amendment thus
construed is the supreme law of the land
and should be obeSed and respected by
all coordinate departments of the Gov
ernInenL.
| That thebill now before Congress known as
the Civil Rights Bill lis in violation of this
amendment as interpreted by the Supreme
Court, an infringement on constitutional
and legislative powers of the State, is Sec
tional in its operation andinjurious alike to
| the white and colored population of the
| Southern States, and that its enforced APP
| plication in those States will prove de-
| structive to their system of education, ar
| rest the enlightenment of the colored pop
ulation in whose improvement the people
of Virginia felt live interest, produce a
| continued irritation between the races
and counterract paeification and develop
ments now happily progressing; tend
to repel immigration and greatly aug
ment emigration, and reopen the wounds
now almost healed, and engeRder new po-
litical asperities and paralyze the power
and Influence of the State Government,
controlling and promoting domestic inter-
ests and preserving the internal harmony;
that the people of Virginia and its Legis
lature earnestly protest against this bill
and instruct their Senators and request
their Representatives in Congress, firmly,
but respectfully to oppose its passage not
| only for The reasons expressed, but as a
measure, which is calculated TO arrest the
growing sentiments of concord and har-
mony between the Northern and Southern
! States.