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The polls were not yet open; I passed through the lobby out on the platform on Jefferson streets, and saw upon the steps and in the yard some 18 or 20 men, nearly every one of whom 'carried a club or ' loaded stick. I was, not able to identify tiny of these men, after a close reconnoissance of them. The election proceeded as quietly as could be expected until a report was-put into circulation that the democratic ticket was ahead in the Fifth Ward, and that it was a close vote in the Sixth Ward, when a cry was raised. eMove the 'd—d Sat; Nichts I Down*with the dutch and - Irish: G=d d—n them !') In an instance several citizens were knocked down and run out of the hall. I stood my ground and saw officer Seaton make some effort to restore order, but saw him make no arrests. This ontbi eak occur red between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, A. M. A party of these bullies took posses sion of the platform on Fifth street. I went out among them, and saw them offer yellow tickets to every mart who came up the stairs.' If they were refused, some of the crowd would ask them who they voted for; if for Morehead, well; if Democratic or Clarke, they were moved or knocked in the head.— laid my hand upon the shoulder of one of these Men whom I thought I knew; and in qttired what was the cause of his hand. being in a sling; to which he replied he had bruised it. Jutlze my surprise 'when in less than five riiimites there:4l'er ' :I say him knock down an Irishman with the same wounded hand, and upon it a pair of brass knuckles. A friend of mine, and 'a gentleman, called me out and desired to know whether T was armed; to which I replied I was not, nor had I carried arms but on one occasion in Louis ville, within a period of nearly a quarter of a century. He gave me one of his revolvers, and.insisted upon my acceptance in a manner which left no doubt upon my mind of his friendship. [This gentleman is a know noth ing and an honorable man.] I repaired to the court house. Some three old gentlemen inquired of me if they could get to the polls other than through the dense crowd at the door of admissson, upon which I directed them to the door, stating that several old gentlemen, for age and infirmity, had been, through the kindness of the door keeper, been admitted—among whom I ,named J. W. Breeden, Esq. After the admission of these entire strangers to me, a rough looking custo mer, who heard all that had'been uttered be tween these men and myself, called mete ac count for it. lie had a yellow ticket in the ribband of his hat, and a club in his hand.— From his language, I was convinced that he was about to strike me. T stepped back and drew my pistol, stating if he raised his stick arse inch I would shoot him in his tracks. A young man of good address threw ,his arm round his neck, stood between us, and back ed the bully into the crowd. I shuddered at the idea, that in a moment more I would, in all probability, have taken a life that I could not restore, and which act would be to all time a source of bitterness to me; hence I returned the weapon and went unarmed the balance of the day-, I saw unoffending men knocked down in the court yard;an d - stored off the yard fence by these bullies, and no attternpt made to ar rest any oneof them, although I saw some of the police within reach of the offenders.— Such unprovoked,and cowardly attacks, upon peaceable citizens, who came to the polls to record their, suffrage, 1 trust.,-.never: to, behold o r hear' of in future,. - The passee-to the, polls, Were thus fully taken' possession of. One stoutly built man ascended' the steps, and. was met above—" How do you vote ?" T.' did not With distinctness get his answer;. when he• Was struck, and staggered; got upon hie feet and passed through the - crowd, deal ing out to his assailants some heavy blows. He Ras soon overpowered,. and while in the act of throwing ,him, over the banisters Capt. L. H. Rousseau run Up, 'grasped the man and saved him froth:further violence.-- Here permit me say, froth 'years of acquein-, lance, I have ever regarded Captain Rousseau asa highly honorable and brave rnan; but never until last Monday did I fully appreci ate this noble worth. His deeds of daring throughout the day was most worthy his well known character. From two o'clock until the Close of the polls I received but one or two votes ; I may say from the time the polls were taken in the forenoon f got but few votes. I gave yellow tickets'to two whom I believed to 'be my friends to carry through - "the crowd. They went in, discarded the yellow ; and voted the Democratic ticket, for which I saw them knocked down on leaving the court-house, and no arrest made for these outrages. Be tween two and four o'clock, P. M., I called on from thirty to forty of my friends, and ur ged them to go to the polls, promising to protect them but to no purpose. Most of these voters are by birth Americans, and all respectable and orderly citizens engaged in business. There