Knoxville Daily Tribune from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

7JJA r'f tit i i 3- 4 a 3 rv By FLEMING McKINNEY KNOXVILLE TENN THURSDAY DECEMBER 21 1876 EIGHT DOLLARS PER ANNUM DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION DOMESTIC TELEGRAMS (DljolcsaU anb ji i ii CARPENTER MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES Exclusively to theTribunei LOUISIANA 3 Impeach The Returning Board WHOLESALE GROCERS Verdict New Orleans Dee 20 Casa nave testified He has been a membyr of the Returning Board since 1872 The Board are all Republicans There was a recommends-to fill the vacancy but the Board could not agree He could not produce the original papers without the consent of the Board He know whether the Tilden or Hayes Electors had a majority of the votes cast according to the statements Ho never heard any of the menijbers say who had majority He knows they threw out two parishes and several polls in other par-1 powerless to subdue ishes He thinks the votes thrown out aggregate several thousand He say how many thinks probably or five thousand He recollect the number of parishes in which votes were thrown out He thinks there were fourteen or fifteen The Senate committee has a statement of votes rejected in each parish received from the Returning Board Senator McDonald made a motion that a subpoena duces tecum her yard made the warehouse of Messrs on fire He promptly short a time as was rung its warning within sound presence of the fire The tteam fire the ever-ready firemen scene of conflagration flames had already were bursting through lurid fire -which the ever characterizes the hoee was laid and on the doomed building at least a portion of its walls The building was 50 feet by 1ST feet and was considered were filled with hay Commission GAY STBEET Knoxvllle Tenness keep on hand at all tima full line ot STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES WOODBNWARB TOBACCO SNUFF AND CIGARS Grain Bags of All Kinds I Manilla and Jute Rope Sole Leather OraoLcors Oliooso i 4 1 Oancllos and nalisltxs INTuLto or All Klndn FINE TEAS A SPECIALTY i We are Wholesale Agents for Cotton Yarns llolsten ctalt and Plaster Salt and Miami Powder Powder a We sell produce for oar customers free of commission and sell goods to Mer i chants only Commission Hlmljonis i A -ii ROSS CO -r 1 Merchants Sir (Drifcrp dr 11 WVR (iIBBINS fei 4 ii DEALERS IN 'll American i iJ 'r Every 1 FOJl si SLU i i ri 14 ri i-1 wf V- at marc Weather Probabilities for To-day Generally cloudy toeather areas of rain or snow with southerly winds becoming variable slight riscin temperature and faVing followed by rising barometer Gold opened in New York yesterday at 107 and closed at 107 If Huger takes Wade Ilainpton prisoner what will he do with him? Tallahassee understands who carried Florida She went Democratic Tuesday for tho first time since the war A FEW moro Boston and Tallahassee alarm guns will bring our bull-dozed President to his senses If there appear to bo anything in our telegrams this morning a glance at our matrimonial column will explain the cause Andersov one of the Louisiana Board was before tho Congressional Committee yesterday Tho report of his testimony alone ia sufficient to convict the Board of rascality Gey NiohoIIa the Governor-elect of Louisiana talks like a man cf nerve and business It is all a mistake to suppose that the postmasters and custom-house officers are goiiSg to run Governments and States to suit themselves Gen Francis Barlow who went to Florida -at request and acted as counsel for the Kepubliesn side in the counting of the vote appears to bo an honest man His letter which we publish elsewhere shows that he regards the State as justly belonging to Governor Tilden Probably we shall now hear -from the post-office organs that General Barlow has been It ought to be some consolation to Old Cock-eye Tilden that though beaten for the Presidency it is by but one vote and that he has come nearer being elected than any man who ever ran for the otlke who was not elected Chronicle Here is a sweet combination of scurrility aqd ignorance In 1800 Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in the Electoral College and Mr Jefferson was elected by the House of Representatives Senator Sherman says iu tho same breath that the Louisiona Returning Board is a lawful and law-abiding body and that if Mr Ilay is is convinced he has not a clear right to the Presidency he will not take the office If Mr Hayes has Mr Sherman for a spokesman then he is addressing the eountry through a wiry cold-blooded dishonest trickster who never showed these qualities plainer than he does in the remarks of his we publish in our dispatches this TnE New Yerk Herald now goes for Chamberlain and bull-dozed Pi iu lively Btyle It thinks who stand behind this desperate political gambler and