Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-04
The city press.

The City Press.
The Nesrs.--The leading article in the Meas
is provoked by the recent Special Message
of The President. ave confess" says our
neigbbor, "ihaf, after carefully reading this
extraordinary paper, We were at loss TO
understand what precise point the President
was driving at" We were at no such loss.
We understood the point before we got half
through the message. You see. Dir. CovoDE
says the President has been guilty Of eorrnpt
practices. not to say ungentlemanly conduct,
and asks Congress to turn out and look into
the thing: whereupon. OLD Buck takes up a
notion that Mr.. COvODE means to have him
impeached, and being rather inclined to be-
Iieve that Mr.. CovODE has the evidence to
carry an impeachment through, be sits down
and writes special message, aud sends it
into the House of Representatives, with ac-
companying documents, re questiug Mr.. Co.
voDE TO quit. That's the "precise point" the
President was driving at; but as he went
along be made several other points: among
them, that be has gray hairs and ought to be
let alone: that be defies Mr.. CovoDE to have
iDptaOuNHs out nOuiA ldtuSi hS nOOihh
attempt il: that he is about to retire .'voluD-
tarily" to the shades of private life-meaning
of coure that he is voluntarily going back
TO Wheatland because be involunarily can't
help it: And so forth. OLD Buck attempts
TO come the bluffgame over Mr. CovoDE.
Let's see if that individual is going to be
scared off. We don't know how he would
succeed in an attempt to impeach the Presi-
don't; but if for impeach be will substitute
peach and honey, he can carry it through
Congress without dissenting voice, or, as
they say in the classics, neraine dissentiente.
The Local of the Ne,cs writes an article on
California Beer. But he does MT like the
beverage at ALL As be seldom drinks any
thing stronger than French brandy, we did
MT much expect he would.
The BdnHer.-The Banner has an article in
reply to the St. Louis Aeaos, paper that
comes out square and fat-footed for Mr..
BATES, aud publishes the testimony in the
great CARsTANG and SHAW one hundred thou.
saud dollar breach of promise case, which has
been decided this time in favor of the faith
less SHAW. and poor, dear EFFIE has been
cruelty run to the trouble and expense of a
courtship and a double-jOinted lawsuit all
for nothing but reputation that may only
serve to illustrate the adage that when we
go to law for damages, We seldom fail to get
tbem-square aud fiat-iooted for Mr.. BATES,
as we were going on to state when accident
ally switched off on to the breach of promise
case. and asks its Memphis and Nashville
friends for certain Information touching the
Southern Opposition, Squatter Sovereignty,
the Charleston Convention, and the platform
of Mr.. BATES. With a spirit of courtesy and
accommodation characteristic of the craft, the
Bqnner furnishes the desired Information free
of cost We are glad to see JOHN HAPPY in
the local Banner again. But we regret TO say
that he is standing on the verge of an early
| grave. Or the poet elOquently remarks:
''On Jordan's stormy banks he stands,
And soon must cease to linger here,
And float away to other lands,
In seas Of California Beer.''
JOIN HAPPY has committed the indiscretion
of eating batter-cakes in which an insurrec-
tiOnary movement had been created by that
OsSAwATToNIE of the bread-tray, California
yeast; particle has adhered TO the coat OF
the stomach, has grown to be a mass as large
as a tun of wool. and he now looks like the
great Tippecanoe ball OF 1910 standing on
couple of champagne bottles. When last
heard from he was bunting up vacant for
ty-acre lot in which to go on with his rising.
The Gazette.-The most important announce
ment that has been made in this country since
| it was announced that England was coming
over TO thrash the Declaration of Indepen-
dence out of us, is that made by the Gazette.
We of course aliude to the announcement
that Ho,reH Cobb WITHDRAWSi Excuse us
| for momeut-we retire to drown ourselves
in regretful tears.
| s'Tears idle tears, know no what they mean
Tears from the depths of some divine despair"
| But we know too we'll what these tears mean:
they mean that HOWELL has played the deuce
| aud left the country desolate. Look around
you, and tell US where is the man who is
worthy to catch and wear the descending
mantle of the Sage of Wheatland, now that
HOWELL las jumped from under il. What
in the world could have Induced HOWELL TO
do so?
The Union.-An abolition Movement in
| Congress" absorbs the first quarter-section of
the Un,on's editorial space, aud "A Tempting
! Ofer' of some sort the next. In the second
column appear two correspondents who are
! engaged in the business OF bolstering up
| Gov. JuHNsoNs chances for the Presidency.
''They have Post Mistress ia Surrey, Maine, I"
says the Upian, "who is a good Democrat as
in the name of all that is prompt and faith
full, let the Administration turn out one half
its pos,masters and put post mistresses in
their places.