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Alabama election. Mobile, Aug. 5.
--As far as heard from Walls has a small majority over Shorter for Governor.
Landon has a majority over Dickinson for Congress.
Silma, Aug. 5--The election returns come in slowly.
Crinksank is elected to Congress in the 4th district over Curry.
In Dallas county Chilton a majority over Line seven or eight to one.
Watte's majority over Shorter for Governor is thus far 726. Greens county gave Watte four to Shorter's one; Perry county, Watts 665, Shorter 184, and two boxes to bear from; Calhone is reported to have gone for Watte, Talladega, Bibb, and Shelby have gone for Watte by large majorities.
A few returns from Tusca' odas and Pickens indicate a majority for Watte in both these counties.
The New Governor of Alabama.
--The Savannah Republican has the following paragraph relative to Hon. Thos. H. Watte, the present C. S. Attorney General, who has been elected Governor of Alabama:
Mr. Watts has been for many years at the head of the Montgomery bar. Early in the present struggle he buckled on his armor and was chosen to the command of an Alabama regiment; whilst discharging his military duties on the field he was chosen by President Davis to a post in his Cabinet — that of his legal advice, or Attorney General of the Confederate States--whose duties he has discharged with signal ability and promptness up to the present time.
He is a genuine patriot, and for fighting this war out, at every cost, to complete independence.
Both Alabama and the country may safely trust him in his new position.
From Northern Georgia. Atlanta, Sept. 18.
--Reports from different sources concur in representing that Rosecrans is being heavily reinforced by troops from Grant's army.
Refugees who have recently arrived say that numerous murders have been committed in East Tennesse by the Yankees and bushwhackers.
Rosecrans's forces are retiring on Chattanooga, closely followed.
The railroad is clear to Cleveland.--Only two regiments are in Huntsville — both composed of renegade Kentuckians — commanded by Cols. Watts and Hall, both formerly of Georgi
Gov. Watts, of Alabama.
The Governor elect of Alabama, in a speech lately delivered in that State, gives very hopeful views of the future prospects of our struggle.
Having lately served as Attorney General in the Cabinet of President Davis, he has enjoyed favorable opportunities of knowing the real condition of affairs, and the men to whom the management of our Government has been committed. --Although, in the classification of parties under the old Government, a political opponent of President Davis, he pays a high tribute to the virtues and abilities of the President, appreciating them even more highly than when he entered his Cabinet.--Mr. Watts refers also particularly to the naval branch of the service, and thinks we shall ere long have a fleet which will play an important part in the deliverance of the country.
In regard to the subject of reconstruction, on which some had presumed to question his soundness, he said he should be almost ashamed to own himself an Alabamian
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Army of Tennessee , Missionary Ridge , Nov. 22 (search)
Mobile.
--Gov. Watts, of Ala., has telegraphed to a citizen of Selma, Ala., that Mobile will probably be attacked very soon by the enemy, and as it is desirable that noncombatants should be absent during the siege, it will be incumbent upon the people of Selma to exhibit such hospitality to those of the unfortunate refugees as the intelligence and generosity of all good men and women will dictate under the circumstances.