The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-08

articles rates were about the same.
A IRE, involving the los, Of property To {
Of one hundred thousand dO.ls-s, occur
st Columbia, 9. c., on the ght o. The 9th instsn
The trial Of John N. ucksr for the murder OF b
son, by cutting his thrcs in August last, was com
menced in the Kings Comfy Court OF Oyer al
Terminer Yesterday. report o TIE opening re-
marks Of the prosecuting atorn y, and Of the test
mony 30 lar IS Civ. n, is published in another
column.
The Board OF State Canvassers me. at Albany
Yesterday but adjourned mmedia .ly after organ
izipg.
An account Of the visit Of a Committee Of the Sc
nste Of this State to Staten Island yesterday accom-
panied by several of the Commissioners Ct Emigrar
ton, 10 investigate certain charges Of frau and
peculston Ill: ged against said Commissioners, ~
be found in to.day's paper.
The Know Nothings-Nevv York and vir-
ginia-seward and the Observation-Disclosures
Tiny In the New Camp-Danger ahead.
That our eade s Of Ill arties may be tho
roughly posted up in relation to the latest
Developments and phases the great absorb
ing political movement the Know Nothings,
we publish to-oay several curious articles ON
the subject. he first is from the elder Seward
organ in this city, purporting to be report
Of rebellious outbreak in the Know Nothing
camp at Brooklyn, against the late orders Of
discipline issued by the Grand Council Of this
| State. The second article is q leader from the
lesser Seward organ-the slippery little jackal
of the arch agitator- discussing the general
merits of this universal Know Nothing reaction.
The third article is from the Richmond (Va-)
Enquirer. and is an appeal to all parties in
that State-Know Nothings and ALTO come
up to the support Of Henry A. Wise, the de-
mocratic administration nominee for Governor,
From perusal of these several articles, the
Know Nothings viii perceive that they have
three important jobs OF work upon their hands, q
failure in either Of which will 60 far to destroy
their prestige as an all.powerfnl and irresistible
political party. First, the duty is upon them
to establish order, ha' mony, and unity among
themselves. Secondly, the task is before them
OF defeating the reelection Of w. II. Seward to
the United States Senate. Thirdly, the scarce
ly less important job must be attended to, Of
defeating the election OF Henry A. Wise as the
administration anti-Know Nothing democratic
candidate for Governor of the Old Dominion.
Let us briefly consider these three points.
seriatim.
First, then, there are symptoms Of disrnp-
ton: there is, in tact, already, as we have
shown, a breach in The Know Nothing camp of
this State, and the schism appears to be
widening. The late Grand State Council,
headed by James W. Barker passed resolutions
requiring the members Of the order to confess
bow they cast their votes for Governor in our
late election, and directing that all who we're
fai'hless to Ullmsnn be expelled, &c. The
Council at Brooklyn, held few days after-she
proceedings Of which we give to-day protests
against this system Of discipline, and denounces
It as ''anti-American," "anti-republican," and
worthy only Of the despotic powers exercised
by The Holy Inquisition of Spain," or the
Grand Council Of the Cardinals at Rome"
This is split, and will soon reduce the party
of the Know Nothings to the condition of the
democratic hard shells and soft shells, unless
the mischief be speedily remedied. The Seward
organs, through some undetermined means, we
presume, have come into possession Of these
nutnous proceedings, and gloat over their
publication, no doubt with sensations of posi-
tive satisfaction. Their motives are self evil
dent. Their aim is to widen these existing dis
sensions into m irreconcilable rupture, when
the track will be cleared Of the only existing
distinctions to the triumph of Seward aud his
apti-slsvery coalition in this commonwealth.
The fret duty, then, Of the Know Nothings Of
New York is the restoration Of harmony and
unity in the Order. The rules of discipline
issued by the Grand State Council are clearly
too rigid and despotic. They cannot be car.
RED out. They must be abandoned. To b.
sure, the discipline ,f the old broken down
whig and democratic parties has been equally
tyranuical Contumacious par,sans Of both
have been literally kicked out of Tammany
Hail. Broadway House, and other party cad
quarters, time and again. The pucilists, il
fact. have been proverbially the ruling power
in Tammany Hall But it is to this disgusting
and brutal despotism Of both the old parties.
more, perhaps, than to anything else. that they
on e their ignomInious condemnation by public
opinion.
Let the Know Nothiugs bear this IN miad.
Let their internal discipline be in harmon
with the free and independent character Of tn
American people and our American institu-
tons, or they will be like tub without a bot
tom, and will speedily fall to pieces on the first
exposure to the sun. American principles can
never De propagated under despotism, whe
Their it be in the government Of the country or
in the government Of party. If the rules OF
party are despotic and repu s've, independent
men viii abandon it, and free men will MT joiu
No.hings Of New York. Harmony and unit,
are TO be FIRST achieved; and in this view, des-
10 ic Grand State Councils are not the thing
Secondly, it is the duty of the Know Nothings
10 defeat Seward We understand that they