lunatic (Chamberlain) are almost as wicked as docs this impudent asks tho Hirald to act such a part What emboldens him to hold on to an office to which the courts of the State say ho has no title and meditate jiccetdings which would couveit the State into a seeno of carnage Ho ventures to brave the public opinion of South Carolina to defy its couits of justice to make insolent threats against the liberty and life of his political competitor only because he is supported by Federal bayonets employed against law and in subversion of right President Grant must stand sponsor for his protege His atrocious insolence is inspired from Washington Our bulldozed President is pnrsuiug a course which will T'p The Chaileston Kews and Couritr of Tuesday speaking for the people of South Carolina and representing wa presume the views of Wade Qamptou in regard to the contemplated arrests of Hampton and others uses this language Whether this attempt take the shape of driving the members of the Constitutional House from the Carolina Hall or of arresting those members and Governor Hampton and Lieutenant-Governor Simpson it can be met in only one way The sheriffs or constables or bullies entrusted with the work of ejection or of making arrests must be resisted They must be treated as the citizen treats- the ruffian or foot-pad who attacks him on the public highway For what the constables or other bullies shall endeavor to do they have no more lawful authority than has the common cut-purse or assassin They must have a warm reception The people expect it But it will be said the United States troops will support the constables and others if there be any disturbance We expect that But we insist that a threat that the troops will come shall not be accepted as sufficient cause for submission Not a finger should be raised under any circumstances against a United States soldier There is no difference of opinion on that point But the soldiers must be there They mast do the ejectiug They must make the arrests What a Soldier Washington Union We have received a letter a private in the ranks of the United States army at the Washington arsenal used now for tool The want of space prevents its publication in full but wo believe that the writer expresses the position and not only of himself but of a majority of hia comrades and superiors He says: have been at a great inanyplaces-of latend 1 find that the -greatest number-of-enlisted men are for Tilden and Hendricks' Again ask the people of the United States would a soldier of the United States army be bound to put in a corrupt President not lawfully elected? Why a soldier would be breakiug the laws of the country by putting in a President that is not lawfully elected by the votes and a soldier ought not to ba used as a tool for political CONGRESSIONAL Senate Washington Dec 20 Mr Wright g've notice that he would Friday morning call up the bill declaring the true meaning of the Pacifio Railroad acts The bill organizing Pembina into a terri tory passed The new territory is named Huron The Pension bill passed The Oregon resolution was resumed During tho debate Mr Sherman of Ohio said he was not informed that the Returning Board of Louisiana had returned Mr Long as elected to tho Legislature from De Soto parish He thought the gentleman leaped before he come to the stile He then referred to the affidavits of intimidation in De Soto parish and resuming said the will of the people of Oregon had been fairly expressed in favor of the Hayes Electors and he was entitled to the three votes from that State Mr Bogy of Missouri Apply the sauna rule to Florida 4 Mr Sherman said he was perfectly willing to apply the rule to Florida but these things were governed by the laws Oregon had her laws and Florida hers If Governor Hayes should become satisfied that be had not a majority of the legal votes of Florida and Louisiana he would not accept the office of President If it should be clear that Governor Hayes had not received that majority he Mr Sherman would pot have him accept the office Mr Sherman then argued that the Louisiana Returning Board was a legally const! tuted body and it had not been shown that that Board made a false return He did not deeire to see Gov Hayes receive the benefit of any wrong and he was satisfied he spoke the sentiments of Gov Hayes when he said that if that gentleman should be convinced that the Returning Boards of Louisiana or Florida acted wrong he would make no claim to the office of President of the United States There was an absence of any proof that those Boards had acted wrong As the returns from those States now stand they were just as much entitled to be counted as the returns from New York or Ohio and he coaid show from tho evidence now before the Senate that the vote of the State of Louisiana should iu fairness be counted for Gov Hayes House The