The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1854, Page 4

Among native citizens. “he foregoing table of the arrival of emigrants in the United States, during a period of thirty years, which is nearly the term al- letted to a generation of mankind by philosophy, ia remarkable, as corresponding so nearly with the number of foreigners in the United States in 1850, as deiermined by the census. With the emigration to the United States since 1790, the white population has doubled in about twenty-three years. It may be said, with regard to the increase of population previous to that period, that the revolutionary war checked immigratio and the ratio of increase. The emigration to Penn- sylvania and the Southern colonies was much great- er during the whole of the eighteenth century than it was to New England and New York; and hence the population of the former increased the moat rapidly. It will be noticed that the emigration of Euro- peans to this country did not sensibly affect the to- al amount of population until a very recent period, say within the last twenty-five years; the number of emigrants arriving in the United States in 1930, being less than forty thousand, and in 1835 only people, their numbers or organiza- all assign to them a oe —ene @ some- wi political entities of Thooe chaotic times, “It bee become quite common to discuss the pence they profess, though no- body appears understand, with any degree of clearness, what those ciples are. Some assert that the Know Nothings are native-born Ameri- cans, sons and grandsons of revolutionary sires, who hold the doctrine that a native-born man is just | as good, and may be in some things a little better, than those who are born and educated under monsr- chical institutions; that a man who was cradled in Massachusetts, New York, or any of the State, of this Union, is quite aa likely to be an intelligent citizen, ag good a republican, as one who was rocked inthe green Isle of the Ocean,” “the brightest gem of the sea;”’ and that the plain speech of an American is 8 recommendation for official prefer- “ment quite as good as the ‘‘rich Irish brogue.” Others assert that they are Protestant people, who see dan- ger to our institutions in surrendering the public schools to become the instruments of sectarian pro- diem; who would restore the Bible as a clasa- Pook in our primary institutions for the instruction of youth, and make its reading a duty in all our common schools ; peopie who would not yieli our systems of public education to the tenderness of the | Romaa conscience, or place a large portion of the | these m: tion, hat | 45,444. More than two-thirds of the foreign emi- gration to the United States since the peace with Great Britain in 1815, has taken place since the year 1840. With regard to the effect of emigration upon the politics of the country, it is, doubtless, true, as is generally believed, that it has been favorable to the democratic party, a large proportion of the natura- lized citizens having uniformly voted with that party. There has, however, always been a counter- acting element to the "Irish Catholic and other influences of the same kind, in the German, Scotch and English Protestant influence of emigrants from the British and German dominions within the last twenty years. The hostility of these Protestant emigrants from Europe against the Catholics and the Roman Catholic religion is much greater than is felt by American Protestants on questions rela- ting to religion and religious liberty. It is not therefore surprising that many of the European 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 comparison, according to the census of 1850, of their respective number of churches, viz.:—Roman Cathelic church- 8, 1,221; principal Protestant churches, viz:— +13,280 + 9,785 217 | would be successful, toa denial of his birthri 36,722 | large number of | minor eeote, which are not included. The whole | number of cherches in the United States in 1850 | was 38,061, of which more than 36,800 were Protes- | tant places of worship. The excitement, therefore, | against the progress of the Roman Catholics, does not seem to be founded on reasonable grounds, if relative numbers is to be taken into consideration. | We, however, place the facts in the case before our | readers, as part of the history of our times, leaving | all who read to judge what is likely to be the pro- | bable result of the extraordinary issue got ney the leaders of the native Americans under their | new organization of Know Nothings. \ Qur South Carolina Correspondence, CuaRcEston, June 26, 1854. The Know Nothings in Charleston—Their Mode of | Enlistment—Effect of the Organization. | Seeing in papers from all parts of the United States the great sensation produced by the appear- | ance in their midst of a body of men who assume— | their proper names undoubtedly—the name of Know | Nothings, I write you for the purpose of giving you | @ little sketch of their modus operandi in this city. | This venerable order, although in its infancy here —being but three weeks in existence—numbers al- ready seven hundred members. Their mode of en- | listing here is very systematic. A Know Nothing | baving become acquainted with you, proposes the | plan of both joining this new