Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-01-14

GREAT EXCITEMENT AT CIS CISSATI-DEMoN
srRATIoS AGAINST BEDISI.-A despatch from
Cincinnati of the 18th ult., communicates the
following information:
Our city is the scene of terrible excitement
caused by threatened demonstration by an or
ganized body Of Germans against Bishop Be
DIM, who is now the guest of Archbishop Pur
cell, and who OBLIGATED in the Cathedral yester
day morning.
A most violent luminosity, it seems. is enter
tanned towards Bedin by a body of Germans il
this city, called the ''Society of Frcemen," and
last evening about five hundred of this society
assembled at their hall, and, having organized,
marched in body to the vicinity of the Arch
bishops residence, with the supposed intention
OF doing personal violence to the Nuncio.
The Chief of Police, however, having received
4 an intimation Of the movement he retained the
entire police force at the watch house, which is
situated opposite the Archbishop's residence.
As the g Freemcn approached, they set up a
dismal groan, accompanied with shouting and
discordant music. When the procession was
passing the watch house, the police, at the word
OF command, rushed upon it, and each arrested
I
! ensued which battles description. Shots were
fired, and shouts and excavations filled the air.
| The rioters finally fed but were pursued by
the police, and upwards of sixty of their number
captured and placed in the cells of the watch
| house.
| The bitter animosity against the Nuncio, which
led to this outbreak. is the consequence of that
individuals betrayal of the cause of liberty in
Italy, during the revolution of 1848.
| Several infammatory articles have recently
appeared IN the German papers touching that
| matter, IN one OF which the following sentence
occurs -:
eff the Hungarian butcher, Haynau, met with
so warm reception in Monarchical England,
what ought the Pope's Nuncio to expect in Re-
publican America :"
The excitement is continued this morning in
the neighborhood Of the watch house where q
large crowd is collected.
The parties arrested last night have been
held to bail for their appearance on Friday
next. a ~
Fourteen were wounded, of whom one died
this morning All is quiet now.
CHAMBERS VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES
The venerable Edinburgh publisher rand author,
VIM. Chambers, Esq, who has recently made a
brief tour in the Northern and Eastern States,
has, on the eve ofhis return to Europe, publish
ed a letter, in which he says:
81 leave the United States with much regret
[ carry with me the conviction that a great and
splendid future is before them. Contrary to
| the opinion of most travellers from England,
see here young but rapidly growing nation
offering an example to the oldest communities in
Europe 1t is far from my wish to hatter; but
what do not feel vast delight in seeing? am
overcome with the stupendous proportions and
capacity of the country-its far stretching fields
for human subsistence and happiness. OF the
American people, so little understood and often
misrepresented, I candidly own that their re-
markable love of order, their energy and per-
severance, their love of independence, their self
respect of even the humbest classes among them,
their striking sobriety, their admirable educa-
tional systems, their many excellent libraries
and universal fondness for reading; their press,
free from fiscal exactions; their religious insti-
tutions, untampered by civil policy their econo-
mically and spiritedly- got-up railways, now
pushed halfway to the Pacific the neatness of
their dwellings; their wonderful, and to an En-
glishman alarming, progress in the mechanical
arts; the marvellous growth of their cities, and,
I will add, their civility to strangers-1 say all
this gives me unqualified pleasure. And when
CONTRAST .heil eitIes' Tree Irohi liupefisHi anu
vice in its most loathsome forms, with what meets
the eye in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
other large cities in Britain feel that travellers
from the old country have really little reason to
speak dislainfully of America or to exaggerate
faults which at most are only partial and of no
sort of occount.
''such being my impressions, it will be my
duty to represent, in my own poor way at home,
things as they deserve to be spoken of. Nor
shall fail to speak of the advantages to be
derived by an emigration of the laboring classes
generally to this country-fceing, as they will
do, from perishing and unimprovable condition
to state of comfort and boundless prospects of
well -lninr ,,