UV Hi W. BOWIIAY.
>EW SERIES.
Select poetry-
The Angels in the House.
r.V *• B. U.I) II IE 11.
jee pair* of dimpled arm*, as white as snow,
|M<I ire in *olt embrace:
Turf-little rlieeß.*, like velvet peaches soft,
Weie piuced ugnu.st my lace.
lbrP P tiny pairs of eve*. *o clear, so deep,
Looked up in mine this even ;
Three pair* ot lip* kis-e.i me a sweet 'good night,'
Three little forms from heaven !
. V,. well that little ones' should love us;
It lights our fate when dim.
TO know ol:CP °" r avlour them
Bring 'little ones' to Lirn !
MiiJhs not, 'Of such is heaven,' and blessed them,
And held them to hi* breast
iveet to know that when they leave os,
Tis there they go to rest (
, 1 yet. ye tiny angels'of my house !
Three hearts etica*ed in mine '
II 'twould ho shattered, if the Lord should say,
■ i hese angels aje not thine
Till: TIMES.
Oh! '1 ime has hurried mp swiftly on
L'pon Life's rapid river.
And scenes of pleasure and childish joy
1 now have, left forever.
I've roamed afar from my olden home,
I've tieen in cot and palace,
I'vej.Mted the dance, and, in witching song,
Tie quaffed the ri>*y chalice.
J've stopped in beauty'* glittering bower,
Af 1 n it het chain- around me,
Ai 1 1 binil'd a. Fortune horo me.on
the ?r<insiefit spell that biititid me.
liui .l emuiv oft t * flitting hack
i'i the hour* of childhood ;
[ *igh fur friends ol the olden lime,
1 . ■ l utlage and the wild wood.
i n 'hoiking oft, ai the sunlight hour,
(): hallow'd tie- now broken;
thin I recall the parting scene,
l\ i en >ad adieus were spoken.
I think how, over some humble graves,
S.ieet to.e* now are blowing ;
Am! :u Ahe walk* by the brooklet's side,
The wild, rank weed* are growing.
in droit iris I pictured a happy band
Around the fireside sitting.
My father there with his pipe of clay.
My mother with her knitting,
.Mr sisler* playing in pleasure pure,
tiay peals of laughter ringing,
The house-cat stretched on the glowing hearth,
The kettle gaily singing.
lint death has despoiled my old home—
Those gav hours have departed,
And now 1 mam m this 'riendle-s world
An orphan, broken-hearted.
In my lonely wav 1 -ometime.* pause
Ami court the bright idea :
But hope never pictures a scene so fair,
"HI pure, a- the olden real.
Yttrlh Carolina.
.in J uteri can Heart. — Where is th'-re a pur
or nobler, or a more intense American heart
tun in North Carolina, among the honest lar
ii"is til ilte country ? Where does the fire ot a
' irer Americanism bui n brighter than in old
.Mi-rklenburjs, the verv cradle of independence,
how has she recorded her verdict ! By an
leased majority lor Burton Craige, an.an
•tdi u It-art big enough f<>r hutnanity a genu
. libera!, unproscriptive American heait:
- i a heart a* throbs freely, generously, Idr all
id. i* true and right, untramnu lied by petty
pf indices.
i re are not five hundred foreign and Catli
;c voters in the State, and the majority tor the
cra'ic party as shown by the rec nt \<te,
Ii- it seven thousand. Even supposing that
•very l reign-liorn citizen, every Cattjplic citi
in '•!■" State voted tor the anti-Know-Noth
gcaiiuiriates, there still remains a clear rnajori
! sixty five hundred native born Protestant
'• ns against the party which arrogates to it
• xrli.sive appellation of "American."—
• i* it not an insult to the people of North
ma lor a deh-ated minoritv to stamp the
it ngpnity of their native-born Protestant
or-citizens as "anli-Amei ican ?" Shall a
:i d, nounce the people of the good Old-"
-State as "anti-American," as the "foreign
: ' atholic party ?" Is the verdict of North
•ia nothing? Is the solemnly-recorded
t n vast majority of native-born Protest
citizens nothing? Has not the State spoken,
15 she not American ? Is North Carolina a
: "'- u or a Catholic State ?
