THE GE s''` Eel Democratic Delegate Convention. The Democratic Delegates elected in the several boroughs and townships, met in County Convention in the Court House, in Huntingdon, On Wednesday evening August 15, 1855, and organized by calling NICHO LAS CRESSWELL, of Alexandria, to the chair, and appointing GEORGE W. SPEER, of Cassville, and J. R. HUNTER, of Petersburg, Secretaries. unre ex of a d, till now cn . On motion of T. P. Campbell, Esq., the 1 cealed,liable p with the onents jealousy cree of conscious err o or following pledge was adopted : ! or conscious weakness, from all but its sworn We, the undersigned Delegates to the Dem- i adherents ; and all disavowed whenever con ocratic County• Convention, held 15th Au- venient, by the party whose principles they gust, 1855, do solemnly upon our honor seve- pretended to expound. Ever till now have rally declare that we are'not•members of the l we been called to oppose measures and men,. Society or Order generally known as "Know( whose supporters were neither afraid nor Nothings," nor 'of any other political order! ashamed to maintain and defend them in the or association holding doctrines calculated to l li g ht of day. Ever till now have we been - - prescribe any citizen politically or otherwise I called on to combat systems of local or na on account of his religions opinions or place tional policy which, however obnoxious we of birth, and-that we never have been mem- may have thought them, yet recognized as bers or belonged to any such Order, 'but that fully as we ourselves do the social equality upon the contrary we are opposed to its doe- of all, and preserved sacredly inviolate the trines. e political privileges of every citizen. But in N. Cresswell, John R. Hunter, these latter days newfangled doctrines have Samuel Isenberg, H. °daily, arisen, with fiery zealots to advocate them, Gilbert Chaney, Wm. NlcNite, which strike at . the very fundamental prin- Daniel Massey, John Vandevandery eiples that Democrats 'in all ages and coun- H. S. Graham, Martin Orlady, tries have maintained.; which seek virtually W. A. Copely, George Borst, to disfranchise a portion of our citizens, and Wm. P. Taylor, T. F. Stewart, practically deny the equality of social, civil Geo. W. Speer, Jacob H. Miller) and political rights. And a party which de- John Porter, J. A. J. Postiethwait ) nounces with bitter invective and indis- John G. Lightner, David klenderson, criminate slander, men of lives the purest Jas. J. Goodinan, ' Hugh Seeds, and most blameless, for the crime of being John Scott, Joseph Isenberg, I born on another soil, and which, amid the Thos. P Campbell,. Jas. B. Carothers, light of the nineteenth century, reverts with John Johnston, L. Hoover, kindred blindness to the exploded errors 'of Jonathan Frazier, John Gordon, a darken age, and pursues a whole sect of John Gemmill, Seth Benrer, i Christians with all the means of persecution, Rob't Cunningham, Jno. Dougherty,' jan advancing civilization will permit, and John Jamison, David Hamilton, Ithat, too, with a bigoted intolerance that Geo. Eby, Jr., Sam'! Miller, ' . would dolcredit to mediceval barbarism, solely Jas. Chamberlain, Jacobßig4e, a because they choose to worship God in the Jas. A. Campbell, Nathan -G. Horton.. - ' creed of their fathers! Nor does this doe- i ' The Convention .then proceeded to ballot trine want for followers, its iniquitous na-1 lure and destructive tendeneies ) masked-by for • a Representative delegate to , the next specious sophistries; horrified by exaggera- Democratic State Convention,—and for Con- I tee and distorteif pictures of the crimes andi oppressions of the buried past ; seduced by ferees to meet Conferees from Cambria and Blair counties to select a Senatorial Dele- the delusive promise of a purity that was forever to banish .the corruptions of pasty, gate—which resulted in the selection of Col. and aided by the powerful attractions of rnys- Taos. P. CAMPI;ELL as Representative deleter y and-secret association, aided, too, trot a gate, and Jone GEMMILL, SAMUEL T. BROWN little by an organized system of wholesale calumny; multitudes of sincere and patri and GEo. W. SpEER, Conferees. otic but prejudiced men, many of the unre- - The following resolutions were then read fleeting and most of. the disappointed and and adopted unanimously : ambitions, rushed into a party of whose real aims and purposes they emphatically knew Resolved, That the secret political society be , nothing tudtil they had taken the fatal step commonly known as "Know Nothings," that bound them _to an organization from its true name what it may, which pros,cribes ' 1 which there was no retreat, save under the men because of their peculiar creed in wor : charge of perjury. and the threat of the trait and God, or the place of their birth, ot's beard ; plunged blindfold into an asso and sinks the will of the individual in a I ciation whose only avowed purpose was war blind obedience to the commands of irre- ! e _ ! against their brethren! stripped themselves sponsible councils, is an institution ant' publican—degrading to the . man of a irn or !in their