The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-31
TENNESSEE.


The State OF Affairs Preceding tho EIec-
tiOn-DispOsItI6n OF Troops In NASH
vtlle-Dlsfranchissd Citizens Leaving
TOwn-ExpIOtts OF a Guerilla Band I'm
M0Nary County-Etheridge and Will
Hams Driven Out OF JaCksbOrO-An-
drew johnson for the United states
Senate from Tennessee.
NAsHvILLE, July SO-The exact ngures 90 OF
registration are whites 55, ,O22, and blacks 1926
with twelve counties TO hear from. The negroes
are in the majority In nearly all the counties OF
Middle and Western Tennessee, but the whites
are in q large majority in East Tennessee The
registration of Henry county has been thrown
out by the State authorities for alleged fraudu-
let action on the part OF the Commissioners.
General Thomas has given General duncan,
commanding the District OF Nashville, the en-
vicinity, 80 far as the United States authorities
are concerned, and the Government has as
signed him to the command OF such state troops
as are within the District General Duncan
declared his intention to severely punish the
party they belong. He will station the troops
at the outskirts of the city, away from the polls
that there may be no charges OF tntimidation,
able in case of riot The city will be patroled
by cavalry squads, whose duty 1t will be to
gallon to headquarters with the frst intelli-
gence of trouble. General Thomas is expected
here to- morrow or the day after.
The Mayor has issued his proclamation for
BIDDING professions and meetings, and order
ing the closing of all bar-rooms on election day
The political organization of the Young Mems
tended parade
The radical authorities Withdrew their appli-
cation to the Mayor to appoint portion of the
special three hundred police from radical citi-
zens leaving him to take the responsibility of
selecting an entirely partisan force. He made
the appointments day, and chose portion
of the men from the radical element.
A new regiment of State militia is rapidly Or
Despite all these preparations against an out
break, the public mind is very uneasy. Bust
ness will be partially suspended on election
day, and m3nV merchants and CitiZena
ctally those who are dtsfranchtsed or are not
voters, are preparing to leave the city to-
morrow, taking with them their wives and
families.
Captain Cramer, an ex-Federal officer, who
has settled in this State, and who has been as
sisting in the duties of the registration commits
sioner, was assaulted and Knocked senseless to-
day at the Chattanooga depot by q man for
whose loyalty he had refused TO vouch.
Captain Hamilton, commanding company
OF State Guards at Purdy, IN McNary county,
reports to General Cooper that some eighteen
or twenty armed guerillas dashed into the town
on Friday night, and attacked him. A desultory
skirmish continued until daylight, when the
troops charged and drove the guerillas from the
town on the road down the Tennessee river.
They suffered a loss of three wounded the State
troops escaping without loss. On the next day
a fiag-raising by the Loyal League, in which the
troops participated, led TO a disturbance in
the county mortaIly wounded
A despatch from Knoxville states that Ethe-
ridge and the Congressional candidate, VIII
liarns. were not permitted TO speak to-day at
Jacksboro. They were followed out OF town by
the crowd, who fired pistols and threw stones.
one of the latter striking and lnjuring VIII
ltams They subsequently addressed meet
ing at Clinton, which was followed by slight
disturbance. in which one or two were slightly
hurt.
1t is said that the conservative plan in the
present canvass is to secure the election of their
candidates for the Legislature, with view of
returning President johnson TO the United
States Senate next year. They openly confess
their inability to elect Etheridge, and hence
have started Independents radical candida ties,
fostered splits in that party, and put Brown
lows name on many OF their own tickets.-N
Y Herald.