order. Daring the | convereation he repeate:'ly insists that he himself is | not a member, but he is acquainted with a person who is a member, and who will intercede in your behalf. Accordingly, your name is proposed, and before you are are aware of it you become—what? ‘What you have been all your life time—a Know Nothing. ny A t revolution is expected here in our coming elections, as foreigners have a great deal of power here, our police force being composed entirely of Irishmen: and a reformation is expected in this particular, which is to be brought abeut by this new organization. Our Albany Correspondence. Ausany, July 1, 1854. | Know Nothings Swarming Like Locusts—Their | Identity with Silver grayism—Their First Nomi- | nation for Congress— Controlling all Whig Con- | ventions, In this city and vicinity the silver grays have the | leadership of the Know Nothings. Two-thirds of the temperance demagoges are linked in; a victory for one will be @ conquest claimed by all. The | editor of the gray paper here, is already announced | for Congress, and his early native Americanism | should entitle him to the support of the new secret | organization. An effort will be made in the first | instance to obtain possession of the Whig Con- gressional Nominating Convention—which, ia al- Jeged,can be done as easily as the General Com- | mittee of this city was carried some few weeks | since—and if successful, then nominate the indivi- duals here referred to; which, if done, will drive every Seward whig from his support, and leave them either without a candidate or to get up ene who da i be obnoxious to the Seward and Cathoiic in- | res The question of returning this gentleman to the | United States Senate has contributed more than sareing ‘cise to arouse the native American teel- ing at pecoeaee jancture, as the fact is well known that Seward has been for years in close con- sultation and fellowship with Bishop Hughes and other leading Catholics, endeavor to secure the | Trish vote ; and there is no doubt it at this mo- | tment nine tenths of the naturalized vote would be cast for him, if personally a candidate before the ople, as will be given such candidates for the next | loure of Assembly who will favor his return to the | United States Senate. capex, ae to Fe will be arrayed | a im, and every man the least sus ‘leaning towards him. And why not? Peake a! glance at the usage which Senator Whitney re- | i the last session of the Legislature. | every instance when he advocated a measure or in- | troduced a bill, the Seward whigs, led by Bray Dickinson, uniformly voted him straight down. | The only whiga who voted with Mr. W. were ‘Mosars. and Putnam, silver grays. ration Attorney, to prevent the incorporation of fo- societies, the advocacy of the public school and various other measures; and upon all occasions the woolley whigs uniformly voted him To show that there is now a perfect understand- i Asesembly’ a grays and ited Rothiaee This is mo management or or; tion can by | The whirlwind is pase | who do not wish to be jistless power must ‘‘stand Newspaper Accounts. {From the Albany Register, (Fillmore whig,) July 3.) od many’ of the political sewspapers re just man y merits and demerits of the Kaow Nothings, the probable influence which they will exercise in the fall elections, Though ncne of the editors seem to “ know” aasthing abot | rican but the Protestant sentimeat | spol mk | state of perplexity and consternation similar to ublic money, raised by general taxation for educa- | | bloodshed. The believe that secret societies are an evil in aociety; andeerious evils must arise, es} ly from secret gious sect. LS religious and combatted in an open manner. citizen of other lands, who laid down his fe in that struggle, whiten our fields. a these things our modern Nothings appear olitical sbuves be | forgotten, and turning their back on such memo- t free discussion | ries, strive to degrade our adopted citizens, indero- have its way. In this there igno danger, but good | gation even of the constitution. results must follow it. Lf any political 1 bas improperly*bestowed too many iavors u a reli- gious sect—the Catholics, if f please—let the tacts be stated and ‘aid before the people. Abuses of this kind will oon be corrected when brought to light. If the Catholics ask for any ex- clusive privilege as a sect, deny them in an open and ashe way, and treat them as you treat any oth ersect. If they want more, they can never be ac- ccmmodated in this counti it do not let any But we cannot discuss these peopl 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 hesrt in the right lace—how any citizen who entertains any venera- Kon for the constitution and its guaranties—how any republican—how any person of moderate intel- ligence can ally himself with such an infamous as- “native,” who cannot possibly be more than twoor | sociation, is tous a source of wonder. Knowin; three 51 from original foreign stock, connect himself with any secret society to wage a war inthe its ends and aims to be such as we have mentioned, we assert that none of these classes of persona can dark against a religious sect. It is not republican. | be Know Nothings. It is not the way to win ina good cause. But such organizations tend to create