The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-23

Of one Of The srst nations In the world. Hsnes the
RAPID suggestion Of parties which nave presented them
selves, under various rcouth names. caadidstes
for the favor Of the people Of the United Ststes0co
foeos hsrnburners and at the present u,nment Know
Noth,pgs We eopsess our Inability " trace these de-
senstons TO their origin. but ths derivation OF
the immortal OF wing and tory is fAnc,ful and
OBSCURE ana are content to know something OF the
principles they are intsnced TO represent.
We have with great interest State paper which
appears to be drawn up with ability and modera-
fess 70 call Themselves the American party in the Uni
ted States Tnis party has areasy obtained decisive
asceancy In the Northern STATES Of the Union and 10
is extremely probable that will the Of
President Pierce the next Presidential election But
the principle which the party 10 formed is Of far
greater Importance than any personal consequences it
may produces for this principle may lead to permanent
results in the policy Of the Union The American party,
indeed places itself in opposition TO the rival claims Of
the old political leaders. end boasts thAt its 6rganz
ton has been completed entirely without their assistance
The object OF its founders has been to preserve their de-
sign from the assaults Of other parties until they could
state, curiousy enough, that "thsir organization is
more or less secret in seton, and almost alto
rves its counsel and design Yet, in spite
OF this mystery, which would little adapted to
the political habits Of the United States the party has
unquestopably gained ground with singular rapidy.
II must therefore represent opinion shared by large
Of the American people. It's main object is de-
Union revive the national spirit of the country to
crush those factions which have converted party war
fare into mere struggle for the power Of dispensing
paror age and, above ALL to resist the increase of
foreign influences in the United States.
Tns last motive Is more especially the peculiar and
immediate object of the Know Nothing party They
state that not much less than half million strangers
are driven ansuay by poverty misrule to swell the
population OF the United States and that although this
acquisition Of labor is in respects useful TO the
community, yet that these immigrants ignorant Of
the institutions the laws and even the language of the
country and animated by spirit very different from
that OF American ctzens These persons are however,
very speedily invested with the franchise and the
else Of political power This immigration
Furnishes what without much exargeraton OF phrase
be called the distinct etate republic Its ever swell
ing tide Is visible in community II is banded into
familiar native Citizens I'll ties foreign fn
the sps aons oar
peculiar temperate and complicated system of freedom
sfs as n sn ans sS
iI ys,sSy s
partisan strife and thus impaired and
utterly .by Sonsss eoa for
which the highest Prerogtives Of citizenship originally
TO this we may add that It exercises an undue and
almost exclusive influence over the American press that
IL always endeavoriDg to embro the United States
for it's sinister purposes with the European Powers
and that it is led BY the renegaees the sympathseri
and the OF every cme who have sought
But the views OF the American party do not stop here
They observe that very large portion Of this annual
garded with dsrust by tie greater number Of the Amer
lean people, protesting at least moral allegiance to
II
manner for the promotion Of Roman Catholic Objects at
the Of those very liberties which these
exercise and enjoy The American party, Therefore,
ton Of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
rot from intolerance the doctrines Of that faith but
from conviction that the tendency Of that church Ia to
embody its adherents in party the objects of which
at variance with the institutions and nationa spirit
Of the American people.
These declarations are to great extent new ia the
history of the United States. Hitherto. unlimited IA
cilites and encouragement have been held out to imm
and hA vnIfrt .rstu
have protested absolute indifference TO the religious
faith OF their members. Experience seems to have
community that these privileges cannot always as Ii
beray conceded as they have hitherto been and it Is
obvious that the principles Of this new party main
~ directed against the extraordinary increase Of the
Irish element among tue American population, both
aliens and Papists On many other topics the mani
festo discreet and sgn fcan silence proba
bly, because, although the Know Nothngs cordially
united points that union does not extend TO
a thus tns vital question Of slavery Is EFT Tpno
NothDgs have declared for emancipation while in other
States they support the Fugitive Slave Law. Again, the
to probably because every extension of territory nhab
ted by men of the spanish and the Roman Catholic
faith must tend to weaken the national American cha
II these are the established principles OF the Know
Nothing party, we cannot but regard them with
siderable sympathy. We have ever watched with sim
admiration progress of the United States az
long is directed to those legitimate objects which
be found within the territories of tho
UpioD less favorable opinion Of their policy and
ditto has Only been formed and expressed in Europe
When public opinion IN ths United States was nisled by
with the rights Of Others The strength Of the Union
and tie peace e the world would BE- and
strength Of the American psorle American objects
The language Of the new party appears to to be pa
principles Of the founders Of the commonwealth than
the scandalous attempts OF the modern democrats to
The Know NotSiDgs owe their existen,e 10 a reaction
against the foies and sxcesses OF Kossuh meetings.
OF Irish jouInasm Of the komsh priests, Add Of Mr.
Pierces minister's and 1t is not that they will
succeed in constituting the next of the Uni
ted States they have already returned majority TO
the new Congress.
Australia.
FATE OF THE BALLARAT RIoTERs-DEPARTURE OF
SIR O. FITZROY- TRADE REPORrs-FLoUR AND DRY
GOODS GOLD PRICES.
by the arrival OF the steamship Madras in England
have news from Australia, dated st Melbourne jan
uary S1st end NJ Sy dney on January 9th.
The Basrat rioters still waiting trial. Six
men charged with sedition riot November 30th
ihe Crown had however succeed ed in getting verdict
eainst the pre- prietor Of the aarat Times for sed
tous hoel but the raverser was not brought up for
sir Charles Fitzroy the late Governor General sailed
from Melbourne in the Madras for England.
Trade slightly improved. Failures were less fire.
quent The import table for the four quarters of 1854
decrease in the last quarter in OF the arti
Flour had teen fi7 per ton, but was lower at Mel.
bourne at latest date The S. dney Mrcanle Journal of
Jan. 10Th says The class OF drspery goods now re-
quired for pton Is OF much better descrip
ton than has BEEN imported Of late years. The pscu
mary position Of the aborpg classes has much
bettsred within the last t~o years that their domestic
habits have undergone very material change and ar
ees that would have been eagerly sought for endured
from necessity rejected Phis fact 10 most obser
vabe In every article connected with the drapry trade
more particularly in those for female consumption.
Tie price Of gold f3 les.
The Angel Gabriel In Scotland.
HIS SENTENCE IMPRISONMENT IN GRKENOCK-
SERIOUS RIoIs-THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.
from the LONDON News, April .
The conviction Of John Orr, the street preacher,
known in Scotland and America as the "Ange Ga.
briel Of breach Of the peace, and the nAi sion of