Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-09
NASHVILLE.
Attempt to Make Up Safe to De-
feat Johnson.
The Other Aspirauts Combining
Against the Ex-President.
Mr.. Cubbins Elected Chairman Of
Committee on Manufactures.
Summary of the Days Business in
Both Houses.


being made TO use Hon. Henry Cooper
defeat Mr.. Johnson for the Senate. 1t
said that EtherIdge viii be withdraw
but this is denied.
Jordan, stokes, Preston, Seili Brow
and Cooper are in the ring"
senator Cubbius was to-day elects
Chairman of the Senate Committee c
Manufactures.
The State Treasurer's security asks
be relieved from his bond, and charge
Rust with peculstion.
Aresolution calling State ConventiO
wss laid over.
The town of Brownsville was author
lied to issue railroad bonds.
The bill abollshing Railroad Receiver
makes railroad Presidents accoUntabl
for receipts.
The repeal of the Ku-KluK law an
franchise acts is expected.
A charter was granted to the AemPhi
Wood and Willow Ware Factory.
The Board OF County Commissioners il
Davidson county were abolished.
Mr.. W. r. Moore's merchants tax bill
hss passed s second reading in boil
Houses. L. J. D.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH.
NAsHyILLE, October g. After tn,
morning session, both branches Of tn,
Legislature adjourned, TO meet agair
Monday, when the vote for Governor vii
be counted and Senter inaugurated.
Bills have been introduced and art
pending to repeal the Common School
law, the State Guard and Ku-Klux laws
tbe Metropolitan Police and laws creating
County Commissioners, and the law pre-
sscribing q test oath for voters and candi-
dates for ohice.
A bill is also pending TO remove the dis
abilities of Judge Frazier, who wss inn
peached aud convicted and driven from
the bench by the Legislature of 1867. And
another providing for a State Convention,
20 remove the disabilities of citizens dis
1rsnehised.
To-day the State Librarian, DR.. Gettin-
ger, asked the Legislature TO release him
as s bondsmAn of the State Treasurer,
whom he charges with violating the law,
and desiring impeachment. The matter
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Cheatham, of Davidson county, in
moving the reference, expressed the be-
lief that the charges are unfounded.
BY THE NAIL OF YESTERDAY.
Tie Baltimore Gdsstte's Washington
norrespOadent says: The election of
Hon. DoUseS Thomas as Speaker of the
State Senate Of Tennessee, and of Mr.. W.
ON. Perkins as Speaker OF the House, is
considered here as strongly indicating
ths success Of Andy Johnson over Ether
fdge In the contest for the United States
senatorship. Tie fight is between the
Old Line Wings, headed by ex-GOv. Neil
s. Brown, and the fossil Democrats,
cham pioned by johnson. The feeling be-
tween these parties has always been in
Isassly bitter, and the old feuds have
teen revived with increased bitterness.
Jchnsonis friends hold in reserve the
Hon A. %. 7. Nicholson, and the Demo-
Gratis viii unite on him in case they are
HBable 70 eject Johnson The unfOrtu-
nate part of the complication is that
johnson, Etheridge aud Bailie Peyton
are the only prominent candidates that
f.an take the iron-clad oath, and the SEN
ste would have to remove the disabilities
OF Say other person elected"
The rapidly falling health of BrOwnioW
causes sy5sgulatiOn as 10 a second Senate
rial contest, II Eastern Tennessee sends
johnson 70 the Senate, the middle and
western sections ef the State will put in
gheir claims for successor to BrownlOw.
Among those who in such a contingency
Bnay be brought into the field aFs the two
brothers Cooper, both of whom are newly
elected state Senators. Edward Cooper
Is we'll known ia Washington, having oc-
cupied the positions Of Assistant Secre-
fsrY Of the Treasury, and Private Secre-
TRry 10 President johnson. he was Chair
man OF the Tennessee delegation 81 the
Sew York Convention.
And the same paper says editorially:
every prominent Republican official
who sustained SeuteT, % openly avOwed
sentiments, is 70 be removed
at the bidding of Stokes aud Maynard,
and every effort is to be made 10 fnduse
Congress 70 regard the election of SentsT
sad the acts which the Legislature may
pass as invslG, The main point they
seek to gain is the rsjsaiiou OF ex-Presi- /
dent johnson as United States senatOr, in
the event of his being chosen 10 thar o4!re
at the approaching session ofthe Legisla-
lure-an event which, al the present time,
seems 10 be in the highest degree Proba-
bls.
The Nashville correspondent Of the
Louisville Cogrjer Journal, in the
issue Of that paper of Thursday,
Is more exciung than ever. johnson |
has bis headquarters at the Maxwell
House, the Two finest rooms In the estab- |
lishment-tbe bridal chambers-being ap-
propristed to his use. He elsctioneers |
with as much vim aud Yigor as he ever did |
IN his paltniest days. After legislative |
hours, membeus begin TO drop IN, and in
the evening il Is not uncommon to see a
score Of senatOrs and Representative |
seated round long table, while the ex-
President, with animation and earnest |
ness, lays down the law and defends his |
policy.
Ethetidge holds forth at this City Hotel. |
He sKerts remark able conversational and /
powers, albeit he is often very |
lndiseEest IN his utterances. His slurs |
about East Tennessee have lost him votes /
from that section. johnson is certainly |
the more willy and polite of the two. /
Each has hosts of Jealous friends who are |
working As If the fate Of the Republic de-
pended on the result.
The Nashville correspondent of the /
Cincinnati Gazette says; The Legislature (
having this day flushed its organization,
the election OF United States Senator will /
axe place on Tuesday, the 18th instant,
The Two candidates now most prominent |
are A. johnson, OF East Tennessee, and
Emerson Etheridge, OF West Tennessee.
Cooper, of Middle Tennessee,
gili not be candidate 30 long as John
son is, hut if johnson is defeated be viii
be urged. Neill s. Brown, of Middle
Tennessee, is also reckoned a strong rival
n johnson and Rtheridge. West Ten
aessee is all for Etheridge, bat East Ten
nessee gives him small support. Neither
1ivfs;on OF the State is united on John
90, hut he has strength in Middle and
Esst. Etheridgef strives 10 rally against
a ndy All the old Whigs and all the rebels
y no smart at the recollection Of his Sc
rerities during his Military Goyernorship,
md are enraged at his trying 10 punish
Lee. johnson tries to whip in all that
have had favors from him heretofore, not
that gratitude Is lively
,snse of favors expected" i" The ex-Presi
dent howls for national reputation, Eth
sridgs against it.
The Washington Ndti0AGl InfeHigeaeer
ssys of Andrew Johnson: But this game
II practiciDg upon the hopes and fears Of
: subiugated people Is being played, not
anlv in States now under military rule,
but even I'm Tennessee, q State az com
pieteiy within the sisterhood Of States a.
any that never kept step tn the music Of
,sDixie,'' and as fully entitled TO all the
lights and privileges OF a State ~ Massa-
chusetts or New York. Nevertheless,
If,e people of Tennessee are told, that be- /
cause Andrew johnson had some slight !
difference with our gifted President on a
question of Veracity, in regard to which
tbe proof was all on one side, and because