Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-16
KNOXVILLE TENN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER l6 1874.

-z'zIz' EZI I'M y a g 9 y ~ zssaA
did not seem to justify Congressional
mea~ures all accounts representing the
| people generally to be satisfied with
their present government and with no
cause for violent disturbance
The question Of the condition of
b ouisiana also becoming involved.
several Senators said it would he found
on examination that one or two of the
other Southern States had no more
lryal existence than Louisiana, and
| therefore there should be an investiga-
ton concerning al of them. in order
to establish their validity.
ceremonies nt the Rural OF the Con.
fcdefntc Dead.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ll.-Between
IL and u o'clock to-day large mum
her Of persons witnessed the re-inter-
ment in Grace church yard, near Sill
yer Spring, of the remains of II Con
ftderate soldiers, who were killed in
The attack on Washington near Fort
Bunker Hill, July, 1864. Bishop
Piuckney read poem and General
Philip ook, who commanded in that
engagement, delivered an address.
In response To urgent requests that
the President place troops in the Lou
i~iana State House he Is quoted
will not provide against Threatened
danger but if violence occurs | will
suppress it,
The civil Rights Bill.
At the meeting Of the House Judi~
ciary Committee this morning sub
committee was appointed to draw up
another Civil Rights Bill, 1t is un.
derstood that the committee are in
struc ed to incorporate all the essential
features of the Senate bill now on the
House calendar, omittlng therefrom
the cemetery and school sections.
About the Reference of the Presidents
Message.
WAsnINGToN, Dec. 12.-In the dis.
trbution of the Presidents annual
message among the various Commit
tees of the House on Wednesday last,
the portion of il referring TO the
troubles In Arkansas was referred to
the Select Committee already existing
on that subject, and that portion of the
message relating to the troubles in
Louisiana and the Southern States,
excepting Arkansas, was referred to
Select Committee of Seven, to be APP
pointed by the Speaker. This Com
mittee has not yet been appointed. 1t
is very probable that after it has been
appointed and organized, it will pro.
cetd to take testimony through Sub
Committee, or otherwise in relation to
the disturbed condition OF affairs in
| Mississippi and Louisiana. or course
any announcement of what has been
] ~ hag hpan nat 10 mi nod Ia "a
| ture and unauthorized so long as the
Committee itself is not actually in eX-
! istencc.
Gen. Grant on Louisiana
Gen. Grant is quoted rs saying !:
"If further troubles occur in LOuisi~
ana, he will send some one there who
will hurt" He is said to have in view
! for this business either Gen. Sheridan
or Gen. Terry.
| Senator West aud Congressman
| Darrel were not present when the ap-
/ plication was made for troops i'm the
State House at New Orleans.
The TIItOB.Beechcr Case in Court.
TiltOn concludes a long affidavit
! thus He therefore respectively
prays and insis's in case this court
should grant any order for particulars,
that clause may be inserted therein
to the following effect, viz. But this
order is not to be so construed or ap-
piled so as to prohibit plaintiff on the
trial of this action from introducing
evidence of confessions, acts, declara-
lions, writings and documents which
may be admissible under the general
rules of evidences, as if this order had
not been made, and which do not in
terms refer TO any particular act or
time of adultery, but provides by such
evidences the adulterous Intercourse,
charged in the complaint, although it
may not thereby appear to have been
committed on any particular day or at
any particular place.