infatuation of .their right of private honor and calling for the open oppos a ; judgment, and surrendered their personal in in dependence in unresisting obedience to the reprehension of all, true American Ili s. i ; behests of conspirators, concealed even from It shall meet with ours. 1 their own associates. Nor is it to be denied Resolved, That this convention reco7lorn -' to the Democracy of Huntingdon county at it has grown with the rapidity and the xuriance of the prophet's gourd, but we Hon. A. Plumer, the Democratic noird are happy in the confidence that its decay for Canal Commissioner, as a suitable person . , i and,downfall will be equally speedy and slid to receive their votes. den. Its monstrous teachings and destruc- Resolved, That the action of the State con- ; tive results require , not the bitter experience' vention of '52 in disfranchising this Con- ! i of then- evil working to condemn them. gressional District, and selecting a man to Calm reflection and sober reason already ena represent it on the committee to chosedele ble_us to detect the mad ambition that lurks gates that did not live within its borders or i behind the gilded mask of EXCLUSIVE patri reflect its sentiments, was most unfair, un otism, ore to-carry out the designs intended exci- and the fierce intolerance that deludes just and anti-Democratic, and that the fail- i its own votaries with the pretext of zeal for red our liveliest gratification. religious purity. ft is, however, in the na- 1 Resolved, That our Representative and Sen- lure of man that this very delusion should I stimulate its followers to the most strenuous atonal delegates to the next State Convert-• efforts to extend its sway, to absorb or to lion are hereby instructed to irtsist upon the crush all that opposes its course, and no er adoption of -the. Congressional District sys- ; rocs are so dangerous as those that assume tem as the fair and- Democratic mode of se the garb of peculiar virtue. They are ac lecting Delegates to the National Convention,l ;espied upon the faith of their professions, and and that they are fully authorized to resist in time must elapse before the hollow mockery the manner they may deem most expedient 1 gather they Thusd. any and every attempt to stifle the views of - is expose any portion of the Democracy of the State. i the main the well meaning, the enthusiastic and the credulous, with just a sufficient in- Resolved, That this Con vention does not by 1 opinion ; fusion of the d'esigning, the prejudiced and the foregoing resolutions express any upon the subject of the next Presidency. the crafty, to govern and direct the whole movement towards their own narrow views A motion to nominate-a ticket was amend -1 or selfish purposes. • Enthusiasm, too, neces ed so as to select a committee of five persons I sarily tends to degenerate into fanaticism, by ballot to do the same, if the same can that wilfully shuts its eyes to the plainest dictates of reason, is inexorably deaf to every agree, and if not, to be empowered to call command of justice, and tramples without the COnvention together again. pity or remorse over the prostrate form of The first ballot resulted in the selection of I mercy, pleading for the suppliant victims of the following gentlemen as said committee: Oppression or of Penury. So the snowball of the thoughtless school-boy, reckless of the Taos. F. STEWART, DANIEL MASSEY, W.M. ruin he causes ' rolls even growing, down McNrre, GEO. W. Speen and HENRY Roza-) the Alpine steeps till it crashes an avalanche of destruction on the devoted hamlet. Such is the inevitable tendency of the doctrines now advocated by this new party of self- styled Americans, and similar must be their results, could they ever be carried into ac tion. Doctrines which strive 'to subvert the cardinal principles of Democracy ; which re fuso social, political and even civil privileges to a portion- of the people, which recognize no longer the distinctions we have ever up held, the distinctions instituted by an all. wise and Omniponent Providence, those of in telligence and virtue, but substitute for them the accidents of birth and the incidents of creed; the accidents of birth, involuntary; and the in cidents of aCreed, traditional; which introduce a new standard of party fealty and inaugur ate a new shibboleth of patriotism. Sustained by a party which admits of no neutrality, of no discriminations, but ostracizes all who re fuse "to'swear in the words of the master": which absorbs all lesser issues; or impudent: ly claims their force to swell its own num= hers ! Such are the doctrines, such is the party we are now called to combat; and we are justified, nay, we are bound, by common brotherhood, by common citizenship to in vite to join us therein, all who have a higher regard to the rights of man than to the clatms of party, all who "love not Caesar less, but Rome more." And while we do so as, by our action of this evening we have done, we in no respect alter or our time-honored and success-approved position. Ever have we battled for the rights of man kind for the brotherhood of whatsoever mi nor issues, whatsoever