I. u- long j s thi s insulting trumpery to be
■_-wi red in ? How long is it to be endured?
•fig will the respectable members even of
:: '.v sustain their organs in such arrogant
■ vase ?—lf ilming/on Journal.
Y '' 'NO A PREVENTIVE OF YELLOW FEVER. —
"•['undent of the Norfolk Herald suggests
■ gtiauo be tested as a preventive of yellow
• He gives the following as the reason of
' --'Mian:—l take leave now to slate a
was related to me by Capt. H. H.
• 'I ' ~ s> ' - Vav .v, whilst he was in command
1 ' j", s '° St. Louis, on the coast of
curing the awful rage of yellow fever
' 5 me - Vt * ars hack. He stated to trie that
l 's °f the merchant vessels were swept
kitti' ' U0 * ?ave Louis, shared the
d! j' a!u ' she, if my memory holds good,
l; , U ' j' a s<H, i- I his he attributed solely
' : '■ ity of guano he had purchased for his
„ Is an experiment, when he returned
;'"' rp wa- > not more than one or two
j ' '*• am ' s "ch was his faith in it, as a
n, o \ tliat h- had it sifted about on the
Wfth deck of the ship.
YORK (OOTY.
j CI7" The Democrat* of York County, ut their Cou
i venlion, last week, nominated one of the best tickets
J ever selected in that County. Their pledge will lie
: found ill the following card :
The undersigned, candidates nominated by
the Democratic. Convention of York county, do
! hereby solemnly declare, and to this declaration
fdedge our sacred honors, that we are not mem
iieis of the Know-Nothing order, or of any other
political organization except the Democratic
party, to which alone we belong—and that we
i will not, during the term for which we mav be
j elected, attach ourselves to anv political parly
| out-side of the Democratic partv, and u ill faith
fully conform to its usages in any position in
which we may he placed. Those of us who
I are nominated for Senator and Representatives
!do especially pledge our sacred honor, that we
I will unite with and be governed bv Democratic
legislative caucuses, and give our hearty, euru
! est, and so far as in us lies, effective support to
j the nnmiees of such Democratic caucuses—and
further, that we will leave no means, fair and
honorable, untried, to procure the repeal of the
j liquor Jaw passed last winter, commonly known
as the "jug law."
\V. 11. WELSH,
SAM TEL MAN EE R,
ISAAC BECK,
.JAMES RAMSEY,
A. (I. BLACKFORD,
A. WENTZ,
A NTH ON Y DRESSENBERG.
JOHN RIEMAN,
KILL!AN SMALL.
Old .Mother Cumberland.
Ciy"The Democrats of this County al*o_made their
j nomination* last week, having selected for their caii
: didates the very he*t men in their ranks. The. fol
i lowing is a portion of their resolutions:
Resolvi d, That the passage of the law by the
ia*f legislature, commonlv known as the "jug
law," is calculated to increase rather than abate
the evils of intemperance. Alter the people
had decided against prohibition, it was a stretch
. .f pou-er in the Legislature to disregard the peo
ple's pinion: and, whilst we most earnestly ap
prove of temperance and sobrietv, we are at the
.-..one time opposed to the "jug law." and think
said law should he w ip.-d from the stutue
■ books.
Resolved, That we hail with hope and' joy
j tlie- recent brilliant victories of" the Democratic
partv in the States t f Virginia, Tennessee, N.
(Carolina, Alabama, lowa and Texas, believing
thai these overwhelming victories are but a pre
; hide ol others soon to be achieved in our own
j and other States.
Resolved, That we continue to have undi
, minished confidence in the patriotism, integri
ty and Democracy of President Pierce and those
i composing hi* administration. The economical
j manner he has conducted the affairs ofgovrrn
j merit since his induction into office, is evidence
j of his sagacity and statesmanship.
Resolved, That the act of our last State Leg
! islature, increasing the members' pay from 300
to §3OO for the session, was an outrage upon
! the people, and as dishonest as it was outrage
ous. We demand the repeal of said acf, and, in
j the event of the election of Messrs. Harper ec
Anderson, instruct I hem to vote for its repeal.—
None but Know Nothing legislators would ever
have dared thus to attempt to rob the people.