are (if I am correctly in formed) some twenty-eight of my friends on Jefferson street, between Fifth and Third, including three in the house of W. H. John ston, Esq., also James,McCullough, &c., &c., who did not or would not vote in conse quence of the disorder at the polls. But the most inhuman of all the acts of the day was reserved for the afternoon. A gang of row dies had in keeping and tow a poor man all bloody, taking him tojail—for what offence I know not. As they rushed past my door I went out after them. When *nearly oppo site the south-east corner of the court house, a genteelly dressed foreigner, I believe an Irishman, was coming up the yardi He turned out to give the pass to the mob, when a part of them cried out, "Move the d—d foreigner !" and in a moment he was knock ed down and beat almost to jelly. One of the demons cried for a hatchet to,cut off his head, &c. One had a pitchfork, which some present stated he snick into the poor man. At this moment Wm. G. Stewart, Esq., the generous and humane lawyer, having just came into town, ran into the crowd, pushed them.right and left, and cursed them for a set of scoundrels, &c. This was the most unpro voked attempt to murder a poor unoffending man I ever beheld. 'There were many more outrages-commit ted, such as knocking dowm and kicking Mr. Cudmore into the door of my store, at which time Hon. W. P. Thompson was struck, in attempting to rescue Mr. Cudmore; an assault attempted on. Mr Hampton, an honorable and good man, &c. As I ,did 'not witness the origin or commencement of these and other cases, I leave them for oth ers to detail. Permit me, in conclusion, to say, t pen the above with feelings of sorrow, mingled with the most painful regrets. No man can feel, much less express the horror I have felt at these bloody occurrences ; nor can I ever think of these scenes without a shudder. If I have uttered one untruth or done a particle of injury to any man rir party in the above, I beg he will call upon -me and convince me of it, and I pledge my honor as a roan, to publicly correct it. I will be in November next a citizen of Louisville twenty-five years. Many of my best friends are among my political opponents—gentlemen whom the good and wise of all parties respect ; nor have they thought the less of me for being a Democrat.—lf other evidence were wanting to prove this fact their hearty support in re cording their suffrages for me on Moniay last ought to suffice. I venerate religion ; have no feelings of animosity against any order; nor can I believe religion was given to man to quarrel and fight about, but to es cape to a better and happier world after death. My Democracy, founded as I firmly believe it to be upon the Constitution of the United States, with an abidinc , confidence in all constitutional acts.of Congress, and a de sire to act as honestly and fairly my part in all the business and social relations of life, at this time, and thus far forms the whole sum and substance of my religion. Hence I can never be'arrayed against any Order, or do knowingly any party injustice. Respectfully Tnos. M. HICKS. LOUISVILLE, August 10, 1855. From the London Timer, 26111 Sebastopol---Condition and Prospects of the Allies Althongh several weeks have now elapsed since the occurrence of the last great events at the siege of Sebastopol, this interval of time has undoubtedly served to consolidate the position of the allied armies in the Crimea, to remove many of the causes of apprehen sion excited by the return of summer, and to advance by slow but certain - steps the op - - erations of the siege. Of all there around s of satisfaction the most important are the health of the army, the success of the sani tary measures adopted in the temps. and the favorable cljmate we have found in the south ern districts of. the Crimea. 'A:nong the ex aggerated perils and objections which were at one time conjured' up in -this country to bring the Crimea expedition into disrepute, it was asserted that the cliniate was of Arctic severity in winter and pestilential in summer, whereas it was well known to those who had examined - the subject that this region enjoys the average temperature of the southern coast of Great Britain. The army has, of course, acquired a degree of stability and vig or in campaigning•which was not to be ex pected when first it took the field; and we are confident; from the numbers, the condi tion, and the valcir of these troops, and the large amount of their• field artilery, that the Allied armies are able to encounter, with the most confident' expectations of success any force the enemy can by possibility bring against them. Tho delay which has occur red has had the advantage of converting our invasion of the Crimea:into an occupation of several of the most important points in the peninsula. tfpatoria, Kamiesch, Baia.k lava, and Yenikale, are now fortified stations, which we shall hold during the whole con tinuance of the war. We apprehend that the Russians themselves can entertain no hope of renewing the attack of