Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-01-24

the Union of the present year 1860. i'd
TUE Crrr PKEss.-Everyb body knows that
our contemporaries of the BannT-the Bdnner
is edited by three of our cOtemporarles-are
never forced TO write volume large
Worcester's new Dictionary (proiusely illus
trated with cuts-COl. G.. LEAEDER EBERHAKr,
Agent } on any subject before they succeed
in showing 1t up satisfactorily 10 the public;
that they usually dissect aud lay bare the
anatomy of that subject with as few strokes
of the scalpel as the next man. Hence it is
a matter of surprise TO him-by him we OF
course me an the gentleman referred TO above
Every bOdy-that the BdRRer devotes more
than a column TO a review of ''The Position
of the Tennessee Democracy" as defined by
the platform adopted in thunder, lightning
and in raiD' last Wednesday. We bad no
idea the BqHner possessed The resplendent
genius necessary to say much about SO
little The BDmer no'es the fact that the
ANDREw JcHSsONIAN plank which was found
in the Democratic platform as originally read
in the Convention, and as originally pub
lish d in the Union. is entirely lett out in the
Union republication of that document. That
plank simply recommendation of An
DREW JOHNSON TO the Charleston Convention
as the frst choice of the Tennessee Democra-
cy for President, aud this incOntinent knock
lag ofthe plank cut, and the sque, zing of the
rest of the timbers up as 10 conceal the
aching void left by the missing lumber, look
tch. u.tD pOt rcd
sick or ASHAMED OF that recommendation aud
wanted to take it back. This way of taking
"a man up as If they INTENDED to do something
handsome for him, and then putting him
down again, is calculated to make him feel
badly-much worse than if his name had MT
been mentioned at all-and should be avoid
ed When ANDREW JOHNSON finds himself
plank in the Democratic platform in one
days Union and not even the splinter OF a
plank in that platform in next days Union.
he will very naturally conclude that some
body has been iampering with his cbancrs
Tor the Presidency. We taxi occasion here
to rema k, that he cart say we did it, and it
is therefore unu, cessary for him to fatigue
himself by shaking his CORY locks at US. W.
chances to tdmper with-nOt more at least
than he has OF drawing the highest prize in
one Of the Baltimore lotteries, wherr, for
every prize. they have steamboat load of
the blaukest sort of blanks. The Democracy
hsve quit transporting men from the United
States Senate to the Whit. House They
must have faded from the one before they
Can blossom in the other, and as the late re-
commended of the Democratic State Cpnven-
tiOa took his blankets along when he went
to the Senute. with the intention of camp
ing there tor the rest of his lie in case no
better lodging should turn mp, his chances for
the Presidency are yaluel"ss as so many
one-dolIar bill on the Csniral Bank.
The Gazette leads oil with a paragraph
touching the Re cent dinner in Phi lIdelphia in
honor Of Col. PEYToN, which il says was a
pleasant affair" Several adventurous news
papers have gone 50 far rs TO pronounce it a
splendid affair. But. uron the whole. it is
quite likely that pleasant is the safer term
of Iiie two. After dinner" observes the ga.
zefe, 1.-The doors of The Academy mot a
schcOlboy's academy, but the Academy of
Music.) were thrown open, and large num-
Der or ladies collected Whether they sue
cecdcd ia collecting enough TO defray the ex-
penses OF the dinner, our contemporary does
not say. We learn from the Gaz-tte that they
have IA new order in Baltimore called the
Daughters of the Forest We presume
these Daughters OF the Forest are the same
females who were known ia their infancy as
the Babes ia the WoOde."
The N,Ies Publishes the new platform of the
Democracy. with br eff comn Htary some
of it, plank. The public are earnestly re-
qiesgcd To- suspend III ir judgment with re-
grrd To this sIructuIe until Ne hni time 10
look iato it and see what it is worth. From
tain r,marks ma le iy some Of our cutern-
poraries touching this platform, We are dis
posed To think that they are rather pref Idic-
c.I against it. having read il before reviewing
il. We shall review il and tn n read it. B.,
this means we snail avoid IIc influence of
prcildicc, which, general thing, il de-
rogatory To Democratic pl ,tiOrms. The
Ne'0S says tie Dcuo-ratc party is notorious
for It's quackcry; by which IL probably means
that the party contains u large number OF
geese Your Democratic goose knows how
to feather his est handsomely. qunck ct 10
qrack 80 The local Ne,rs has Il character
i,iic .rIiclr "rhe business of Nashville"
No: beng well up in the -ci, nc,. Ut music
himself, the local of the Mr., has got him II
sprcitl critic To put tae Italian Opera
through. That critic. who is graceful wri-
t,r, aud almost n we'll acquainted with III
teehnicalities of the science rs cur rrport, r.
sHys Of Miss HArrIE BKuwN: Her voice j. "a
soprano, aud will reach, say on the upward
climb starting at D." This is a mislake-a
very palpable mistake. From c 10 ID in the
upward climb would be dickens of a climb,
now wouldn't it, The uncultiyated tafaHfo
voice OF child could climb higher than that
without al effort Our recollection il, aud
we seldom forget such things, that she began
ut Q. and at the frs; stretch. went a. least
six inches above the top Of the alphaDeL Be
sides. so far from being soprano, her voice
is as we'll defined aud unmisIakable fas-
dasgo as We ever .recoilect to have heard in
all our opeFatic experience.
The Uaioa has a long article ON the Phila-
delphla dinner to Col. PEYrOS which re-
minds rs that we've got a dinner Of our own
up the street n this very momeat-
s-Our friend J. B. & A " RUTLAND, on