Resolved, That we urge upon our Democra
tic brethren of this county, the importance and
necessity of an eatly organization. To oppose
successfully a party (hat concerts its schemes in
; the dark and burrows under the earth, we must
be lully organized, and prepared to stand shoul
der to shoulder in defence of the Constitution
and law s.
ResMved, That we have full confidence in
the Democratic nominee for Canal Commission-j
j er. the Hon. Arnold Blumer, and shall yield i
; him our hearty support.
j .!
7'tn: K. N. TICKET. —The representatives of j
the different K. N. Councils, met in secret con- j
clave at Hnrrisonvilie, i ■ Friday last, and pla
ted the following Ticket in nomination :
ASSEMBLY WRN. W. KIRK, of Bethel.
Commissioner — J. B. ALEXANDER, Wells.
Auditor—Jon FISHER, Bethel.
If the gentlemen accept the empty honor ol j
being defeated by the Democracy this fall, we ;
shall have something, to say of each of fh<-u:.— '
• Messrs. Kirk and Fisher have heretofore be
' longed to the Democratic Party, and by their.
nomination hv the Know-Nothings it is sought j
i to break down and divide the parts in old Beth- ;
ej. We as- ure our Know-Nollnng friends that ;
they are slightly mistaken in their calculations j
—the sterling Democracy of IK-thel will not ;
sell their birthright for a 'mess of pottage.' Mr. j
Kirk is by far the most unpopular and obnoxious
man in the Township, and bus repeatedly been
defeated for small township offices. He will
be most soundly 11) cashed at home in the [.re
sent canvas*. He has for years been a stand-j
ing candidate lor office, and having been dis
j appointed he seeks to vent his spleen on his
former friends. We are sorry for the man, and
; are satisfied that he will live to regret his. pre
sent conduct. His apostacy will not break
■ down the Democratic. Party—he cannot injure
it, but will rather add strength to it, by leav
ing it—but it will most effectually and certain
jly use him. up. Mark our words!
The true Democracy of this County have
been fighting RENEGADES for some years,
and have have always signally triumphed, as
! they will over this unholy combination.
P. S. We have been informed that Mr. Fish
er was nominated without I;is knowledge or
consent, and that he has no fellowship with the
woman-burning crew. We hope for his sake
that this is true.— Fulton Democrat.
• A Shark upwards of seven feet long and
weighing between three and four hundred
pounds, was caught in tfi" lower Bay of New
i ork on Saturday last.
From the Raleigh Standard.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Never has the democratic party occupied so
proud and so reponsible a position as at present.
Great in its principles, great in its actions, and
great in its results, it has heretofore been called
1 to battle against an open, bold, and independent
1 enemy, and one that claimed its respect; but
now it i* opposed by a party (if we may call it
a party) that attempt to overthrow the freedom
' of the elective franchise, and hind us deluded
victims by solemn oaths to become the slaves of
its leaders—a party that aims to subvert religi
ous as well as political freedom, and to set up
in their stead bigotry and intolerance, thus flv
-1 ing full in the tace of the constitution and total
-1 ly disregarding that instrument, the very lileof
' the I'riion, and without which the I nicn
would he a burden ami a curse—a party that
makes falsehood, prevarication, and deception
tiie chief requisites for membership, and lays its
' I very foundations in the exclusion of truth—a
| party that appeals only to the prejudices and
evil passions of our nature, and has not one en
nobling quality in its whole composition—a par
ity secret in its oppositions, concocting its
schemes in the night, thoroughly organized arid
powerful for evil, guided as it is by uuscrupu- i
• lous, reckless, broken-down politicians and des
perate office-seekers, who have staked all their i
hopes ol personal aggrandizement in the move
ment, and would rather reign over the ruins of
our republic than serve in its entire fabric—a
partv whose members are fired by its leaders
j with a fanaticism such as disgraced mankind in j
the darkest period of the dark ages, and the re* (
suits ol Which have already begun to manifest#
themselves in bloody riots and devastating con
flagrations—a partv that has elevated none la
office in the free States but abolitionists of the
darkest dye, and has found its greatest strength
i:i the Slave States in the sections w here free
soil ism has taken root— a party that is one
thing in Massachusetts, another in Louisiana,
another in Georgia, and still another in North
Carolina, with as many shades and hues of col-j
oring as can be found between black and white,
and all united on but two points the ojficAt
, and the spoils.
