The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-20
Promiscuous Political News-Items.

| Bell and Everett demonstration took
place in Mobile last evening, of which
the Advertiser says:
Last night was the first outside dis
play of the Bell and Everett party of
Mobile, and it was of such nature as
to cheer the hearts of the friends of
the cause, and to dispirit its enemies.
Many of our oldest citizens declared it
the largest public meeting ever assem-
bled in Mobile, and it certainly doubled
in numbers any previous political dis
play had here this season.
Il. b. Cheatham Esq, has been elect
ed Mayor of Nashville, Tenn. He had
three competitors for the office. The
vote for the two years termsof office
of Mayor, Aldermen and Councilman,
failed by about 200 votes.
Eighteen hitherto ardent Black Re
publicans Of Eddyville, J Johnson county,
Iowa, (says the st. Louis Republican,
have come over to the Douglas fold.
The blacks are left so disheartened
and weak by their detection that they
have been unable to raise a Lincoln
pole which they have had on the ground
for some time.
A planter, Gen. Cornelius Robinson,
living near Montgomery, Ala, adver-
tises his property for sale. He says
that he has become disguised with the
submissive policy of the South and
is determined to dispose of his pro-
perty and leave.
Tho X aoly,,Jy Jon,,oJ .,xxo Al
ton songs are taught to the young ladies
in the Central High School of that city.
and that the principal takes the sense
of the scholars on politics to ascertain
how many are forLincoln. Such pub
lie school teachers as this. should be set
at some employment more congeniaI to |
their taste and capacity.
Curses Come Home to Roost. The
worst enemies of the Brock Yancey
leaders could not wish them deeper
political, damnation than they will
receive from the people of the South
when passions cool down and reason
resumes her sway, than will be their
doom if Lincoln is elected. The finger
Of burning indignation viii be pointed
at each and every one of them, and
every patriot tongue will utter, n'thou
art the 'nan who helped to bring this
disgrace upon~ tho South s~ Mobile
Register.
In a speech, delivered at Memphis
last week, by Col. VIM. II. Carroll, Dou-
glas cloctor for the State at large, he
declared his belief that the minions
Of Buchanan throughout the North
were working for the defeat of Dou-
glas, and not the election of Breckin-
ridge-that Lincoln acaS their second
choacc. in confirmation of this he read
private letter from a Memphis gen
5leman, who had recently had CONVEX
sation with the notorious Jesse d.
Bright, the Indiana Senator, and that
his man Bright acknowledged that he
md his party (the Breckenridge men)
we're working for the triumph of the {
Black Republicans.'
Fraudulent Voting-Referrin to the
ate election in Indiana, the New AL t
,any Ledger says: I
Last night while we were LOOKING {
,ver the shoulder of one of the inspec- /
ors at the Washington engine house,
While the votes were being counted out, |
We noticed when the inspector took a c
ballot from the box two other tickets
lip from tho outside one and fall upon c
he knee of the inspector. We i'm t.
called his attention to tho
act, when he took up the spurious tick v
is and counted them. These inside d
ickets were printed ON thin tissue pa Il
er, and the outside one ON heavy blue is
aper, and rolled (not folded up, around) p
he two inside tickets, so that when the l.
lcket was deposited it would unfold p
nd let out the two or three tickets in a
lido. These two tickets will be found d.
trung together. All three were straight n
epublicam tickets. III
T1rginia--Hon. John S. AEUson at a
'ototh.-Tho Herald of the 18th thus a.
etors to the first campaign speech of
Ion. john s. Millson in that city: ST
A NEE tiuSr of tlr Do,Oln S Ior,,o,.,l.- ti