jealousies, and riots and | volvethe duty of keeping There is no class of | their native slough. We do harm. foreigners in this country who Contenagiate injury upon native citizens. The Irish Catholicsthiave do idea of the’kind. It is not for their intereat to do any such thing. Their numbers do not bear an; proportion to the numerical strength of the Ameri- cans, calculated to in such an issue. jonal purposes, at the disposal of the Roman priest- | ties and institutions of this country ai any other hood of the country, | We do ngt pretend to be wiser than ourneighbors, | orto “know more about the “Know Nothings” than aprbed else; but we have a sort of suspicion that “Know Nothingism” is neither more nor less | than the genuine American and it feeling, | roused into activity and enerey by a course of action | porsned br set of political demagogues, exceed- | gly well calculated to vitality toa sentiment which every independent, right-minded citizen of ; this country has felt and still feels throbbing and | straggling in his bosom. There is a chapter in in the political history of this State which no patri- | otic citizen Rae without a feeling of indigna- | tion. Certain political leaders, looking upon the religious prejudices of the Catholic ple of this country, who are mostly of foreign birth, conceived the idea of making these prejudices a bond of | political union, and harnessing them into the | service of party. In this they succeeded. And where the ic naturalized cytizens were thus banded, they were used as @ sort of body guard, to be hurled Miadifes in oe way ol tiene nized them into an auxi! col lic voters, and liy the Tnsh, ‘inst and crush every hody those who had thus orga- These Catho- were courted, and flattered, and feasted upon official patronage, until they came to be, to some extent, the raltag 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 aspired, 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, referred before him. Everythi 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 a native born citizen, was almost driven, if he ight, | and a repudiation of his faith. | Every resident of the cities and large towns, where the people who were thus sought to be pro- | pitiated maya congregate, knows and feels the | truth of thik. ey, too, knew and felt ita truth, | and they availed themselves to the utmost of their | power by clamoring for patronage, and claiming all ; the minor offices going. - Those who organized | them and wielded their influence became not only | powerful,but arrogant in their power; wielding this | tremendous infinence, they assumed the right of | dictation, and exercised it until not only the Ame- | came tho- | roughly aroused, and has, as we suppose, made up | its-mind to resistance against this corrupt and unpa- | patrioiic coalition of the foreign Catholic vote and | | pollster demagogues; to meet, in plain language, he organization of Irish Catholicism with the or- ganization of American Protestantism; to try the strength of the one against the strength of the other; to test the question whether it shouid become the settled policy. of Vie ban organizations, to make 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 meet a response. not only in every patriotic Ameri- can and Protestant heart, but in the better judgment of the naturalized Catholic citizens themselves. They have been degraded by these attempts to isolate them—to make of them a distinct entity; something besides simple American citizens. | It was an insult to shem, an outrage upon tueir dignity as citizens, to attempt to organize them into a sort of Hessian corps, hireling troops in the service of ambitious and unprincipled demagogues, and a proper sense of justice to themselves, will make them rejoice at the prcenest of the disaolu- tion of an organization as dishoncring to them as it was corrupt in those who brought it about. Let this be as it may, such a reform is needed, and every patriotic mind feels it to be so. No trae Ameri- can citizen woull close his heart, or w sympathies from those who flee to this pressions of other countries. ‘ithdraw his from the op Tacre is jand enough, and labor enough, and freedom eaough | for them all. | They will be cheerfully accorded all the protec- 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 | a8 American citizens, and not Irish or Catholic citizens. As religionists, nobody will question or impugn their faith. It is theirs by nature, and | by the constitution, and nobody will interfere | with it, or molest them in the exercise of it. | But when they band themselves or permit themselves to be banded together as Irish- men, or Germans, or Catholics, and as such enter the arena of politics, ne forfeit their claims to the sympathies of the American people, and will have no right to complain if they come to be re- lica. As American citizens they will be re- ted and cherished; as I citizens, or | yerman citizens, or Catholic citizens, they | will not be reapected or cherished by the Ame- rican people. If they their Catholic preju- dices and instincts into politics, they will be met by Protestant prejudices and instincts, and whether those who wield the latter sre called Know No | things or by any other name, ear vet comprise nineteen out of