The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-27

OFFICE HOLDERS AGAINST THE KNOW NORM
1NGs.-The know nothings prove to be a terri
! bic source of annoyance to office -hoders and
democratic aspirants. The one appears to
dread being oustcd from their snug bertbs and
the other to anticipate that their fond calcula-
tons for promotion on the ground of party ia
voritism, may be serious]y interfered with by
this new organization. There is manifestv no
loye between them, and Office holding and office
seeking gentlemen have taken the earliest op-
portunity to wage bitter war upon know moth
lngism. We could not fail to observe the tri-
bulations into which they have been thrown
since this party made its appearance.
But, despite all their opposition, the know
nothings continue to triumph. They quietly
pursue their course, and after the elections take
place, coolly count their ma critics by thousands
All the opposition that has been made, and all
the denunclation that has been heaped upon
thenp avail nothing. They are lucky party
and seem to flourish the more in proportion tc
the extent they are abused Candidates for
office, so far, have made decidedly a bad in
vestment wherever they have pitched into the
know nothings They have found themselves
rather Unexpectedly retiring to the shades of
private life by way of a trip up Salt river-with
the only comfort left to them that they have
been the victims of their patriotic and disinter-
esled opposition to the know nothing party
we shall not be surprised to hear of few more
OF them learning lesson, by sad experience
that the least they have to say on this subject
the better for them
We notice already that a number of on,
democratic contemporaries are much more dis
posed to handle the know nothings tender1y
than they were at first. We shalt not under
take to inquire whether OF not it is owing mere
~ to the discovery of the fact that the know
nothlng vote counts up at the elections consid-
erably larger than the foreign vote. Perhaps,
1t is to be attributed to the more charitable con
Vict'on, that SO far as the know nothing organj,
eaton tends to counterfeit the practice of dema-
gogues in counting the foregn vote for theil
own selfish purposes it very properly meets
with the favor of the majority of American
citizens, and cannot fail to commend itselfto the
good sense OF our foreign population.
[Richmond Examiner.
A SHARP GAME-A negro lately escaned
from Missouri, was caught at Indianapolis, not
identified when brought up before the commits
sloner, and liberated. A correspondent Of the
Indiana State Journal gives the following YER.
sion as to how it was managed as told hv tbo
claimant ''s
The abolitionists of Indianapolis privately
managed TO steal away this negro out of iaii
and sent him away to Canada by the hands Of
men who returned and swore that they had
seen Ellngton's negro in Canada. In his place
IN jail they substituted Freeman, free neoro
and sent to Georgia for testimony, to prove his
freedom, BY this adrot but rather costly ma -,
hoeuvre, ne has been trcked out of his NEGRO
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There IS an unusual small quantity of shin
ping at New Orleans for the season Of year.