Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-21

THE CITY PREsS.-NOw Is the winter OF
orr discomfort made glorious summer, or as
glorious summer as one can hope to have IN
the dead of winter, with the ground covered
with snow to the depth of two or three inch
es. In short, not to put too fine point upon
il, the pen we lost last week has been found,
and is itself the instrument of this pleasant
announcement The public are requested to
withdraw their sympathy.
The Union favors us with a specimen-hrick
of the " Helper Pamphlet" about which they
have lately been talking at Washington and
elsewhere. 1t is miserable Abolition docu-
ment, from the pen of a native of North Car
olina, who " clerked it F" in that State at one
time, and lost the confidence and esteem of
his employer by converting a part OF the
daily receipts Of the establishment into sort
of sinking-fund for his own private purposes.
and forgetting to note the transaction In the
ledger After this experiment at one of the
tricks Of finance, Mr.. HELPER went to the
North where rascality is more literally en-
couraged and has now broken loose upon the
country with this anti-slavery pamphlet. lie
and his friends are asking Congress To print
a few copies of it-ahOut l00.000-to be dis
tributed gratuitously for the enlightenment OF
the masses If Congress will print the one
hundred thousand copies and then make
bon-f fire of them, and throw the author OF the
thing and his sympathizers into it, the South
will cbeerfully defray her part of the ex-
pense The local LiliOH chronicles the
mysterious disappearance Of the distinguished
DIR. EALING, Extractor of C1rns to her Males
ty the Qleen of England. who has been spend
ing few weeks in this city. H vanished
last Saturday night leaving bills unpaid in
the hands of the publishers Of the daily pa
pers, to the amount Of about 1000. II is be
lieved that he has been summoned to England
nv the Qneen las he stated to number of
his acauaintances here that he was daily ex-
pecting such summons), and that he will
return and make it all right " as soon as he
has made comfortable her Majesty's toes.
The Banner has leader on an article in
the Union in which the HELPER pamphlet and
the name of Col. NELSON are too closely
coupled to he exactly just 10 that gentlemen.
who, as everybody knows. would walk as far
oat of his way to kick HELPER as the Nash
willie publishers would to kick Dr.. EALING.
The Banner gives its readers short patent
sermon by dow, Jr.,' from the text:
s'Pray tell me how the devil was dressed"
''Oh he IN his sun ay's best,
His black and his trousers blue,
With hole behind ~hc e his tai. comes thro'."
The Neacs has an article on the present
balk in the organization OF Congress, aud an
other on trade and politics" 1t is evident
that some sort of trade in politics will have
to take place before a Speaker can be- elected,
and the Democracy had better sell out and
be done with it. They are not worth so
much that they need sticker about the terms.
They ought TO he well enough acquainted
with themselves by this time to know that
they would be II dear bargain at any price,
The Local Of the Aers is still in the
country (on grand rabbit-hunt this very mo-
m.nt no doubt.) leaving the item cation of
his columns to be done up by II pro ten"
In his theatrical notice the pro TEN. says
.'Mr. Waller as Macbeth, aud Mrs. Waller as
Lady Macbeth, acquitted themselves crdita-
bly. THE PLAY OF ITSELF HAS BECOME STALE
and the patrons of the Drama wish some
thing that has MORE LIFE, or in other words
something that is not near TO use an out
side phrasel pLiyed ow." The right and title
to the SMALL CAPITALS in this extract are yes
ted in The CRY Press the Adiics are the
property of the Ne,cs. If SHAKSPEARE has it
in his power to revisit the glimpses OF the
moon" we would advise him 10 do so at
once. and suppress his plays-the "'stale,
fiat. and Improbable" Macbeth particularly.
The Gazette states that they have had a
good many mad-dogs about Milwaukee lately
So many men of the North have gone mad
recently. that we should not be surprised
that the malady has broken out among the
dogs. The ncgrophobia is not so fatal as
the hydrophobia Except IN extreme cases
like that of JoHN BRowN), but il aught Ia
be. The Local Gazstte alludes in few
touching remarks, to the hcgira of the lamen-
ted Dr. EALING. In addition 10 this, 1t CON
tains "a large and well-selec;ed assortment"
OF city items.