temporary measures may have heretofore divided us, these are longer in question; they have either become obsolete, or they have been decided, or they are merged in the new issue. We appeal therefore now, (as the only organized defend ers of the rights of man, and the guarantees of our glorious constitution,) to all who love liberty and equality, to all who hate proscrip tion and intolerance, to array themselves be side us. Little care we,:now that the parri- ERTS. The following resolutions were then adopt ed : Resolved, That the committee of five per sons elected by this convention be vested with full power to meet a like committee on part of the old line Whigs of the count) , and agree upon, and put in nomination a ticket for the various offices to be filled this fall by election—to be supported by the dem ocratic party—and if they can agree upon said • ticket we hereby pledge it our support, as if the same had been• nominated in full convention—and if the said committee can not agree upon a ticket, that they be instruc ted to call this convention together again and report their action under this resolution. Resolved ,That the said commmittee have power, and are instructed to confer by letter or otherwise, with our friends in Blair coun ty, in relation to candidate's for the Legisla ture, so as to secure harmonious action on that subject. Committee to meet at Huntingdon on Wednesday, August 22, at 5 o'clock, P. M. On motion, the President was ordered to appoint the usual County Committee, to con sist of one person for each township and borough in the county. 'On motion, Resolved, That the'proceedings be signed by the officers and published. On motion, Dr. A. B. LEE, of Mt. Union, addressed- the Convention, as follows: M.R. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN :---I have not the vanity • to think that in responding to your call, I can throw any new light on the subjects which• will form the chief elements -of the apprOaching canvass, and at this late brim after the fatigue of a protracted session. I am, only reconciled to this trespaf.s on your time and patience which that response in volves, by the reflection that on ehtering into such a canvass, - propriety, nay, dt ty, requires that we should state our sentiments in re gard to its prominent issues, and the views which have determined our action in meet ing them. And here we have to remember that the struggle in which we are about to engage is no ordinary one. Hitherto the Dem ocratic patty has had to _contend against a party whose oppusition was at least open and manly, whose measures' and position was avowed, and' their line of policy distinctly indicated ; which did not go before the grand tribunal of ultimate jurisdiction, the delibe rate judgment of the people, with measures concocted in secret, and dimly shadowed forth by organs of doubtful authenticity ; each denounced in turn by others as incorrect or cidal blow is aimed at the bosom of Liberty herself, what names or tribes may have hith erto distinguished her sons, and we will with our whole souls honor him whose blade shall parry the stroke, that ,Would wound our coalition mother, carelessly what forgot ten dgnornination he may_ have heretofore been known. Appealing to these considera tions we feel that our action to-day has been what the crisis Demands. And now let us turn for a moment to re view the principles and measures of this new party whose ends we are called-on in com mon with every citizen to promote: 2 think there is no mai*, movement, but hai some basis of right howsoever slender, on whicheie:•!::.: : : - .:M . i""!ded. Be it then our task to separat:se , ;e:a rue from the false and to weigh iron impartial scale the predom inating element. Of abstract propositions multitudinous are the aspects, and scholastic or metaphysical ingenuity may torture into innumerable shapes, each fortified by its syr logism the simplest proposition. Bet thank Heaven these refinements are not necessary to the common understanding, and we can arrive at the nature and character of a policy by a su rer and a 'Shorter route, albeit-it be somewhat ' sough and unpolished. We may test theni by their practical resulti: Time and space would fail were We to take up each separate proposition of our antagonists on its own merits, and indeed many of them - arebut repetitions of themselves, mere - tautology.