The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-11-21

we may expect 10 see lively contest IN
the Baltimore Convention; for / take-it for
granted that Baltimore will be the place ap
pointed for the assemblage Of our delegates.
Itrust, however, that allOur friends will be
animated with the same spirit as Senator
Douglas. Not long since, in a party at
which he was present, the conversation hap
peue6 to turn on the next Presidency
l"Gentlemen," said he, II care not one
straw, what the Convention may do n re-
regard to that matter, provided they iomi-
nate man who will not stump forlm,e, |
will stump it for them-there is nb man
whom the Convention can nominate that 4
will not cheerfully support!" That iAgood
old democratic doctrine. Let us express
our personal preferences as strongly, ahd as
cordially as we choose, until nomination
is made. That done, let us support itwith
unanim;ty and yigor, worthy of the party
whom the immortal Andrew Jackson led to
victory. For my own part, if your cores
pondent may be permitted to obtrude his
individual preferences upon your readers, l
Earnestly desire the nomination of Ex-Gov-
ernor Marcy, who possesses every desirable
quality for candidate at this juncture.- b.
Eminently national in bis views, having had
large experience in public affairs, and be-
ing a man Of distinguished talent, and un-
wavering principle. be seems to me as de-
serving as he would certainly be available.
But, it is my determination to abide by the
nomination; and SO, in my opinion, should
every good Democrat. $
A London paper thus discourses on the
progress of Bloomerism in England:
"At the theatres-each of which has a
Bloomer farce in ss8s or in passc-the effect
of the costume is by no means what mana
gers and authors expected from it. Instead
| of being nightly laughed at, it is nightly ad-
mired. AT one or two houses, the style has
been made laughable by being burlesqued
and worn by men; but bevy Of pretty
girls, in short petticoats and full trousers,
nicely gathered in, SO as to show graceful
ancles, is found to be much more provoca-
tive Of applause than mirth. One OF the
reasons, probably is, that accustomed as we
are TO the bizarre and extravagant dresses
of the Stage, the Bloomer costume appears
perfectly unobtrusive and unaffected by con-
trast. At all events, however, the fact Is
so; and it speaks we'll for the absence oil
anything essentially and intrinsically ludi-
crous in the transatlantic fashion. Had
Bloomerism, however, been twice as pretty
and twice as convenient as it is, it came
from the wrong quarter for adoption in
England. 1t should have crossed the chan
mel, instead Of the Atlantic.
Had Bloomerism come recommended by
a Parisian mania, its praises sounded by
modistcs Of the Rue do la Pair, and rumors
Of its success floating hitherto from the Fa,t-
bo,rg st. Honore, and the Chanssec d An,
tin, how different in all probability, might
have been its fate 1t might have become
in week, the ruling fashion-it might
have triumphed like the waltz or the polka,
and our eyes might already have become
accustomed to see trowsers where petfcoats
were, and the embroidered tails of smart
paletots in the place of bedragged skirts
sweeping up the winter mud.
Another reason prejudicial to the success
of the "new light" in costume was the
fact that its promoters, with true Yankee
cuteness, have atte mpted to make money
speculation Of the project. one don't
think SO much of the missionaries oil an
idea, when they disseminate their doctrines
at so many coppers per head, and when
their object, evidently, is fully as much to
pick up shillings as convicts. Most OF the
lectures have thus, as demonstrators IN Ia
vor of BIoOmerism, been failures; and we
suppose that, for space at least, the cry So
often addressed to prosy orators OF lCut II
shortp will neither be raised nor responded
to, as regards the petticoats OF England.
Father Matthew took passage for Liver
puol. on Saturday, in the steamship, Pacific
Six hundred thousand persons have etaken
the Pledge Of total abstinence from his
hands in this country; SO that his crossing
the Atlantic has not been in vain. He has
crossed the foreheads of more disciples than
ever were blessed by one priest Noteven
Peter the Hermit, in his preaching the Cru
sades. held forth to greater multitude than
those who have knelt at the feet Of the
Irish Apostle.
The ardent Temperance men Of this City
have lately been meddling with the elec-
tions. They nominated a number OF can
didates for Aldermen, &C.. all of whom
have. believe, beenignominiously defeated;
showing that there is still some work left by
Father Matthew, for those who may aspire
to follow in his footsteps.
The license law of this Staterequires the
applicant to the excise officers, to be oi
good moral character, and to state, under
oath, that the retailing Of liquors, at the
place where he proposes 10 vend them, is
necessary for the accommodation Of trav-
ellers. 1t also requires him to have sal
least two spare beds, and hay and pasture
for four cattle besides his own. Like many
other statutes, this is impracticable and OBJ
solete. The "moral character" and the
I''pasture" kept by most Of the liquor-dealert
lin New York, are Of about equal extent.
The old system Of cheating returned Cal.