Rhode Island American And Providence Gazette

Tennessee Elections—The elections for Members of Congress and of the State Legislature, and also for Governor have recently taken place in Tennessee. We have no returns as yet of the result in any District, but have been advised that it is probable that Mr. Lea is elected in the Knoxville District, lately represented by John Cocke, who declined a re-election.

We have the pleasure to state that Col. John Williams, our late Minister to Guatemala, has been elected to the State Senate, by a handsome majority, after a violent contest. We mention this fact with satisfaction, because a person at a distance from the scene can hardly imagine the violence and bitterness with which a prominent citizen is persecuted in that State, who dares to oppose the predominant feeling there on the subject of the Presidential candidates, and it has been Col. W's fortune to be opposed to the popular current in Tennessee, having been, at the last election, in favour of Mr. Crawford, and always decidedly adverse to the election of General Jackson to the Presidency. Nat. Int.