Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-09

THE CRY PREss-The Banner writes a
ING article about our State Capitol, which
j thinks is quite snug little shanty. .'The
asst public spirited and most penurious man
the State" says the Banner, sis more than
paid for all be has contributed or will cor
ibute to It's erection by one view of its
assc beauty n YER was newspaper
any shade of politics more miserably mis-
ken than the Bouer i. in this. There are
en- in this State wbOfwould MT give six AID
+fourth cents for thousand views OF the
,lassic beauty" Of all the capiiols on the
ntinent. There are men in the State who,
living contributed five dollars towards the
ection of our capitol, would be willing to
il tumbled down and broken up into
rnpike materials to get their money back
hat is thirteen hundred thousand dollar
pitol to them, or they to a thirteen hum
ed thousand dollar capitolt or as the poet
pre- beautifully expresses il
''what is Hecaba to me, or to Hecubl.''
ut some Of us-a god many of Us in point of
t-are proud OF our State House, and
II cheerfuIly contribute g few more
Filings to have il completed. The
bio State Capitol has been about twenty
RS in building. and has cost over 81 500
%. An appropriation OF seventy or eighty
ousand dollars is now asked for to build a
5IrticO to each froat, and place colOnade
ound the dome. Much of the material of
iich the building i constructed was brought
Im the granite hills of New England. 1t
estimated that the South Carolina State
.pitol will cost 81. 500. 900. Both these es-
mates include the stealsge- of course, and
Rod deal Of it at Columbus. one man having
excited $4,000 in lamp.
A paragraph in the Memphis Araionehe
avs out the Meas on the subject of the
soIutions adopted by the late Democratic
ate Convention, and another. of two lines,
the Charleston KeTeary draws it out on
elective tariffs. The Nare wants TO know
,..any of our South Carolina eOntemPora-
- can suggest a plausible reason for the
VISION of their Executive to transmit to
IS State copy of the resolutions of the
nth Carolina Legislature proposing Con-
alton of the slave-holding StateS?" 1t
Ems these resolutions were sent to the Gov
lors of Maryland. Mississippi and Texas,
I'd we presume the Object of the Ne,rs is to
out whether the Governor Of South CaI-
ina regards Maryland, Mississippi aud Texas
I she only slave-holding States in the Union.
THE Carte devOtes column and quarter
[ the thrilling subject of Morals as r gula-
Il by Glasses" The London Times, Ian
,ht- by-ten caich-penny English newspaper,
ktbIished, a it, name Indicates, in the small
|Syn of London, and q sort Of organ for
b Goldfish aTisiOcraey of the viIlsge,) main
M that there is no more immortality to be
nd among the upper classes of society than
the middle and lower classes The G0zefte
ms issue with the Times, and goes On to
bw very conclusively that the English pa
doesn't know what il is talking about
Gazette has an article on The Difference
ween Falls,r in which it explains the dif-
ence between falling from horse and
IN atemperance pledge. although there
world of difference between the two sorts
alIs," says she Gaz,ee, 1--WE can but think
/ falling from horse would quite naiu-
v lea1 TO fall from Temperance grace"
cunt think anything of the sort. But
do think that -flIling from temperance
ce" might very naturally lead to the fall
from horse. We have seen it done fire.
SBtly.
he Jnioa's Sunday morning article on
raws" seems t. have been a very unturiu |
on--a Troublesome one at any rat -
rur contemporary finds himself under the |
essity of writing nearly column aud
TO explain it away.