j This i* the piebald, hybrid combination against
which tfie democratic [tarty is called to clo bat
tle fortlle preservation of our constitution and
! the right* guaranteed by it. We trust it will
he equal to the emergency, for we beli-we the:
hopes of liberty now hang u[>on it. A large.!
proportion of northern* democrats have a I way I*
been sound arid conservative, while northern :
• whigs (now know-nothing*) have long been rot-*
, ten to the core. Cur friends there have f •
i prnstrateilheneath the wheels of this worse than
Juggernaut car, hut they will rise again, and
j the "sober second thought" will unite with
them thousands of honest and duped men. We
do not believe that the indomitable democra
cy ot Pennsylvania and New Hampshire will
ever again he beaten down. Whiggery stun
' nui the ears of our people with a tornado of ex
citement in IS 10. and dazzled their eyes with
the glare of military glory in ISfS. ami in each
instance acquired u brief supremacy, more dis
astrous to it than its defeats. Thus w ill it he
with know-nothingism. Once in power, as in
Massachusetts, it will disgust all honest, liglit
! minded mm, and its very success will work its
j destruction.
j Do not dispairof the Fnion. Democracy ;
[ has placed it upon its foundations so firmly
that a short reign even of Know-Nofhiugistn
: cannot shake it from itsba-v. We hope never
j to see that reigrt—we believe we never shall see
' it; hut even if it comes, we shall not lose hope.
As in times of temporary defeat heretofore, the
democratic partv will rally with redoubled
strength to prop the totering edifice ofotir liber
, ties, and victory will again award its patriotism.
\ But now is the time to drive this deti-stahie ism
j from our midst. It sneaked among us and was
jin full vigor before we knew it < xisfed. It
came in the dark, arid cannot bear the light.—
j Already have Virginia, North Carolina, Alaba
: ma, and Tennessee d- alt it death blows. We
I believe it has received its dentil-wound, but it
will make a spasmodic effort next summer, and
we must prepare to meet it. From its past
course, we know it will stop at no means in the
future to accomplish ifs ends. Let us keep up ,
j our# organization—let us remain united and
i watch for and expose its trick*, and we shall
■ achieve a triumph which, in coming years, will
j make our children proud of their fathers.
Correspondence of the Carlisle \ olliliteer.
"Sam" Killed in Siiitipettshiirjr.
Suiri'ENsM'Ro, Aug. 20.
F.J. of Volunteer —ln March last the Know-
Nothings carried this Borough by an average'
majority of 23 votes, and elected a Tow n Coun
cil that was very unpopular outside of the or
der. Five mouths experience under our new
rulers did not change public opinion, but seem
ed rather to intensity our hostility to their
measures; so that when a vacancy occured in
i Council the Citizens were anxious lor another j
j coqlest: On Tuesday last a special election
j took place, which was entered iutrf with all the ;
I warmth and bitterness that usually character
> ize local elections.
The Whigs and Democrats went cordially to
j work with a "fusion ticket," and defeated
i "NV/OT" hv a majority of 13 votes ! The Know-
Nothings selected th' ir best man, and made a
j great display by nominating him in the public
square bv acclamation, amid loud cheering, and
the notes of a brass hand.
But "Nam" was sick. The older and more
I thoughtful members of the order would not
vote. It is more than probable many of these j
men will never vote the Know-Nothing ticket
again. The novelty ofthe thing has passed.—
The appeal to the religious passions and preju
dices ofthe people, by persons who falsely pro
fess to be very great patriots, is beginning to t
be understood, and will in time work its own
cure, by the withdrawal of many of their best
! members. The election of a member ol Coun-
. Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 31, 1853.
cil in Shippensbnrg is in itself a matter of but
little consequence, but "straws show which
way the wind blows."
