Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-15

the Constitutional U mon ticket. a general
attendance from all parts of the county is
desired.
The City Press.
All the city papers contain teIegraphic
dispatch from St. Louis, telling of train of
cars on the Bcllelille Railroad, which had a
whole parcel of delegates to the Baltimore
Convention on board, and which took it into
its head to run of the track with them, and
make an everlasting smash of the entire pile.
Accordingly, it picked out a soft place to fall,
and off it went. Nobody was much killed.
il seems. but DOUGLAS will have several
friends less in the Convention. The affair is
supposed TO have been the work OF political
incendiaries. No arrests have been made, but
suspicion points strongly to YANcEY, of Ala
nama, BARKsDALE, of Mississippi, aud one or
TWO Others, who - -as- r-FE
I" Fhe bold rout Charleston nrs began
And IN the march of faction led the van" E
Since this diabolical attempt of the fre-eat-
ers to kill off DOUGLAS at Baltimore by kill
ing off the Northwestern delegates before
they get there, we would earnestly advise all
mis- friends who intend going to the Conven
ton, to let the railroads alone, and walk
they had great deal better take it a-foot
than to be switched off down an embaukment
and have their heads broker not to me ntion
the still greater calamity of failing to come
to time and suffering the entry OF the fire-eat-
ers to walk over the course. Did we belong to
that branch of the Democracy whose daring
genius aspiTes to the Herculean feat of ma
king a large President out of a small giant,
we could place no confidence now in the poet
zeal philosophy of Mrs. FANNY KEMBLE But
I.ER:
s'Better trust all and go to smash
Aud then that ust aud smash deplore,
Than doubt one road that, Travelled OH,
Had borne one safe 10 Baltimore, ve
OIL in this railroad world too oft aa-a
The doubling ii; nd is at side
b ter be smashed up every day.
Than lose the pleasure of a rldeI'
The BaZner.--The Banner has two editori-
al articles: .Mrs. HoLCoMBE's Sehool-COm-
mencement Exercises; and Taking the
Census" 1t pays handsome and we'll
merited compliment to that excellent school,
and 10 the able address delivered at the close
of the commencement exercises by the Rev.
DR.. HUsroN, the accomplished editor of the
Home Circle. As not more than two, at most
three, of our readers in each county are en-
gagged in Taking the Census,'' we need not
dwell upon the subject. But before we leave
it we may as well say that we expect to be
busy all the year, and don't want to be
bothered with the census-ta ker, and hence,
will answer here such questions as the Cen
sus Bureau has instructed him to ask US:
For our name, we refer you to the re-
port of the census taker in 1850; we've got
the same one yet.
We have MT any age; but if it will be
any accommodation to you, we III try to have
some by the time you come round again.
3.-As TO our eOlor--it's good; not being
subject to attacks of bilious character, We
may say it's very good. Sex obvious.
4.-Have got no trade; have MT had one
since 1858; traded then for horse which
went bliud before we got home with him;
gave him away next day, at the advice of
friend, who feared we might keep in the
channel of our usual luck, and sell him for
counterfeit money. Have MT had any trade
T.
name for il.
5.-Our personal estate consists of jack
knife and vest-pocket full of steel-pens.
Our real estate is all unreal, consisting ex-
clusively of castles in Spain. Put the value
down at twenty millions; though, for the
cash, or draft at sixty days on responsible
houses in New Orleans. we would probably
take something less. This, however, is conf
Dental. t.t Gf---
6.-Don't know the exact place of our
birth, and never did. We're quite young at
the time, and did Mt think to enquire. Left
soon after.
did MT marry within the present year,
and we don't dye our whiskers, you may
infer that we don't intend to. Which We
don't
S-We are inclined to believe that we are
twenty years of age and that we have been
for several weeks. Reasons for believing so
furnished in writing if necessary-signed by
the tax-collector. Can read in small, easy
books tolerable well; can't write though, to
do much good.
member how many.
10.-As general thing, we do not; but as
We happen to be little dry just now, and as
you've been kind enough to ask US, we won't
mind taking drop or two with YOU
The Uaioa.-It would seem that the Union
has determined to let political affairs take
care of themselves until the Baltimore Con-
yentiOn shall have done its do In the num-
Der before Us are just twenty feur lines on
political subjects. This is calculated to in
duce the country Democracy to believe that
their great party, which they have always
been taught to regard as immortal, is, as
CARLYLE transcendentally observes, "played
out" But il does 1t make any difference if
they do entertain such a belief, for it is fully
war; anted by the facts in the case. If the
party is MT played out, it certainly has very
ingenious way OF looking like thing it CO
make no pretentions to. The Uiaion has a
long, and we may say learned, article on the
Progress of the Insurrection in Sicily"
going in to the subject, with the help of the
New York Herald, much more deeply and
than the Gazete, who takes the
trouble to tell US that there is a spirit of rev.
olution in Europe, that it looks a little IS if
it intended TO sweep with broom of bayo-
nets over the best part of the continent, and
that It is to be hoped that Providence will
sue out bill of injunction and put stop
to things before much harm is done; but does
MT take the trouble 10 tell US anything more.
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