Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-06


Tie following is list of candidates
voted form Tennessee:
Rsp'p'l'coa. oepper-Joiasos.
$Wiliiam G. Brcv aiow Emerson Etheridge
-. srPtE;srKNnaNr OF PrRLlc iNsrRucrlNN.
John Eaton Jr Charles : Cameron
District.
K. r Butler James white
2 *Ftarsce MAYNARD John Williams
s. %Niiiiam &. Stokes FIJI G. Fleming
1. James Mullins sEdwxrd Cooner
5. John Tinble Bnrlis Pevton
8. samuel VI. Arnell Dorsey b thomas
!. xlsaae r Hawkins VIM. p Caldwell
:. AVID Num- *John W LeftTch
*For re election.
THE ELECTION IN MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS, August /
The election was excited but with
out drunkenness or disturbance.
Gen. Thomas was here under arms
in the park. A large force Of special
police was on duty. The Consorva,
tives were insolent and overbearing.
and very busy in attempts to drive.
intimidate and entice colored men.
The colored men were not allowed
to vote in the country, and the roads
were thronged with hundreds flock
ing to the city to vote in safety.
Ii was arranged that the whites
and blacks should vote in different
wards, but the latter voted at the
same with the former. Conservatives
resorted to challenging to consume
time and delay the vote. When the
polls closed, at two O'Clock. three
hundred had not voted.
The Republican ticket for the coun-
try was distinguished by the Ameri~
can flag on its back, and the Con-
servatives attempted to deceive by
an imitation for the city The Re-
publicans, however, had secured
themselves against fraud by lithogra-
phed tickets, with Brownlow's por-
trait on them.
Several Conservative officers OF
election are charged with fraud in the
substitution of tickets
Memphis gives Brownlow 2,247
majority in total vote of 6,042.
The Haywood District gives Brown.
low 1853 majority; Num-, Radical is
elected to Congress in the Memphis
District by 1000 majority. Hawk.
ms, Radical, is believed to be elected
in the Seventh District by 1000.
Unofficial returns from Madison
County gives Etheridge 800; Hays
wood gives Brownlow 500 TO 700.
and Hardemen and Fayette gave Con
servative maiorities.
GAINESVILLE, August 1.-The cleo
ton passed off without disturbance
of any kind. Brownlows majority
in this precinct is 72S. The county
will 90 1000.
Maury County gives $40 Radical
majority, securing the recollection OF
d. NJ. Arnell
Rutherford County-Radical ma
jority, 1000.
The returns indicate a tremendous
Radical majority in the State~
All the Judges and Clerks Of Flee
] ton in sumner Comfy, outside o
Gallatin, sent in their designations
owing to the threats of rebels ant
guerilas.
Brownlow's majority in the Stat,
is estimated by the Radical Contra
Committee at $4,000.
The Legislature win be almos
unanimously Radical. We shall have
seven certain and probably eight Con
gressmen. The Conservatives have
a faint hope Of the election of Left,
wich. The election ia Memphi
passed off quietly. Over 5000 vote.
were cast, $500 Of which were col
orcd. Brownlow's majority in til,
city 1900. Able and Coleman, Con
servatlves, ARE defeated by Ryder ant
Hamilton, Radicals.
Shelby County goes Radical by
over 1000 majority. The Radical
make in Knox County 500.
Montgomery County, Radical ma
.iority 1900; Giles, $500; Sumner
900; Coffee, 800; Washington, 200
Jefferson, 100; Haywood carried By
the Radicals, and Madison, Hardmai
and Fayette probably by the Con
servatives.
The Radical majority in Nashville
official is 1900
Dispatches from all parts of tho Stats
report all quiet.
NASHVILLE, August 1.-The cleo
ton to>day was the quietest ever
known here. Whites aad blacks
voted without interruption, and not
hurrah for either party was given
at the polls. A few parties were ar
rested for attempting to vote twice
and others for carrying concealed
weapons.
Returns from all the wards but
one give Brownlow 3, 1853; Ethcridge
704 Four districts in county give
Brownlow 457; Etheridge, l59.
The Republican ticket is all elected
Mason, Independent, got but few
votes.
Observation-Disclosures S majority,
$40; Lavergnc, 80; Jefferson, Il.
Columbia-BrownIow, /, 449 Eth
eridge, 148.
Observation-Disclosures majority,
72S.
FRANKLIN and four precincts in Will
liamson-396 majority for Brown
low.
Tullahoma-M Majority for Brown.
low, 10.
Humboldt, Carroll County-Ether-
idgc, Ga Brownlow, "a.
Brownsville, Haywood County
Brownlow, 764 Etheridge, 1913.
Gallatin-Brownlow, 500; Ether>
idge, 122. All the votes not conu,
ted.
The New York Times Knoxville
special says: 1.-The negro vote in the
city was very hcavy-about $50
nearly solid for Brownlow. The
city gives Brownlow 644 majority.
In bis own precinct, out of the $40
votes cast he got all but one, and that
was his own vote.
The State Senate will be, so far as
known, unanimously Radical, and
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