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Among native citizens. “he foregoing table of the bag arrival of emigrants in the United States, during a | 10D, m a what ical entities of period of thirty years, which is nearly the term al- Thane Pheotie tinea, ih hee betes nhs common letted to a generation of mankind by philosophy, is | to discuss the petacipien they profess, though no- remarkable, aa corresponding so nearly with the | body appears understand, with any degree of . i 3) clearness, what those ciples are. Some assert musnaber of forelguens-{2, i Uigaed Cision Saaase, that the Know Nothings are nativeborn Ameri- as determined by the census. 3 cans, sons and grandsons of revolutionary sires, With the emigration to the United States since | who hold the doctrine that a native-born man is just twenty-three years. It may be said, with regard to | chica) institutions; that a man who was aa the increase of population previous to that period, | in Massachusetts, New York, or any of the States that the revolutionary war checked immigratior fe Union, is Gender likely to be - eg P| A +, A) citizen, as good a republican, as one who was rocked and the ratio of increase. The emigration to Penn: in “the green Isle of the Ocean,” “the brightest sylvania and the Southern colonies was much great- | gem of the sea;” and that the plain speech of an er during the whole of the eighteenth century than | American is 8 recommendation for official prefer- it was to New England and New York; and hence the Grr re oper neo hae oaepge population of the former increased the most rapidly. | Ger to our institutions in surrendering the public It will be noticed that the emigration of Euro- | schools to Log the Thence ~ ore pro- peans to this country did not sensibly affect the to- diem; who would restore the le as a class- al amount of population until a very recent period, of eee geet Sea Peconic say within the last twenty-five years; the number of ‘ emigrants arriving in the United States in 1830, people, their numbers or organiza- al) assign to ther ition—and a some- common schools i, poopie who would not yiel our system of public education to the tenderness of the being less than forty thousand, and in 1835 only mam conscience, or place a large portion of the | gration to the United States since the peace with ae Sed pei inks iacacehoniias tai e preten wiser our: rs, Recast sii oivines on maleeges cone Kale “knot more about the" Know Nothings” ta . icion anybody else; but we have a sort of suspi With regard to the effect of emigration upon the this “Know Nothingism” is neither more nor less | Politics of the country, it is, doubtless, true, as is | than the genuine American and Protestant feeling, generally believed, thatit has been favorable to the | Toused into activity and energy by a course of action democratic party, a large proportion of the natura- ly well calculated to give vitality toa sentiment | lized citizens having uniformly voted with that | which every independent, right-minded citizen of | party. There has, however, always been a counter- prea bane eee be H feels throbbing rh | in 8 mn. re acl ter in | acting element to the "Irish Catholic and other in tee potttical history of this State which porter influences of the same kind, in the German, Scotch | otic citizen can study without a feeling of indigna- ‘and English Protestant influence of emigranta from Len Certain p pete eR pe AR egg eye An the British and German dominions within the last | T¢/st0us prey sepemepelh country, who are mostly of foreign birth, conceived twenty years. ‘The hostility of these Protestant | the idea’ of making ieee prejudices ‘a bond of emigrants from Europe against the Catholics and ae ee se betes a ae a Ke the Roman Catholic religion is much greater than | S¢rvice of 7 they succeeded. An is felt by American Protestants on questions tela- Mere the Gatioic unturtzed sass Tr bole ting to religion and réligious liberty. It is not | gnard, tobe hurled against and crush every hody therefore surprising that many of the Earopean { Who was in the way of those who had thus orga- Protestants favor the movements of the Know Nothings, and rejoice in their success. The proportion of Roman Catholics to Protestants in the United States is but small in compariion, according to the census of 1850, of their respective nized them into an auxiliary » These Catho- and flattered, and feasted upon official patron: nomber of churches, viz.:—Roman Cathelic church- a until they came to be, tosome extent, the rating power of the State. When the name of a candidate was proposed for an office, the question was not as to his merits, his fitness for the station to which he believe that secret societies are an evil in aociety ; and serious evils must arise, e8) Uy from secret combatted in an open manner. discussion results must followit. Lf any political yy bas improperly"bestowed too many favors u @ reli- gious sect—the Catholics, if you please—let the taets be stated and aid people. Abuses of this kind will soon be corrected when brought to light. If the Catholics ask for any ex- clusive privilege as a sect, deny them in an open and mealy, way, and treat them as you treat any oth ersect. If they want more, they can never ccommodated in this count ut do not let any “native,” who cannot possibly be more than twoor three steps from original foreign stock, connect himself with any secret society to wage a war inthe It is not the way to win ina good cause. But such bloodshed. They do harm. There is no class of foreigners in this country who Coren injury upon native citizens. The Irish Catholicsthiave do idea of the’ kind. It is not for their interest to do any ote ieee q ae do po oe an proportion nume! strength meri- cans, calculated to give ee pry arg in such an issue. They are as dev ti Le and institutions of this country aa any other class. Our army was compoered, in some of its re; of a majority of Irishmen when it invaded. Mexico, the then common enemy, tl a bo enemy was ® generation Catholic, as the Americans they will be Americans—'‘Natives.”” 'e regret to witness the spread of a hostile seit this class of men, who have their faults— nevertheless good natural impulses, and are toa man enthusiastic republicans. If they are arming in Worcester, it is only in self defence, for they are led to hac cen et is a hidden suey a mea organizat oD, ie together pose them, an that this organization is believe that they have embarked in a consequences of a secret organization banded against them—against their religion, or their natural or 30- cial condition. TRE WHIG CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYL- Cron cee eee ‘rom tho veni 8. The great question man’s ‘Tolitieal and re- lous ena is thus Sleari, leat tas with the cess of the democracy in coming State con- test. The candidate of the so-called whig party has voluntarily abandoned the platform of the constitu- eapired, but whether he could secure the Catholic support—whether he could command the Irish vote. If he could not, he was thrust aside and some other, | in whose favor these elements of strength could be | enlisted, preferred before him. Everything and | every body