SPECIAL ELECTION AT SINPPENSXCNO. —A
special election for a member of the Town
Council was held at Shippensbnrg on the 14-th
inst.. and resulted, after a warm contest, in the
election of John MeCurdy, Esq,, au" Irishman
by birth, by a majority 42 over his Know-Noth
j ing opponent. Shippensbnrg has heretofore
been one of Sam's strong-holds, but the election
jot Mr. MeC. lias considerable damaged Lis fu
ture prospects in that locality.— Carlisle Dern.
Attack by (allle on a Red Wagon.
Extract from one of Col. Claiborne's letters
from the pine woods of Mississippi, published in
the New Orleans Delta :
"I set.out for Augusta, howling merrily along
in a blood-red buggv. The road was beautiful,
roof'-d over with trees and vines, and the air
fragrant with the breath of flowers. There was
onlv onedrawback—the myriads ot flies of eve
rt' species that swarmed around and ravenously
1 cupped the blood from the ears, 4 neck, and
j flanks of my horse. It is what is appropriately
i termed heref'fly-timv :" that is to say, f he
j period when this-rwtnerous family of scourges
i have it all their'bwn way, and neither man nor
! beast can venture into tin* woods with impuni
ty. Now the "cattle from a thousand lulls,"
and even the wild deer, seek the abodes of men,
j and huddle around some sirnkit g pine, or stand
! in some open field to escape their periodical tor
mentors. On a sudden curve ofthe load, I
Hound myself in one ol these 'stamping grounds,'
and it-simultaneous roar from five hundred in
formed animals gave notice of mv danger. It
is ifSell-known that the Spanish maiadores pro
voke the wounded hulls ol the arena by flaunt
ing tfo- moleta or bi >od-red flag before them.—
; It was the color of my equipage that excited
• the bellowing herd. They snuffed the air,
i planted their heads near the ground, tore up
the earth with their hoofs and horns, and glared
at me with savage eves. The fierce phalanx
; blocked the road, and the part of discretion was
,to retreat. The moment I wheeled the pursuit
commenced. A cloud ot dust enveloped them,
and their trampling feet was like, the roii of
thunder. Mv horse dashed forward, frantic
with terror,and on they plunged, on every side
crushing down everything in their course, gor
ing and tumbling over each other, filling the
■ woods with th'-ir dreadful ctb* T and gathering
nearer and nearer in the fearful chase.
"The contest now became desperate. In five
rninuLs we should have been overturned and
trafhpTed to death : but at this juncture I threw
out mv overcoat, and, with an awful clamor,
they paused to tight over it, and tear it into
shreds. Driving at full speed, I tossed out a
cushion, the infuriated devils trampled it into
atoms, and came rushing on, their horns clash
ing against the bogy, and ri[ ping up the libs of
mv horse. At this fearful moment we were
providentially saved. A monstrous oak with
torlfed top, had fallen near the road, and into
this I plunged my horse breast bigh, and he
wa* safe, the hack ofthe buggy I g then the
only a.*>ailabie point. At this the whole col
umn made a dash, but I met the foremost with
six charges from a revolver : two bottle sof
Sewell Tavlor's best were shivered in their fa
ces ; next a cold turkey, and finally a bottle of
scotch snuff—the last shot in tin locker, 'ibis
did the business. Such a sneezing and bellow
ing was never heard before : arid the one that
got it put out with the whole troop at hi* heels,
circling round, scenting the Mood that had been
spilled, and shaking the earth with their thun
dering tramp. I was now fairly in for it, and
made up my mind to remain until sunset, when
thev would disperse, as in "fly time" cattle
graze at night. I was relieved, however, by
the approach of some cattle drivers, who, gallop
ing up on slfaggv but muscular horses, and with
whips twenty feet long, which tln v manage
with surprising dexterity, soonjdrove the herd
to their "cow pens," for the purpose of mark
ing and branding. This is done every year in
"fly time." The cattle ranging, scattered thir
ty IT. i!es around, are now easily found, collect
ed at their stamping grounds, and are driven to
a common pen or pond, where the respective
owners assemble and put their marks and brands
on the increase ofthe s.-.tson. I bus this Egyp
tian plague is turned to a useful purpose.
