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East Tennessee.[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Morristown, Tenn., Aug. 10, 1861. Our election for Governor, Members of Congress, and the State Legislature, has passed off with but little excitement, every one being satisfied beforehand as to what the result would be. The Southern Rights party has carried the State by a majority, which, in its effects, is overwhelming. The Permanent Constitution has been carried; Harris is elected Governor and the Legislature is so decidedly Southern that the traitor members from East Tennessee are talking largely about patriotism and loyalty to their State. The quasi rebellion vote of East Tennessee is again in the majority, though its numbers have been decreased from five to ten thousand. It is thought Maynard, Nelson and Bridges, rebellion candidates, are elected to the United States Congress from their respective districts; but I must say, in justice to the people of East Tennessee, that a majority of them will not ra
ster Faulkner is still in jail, which is strictly under military guard. He will soon, probably, be removed to the more comfortable quarters of the Provost Marshal. It is believed by the Government that he has been holding correspondence with the enemy through the Southern Commissioners at Paris, and that a regiment at Richmond is waiting for him to take command of it against the United States.--Besides, something like retaliation may be intended, in view of the fact that Messrs. McGraw and Harris, who went to Manassas on an errand of mercy, while declaring themselves neutral, were seized and thrown into prison. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes: It is said that a correspondence has been found among ex-Minister Faulkner's papers, showing a collusion between him and certain members of the present Union Government, and that among the things laid down in the programme was the meeting held in Baltimore the other evening by Breckinridge and Vailandigham.