New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-18

Recently nv haleaga, III which he declared hinlseI
| for Bell and Everett.
| Mayor Henry, Of Philadelphia who was recently
reelected as the candidate of the Peoples Party
has declared himself for Bell and Everett and the
Black Republicans are bitterly denouncing him
therefor.
Breckenridge and Lane State Convention is to
be held in Indiana on the 3lst of this month. Gen
Lane Senator Powell Of Kentucky, Senator Bright
and others are expected to be present.
The New York Express says: .a
\ Four more papers of Alabama have hoisted the
Bell and Everett flag. They are, Greenville Mes
senger, Troy American, Taskegee Republican and
the Lafayette Sentinel.
In no Southern State are the National men doing
| battle in more spirited manner than in Alabama.
4 They intend to carry the State for Bell and
| Everett, and as the Douglas and Breckenridge
men are about equally divided, there is prob
ability, almost certainty, of their doing it.
BELL AND EVERETT N CoNSEor1CuT-A Bell
| and Everett State Convention will be held in New
Haven, on the 1st of August. A New Haven cor
respondent writes that a most satisfactory meeting
of the State Committee was held there on the 9th.
A new Union organization has originated in
Philadelphia styled "The Continentals.r 1t is
similar to the Wide Awakes, and will probably
become favorite organization with the support
ers of Bell and Everett. The members are uni
formed and are to be ready for action at all times.
Twelve of the Democratic papers in Kentucky
have pronounced for Breckinridge, and four for
Douglas. There are a number yet on the fence.
The Augusta (Ga) Constitutionalist denies that
A. H. Stephens has come out for Breck.n 1t
does not say whom he will support.
correspondent of the Delta states that Gen.
Sam Houston has not withdrawn from the Presi-
dental race, reported, and that he does not
intend to withdraw.
The Erie Observer, one of the most prominent
Democratic papers in Northern Pennsylvania, hon,
estly admits the utter helpessness of the Demo
cratic party. It says:
We will not stultify oursef-we will not com
promise the position of this journal by misleading
rs readers with vain and delusve hopes, when
there is NO ROOM FOR HOPE United we
stand divided We fall is an aphorsm which has
never been controverted either in theory prac-
tee. NO political party dicided can succeed. We
tried it in lsts, and like result flowed from like
eanse. A nd we are about to enact over again in
1861 the disastrous campaign Of 1913. We know |
I IS said there is silver lining to every cloud
but we apprehend it will take spy-glass ut least
four years long, to see "silyer lining'' in the
= cloud that spans the political horizon of the /
Democratic party at this time.
Every day, says the Richmond Wing, serves to
accumulate evidence of the fact that the heat of |
the present contest is between Bell and Lincoln |
the one the representative of nationality and the
other of sectionalism The fighting factions of the
Democracy will consume each other. and every
vote for either takes from Mr.. Bell and adds to the
relative strength of Lincoln. The duty Of all CON
sentative patriots, of all sections now is to rally
to the standard Of Bell and Everett
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says Mr.. Breckenridge has postponed his
trip to California.
Hon. John j. Crittenden made glorious rally
ing speech at shelbyville, KY, last Monday night.
Hon. o. F. Moore, of Portsmouth, Ohio, has
come out for Bell and Everett.
SENATOR BRows OF MISS. The Washington
correspondent Of the New York Herald writes as
ollows:
Senator Brown, Of Mississippi, who spoke at the
ratitcation meeting of Breckenridge and Lane in
his city last Monday night, having since read the
etters OF those two gentlemen accepting the NOM
nation, and finding that they do not declare in
ayor OF Congressional protection of slavery in the
territories, Withdraws his support from the ticket
ind announces the opinion that the position of /
breckenridge and Lane is no better for the South
han that OF Douglas and johnson, [ have the
highest authority for making this announcement
senator Brown and family left this morning en-
cute for Mississippi.