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

struction and management and point
ed out the remedies in general railroad
laws and the control of through lines
by the General Government. lie dis
cussed the relative merits of canals and
trans-continental railroads and argued
in favor of the latter. The report was
referred to Committee OF one from
each State represented, to be appoint
ed by the various delegations. A sim
liar Committee on resolutions was also
ordered. The Convention took re-
cess until =. NJ.
RICHMOND, Dec. i.--Potter, of los
wa, moYed that as a substitute for the
resolutions Of the Committee, favor
ing the three great water routes, the
immediate construction by Congress
of the Rock Island aud Hennekin
canal. The debate upon the substitute
exhausted the day. Chicago was select
ed for the next annual meeting.
RICHMOND, VA, Dec. An the
Cheap Transportation Convention to-
day all substitutes for the report ofthe
Committee on Water Routes were
withdrawn, and Col. II. G.. Cahill, of
Virginia, offered rs a compromise II
resolution recognizing in addition to
the lines of transportation recommend
ed by the United States Senate Com
mittee on Transportation that the pro-
posed Rock Island and Meunepin
canal, Illinois, connecting the Missis-
| sippi with the Illinois river and canal,
aud the claim of water ways TO the
! seaboard, as project of great merit,
and urging upon Congress the neces-
sity of the speedy construction of the
! work.
This resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Boston, Dec. 2.-General Robert G..
| Tyler, Quartermaster of the Dristrict
of the Atlantic, is dead.
! HUNTINGTON, WEST VA, Dec. p
SixtyNsix employees of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad struck for back
wages. The engine with the mail are
allowed to pass other trains are de-
tanned.
RICHMOND, VA, Dec. 1.-The Gen
eral Assembly met at noon to-day
when Governor Kemper submitted hi!
annual message, which together witt
the accompanying documents cover'
one hundred and thirty pages of print
ed matter. He favors the recapitaliza
ton of the State debt in uniform ob
legations, payable in thirty years
bearing an annual interest of four pc
cent. sterling. a plan for providing
State currency is proposed, which tn
Governor believes would relieve one o
the most grievious wants of the peo
pie. He renews the recommendation
of his first message on immigration
and says the State should be its owl
: agent in the matter, thereby freely dis
seminating 20 the annual and prospect
i've immigrants, all desire Information
in an authenticated form and insurin
them against all imposition, DC. II
s recommends stringent and efiectuS
: legislation to prevent gross inequalitiC
{ in charges on some of the railroads
especially at points where competitlo
does not insure proper charges. II
favors the completion of the Centra
1 Water Line by the common govern
= ment and urges the Withholding of n
: possible aid or encouragement, whic
= might contribute to the consumma
tion of that great work. The Cover
e nor makes numerous other recon
= mendations looking IN economy an
| improvement in the State Govern
ment. The following extracts give a
idea of the Governors views in regar
to the political situation:
= Recent events create the hope tbs
the Government of the Union is to b
g brought back to the Constitution, il
! ancient landmarks and traditions rC
g covered and respected and the frater
I nal relations revived throughout tn
country. They cheer the oppressed an
, despondent Southern people with th
! promise that the burthens, which hav
e so long borne them down are TO be lif
{ ed off. The most auspicious day for tn
honor and well being of the whol
G country, will be that in which tn
great export, producing States are n
; stored to peace and productive energ
; by being restored to their Constitl
/, tional rights and relations. We ma
rest assured of success as soon as tli
e repeal or judicial amendment Of a
= enforcement laws shall peacefully r,
r lieve us from the harrassment and az
4 prehension of military and other C,
i ercion from without and rom the IL
termeddling of mere political adveI
r turers within. Henceforth let it |
= understood of all that the polite,
= equality of the races is settled, and III
t social equality of the races is settle
9 possibility"
e MONTGOMERY, ALA, Dec. 2.-Tt
first annual session of Alabama Stai
Grange met yesterday; w. H. Cham
!, bers, w. NJ, presiding. Fifty counti'
3 out of sixty-five were represented b
o one hundred delegates, and others al
} yet coming in. Each county wit
} twelve Oranges or less sends one dell
: gate; those with more send two deli
e gates.
= MEMPHIS, Dec. THE Cotton El
change crop report of November, i
g sued this morning, gives the follow
e ing summary: From l07 response
s from West Tennessee, North Missi
o sippi and Arkansas, north of ArkaI
i sas River, 81 report damage by fros
43 no damage; average damage b
frost 81 per cent; average decrease
average i per cent. Due exertions al
being made to save the crop. The aN
erage closing of the picking seaso
Let L. l. ma