Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-31
The City Press.

article In the Banner is to show-what is
pretty generally understood by the people OF
this country-tbat regularly nominated
Democratic candidates for the Presidency
are now very scarce in fact, that not sol
itary one is to be had at any price. Has it
escaped the attention of the Banner that JOIN
C. BRECKENRIDGE is out for the Presidency
Is the Banner ignorant of the fact that STE
PHEN A. DOUGLAS is also in the field Is not
the Union and American now degoting the best
energies of its nature to the work of show
ing that BRECKENRIDGE is a most remarkably
regular Democratic candidate for the office p
and is it not currently reported in politics
circles that new daily paper is to break out
in this community next Monday evening for
the express purpose of proving, beyond all
caviI or controversy, that DOUGLAS is one of
the most thoroughly regular Democratic can
didates known to either ancient or modern
history ( These are stubborn facts, and we
mouth of Hog Alley to controvert them
They can't be controverted. They are as i'm
pregnable to the Banners logic as is Gibrai
tar to musketry, or as that olden citadel of
which the poet sings:
ssFuH many a vanished year aud age,
And blitle,s breath and tempest's rage,
Have swept DER Corinth, yet she stands
fortress formed by natures hands, --
and so forth, and so forth. Then it would
seem that there are two regular Democratic
candidates for The Presidency in the field
III there are not, either the friends of Mr..
DOUGLAS or the friends of Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE,
are endeavoring to cram very absurd tory
down the threats of the people, and it is the
duty of somebody to sue out writ of injunc-
ton and have the thing stopped. But no
matter Let the examining go on. The peo-
pie have gone into a committee of the whole
for the purpose of investigating this Presi-
Dental question. and when they shall have
made their report at the ballot-box
in November, it will be found that
of all the candidates in the field, JOHN BELL is
alone regarded as sufficiently regular in
nomination, principles, craftsmanship and
conservatism to win the confidence of every
section of the Union, and that for these vir-
tues, so grandly prominent in him and so ut
terly wanting in all others, he has been
called to the chair which WASHINGTON
adorned and BUCHANAN disgraces. II
The Gazehe.-Did anybody in this town
ever see one of the editors of the Gazdte
without a cigar or quarter of a plug of
tobacco in his mouth? If there is such
mar, we will agree to owe him reward of
six and a fourth cents, in corporation bonds,
or in cash, payable in four semi-annual in
stalments, if he will come forward and make
himself known by 9 O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing. No such man lives; or if he does, he
emigrated to California many years ago, and
has never returned. And yet, the Gazette
quotes .Dr. SoLLY, an eminent English physi-
olgist, and the author of an excellent work
upon the brain,' to prove that smoking is
most noAious habit" and that chewing is mt
a whit better. mo man in Great Britain is
so competent to speak on this subject as DR..
SoLLY," says our contemporary, whose long
and intimate acquaintance with the learned
Doctor enables him to speak by the card,
"and it is strange that so many young men
at the present day should indulge in this per-
nicious habit fsmoking tobacco" Hpractice
were attended with as little trouble and in
convenience as preaching, the Millennium had
come many years ago. The Gazette must it.
self first quit the use of the weed before 1t
can hope to prevail upon Others to do so.
For our part, we won't take anybody's adj
vice when he won't take it himself. We lis
ten with a fearful eye and subdued heart TO
the minister of the Gospel who
Lures 10 brighter worlds and Lads the way
but We have no patience with him who,
pointing over his shoulder, directs US TO
heaven while he himself passes us by and
goes on to the devil. And if the Gazette
don't want us to invest all our loose change
(Which amounts to very large sum- in
meerschaum and kinnikiuniek, it must first
smash its own pipes, and then bring around
its ''Dr. Solly" with his lectures on the evil
effects of tobacco. Speaking of the way in
which Mr. SEWARD was defeated at CHICAGO
and ABE LINCOLN put up for the Presidency,
the GossHe says, "Gentlemen who have ca
pacity to appreciate an able statesman, are
not likely to yield much admiration or sup
port to one whose chief claims are founded
upon pile of split rails" If the Gazeae
have any rails that are not ''split," we would
ike to procure enough to fence in a tea-acre
lot.
The Union.-Neyer since the invention of
parties was ever any party SO 'hard up for
soapn as are the BRECKENRIDGE Democracy at
this good hour. They are making the most