Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-04-24
The Torrent Swelling.

The recent nominations Of the Know-noth-
ings appear to have had much the same effect
upon the Order that raising the hood-gates has
upon mill dam. A great movement was
caused, but it is outward, not inward-deple-
tory instead Of cumulative. That purer waters
OF the surface are the first to flow off and the
outpouring threatens to continue till nothing
be left but the foul mud and ooze Of the bot
tom. The exhalations that fostering resduum
will send forth will, we trust, be offensive
enough to the intelligent masses to ensure
sanatory measures being taken against any
chance of the recurrence of the nuisance
Meanwhile, we have the pleasant and cheering
office OF watching the draining process, and
noting the increased rate at which it pro.
crosses.
In Winchester, from the best information
attainable, the last meeting Of the Order was
of much the same character with the one pre-
ceding. The alarm produced by the card we
published last week has caused increased Qua
ton on the part of the managers, and it is
hard now for the public TO learn the names of
the boilers. There is repugnance to confes-
sing former connection with the concern. The
good work is going on, however.
We have copy of circular signed by
forty-six out OF eighty-Sir late members of the
Harpersferry council. These are understood
to have Withdrawn at the meeting Of the oath
ult. They say they did not "expect, in so short
time after its 1.-THE 0rder's) organization, to
see its hideous cloven foot disclosed. its trickery
unveiled, its proAigate disregard of principles
SO clearly manifested" Besides the forty
whose names are not given, but who are known.
we understand that Sirty-t,co additional resig
nations we're handed in at the next subsequent
regular. meeting, on Saturday last; thus max.
ing ONE HUNDRED AND FoRTY.EIGHT Withdrawals
from single council within two weeks Nor
must 1t be supposed that all these are merely
reclaimed to the Democratic fold. Ofthe forty
SIX signers, nine are Wings, according TO the
SPIRIT Of Jefferson; and the proportion of
Wings among the others is doubtless greater.
Every man of them, we are informed, will vote
the Democratic ticket, State, Congressional,
and County.
From the opposite quarter, as every quarter,
comes similar account In StrasburO. the
Newmarket Spirit has been informed by a
friend, who perhaps has seen "Samr at that
point, "at the first meeting after the nomina-
ton at Winchester, thirty.two members with
drew The same paper has "the assurance,
from reliable authority, that there is no organ
cation of the kind in Page"-a statement
which we have no difficulty in believing,
BUNTLISE lodge among the impreguable De.
mocracy of Page being as much out Of place
as skating.club at the equator.
In both upper and lower Clarke, we learn
that the Order is collapsing, and that on the
Oath Of May it viii contain fewer Democrats
than its State convention did.
The Richmond Enquirer states, that serenity
members resigned in Norfolk, after n late
speech Of General Wilson's A letter 10 the
same paper from Palmyra, Fluvanna county,
says that there we're originally but eight Demo
Gratis in thelodge there, and that every one had
withdrawn.
These are but few items out Of many ofthe
KIND which reach US every day. They 20 to
prove what we expected from the frst-that
Virginia Democrats would, even under this last
new and united temptation, prove their solid |
right to the character for staunchness and |
principle they have always borne, and would |
again secure the honor reserved for them of |
stripping the covering from federal pitfal
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