Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-09-27
The Excitement in Tennessee.

The Excitement in Tennessee. s-..
General Thomas arrived at Nash Vile, Tenn,
"wednesday night late, and had conferences
yesterday with the city authorities and those OF
requested an interview with both parties
together at p. m. to-day. There is still an
anxious and feverish state OF public mind, in j.
creased last night by rumors that General
Thomas VIII interdict the elections. The
feeling Is intensified by report that General
Cooper, in a speech to mixed crowd Of negroes
and whites. with closed doors, said there were
three ways to meet the present emergency, to
wit by bullets bayonets, or by matches 1t
is reported in Conservative quarters that the
grand Jury is In vestgating the matter, and
will indict General Cooper il the proof OF the
speech is sufficient General Cooper's friends
deny the correctaess of the report whtls. the
Conser vatives say 1T will be substantiated.
Governor Browniow was expected from
Knoxville last night. The developments of
to day are looked to with great interest.
The following orders, one from Governor
Brownlow and the other from General Cooper,
concerning the coming election. are published
-ExEcUrIvE DEPARTMENT, NASHVILLE,
september 22-To General Joseph A. Cooper,
Commanding State Guards. You will bring to
Nashville Immediately all the troops. infantry
TO protect the Judges and clerks appointed by
the commissioners of registration, and to en-
force the fran nchiss law. If need be- call upon
Generai George Thomas for an additional
force to enable you to keep the peace and en-
1orce the law. W. G.. BROwHLow
HEADQUARTERS TENNESSEE Stats GUARD,
NASHVILLE September 23, is67.-The general
commanding having received the foregoing
order, warns all parties to desist from an at
tempt TO hold an election in violation OF the
franchise law He also notifies all persons en-.
titled to vote under the aforesaid law that they
Will De proteeed IN voting, and all persons not
entitled to vote are notified to desist from any
attempt to vote.
By command General Joseph Cooper.
Data of the Baltimore Sun, says:
"The President has rot recei we'd any Off cial
news from Tennessee, but private dispatches
indicate that the difficulty between the State
and municipal authorities may be settled
through the Intervention of Gen. Thomas, so
mat separate elections may be held, the Judges
appointed by the registers opening polls in one
place. and the Judges appoin ted bv the author
itles OF Nashville opening polls In another
GOOD TEMPLARs "ON SPREE "-Mount
Horeb Lodge of Good Templars, at Spring
field, had what the Republican OF that cty
calls "high old time" last Saturday evening,
on the occasion of the ceiebration of its SECOND
anniversary. Speeches, songs, readings, a COL
lation. ETC., were indulged In and what fol-
lowed is thus described by the Republican:
~ hen the hilari'y began in earnest, and w.s
Kept up. almost without cessation, nnIil mid
night. The Templars made more noise than
aiclub of drunken men, and not till after Sun.
day had begun did they allow the dodgers
in the northern half of Haynes Hotel to get
much sleep. The company was not oniy
NOISY, but seemed to have resolved itselfinto
MI Miscellaneous hugging and kissing bee the
.oie,hren' and sisters sslating each other
most intemperately, so that the smacks re-
soanded with greater frequency than cham
paign bottles ever popped in a coa vivial cluo
room. Among the young ladies who thus
nelped To celebrate the second anniversary Of
the Mount Horeb Lodge of CiCod TemnIare
were not a few whose parents would think it
Wlckeo 10 allow them to 60 to a ball {: yet a
eiri miPnt attend the most promscuous dan
VGrup inhf
running such risk OF bunting native moues,v
as to 60 to Good Templars' meeting once. if
things are always managed as loosely as they
w were On saturday evening. There are reports
OF scandalous doings. In dark entries not far
from the Good Templars hall. Concerning
these we know nothing. but the statements we
nave made about the anniversary perform.
ahces are susceptible of the amplest proof
REeIsTRATIoN.-From the south complete
returns OF the registration have been received
from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis.
sippi, and Virginia. These re urns show the
following results: In Alabama the total num-
be 6er 20 OF voters registered is I6O,9s5, OF whom
~, 737 are whites and sS.24S blas ks-a colored
majority Of 1851. In Georgia the total regis
tration ls 1ee, 72G Of whom 95,3O3 are whites
and s3,Al1 blaeks-a white majority OF l,ss6
In Louisiana the total is 121,5Se, the whites
numbering 4,72e and the blacks s2.s65-
colored majority of IS, 142 In Mississippi
the total Is l22,l7s, OF whom 5l.54 are
whites ana 10,Ol9 6lacks-a colored ma
Is fOs
241, OF whom ll5,l57 are whites and lOI 1856
blacKs-a white majority of 1866 In F'lori-
da, Arkansas, the Carolinas and Texas. regis
tration still continues. In Florida, at last ac-
counts, 1888 whites and 9,3s6 blacks had regis
tered-a colored majority OF 1855 In North
Carolina. 44,5Os whites and f0605 blacks-a
" white ns s majority Of 3,9M In South Carolina,
jority of u. SAB. Estimates are made of Arkan-
sas and Texas. OF 10000 whites and $4,000
negroes-a white majority of 5000 for the
forry q nd Avuhk
coiored majority OF 10000 for the latter The
grand total of the registry throughout the South
foots up 525,Gs0 whites and 617 ,3l6 blacks-a
coioIeo majority OF " 1926, and total registry
Of !, 1856 voters OF both colors 80 -
A RAILWAY TRAIN TURNED INTO A MAN
TRAP.-A branch railway in the Madras Pres
idency runs through a wild region, the inhab.
itants Of which are unsophlsticated savages
addicted to thievery. The first day that the
TO intercept the train ana have
glorious "loot." To accomplish their object
they placed some trunks Of trees across the
rails; but the engine driver, keeping very
sharp lookout, as it happened to be his
first trip on the line in question, deserted
the trunks while yet they were at q con.
siderable distance from him. The brakes 4
y were s. then ZEN pnt on. and when the loco:
motiVe mad approached within a couple Of
feet of the trunks it was brought to stand
still. Then instantaneousIy-Iike Rhoderic
Dhn's clansmen starting from the he ather-
all sides, and, crowding into the ca rrieges, be-.
gan to plnuder everything that they could lay
heir hands upon. While they were thus en-.
paged, the guard gave the signal to the driver,
who at once reversed his engine and put it to
the top of its speed. The reader may Judge
of the CONSERVATION OF the robbers when they
found themselves whirled backwards at Q
pace that rendered escape from the carriages
impossible: The few who attempted it were
killed on the spot Thus were our Arcadians
2 icely caught, and as they were transferred
from this novel nantrap to the jail, they were
40 doubt con nced that the "fire brandy" can
move progressively and retrogressively with
eq ual facilityaCeatraI India Times.
EMIGRATION FROM ERGLAND-A Liverpool
paper eays: s.During tks month OF August
here sailed from the Mersey to the United |
States, under the act, % ships, with 9,247 pas
.enfere. $50 cabin, and the remainder steeraxe.
he nation alites Of the latter were as follows.
,2eS English, 199 Scotch, 2,3l5 lrish 2,449 for
siRuers. To Canada there were ships, with
,3l4 passengers, consisting Of 384 cabin, and |
he remainder steerage. OF the steerage 557 |
were English, Scotch, 1856 Irish, ana 3l2 other |
l42 passengers, Of when La were English, IS |
Scotch. 229 Irish making q total Of 1857 cabin