The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-08-10

WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ELrcTiors.-
The Slaies Of North Carolina, TENNESSEE
and Kentucky held elections last week 70
State officers and members Of Congress. y
In North Carolina the X. Ms are said Il
have made some gains Of members Of Con
gress, but the news as a whole is favorabl,
TO the Pierce Democracy In Tennessee
Gentry, X. N. candidate for Governor is sale
10 be elected by 1900 majority, and I
large number Of Americans elected 10 Con
gress, among them the most Of The mem
bers Of the las, Congress who opposed tn.
iniqui'iOus repeal Of the Missouri Compro
mise.
In Kentucky The news is highly favor
able 10 the Americans. In Louisville Z
great riot in which a number were killed
took place. We annex some Of the par.
liculars, by which il will be seen lha, the
riot originated with The foreigners:
LOUISVILLE, Aug. Z. The riot commenc.
ed Tins In the First Ward, as two gentle.
men were riding in carriage, they were
fred al from house containing Germans
or Irish. One gentleman was wounded
and The firing was repeated.
When Edward Williams, OF the second
Ward, Joseph Sewage, and John Laiia,
Americans, went 10 The scene Of the trouble,
they were also fred at. Laiia had his leg
badly shattered BY musket ball, and VIII
liams was also wounded.
They then went TO Jefferson street, where
a party Of gentlemen coming into the city
had been fred upon from Lager Brewery,
sacked the houses around il, burned the
Brewery, beat number Of Germans whom
thoy captured, terribly, and also sho, an
Irishman, who died this morning.
They gathered around The house from
where The firing commenced, took two Ger.
mans from it, and beat them SO badly thai
their recovery is considered doubtful.
The house was then completely sacked
The crowd then proceeded 10 The houses on
the corner OF Shelby and Madison streets
from whence Germans had been seen firing,
riddled two groceries, beer house, a.,d
two houses owned and occupied by Ger.
mans, and injured severely several Of The
inhabitants.
Alter while il was earned, while the
trouble had been going on In The upper part
OF the city, several persons had been fired
upon in The lower pert Of The main street.
In The street below, an American was
slightly injured by shot, when the Irish.
man who fred il was captured, beaten and
shot. Shots had been fired from oil. the
houses which were attacked.
The crowd now tailed Of sacking the
Catholic church, where, il was rumored
firearms had been secreied, but Mayor
Barbee and others prevailed OH them 10
leave il alone.
The disturbances were now supposed 10
be over, rs The crowd had marched 10 on
engine house in The fifth ward, with their
cannon, and were beginning 10 disperse.
Exaggerated reports then spread 10 the
lower paris OF the city in regard 10 the affair
in causing larga crowd 10 assemble,
for revenge.
II was also rumored that al about 5
o'clock, p NJ, two Americans had been
sho, ut from an Irish house, on the corner
OF Main and Chapel streets, and this with
out the slightest provoca,ion being given on
their part, as Tar as could be learned, and
this started the dsiu bance alresh.
The Irishman who shot Rhodes was then
taken and Immediately hung, bu, cut down
before life became extinct. Thirty or more
shots were fred upon the Irish Houses on
the corner Of Main and Chapel streets, and
il is impossible 10 ascertain the number
that was wounded.