every twenty of the American le. Per (From the Buffalo Advertiser, June 29.) | IN A QUANDARY, | The Albany Journa/ is in a state of considerable rturbation, arising from the successes of the now Nothings in different parts of the country. For some fifteen years past the editor of that paper has been engaged in a scheme to bamboozle the Catholics, and especially the Irish Catholics, and now to see the fruits of his labors and those of his | coadjutors in this patriotic undertaking turn to ashes in his hands, is too Wap ne 47 him to pre- serve his equanimity under the affliction. At no time has the prospect of securing the aid of the Irish been of the most flattering description; but the 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, | carrying with it the undisputed control of the | ; and in the pursuit of that nes pe few rebuffs | would not be like ly to drive the plotters from their | purpose. Judging from appearances, we should | say that the Journal and its associates had been | made dupes instead of deceiving thoee whose “ sweet voicea” they were soliciting. Their caresses bave been accepted, and all the favors they had to bestow readily received, but no substantial assist- ance has yet been rendered by the Irish to the Journal's candidates re lar favor. , The truth is, an Irishman takes to locofocoism just as naturally as a duck runs to water. Fancy the editor of the Jonrnal at the polls, surrounded by his supposed Irish converts—they would desert him on hearing of democracy, leaving him in a that of an old hen who saw her brood of y: duck- | lin; off on the pond, when had led them to the edge to give a drink. No ind will transform by which the Rests contrary, we wish him handsomely out of them ; and if mode of e: him occurs to us, we sligftle mode of extricating (Prom the Hartford Times, June 29.} The lican states that the Know N re eS extensive ion in We and that the feeling of h p Agia i | them and the Catholics is reaching a high pitch. | Both parties are arming themselves ‘weapons, and a serious collision is anticipated. Sto- ries to frighten families are told, and many believe i + C8) 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 are among those who and | di | in | not opposed to all fo: clase. Our army was compored, in some of ita regiments, of a majority of Irishmen when it invaded Mexico, a Catholic country. They fougn as valiantly against the then common enemy, —o that enemy was Catholic, as the Americans Ine generation they will be Americans—Natives.”” e regret to witness the spread of a hostile feeling against this class of men, who have their faults— who toa great extent lack education, bat who have nevertheless good natural }, and are toa man enthusiastic republicans. If they are arming in Worcester, it is only in self defence, for they are led to believe that there is a hidden enemy, a secret organization, banded together to oppose them, and that this organization is arming to drive them from among other citizens. The Nnow Nothings are evi- dently increasing in the cities, and many of them believe that they bave embarked in a cause. But we beg of them to reflect a moment upon the consequences of a secret organization banded against them—egainst their religion, or their natural or ao- cial condition. THE WHIG CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYL- VANIA A KNOW NOTHING. (From tho Philadelphia Evening Argus.) The great question man’s political and re- ous rights is thus cl identified 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- tion, and adopted that of a secret political religious association, which is established for the openly- avowed put of ostracising any man who joctrines. Beaten on all the old issues, in despera- tion, the whiga 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 religions freedom of its people? Does histo: fu such ry an instance? Assuredly not. When | of the y one the hand of bigotry and intolerance down the oo of every man to worship God accord- e dictates of his own conscience, the politi- in this country, if the masses remain quiet and snf- fer the martyr-fires of religious intolerance to be i inthe midnight council chambers of Know LJ ‘othin; is the sworn champion of this order. He ia bo by the oath of this Dseaprpob a appoint no man office lineage for two generatjons on this soil, and who is of religion save the Protes- tant. Are the people of this State prepared to en- dorse this attempt to mingle religion with politics? Will they stand still and see a most respectable citizens insulted by being told that they are soe 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 percecated class, 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, land, tides an account of an attempt made by a Roman Catholic to bribe a young gentleman of that place to take the oaths of the Know Nothings, and divulge the same to him fora money consideration, which offer was indig- nautly spurned. The same correspondent says that a priest of that | city has recently induced one of the members of church, who was a Son of Temperance, to violate his pledge, by continually refusin, Sons cf Tem) rance. This poor man was one of the greatest drunkards in our neighborhood, so much | He has no £0 that he could not come to town on any business, or | ship of suo even to attend his church, without returning stag- gering through the streets, until three or four years | ago he joined the Sons of Temperance in this place, | aud has been a good and faithful member, prosper- asa refage | ing in his vocation as a mechanic; but nothing | should be founded by the would do, he must cut off his connection with the | Sons of Temperance. He did so, by not attending their meetings. He was suffered to commune, and then got drunk, and Ce staggered through our streets a good Roman Catholic, and in full fellow- ship I suppose. Thus you see adranken 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. From the Norfolk Beacon, June 28.) All of the above eyes were on the Know Nothing ticket, and it is certain that they have the control of the Councils, though it is understood that afew gentlemen on their ticket do not belong to the order. The me which their ticket for city officers received will vary from 150 to 300, with the exception of the Collector—Mr. Worrel’s majority | ed only as Irishmen, or Germans, oras Catho- is 29. [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 confidently 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 associa- 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 ops of foreign birth, and to crush out the Catholic religion. When such a party triumpha in our midat it will be a sorry 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- pal A lack of patriotiam and principle and repub- licanism among its people, but as manifesting a startling confirmation of the dogma of bejewelled pene, that man is incapable of self-government. f one religion is to be proscribed, where is the safe- v 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.” Pit J out of view the fact of its being at war with Christianity and repub- licanism to proscribe any set of men on account of 8 difference in Jay i 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 ution had led. They rei upon the reli, strifes that at divers times had rent Europe, and drenched its fields with blood. 'y remembered the In the gloomiest hour Tem) tince, flew to their rescue, and ) 8 money and his blood to ald them in cutting \ose from their thraldom. The bones ef maiy a | bly bight pone O | inmbowe favor these elements of strength could be | not subscribe to its anti-Amercan, anti-democratic | stron, el A to thi franchise will eoon follow. And thus it will be | associations, and from thence transferred | to the political contests of the State. Mr. ‘Pollock | large-portion of our | to let him com- | try with the honorable mune whilst he retained his membership with the | ship, he should go upto trial, a foreigner and a | make it iptory edict of his | ratu red out lavishly | tionist, and | worthy of respect; Upon the democratic party in this city must de- oe : own. these traitors in are aS ae believe Ss its organization is in danger from new association. it has fought the secret foes of the ution in the past, and uered—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- ive the faintest of auccess | nizations. It has ite principles, which its disciples ‘bey are as devened as the liber | are not ashamed to avow—principles that urfderlie our free institutions. ~ The tenets of this new society strike at the very root rhe a geese , and impose upon the demo- cratic party the and responsi ofc may afford to toy and caress these people, but democracy cannot do it. Its mission and sacred trust are to ferret out and traitorous heresies. Its life, since the days been dedicated to the preservation of the constitution. Its future must be directed to the same end. the Mobile Register, June 28] ae MORB pone _ pai pot dn e Dave 60 juent}: emphatic: ly express- ed our disap n of this recent political organi- zation, that it would be superfluous to repeat our views, were it not for the continued attempts of some of its insidious instruments to give it debe nence and respectability by indirect and equivocal means. One of these Cees bh ada ath Ra sons of known and decided democratic principles'as being among its members. The object of this is to — Siig a to unite in an as Lae whose purpose defeat their i, but without whose sid the new d scheme can Sent sant teehee ee ive ly |, ave, we believe, been nowhere successful, This, at least, seems to be the cage with the regular democratic preas of the country. General public opinion also ap; este Se tem yh to ee great mass the honest and members of both the great Mtocisee parties look with no favor upon Know Nothingism. It appears | before the country under circumstances of sach suspicion, it seems to be auch a confused jum! 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, mari —shoughtfdl poops everywhere. To glee Up 8—thoug! people everywhere. To q known, le and established te | 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 rein ishing all its pI and all its certaiaties, to mpt the unknowa and untried realities of the next life.” How ot eeogety thoughtful, and cautious man can join any secret political organization, we cannot comprehend. If any new politicel trath has mand | been discovered, why should it be hid under o lous association, to | bushel? Like the sun, it should shine on all alike. 