From Tennessee.
the election — a small vote — apprehensions in regard to the Federal Flees, &c.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Jonesboro', (Te.,) Nov. 6, 1861.
The election occurs here to-day; a very small poll progressing.
There are two candidates for the Confederate Congress in this district — James W. Deaderick, Esq., of this (Washington) county, and Joseph B. Heiskell, Esq., of Hawkins county.
They were originally Union men, and the latter is yet classed in that category, but are willing to support the Southern Confederacy, as is evidenced by their running for Congress.
Some apprehension is felt here that the Federal troops will surmount the obstacles which interpose between their progress to East Tennessee from the direction of Kentucky; and, if so, they will capture our line of railroad, and thus interrupt the travel and freight which passes in this direction to and from Virginia.
In the event of the entrance of Federal troops here, the support of the ‘"Union men"’ to the Southern Confederacy would be very uncertain.
They are not voting scarcely a tenth of their strength in the present election, which is apparently evidence to show that they yet look for the prevalence of Federal authority here, and are not willing to commit themselves to the Confederates by countenancing them so much as to vote in their election.
Should Federal troops enter here we will have a most disastrous time. 