— But we may analyse them in their general scope and tendency. The chemist when a compound substance is submitted to him for examination subjects a part of it in solution to the action of re-agents in e test tube and by the results thus obtained he learns the character of the whole. So will we do, and by observing the tendency and necessary action of 'a part shall we learn the nature of the hole. And while doing so, if we find it incumbent on us to denounce the principles, let us carafully discriminate between the selfish and designing few and the many hon est but misguided men, whose mistaken im-. Pulses heve plunged them into error, which perhaps they even now perceive, but see no way by which they can retreat from the false position in which, partly from ignorance, partly from generous tho' ill-directed feelings they have,. become involved. For far be it froin me, or us, however much we may dis pute with a large portion of our 'fellow citi zens; or however wrong we may think their views; to doubt their sincere patriotism, or to believe them only hypocritical friends of our common country ; 'even though they may set up the claim to exclusive purity, or to be the only Americans par excellence in the land, invidious though the claim be and unjust the imputation. But it is legitimate to esteem them misguided through passion or mistaken through prejudice. To pursue.then our ex; aminat ion of the characters of this new doe trine, let us state the case as- its own expo nents declare it. First, all-who are not born upon our soil must necessarily be untrue to our institutions. ,A horrible proposition ; let us see the evidence. Turn we to the annals of oar own beloved country. Do . weefind it here? Oh no 1.-no man denies that bayo net of old Conrad the Hessian deserted to Washington was driven as deeply into the ranks of despotism as'that of Johnathan himself, or that his desceriaants have not con tributed their fair share to the subsequent pro gress of our common country as 'those of the other. Even calumny itself ie.,' here at fault and . is 'driven for cause of accusation to grope among the ashes and charnel houses of a past world for, the grisly spectres that are 4o fright us from our propriety. Nor is she more successful in painting to any present infringement of our institutions, but is for ced to the base alternative of sowing suspi cion end inculcating fears of some undefined and impossible - horror. But what cures fa- naticism for the results of experience and wherefore should facts stand in the way of a 'theory What matters it that no crime has been proven against the adopted citizen.— He is to be candemned on SUSPICION; the good and the bad together, the wise and the irznorant, the virtuous and the vicious, all are to be involved in one common condemnation, and thiS, not because of any wrong they have done but for fear they might do some, rever sing the maxim of Jaw that every man is to be presumed innocent .till proven guilty, but rather that every man shall be esteemed guil ty till proven innocent. • And as a corrollary from this doctrine of distrust, that the power of doing harm (or good either) shall be taken away from every man who might possibly abuse it. It is useless to say that this doc- ' trine contemplates no legislative restrictions but relies on moral influence alone, This is but a subterfuge. Who has ever seen a fa naticism of any sort• confined within the bounds originally assigned it ? And what' matters it whether the effect is produced by moral means or by statute, so long atv a por tion of our citizens are virtually disfranchi sed ? The ultimate results is to establish two classes of citizens, the one privileged, he other laboring under disabilities, the one so perior, the other inferior, of citizens and of serfs. For to say that we will stay the tide' of immigration, is to say that we will re verse the order of nature. From the great dispersion of nations on the plains of Shinaar till the present' day, ever has been the march of humanity westward, and as, well might we try to resist the wild surge of the Atlantic, as to dam opt the over recurring wave of population." •Indeed they who advo cate this idea are so few that it is a waste of words to contend with- them. What then follows That we must accept immigration as a fixed and immutable fact and dispose of . it as wisdom dictates. But equal justice is the lodestar of wisdom, and justice with ' charity at her side bids, that the blessings we enjoy we shall impart,' that we shall give in like measure as we have received, and wis dom teaches that where all are equal nothing , is left to create strife, and the spirit of deal- ocsacy teaches that all shall be placed on equal footing, and that whatsoever distinc tions are gained shall - be -accorded 'to indi vidual merit. On the contrary the ideas of our opponents would build up alt impassible wall of separation between the citizens of our country, and to a portion would say, "you are and must ever be excluded from our privilege, no Matter what your merit, no matter what . your deserts, you have been born on foreign soil, and alien you must re main, you are among us but you are not of us, and you never shall be." What is the necessary result, two classes are formed, a privileged and a disabled class, and - the very condition so much deprecated and now so falsely charged by this misguided party.