0 cannot claim his | If replete with virtue, , and happiness, its blessi ngs, instead of bei ede e should be dif- | fused. If it has any new light, it should hang them out. If it purposes the accomplishment of a great political object, it should make that object known. Why shonld it surround itself with darkness and veil itself in mystery? 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 secret litical society, with good principles and ob- Jeeta if such a thing can be conceived, would be un- for the means resorted to for its extension would be unworthy means. It savors too much of treagons, stratagems, and spoils. It looks too much like a dark and traitorous conspiracy. It is 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 suc! When a man is invested by the laws of the coun- ae of American citizen- as a citizen, and not asa member of a secret order. litical rights in virtue of his member- an order. We lament that, in this happy country, so large a number ot men should | agree to build up a secret society and make it supe- | rior to the well detined creeds ot known parties and superior to the laws of the land. If sucha socisty eatest man in the na- tion—if Washington’ himself were its founder—we | would regard it as dan; us and worthy of con- | dempation. But when it is born in obscurity— | when it is said to be the conception of a man of ; little merit, no distinction, and ill fame—for so it is 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 anzeiger des Westens that the | secret society of the Know Nothings met on Sunday last, and attempted to their hall, on the corner of Chesnut and Second streeta. There were about one hundred and fifty persons present, of ym. however, aay. Neo las eer bo- being com; r of whigs and old na- sg and anton The two principles upon which the organization was based, were, Ist. A bitter and | unrelenting hostility to all foreign born citizens— | especially Germans and Irish—a determination to exclude them from all office and all aot 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- ae Late als not exclusively of wl a3 | the whig press have become the advocates of their ; Cause and the “preachers of their doctrines—as the whig candidates are looking to the Know Nothing | for support, and as whig politicians are calculatin | Kennett’s vote by their uniting upon him, because | of his former attachment to the native party, it be- comes the ero aed burnish up their armor and go zealously to work in 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 —that we have a tower of strength in our great leader, and that the attempt to array against him such forces will only consolidate the - democracy and bring them to the polls in a united xX, with their 1,500 majority. If this is the it card of Mr. Kennett he may as well give up the game, for the democracy have won it already. They led at their primary election, on Saturday last, a rger vote than the whigs have in the county, and i nae "oad can bring two thousand more votes ie (hem the Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, Jane 30.) KNOW NOTHINGS. Almost every paper we take up has some specula- tions about this secret society. It is 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 they used to know a great deal more than was true. It is a great climbing down on their to know no- thing. The transformation of editors and liticians, however, is not so great as might be nagined. They ef aed inthe habit of knowing or not they pleased. The have not known until lately that the whig party North was itionized, th it was plain irs ago. This is a case of not before their e: enough what ex! Now the is divided in upon febraska bill. is isa A of poritive knowledge of whai doean’t exist at We think this claes of bipeds will make good Know Nothings, or know somethings, to ordes. ‘The Know Nothings have appeared in San Pran- ve in cisco. The Times and Transcript contains the tok lowing advertisement:. KNOW NOTHINGS, oo y—* x——at—we don’t KNow—W. Wednesday, P. Seetion. a— SIERRA. That t says the: gentle- td 8 tise, in this untry, Know Nothings. (From the New Orleans Crescent. June 27.) WHO ARE THE KNOW NOTHINGS The Washin; Sentinel and the National! the lattera journal, have | free soilers and Sonthes i Both there mw . organizations, and | the statesmen of the present day are alike hostile to | his | them. e polls and cast his vote | | largely upon the addition that will be madeto Mr. | of odium to ny art or set of conicnel of ‘Nothing, But they do this martyrs, with e sort of self-sacrificing tone, a if they had concluded to do their duty and abide the consequences, or, as a man will do sometimes, had taken a course opposite to public opinion and to yw how original and fearless recent sweeping victories of the Know in Philadelphia and Washington, the abuse they have received from a certain class of newspapers has been rather more tem; wer, under all circumstances, aud persons who Ro P leal in polities 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 aes the mystérious and dreaded ro amr which fraternizes with no yy and ens destruction to all. It was jounced as a secret and dangerous banding to gether of discontented and maievolent spirits for purposes which could be little less than treasonable; eloquence took its loftiest