was sacrificed to the Irish, orthe Catho- | lic influence, until the political aspirant, no matter | what his intellectual or moral excellence might be, | | if native born citizen, was almost driven, if he | would be successful, toa denial of hia birthright, and a repudiation of his faith. | ae resident of the cities and large towns, | where the people who were thus sought to be pro- | pitiated say congregate, knows and feels the | truth of thik, ey, too, knew and felt its truth, | TOLL. .sssseseesserceeresnceseeserteeeeseenes 36,722 | and they availed themselves to the utmost of their | Protestant churches, besides a large number of | poner by clamoring for patronage, and claiming all | minor seots, which are not included. The whole | the minor offices going. Those who organized | = ; ; them and wielded their influence became not only | number of cherches in the United States in 1850 | powerful,but arrogant in their power; wieldin this was 38,061, of which more than 36,800 were Protes- | tremendous influence, they assumed the right of | tant places of worship. The excitement, therefore, | aaa Si gem eal ae cael i only. ste Tae | against the progress of the Roman Catholics, does | roughly aroused, and has, as we suppose, made “4 | not scem to be founded on reasonable grounds, if | its-mind to resistance against this corrupt and unpa- | relative numbers is to be taken into consideration, | Patrioiic coalition of the foreign Catholic vote and | We, however, place the facts in the case before our | litical demagogues; to mest, in plain language, Fat a he organization of Irish Catholicism with the or- | readers, as part of the history of our times, leaving | ganization of American Protestantism; to try the | all who read to judge what is likely to be the pro- | strength of the one against the strength of the other; bable result of the extraordinary issue got up by | to test the question whether it shouid become the the leaders of the native Americans under their | settled policy of political organizations, to make new organization of Know Nothings. : | Catholicism’the ruling influence in the State, and | everything and every body be sacrificed to its pre- judices or ita caprice. Aud this, while we profess to “know nothing” about the matter, more than our | neighbors know, we Suppose to be Know Nothing- | ism. Ifit is, the reform which it aims to accom- plish is a good one, and will be carried out. It will ing in papers from all parts of the United | meet a response. not only in every patriotic Ameri- | baa Dal guaclegs Spee | can and Protestant heart, but in the better judgment States saree great sensation produced by the:sppear | oF the naturalized Catholic citizens themselves. 8nce in their midst of a body of men who assume— | They have been degraded by these attempts to their proper names undoubtedly—the name of Know | isolate them—to make oF them a distinct entity; a little ketch of their modus operandi in this city. | gionity as citizens, to attempt to oeennias them This venerable order, althongh in its infancy here | into a sort of Hessian corps, hireling troops in the —being but three weeks in existence—numbers al- | service of ambitious and unprincipled demagogues, | ready seven hundred members. Their mode of en- | 224 proper sense of justice to themselves, will listing here is very systematic. A Know Nuthing | make them rejoice at the prospect of the dissolu- having become acquainted with you, proposes the | ton of an organization as dishoncring to them as it plan of both joining this new order. Daring the | ¥88 corrupt in tl who brought it about. Let conversation he repeate®ly insists that he himself is | bad be as it mere a ures a8 ag Bon emer | not a member, but he is acquainted with a person | Patriotic min Ma oleh v4 neve 0 ras. < at who is @ member, aud who will intercede in your | ©" citizen would close Lis heart, or draw hia behalf. Accordingly, your name is proposed, aud | *)Tpathies from those who flee to this refuge before you are are aware of it you become—what? lic voters, and ialiy the ih, were courted, 6, 1,221; principal Protestant churches, viz 338 1,459 1)217 853 242 529 126 328 Q@ur South Carolina Correspondence, CuARLESTON, June 26, 1854. The Know Nothings in Charleston—Their Mode of Enlistment—Effect of the Organization. from the oppressions of other countries. cre is | What you have been all your life time—a Know | and enovgt and labor enough, and freedom enough | othing. |. They will be cheerfully accorded all the protec- | A great revolution is expected here in our coming elections, as foreigners have a great deal of power here, our police force being composed entirely of Trishmen: and a reformation is expected in this | particular, which is to be brought abeut by this new organization. tion of the laws, and all the rights guaranteed to | them by the constitution. If they choose to be- come citizens no obstruction will be thrown in their way; but when they become such it must be simply as American citizens, and not Irish or Catholic citizens. As religionists, nobody will question or impugn their faith. It is theirs by nature, and zs ” | by the constitution, and nobody will interfere | Aupany, July 1,1854. | with it, or molest’ them in the exercise of it. Know Nothings Swarming Like Locusts—Their | But when they band themselves or permit Identity with Silver grayism—Their First Nomi- | themselves to “be banded together aa Irish- | men, or Germans, or Catholics, and as such nation for Congress— Controlling all Whig Con- | enter the arena of politics, they forfeit their claims ventions. to the sympathies of the American people, and will In This city and vicinity the silver grays have the | ks ad cist bd pecul a they come to ee i ‘ i garded only as Irishmen, or Germans, oras Catho- leadership of the Know Nothings. Two-thirds of | eee en ree aitinens ‘they Mill be ne. the temperance demagoges are linked in; a victory ected and cherished; as I citizens, or | for one will be @ conquest claimed by all. The | cord foe vay Meererc! Roo they | editor of the gray paper here, is already announced | Will not be respected or cherishe the Ame- " | rican people. If they ci their Catholic preju- for Congress, and his early native Americanism | giceg Ted instincts into politics, they will be niet should entitle him to the support of the new secret by Protestant prejudices and instincts, and whether organization, An effort will be made in the first | those who wield the latter are called Know No- instance to obtain possession of the Whig Con- | things or by Oy oe name, Me eee } : % i gressional Nominating Convention—which, is al- | OnE searghtbibhsl tcl hak pit leged, can be done as easily as the General Com- | {From the Buffalo Advertiser, June 29.) ; ‘ i | IN A QUANDARY, ein eae aiby was, carted nome. few weske | The Albany Journal is in a state of considerable | since—and if successful, then nominate the indivi- perturbation, arising from the successes of the | duals here referred to; which, if done, will drive now Nothings in different parts of the country. every Seward whig from his support, and leave them | For some fifteen years paat the editor of that paper ‘either without