Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-04

/ The CIrY fkESS-ID ~ TazcfLe Cotil'-r az ouhu
y tn tn gratifying intellip tnce that Mr.. Pen
FfSGroS. the newly lected Speaker OF the
Hon &c. didn't sign the Helper Book" Mr.
|'tNxsGrox is probably very glad he didn't.
| IT. SHERMAN put his autograph to a recon-
jiendation of that fine specimen of Abolition
literature, and the consequence is. he finds
Himself not the ghost of Speaker. after
wo months attempt TO be one. Men ought
b be careful how they put their names to
documents. Mr.. SHERMAN is not the first in
fividual who has lost good deal by thing
In that sort. Let il he warning to him.
ct It be a warning to his friends Let 1t be
| warning to the entire country.
| The Lnioa is down upon STEPHEN A. DoUG-
PAS like Thousand of bricks-in fact, like a
Phole brick-kiin. II says he is "a gambler"
/ mot a faro-desler, nor a lottery-broker, nor
patron of that style of gambling known as
ouge e NOR; but "a gambler in politics"
shich is an Internal sight worse; for the man
yh0 stakes his tin On a game of poker, does
d at BIS own expense; but the political gam
| Ter throws the best interests of his country
pom the hazard of the die The UHio IS
|harge, then. against Mr.. DOUGLAS is Of the
a Dst serious dc scrip ion, and will bear an ac-
ion for defamation of character just as easily
IS tue Cumberland will bear empty fat
,oat during spring freshet- Such an action
,as TO he brought. A writ will be served
} pom the Union tomorrow morning immedi-
IL tba will he
brought up at once before the Police Court
IL EdgefieId the venue having been changed
ID the other SIDE of the river Tor fear Mr.
DOUGLAS can't have justice done him in the
town where the defendant resides. The ORioH
,eedn't attempt to engage us as its counsel.
We are retained for the Little Giant. Our
;otemporary says it regards 1.-The nomination
,f NJ. DOUGLAS by the Charleston Convex
Jon as an jmposSi5Ility, and not mere in
probability" When Observant people Sc
Democratic newspaper pitching into prom
,nent member OF its party with fOriy-horse
power, they needn't be told that it regards
lis nomination as an inpOssIbility.
/, The Ne1Cs has an article on 'tae Speakers
election.- We fear We have said enough on
that subject. We have spent the best years
Of our life in struggling not TO bore our read
ers, and We will not at this late hour OF the
& " undo all we have bern 50 long in doing
The Speakers election is not The subject that
we are going now to talk about. Tue Aesos
has an article also Oh 1.-The legislature of
Virginia" Having a fdll-grOwu l. gislaIure
IF its own to look after, and TO guide, guard
and to philosophiZe to. it is more than ex-
,,eediugly strange. If possible, and We think
quite so. that the Meas should thus attempt
o look alter other peoples. Il the R.chmoud
papers and d. JENNINGS VIE edits Ole, if
bot two, of them-can't keep the General
/ Assembly of the Old Dominion st ri sht, we
ant see Why the Macs, away out here. should
eel called upon TO keep il straight for them.
{ is boi,-d it will turn its attention to Capt.
oil Hill and make it its business to see that
he institution up there carries on as becomes
he body representative Of this great aud
glorious commonwealth. These remarks are
Intended for the junior of the Neirs exclusive
y. who went with that body 10 Ohio and
BluCU tDcl III all IHelT SOCIAL ana pollttcdl tfa
eFuization with our colored X publican
friends of the country. and ought TO have Z
be hang Of their idiosyncrasics sufficiently
turing the trip to know how to manage Ihcm
The Banners editorial machinery does nj
Gem to work with its accustomed industry
his bitter cold weather, coming to US. IL il
ues, with but one article es the result ot lis
ay's labor. That article is on the suijcct
The late Legislative Excursion" Having
ermitted our reporter TO run the sui eci III
. the ground, We can not dwell al any great
.ngth upon the BaRReTs article. That *
ursion. like the Sp.ak, r~hip, is becoming
tale. and we, for one, don't intend TO say
nything more about it until our present
rop of sub>cribcrs are gathered in, aud we
ct fresh list out and out. But the BIaaer
1uehes alone upon the political bearings of
nc suhject-tiis, though, lets u cut again,
we make il point never t. tpUci upon |
he political bearings of anything. The !
}assaer SAYS in the outset uf its ar,I,l L., aud |
.peats the say before it g-rs through that
dis excursion ct the LegislIt.Ies OF fennrs- |
ee and Kentucky TO Columbus mas The best |
'eek's work they have yet done. C'nvinee
hem that ihrir constituency think ton
nd they start on another ;o-morIow, aild
ont come back for month.