Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-15
THURSDAY MORNING, deer Is, 1859

The CITY PREss-Tbe Ners is deeply in
terested in the Ell ction of Speaker now 60
ing on, or attempting to go on, in Congress.
1t writes whole column about it. We
can't see the use of saying as much about
this Congressional farce as the newspapers
are now saying about it, The article in the
Neags is a very sensible one, of course, and
that's what astouishes us-that sensible
article should be wasted upon All affair that
has MT got bit Of sense in it. As Mrs.
PUTNAM remarked to the General when re-
monstrating against his extravagant inten-
ton of descending into the den of the wolf
with her last tallow dip in his hand. le jn.
n en- pan pas Ia chdndtue. >. Some folks may
attempt to deny it. But it won't do. The
fact can't be successfully controverted. Here
is the evidence in black and white. We allude
to the following fact. To wit: The local
NruOs has made a pun! The circumstances
attending this melancholy affair are these.
We quote from the local Ne,cs. We quote
verbatim, naught extenuating nor setting
down ought in malice:
"The local Patriot says: The steams of the
up-country continue to pour their swollen
foods into the bosom of the Cumberland
These up country steams have been pouring
their swollen foods all over the country: yet
for several days they have been somewhat
abstea,uerous. The boilers are frozen up"
The Gazette like the rest of the papers, is
determined to give its readers an occasional
article on Congress. We infer as much, at
least, from the fact that the number before
us contains two articles neither of which
we have read, the one headed Gas" and the
other with a name which is the synonym in
this country for humbug. 1900. The local
Gazette has received the prospectus OF new
Opposition paper soon to be started in Gal
latin. by Messrs. BABER and TABB and called
the Courier aud Enquirer. We are sorry to
hear it. Sorry to hear that the paper is TO
have such name. When newspaper starts
out in life, il has to start from the ground.
and unless its infantile strength is immense.
it can never lift two or three tons of name
high enough 10 get beyond entangling alli-
ances with the neighboring trec-tops. In
word. a newspaper with too much name is in
the condition of the Shanghai rooster with
the
''Tail too short to fly high"
as the colCred minstrel beautifully expresses
it, Courier will do and the same general re-
mark is not inapplicable to the word En-
quirr. But when the two are put together,
the one neutraiizes the strength of the
other, and they become a compound weak
ness. In short, they belle. when united,
the American maxim, in union there is
strength" When two newspapers are merged
into one, the names of both are some
times retained, but ii is done simply 10 keep
the subscribers Of the extinguished sheet from
thinking they have lost their subscription
money, and are indebted to an unknown
friend for q paper We have dwelt at some
length upon this subject, because have
entertained these sentiments touching double
jointed newspaper names for ten years, and
have anxiously waited all that time for an
opportunity to give them to our suffering
country. -.-
The Banner asks who is responsible for the
state of things at Washington? When the
Union asked The same question the other day,
We declined answering it for two reasons,
fir-t, because we did not like to hurt the
Unions feelings Icy telling it that the respon
sibility rests upon its own party and.
8 secondly, because we did not like for tile
Uiion 10 hurt our feelings by any secret
doubts of our veracty which it might have
felt ia duty bound to entertain; but we are
restrained by no such considerations in the
case OF our neighbor of the Banner, who
knows us too well to believe that we would
hurt his feelings, or suffer him to hurt ours;
and If he will send us three sheets of Post
Office stamps to prepay the postage, well
forward an answer TO the question by return
of mail.