New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-31
PoI.ITIcAL ITEMS.
4 correspondent at Baton Rouge sends Us the

A correspondent at Baton Rouge sends us the
following:
- BAroN RoueE,. August g, 1860
Ed. Cfeseeit-The friends Of Bell and Everett
| had demonstration here on Saturday last which
| tOr numbers, enthusiasm and order. has not been
surpassed during the present campaign Messrs L.
Madison Day, Blocker and Jonas, of your city, and
MIR. ]. @. Fuqua, of our District, addressed the
meeting, and held the audience entertained for
over three hours. / need not refer to the eIo.
quence and nnanswefable arguments of your
| orators, nor the sarcasm and telling hits Of our
Eector Suffice IL to say that the meeting adj
| jonrned with increased strength for the Union
/ cause.
East Baton Rouge will join the swelling army Of
| the supporters Of Bell and Everett, and give a
| good account Of herself in November next, not.
wlthstandng the misrepresentation and sarcasms
OF the Opposition party We have one club in
active operation and another about organizing,
and Parish Executive Committee thoroughly
organized. The country will actively support
our city co-laborers in great and glorious cause
when the ballot.box is opened for the showing Of
their.strenlgth. e
Yours, etc. BATON ROUGE.
Referring to the same meeting the Baton Rouge
Gazette says:
In talking Of chances, Mr.. Blocker was heard to
say, Messrs. Breekinridge and Douglas stand no
more chance Of election than 4. c. b., Represent
atlve IN Congress, does of passing the gate where
Peter stands as porter. Mr.. Blocker forgets that
there are more ways than one. There IS such a
d.,
get admission when he knocks there win be a tent
on the outside and he and his boys will hold d
pfptracted camp meeting there. This is as good
q place as any other TO lug this in. We shall never
say another word in favor of d. politically until he
sends us the first volume of the Mexican boundary
report. of which we are indebted to him for The
second.
One fact was very evident to the most obtnse on
Jae J Boulevard Saturday night, viz: the heart of
Red Stick is in the right place on the Union oues
ton, 1t matters not who wins.
The st. Louis News, speculating upon The resnlt
of the election says
II is an important fact that Bell and Everett are
the second choice of both the Douglas Democrats
and the Breckenridge Democrats, because as
neitner Douglas nor breckenridge can possibly be
escsea, 1hef lninence IN the emergency likely to
ARISE VIII assuredly be thrown in favor of the
Union candidate, to insure the defeat Of the sec
tlona Republican ticket. Bell and Everett will |
pfohsapiy carry. every Southern State but South
those States, when they find that Brecknridee can.
net, by any possible chances be elected, viii, at
the last moment, vote for the Union canddates
Dougas will, perhaps, carry Illinois, and the unit
York. ~"
CoLD CoAFoRr.-The New York journal Of Com. |
nerce, Breckenridge paper, publishes the follow I
ing letter among its correspondence:
Memphis, Aug. H. 1860 -Messrs Editors: Those
who give the South to any Democratic candidate
deceive themselves. There are single
counties in Tennessee which viii give Douglas
rlrd at least Of tho entire Democratic majority OF
he slate--and what is true in Tennessee will hold
good to some extent in every Southern State, espe
,saie a9 Of NE large ones. Many, very many Of
our people think Judge Douglas has been badly
.reated by the seeeders, and yoa may rest assured
o. I what a, zen yoa (and | am lifelong Demo.
sFas) That the South viii go nearly in body for
l5ei and Everett il the present position Of affairs
continues, which have no reason 70 doubt will be
the case. 1s.' y 'sou2s % ~ 'e
say this more in sorrow than in a snirit of eon.
and being an old subscriber, take the
Ihe New York Herald saws;
ING political fight, which up to this time an.
Reafsc 70 be . quadrangnlar one batwean III
Ioreea oi Lincoln, Bell, Douglas and Breckinridss