Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-03

dence is the most difficult of our word ma
chinery. 1t may be true, but whether it be
or not, shall Jog along in my own loose
and rambling manner until I come to ssyours
truly, &c." leaving you and the numerous
readers of the PATRIOT to decide whether l
should stop with this my initium or write an
other.
Since my arrival in the city, the good peo-
pie have been dividing their thoughts and
prophecies pretty equally between politics
and the prospects for rain But as the Con-
ventions at Baltimore have, in some degree,
quoted them on The score of a nomination
on the first count, so have the cepious showers
of yesterday and to-day sprinkle the dust
of their surmises on the second. The recep-
ton Of the nominations made by the Con-
ventions at Baltimore has been as hearty as
noise and newspaper bluster could well make
it. The friends of Douglas burned one hum
bred rounds of six pound cartridges. and fn-
vested quite considerable sum in brass mu-
sic-all for the edifcation of the little white
mud larks" of the street, and fractured
breeched negroes. The nomination of Breck-
iEridge and Lane was received by their wing
of the party with that silent satisfaction
which, no doubt, will be made more manifest
at the polls than in useless public demon
stration. In this connection 1 may mention
that convention is TO assemble in July at
Baton Rouge, to select electors on the Bell
and Everett ticket and though the same en-
thusiasm is not manifested here which it OBJ
tains in your State, still, the ticket will re-
call many old time wings again back to their
fist love. From personal observation and
acquaintance, l am convinced that S. A D.
will be S. 4. D., so far as the electoral vote
of the Pelican State is concerned, when the
election comes off in November next.
The municipal election which has recent
ly taken place here has resulted in the sue
cess of no particular party. The so-called
Citizens Ticket" was successful in electing
Mr.. MUNRoE, their candidate for Mayor, to-
gether with several Aldermen, while the
regular American ticket returned several
members to the Council. The Democrats had
no regular nominees in the field but voted
with the Citizens: from the fact of having
several we'll known members of the party on
the same card. This Citizens party pro-
fesses to be one of rigid reform, but as TO its
course it is hardly possible to surmse as the
newly elected have only been installed in
Office but short time. That we need retor-
nation in its most rigid acceptation is be-
yOnd all cagil. Since 1881, New Orleans
has been murder-ridden. rowdy-infested,
pest-hole OF horrible iniquities, and if the
newly elected Mayor fail in giving the Or
der-loving portion of the community what is
devil for hog''-as certainly our city af-
fairs cannot lie reduced to a more sinful
chaos than they have been for years past.
One of the most gratifying features Of pros
pective reformation has been manifested in
one OF our district courts, Judge Hunt pre-
siding. During its sitting up 10 the present
date, five we'll known ruffians have been
sentenced to the gallows, one of whom has
suffered already the ignominious fate of
murderer, while another has cheated the |
gibbet only to so to his grave amid the ter
rible fortunes occasioned by strychnine, |
either taken by himself, or administered by |
parties fearing his dying declarations. |
am informed that there yet remained on the |
docket over twenty cases subject to capital |
punishment, and from the firm stand which |
Judge Hunt has taken l am confident that
they will be dealt with according TO their
Just deserts. In locking over the Chief of
Policies report for the quarter ending in
June, find that 81 ,720 arrests were made
the bulk of which was for murder, assaults, |
larcenies, drunkenness and vagrapcies. Is |
not this parody upon our Wanted civiliza-
tion-a stain upon our moral escutcheOn-
q bitter and seathing reflection upon the |
efficiency of our laws aud the competency of
the people to govern themselves in moral
and upright manner? Indeed elegance and
poverty, genius and vice, affiuence and star
walton, stalk through the streets of this
beautiful city of the sunny South side by
side. We have churches in abundance with
eloquent and, we hope, pious ministers to
teach the golden rule from their pulrits. We
have our streets filed with chureh-goers on
the Sabbath, but paradoxical as it may APP
pear the police record for the following Mon
day exceeds that of any other day of the
week. Does not this speak but feebly in
praise of the practical working of christiani-
fy? But, with all her crimes, her midnight
murders and her open and concealed vice,
the Crescent City" is a most charming,
agreeable and pleasant place TO sojourn in,
and for fear that you may not believe me,
shall shut down upon the dark side ard take
you out on promenade with me.
New Orleans, with its fine hotels, its mag
nifcent opera-houses, its wide and smoothly
paved streets, its green parks, and beautiful
drives, has been the theme of many pens, |
and barrels of ink have been wasted by such
scribblers myself in rehashing the i'm
pressions of those who have before visited
this place. But as | consider myself some
what OF an old resident in the South. and a
greater part of that time here, of course my
impressions of the substantial and beautiful
Improvements are not so vivid as they would
be TO a newly arrived person. But take any
portion of the lately improved part at ran
dom, Canal street, for Instance, and I am
sure that l make no exaggeration when I
aver that when finished as contemplated it
will be the finest promenade In this country.
and vie with those of the Continent. This |
street. running at a right angle from the |
river, cuts the most thickly populated and
wealthiest portion OF the city in twain, and
reaches from the levee in the direction of the
Lake distance of three miles, where it
energies into that world renowned drive, the |
Shell Road, where young New Orleans ven
tilates himself at 4 2.40 rate every evening
in no NAUGHTY of numbers In fact Canal