flight to ex- press the enlightened and liberal policy which this oot ‘ople should adopt in the mat- ters pentions and license, as well as of protection towards the ‘ down-trodden and Fee ean who eeek refuge upon our shores from rennet their own countries; and finally, an earnest exhortation was addressed to the people to frown, down a) 4 Which tfored to show ts han ” and was working its wa: wer a item of tactics hitherto unkns a 4 Tt ap however, that this ap- peal had litéle effect; that the public failed to louk ‘upon itseif as a band of discontented and traitorous irits, although plainly requested to do 0, and thac siawe independent and pl spoken journals fell into the common error of mistaking the voices of in- significant and factions for the voice of the 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 —The 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 Great 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 leasening 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 isto 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 | a dessert, with wine, &, The Fourth will be very generally observed in | this State—the only effect of the silly effort of some | 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 @ st: 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 My ean | at eventuate in a new party, but the free soilers | and 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 of a look as Viel now. No one thinks that Mr. Hibbard can | be chosen. | _ The libel suit brought ae Catholic priest against the editors of the Daily newspaper, and which, it was supposed, would be tried at the of the Common Pleas Court, at Concord, has been tponed. 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 gueaged in, Seco 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 Bee is 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- ses of tht party. There is, I find, a stronger Reeling 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 pose re and gy the agricultaral and hard-working population. That such a feeling should exist in the cities. and large towns cannot surprise any one, but it shows how d ited is the prevailing sentiment when it extends so com- | pletely into the “ rural districts.” , . Anevening 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 ress immediately. It 4 to be hoped that this is s0; ut when I call to mind that the same announce- ment, or i not materially different from it, | has been rey ly made during the last dozen years, I jess that I have some small doubt on the snbject. It is added that the work will be brought within the compass of six volumes, which I also doubt. The history of Philip's reign, during more than forty years—he ascended the Spanish ne, January 16th, 1556, and died September 13th, 1598 | —is the history of pretty much all that was im: | 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 chronizes with the reatest period of modern history, not even the fort y-three years that elapse between 1774 and 1818 being of more —— than the same number of years that saw Philip the centre of the attention of Christendom. Mr.'Prescott’s powers of condensation, as well asof narration and of criticiam, 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 II. as Mr. Preacott would be willing to stake his reputation upon, within the comparatively moderat of Spain and America; and even that of Ferdinand and Isabella does not essentially differ from them, Spain not bags pe oe frm baler gene , and The of ie arate sg Your great decisive battles of the were fought the month of June, reminds me that in ancient ti the same singular fact occurre’. The batt! rate, | There is an intuitive respect in the human mind for | men who should be | Canne stan ds in history as having been fought the 2d of August, but the Roman poi orale almost fifty days in advance of the true time, go that eer action was fought somewhere about the middle of June, which is the bloodiest time in history. The battle of Pharsalia was fought, nominally, in Apgust, but really on the 6th of June. Of tl date of the baitle of By we know nothing, ex- ceptfromafew words etonius, not intended fo gow Sy light on the point; yet the Romans considcred it the greatest of their military annala, though, as Lucan has it, no laurels could come from civil contests. Among modern. June batiles, that of Sluys, the first of Eugland’s gseat naval victories, was fought on the 24th of that month, 1340. Fre@ eric the Great was defeated at Kolia, by Marshal Daun, on the 18th of June, 1757—a curious coindi- 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 mych cut up at Kolin as Napoleon's was at Waterloo. The I4th of June was to Napoleon what the 3d of September was te Cromwel!