a candidate or to get up ene who has been engaged in a scheme to bamboozle the will not be obnoxious to the Seward and Uathoiicin. Catholics, and especially the Irish Catholics, and terest. | now to see the fruits of his labors and those of his | ‘The question of returning this gentleman to the | coadjutors in this patriotic undertaking turn to United Statea Senate has contributed more than Our Albany Correspondence. ashes in his hands, is too provoking for him to pre- serve his equanimity under the affliction. At no anything else to arouse the native American tecl- | time has the prospect of securing the aid of the ing at this particular junctore, as the fact is well | Irish been of the neat flattering dessription; but the known that Seward has been for years in close con- | movers in the enterprise have persevered under | circumstances that would have disheartened per- | | sons of a lesa sanguine temperament. The object | was one of vast importance—nothing less than to | obtain the possession of the federal government, | aultation and fellowship with Bishop Hughes and other leading Catholics, apt Sees secure the Irish vote ; and there is no doubt it at this mo- nent nine tenths of the naturalized vote would be cast for him, if personally a candidate before the | carryin ith it the undisputed control of the people, “ i os ipo so othe for the next | spoils; and 1a the purentt of that object a few rebuffs ouse of Assembly who will favor his return to the | would not be likely to drive the plotters from their | United States Senate. The Know Nothings to a man will be arrayed against him, and every man the least suspected of leaning towards him. And why not? Take a giance at the usage which Senator Whitney re- ceived at the Inet session of the Legislature. In every instance when he advocated a measure or in- troduced a bill, the Seward whi, Dickinson, uniform], urpose. Judging from appearances, we should | say that the Journal and its associates had been made dupes instead of deceiving those whose “ sweet voices” they were soliciting. Their caresses have been accepted, and all the favora they had to bestow readily received, but no substantial assist- ance has yet been rendered by the Irish to the Journal's candidates for popular favor. _ The truth is, an Irishman takes to locofocoism just aa naturally as a duck runs to water. Fancy the editor of the Jonrnal at the polls, surrounded by his supposed Irish converte—they would desert him on hearing the cry of democracy, leaving him in a state of perplex: ity and consternation similar to that of an old hen who saw her brood of young duck- | lings swimming off on the pond, when she had merely led them to the edge to ae tl @ drink. No cajoler; or promises of any kind will transform Irishmen into reliable whige. Now and then Pat will give you a vote ; but his tendencies are in an op- posite direction. The Journal is painfully conscious of ‘this fact ; and now having incurred the hostility of the Know Nothings, by courting that class against whom the exertions of the association are directed, it is not surprising that the editor should view his awkward position with chagrin and » He sees nething but aversion and resistance on either side. The affinities of the Catholics are with the demo- cracy ; and the Knew Nothings, comprehending all | his manwuvrings to conciliate their enemies, are sure to proscribe him, We don't wish to licate rounded. On the contrary” ws wish hin handsomely ronnded. On the coi we im out of them ; and if any eligible mode of extricating him occurs to us, we shall be sure to mention it. (Prom the Hartford Times, June 29.) THE KNOW NOTHINGS. The Springfield Reputican states that the Know Nothings are effecting an extensive organization in | | Wo ir, and that the feeling of hostility between | | them and the Catholics is reaching @ high pitch. | | Both parties are arming themselves with deadly | weapons, and a serious collision is anticipated. Sto- ries to frighten families are told, and many believe them, especially the wicked assertion that domestics | are ready to poison families, Such a state of things is unfortunate in any community, and good citizens | should not encourage or countenance any organiza- tion that gives rise to it We sre among those who 38, led by Bray | voted him straight’ down. | The only whigs who yoted with Mr. W. were Meesrs. Brooks snd Putnam, silver grays. It is well remembered how zealously and earneat- ly Senator Whitney Jabored to save thousands of dollars annually to the citizens of New York, by | remodelling the fees and perquisites of the Corpo- | ration Attorney, to prevent the incorporation of fo- reign societies, the advocacy of the public school , and various other measures; and upon all co the woolley whigs uniformly voted him own. q between the grays and tho Nothiags, ks: only ween grays and the Nothings, i aecensry 0 advert to the fact that upon the oooe | ,@ evenings since, at the Broadway Taber- when the Order of United Americans prey Mr. Whitney with a testimonial of reapec- course inthe Senate, Judge Campbell, aspi- Governor, Erastus Brooks, State Senator, rage, candidate for Con; and many pp greys, composed distinguished waition, and a majority of the | and Asesembly*district convetions, | controlled by a combination of Mamelawites, greys and United Americans, alias Know is ae EF firml; yi a old Party, management or organization can by prevent it. The whirlwind is pase Rojourly” cad those who do not wish to be crushed beneath its resistless power must ‘stand from under.” rt i f P f F £ za i zB iver gg8 m Accounts. From the Aibeny Regiter, (Fillmore whig,) July 8.} ARE THEY, any helm Se THEY DRIVING re ! good many of the politi newspapers are just iocassing the merits and demerits of the Kaow Nothings, and the probable influence which they will exercise in the fall elections. Thoush none of the editors seem to “ know” anything abot 8.33 | ing in his vocation as a mechanic; but nothing tion, and adopted that of a secret political religious association, which is established for the openly- avowed purpose of ostracising any man who not subscribe to its anti-Amercan, anti-democratic doctrines. Beaten on all the old issues, in despera- tion, the whigs and their allies have laid violent hands on the very ark of our liberties as a people and perpetuity as a nation. Does any one suppose that the liberties of a country can outlive the religious freedom of its people? Does history furnish such an instance? Asauredly not. When | the hand of bigotry and intolerance strikes down the right of every man to worship God accord- ing to the dictates of his own conscience, the politi- cal franchise will soon follow. And thus it will be in this country, if the masses remain quiet and snf- fer the martyr-fires of religious intolerance to be lighted in the midnight council chambers of Know othing associations, and from thence transferred to the political contests of the State. Mr. Pollock is the sworn champion of this order. He is bound have its way. In this there igno danger, but good | gation even of the constitution. ac- | any republican—how any person of moderate intel- dark against a religious sect. It is