The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-04
The News.

Tho News.
The fsnaticism OF the advocates Of the prohibtory
Nquor law at Portland, Me-, has found vent in riot
ssd bloodshed. It sppears that Neil Dow, Mayor
% Portland, and author of the Maine law, purchased
quantity of liquor, expecting to sell it At profit
- the town agency. The agency, however, did not
purchase, and complaint was made against Dow for
violation Of the statute. While the complaint was
pending, the Mayor induced the city authorities to
purchase his stock. licensed at these proceedings
mob collected about the building where the liquor
Was stored and threatened its destruction. The mill
fary were ordered out, and the rioters persisted
In their application Of the search and seizure priu
ciple, fired upon the mob, killing one man and
wounding several others.
At Columbus, Ohio, on the 30sh alt, possession
or German Turner's, while peaceably passing
through the streets, was attacked by mob Of
Fewdes and several of the foreigners badly stoned
and beaten. The Turner'S were dressed in white
ooats and throughout the day and night every per-
son who was go unfortunate as to wear garment
Of that color was SCI upon and beaten by the
rioters. The assalants are said to have evinced
unbounded admiration Of the American flag, aud
corresponding dislike of banner fabricated By
some young German ladies and carried by the
Turner'S.
We publish In another column an account Of
meeting held recently at Columbus Georgia, which
win be read with interest. It is the initiation of
new Southern political organization based upon
constitutional principles designed to effect union
OF the people Of the South upon the simple plat
form Of opposition TO the encroachments of aboli-
fionism. The Kansas league movement, the multi
Acasion law of Massachusetts, the election Of
Seward to the Senate, and the arrogant boastings
Or Measrs. Sumner and Wilson, as to the future
course Of the anti slavery propaganda, are rapidly
awakipg spirit OF resistance to which the messing
alluded to is but prelude.
The cholera is raging as an epidemic in New Or
1eans and the Board Of Health Of the city has made
public declaration Of the melancholy fact.
The great democratic movement which has been
initiated in England, and has found its frs. open
manifestation in the recent meeting of the solid
men Of London in the Guildhall, has, as was very
natural, arrested the attention Of not only the Eng
lish but the foreign press. The Paris Journal dies
Dsbas devotes to the subject article full Of nerve
and evincing decided sympathy with the objects
OF the movement. 1t says as plainly as the watch.
ful censorship exercised the French press ena.
hes II to say, that 1t is time the decsyed and utterly
used up system Of ar,stocrasy received the kick ont
Of society-ccup de grace-to make way for sound.
er and freer end better organization Of the commu-
nifty And 1t does not fall to find excuse for and to
xympAthize with, the popular sentiment In what 1t
serms the humiliation Of the fine and brave English
amy-not by the enemy, bat by the ignorance, the
disorder, and the decay of its own administration
The article which we translate, is eminenty calcu
lated, 1t ia evidently designed, TO add fuel to the
flame Of John Bulls discomfort.
Our fles.of papers from San Jose, COSTA Rica,)
are mp to the OH Of Nay. The republic was In
state Of domestic peace and freedom from foreign
broils but the crops hal suffered so much from the
devastation OF locusts that the harvest gave little
hope, and famine was to be apprehended, we're II
not that the government had removed the duties on
khe importation of grain. The Constitutional Con-
sress had sssembed at San Jose on the LIST Of May.
The W. foreign goods imported at the port
Of Boz week ending June /, amounted
fos
7aturday, but prices we're
700 bags, the market
non grades of State
yer. Wheat was
inactive, and
In prices;
ne white
asier,
rs.