question of the right ol a committee of the House to compel the production of dispatches by the telegraph companies came up in the form of a report made by Lynde rom the Judiciary Committee affirming that right An amendment was offered by Hurd of Ohio respresenting the minority of the committee which required a description of the telegrams needed to be set forth and specified in the subpoena A substitute was offered by Knott of Kentucky Chairman of the Judiciary Committee asserting in more direct terms the right of the House to compel the production of telegraphic dispatches and declaring that there is nothing in the law that gives any more privilege to telegraph communications than to oral or other communications After debate in which Garfield of Ohio took the ground that the privacy of the telegraph should be held as sacred as that of the post office and Hewitt of New York asserted that the sanctity of post office correspondence was more imaginary than real and that his letters assing through the New York post offioe during the last month had been uniformly tampered with amendment was rejected and substitute adopted The conference report on tho bill to defray tho expenses of the investigation Committees was agreed to FOREIGN DISPATCHES THE EAST The London Times on the War Prospeots London Dec 20 The Times concludes an editorial as follows If the Marquis of Salisbury should be instructed to tell the Porto that it would forfeit the support of England uncompromising resistance the new Grand Yisier would we believe see tho necessity of submission and the last danger of war would ass away A second editorial article in the Times ridiculed the idea of Bulgarian occupation and says if peace is to be preserved by a union of the six Powers they must be resolved and act for themselves -as well as to Charles Brent the Louisville forger was delivered into the custody of an English detective by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ie will leave to-night for Queenstown to embark for the United States A dispatch from Constantinople to Telegram Company says Great reply to the Russian proposal regarding the occupation of Bulgaria by neutral troops las not yet been received here It is understood however that Switzerland had declined It is believed Belgium will also decline to act AUSTRIA A Queer Eaoapade at Belgrade Vienna Dec 20 The Political Corres- mdme says while the Austrian monitor liars was passing the fortress at Belgrade resterday several musket shots were fired rom the fort against the vessel The Austrian Consul General Prince Wied who was on board' immediately ordered the Mara to advance and take position and as a gun in rer turret was being loaded a shell aocident-y exploded seriously wounding one ensign and four sailors and Blightly wounding seven others Sentries from the -fort again fired their muskets supposing that the monitor was firing on the fort Prince Milan sent a liuister to the Austrian Consul with apologies informing him that the commander of the fort had been dismissed BRIEF TELEGRAMS Little Rock had a fire Tuesday a38 $160000 insured for one-hall The Democrats carried the city election at Tallahassee Florida Tnesday for the first time fcince the war The Yirginla Senate yesterday passed resolutions condemning Federal interference in outh Carolina 1 A persistent effort is being made to secure the division of California into two States 4 Wf There 2600 breweries in 1 the United Stitee which produce yearly 275000000 gallons of malt liquor I OntmetUi of AlllaOM boon HcCluo('i Wit- I Mr Grerg kith Killed WoU by Falling Yesterday morning about half-past two the watchman at Barr it lam startling discovery that the Allison it McClang was gave the alarm and in as possible the boll at the city haT notes arousing the elum-berera and announcing the dreac fiend engine was hastily manned by and soon reached the but before its arrival the gotten beyond control spd the roof in tongues of firemen found theraselveB But with the zeal that them in the discharge of duty a stream of water turned in the hope of saving the contents stored within 1 or brick with a slate roof with one story and basement fireproof Both floors grain bacon lard meal flour dried fruits salt and machinery The entire loss including value of building is estimated by the firm at about $25000 to $26000 Col Hugh Martin loses about $6500 for which he has insurance to the amount of $5000 Jones Smith had 24000 pounds of bulk meat stored in the building and their loss will be from $800 to $1200 Caldwell Bro will probably lose about $250 The loss of these gentlemen cannot now be accurately ascertained as much of the bacon saved was in a damaged condition The building cost between $6000 and $7000 upon which there was no insurance The insurance on the entire stock is about $12000 in companies represented by Capt