Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-29

ORIGIN THE TERM &" KNOW NoTH1NGs."- Foreign
writers very naturally puzzled by the oddity Of
our political party names, and, in attempting to
trace them to their origin, make some very queer
blunders; thus, the name Of the Locofoco party is
styled by one English writer to be the of a
tribe of Indians The London Athenseum, in an
article upon Know Nothingsm, states that
" The party derive their name from express
sion in vogue among the leaders of the old political
factions, that the people did not know what of
most advantage to them. Thus American says
don't know, but it strikes me, and so forth,
til the phase became characteristic, &C."
We must confess that the Athenaum's theory of
the origin of the of Know Nothings is not
very ingenious, and for the enlightenment of that
learned pundit, will state the origin of the name
of the now rapidly dissolving party on the anthem
ITCHY of gentleman who has had abundant oppor
tunities of knowing the exact facts of the case
The Know Nothing party, it is pretty generally
known, was first formed by person of some noto-
riety, who called himself "Ned Buntline." ''Ned'
once midshipman in the U. S. Navy, but left
the service for some of which not in
formed, and commenced the business of American
ism on large scale, by founding secret political
ORDER of exclusive a character that were to
be admitted members whose grandfathers
not natives of the country. It is difficult matter,
in country like the United States where free in.
quiry is so common, to keep anything secret; and
Ned instructed his proseytes and acolytes to reply
to all questions respect to the movements of the
party, 81 don't know" So, they were at first
called " Don't Knows, and then Know Nothings,"
Oy outsiders, VINO know nothing more OF them than
that they invariably replied &C don't know" to all
questions.
But the Know Nothings have had their day, and
very soon there will be nothing left of them but
their name. The earth hath bubbles, and Know
Nothingsm was one of them.-Ne,o York Times.
Texas Observation-Disclosures in the Galveston Civil
liam from 81 counties out of 81 voting counties
(Uvalde and Kinney voting with Bexar) foot up as
follows: =
For goyernor-Elisha NJ Pease, DEM, %, 497:
David c. Dixon, know nothing IL, 699 Pease's ma
jority thus far, 679s. For lieutenant governor in
same eounties-H. Richard Runels dem, has ma
Jority of 9, 692 over lowers, know nothing. For
land commissioner, in all the counties but nine
Crosby, know-nothing, is 952 ahead of Fields, demo-
crat. .r.. ....-.
Peter II. Bells democratic majority for Congress
in the western district is about 1000. The eastern
district is close between Matthew Ward DEM, and
Evans, know-nothing In all the counties bnt three
the vote stood-Ward, 1911 Evans, 9,5O3. Wards
majority thus far 1853. The Galveston News of the
9th instant says there is strong probability that
Ward is elected
Both branches of the legislature democratic
OF II members of the lower house ascertained to be
elected, 48 democrats, anti-know-nothing
wings, elected by democratic votes, % are know
nothings and of seven the politics known. OF
33 senator's 90 or 81 democrats 4 know-noth-
ings. and of the rest politics not known. Union.