.ANECDOTE O) WE;;STI I:. —Among the many
anecdotes told of Mr. Webster, there is one
which though re-fleeting slightly upon bis neg
ligence of pecuniary matters, is still very Web
sterian in its wit:
On one occasion it is related that lie was the
guest ofthe Southern Senators and Representa
tives in the City of Washington, and they pass
ed many compliments on him, and alluded tre
quentlv to his being like the Southerners in his
habits and feeling, and that it was all an acci
dent that he uas born in New Hampshire. At
last Mr. Webster arose :
"Gentlemen," said he, "it has been stated
that I resemble the Southerners in many res
pect* —and T must confess that, now it lias been
mentioned, I think I do. The Southerners love
a good glass of wine—so do L fhis is one
thing in which I resemble the Southerners. —
The Southerners are also good judges of beauty,
and I v til again confess (hat 1 am a lover of the
beautiful. This makes two points of resem
blance: but there Is a third in which I more
closely resemble them. The Southerners, it is
said, never pay their debts, and the same has
been said of me. In those particulars, gentle
men, I feel I am like the Southerners. '
Shouts of laughter followed this sally of wit
and good humor.
CARRSED TIIE JOKE TOO FAR. —The Toronto
| (Canada) Patriot says :
"Two Americans, on Wednesday morning,
wishing to secure a free passage from London to
Niagara, received a small bounty, and enlisted
to serve in the Foreign Legion. I hev were
furnished with free tickets through to Niagara,
and immediately left on the cars for that place:
but the recruiting officer, bearing of their inten
tion to stop at Paris, take the Buffalo and Brant
fort lailway, and get their passage free to the
land of liberty, gave notice to the conductor by
telegraph to keeji an eye on the gentlemen.—
When at Paris they attempted to carry out their
designs but were arrested and carried on. Pro
bably they will see Sebastopol before they re
turn. They were respectable in appearance,
but carried the joke a leeile too far."
i
LOUISVILLE RIOTS.
From the Reading (iu/.ette arid Democrat.
M ; 'e have been permitted to copy tiie follow
ing extracts from a letter written by a gentle
man of tbis city, now travelling in the South,
who happened to be an eve-witness of the re
cent deplorable tragedy in Louisville. He re
lates some farts which have not been given in
the accounts heretofore published and as he is
an American, horn and bred, it may he taken
forgianted he d ies "nothing extenuate, or set
down aught in malice."
LOEISVILLE, Ivy., August Slh.
Tiiere are several tilings connected with the
Louisville riot, which I have to make you, and
vour (fiends acquainted with, before you can
understand it. The polls of the city were all
in the hands, that is. taken possession of, by the
K. N.'s from ti A. M. to 7 I'. M., and at each
poll from one to five hundred were stationed.
An American could walk the gauntlet without
molestation, bv taking a pistol or knife in hand,
and politelv Faring "Gentlemen, I am determin
ed to vote." It is said that about one hundred
Germans and Irish voted with arms in their
hands, or prepared with arms; this is about the
number that did vote; and the foreign vote is
more than one-third ol the whole. It, howev
er, a poor timid voter would come with his
white ticket, and no one to protect him, he was
sure to go away without his vote or perhaps his
life. What I mean hv the white and yellow
ticket i* this : The Democrats, as usual, printed
their tickets on uhite paper. The K, N.'s had
yellow paper, — a large ticket, and carried it in
their hands and on their hats. Some Democrats
and strangers carried vellow tickets to protect
ttieir persons. Last Spring the K. N. .* by a
similar vet tint so bold a move, carried the mu
nicipal Electi in. The Irish and Germans, who
then attempted to vote, were driven from polls
and a number seriously injured, and their hou
ses sacked. Since that time, a large number
of houses, in the upper and lower part of the
city, are fir renf. and rent cheap—the result ol
rioting last Spring. This spirit again began to
show itself more than six weeks ago. Germans
and Irish were beaten most cruelly when met
out ofthe citv, alone or with their u ives, drag
ged through hi icl.-pond*. and some have been
found dead. No droit, lam certain, has ever
been made, to bring those villains to punish
no nt. Geo. D. Prentice, with Wis Journal, has
been the prime mover and chief instrument in
tft is trageiiv. On the morning of the election,
he ii*i (I such language to his K. N. friends,
(already sufficiently excited and with the blood
of innocent women, whom they had shot and
stoned in tile German district a few nights be
fore) : "Go ahe-ad K. N.'s and raise as big a
storm as you ) lea*' .'"—"L<4 foreigners keep
the ir elbows to themselves to-day at the polls,'"
Kc. Kc. "Keep the Irish and Germans down.
