Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-10
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

were used in our late municipal election, the
arrangements of the Know Nothing manager.
here for the preparation of frauds on that oc
casion, were closely parodied there, and were
carried out, by the aid of the torch of the in.
cendiary, the knife and firearms.
As a matter of course. men who have ,or,
to peDure themselves, when acting as cleo.
ton commissioners, on the witness stand, ,r
inc jury box, or wherever such acts NAV h,
necessary to justify and carry out anv and
everything designed for the benefit of Know
Notnnsism, and who, protesting to be law.
a0,a'ns citizens, secretly countenance such
H-1s as were perpetrated on Monday last in
Louisville, and those which transpired in tbi,
city on the 4th of June last, $50 we'll calculated
to lead to the Louisville results,) will continue
TO palliate and justify Know Nothing part.
san ends, fraud, falsehood, murder and arson.
From the Louisville Courier, August
The TERRIBLE ELECTION RIors IN LOUIS
slLLE.-We passed yesterday through the
forms OF an election. As provided by the
statute, the polls were opened, and privilege
an'e9 10 such as were "right upon the
goose, With few exceptions to exercise their
elective franchise. Never, perhaps, was a
greater farce, or, as we should term it, ira
geay, enacted. Hundreds and thousands were
ueterred from voting by direct acts of intimi-
dauon, others through fear of consequences
and multitude from the lack of proper faci-
iltles. The city, indeed, was, during the day.
In possession OF an armed mob the base pas.
sions OF which were Infatuated to the CHEST
pitch by the incendiary appeals of the news
paper organ and the popular leaders of the
On Sunday night large detachments of men
were sent to the first and second wards to see
tnat the polls were roperly opened. These
men the American executive committee
supplied with requisite refreshments, and, as
may be imagined, they were in yery fit con.
dltIon on yesterday morning to see that the
rights OF freemen were respected. Indeed,
they discharged the important trusts COM
mitted to them in such manner as to commend
them forever to the admiration of outlaws,
They opened the polls they provided WAYS
and means for their own party to vote they
butfed and bullied all who could not show the
sign; they In fact converted the election into
perfect farce, without one redeeming or
qualifying phase.
We do not know when or how their plan of
operations was devised. Indeed, we do not
care TO know when such system of outrage
such perfdy, such dastardy-was conceived.
we only blush for Kentucky that her soil was
the scene OF such outrages and that some of
her sons were participants in the nefarious
swindle.
IL would be impossible to know when or how
this riot commenced. By day-break the polls
were taken possession of by the American
party, and, in pursuance of their preconcerted
game, they used every stratayem or device to
hinder the vote Of every man who could not
manifest to the guardians of the polls'' his
S0undnesS on the Know Nothing question
We were personally witnesses to the procedure
OF the party in certain wards, and of these we
feel authorized to speak At the Seventh
ward we discovered that for three hours in the
outset IN the morning it was impossible for
those not posted to vote without the great
est difficulty. In the Sixth Ward a party of
DULLES were masters Of the polls. Wesawt two
foreigners driven from the polls, forced so run
a gauntlet, beat numerically, stoned, and
stabbed. In the case of one fellow, the Hon.
VIM. Thomasson, formerly member of Con-
gress from this district, interfered, and while
appealing TO the maddened crowd To cease
their acts Of disorder and violence, Mr..
Ihomasson was struck from behind and beat
HIS gray hairs, his long public service his
manly presence, and his thorough American
ism, ayailed nothing with the crazed mob.
Other and serious fights occurred in the Sixth
Ward, of which we have no time to make
mention now.
The more serious and disgraeeful disturb.
ahceS occurred In the upper wards The vote
cast was but partial one, and nearly alto
gether on one side. No show was given to the
friends OF Preston, who were largely in the
majority, but who, in the face of cannon, mus
kets, and revOlvers, could not being an nm
armed and quiet populace, confront the mad
MOD. % the vote was cast one way and the
result stands before the public.
, In the morning, as we state elsewhere.
george berg carpenter, living on the corner
vi MIN anu Market streets, was killed near
hancock streets. A German named Fitz. for.
merly partner at the Gait House, was severe
ly, If not fatally, beaten.
In the afternoon a general row occurred on
oneloy street extending from Main to Broad.
way. We are unable to ascertain the facts
cohceth1hg the disturbance. Some fourteen or
lneen men were shot, including Officer Will.
liams, Joe Sewage, and others Two or three
were killed, and a number of houses, chiefly
herman eoffee-houses, brokep into and pill
aged About four o'clock, 3 when the vast
crowd, augmented by accessions from every
part OF the city, and armed with sbot-puns
muskets, and rifles, we're proceeding to attack
the catholic church on Shelby street, Mayor
barbee arrested them With speech, and the
mob returned to the First Ward polls. Pres
entity large party arrived with a piece of
brass ordnance, followed by number of men
and boys with muskets In an hour after
wards the large brewery on Jefferson street,
near the junction Of Green, was set fire to.
In the lower part of the city, the disturb
ances were characterized by greater degree
of bloody work. Late in the afternoon, three
lrishmen going down Main street, near Eley.
enth, were attacked, and one knocked down.
Then ensued terrible scene, the Irish firing
from the windows of their houses, on Main
street, repeated voleys. Mr.. Rhodes, a river
man, was shot aud killed by one in the upper
story, and Mr.. Graham met with a similar
fate. An Irishman who discharged a pistol at
the back of mans head, was shot and then
hung. He, however, survived both punish.
ments: John Hudson, u carpenter, was shot
dead during the fracas.
After dusk, row of frame houses on Main
street, between Tenth and Eleventh, the prop
erty Of MIR. Quinn, q well-known Irishman,
was set on fire. The flames extended across
the street, and twelve buildings were destroyed.
These houses were chiefly tenanted by Irish,
and upon any of the tenants venturing out to
escape the flames, they were Immediately shot
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