Inkermann, or' of shaking off the grasp which the iron hand of war has placed on one of the richest poitiOns• of the Imperial dominions. Had Sebastopol been .carried last autumn by a coup (le main, we should at once have effect ed our primary object in the destruction of that fortress, but we should'not have proved in so remarkable a manner the inability of the whole power of the Russian empire to repel the adversaries who have now esiab- k_ 11N \..A 7 AGGI:b lished themselves on the Crimea coast. We trust, however, that this firm position of the allies will enable them at no distant period to extend their active opperations beyond the Belbek, and that it is merely a question of time at what moment it may be most expedi ent to commence such a movement against the encampments from which the enemy still continues to throw reinforcements and muni tion of all kinds into Sebastopol. The temporary silence of the batteries, which has succeeded to the furious bombard, ments and assaults of the first half of the month of June e deslotes that the besiegers are conducting their approaches , to the key of po sition with greater caution and regularity, and that we shall probably hear no more of - a profuse expenditure of life until our guns have been brought so near the walls as to subdue the fire of •the enemy. The report of Prince Gortschakoff on the action of the 18th of June, is a careful, though not, strictly speaking, an accurate account of that oppe ration. ' The Russian General overrates the force engaged by the French and English ar mies and the losses they. sastained; he doeS not clearly show that the failure of the at tack by the French columns was mainly caused by the want of simultaneous action, and that the engagement on the extreme right in which Gens Mayran fell, was, in fact, over before the columns under Gen. Brune, and Antemarre advanced. He entirely omits the remarkable fact that the attack of. Gen. Eyre's brigade on the extreme left enabled a handful of British troops not only to pene trate into the houses and, gardens at the bot tom of the ravine, but to remain there all-day; but, with these acceptions, the report gives, a 'tolerably connected view 'of this action, and it enables us to form a more correct opinion on one or two points of the means of resistance of the garrison. It clearly appears, in the first place, that in this, as in all the proceeding instances. the Russians succeeded, - after the bombard ment, in re-establishing the line of defence of Sebastopol .in its primitive state, and though it is not denied that the works were severely damaged by the fire of the besiegers, means have constantly been found to repair the lines, and to construct new batteries, even under a heavy fire. -This is one of the principle circurnstancei hick distinguishes the siege of, Sebastopotfrom , all other sieges in history, 'aside - which - show the uncommon skill with which:the Russian engineers avail themselvei of the new ,system of fortifica tions they have erected while the Russian troops display equal energy in the execution of these plans. Sebastopol may be said to be defended with the spade as much as by the sword, and repeated experience has now shown that in works of this nature , the utmost damage caused by a bombardment from siege trains even of unexampled magnitude and power, may be repaired whin a few hours by an ac tive arid resolute garrison. That, of course, is a peculiar advantage which works rivet ted with masonry can never possess, and the contrast which has lately been drawn by a writer in the Edinburg-Review, between the speedy fall of the towers of .Domarsund, and the -protracted resistance of the earth works of Silistria and Sebastopol, is a most instructive lesson in the art of defence. To render the bombardment of Sebastopol of any use at all, as a preliminary to the assault of the place, it must be followed instatuly by the attacking column, for the interval of a single night has, on more than one acca sion, sufficed to counterbalance the effect of one of these gigantic operations. On the 18th of June, however, the Rus sians employed another resource, for which they drserve ck,nsiderable, credit. Although the capture of the White Works on the 7th of June had enabled the French on the .right to command the Careening Bay, our allies do trot appear at that time to have brought guns of a heavy calibre to bear on the port, for it is stated that six Russian steamers of war ad vanced to the Careening Bay Point at the commencement of the action, and opened a severe fire on the French in the ravine, where their reserve was placed. General Pelissier had Minded to the same circumstan ces In his report, and it indicates some inge nuity on the part of the defence that this last remnant of naval forces of the enemy should have been thus employed. We have very little doubt that, before the attack is renewed, batteries of a far greater range will- have been established in .such a 'manner as to command the port, and that it will then be come practicable to sink or