(viz, a foreign party in the midst of the people,) is inevitably created by the measures they propose to remove the imaginary scarecrow they hive set up. From this condition of things, never ending quarrels and conten tions must of necessity arise; when one por tion of the community sets itself up to be better or more worthy than the other, then is the bitterness of partizan warfare tenfold in creased, and if we add to this the additional irritant of religious discord, who shall esti mate the fury and the depth of the measure less discords. No, wonder that the first fruits of a doctrine so pernicious, should be riots that have desolated ,our fairest cities. No wonder that fierce passions should be stirred up when the organ: of this party in our very midst declares that "no true papist can be a true patios." Who can wonder that the heart should throb and the brain madden when the reckless and blinded slan derer denounces men as traitors by whole sale without a tittle of evidence to color the pretext save the suspicions engendered by the evil thoughts that poison the heart of the author ? What man can help being roused to fiery indignation when he hears himself accused of- black ingratitude to the liberties he loves as his life, to the country whose greatness is his glory, whose prosper ity is his idol.- Who does not feel the hot blood boil when he hears ir. hourly repeti tion the foul accusation that he is hostile to the institutions beneath whose shelter he re poses, and waits but the opportunity to stab the hand that 'has loaded him with gifts 2 And who while with manly indignation he repels the base aspersion can control his just anger within due bounds ? It is not in nature. And what justice, what charity, what reason must inhabit his breast who makes these false accusations against all men of a particular class or nation, without any discrimination between good or bad, and in utter disregard of all previous life or con duct ? Who makes every man, how pure and spotless soever himself may be, the scape goat for the sins and vices of all his nation. How would any man like to have such a rule of judgment applied to hifieself He would revolt with horror at the wrong. And yet these sticklers for pure religion, these boasters of their especial love for the I Bible, never once remember the rule set forth in its sacred page by divine justice itself for the government of man, "whatso ever we would that men should do unto you, do ye also to them." Far other is their course. Enjoying a land the most bounte ous under the heavens, they ignore every claim of charity. Blest Isse Heaven with institutions the happiest, the most liberal, they would show their gratitude by refusing any share of their good gifts to their bretli reie„ claiming for thmselves the largest lib erty and thfulleet voice in forming the in stitutions under which all must live, they would diminish the privileges of others, pro scribe them for exercising their tights - of conscience, and refuse them, for no better reason, all participation in the common gov ernment. Proud of the advantages confer red by birth and puffed up with. the insolent pretension to superior virtue, they resem ble the pharisee in the temple, and wrapped in the mantle of self righteousness they thank God that they are not as other men, sin ners and hypocrites, (like these _French and Irish) nor even as .-this- (Dutch,) publican ! Who does not resent - the .insuiting imputa tions? Who does not feel that-these doc trines if they were carried out must inevita bly produce a never ceasing 'contention ; on the one hand to retain the usurped superiori ty of the preferred class; on the other to break the galling distinction, and to regain the lost privileges. Who cannot see that the practical effect must be to brand as an inferi or race all on whom the disabilities are in flicted and to convert the political discus sions of a free country into the unsparing contests between a conquered people, and their conquerors. It would isolate from the mass of our citizens every foreigner who should land cm our shores; would place his rights and his liberty at the mercy of the very men who denounce him 3._ deprive him of all voice in making the laws by which lie is governed ; would compel him to combine in self defence and to obtain his share of the coveted privileges from 'which he is debarred by a baseless jealousy, that with a horrible refinement of cruelty first stigmatizes its vic tim as vile, and then makes-that a pretext to rob him of his rights. These proscriptive doctrines are doubly dangerous, for they ef fectually destroy the very Americanism which their adherents arrogantly claim to be the es pecial defenders of. There is something in I the benign and generous spirit of American I institutions that absorbs and incorporates with itself all that comes within its sphere, that elevates and infuses with a higher life all that breathes her air ; and the noble hospis tality ttiat welcomes to her bosom with open arms the wanderer and the oppressed of every land, that wraps theni all with equal love in the same wide mantle of charity, and stretches over all with the impartial benevolence of the Deity the same broad shield of power ; that rouses the highest sentiments of the soul, that gives a better estimation of humanity, that obliterates all petty distinctions ; that merges in its own full flowing stream every affluent, and blends every discordant element into one grand.and harmonious nationality.. This, this is the Americanism we love, this , the grand policy We cherish. To such a nationality treachery is impassible