Show them that Americans are determined to ;
ruie America."
Similar, v t more inflammatory and incen
diary articles appeared in i)i-< Journal through
out the canvass. Again, the mayor, council and
police, are oath-bound, ard Jure not even now
attempt to make an arrest, without it is a poor
foreigner. They have given comfort and aid
and have countenanced the mob-rule which
governed the citv, and disgraced the citizens too
long. It is as true as the sun shines at noon
day, that not a murder was committed yester
day in this town, but what has been perpetra
ted in the presence of a police officer, or the
victims' cry for help has been heard by them.
Early in the morning, there were several Ger
mans driven from the upper poll—first ward,
one of them killed, and one or two seriously
injured. The paitv of Germans afterwards re
treated into a Brewery near by, closely pur
sued by the mob. One ofthe Germans had a
gun, and fired (and I believe it so happened)
killed an innocent man. The Brewery was
surrounded—the torcfoapplied, and six or eight
perished In the flames. Several houses adjoin
ing were gutted, and all suuered to burn to the
ground. It is said, that some of the mob, had
casks of Ale or Beer sent to their hemes from
that tire. Doc-s the mayor or police not know
who thev are ? 'Fhis part of the day's tragedy
I did rrot see, hut received the above facts on
the spot, after the ruin had been made complete.
Immediately after tLis fight, the cry of fire, re
ports of fire-arms, and dense crowds, became
quite general along Jefferson si. from one end
to the other. The mayor and his rnarshall I
saw several times driving from one poll to the
other in a buggy, hurraing for the second ward,
and saying, "That they were doing it up brown,"
and so they did ; for every foreigner had to tiv
the course. Soon after, there was a cold blood
ed murder committed at the Court House, in
the verv centre of the cit v, and within a short
distance of the mayor's office. Tdo not know
whether he was a German or Native, but I am
certain that he had not the yellow ticket. The
disgraceful pursuit commenced a short distance
from the [.lace of rioting. About twenty
followed him first with stones, then fired sever
al shots. The poor fellow staggered and retrea
ted under the K. N. speaking stand, in the
Court House yard. 1 thought lie was safe there,
hut all would not do. He covered his face with
his hands and begged for God's sake to save him,
hut the oath required it, and they mailed up his
In nd, and not satisfied with thai, a fend came
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with a pitch-fork and ran it inlo his stomach.—
This fiend afterwards paraded up and down the
Court House yard, with his pitch-fork shoul
der-arms for nearly one hour until his services
were required elsewhere. Do the city authori
ties not know who they are? I cannot give
you all the incidents that happened, and that 1
saw during the afternoon. Toward evening
they moved down to Chapel and Market street.
An Irishman kept a grocery, and his house had
a triangle maiked with chalk on it. They gut
ted his house completely, divided the liquor,
cigars and tobacco, & threw him out of his house
with such violence as to injure him fatally.—
Alter they had completed t-he destruction ot
furniture and windows, they sent him to jail to
make it appear that he was the guilty party. —
He died in jail last night. From thete they
gathered around a Mr. Quid's, one square be
low on Main street. Mr. Qoin has always
been called a peaceable, good citizen —he was
worth about SIOO,OOO. He had several fine
three-story houses, and had Irish tenants in
them. When the crowd collected, they knew
what would come next. An Irishman (perhaps)
imprudently fired, and a man fell in the crowd.