not republican. | be Know Nothings. organizations tend to create jealousies, and riots and | volvethe aaty of auccess | nizations. It has its principles, which its disciples 0 the liber- | are not ashamed to avow—principles that urfderlie ‘iments, | root of these ciples, and impose wu the demo- a | cratic party the and responsi! of crushi monster. ‘iggery may afford to toy wit | Catholic country. They fought as valiantly against | out the 10 to a great extent lack education, bat who have | must be directed to the same end. ir too) aeceraeartg | om them from | views, were it not for the continued attempts of smong other citizens. The Nnow Nothings are evi- | some of its insidious instruments to give it promi- dently ‘increasing in the cities, and many of them | nence and respectability by indirect cause. | means. One of these consists in Bat we beg of them to reflect a moment upon the | sons of known and decided democratic princip by the oath of this Tee pa ious association, to appoint no man lineage for two generations on this soil, and who is not opposed to all form’ of reli, tant. Are the people of this Gorse this attempt to mingle religion with politics? | Will they stand still and see a large-portion of our | most respectable citizens insulted by being told that they are Tey enough to sweep the streets, but not | to hold office or'fill responsible trusts? When these issues are presented, coupled with the fact that the next movement will be to interfere with the laws With relation ta the property of the persecated clase, can there be a question as to which side the masses of this State will cling? We think not. BECRET SOCIETIES. A correspondent of the Baltimore Clipper, writing from Westminster, Maryland, gives an account of an attempt made by a Roman Catholic to bribe a young gentleman of that I ca to take the oaths of the Know Nothings, and divulge the same to him fora money consideration, which offer was indig- nantly spurned. The same correspondent says that a priest of that | city has recently induced one of the members of his church, who was a Son of Temperance, to violate his pledge, by continually refusing to let him com- mune whilst he retained his membership with the Sons cf Temperance. This poor man was one of the greatest drunkards in our neighborhood, somuch £0 that he could not come to town on any business, or even to attend his church, without returning stag- gering through the streets, until three or four years ago he joined the Sons of Temperance iu this place, oud has been a good and faithful member, prosper- would do, he must cut off his connection with the Sons of Temperance. He did 80, by not attending their meetings. He was suffered to commune, and | then got drunk, and again staggered through our office who cannot claim his | If replete with virtue, n save the Protes- | fused. If it has apy new lights, it sh them Hato prepared to en. ets y new lights, it should hang | Veil itgelf in mystery? | Worthy of respect; for the means resorted to for its | agree to build up a secret society and make it supe- citizen of other lands, who laid down his fe in that » le, whiten our fields. But these our N to have modern lothings appear abuses be | forgotten, and turning their back on such memo- ries, strive to degrade our adopted citizens, in dero- But we cannot discuss these People with ‘a tience. They are promulgating most ed and anti-republiean tenets that have ever been broached in this country, and they must not object to being dealt with as they deserve. How any Christian—how any man with his heart in the right lace—how any citizen who entertains any venera- Kon for the constitution and its guaranties—how ligence can ally himself with such an infamous as- sociation, is tous a source of wonder. Knowin its ends and aims to be such as we have mentioned, we assert that none of these classes of persona can Upon the democratic party in this city must de- of keeping down these traitors in their native slough. We are loth to believe that its organization is in danger from this new association. Thea fought the secret foes of the Constitution in the past, and conquered—we do not despair of its ability to cope with them in the future. True de- mocraoy sets a face of flint against all such orga- our free institutions. ~ The tenets of this new society strike at the very and caress these people, but democracy cannot do it. Its mission and sacred trust are toferret out and hound down all such ‘traitorous heresies. Its life, since the days of Jefferson, has been dedicated to the preservation of the constitution. Its future (From the Mobile Register, June 28.] “We have ao frequently and: emphatically express € have 69 juent ed our diay ahs of this recent political ee: zation, that TE would be superfiuons to repeat our and equivocal sharnan per- esas being among its members. The object of this is to induce other democrats to unite in an organization whose real pu: is to defeat their political party, but without whose aid the new fangled scheme can deceptive attempts: though widely Unde, have, we ive , thoug! le, have, we believe, been sawhece mcossstal, This, at least, seems to be the case with the regular democratic press of the country. General public opinion also ap) to be pertoeey sound upon the qe e great mass the honest and int ent members of both the great political. partiea look with no favor upon Know Nothingism. It appears before the country under circumstances of such strong suspicion, it seems to be such a confused jomule of illassorted and variant materials, it: comes cloaked and masked in so suspicious a man- ner, and assumes 80 wretched a name, that it is be- ginning to excite distrust, dislike, and even horror, among—as the Washington Sentinel forcibly re- marks—thoughtful people everywhere. To give up one of the known, respectable and established par- ties, for a thing that is new, uncertain, mysterious, and to say the least of it, of doubtful character, is “like terminating existence in this world and relin- quishing all its pleasures and all its certainties, to tempt the unknowa and untried realities of the next life.” How any intelligent, thoughtful, and cautious man can join any secret political organization, we cannot comprehend. If any new politicel truth has been discovered, why should it be hid under a bushel? Like the sun, it should shine on all alike. wer, and happiness, its blessings, instead of being confined, should be dif- urposes the accomplishment of a great political object, it should make that object known. Why should it surround itself with darkness and Be its objects what they may, it comes in such a questionable shape that the people who have a tixed and honest political creed demand to see it, to speak to it, to know it, before they can trust it. A secrat litical society, with good principles and ob- panes if such a thing can be conceived, would be un- extension would be unworthy means. It savors too much of treasons, stratagems, and spoils. It looks too much like a dark and traitorous conspiracy. It ia the first time that a secret politi- cal society has attempted in this country to seize upon the reins of government. The ‘founders, sages, and patriots