Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-21
$50 tedious is this day,

$50 tedious is this day,
As is the night before festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes,
| And may not them"
| Our IeighbOr is devoured by a trOup of i'm
| patient fancies as the rascally ACTION was
| devoured by his own dogs; and yet the abb
sent editor will send no telegraphic message
| to choke off the angry and Unsuitable brood.
sob, that night or GROUCHY would come !
s'Ye gods annihilate both time and space,
And make neighbor happy"
Well, we'll, it's natural after all that the
Union should feel a good deal of anxiety to
know what the aBltimore Convention has
done, or is going to do. The fate of the Dem
ocratic party depends upon the action of that
Convention (and few other things, which
we need MT mention here), and if the tempo
rary chief engineer of the Union did MT feel
anxious to know what's going on, he would
MT be human. The Union devotes about
column and a half to THE Naval Expendi-
lures Investigation" and the Letter from
the Secretary of the Navy" to the Hon. ROB-
ERF HATToN, Chairman of the Committee on
Naval Expenditures Secretary TOUCET's
letter seems to be little else than personal
attack upon Mr.. SHERMAN, of Ohio, for intro
ducing a resolution in Congress authorizing
an investigation of certain Naval expend-
lures, which looked to Mr.. SHERMAN as if
they needed little investigation. And no
doubt they did. If the Union me IAN to defend
the different departments of the Government
at Washington against the innumerable we'll
founded charges of swindling, it had better
abandon everything else. 1t will have its
hands full.
The BGner-Our neighbor in new type
has an article headed 80 Coming to our Plat
FORM in which he goes on to show that the
Democratic party, which all along has con-
tended that nothing but its own red right
hand could settle the slavery question, is
coming over to the platform of the Union
party. Nobody will be surprised to hear it.
The Democratic party, as everybody knows,
is ready, and has always been ready, to come
| over, or go over, to anything that has COM
| Portable look about it. aud is likely to make
| few votes. But just at this time there are
| a few men in this country who doubt that
there is now a Democratic party in existence.
There was MT anything of the sort around
| the other day, and if there is now, it was
built up at Baltimore since night before last.
The Gazehe--What will it COST" This is
| what the G. zatte wants to know now about
the steam fre-engines. 1t not only wants
| to know, but from the tone of its voice, we
are inc lined to think that it is determined
TO know, or let the city Government hear
| from it. Our neighbor has gone to the wrong
source for the information he desires. The
| City Council was not designed by its inven-
| tor as a machine for answering questions, no
more than the Gazehe'S printing-press was
| designed by Mr.. NoRTHUP as a continuance
for picking cotton or gathering corn. Be.
sides, what does he want to know what the
machines are going to costfor? Does he intend
to hand the Mayor a check for the amount?
| We presume our taxes are as burdensome 10
Us as any other wealthy mans in Nashville
| are to him and if we don't complain of the
cost of the new fire department, it is
ridiculous that anybody else should
1t is true, wo don't have TO pay any taxes,
| but then the trouble and extreme ineonven-
| fence of lodging around the corner every
| time we see the taX-collectOr coming, is
much more burdensome than it would be to
she'll out the money; which we would cheer
| fully do if We had it. Under these circum-
stances, if we don't fall out with the City
| Council, and whirl into asking it all sorts OF
| questions about things, nobody else ought TO.
But if the Gdzate is determined 10 know what
the new engines are going to cost, and what
| it will cost TO keep them running for one
year. we can furnish the information easy
enough, as we have figured it out frequently.
| The machines will cost from two to fifty
thousand dollars EACH II full-jeweled and
heavily mounted with gold, they will proba-
bly, run up beyond the last named figure. 1t
| 10 manage each machine, and these at, say.
so much piece, will cost the corporation
neutrality-suspicious. less, certainly not more.
| And then the hose, horses, houses, DC, will
amount to at least half that Summarizing in
| all grand total of precisely 50 much, incl
dental expenses included. Cheap enough in
all conscience. We don't pretend to say
that our figures are strictly accurate in every
particular, but if the Gaztns and we and
other influential citizens who own the bulk
of the real estate in town and have all the
taxes 10 pay, don't grumble at them on that
account, it does MT matter much what the
rest of the population say.
| THE FOURTH OF JULY.-Here it is, the
Fwenty-first day of June, with strong prob
i ability that the Courth of Lnlx will cornn off