Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-09-30
TELEGRAMS. &c.
The election in Nash Vile, Saturday, passe

The election in Nashville, Saturday, passed
off peacefully. Soldiers were stationed .. all
places of voting, but there was no need OF
them. The Alden (Radical) ticket for Mayor
sition. Colored voters were out in considers.
BILE um bers, while the mass OF white voters
declined to vote. Alaen's majority over SEQ.
Vile is about fifteen hundred. The city au-
election, but will hold on until the question is
determined by the courts, unless elected by
military authority.
A correspondence between General Thomas
and Mayor Brown, Of Nashville, Tenn, took
place Saturday, the fermer charging the lat n
with misrepresentng his action In card with.
drawing from the canvass for Mayor, and STAT.
ing that he (Thomas) had notified him that he
would use the military power of the Unit
States in preventing peaceable election.
attempted to justify It. Thomas. in con clu-
sion reiterated his denial of having given such
q notification.
The election In New Orleans passed off qui-
city during both days. No ohhcial returns are
In yet. In the fourth municipal district the
vote polled was 1,260 The Republican de.
spends Of the vote being large enough to rem :
der the election valid, and slys the white vote
is about one-tenth Of the whole. The entire
vote of the city is estimated at ,000 while the
number registered is over 2S0,00O. Several in
ances are noted Of negroes voting, or Offering
to vote. under different names than those on
the registry papers.
At the Conservative meeting in Raleigh, N.
c., Friday night, the resolutions adopted de.
clared devotion to the Union and constitu-
tional liberty; against the white mans party
Of confscation and prescription, and opposed
drawing party lines further than hostility to
Padicalism. A half dozen speeches were made
There was great enthusiasm and perfect har.
mony.
Gen. Mower issued an order IN New Orleans
Saturday modifying the military orders rela
tive to jurie5 in the State of Texas, so AS to
render it practicable to obtain iuries in that
State. The order req uires that the jurors shall
be drawn from those registered, and none
others. and no other oath req uired than tnat OF
registration.
Intelligence from Hayti TO the eth state that
the country Is in an extraordinary state OF
agitation. Gold is fabulonsly high, and pro-
visions scarce. Flour is worth twenty dollars
in gold per barrel, and thirty four Haytian
dollar. The Caros were still in arms against
Salnave. and had pillaged Eelnarie a to wn
in the south.
The report that the managers Of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company had purchased the
California Central aud Yuba railroads Is not
true. The purchase was OF all the rolling stock
on these roads, at a sheriff's sale, under fore
closure OF mortgage.
Marietta railroad, at Seymour, Indiana Satur
day night. and, making their way to the Ad-
ans express car, secured the messenger, and
robbed the safe Of about $1,000. The robbers
escaped.
Advices from Venezuela to the 4th instant
have been received. President Falcon had
formed his new Cabinet. Reports from Apure
state that the dissidents were defeated at the
capitol Of that State, and Geh Menez had been
reinstated in the Presidency.
Gen. Scott's will, just probated, BEG ueaths
ali his prOoerty 10 his daughter, the wife of
Col Scott, his Pulaski sword to the West
Point Academy. and his sword worn in Mex.
leo TO his grandson, Winfield Scott Hoyt.
Among the passengers by the next steamer
East from California are Senator Corbett of
Oregon, Congressman Highly, OF California,
and J. Ross Browne. mining commissioner.
committee OF the Boston city government
has gone to New Y erk to in vite Gen. Sheridan
to visit that city. A dispatch says he has &C.
cepted, and will be there next Monday.
A cable telegram announces the death of
Professor Charlcj King, in Italy. He was
president OF the Columbia College, in New
York.
The yellow fever interments in New Orleans
during the twenty four hours ending at SIX
O'Clock on Saturday morning numbered sixty
seven.
At the landing in New York on Saturday
evening Gen. Sheridan was the recipient ofan
ovation from the assembled multitude, which
he sultably acknowledged.