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The Louisville Riot,
The following statement of an eye-wit
ness, a highly respectable citizen of Louis
ville, details a few of the preliminary pro
ceedings of the K. N. party. which natural
ly led to the dreadful riot in that city. After
the publication of such facts it is idle now to
enquire who is responsible. •
From the Louisville Dcmocrat.
The Rict.
• Messrs. Editors :—I believe a statement of
the disgraceful conduct which occur r ed un
der my owti observation,. and in my own
Ward, at the court house, on Monday, the 6th
August, 1855, due 'alike to all - parties. but
more especially to all goodcitizens of Lou
isville. - Betwoen four and five o'clock iu the
morning I repaired to the court house, for the
purpose of making some arrangements to
distribute tickets. 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
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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.
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