The true Democrat., 1855-08-21
From the Louisville Democrat, August St F ECTTON DAYI


 FILE CTION DAY! Fighting, Riotins, Fraud, Violence. Mur-
 der. Robbery, aud Arson! From Tyyen-
 " to thirty Ki!led!- Several Burned to
 Death! Mob Law Triumphant
 Monday, August 9th, 1855, will long be re- membered in Louisville as the bloody Mon day!' The morning opened as fair as could be desred-peaceable, quiet citizens went to their work, who, before midnight were ghastly corps eS. From all tn; evidence we can obtain the polls in every ward were taken possession of before day by members of the know nothing party, and with the exception of the 9th and Eth wards were kept thus throughout the entire day.
 No foreigner was allowed to vote at all, un- less he was expected to go the know nothing ticket, or managed by accident to get in before the judges Scores ofnative- born citizens were kept standing in the sun for hours, during which time hundreds of know nothing voters were constantly passing in and out Almost the entire vote boiled was before noon. The out rages began early in the day.
 Quiet, notfensive Germans trusting in their constitutional right to vote-trusting that there was still some decency in the opposite party trusting that the invitations of the organ were given i'll good taith-started to vote, but were driven away by blows, ard kicks and cutfS.- As the day progressed the ispositionincreased to keep aN democrats and anti know nothings away from the polls. It is not worth while for any man to so belle his own soul as to say that this was not so for the result is proof so damn ing they must be lost to all sef-respect, decen- cy, and sense of right, who will ever think of denying it.
 We found it yesterday utterly impossible to obtain reliable information of onc-titth of the fighting in different parts of the city, and we deem it our duty to publish only so much as we have good authority for. We also found it i'm possible to discover where and when the riot ing began, and we must confne ourselves to the incidents we were able to gather, and they are sufficiently horrible God knows. Wehope ne- yer to witness such another day and night in Louisville. The night was even worse than the day.
 Early in the forenoon, in the First Ward, a party of lrishmen were chased, and foremost among the purSuers, as reported to us, was George Berg or Berge, a carpenter, who lives corner of Ninth and Market. On Hancock st he was killed or said to be-
 A young man engaged at the ship-yarls, was shot and killed. In the afternoon, his friend: went to Main street armed, to avenge him what they accomplished we know not
 A man whose name we did not learn, living on the point above White & Coles saw mill was shot and dangerously wounded. When we passed that point young man was delibe- rately loading his rihe assisted by one or two women. It may have been his father or brother that was shot.
 About 3 o'clock, as we went up Chestnut street. we heard, at the corner of Hancock, some twenty or thirty shots-Saw men, women and children running and screaming; when we cros- sed Clay street we still heard shots and saw the people running-as we crossed Shelby, the peo- pie were gathering in knots before their doors, and beginning to arm themselves, to protect their lives and loved ones from the attack whicl was feared, and which was raging lnly one anC two squares off.
 We passed around through the commons, behind tie houses on Madison street, and saw the Germans iii groups of one or two or three, with their rifles and shot guns, going into theI houses, prepared to defend them to the las drop When we crossed Madison street anC looked down it, we saw at the corner of Clay coming out Clay, party of fifteen or twenty with the American flag at their head, while women and children were flying hther and thi- thcr frightened so they knew not what to do ol where to go
 After We left that locality, as we learned late in the evening, from group of four or tive know uothingS standing at the corner by the post-office, a regular pitched battle ensued.- The Germans stood their ground bravely, firing seven or eight rounds, and then their ammuni ton giving out, they fled.
 The report was sent down town, after the know nothings had boiled all their vote, tha the Germans and Irish were about to take tn, polls. This was only a trick to iucte to rapin and murder; for scarcely a foreigner was seeI about the pools after 10 o'clock ill the morning | The effect of the report was that some one, no ' known brought out the only cannon in the city and at the head of motley rabble, armed witt muskets, rihes etc, etc., proceeded up Jetier son street.
 On he went, at the head of his crowd, t Shelby street. and out that street to the corne of Keller, to the new Catholic church, which was determined to attack. Mayor Barbee ant Marshal Kidd hearing of the contemplated at tack, arrived on the spot in time They ell treated the rabblc to di>perse, and were toll that there were guns and ammunition and Ger mans in the church. Mayor Barbee and Mar shal Kidd went in, examined the church, ant i found nothing at also reported to the mol and entreated them to disperse or go home.- ! Sill refusing, Mayor Barbee threatened to cal out the military. They then left, but not to g home. They proceeded, by roundabout way to the brewery of Mr. Armbruster, in the an i gle between Jetlerson and Green streets, all, \ planted their gun in the street. with its mout directly oiuted at the brewery. Mr. Jo. Bun ton jumped upon the gun, and plead, and en treated, and prayed the crowd to desist; bU they broke into house, brought out the bee swiled their fills, and then commenced tn work of destruction aud pillage. Mir. Burton of his own unaided strength, unEmbered tn gun while the crowd were drinking.
 We were on Tuesday forenoon all throug that vicinity, and were shown around amids the ruins by member of the know nothin party, who was himself an eyewitness of tn entire proceedings. He did his utmost to pre- vent the outrages; of that we are satisied- From him We learned the particulars | Every house, except one or two, alon | BardStown street, were riddled or gutted, o both.
 i The windows in the upper story of MI 1 llugg's shoe shop were all brokeni in. The gro cery and tavern of F. Borghold, who, with hi family, was away from home, and who had shu up his place, was broken into through the iron door, and everything destroyed. His stock c goods and groceries is entirely destroyed, an was valued at S10OO. There were only tw persous in the house--an old man and sic one Five or six other houses adjoining hay all the windows broken in, and most of thel are rddled with stones and bulets--Some them completely guttcd. Three of them bC longed to an Irishman named Raymond wh lives in the country.
 The house occupied by Mir. Fisher, whic was attacked on the Monday previous, an which belongs to a widow, Mrs. Margaret Hey back, Was all broken up. Nil. Fisher has fle' no one knows where
 J. Peters, who has frame brewery in tn rear of Fishers, lost his stock of hops. Il beer was drank and spilled about. He fled the orphan asylum, near by, where he stai Monday night. Tuesday morning he could nc be found, and his two daug hters entertained tn worst fears.
 One house was begun upon, small house no very great value, but it was soon ordered l r., olo b,