New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-19
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Douglas Ratification meeting in this city
takes place to-nightin Canal street, the Clay
monument. Hon. John Forsyth, of Mobile, is
expected to be present, in addition to Mr.. Soule,
Mr.. Dufour, and other speakers, who have already
been advertised. he Breckenridge Ratification
meeting, the Courier says, will be held on next
Saturday night, the 21st
X DEMocRATs FOR BELL. The Philadelphia Moni-
tor says:
This week good work is begun in Philadel-
phia-a Union Club of Democrats. and before the
ides of August this Club will be q legion of not
less than eight thousand effective Bell and Everett
Democratic voters
A Washington correspondent of Northern
paper states that the letter OF Hon. Miles Taylor,
Chairman of the Douglas National Committee,
repudatng any coalition with the Breckenridge
men ia Tie support Of common electoral tickets in
the different States, was agreed on after full
conference with Judge Douglas and his frends.,'
Hon. Richard Yaux, of Philadelphia, one of the
electors ut large on the Pennsylvania Democratic
ticket, declines to accept the proposition to vote
either for Breckenridge or Douglas, as may appear
best after the election. He is straghtout for
| Douglas.
4 Hon John 8. Davis, OF Indiana, is talked of as
| candidate for Congress from New Albany district.
| IN speech delivered at New Albany ON the 9Th,
| he declared himself favorable to the election of
Messrs. Bell and Everett.
1 The Nashville Banner, speaking Of the declara-
| ton Of Hon. G. W. Jones for Douglas and johnson,
| says George W. Jones is probably the most in
huental, and certainly of the ablest Democrats
| in Tennessee. He was President of the last Demo-
| cratic State Convention which sent delegates to
| Charleston. His voice will be potent with the
Democratic masses In Tennessee His own county,
/ Lincoln. has long been the Democratic strong
4 hold In Tennessee, rolling up its twenty-five hun
bred majority for that party.
/ There are now five candidates for Governor Of
Missouri, for the election August 9Th Hancock
Jackson seceder; Claiborne f. jackson, National
i Douglas Democrat; james B. Gardner Tor Gar
\ denhirel Black Republican; Robert Wilson, Bell
and Everett ticket, and Semple Orr, lndepend.
ent opposition
j Hon. MILES TAyLoR.-The Memphis Appeal says:
We had the pleasure Of visit day or two
A since from this distinguished statesman, now
Representative to Congress from Louisiana. He was
en- route TO his plantation in Louisiana, to remain
/ there few days and then return to Washington
city and enter upon his labors as chairman of the
Central Committee Of the National Democratic
"A organization. He expressed the confident BELIZE
that Louisiana would cast her electoral vote fol
i Douglas and johnson. The intelligence he brings
from the North and Northwest is equally enconr
aging.
j Jusr AND MAsLy.The Brunswick Georgia,
\! Advocate--a Democratic paper-thus speaks o
i Messrs. Bell and Everett
OF the I. Constitutional Union . party and thei
candidates, Messrs. Bell and Everett, we hay,
4 nothing derogatory to say. We believe the inten
\ tions d the party good, their motives patriotic
and their candidates good men and true. III,
South. in our Judgment, has nothing to fear eitht
from he Unconstitutional Union y party or thei
candidates, as is clearly eyiDced by The published
\ proceedings o immense gatherings OF the party
ia the Narthern States, and the Known patrot,
Conservatism of MessFs. Bell and Everett. How
ever. with the lights before US, shall NOT supper
those gentlemen; but justice aud candor reqBre
that ne should say what we have said respecting
them. tie thai finds fault with the friends of Tho
South for the purpose of securing a mere party
triumph. is 10 pasriot nor friend % the South.
Hsa Hirsm Warner, a former member of Con
gress from Georgia. and leading Democrat, has
declared for Douglas.
! No FUSION correspondent Of the New Yorl
Times. writing from Baltimore. says:
50 far az can judge and learn from responsible