If they had not fired, I think the result would
have been the same. Near 7 o'clock, they fired
the house in different places. They stood guard
("L-t none but Americans stand guard to
night !") so that none of the inmates of the large
house could escape. The 10 or 12 two-story
houses adjoining in the block, were all entered
and women and children and furniture, promis
cuously dashed out of doors and windows. The
men had to fly in this part of the block as best
they could. A poor Irish woman was lamen
ting the loss of one of her children : several ot
us tried to find it for her. Just as I was going
near the house Mr. Quin lived in, two men,
dressed in female apparel, to avoid detection,
c ame out of the house (the greater part ot the
house was then on fire) to make their escape.
Both were recognized and both shot dead not
far from where I stood. Mr. Quin then tried
to make his escape, hut was shot and thrown
back into the flames, and suffered to remain
there until his body was nearly consumed. On
the other wing of the house, a woman tried to
save her husband by rolling him into a leather
bed, and another woman helped to remove him
from the house. They discovered the trick, and
then the devils took hirn and hanged him : they
then took one out of a house on the opposite side
of the street, and hanged him too, and applied
the torch to his house. Several more* were kill
ed—some said burned up, not permitted to leave
their houses. There were 12 or 14 houses de
stroyed in this district. They had a twelve
pounder standing in the street, and 12 or l.">
with muskets marching up and down the street
—some said the mayor sent the "Guards" there
to keep the peace. I hope it is not so. At
about 12 o'ciock or midnight, two fires were
kindled in the upper part of the city the sky
was in a lurid blaze, the moon looked red, and
the time had come when many thought the ci
ty's doom was sealed. Just at this time, they
marched up Third street towards the Times and
Democrat Offices, yelling like devils let loose
from hell :—" Down with the Times dawn
with the Democrat Here an unexpected check
was made. A few grav-headed citizens stood *
there, but said not a word. The mob hesitated
on** of the leaders said, "Boys you have done
nobly to-dav, you elected the ticket and honor
able men too, and vow had better go home now."
It is not known how many have been murder
ed, but it is known that neither sex nor age has
been spared. The Democratic editors dare not
give a luil account of this transaction. The
mavor dare not arrest the ringleaders, but eve
ry honest citizen knows the cause—the prime
leaders and the fiends who acted at their bid.
It is still dangerous for any man to give an
opinion, as tliev have their eaves-droppers now
at every Hotel, printing office, and public place
of resort. You can have no idea of the state of
tlungs, and of the public mind. They know
that tiie ritv authorities are of them, belong to
them, and are with them. Who has a right to
give an opinion ? God onlv knows where and
when it is going to stop. "Let none hut Amer
icans stand guard to-night !" 1 have witnessed
it. May I never see it again.
the first ward at Louisville, on Wed
nesday week, two K. N.'s were elected to the
council although there are known to he six or
eight hundred anti- K. N. majority in the ward.
The Democrats choose to let the Know-Noth
ings have the government of the disgraced city
all to themselves. The few Democrats in the
citv council have resigned. In the fourth ward,
in which there are about 800 voters, Silas Sis
sion, K. N., was chosen to the council bv t>7
votes, only four persons voting against him.—
Philc. Jirgus.
ERYSIPELAS. — A writer in one of the 'news
papers, in reply to the question : —"Will cran
berries cure erysipelas ?" says—"A lady visited
our family a few days since, and stated that her
daughter had the erysipelas quite bad. We
called to mind the remedy recommended by the
New Haven editor. On returning home in the
evening she found the disease was spreading rap
idly, and had assumed a frightful appearance.
She immediately had a poultice made ot cran
berries, which seemed to arrest it at once, anil
the second poultice effected a complete cure."
(TP*When the know-nothings were beaten
in Virginia it was the open ballot that did the
work, according to their newspapers. They
have tried the secret ballot in four other States,
and the result is new disaster to their hopes.—
Desperate at the prospect, they now seem to
have resolved—vide the Louisville tragedy—
that nobody shall hereafter vote but themselves.
[jC7*Thirty members oi' the Know-Nothing Lodge
at Coora, Ala., have published a card of Withdrawal
in the Montgomery Advertiser. They declare to
have done so, because satisfied, upon due reflection,
that the tendency ot" the Order is anti-republican ;
that the obligations imposed on its members are con
trary to tlie spirit of Americai institutions anil dan
gerous to a free government.
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