Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-04-21

BoGUs NEws.-The knOw-Nothlng
organ for northern California, appears
to be DESTROYS of creating the impression
here, that the Know Nothings in the
Atlantic States, ale sweeping everything
before them, when the reverse is the
fact, and their contemplate order is ac
tualIy on the decrease. The State of
New Hampshire, which is claimed to
have beer carried by the Know Moth
ings, according to "Sufolk, y Boston COR
respondent of s. f. Herald, was carried
by one of the basest fusion of "isms"
that ever disgraced the annals Of poll
tics. And yet their majority is only
about 500.
Of Maine, the organ, in its summary
Of news, puts forth the following:
Town elections throughout the St te
on the 10th ult, resulted in complete
Know-Nothing sweep"
Suffolk" the correspondent bove
alluded thus speaks of the same subject
''The town elections in Maine took
place during the last fortnight, and the
"Republicans" had everything their own
way. No other party seems to have
been heard of amongst them. Even the
Know-Nothings appear to have been
swallowed up by the Antl-Slayery or
ganization."
Wherever the democracy are defeated
it is claimed as Know Nothing victory.
OF Massachusetts the summary of he
organ contains the following:
'Throughout Massachusetts, the Know
Nothings have sustained their ascendan-
cy. Four-fifth Of the towns have been
carried by them.''
On the same subject, "SufFolk" gets
off the following:
"The town elections in Massachusetts,
were held on the 9TH of March, and
were vigorously contested in many
places 1t was at these electious in
1854, that the first regular demonstra-
tons were made By our Know Nothings
and then they won their first victories
People here are becoming disguised a0ah
their narr0to principles and prOScriptirc
conduct, and it was determined to give
them some work to do. In Salem, men
of all other parties united against them,
and came very near defeating them
Their majority was only 236, in votr
Of 1910, vote almost as large as was
cast at the famous contest Of 1888, when
the new constitution was rejected. The
Know Nothing majority of '54 was $50,
SO that their loss was upwards OF 600,
and this only two months afi er the State
government passed into their hands
This shows what might have been done
if little more exc ton had been ap-
piled to the work of redemption, for ma
ny people, looking upon the contest as
being in the nature of a foregone con-
clusion, would have nothing to do with
the arrangements that were made in the
hope of etfecting something against the
dominant party. They will be willing to
work next fall In quite a number of
the towns the Know NothingS were ut
, terly routed, after the most spirited
fighting +; and in many more their ma>
jorities were greatly reduced In Ler-
1agton, Of revolutionary name and memory
they could secure but forty rotes. Not "a
few people see IN these facts the COM
mencement Of that Reaction, under
which the new party is destined to with
err away. They may be little too SAN
guine, but it isvery certain that when a
reaction shall commence, it will run to
as great an extent as the same feeling
did in the days that Immediately follow
ed The Popish plot, when men were so
ashamed of the absurdities into which
they had been b trayed by fanaticsm.
that they run clear into the opposite ex-
IRENE, thinking to correct the evils that
had proceeded from one kind of folly
having been INDUCED, by giving equal
sway to its opposite-and the opposite
Of folly is far enough from being always
WISDOM
We close this article, with one more
extract from Suffolk. Speaking of the
late Massachusetts, House of Represent
atiyes, which was almost UNANIMOUSLY
Know Nothing, he says, it
us on all hands allowed to be the
most ignorant and contemplate legisla-
tive body that ever met on this conti>
nent."
So much for the triumphal march of
Know-Nothism on the Atlantic slope.
SAN FRANCIsco.-The San Francisco
Chronicle contains the following remarks