New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-04
VOLUME XIII.
Neh Orleans 1aiIp Crssterd.
TUESDAY MoRNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1gcO.
POLITICAL ITEMS

The Limestone News, a Breckinridge paper in
Athens, Alabama, has been converted into Bell
paper-Mr. A. B. Henderson becoming the new
editor.
SIGNS or ALARM.-The Republican papers all
over the State have simultaneously turned their
guns against the Bell and Everett men, from which
we infer that Bell and Everett are looming up. The
Republicans imagined that they had absorbed or
crushed the conservative element of the Opposi-
ton, and have suddenly discovered their mistake
hence this discharge OF field pieces and small arms
all along the line. The Bell men are expected to
quake in their shoes at all this thunder, and allow
themselves to be scourged into Immediate submis-
sion. But they don't appear to be bit alarmed.
They continue to hold meetings and recruit their
ranks right in tic face OF the enraged Republicans.
If they continue to make such rapid progress, it
will be question before November whether Lin
coin or Bell will receive most votes in the State.
Harrisburg, (Pa) Union, Breckinrldgc Democrat)
VoTE AT SELMA.-I4ast week, says the Marion
(Ala.) American, q bet of $500 being made that
there not ftty Douglas votes in Selma, a
thorough canvass Of the city was made and the fol-
lowing figures obtained:
ouglns.
The above figures are not I" straws" =" bus facts,
and show how the Breck, Yancey ticket is sweep
ing the State and overwhelming everything
ANOTHER ACCESSION. S.-The Nashville Banner
says:
We have lust received the Osceola (Missouri1
Democrat OF August I'd, which announces that the
names Of Bell and Everett in that issue substi
tuted for those Of Breckinridge and Lane. The
| Union epidemic is raging all over the land, and
recruits are being constantly received into our
camp. Let the laborers work with redOubled
force, that our victory may be the more glorious in
November.
CALIFoRS1A.--A correspondent Of the Baltimore
Clipper, writing from San Francisco under date of
July 3lst, says:
There has been nothing worthy Of note transpired
since my last, executing the organization of q Bell
and Everett club in this city and throughout the
State; and can assure you that we have every
| prospect Of carrying it for Bell and Everett. A
call has been made for convention TO be held in
Sacramento City on the 18th of September for the
| purpose OF appointing electors You can tell the
Bell and Everett men in your city that we will be
true to the Union this time, sure. The Democrats
| will run two sets of electors, thus dividing the
| Democratic vote about even; ; and we expect to
have large accession to Fillmore's vote, which
was 38 600, our victory is easy.
| The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger fncutraD writes thus:
| Apropos of politics; the Bell and Everett men,
for the moment, appear to have " the inside track,
| as the phrase is here. Their grand public demon
stration on the 10th ptoX. is intended to be the
| most imposing affair of the kind ever witnessed in
| Gotham, and as part of the programme is to have
speaker from every State in the Union, California
and Oregon included, the newspaper reporters will
| nave an extra JOD. MeanWHlle Tue DUuglaSfLeS
| are working earnestly, but quietly; ditto, the
| Breckinridgers. The chances that the latter will
Join the Douglas Bell and Everett electoral ticket
| against Lincoln, are multiplying every day.
Occasional" of the Philadelphia Press, and
who is generally supposed to be none other than
John W. Forney himself, than whom few politi-
clans in this country are more thoroughly convers-
ent with the behind the scenes workings of politi-
cal parties, thus writes his journal from Washing
ton on the 26th Sunday;
| have repeatedly told you since the nomination
| of Bell and Everett that it would prove to be a
| strong ticket prophesied this when they assem-
| bled at Baltimore on the 9th of May last, and
every day is only serving to confirm the prediction
| In the breakup of the Democratic organization
| and the strong utteranCe of Mr. Senator Seward
and others who support Lincoln, thousands of con.
| seryatiye men, North and South, look to Bell and
4 Everett constituting safe middle ground, and
will cheerfully throw their votes in that direction
'.UNIoN FOR THE SAKE OF THE UN1oS.a-The
New York Journal of Commerce (Breckinrdge)
no longer relying upon the strength of its favorite
nominee, declares that the people demand union
1t thus enforces the necessity of such a measure
| From every quarter Of the State we have assur
ances that the demand for union of the conserva
| tive elements, to defeat Lincoln is too strong tG
be resisted by politicians who have been opposed
| to such policy.
| Fusion IN New YORK does not thrive quite as
we'll as was expected. providence Journal.
| Nevertheless it is getting on tolerably. LooR
out for fusion victory in November. Do yor
| hear that?
IN. Y. Journal of Commerce, (Breckinridge.,