Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-09

MILWAUKEE, Dec. i.-Cate, Demo-
crat, is elected from the Eighth Dis
trict, by majority of two
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 4.--TNrpc alleged
colored iDcendiarirs weIv AIKEN from
Morganstleld Jail an' .nu. ed.
NEW YORK, De- Tie family
of Mayor Havemeyer hH.,. consented
to public funeral TO tate place on
Saturday next from st. Pau's Meth
odist Episcopal Church. The Ninth
Regiment will act as q military escort
and the Old Guards will act as guard
of honor.
The arguments on the writ of hd6eaS
corpus granted TO VIM. NJ. Tweed were
heard to-day before Judge Barrett, In
Oyer and Terminer Court, David Dud-
ley Field and eX-Judge Comstook
speaking on behalf Of the prisoner and
District Attorney Phelps for the peo-
pie. The prisoner being unwell was
not brought TO court.
Tue District Attorney made a mo-
ton to quash the writ on the ground
that there was no question IA to the
court which condemned the prisoner,
| being properly organized and having
inherent Jurisdiction in criminal cases,
and it was not for the Judge of a oyer
jurisdiction to review its proceedings.
! There was neither law, necessity or pre-
cedent for such a course wherefore, he
asked that the writ be quashed and the
| prisoner remanded and left to his rem
edy of error. For the prisoner it was
argued that the error was slow pro-
ceeding, and the prisoner challenged
the Jurisdiction of the court to try the
cause or pass the first of numerous
sentences or any of the subsequent
ones. The first term was expired and
the fine paid, and the prisoner chal~
lenged the jurisdiction of the court or
its competency to pass the second SEM
tence, and also questioned the mode of
empannelllng the jury, and their COM
potency to sit. These We're iurisdic-
tional questions properly arising un-
der hdJeds corpus.
Judge Barrett. in deciding, pointed
out that though there is provision
made for investigating the act OF civil
court, where it exceeds the jurisdic-
ton of error and the Judge was not To
review the acts of n brother Judge, sit
ting in the same court. The writ
ought not to have been granted, The
court then granted motion to quash.
A rumor, requiring confirmation !,
was in circulation this afternoon that
VIM. NJ. Tweed had escaped from the
penitentiary.
, NEW YORK, Dec. 1T is stated
that in consequence of the decision OF
the Court of Appeals the Beecher case
: must be postponed.
Francis Alexander was to-day elects
ed President of the Pacific Mail Steam
: ship Company.
g New ORLEANS, Dec. The fol
| lowing dispatch was received at Gen.
$ Emery's headquarters
JACKSON, Miss, Dec. :.
= To Z. T.. PlaI, AdjutGnt General of the
/ Department OF the Gulf Nelr Orleans.
= Adiutant General Hacker reports to
D Governor Ames from Nicksburgh by
4 telegraph, that a riot and fighting be
- gan at 8 o'clock, this morning, and
= that the militia were powerless To
: maintain order, and that the mob have
! possession OF the Sheritf's person and
= hold the Court House with an armed
] force. The extent of the fighting il
! not yet known.
(Signed) ARTHUR w. ALLYN,
t Captain of the Sixteenth Infantry.
New ORLEANS, Dec. The follow
ing is special dispatch TO the Bui,
: lCtiR.:
= VICKsBURGH, Dec. :, 2:l5 p. NJ
e Our citizens were called under arms a.
l three O'Clock this A. Al. The negroes
E advanced on the city in three columns
E and commenced an attack on Cherry
street, on the outskirts. They wers
driven back with loss of four killed
e and quite a number wounded. The
Z negroes are now advancing on the
: Warrenton road and another conflict
is momentarily expected.
= PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA dispatch
from Huntington Pa, dated last eve.
e ming gives the following particulars ne
/ garding the attempt of the Columbis
Conduit Company to lay oil pipes be
r. meath the track of the West Pennsyl-
= vania branch road at Powers Run
= Since the pipe was torn up on Friday
= a force of one hundred men under
e Creighton, have been encamped on the
! spot to prevent an attempt to relay the
: pipes. On Saturday evening in obe
dience to the instructions, nearly five
hundred mochinists, laborers and CA
c builders assembled at the depot in Al
e toona aud started in a special train tc
e. reinforce their friends at Powers Run
; The party are armed, some of them
having military equipments from Hol
9 lidaysburg. The oil pipe company il
reported 10 be backed by the Baltimort
: and Ohio Railroad Company which
: owns the Pittsburgh and Connellsvillf
Railroad, and claims the power to lay
: pipes from the oil regions into Allegha
= ny county, under the speculative char
: ter which was smuggled through the
; legislature several years ago. The
= Pennsylvania Railroad will not per,
init its tracks to be crossed or interfer-
(, red with until the validity and power OF
charter have been defined by the courts.
1t Is surmised that the reinfocements
: sent were intended to meet an expect
: ed attack Of oil men on Sunday.
! ALBANY, Dec. The Court of Ap-
peals Teverses the decision of the Court
9 below, and that Beecher has a right 10
full particulars in Tilton's suit,
; Providence, Dec. REV. DIR. Da-
9 vid Benedict, widely known as the
: author of some works on Baptist his
tory, died at Pawtucket, yesterday az
Z ternoOn, aged 96 years. He was the
! oldest member of the corporation OF
the Brown University.