Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-11
ROCK CITY, MILL S.
FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER IL, 1859
Tur Cry PREss-Tbe .Se,rs leads off with

Tug Cry PREss-The INetrs leads off with
another article on the banks. What with the
discussion of the Banks through the newspa-
pers. in the Legislature, and by the street
corner politicians. if those Institutions are
not fixed up according to HoYLE in the long
run. they must be set of very complicated
concerns The Nelrs throws a handful or so
of grape-shot into the Democratic leaders.
1t is not hoped. thoagh, that it will do much
good The leaders of the modern Democrat
ic party have a way of their own. (and
miserable way it is too), and all the preach
ing and pious examples OF the united oppo-
sition press of the world can't turn them from
it. The local -Ns1Os copies paragraph from
our "City Press Of yesterday, aud says:
eve trust the PATRIOT will do US justice
We said nothing about 'h-ll freezing over
We said the hard money faith, II committed
to the keeping of certain teachers, would he
kent hard till Hddes should be frozen over.
II the PATRIOT il so far behind the popular
belief az not to know what Hades is, we give
him over as one of those ut whose ignorance
reformed believers must wink" We know we
Tom-all-alone's we don't know nothink and
ALWAYS did" We did mt even know until
yesterday that the local .Neacs is Uniformed
believer" We are not yet satisfied that he liz
one. Bat il he is, what devil OF a fellow
he must have been before the reformation
took place! In asking us to do him justice"
he asks roo much of US. We have n got
the capacity for such AN achievement, and
will leave the job for postcrity to undertake
The Banner asks, " what has the Demo
cracy done for the South:" Why, they have
come abont as near ruining it as any sat Of
meu couid by indirect means, and il you
will 1T them run few years longer. they'll
finish the work easy enough. The DINO
cratic party, US everybody knows, is a
wretched affair. and if it hasn't sent the
South aud the whole Union to the dogs long
ago, it 10 hecause the manifest destiny of tie
country leads in another direction, and is
not to be controlled by any such aggregation
of factions a that party now is. The local
Banner has been on "a visit to GAINESVILLE. and
gives favorable account of the Edgefield
and Kentucky Railroad. In six or eight
week, we shall have railroad communication
with GAINESVILLE, as by that time the bridge
across Red River and the remaining six
miles of irack-laying will be completed.
The local Banner introduces the following poem
in his police report. The catastI ophe IN n
toned in the concluding lines doubtless
touched bis feelings deeply:
Tears coursei each other down his cheek
OF furrowe car. HIS vistge IN ok
R.-rkene q ricf Told man - they cried,
s.wh 4 is the matter ~ He rcplici
'.H"te next my heart placed my all.
Within tn : Uttered vest
The buttons burt, and have split
j g IL Newsom's best"
The Union goes off on security for bank
issues" and Mr.. BELL.
The Gazette has Mt got any editorial. This
failure on the part of our neighbor reminds
us that the Eastern mails have failed to come
TO hand for two days in succession. The To-
cal Gazefte has an enlarged illustrated his
tory of old BRowN's capture of Hdrper's
Ferry, which must have involved very
heavy expenditure. II that paper doesn't mind
how it embaIks in such enterprises, it will
break down. The local Guzette thinks we
have figured in piats long enough to
have known" that Pixies whisky aud Pixies
arithmetic were not made by the same man.
The GdzeRe ought to know, il there is any
thing in an unlimited experience, that such
figuring has a tendency rather to Tighten the
head than to enlighten the mind.