Brooks and Messrs Barnes Simmonds Messrs Allison and McUlang had no insurance on their stock except (or the benefit of the East Tennessee National and Banks of this city which are all fully indemnified As to the origin of the fire nothing is known Mr McClung was engaged with hands until about 8 o'clock unloading hay aad moving it into the warehouse On leaving the warehouse the lights were extinguished and while there was fire in the stove thore was no more fire than was usually loft at night It seems impossible that the bnilding could have been fired by the use of the candles as from the quantity of hay and other material the blaze must have shown itself ia an instant The candles and lanterns were used only on the scales near the front door and were promptly extinguished while the fire seems to have first made its appearance at the other end of the building Spontaneous combustion hat been suggested but it it more probable that a cinder from the engine while the hay was on the front platform might have fallen on a bale and been carried into the house and there smouldered until it broke forth into a furious flame which swept the building and its entire contents But the saddest feature of the occasion cannot be counted in dollars and cents but are marked by a grief and tears the victim being Mr George Smith tho well-known jeweler who was killed by a falling wall A traiu of cars stood on the track in front of the burning warehouse which sere removed with the exception of one car loaded with coal when a suggestion wus made to roll it down tho track a short distance A number of men at once took hold of the car among whom was Mr Smith who in the excitement of the moment stepped on the side next to the houso and ring his shoulder against it was pushing with all his strength when a bonded bystander shrieked wall ia falling But the warning came too late for the walls expanded by the fierce heat which raged like a volcano within fell ontward with a crash like muffled thunder burying Mr Smith beneath the crushing weight Several hundred bricks fell on tho car and the iron framework of the trucks was bent down ward and the woodwork riven end splintered For a moment the crowd stood appalled at the terrible danger they had esoaped before realizing that one of their number was crushed beneath tbe mass of brick and mortAr before them but willing hands scon cleaned away the debris and removed the body which was so covered with dust that he was not recognized and it was not until Mr Sanford by request of several persons examined the papers in his pooket that the identity of the deceased was positively known The remains were then placed on a door nnd taken to his residence on the earner of Asylnm and Walnnt streets Owing tooths exertions of the firemen who poured a constant stream of water into the basement for several houn several thousand pounds of bacon were saved by CoL Martin and others and removed though a portion of it was damaged and some perfectly oooked and' of course entirely loaL Aside from the lots of the building which was owned by Col McGhee Messrs Allison A McClung are the heaviest losers and we in common with the business com no unity sympathise with them in their misfortune By their energy and liberal dealing thejr had built np an excellent trade and they are not the men to be Oast down but with renewed seal trill go to work ts retrieve their fallen fortune reentry El (Morristown Gazette 20th Oar enterprising rural friends Messrs Sam and Henry Shields we learn have cured about 8000 pounds of an excellent quality of tobacco They propose to cultivate seventeen acres of the weed next season7 :5 Corn4 meal is selling in RogersvQle at one cent per pound corn 35 to 40 cents per bushel lard 10 cents butter 14 to 20 cents eggs 15 bents green apples 50 cent per bushel and getting scarce They have been plentiful all falL rr i i- 5 Mass meetings of citizens without respect to party are to bo held in all the principal gities of Ohio nnd Indiana for the purpose of giving emphatic expression to the genera demand that no obstruction shall be by Government officers or others to the inauguration of the lawfully etawd President Ir Tilde Members of the Louisiana Returning Board on the Stand Disgraceful Confessions of Ignorance Facts and Duties Mr Sherman's Defense of these Worthies Badly Needed Mr Orton Must Come to Time or Go to Jail for Contempt The South Carolina Bulldozer's sembly about Through With Its Work As- LOU1SIANA One of the Returning Board Makes Some Rich Revelations New Orleans Dec 20 The House investigating committee refused receive statement from Gen Anderson of the Returning Board He testifies as follows: Being asked whether Tilden or Hayes received a majority of the votes cast replied he did not know He never added up the votes of tho parishes until they were ready for promulgation