and dis affection an absurdity. And to say that a government founded on equal justice and equal protection to all alike, is to be subverted I by a foreign element that has no real existence,. working by means that no one can define, is simply the chimera of a distempered fancy. No, the danger .to our liberties will come when we shall have deserted the principles under which we have grown to greatness, end when, by trampling on the rights of some, we shall have set the fatal example that in turn will involve us all in a common ruin. Nor is the, fact that - these principles create the very evils they propose to remove their only injurious aspect. Not only do they do this, but they drive all -moderate and rea sonable men from the attempt to remedy the evils naturally incident to immigration, and force them to abandon every effort to correct real abuses, lest they be accused of favoring a creed abhorrent to their sense of justice. Of the organization of this party I might say much, but time forbids to examine it. I can only refer for a moment to some of its feat ures that are too repugnant to every feeling of manly frankness and candor to be passed in entire silence. What then are we to think 1 of-a party that studiously conceals amid night and mystery all its acts and purposes; that proposes measures- in which all have a com mon interest, and by width all must be gov erned in secret, and permits no open discus sion ; that gives dissent no chance to be heard, and virtually abolishes .the court of public opinion, that denies to a certain minority the dearest rights of freemen; that tramples on history, reason and truth, to stain the names and blacken the character of - whole races; that condemns them without an overt act, 'and punishes the good and the bad alike; that ill/stifles deception, inculcates evasion, and hugs suspicion to its heart ; that robs its own members of their free : agency, and makes them, under pain of perjury, the blind instrn ments of a secret Council; that arraigns ex emplary citizens without hearing, tries them without defence, and sentences without jus tice ; that substitutes intolerance for religion, and combats what it deems error, by con spiracy; that steps in between man and his God, and says if you worship your Creator in other form• than mine, you shall be politi cally disabled !! ! Was ever such tyranny heard of I Was ever tribunal so terrible since the days of the Holy Vehnael Are we not right to rally in opposition to it? Are we not bound to call to our side all who love the true g!ory.of their country, all who hate op pression, all who feel the generous impulse to shield the stranger in our house, as we would the brother of our blood. And here we see the reason that the good and true men of the land of all parties and every where are rousing themselves to put down this mon, strous delusion, and I am happy to believe that its days are numbered. Never have I faltered one moment:in the confidence that the sober reflection of the people would con quer the.madness of the moment. We also must take our share in the contest, and though we may feellittle sanguine of present suc cess, We are secure in the certainty of future triumph. Ever battling for the right, defeat has no terrors for us. Undismayed we ap proach a foe elate in numbers, and flushed with hope. .We care not. We have not been enervated by victory nor disorganized by fail ure: We accept the issue, and if we cannot command succest, we will at least deserve it. If the fates have not decreed to us a Marathon, we can at worst make to ourselves a Thermopylm. Though beaten, if beaten .we must be. we will go down gallantly main taining the post of honor, and with our, latest breath, " We will pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That man to man the warld a'er, Shall brothers be for a' that." On motion, adjourned. N. CRESSWELL, President. Guo. 'W. SPEER ) }Secretaries. J. R. HUNTER Snow Nothing Americanism. Read the following heart-rendering details of the Louisville butchery, from the Louis ville Times: "We feel that oar readers, like ourselves are heartily sick of the disgusting details; but our investigations, of yesterday and the day before have brought to light still further evidence of the brutality of the Know -Noth ing mob, which, under the circumstances, we feel it our duty to publish. "The house of John Chievers, on Main street, near Eleventh, was fixed. His wife ran into the street with her chill in her arms. She was surrounded by the ruffians and told that if she did not return to the burning ruins and bring out her husband for them teLkill, that they would kill both herself and child.— Frantic with despair, she permitted one of them to take the child, and she return - cd to the house, and told her husband what they said. He immediately rushed out, to rescue his infant from the murdetous wretches, and t. as riddled with shot and left for dead, He was afterwards carried, to the Infirmary of the Sisters of Charity and has since died.