Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-02
The City Press

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Medicine and the brillianitTiumphs of Sur
| gerry, our contemporary of The Gazette turns
| to the sweeter atmosphere OF Geography
/ He writes an article on 'Ruatas. which of
| late" he says, .has been attracting much at
| teution, from its recent invasion by the fill
busters under Waikiki" He describes thr
island. That description we would give here,
hut having forwarded il to Mr.. MITCHELL To
be- pnt in the next edition Of his Geography,
We don't like TO injure the sale of the work
By giving its contents to the world in advance.
TIL Gazette then goes on to tell Us about "a
Royal KI~s.'-a kiss given a barber's wife in
New York by the Prince oil Wales. afterward
William The Fourth. for which his Royal
HighDess got kicked INTO the STR, ct; also
about How GaribAldI Dresses or rather
what sort If cluIhes he has on alter be la
dressed. Very little editorial matter hath
this u,ambpr of The Gazetis aud with this bri (
reference TO what il has got. We drop it, and
tur to
Tie BanRer- Which has leading article on
fine August Elections in North CarUliua,
Kentucky aud Missouri" We give the cnIct
facts of the article. The election for Cover.
Gur in North Carolina comes IF to-day. The
| Candidates are POOLE, (Union), and ELLIS,
(Breckinridge Democrat.) In Kentucky the
election is for Clerk of The Court OF Appeals,
and will be held on the 9th. Gen. LESLIE
Combs, (Uuion), MCCLARTY, (Breckingridge,
| DemUcrat), Boiling, douglas DrmOcraU),
! aud HOPKINS. Independently, are the candi
| dates. G. n. COMBS has the inside track. and
! %ill doubtless win the race On The 9th
| Missouri also votes for Governor, and ioT
| members of Congress and OF the l. gislaiurs.
| The candidates for Governor are ORR. Gun
ion) c. f JACKSON, douglas Democracy, ii
jackson, breckenridge Democracy. and GAR
DENHIRE, (Rtpublican) The Banner cal Is
upon its readers 10 Look Sharp" People
| may look sharp this hot weather if they
| choose, but they must feel most cOnfoCnde'il-
| ly dull, lei them look as they will. We new
| er felt duller in our lives than we do tO-da
| and we could Mt be hired TO write a two
column article for all the mon the Admin
| istraton has stolen within the last tire {
months. II would make US immensely riclI,
We know but we would rather be
Doomed Perjury barren isle to roam,
Scorned by the world and left without home
than BE- forced to work when the pen feels rs
heavy as q crow-bar, as it does to-day. If
the hand which created all things-whi: h
made this rugged world of ours, and arrange d
its economy and its ways-had so contrive d
il that lying in the shade with cigar lin
your mouth making love to the girls in bo.u-
doir and bower, reading romances and p'se-
try, and doing nothing particularly all the
year round. were the most profitable busin ess
u man could follow. earth would be a pa ra-
disc with 70 forbidden fruit, and we woI aid
all have a good time generally. But it Fas
otherwise ordered, aud such of us as IRE
net born to an inheritance in ''the gay sun ny
vaIl u-hsrp fnrtnne Hnwers.n must do She
best we can under the circumstances. Gun ~
ling ourselv with the ref ction that,
Prom labor health from health contentment sprnt 5
The Union and An,ertcdn.-Oar Brcckau-
ridrc-Demo ratio contemporary refers to
The Bqlner's article touc hing Gov. AR
KIs' late speech at Murfreesboro, and 'oe'
off on the subj CT of u Gag Law which
il saws Mr.. BELL favored. That "Gng La w
was intended to prevent Fderal ofiice-ii ol
ders from corruptlv intermeadiing In ei'ec'
lions.
So far as we are personally concerned w
think n Law t. crush that evil would be LII
best law that Could be devised. and II MI
BELL will get one up and have il passed 'an'
onfurced. we'll vote for him twice. LII III
right of suffTage had been exercised IN IN
| time of MOSES. tb, re would have be ela W.
commandments given to the children OF lsi ae
not the least OF which would have been OH
bearing o striking resemblance to the '-sI'
Law which Mr. BELL is said 10 have I'd VOL
ed" But had such law b, en- pa use
twenty years ago. the Democratic part
would now he as dead as the mummy belong
ing to III. Historical Society, or as any Q the
mummy that
'-wiiked alb ut-how strange story
In Thebes' It Get three thousand years ago,
When The Memnonium was 10 al its glory,
And tms had not began 10 overthrow
| Tao e ton Hes, lowers and palaces stupen dous,
or which the very ruins tremendous
and it is therefore not strange that the Demo
cracy are opposed to such law. The col
rupt intermeddling of Federal office-hoidel
in elections has for years been that party
chief element Of success, and had thai inte
m ddIing been put down by law, the part
would have been crushed loug ago. Whe
party becomes so corrupt. and SO lost
every sence of shame, thsf it plumbers th