burn, from the heights, these maratime . auxiliaries of the garrison. In fact, as we draw nearer to the town and avail ourselves of the com mand of the sea at both extremities of the line of attack, the communication of the garrison with the northern side of the har bor, from which the garrison drawn its most important supplies, will become more diffi cult, and the shipping which is still afloat sught to be altogether destroyed. Although none of ,the measures that have yet been employed against the place are of a decisive character—and we are free to con fess that there has been more novelty of in vention in the defence than on the side of the attack—yet each of the steps that has been taken exhausts and destroys some -portion of the defence; and this steady progress of the besiegers has never been thrown back by any positive success on the part of the enemy.— The only advantage, indeed, which the Rus sians can boast of that of having•resisted our attacks; but they have failed themselves , in every sortie, in every attempt to force our line; and in every attempt since the 17th of October to subdue our fire. Our military ef forts, like our. political resolutions, require only to be conducted on the principle of Lord Lyndhurst's wise and brave advice— " Persevere." On many accounts the Cri mean expedition is highly favored by the salubrity of the country and the efficiency of the army; 'the supplies requisite for tb - e troops are now thoroughly organized, and the lessons of the past year are not thrown away. We therefore expect the result with patience and confidence, persuaded as we are that the expidition only awaits the direc tion of its leaders to bring this great enter prise to a victorious termination. * 1;4.: The Election We cannot but regard the recent deplorable riots in Lonisville as one of the legitimate fruits of Know-Nothing bigotry anti fanati cism ; and colored and partial as , have been the accounts from thence—studied as has been the effort to affix the disgrace to what they are pleased to term the "foreign" party —no man of intelligence has been deceived thereby, nor can any one mistake the cause of the present excited and bitter feeling which is daily spreading through our country. "fin: tii the advent of this persecution, nrst as Nativeism, and now as the Know-Nothing party, with its oaths and midnight deeds, such scenes were unknown in our land. Foreign born citizens were attached to each of the old political parties, but to no one ex clusively-, and men of all creeds and climes ral lied under the same politicelbanner, and voted according to their _convictions; but Know- Nothingism, by arraying itself against natur alized citizens, and ostracising all of a cer tain religious creed, has necessarily compell ed them to assimilate, and band together, and to stand up for the deence of their rights.— Here is the orig,in,orthat bitterness which is filling the hearts of men with bitterness to ward each other, and which must inevitably br i rig about -strife and collision upon occasions where these embittered parties come in con tact with each- other. We have - long , as have all thonghtfnl men, foreseen this result, and' have warned the public against a party whose natural tendency was to bring this evil upon the country. But unfortunately, amid the clamor of bigotry, prejudice, and the "wild hunt after office," the voice of moderation and reason - has been unheard, or disregarded—the fires of bigotry have been blown to a flame, and that flame is now only to be eringuished in the blood of our fellow citizen's As it was in Philadelphia in '44, so it has been in Louisville in '55. The se cret order of Know-Nothings which impu dently styles itself the "American party," is justly and directly chargeable with these out rages. Its organization has brought into life the smouldering passions of the human heart, and given them power and influence. Men who were formerly of the same political par ty, who for years have stood side by side in all our political contests, have been forced as sunder by this bigot. creed' and arrayed, in bitter hostility against each other until they ready' now, as these Louisville riots show,, to spill each others blood in - vindictive war fare. Nor is this all the' evidence. The whole cnurse of the journals of Losisville_, sympa thising with this proscriptive ordSr, has been for, weeks past, directed mainly to arousing every prejudice against the naturalized pop ulation„ Germany as, well as Irish ; and many days before-the election it became manifest that a scheme was in existence, originaiing in the Know-Nothing Councils, to prevent the naturalized citizens,—who were general ly, as well as naturally and justly opposed to the designs of the secret order—from ex pressing their proper preferences at the polls. In view of these facts the citizens became alarmed, and the Democratic papers and com mittees of the city made every possible over ture to the councils of the secret order, 'with a view to the avoidance of the fearful scenes that as