Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-10-02
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sional fist fight, passed Off quietly
This WAS owing to the presence of
United States troops who We're sta
toned ut different points through the
city. The Alden or ring party clec-
ted their ticket by about 500 MAORI
ty, last year it was over 1000. Ifthe
registration business had not been
conducted almost exclusively in the
interest of the Alden faction, and il
anything like fair election was held
'Thornberg would certainly have been
elected. r4arr sEri .'"E 'lgm
The Commissioner of Registration,
who was also n candidate for Alder
man, acted outrageOusly unfair,
fatty refusing to give certificates to
| the most prominent representatives
in the city, white or black, beca,.se
they We're Aldcnites. = isiy y
I a number of Federal Officers and
soldiers, who served throughout the
whole war, We're also refused on the
same ground. Hundreds of certifi-
Gates We're secretly issued today, all
i'm the interest IF Alden. Thess glar-
ing wrongs were carried to such an
extent that steps have been taken
to contest the election. The paper
which denouncics the swindleih the
most savage terms, is the Press and
Times, tho official Radical organ of
the city and State. ''3.
1t is conceded beyond doubt that
not q single white man participated
in the disgraccful riot last nigll the
fighting being confined to neghes
who We're maddened and inashed
with whisky. That the casualties
were not greater il to be attributed to
the unsteady aim of the drunllei ri
oters.
Brownlow has declared null and
void the registration in the couiies
of Decatur and Fayettee, two otthe
heaviest Democratic counties imihe
i State. These counties cannot patic-
ipate in the Presidential electionl
NASHVILLE, Sept 25.-Thc exit
ing canvass for Mayor which has
been in progress for the past Eve
weeks between the friends of Altnl
T the present Radical MAYOR, And
lThornberg, moderate Republi&u
eliminated tonight i'm riot. Ibti
parties, chiefly negroes, had torchlielj
processions, and many of them we'd
, DRINK. The evening had been ar
proprlated by the Thornberg med
whilst the Alden men having bed
prevented the night before hv raj
from having their procession detd
, mined To have il tonight, notwitl
, standing the danger Of collisions.
About 8 o'clock, as the Alden nj
cession was moving into the putf
! square from Cedar street, Il difficuk
. occurred with negro who was shJ-
ing Tor 'rhornbcrg, and who, belg
attacked, drew n pistol and shot 10
9 the procession. A good many sihs
: were fired ut him i'm return. III
z along the line of the procession, he
T, lnrmed negroes DISCHARGED their picks
! generally in the air, but at the ,r-
i nor of Deaderick and Cherry strds,
r Nilsson & Walsll's saloon was ridSd
with bullets. "a. .....r. rn.It H.
Some of the negroes stamped
y through Deadcricll street, iireing la
!, ,lred of shots, and made AN attaebn
ttNolen's saloon, breaking the CLAIM
his doors and windows. Ander
part of the procession made am atrk
ON Holdstcrer's saloon, Cherry stet,
i but Were unable Ia break i'm. Tlhs-
: pnds of shots Were flrel altodh-
~ or, exclusively by negroes. pr,
: tmately hut four Were wounda RI
u None of them seriously, and he
4 were killed
nj Whilstthls was going ON the Thu
. berg procession was inv another p;sof
the city, and took no part In the 4