of the republic were hostile— irreconcilably hostile—to such organizations, and | bk statesmen of the present day are alike hostile to em. When @ man is invested by the laws of the coun- try with the honorable rights of American citizen- ship, he should go upto the polls and cast his vote as a citizen, and not as a member of a secret order. He has no political rights in virtue of his member- ship of suoh an order, We lament that, in this happy country, so large a number of men should rior to the well defined creeds of known parties and superior to the laws of the land. If sucha socisty | should be founded by the greatest man in the na- tion—if Washington himself would regard it as dangerous and worthy of con- dempvation. But when it is born in obscurity— when itis said to be the conception of a man of | streets a good Roman Catholic, and in full fellow- | little merit, no distinction, and ill fame—for so it is | ship I suppose. Thus you see adrunken man isa fit communionist in the Roman church, while a soberScn of Temperance isnot. The chances for this priest and the poor man he has ruined to fill | a drunkard’s grave is gooi. THE ELECTION AT NORFOLK, VA. om the Norfolk Beacon, June 28.) All of the above Nothing ticket, and control of the Councils, though it is understood that feoeeran were on the Know | it is certain that they have the | coraer of Chesnut and Secondstreets, There were said—it deserves, no matter who may have been | entrapped into it, the unqualified condemnation of the country. [From the St. Louis Democrat, June 29.) THE KNOW NOTHINGS. We learn from the ep des Westens that the secret society of the Know Nothings met on Sunday last, and attempted to organize in their hall, on the about one hundred and fifty persons present, of afew gentlemen on their ticket do not belong to whom, however, only four were democrats—the bo- the order. The ey which their ticket for city officers received will vary from 150 to 300, with the aga of the Collector—Mr. Worrel’s majority [From the Petersburg Democrat, June 29.) THE PETERSBURG KNOW NOTHINGS. The recent triumph of this organization in Nor- folk has inspired its adherents in this city with fresh courage, and emboldened by that result, the existence of such a party is not only -vauntingly proclaimed at the street corners, but its success at the next municipal elections is poate d predicted. The cabalistic bits of paper are displayed on the gas posts, and the number of the mysterious order is said to be rapidly increasing. The entire scope of the principles of this assocla- tion is not known to the public. They have hereto- fore shrouded their schemes, operations and ends in secrecy. But their recent municipal victories have torn off the veil of mysticism from their organi- zation, and dragged out into sunlight a secret poli- tical society, having for its object the complete over- throw of the Catholic religion in this country, coupled with an entire and ruthless proscription of all citizens of foreign birth and parentage. We un- derstand that a prerequisite of admission is an oath renouncing all past party allegiance or predilection, anda solemn pledge to so vote and act as in all things to proscribe de of foreign birth, and to crush out the Catholic religion. When such a party triumphs in our midat it will bea otf day for Petersburg. When an organiza- tion, with banners blazoned with such heartless, traitorous and detestable tenets, wins its victory in our city, we shall mourn the issue, not only as indi- cating a lack of patriotism and principle and repub- licanism among its people, but as manifesting a startling confirmation of the dogma of bejewelled princes, that man is incapable of self-government. if one religion is to be proscribed, where is the safe- y of the others? It was this reflection that induced the patriots and sages who framed the constitution to declare ‘that no religious test shall ever be re- quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Leaving out of view the fact of ite being at war with Christianity and repub- licanism to proscribe any set of men on account of a difference in ell eg opinions, the framers of the constitution were incited to adopt this guarantee by remembrance of the results to which, in other countries, religious intolerance and persecution had led. They reflected upon the religious strifes that at divers times had rent Europe, and drenched ita fairest fields with blood. They remembered the rsecution of conscience and opinion that at times d desolated the mother country, and made men aa wild beasts, thirating for the life-blood of their fel- Jow-creatures. So reflecting and remembering, Ma- dison and conten and the early fathers of the republic engrafted the provision of religious free- dom in the constitution, determined that free Ame- ties should be rid of the evils which an adverse aya- tem had produced in Europe. But the “Know- Nothings” have improved upon the framers of the constitution, and though claiming to be ignorant, tion of superior wisdom to” Washington, Tederse m of supe mn, Jefferson "Mi han been the glory and pride of It has beer pride of our country, since its independence was established, that its i Zene had the right to worship God in their own way, and hold such political doctrines as they might deem would promote the true interests of, the counts It has heretofore been the boast of our people that we presented to the ree of every clime an asylum of safety and riddance from ‘dsspot- ism. “Not many fustrums since, America was com of infant colonies, struggling to break the chains that fastened them to the car of a tyrannical mother. The effort cost them much ot blood and treasure. In the gloomiest hour | of their night of trial, a foreigner and a Fe 4 being Ca raga altogether of whigs and old na- es, and anties. The two pete iee upon which the organization was based, were, Ist. A bitter and | unrelenting hostility to all’ foreign born citizens— | the whig press | Catholic disobeyed the peremptory edict of his | rince, flew to their rescue, and » 8 money and his blood to aid them in cutting \cose from thefr thraldom. The bones of mary a , bly hiphtoned jrurnals attach an oniim'ted amount red out lavishly | especially Germans and Irish—a determination to exclude them from all office and all employment in our city. 2d. A concerted and systematic effort to exterminate the Catholic religion from the country and to prevent its toleration. As the society is com- posed principally if not exclusively of whigs—as ve become the advocates of their cause and the “preachers of their doctrines—as the whig candidates are looking to the Know Nothings for support, and as whig politicians are calculating , largely upon the addition that will be made to Mr. Kennett’s vote by their uniting upon him, because of his former attachment to the native party, it be- | comes the same caey burnish up their armor and | ‘0 zealously to workin the canvass. We do not feel any apprehension on the score of the new na- tive movement. We know that the democratic | party contains no such elements—that the ‘‘secret organization” will have to recruit exclusively from the whig Lk ay we have a tower of strength