He never heard any member cf the Board eay who had the majority of votes The final decisions were made in executive session Sometim affidavits were read when contestants were not admitted The vote of East Feliciana was thrown out because of general intimidation Grant parish was thrown out because no legal returns were made Ho favored counting Grant Parish but was overruled The committee adjourned with the understanding that all the members of the Returning Board are to be present to-morrow The question of contempt comes squarely up Responding to a serenade Gen Nicholls concluded was peaceably fairly and legally elected Governor by you by over eight thousand votes of both races in the State and I announce to you my fixed determination to assert and maintain my right to that position and I know that you are equally determinad that I should do so I shall be prepared to do nay whole duty and I shall expect the same from every citizen of Galveston Dec 20 The nouso subcommittee on Louisiana affairs consisting of Congressmen Mead Danforth and House arrived here this morning en route for upper Red river parishes They will bo absent about ten days Chas Cassanave member of the Returning Board testified before the Congiessional committee to-day at great length Milton Turner minister resident to Libera left to-night for New York and leaves for Liberia at an early day SOUTH CAROLINA Assembly Adjourns Sine Die on the 22d Inst Columbia Dec 20 The Senate to-day by a strict party vote decided to adjourn with the Republican House sine die on the 22d iust Their tax and appropriotion bills havo passed the second reading in the Senate The tax levy aggregates seventeen mills ex elusive of local taxes and is equal to $2010-000 Resolutions passed tho Democratic House to-day instructing Gov Hampton to issue a pioclamjitien calling upon the citizens to pay to such pel sons as ha may designate twenty-five per cent of the State and county taxes for the last fiscal year and persons paying such tax shall receive certificates receivable for taxes hereafter WASHINGTON The House Judiciary Committee After Mr Orton Washington Dec 20 The Committee ou Pacific Railroads of the House is in session considering a new bill proposed by the friends of the Texas Pacifio Road It the Southern Pacifio Road seven hundred miles of the western end under the provisions of the original Atkins bill making the through line an open highway for the people lorever and giving the right to Congress to regulate rates for freight and passengers This is a concession to the California interest which it is understood will be accepted The Committee adjourned until to-morrow without action In the Judiciary Committee Mr submitted a proposition in the shape of a resolution that telegraph companies be required to deliver any messages demanded and that a refusal will be regarded as contempt of the House Mr Hurd submitted substitute providing certain instructions which was voted down five to four and Mr resolution adopted In the Senate Mr Hitchcock of Nebraska introduced a bill supplemental to the act for the apportoinment of Representatives in Congress among the several States according to the ninth census referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections It provides for an additional representation in Congress from the State cf Nebraska The Senate reconsidered the vote by which the bill to establish the Territory of Pembina was ordered to a third reading and passed on the 8th of August last The name of the Territory which is to be organized out of a portion of the present Territory of Dakota was then changed from Pembina to Huron and the bill was passed Tho Star closes an 'article as follows: is a growing impression that the Sen ate will not insist upon the right of the Preside pro tempore of the Senate to declare the result if objection to the vote of any Stat is madeVnd that the end will be the election of Tilden President by the House and Wheeler Vice-President by the Confirmations: McLaws Postmaster at Savannah Watta at Lebanon Tens Ken hey at Austin -Texas President Orton was yesterday subpoenaed to appear at New Orleans on the 26th with dispatches The action of the Hoose to-day empowers the Sergeant-at-arms to enforce compliance with the subpoena ESTABLISHED 1S(13 Great eduction in Prices 7 1 LOWER THAN BEFORE THE WAI IV 4 issue to the Returning Board for all the pro-testa and affidavits accompanying the consolidated statements of Supervisors also for the returns of commissioners of eaoh poll in each parish Senator Howe Chairman said he could not understand what figure the protests and affidavits which formed the basis of the action of the Rotarning Board could out in thi9 investigation unless the committee proposed to review the action of the Returning Board in an appelate capacity Senator McDonald said it was not the