early as Thursday and Friday last loomed up in the distance. It was believed, as the Louisville Democrat of Saturday es ! presses it—"that the appointment of a suita ble number of citizens from each party, whose,social.position would command uni versal respect and confidence, would exer cise a moral influence on persons disposed to be disorderly, more potent than any other ' means that could be adopted, and give satin . faction to all " But these overtures were rejected, and it became at once apparent, and was so charged in bold and indignant lan , guage by the Courier, that the Secret Order had determined beforehand upon the prove : cation of riot and disorder, arid even upon the destruction of the polls, if necessary, as was recently the case in, Cincinnati, in order to disfranchise the naturalized population of the city, and to insure Know Nothing suc cess. Every effort to preserve the peace, was resorted to by the citizens who dreaded an outbreak of violence, and many hundreds of the adopted citizens of Louisville stayed away from the polls altogether- But every precaution, and the wisest coun sel, was unavailing. he riot, or at leas: measures of outrage, had been determined upon beforehand by the secret order. It was anticipated in other cities, and the announce ment of the beginning of the riot was re ceived in Cincinnati with exultation. The Cincinnati Daily Times, a rabid Know Noth ing journal gave publicity at 3 o'clock, on Monday atternoon, to the, following special dispatch from Louisville, "the language of which sufficiently indicates that a riot 'was the,heart desire of the proscriptionists, whose missive of progress this was to their anx ious-friends in Cincinnati: LATER FROM votrrsvELLE. LOUISVILLE. A.ug. 6.-1, P. M. The American ticket 1392 ahead— Tall Fighting in the - First Ward. With these evidences, we charge, as do all the independent journals of Louisville, the whole responsibility of this disgraceful and melancholly proceeding upon the Know Nothing Order. Fire a:id rapine, and blood shed, the denial of sacred, rights, the viola tion of every compact, the indulgence Of all the baser passions of the heart, and, the prac lice of- every wrong - with which bigotry and intolerance have ever marked, their progress from the beginning until now, are the natu ral and legitimate fruits of this secret order ; and yet it claims Godliness as its basis and moving impulse ; asserts Gud's great purpo ses to be its only aim ; lays claim to all the precepts-of the lamb like and charitable Je sus, and prates of patriotism, and love of country, and love for than, as though it were not itself the Demoniac Spirit of Evil, of Discord, of Devastation, and of Death, that prophecy tells us shall come in the latter days.—Daily Argus. El7 - AL Indianapolis they have a dancing school kept by Mr. and Mrs. Shank. 2, 1855, From the W ashington Union The Phases of Know Nothingista. We are yet unadvised of anv State coun cil or State convention which has recognized ) es a binding obligation the platform of prin • ciples adopted by . the so-called know nothing national convention. It would'seem, from the action of its blind followers in the sever ' al States, that know nothingism is to be in terpreted according to the prejudices of local ity and the exigencies growing out of factional discord. In the eastern States it boldly as serts its abolition paternity, and under the saving sanction of "the three thousand cler gymen of New England," wages what is ho ped will prove an exterminating war against everything which savors of Catholicism. In New York - it means ardent fre-soilism slight ly cooled and tempered by - teetotalism. In Pennsylvania it whispers seductively of pro hibitory duties, regards the prosperity of a Commonwealth as best secured by broods of irresponsible corporations hatched .by the customary legislative process, is abolitionist. or connector, according to the preponderance of Johestonism or Careeronistn in the State councils. lit the western States know-noth ingism spreads itself so as - to cover and ab sorb all the local issues of that expansive re gion. It wins the venerable Giddings back to his admiring New England friends by its coy embraces of the more youthful Chase, and charms the latitudinarians by its liberal construction of the constitution. Crossing the Ohio, and entering upon Slave territory,' it seeks to make proselytes by the liberality. of its professions and its amazing quickness of adaptation to the sentiment and institu tions of its people. In Kentucky the know nothing candidate for gbvern i pr is permitted to have a Catholic, wife by special dispensa tion, while his brother of Tennessee remains in unimpaired standing with the order, not withstanding the detection of his papal leanings in having his children - educated in Catholic seminaries of -learning. In the southern States where elections have been held, or are about to be held, it. has monopo lized the entire national. democratie.ptatform of 1852, clamored lustily for a-more faithful enforcement