— He had not attempted to vote, and had offer ed no violence to any human being. The above pat ticulars were detailed to us by his wife. "Martin Connelly now lying dangerously wounded at the Infirmary, informs us that he was at supper when he discovered that the house was fired. He and his wife ran out. As soon as they reached the sliest his wife began to plead for his life. A few gentle. men attempted to save him, but one of the_ ruffians placed a pistol at his left breast and fired. He also informed us of a man named Munroe, boarding with him, who was shot at the same time. Connelly is a peaceable and inoffensive citizen. "Dennis Long; another of the wounded, lying at. the Infirmary, informs us that he was reading a newspaper in the street, when George Thompson a friend of his and a know nothing, came and told hire that the crowd at the polls were meditating at: attack upon the row of houses occupied by the Irish, and advised him to kedp in his house. He went to sleep, and was awakened by the shots. His two brothers were in the room when he awoke. They discovered that the house was on fire They attempted to escape by getting on the roof of the adjoining house, and from thence getting away, But no soon er had they reached the streets than his two brothers, who were in front of him, were fired at and fell. He rushed on through the crowd, but was himself shot, and remained unconscious until he was carried to the jail. His two brothers were killed. He heard the murdered Quinn tell the mob that ho would give them all The money and all the property he possessed, if - they would spate his life and the lives of his tenants; but the savages shot him before the words were scarcely out of his mouth. No offence is alleged against any of these men. Cassidy, a nephew of Quinn's was shot as 'he attempted to escape from the flames. "George Hubert. an old German, living on the corner of Ninth and Chesnut streets., left home about four o'clock in the evening for Portland-ay.,. to see a cow which he intend, ed to buy. .While passing clown Main street, he saw two crowds, one on the corner of Tenth street, and the other near the corner of Eleventh street. He was between them; heared some shots fired; looked and saw a man -lying on the pavement; saw two men, Americans, go up and fire two shots at The prostrate body, and would have fired the third . but the pistol would not go off. Hubert im mediately crossed the street to get oat of the way. He was followed .by .a man who said he wanted to kill him I.yith . a knife. The old man told him he was going on his business ; that he had nothing to do with the fighting: that there was no use in killing a poor old man. The wretch's heart appeared to be touched; he, went off with the crowd down towards Eleventh street. The crowd ham ever, almost immediately returned again and surrounded the old man. ; One of. them cried out 'Let us kill the ,d—d old Dutch s—n of a b—h.' He begged them to spare his Another cried out that he would shoot him for the fun of the thing, and immediately placed a . pistol to his right breast and fired, Hubert is now lying in a most critical con dition at his residence on the corner of Ninth and Chesnut streets. An old German, whose name we could not ascertain, living on Portland ay. between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. streets, who had. been sick for several months, crept under the bed when he heard the mob approaching. He was dragged out and shot through . the heart. "The facts which have been stated in this article can be relied upon by our readers.— They have been gathered from the mast au thentic sources. We propose Continuing the history of that day's outrages, until the country shall have been put in possesSion of all' the facts.— When that shall have been done we have no fear of the judgement it will pronounce." Popular Disturbances at Electiens. One of the most deplorable evidences of popular ignorance and prejudice, is the re cent election riots_in the western cities. It is something . new connected -with popular government, to find electors, after depositing their votes, rushing with arms in their hands and trailing conrion through the streets, to be used in deadly conflict against each other. It was formerly our boast, under republican institutions, that all our revolutions were peaceful ones, fought 'through the ballot 'box, and decided by the popular, majority. - But if such scenes are witnessed in Louisville, as were recently enacted at Cincinnati, are to be the accompaniments ofapopular election, it will not be long before bayonets will take the place of ballots, and every election be a bloody revolution, as it is in Mexico and Central America. We are net. yet prepared to see the experiment of-popular:government defeated by popular ignorance; therefore we hope that some effort will be made by the intelligence of the country to enlighted the popular mind so far that sectarian and politi eal fanaticism will loose its power to do ads chief, and be made unable to destroy, by civil commotion, a country which heaven seems to have rained its choisest blessings upon, if they were only used properly:— Philadelphia Ledger. From this new manufacture of popular sovereignty, says the Pittsburg (Whig) Ga zetts, we are indebted to the advent and pre valence of Know Nothingism.' 