in our great leader, and that the attemptto array | against him such forces will only consolidate the | democracy and bring them to the polls in a united halanx, with their 1,500 majority. If this is the jast card of Mr. Kennett he may as well give up the | game, for the democracy have won it already. They | polled at their primary election, on Saturday last, a | larger vote than the whigs have in the county, and in August they can bring two thousand more votes to the polls. {From the Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, June 30.) KNOW NOTIUNGS. Almost every paper we take up has some specula- tions about this secret society. Itis announced that a whig and Know Nothing candidate was elected Mayor of Norfolk, Va., the other day. We begin to fear the whigs will come to some end. They appear to have lost their latitude very much lately. hey may perhaps know nothing now, but the nsed to know a great deal more than was true. It is a great climbing down on their to know no- thing. The transformation of their editors and Poeceect however, isnot so great as might be imagined. They have always been inthe habit of knowing or not Knowing what they pleased. The: have not known until iar De ¢ whig party North was abolitionized, ugh it was plain enough years ago. This is acase of not knowing what existed before their eyes. Now _, announce that the democratic Penta is divided in twain npon the Nebraska bill. la isa ae of poeitive knowledge of whai doesn’t exist at We think this claes of bipeds will make good Know Nothings, or know somethings, to ordes. ting Know Nothings have ap; in San Pran- lowing advertisement:— KNOW NOTHINGS, Wednesday, P. Seetion. order— Scribum— SIERRA. THE KNOW NOTHINGS IN CALIFORNIA. The Times and Transcript contains the fol- “ae y— * x—— at— WE er kxow—W. H— That t saya they are informed that a gentle- tt that clty, Tow daye ince, for the Parpooe of instlvoting sone few days since, for the ties, in this country, of Know Nothings. {From the New Orleans Crescent. Jane 27.) WHO ARE THE KNOW NOTHINGS ? The Washington Sentine/ and the National Era, the latter a rabid abolition journal, have commence: acharp quarrel in rey to the identity of the Know-Nothing fraternity, the former cenecting that free soilers and al ionists constitute its main strength and are ita chief directors, and the latter casting back the insinuation and endeavoring to make it appear that nobody loves the -alien or the vaturalized citizen so well as the democratic aboli- tionist, and nobody abhors him so utterly as the Senthern whig. th thece dignified and remarka- of odium to any party or set of men who should be convicted of Know-Nothingiam. But they do this like martyrs, with a eort of self-sacrificing tone, as if they had concluded to do their duty and abide the consequences, or, a8 &@ man will do sometimes, had taken @ course opposite to public opinion aud common sense, to show how original and fearless they were. Since the recent sweeping victories of the Know Nothings in Philadelphia and Washington, the abuse w! they have received from a certain class of newspapers hag been rather more temperate. There is an intuitive respect in the human mind for power, under all circumstances, and persons who deal in politics soon become sagacious enough to recognize the cat the moment she is out of the bag. Upon the eve of these two elections, when the party journals first took the alarm, it was terrible to note the onslaught they made upon the mystérious and dreaded organization which fraternizes with no ly and threatens destruction to all. It was lenounced a8 a secret and casera banding to- gether of discontented and maievolent spirits for purposes which could be little less than treasonable; Brand eloquence took its loftiest flight to ex- press the enlightened and liberal policy which this at People should adopt in the mat. ters Privilege and license, as well as of protection towards the “down-trodden and cpareeen who eeek refuge upon our shores from tyranny of their own countries; and finally, an earnest exhortation was addressed to the people to frown down a party which refused to show its id, and was working its way into power and place by a system of tactics hitherto waknown to peel iene and entirely new to all'the establiahed principles of wire working. This appeal seemed to us at the time much like recommending a man to make mouths at himself in 8 mirror, or cut hisown ac- others by claiming what belonged to. him, or like 8 people to administer a sort of solus self re- buke for presuming to investigate and decide upon its own affairs. It appears, however, that this ap- peal had litfle effect; that the public failed to lovk upon itseif as a band of discontented and traitorous Ct leeds ane nae et into the common error of mistaking the voices of in- significant ies and factions for the voice of the great people. Our Beston Correspondence. Bosron, July 1, 1854. The Fourth in Beston—In the State—The Whig Address—Its probable Effect—New Hampshire— Libel Suit—Know Nothings—Mr. Prescott’ s Phi- lip II—T he Battle Month—Sale of the Daily Mail —Mr. Tuttle—A Groton Racer—The Ministers— A Workof Art—Real Estate Sales—Cholera, §c, The resolution of our city government not to pro- vide any public grub on the Fourth, but to lay out the money usually expended in the dinner for some purposes in which many can take part, has caused some comment, and enraged the conservatives, who do not like to see such changes introduced into the modes of rejoicing over having threshed Greut Britain, which had previously threshed all creation. It would, perhaps, have been as well to-have kept up the comfortable custom that was established in those good times when it was in good taste to drink good punch in quantities as large as your head and stomach would permit. It might have been maintained without lessening the general modes of observance, for there is no reason why the select few should be starved for the benefit of the many. Let both sets have ‘a fine time. Besides, it is currently reported that there is to be a dinner, after all, which is to be paid for by the city, though it is to be eaten in secret, which, I suppose, will make it all the sweeter, as is said to be the case with bread; though the rule may not hold good in the case of feasts of four courses and & dessert, with wine, &c. The Fourth will be very generally observed in this State—the only effect of the silly effort of aome foolish abolition gentlemen to have it turned into a day of universal growling, having been to make people more anxious than ever to observe it pro- perly. The Whig State Central Committee's address will lead to important results, I think. It will keep many whigs in the party traces, and’ the ef- fect of that will be to prevent many democrats from leaving their ranks. Were @ str mpede to commence in either of these two par. ties, it would extend to the other with amazing ra pidity, and they would lose half their number. As itis, the one party is afraid to break up, because the other has avowed its determination to maintain it- self, if it can, according to its old forms and ideas The new movement will, from present sp penrancet hardly