of the fugitive-slave law, and boldly rebuked the' administration for its al leged apathy in carrying out the great prin ciple involved in the Kansas-Nebraska bill. In this nationatfishing excuesion for dupes, one thiitg alone was wanting to show the et - "ter baseness arid infamy of know-nothing ism. The democracy has often had to'con tend' with e bold,. reckless and unprincipled parties, but never before with a party so bold. reckless and unprincipled as to stultify itself upon organic principles with the vain hope of adding to its numbers. This infa mous honor was reserved for the order, anqj Louisiana was the chosen spot for an exhibi tion of transparent deceit and truckling false hood without a parallel in the political hiseo .ry of the country. The population of Louisiana differs, in a strongly marked degree, from that of any of her sister States. A very large majority of her native-born citizens are the immediate descendants of Frenchmen and Spaniards, while a heavy moiety of the population is composed of natives of France, Germany, 'and (=teat Britain . In most of the parishes in the State the prevailing language is for eign language. The Catholic is the most nu merous religions denomination in the State, and the history of Louisiana has been a his tory of Christian toleration, generosity, and kindness. We can name more than one Protestant church in Louisiana that owes its existence in whole or in part to the liberality of Catholic ladies and gentlemen. To all this may beadded, that the citizens of-Lou isiana, since her admission into the Union, have been distinguished fur their na tional feeling and uncompromising devotion to republican principles. One would suppose that the peculiar peo ple of such a peculiar State would afford scant inducements for know-nothing mis sionary labor, that the proscriptive, exclusive, oath-delivered doctrines of the order would fall harshly upon the ears of men who had hitherto taken the constitution for their guide, the principles of democracy for their senti ments and the teachings of their Divine Mas ter for their rule of action. The people in Louisiana held not one sentiment in com mon with know-nothingism. A more per fect antagonism could not have been created. The Louisianians were not taught to respect the rights and persons of the foreign bOrn ; for that feeling sprang into existence with intelligent life. With these sentiments, or rather natural impulses, how. could they af filiate with a political association whose principles were in fierce opposition to the very instincts of their nature?. Warmly and deeply attached to the church of their choice as well as of inheritance, how could they hold communion with men who would re duce the Catholics of the United 'States to the same. wretched, servile condition to which their brethren in Ireland had been subjected for nearly two centuries ? But know-nothingism had not the slightest intention of testing the political or religious faith of their expected dupes. If the moun: tarn would not come to Mahomet. Mahomet would go to the mountain. If Louisiana would not swallow know-nothingism, know nothingism would attempt to swallow Louis iana: The sequel is known to the whole country. A French Creole and Roman Cath olic is now the know-nothing candidate for governor in that State ! Need we add more e, LATE FOREIGN NEWS. From the Seat of War The Paris correspondent of the Lond on Times, in a letter of the 27th ult., writes as follows: , As time passes away the impatience of the public waxes greater for a decisive blow at Sebastopol, and it is evident from the prep arations going on for some time at Kamiesch, and elsewhere, 'that something serious is in tended. Though Tarn unable to say wheth er the rumor alluded to yesterday about the forcing 'the port of Sebastopol is- enti tled to credit, yet a dashing adventure of the kind is said to be in keeping with VOL. 11, NO. 10. = the character of the French and English Ad mirals. Be this as it may, something, will have to be done if Genetal Pet issier means to retrieve the mishap of the IBth, which has not by any means redounded to his advantage at home. Indeed,it is believed that unless some brilliant and decibive affair take place short ly, the General will not long enjoy his com mand. I-le is said to have in more than one recent instance given ocecasion for complaint• either by the non •fulfilment of orders trans mitted directly from the emperor, or ,by some orther act of commission or omission; , and he is expected to obliterate whatever unpleasant feelings exists towards him, or he will be provided with a successor. I believe there have been letters from the' camp which speak of Pellissier as not hav ing 'quite realized the idea entertained of him in the beginning. Such murmurs, how-, ever, mostly follow .failure; had he succeeded. on the 18th, even the very blunders of the' attack would be forgotten, and nothing but the success remembered. A fetter from an officer at Balaklava, dated' the 14th. says: "We are now sapping up to the