province of the committee to determine any thing The committee wanted poly the facts for the information of the body from which the committed derives its authority The committee ought to know the facts upon which the Board rejected the votes which by their statements received they admit they did reject The question of callings for other documents of the Returning Board is being discussed by the committee evidence is quite similar to that given by Gen Anderson Gen Anderson was recalled He handed a statement to the oommittee saying it was an original statement of the vote for Presidential Electors signed by all tho members of the Board The statement contained the aggregate vote and not the vote of parishes He did not know whether the list by parishes had been made oat He heard they could not make a complete list by parishes in time for promulgation but was ordered to do it Afterward tho Clerk made an addition of votes leaving out the rejected spoils The Board revised these additions- Explaining the alterations he said some of the parishes had beep misplaced by the Clerk but did not remember how the mistake occurred The clerk had explained it at tho time No one was present in the room where the committee were at work the night before the promulgation except when counsel was brought iu for advice Witness produced a memorandum of polls thrown out fifty-four polls in twenty parishes and the parishes of Grant and East Felieiana The Supervisors made returns with three or four polls left out We did not count those left only counted those lcturned We considered no returns of commissioners refused to receive evidence of certified copies of returns of commissioners of elections within district courts The Committee ordered witness to bring certain papers He replied he would submit it to the Attorney of the Board New Orleans Dec 20 Mr Anderson read a communication to the Committee saying the Board refused to surrender the original papers ps they were for the inspection of the General Assembly only INCREASED DEMOCRATIC PIDENCE CON- No Selling Out by Southern gressmen Oon- PensyTvanla Demooracy Moving: Special Telegraphic Correapondeuce of the Coun er-J Washington Dec 18 Mr Knott offered a bill to-day to provide for counting the electoral votes which is intended to carry out the existing Constitutional provisions The leading feature of the measure is that objections to the vote of a State are to be determined by a majority of the two bodies sitting aa a joint convention The Senate is not likely to agree to this plan INCREASED CONFIDENCE OF THE DEMOCRACY The feeling here among Democrats in regard to the final result is one of increased confidence based however vary largely on the firm nee shown by the Northern and Western Democracy It ia not true that Southern Democratic Congressmen want the Northern Democracy to submit to the fraud and usurpation and there ia not a single case of a recreant among them ready to sell out to Hayee The President is now the chief source of trouble Maddened by hate and whisky hia head and tongue are running all the time on the use of hia army to settle the election dispute and he ia now threatening to call out the milita of the States PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION In addition to the Ohio and Indiana State conventions Pennsylvania ia moving and it ia understood that a call will be made by the Democratic State Committee for a convention to be held on the 8th of January next Other States will probably follow The following explanation of the new Washington intoxicant Hot Scotch is given in the Capital the Rt Rev Consul General John Newman returned from his consular tour of Europe he brought a case of very fine Scotch whisky and traded it to the Willard House for Sherry 'And so we took' in a wind glass of the true Newman spirit and' while there ia a pious duty in John we will wager 'a hat there was none on the Grace' before as the young' lady remarked when she laced herself tight she swallow s'- 111 I The virtue of prosperity ia temperance the virtue of adversity fortituda IKE WOODPUTK WOODRUFF CO WHOLESALE Foreign and HARDWARE CUTLERY I RIFLES SHOT GUNS Li 1 4 i Pistols' Ammunition and Sporting Material ii -i BLACKSMITH AND SUPPLIES Mat rlais of BOLE AGENTS i 'I i iA Fairbanks Rifle and Blasting Powder a i- 1 Circular and Mill Saws i 4 i Boston Rubber Belting Company Fire and Bnrglar Proof Safes 4 i 4 Chilled Plows5 -1 'u I Ifftr10 la 1 i SlnclairCatters and Shellersi Ti I -Sil 1 I I yj -j 1 Wythe Lead and Zinc Mining Shot and Lead a Ss k' fi Trion Factory Cotton Repo--all Site McCormack's Mowing Machines Sold ea Uleral TiEe 'to Coud Ken is a i -V STOCK OFsTUE ABOVE A WA YS OuV JZAJtV 4 1 i tj 1 mt a WK WILL aELL AY OF THE ABOVBJ GO0DS AT FACTORY PRICES WRITE FOR PRICE i I I i 4 rw oo KNOXVILLE TENN Tlxe Larcest Hardware House In the South1.