eventuate in a new party, but the free soilers aud Know Nothings will take many thousands from both the whig and the democratic parties. The administration democrats are still confident of Mr. Wells’s electionin New Hampshire. They refer to the case of Mr. Sumner, who was chosen by our Senate three months before the House could be induced to elect him. Such may be the result in New Hampshire, though it has not much ofa look that way now. No one thinks that Mr. Hibbard can be chosen. The libel suit brought by a Catholic priest against the editors of the Daily Bee newspaper, and which, it was supposed, would be tried at the present term of the Common Pleas Court, at Concord, has been shee aie The bringing of this suit will prove as foolish a thing on the part of the Catholics as a good one for the defendants. It is, on all sides, regarded as an attempt to put down a press that is ongaged in making vigorous war on the Catholics, and which, as it could neither be forced nor bribed into silence, was to be subjected to the peine forte et dure of a law suit. The Beeis the regular organ of the new party, and its circulation has increased in many places enormously, a fact that shows how deep is the interest experienced in the movements and pur- ee of thet party. There is, I find, a stronger feeling against the Irish and the Catholics—other foreigners, and especially those of Protestant views in religion, do not seem to be hated in the least—in our country towns, and sh the agricaltaral and hard-working population, That such a feeling should exist in the cities. and large towns cannot surprise any one, but it shows how deep-seated is the ia pistan | sentiment when it extends so com- pletely into the “‘ rural districts.” An evening paper announces, in a sort of by au- thority tone, that the first two volumes of Mr. Pres- cott’s History of the Life and Reign of Philip the Second, have been completed, and will be put to pn immediately. It is to be hoped that this is s0; ut when I callto mind that the same announce- ment, or Loerie! not materially different from it, has been repeatedly made during the last dozen years, I confess that I have some small doubt on the enbject. It is added that the work will be brought within the compass of six volumes, which I al doubt. The history of Philip’s reign, during more than forty years—he ascended the Spanish throne, January 16th, 1556, and died povaues 13th, 1598 —is the history of pretty much all that was import- ant in Europe and America, to say nothing of the East Indies, for the same period; and before he be- came king he was a character of considerable poli- tical importance. His reign synchronizes with the reatest period of modern history, not even the forty-three years that elapse between 1774 and 1818 being of more ha ord than the same number of years that saw Philip the centre of the attention of Christendom. Mr.'Prescott’s powers of condensation, as well as of narration and of criticism, are certainly great; but there are some things that no man can acccmplish, and one of these I hold to be the bring- ing of such a history of Philip Il. as Mr. Prescott would be willing to stake his reputation upon, within the comparatively moderate compass an- nounced. Nor can any sound judgment he formed on this point by referring to his previous works, Those works, able as they are, are e; in their character. The histories of the conquests of Mexico and Pern are brilliant episodesin the annals of Spain and America; and even that of Ferdinand and Isabella does not essentially diffor from them, as Spain did not Rapeecreagee Ph oe fom det European art until late in the reign of sovereigns, and then not always an im ite it one. that of Napoleon in after times; om) Napoleon had no power in either the East or the lay, whose decision on a point of veem to be without a) , thinks that hi ence over Europe for several et was than that of Napoleon, in addition to wi what Napoleon Bad it--sigs, SOnnISey merce. He wasasstrong ey oes ndom ni struction of the Armads. Mr. Prescott has chosen his theme nobly; and if the execution shall bear a good proportion to the choice of sul his fame fill rest on an imperishable basis. ere it proper to in I think I might be excused for begin envying ae leisure, the talents, and the abilit in 80 ity to engage grand an unde: }, with the chances decidedly in his favor Of img ever lasting addition to the highest class of the res of historical literatute. Even the mere formation of a design to write such a work, yh it never should be accomplished, entitles a man to respett, as indicating a superiority of mind by no means common. Your reference to the fact that several of the great decisive battles of the world were fought in tre month of June, reminds me that in ancient times the game singular fact occurre’. The hattle of | Canne stands in history as having been fought on the 2d of August, but’ the Roman reckoning was almost fifty days in advance of the trae time, go that that great action was fought somewhere about the middle of June, which is the bloodiest time in history. The battle of Pharsalia was fought, nominally, in August, but really on the Gth of June. Of ti date of the baitle of BG we know nothing, ex- ceptfromafew words of Guetonius, not intended to throw apy light on the Polat: yet the Romans considcred it the greatest of their ‘military annals, though, as Lucan has it, no laurels could come from civil contests. Among modern. June baties, taat of Sluys, the first of Eugland’s gseat naval victories, was fought on the 24th of that mouth, 1340. Fre@ eric the Great was defeated at Kolia, by Marshal Daun, on the 18th of June, 1757—a curious coinoi- dence in his career with that of Napoleon, who lost his last battle ou the same day ef the month, fifty- eight years later. Another coincidence is that Frederlck’s Guard was as much cut up at Kolin as Napoleon's was at Waterloo, The 14th of Juae was to Napoleon what the 3d of September was te Cromwel!—his ay day.” On tl day, 1800, he won Marengo; and, in 1807, Friedland, where he inflicted the test defeat on the Russians that they ever experienced, excey it of Austerlitz, He was induced to fight that battle one day ear': he intended, because that day was the anniversary of Bares In_ 1809, his son-in-law, the Viceroy Engene, defeated an Austrian army at Raab, in Hungary. The important victory of Fleurus was gained on the 26th of June, 1754. An article of some length, and of no little interest, might be written on this subject, showing how often the ‘world’s fate, for the time at least, has been decided in the t month of June, by the battle-sword, which Jean Paul calls the oupping-glass to the over- foll system of mankind. said that the Daily Mail has been Bevcupeee by J.8. Tuttle, Eaq., of Somerville. Mr. Tuttle iaa democrat, and a native of New Hampshire. He is Rye of ability and enterprise, will be sua- cessful. “) David,” a racer belonging to Dr. Smith, of eit was old on Wedacsage test, tog gentle- man of New York, for the sum of fourteea handred dollars. Bans mace ca) fae oe ncn the oo course, ani expecte e main’ reputation abroad. e New England ministers have. resolved not to hold a convention of