New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-09
TIE ELECTIONS I'm TENNEssEE
AND KENTUCKY.'

Tennessee elected on August eight men,
bers of Congress. The Congressional Districts
Of this State were rearanged by an act of the
late General Assembly, passed on June Q, 1863
The whole of the Ist and Id Congressional
Districts, and nearly the whole of the Hid
lie in East Tennessee, the WITH, Vth and With
in Middle Tennessee, and the With and With
in West Tennessee. The issue at this cleo.
ton was mainly between the Union"
candidates, who support the. Federal
ard State Governments, including the
Constitutional Amendment, and approve
of the new Tennessee Franchise law, but are
generally supposed to be opposed to Negro SUI.
frage. The Conservative" candidates avow
their opposition to The entire Emancipation poll
CIV of the Federal Government and to the new
franchise law Of the State of Tennessee Most
or all of them claim, however, to have always
been and to be now opponents II secession
The returns as yet received are very meager'
but they indicate that three Unionists have been
elected in East Tennessee, one in Middle
end one in West Tennessee. OF tho other
seats two Gin Middle TenneSSee) have doubt
lessly been filed by Conservatives, while one
in West Tennessee remains yet to be heard
from. If the constitutional abolition Of Slavery
should again become the subject of legislation
during the next session Of Congress. it may &c
expected that from four to six Of the new Con-
gressmen Of Tennessee will cooperate with the
Republican majority, though none can probnbly
be relied upon to vote for Congressional acts
which will aim al the establishment of equal
laws for Whites and Blacks.
The first returns from Kentucky announce a.
decisive victory of the Constitutional Amend
ment party in Louisville. Gen. Rousseau has
beaten Robert Mallory by majority which
exceeds the most sanguine expectations OF the
Union party. The vote of Jefferson County, Of
which Louisville is the capital, was, in 1868:
Bramlette, 1929; Wicklifie, 2,052-paiority
for Bramlette, 1877; and in 1864: Lincoln,
2066; Mcclellan, 6, 404-majorty for McClel-
Ian, 1888. Now Rousseau has received in the
City Of Louisville, 4,502 votes; Mallory only
7C9, and o third candidate, Mundy, 12l; which
gives to Rousseau, over both of his competitors,
a majority Of 1862. The election Of Rousseau
from the With District is conceded.
The election of Green Clay Smith from the
With district maybe regarded as equally certain
Kenton County, which, in 1864 gave to Lincoln
ZIG and to Mcclellan 1874 votes, Lincoln
majority Of $40, now gives to Smith about 100
majority, and Campbell County, whose vote in
1864 was 1904 for Lincoln and 1886 for Nc.
Clellan, Lincoln majority of only 2lS, now
gives to the Union candidate about $40 major
ity. The counties forming this Congressional
District gave at the Presidential election of
1864 a small aggregate majority for Mcclellan,
which s more than wiped out by the gains Of
the Union party in the two counties Of Kenton
and Campbell.
In the With District, the only one which, in
1864, at the Presidential election gave the ma
iority of its votes to Lincoln, Randall, the
Union candidate, gains considerably in Madison
and Pulaski Counties. and is likewise undoubt-
eddy elected.
We think it probable that Yeaman is elected
in the lid District, giving us four of the nine
members of Congress.
The returns from the Hid, WITH and With
show considerable though reduced majoritics
for the anti-Amendment party, and make the
election of Harding, Order and Shankhn prob
able.
We have no definite returns indicating the
result in the LIST and IXth Districts. The
Union Candidate has chance OF election In
the former but little we fear, in the latter dis
trict