The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-26
LATEST NEWS.

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nre no new developments THIS morn
inR General BROOKS occupies the on
omtiye Office. Mayor Wilil had u
consultation with him relative 10 fcos-
tnbllshlng the military courts, mud
other matters pertaining to the police
department, the preservation Of order,
etc.
A consultation Is now going on ut
the custom house between Governor
McEnery and his partisans aud Gov
ornor Kellogg and others, looking to
compromise, but legal obstacles are
said TO present themselves nj almost ev-
cry step. Military occupation, until con-
gress disposes Of the question, would
doubtless be cheeriully acquiescea III
by both parties.
A dispatch to Governor MciGnery
from Bayou Sara reports that town
was attacked last night by negroes
The attack was repulsed. General
Emory ordered troops to that point.
WASHINGTON, ID. G., September H.
"A special meeting of the cabinet was
held this morning and after consulta-
ton the following telegram was sent
to General Emory by the president,
through Adjutant General Townsend
WAR DEPARTMENT., J
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, ID. g., September Is, lSH.
To General w. II. Emory, New Orleans La;
am directed by the president to say
that your acts to this date so far
as they have been reported and re-
ceived here officially, are approved,
except so far as they name Colonel
Brooks to command the city. 1T
would have been better to have
named him as commander of the
United States forces down in that city.
The state government existing at the
time of the beginning of the present
insurrectionary movement must be
recognized as the lawful state govern
ment until some other government
can be legally supplied. Upon the sur
render of the insurgents you will in
form Governor Kellogg of the fact and
give him the necessary support to rees-
tablish the authority of the state gov
eminent. If at the end of the five
days given in the proclamation of the
18th instant, there still exists armed
resistance to the authOrithy ofthe state,
you will summon surrender of the
insurgents, and if the order is not quiz
city submitted to it must be enforced
at all hazards. being an insurrec-
ton against the state government of
Louisiana, to aid in suppressing which
the United States government has
been called upon, in the forms required
by the constitution and laws of con-
gress Hereunder, it is not the prov
ince of the United States authorities to
make terms with parties engaged in
such instruction.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adjutant General.
AUGUSTA, GA, September 2l-Re-
ports reached the city.this evening that
about four hundred negroes, under the
leadership of a negro named Tenant,
intended to make an attack on the
whites, near Russess' store, Edgefield |
county, S. G., about fifteen miles from
Augusta. 1t is reported that some
unknown parties had fired into Ten
nant's house last night, and that
he intended to retaliate on the whites
who assembled to resist the assault.
A courier arrived here with note from
prominent citizens of Edgefield asking
assistance. A party organized and
were ON the eve of starting from here,
when another courier arrived bringing
information that Tenant had been
arrested by the civil authorities and
that the negroes had dispersed and all
was quiet. Tenant was u member of
the convention which nominated
Cham berlin. There is an uneasy feel
ing that there will be trouble in South
Carolina between the whites and ne
groes in that state. There is no ques-
ton about the white people of Georgia
on the line of the Savannah river 60
ing to the assistance of their neighbors
in Carolina.
FALL RIVER, MASS, September d.
1t was about seven o'clock when the
alarm of fire was given, but the fire.
men were unable to get the correct To-
cation. 1t was ten minutes later be-
fore they succeeded i'm discovering it,
during which the flames spread with
such rapidity that they were pouring
out of the fourth and fifth story win
dows of the tower of the mill where
the only stairway was. Julia COffey
states that she heard the first alarm,
and at the same instant heavy col
umns of smoke burst through the
spool room door. The crowd of little
children surrounded the overseer and
with him rushed for the staircase, but
were forced back by the flames. Then
all made for the elevator, but it would
not work. At this juncture leaping ,
from the windows commenced, when
a number of men in this room began
uncoiling long rope to Jet the terror ,,
stricken operatives to the ground. Sew ,
eral were landed in safety by this rope !
when it was burned off twenty-five :
feet from the ground. The smoke had =
become so dense that those who re- |.
manned crowded to the windows for +,
air, some leaping headlong from the :
building, their brains flying many feet, !,
while Others suffocated, fell back and
expired in the flames.
NEW YORK, September 21.-Fall !
river dispatches say the feeling of in !
dignation at the way the fire was man
aged is growing very bitter. Chief
Engineer Gurfee is censured for inca :
pacity by many and accused of losing =
all control over himself and his men. !;
The mill company is blamed for the !
inadequate means of escape from the !
building. !
There are two hook and ladder COM !
panies provided with ladders thirty A.,
five feet long, which could have been :
spliced so as to reach the upper stories, )
the highest of which was but sixty ,
three feet from the ground. No at :
tempt was made during the fire to !
splice them and save the women i'm the :
top story. Many declare this could
have been done and would had not the I;
firemen and their chief been paralyzed y
with fear. The chief says that box =
seventy-two, over a quarter of mile
from the fire, was first struck and af- 1
ter that there was interference between !
the alarm from box seventy-two and !
the box i'm the MILL SO that it was inn I
possible to count. He believed the dis e
aster was due to the cowardlce of the a
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