—his iy day.” On 1800, he won Marengo; » im 1807, Friedland, where he inflicted the test defeat on the Russians that they ever experienced, exce, tof Austerlitz, He was induced to fight that battle one day earlythan he intended, because that day was the anniversary of i In 1809, his son-in-law, the Viceroy Eugene, defeated an Austrian army at Raab, in Hungary. The important vic! of Fleurus was aie Sea ee Ae? An article of some length, an no interest, might be written on this subject, showing how often the ‘world’s fate, for the time at least, has been decided in the month of June, by the battle-sword, which Jean Paul calls the cupping-glasa to the over- mi fraid that the Dat Mail has bee 2 eee 4 attle isa democrat, anda of New Hampshire. He is a man of ability and by J. 8. Tuttle, of Somerville. Mr. enterprise, and will be euc- “Sleepy David,” a racer belonging to Dr. Sasith, ‘of Groton, was sold on Wednesday last, toa gentle- man of New York, for the sum of fourteen hundred dol He has made capital time on the Groton course, and it is ex that he will maintain his tion abroad. - ~ New ber add rakaoters a oleate hold a convention their ‘order’ the Nebraska bill, bat will act with the nity in the premises. This is probably the wisest resolution to which they could have come. Mr. Ames is engaged on a picture of the death of Daniel Webster, asI suppose I may callit. It will give the scene in the great man’s death cham- ber, when, at his summons, his family and those of his friends who were in the h were around his bed to hear his uncement that his mn figures in icture, resel faithful); all.linad wid: ware’ peusaus. ped able picture has been ordered by some New York gentleman, and will be engraved in London. Ba- fost of both: plosare and. prootngpave,siresdy re an ve doing his ob He d_ the best S lo’ sul ice—and the that on that point there can be ee have established his reputation as a historical & very popa- seper His picture cannot fail to ‘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 Shawmat avenue. The Ly was sppeaiond. at a little more than $155,000, and it Less! t $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. 13,664 names have been added, and 10,711 ex; l. 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 ‘Or- gan of Maine democracy. He was once Master of Portland. He condi the Concord (Mass.) Freeman from 1845 to 1848. He was six years old. Weoccasionally hear of cases in country, but they are not numerous. The ex- ceptions are very rare in the city where cases occur in clean localities. r There have been two verdicts from juries ed caver he Bi eseeiary act, declari: the laces dam: entionally fired. juea- "What is to" th cone’ about ie?” all renine 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- send 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- ery sy Mr. renee: 67 headed the sub- 8Cl ion for a public in ewbur; with the en sum a five thoussnd dollars. TPenalder able more money has also been raised for the same purpose. Algoma. A Horrible Record. The Louisville Journal, in an article referring to the Ward case, gives the following list of murderers who were acquitted: — ere have been scores of notorious cases of mur- der and acquittal in this city and this State. was the case of Kunz who killed Schaeffer. upon the latter thrust a deadly weapon breast and killed him. He was tried and without punishment. There was the case who killed his uncle, Reuben Lyter. Delph himeelf deliberately, and went to the w market house to meet Lyter. He met him, sought a quarrel with him, and shot him dead on the spot. The quarrel was about a prostitute. Delph was tried and acquitted by a iury. ‘There was the case of Croxton who killed Hawthorn. Hawthorn was in a 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. Natchez, a long time before, Baker, ina fight, haa wounded Peters, and made him a cripple. being thus disabled, Baker supported bi ter, after about a year, became very poor, continued his bounty. Thereupon Peters him to this city; rode in the night, in a hae! ; €ent a hackman to inform him that a man and friend wished to see him on when Baker came out and stood at the the hack, shot him dead instantly. Peters was quitted by the jury, and lived here some years wards—long enough, indeed, to murder, or try to murder, a prostitute, upon whose bounty he sub- sisted. There was the case of the Pendegrasts, who killed Buchanan, a schoolmaster. The elder ; H et 5 i i E fs aE | Pendegrasts, with two of his sons, anda negro, went to Buchanan’s schoolhouse, with I guns, and killed him, without gi him a chance for his life. The jury gave @ ve of aoguittal. There was the case of Shelby, who killed Horine ae The two dined at the same public and, m Horine’s going into the street, Shelby demanded of him why he had : in such a manner at the table. apy unusual manner. y pee ever do it again I will blow your brains out. I don’t know who you are.” Horine responded—“I know you, and I suppose a man may look at ped og ae .” At that Shelby struck him wi , and, without au: ofa by Horine, (for he was eto ainay "Shelny shot him dead. Shelby was indicted, but the jury found no verdict against him. There was the case of Harry Daniel, of Mount Sterling, who killed Clinton Thompson. Daniel and T' were la and brothers-in-law. Thompson some impu- tation upon Daniel in open court. Danicl drew a pistol and shot bim dead, in the presence of and jury. Thompsom had a pistol in his }— did not draw it. Daniel was acquitted by a jury. Fricutrvut RattRoap Accrpswy—The train cars that left Detroit on Tuesday at 5 of 9 I i 4 E 2 5 Ff 5 $ lute ili! E j iff 8 Ss ‘atharine Martin, aged over 80, was killed at Troy, on day, by accidentally falling ov garret window, its supposed, doring the night, It is thought that @ke was a somoambdulist