'Wherever -that proscriptive ism has reared its pestilent head the Worst passions of- the multitude have been aroused and-influenced; • race has been set against race, and religibn against 'religion; the nativeehave been taught to hate, despise and condemn men of foreign birth, arid foreigners have been exasperated to the highest pitch of endurance with taunts-and insults which human nature finds it henna bear. It is no wonder then ; that when the two classes, thus pitted against each other, come to measure their strength, there should be a fierce and furious outbreak. ' It matters but little who commits the first overt act of collision; the grand cause which lies back of all is the spirit and essence of know-noth ingism, which leads necessarily and inevi tably to a conflict between the races mar shalled against each other. By their fruits shall ye know them: do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? How to Build up a National Party. Is it by uniting upon principles, or upon men ? upon preferences, or upon prejudices? If it be either of these, then we take the broad, bold ground, that the present know nothing party is a mockery and a farce in every one of its pretensions to nationality. That party is not united upon principle, because the order in neatly every State, North and South, has a different set of principles; and upon the great question of State rights, a question which is every day assuming a more important aspect, it is separated by an abyss which no human ingenuity has ever yet been able to bridge over, even for temporary pur poses. Nor is this party Moderately harmonious on the subject of men. Notwithstanding its clamor against "old leaders," arid the wild hunt for office, it fears to indicate a prefer, ence, and trembles at the bare idea of being compelled to make a selection for the prcsi, dent ial race. Even in its ,prejudices, this party is torn with conflicting -opinions. In one, quarter it is the Catholics who are most hated; in another the Irish laborers; in another the G'orrnan so cieties; and in still-another; the ghost that is held up to frighten every body is that_ of the politica! power of-the Pope. A know noth, ing in Louisiana is friendly to the Catholic; a know nothing in Alabama is hostile , to the Catholic. In, Wisconsin a know nothing -is eloquent in favor of emigration ; in Virginia a know nothing is furious against ernigra tion: Gov. Johnston, .who . leads the know nothings of Pennsylvania, is a thorough ad vocate of abolition doctrines; Kenneth Ray ner, who leads the same patty in North Car olina, and is the bosom friend of Johnston, is no less thoroughly opposed to abolition. In Louisiana a foreign born citizen _heads the know nothing State ticket; while in ilassa chusetts a foreign born citizen,,nut yet natur alized, is degraded below the • level .of the negro by know nothing legislation. - What a fraud upon language to say that any such patty can ever be a national party. Not to speak of the nationality of the Democratic party, which is a part 'of the ex: istence, and one of the causes of the Success of that patty, let us Invite attention. to the condition of the Whig party for years - past.— It had many great elements of harmony.— Its. leaders were great intellects. - Its mea sures . w . e,,se acceptable to the peas :of, its members; and it answered only.to a com mon name, but to common objects and aims. - What an exchange this party is now offered (and by too many accepted) iii the new secret organization, with its Title great men, - it's. di versified colors, its coflicting ideas, its abo lition "head and heart 1 . 7 .-Washingtop.,' .Uition OHIO.--The prospect of a Democratic vic-. tory next - fall in the Buckeye State Ls, hridht enion• daily. Salmon P. Chase is the nomi nee of the Republican, or Fusion party, for Governor. In the 'Convention ,which nated him, the Abolition and Free Soil ele ments predominated largely;' the peculiar principles of the ..K. N.'s were ignoied- le . . the platform adopted; and the , Vhigs who bad joined in the corrupt coalition, were treated by their allies with supreineconternpti pretty much, in fact, as the TurkErtiave beein . treated by France and England in the -East ern war. But it appears now that the Free Soilers have overshot the mark, and the . con sequence is, that vast numbers of Milks and Americans have openly repudiated the nomi. nation of Chase. Thus the great Fusion Re publican party is already split into fragments, which not even the "cohesive, poWer of pat-, ha plunder" can dratv together. In themein - - - time, the Democrats were never better united, never more harmonious, never more confident Of success. They have re-noreinated Col. Me di!! for Governor; who is one of the most popti lar men in Ohio. As matters look now, he will certainly be elected. la" - The whole number of applications for bounty land warrants received at the Pen sion Office up to August 20 is 20,400 ; the number examined, 41,8 0 0 ; warrants issued, 20,236.
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