their “order” in opposition te the Nebraska bill, but will act with the laity in the premises. This is probably the wisest resolution to which they could have come. Mr. Ames is engaged on a pictare of the death of Daniel Webster, as I auppose I may callit. It will give the scene in the great man’s death cham- ber, when, at his sammons, his fantily and those of friends who were in the house, were assembled around his bed to hear his announcement that his last hour was fast approaching. There will be twenty-two figures in the picture, ae prieriece y those who were present. is remark- able picture has been ordered by some New York gentleman, and will be engraved in London. Ha- bali toan amount that will cover the entire cost both picture and proofsbave already been ordered. If Mr. Ames should succeed in doing his subject justice—and the best judges cn | yal e that on that point there can be no dor have established his reputation as a t historical inter. His picture cannot fail to be a very popu- ‘and profitable work. The real estate of the late Mr. Lobdell was sold om the 29th ult. It consisted of houses and lands en Marion, Bradford, Broad, Groton, Canton, Pem- broke, and Newland streets, and on Shawmut avenue. The property was Spore’ at a little more than $155,000, and it brought $160,000. ‘The Boston Directory for 1854 is just out. It con- tains 41,443 names, being an in@ease of more than 3,000 since the last edition of the annual appeared. 18,654 names have been added, and 10,711 exp The whole number of changes made is but a short of 37,000. It is an interesting work, though the reading is rather dry. Mr. George Adams is the author. There continue to be a few cases of cholera. Among those who have died this week is Mr. Thomas Todd, at one time a gentleman of consider- able rote in Maine, where he conducted the Port- land Argus, which has always been the basi Song gan of the Maine democracy. He was once master of Portland. He conducted the Concord (Mass.) Freeman from 1845 to 1848, He was six years old. We occasionally hear of cases in the country, but they are not very numerous. The ex- ceptions are very rare in the city where cases oocur in clean localities. r There have been two verdicts from juries pppoe ed uncer the anti-incendiary act, declaring that the re damaged wh ee fired. The quea- on, “What is to ‘one about it?” still remains unanswered. Land to the amount of two thousand and two feet was sold yesterday on the northerly side of North street, corner of Baker's alley, for six thou- sand dollars. The Sons of Newburyport had a meeting last even- ing, to make preparations for their part in their town’s celebration of the Fourth. . Lamb an- nounced that Mr. Josiah Little had headed the sub- scription for a public library in Newburyport with the large sum of five thousand dollars. © Consider- able more money has also been raised for the same purpose. AL@oma. A Horrthle Record. The Louisville Journa/, in an article referring ta the Ward case, gives the following list of marderers who were acquitted:— There have been scores of notorious cases of mur- der and acquittal in this city and this State. There was the case of Kunz who killed Schaeffer. Kunz, enn that Schaeffer had spoken lightly, of 8 mem- ber of his family, went to his house and cureed him. Schaeffer picked up a small stick and went round the counter as if to strike Kunz, where- upon the latter thrust a deadly weapon into his breast and killed him. He was tried and disc! without punishment. There was the case of who killed his uncle, Reuben Lyter. Delph himself deliberately, and went to the upper market house to meet Lyter. He met him, sought a quarrel with him, and shot him dead on the The quarrel was about a prostitute. Delph was tried and acquitted by o jury. There was the case of Croxton who killed Hawthorn. Hawthorn was in a coffee house sitting in a chair, drunk and asleep. Croxton struck him on the head in that condition with a brickbat, and killed him. He was acquitted by a jury. There was the case of Peters, who killed Baker. In Natchez, a long time before, Baker, in a fight, had wounded Peters, and made hima cripple. Peters being thus disabled, Baker supported him. The lat- ter, after about a year, became very poor, and dis- continued his bounty. Thereupon ‘Peters pursued him to this city; rode in the night, in a hack, to his house; cent a hackman to inform him that a man and friend wished to see him on business; and, when came out and stood at the window of the hack, shot him dead instantly. Peters was ac- quitted by the jury, and lived here some years after- wards--long enough, indeed, to murder, or try to murder, a prostitate, upon whose bounty he sub- sisted. There was the case of the Pendegrasts, who killed Buchanan, a schoolmaster. The elder | Pendegrasts, with two of his sons, anda negro, with loaded him a chance ict of aoguittal. went to Buchanan’s schoolhouse, guns, and killed him, without givin, for his life. The jury on a vel There was the case of Shelby, who killed Horine in Lexington. The two dined at the same public table, and, upon Horine’s going into the street, ponies ster of him why he had looked at him in sucha manner at the table. Horine answered. that he was not aware of having looked at him im any unusual manner. Shelby said, “You did, and if Pans ever do it again I will blow your brains out. I don’t know who you are.” Horine responded—“T know you, and I suppose a man may look at if your name is Shelby.” At that Shelby struck hina with his fist, aud, without any display by Horine, oe he was Wee) ‘4 dead, Shelby was indicted, but the jury fouud no verdict against him. There was the case of Harry Pere of ha bet » who killed a jompson. Daniel and Thompson were lawyers, and brothers-in-law. ‘Thompson made some impu- tation upon Daniel in open court. Danicl drew a pistol and shot bim dead in the presence of judge and jury, Thompsom had a pistol in his pocket, ne did not draw it. Daniel was acquitted by a jury. Fricurron RatroaD Accrpex?—The train of cars that left Detroit on Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock, when within nine miles of Paris, Tan off the track on a high 5 workmen were ing a piece of track, and sent a to stop » but the engineer did not heed it, and run the engine into the cand and off the embankment. whole train of cars would have followed had the send been deep, which buried the wheels. The engine was broken to PB doco four were demolished, and mage places, and tranks bro! nts turned out. One of a Shelby shot he tenis did wot reach the Palle oth aaa not reac! ‘Wednesday morning. ‘a pn Destructive Hai Srorm.—The hail storm im Kent county, Md., on Saturday last, an account of which we gave yesterday, ts said to have destro; nearly the entire wheat of the Hon. J; i cheat bal en naps wheat, corn, ve; &o., great damage. A large quantity of window glass was brolmn in Chestertown. e storm also ex- tended to Be Anne’s county, where much in- jor was sustained.—_Baltrmore Sun, June 28. —_—_ Catharine Martin, aged over 80, was killed at Troy, on Friday, by accidentally falling out of a garret window, it's supposed, doring the night, It ia thought that eho was a somDambulist