enemy's. works—the French being already within - 180' yards of the Malakoff. I think it very prob.: lematical, whether we, shall winter within Sebastopol. oThe cutting off the supplies , from the Sea of Azoff' must distress the en emy much, but his supplies by way of Pere kop are still,open. 1 do not believe that a large.ar my, emu be supplied by that long rout• inthe -tVinter.37 From tbe•London Times, July 30 The la:arrest in. Ireland. The broken weather of :the past week ET-- pears so far to have done no damage to the• cereal or green crops. Indeed, competent . judges affirm even more rain would be rath- - er serviceable than otherwise. Yesierday there were several heavy shomers, accompa-- 'lied by a gale of wind ar,d frequent peals of ttuntler and vivid flashes of lightning. This day's agricultural reports fr - om the provinces are fully as favorable as those of the previous week. The potato holds its ground, and there is not a solitary complaint of the appearance of the fatal blight. Al ready the markets are teeming with this year's produce, and the price is such as to place new potatoes of the best quality with-- in the reach of the humblest consumer. Whither are we Tending? We call the special attention of our read er t, the following article from the Louis ril oiver recently one of the organs of th v Nothing party, but whose Editor has ye ecently expelled from the Lodge for to be a freeman. We ask you, .-.')..:.:. 'Citizens, to reflect well over the lan .e of one who is cognizant of the dread- , - .:i. -- isohief of which the Secret Orley is ca. pable, and willing to undertake. For awhile ht. was with them, but he was too much of a-. patriot to remain allied with so horrible an. orgar.ization : "Never since the organization of this goy ernment has the political horizon been so overcast with dark and lowering clouds as at the present time. When we compare the, questions that were discussed and decided• during the earlier days with those which now stir tile feelings and awaken the appre hensions of all true patriots of whatever name or creed, we sometimes are led to trem-- ble for the destiny of our country, and were it not for the confidence which we -feel in the' overruling care of a Divine Providence, we should despair of ever seeing a satisfactory solution of the political problem now before' the people of the United States. The present is the first time in the history of this country in which a political party having any claim to nationality, has dared' to organize upon the avowed principle of a political religious test ; the first time that a political national party dared to make a man's reli g ious creed the test of qualifica-- lion for ofce ; the first time that any effort' has been made to establish a tribunal of po litical Jesuitism and secret espionage two fold more obnoxious than that of Rome ; the first time that the Protestants of the United States have endeavored to proscribe Roman ism by political disabilities, while at the same , time they have engrafted in a professed Prot-. estant organization the most obnoxious fea— tures of the thing they would proscribe and destroy. But, as we have faith in the intel ligence of the masses of the people, and as heretofore their "sober second thought" has been in the main about right so we believe that the seal of their condemnation will most emphatically be placed upon the pres ent anti-American and anti-republican, pro-. scriptive and Jesuitical policy of the Know Nothing organization.. We repeat that- we have confidence in the! great body of the American people, and that': they will ultimately stand by the principles , and practices of Washington, Jefferson, Mad-. ison, Adams, and Jackson, to the utter die-- comfiture and overthroW of Know-Nothing ism, as now constituted, with the herd of political loafers that follow in its wake.—as Already do we discover signs of a most de cisive reaction• in every quarter calm and reflecting men , who at first sympathized with what they believed to be the objects of the Know Nothing party,. are now; ran- - ging themselves in opposition' to its an ti-republican principles. Patriotic men-of all parties are protesting against the policy. of ad ding the fuel of-religious hate to the flame of political discord. Christian men are asking whether it ace cords with the spirit of their Master that they should link themselves with a secret, orth-bound political party, that is rousing all' the evil passions of human nature in order to array man against man, brother against brother, and fatheratsainst son. In the north anti the south, in the east and the west, the feeling is rapidly pervading the minds of all good men, regardless of religious creed' -or political party, that all free-born American citizens should, on no condition whatever, surrender their freedom of political choice to any secret political or religious power, prince or potentate, native or foreign, upon the face of the earth. So that hereafter in this coun try political Jesuitism is to be simply arrira.:- nossibility. =