Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-07-30

63S convicts, three fourths of whom
are negroes, 80 are women and six Of
these have infant children.
A View Of the Political Field From a
Stokes Standpoint.
A Knoxville, Tenn, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, says:
Much has been written pro and con, both
North and S,uth, of late, on the present
political situation In Tennessee, but neither
in or out Of the State is the situation fully
understood, and new aud racy developments
are being continually made. The fight is
assuming multiform shape, not limited to
stump and newspaper controversy, but de-
veloping strategic powers of high order in
outside skirmishipg the principa Incidents
of which are found in scrambles for power
in re gistration matters and the control OF
newspaper stock The principal excite
ment in Knoxville, recently, has been ia
connection with the removal of the Com
missioner Of Registration of Knox County.
Charles Morrow. Being a Stokes man,
Mofrow's head has been anything but easy
on his shoulders for some tine past. The
glittering blade of the official guillotne
at let gtl deceuded, aud, amid the chuckles
of the disfr nchised and the Seuter men,
his head relied into the ba,ket. Tle newly
appointed man was one @. w. Weaver, o.
whose autecedents | know but little. Nor
row died hard. He at once took steps l..
resist the Governors action as illegal, and
applied for an injunction, viii, h wa, granted
by Chancellor y. =. Temple, but the case
WAS set for hearing at Chambers yesterday,
18th inst, on the question OF the dissoln.
ton Of the inju c..on. Weaver, 10 tie
meantime, had b en- by no meaus idle. -
Without even waiting to take his oflicia
oath, he had made haste to issue several
hundred certificates, issuing to undoubted
and original rebels, as We'll as to others
| and is 'uing to mon who had m ,de no ap.
| plicstion nor taken the r, quisite prelimina
~ oath, which Is r. qhrc,l OF all app iclnis
| whatever their Union records, who ara moi
honorably discharged Federal splii RS.
Much interest was I,lt in the result al
the injunction, but ON Fri lay or Satufd ~
the news reached the city that the Suprem-
| Curt, sitting at Brownsville, in West Ten
nes,es, had decided a similar case 10 favor
VI
Commissioners of Il gsiration at plea, urs
Had the full scnpe of the d cision b -e1
knDwn, III would have obviated all neces
sly for argument, and as Il was, it was con
sidered that the cas- WIS practically at ar
end sill .ns'deraLe interest was fel
when the parties and tn public as ,embled
yesterday la tue G 'drt room. There m'g1i
| have been more had there be- n less impiIyi
| confidence on the part Of all sid es in th,
| Cha cellor. Cnanc, or Temple, while d
decided Republican,, has conscientiously re
| Trained from all active interference will
politics while holding judicial fiji ;e. Ap
| pointed by Gov, Brownlow, he sci we'd will
great acceptabliIy until tho general Judi.
| cial election Ia June, when he received Tn,
| high compliment OF a re- election by boil
parties, not a single opponent OF the man,
who desired the position venturing to be
come candidate against him. So high l.
his character for personal integrity auc
purit5i and freedom on the bench from al
party bias, that no doubt was enterta nee
that his decision wonld bs rendered with
out the slightest ilhlence from anything
outside Of strict law. The central 6gur'
In the argument was old Col. ThUmBs A. r
Nelson, who, though many years ago an NJ
c., aud promfleut ia Tennessee politics
1
one of Audy's counsel against the impeach
eis. He Is we'll and fAvorably known her
as an able liwyer and personally estim4bl,
man, and Union man, at one time, to tn
extent of being carried prisoner to Rich
mond. But the Emancipation Proclsma
tiOn was too much for him, and he urge
his Union friends 10 unite with the rebel
to resist IL. The consequence WAS that b
has been politically shelved ever since, b
the Unionists of East Tennessee. He wa
a candidate, In June, for Supreme Judg
Of the State, from the eastern division, b.
was badly defeated by the present exec
lent incumbent, the Hon. George Andrew
formerly of Detroit, an able lawyer, thoi
ough Republican, and a man CT high pro
fessional aud private character.
Col. Nels IN, Of cons SO, appeared as couI
, sci for Weaver, and urged the dissolntio
of the injunction. lIc was assisted by Co
John Baxter, also an able lawyer and prom
ineni ConseI vatiye politician and by Co
John ii. Crosier, OF nearly the same recorl
I the genial railroad delegate whom the pre-
snd City Council Railroad Committee W.
remember as the principal SPOKE sman
= the Knoxville Railroad delegation. tt
other side OF the case was represented pri
cipally by Col. L. @, Camp, United Stat
{ Districi-Altoruey, an ex-Federal soldie
9 late Of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and n.
Hall, Esq, and old Union citizen OF Kno.
vile. M full or satisfactory report of Il
| Brownsville decision was to be had, al
4 Col. Camp urged that the Chancellor r
:, serve his decision until further informati,
COT ii be Obtained, promising to tolegral
e for the same. Ailer some argunent, h
Chancellor reserved bis decision till n
morning at 3 o'clock, desiring to give Il
n subject tho consideration its importan
demanded, and also, II possible, obtain {,
. lcT information of the Brownsvils decisio
ihtimating, however, that il nothing CO
Trajectory were received, he should wi
e the lights before him, be inclined Ia co
-ider that decision as covering the cas-
This morning at Q O'claek larger numb
d OF persons Than yesteId day were preseI
aud the G aDcellOr, at Ter announcing II
he mad, since the adjournment of Con-
Yesterday received q private communi,
u lion TON West Tennessee, stating I
grounds Of tho Brpwnsvllle decis on su
cientlS 10 onab e him Ia fully make up
10 mind On the subject. Tne question Ia,
Involved was the q ivernOr's right To
move r gislrars al pleasure, en- the dec
/. lou affirmed that right. lie should, the
iorr, dissolve the injunction.
u At the conclusion OF his opinion, CHI
CO llor Temple made some very decided
very appropriate aud well-timtd RENAL
d IN regard TO tho threats promulgated
the Governor and his organ that mlll
would be used II necessary, 10 prev
>. ChaneellIs from granting injunctions
restrain sppointses Of the Governor.
al ides OF military Interference TO oyeTa
n. the judiciary he represented in the ST. o
est terms. lie had btep, be remai ksd, G