Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-01-06
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oneTluh0 docs not 20 TO New OTIeaus
in obedience to any direct orders, but
in compliance with q personal request
of the President, who desires to nave
some one AT that poiut in whom he
has implicit confidence to furnish
him with truthful Information, and of
such rank, that in case of emergency
he can act without special orders from
Washington.
Gen, Sheridan was int nding To go
to Cuba in a Few weeks, and this trip
South is only Anticipating time for, al
ter short stay in New Orleans, he
will sail for Cuba. His immediate
work in Louisiana is to conserve peace
and he will not remove any officer, or
take any part in the military affairs
there unless 1t is absolutely necessary
to accomplish that object.
New YORK, Dec. GA ferry boat
at Williamsburg collided with "A cattle
boat during a heavy fog. One man
killed and another fatally wounded.
The ship Forfarshire is now at this
port, and is one of the same line as
the Cospatrick. The Captain of the
Forfarshire states that the Cospatrick
had been employed in carrying troops
to India, but of late has been running
to New Zealand. Her voyage previ-
Gus to this last one was one of carry
ing coolies from Calcutta to Demarara
She was valued at sixty thousand dol
dars, and probably insured In London.
He believed the Cospatrick had the
same number of boats as the Forfar-
shire, namely: two cutters, one long
boat, two life boats and one gig, cspa-
BILE of carrying two hundred and fifty
people. The Cospatrick's officers and
crew probably numbered about forty
persons.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Specie ship
ment to-day nearly one million.
The indications are that Gen. Nor
gan l.. Smith suicided.
NORFOLK, Dec. 30.-No. ll,545
drew the first prize No. "a, 1876 drew
the second prize; No. 47,003 drew
the third. The highest prize after
scaling drew 81, 500.
NEwBURYPoRT, MASS, Dec. co.
. The Republicans beat the strait Dem
Ocrat for Mayor 80, in a poll Of 1852
votes.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3O.-Jewell is
held in the sum of 5000 bail. War
moth incarcerated. The knife which
helped him was spring knife.
NEW ORLEANS, Dee. 30.-Mayor
Leeds has vetoed the ordinance adopt
ed by the Common Council providing
for an estin ate of revenues of the
city, and advises the suspension of in
terest tax.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 30.-Messrs. Co
burn and Buckner, OF the Congress
siOnal Investigating Committee, reach
ed here to-day. The remainder of the
committee are still at Opeleka, but
will reach here to morrow and remain
several days.
AUGUSTA, MAINE, Dec. 3Q.-The
statistics of the workings of the pro-
hibitory law in Maine during the past
year show that fifty thousand dellars
in fines were imposed and collected
for violation of the law. There have
been 276 convictions in the Supreme
Court, of rum sellers, and al commit
ments to Jail, a larger number than in
any similar period previously. Crime
has decreased, the plumber of convicts
being - per cent. less than ten years
since.
NEW YORK, Dec 3I.-NIaurice Wig
naux beat Joseph Dion in a game OF
six hundred points, for one thousand
dollars and the championship. Wig
nauy won in forty-eigbt innings.
Dion scored five hundred and thirty
/ eight points.
/ Gen. Morgan l.. Smith died Of con
gestion Of the lung.
The Masons gave the King of the
Sandwich Islands spirited reception
New ORLEANS, Dec. 3l.-Marshal
Packard, while before the Congress
sional Committee, is quoted as saying
He did not believe that Republican
IN nj Il Int q
itself In this or any other Southern
State without the aid or protection ri
United States troops.
FALL RIVER, Dec. 3l.-The EN-
plOyes are differing with the weaver,
and spinners. a shorter time or lower
wages seems certain. 4 resolution
that the operatives draw their savings
from the Banks WAS adopted. The
spinners accept the reduction OF wages
under protest, with view to "A strik,
in the Spring.
TORONTO, Dec. 3l.--The thermOme
ter ranges from $50 to $50 below ger,
throughout Canada.
DUCHESS JUNCTION, Dee. 3l.--A fal
OF rocks at Garrison tunnel detains tl,
Hudson River road trains.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 3l.-JOhl
DELANEY and samuel Richards wer
killed yesterday by an explosion II
, the SutrO Tunnel, and Mr.. PillOn wa
fatally aud several other person
seriously injured.
Most of the operators Of the Cornell
Watch Factory, have struck agsins
the employment Of Chinese.
NINITIA, INDIAN TERRITORY, Jan
[ We are mOmentarily expecting al
attack from Ross and his party. All th
women and children are aboard III
/ passenger train, ready to pull out at
moments notice. The Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas passenger train il bein
detained, and IL j. feared that it ha
been overhauled by the mob. The
number two hundred well armed mel
mostly full bloods. Scouts report then
} within twenty miles OF this place
Troops are badly needed. Intense ex
element prevails aud trouble is anti
1 cipated, as there are men arriving
hourly from the lower part of the ma
ton, reporting brutal murders al
= along the line Of their march.
NINITIA, /. r., Jan. 1.-The Pin
did not attack us last night az was an
icipated, but are reported TO be twelv
! miles from here ma inc pppI fina