The true Democrat., 1856-11-11

0TWe publish the following from the Louis vile Times to keep the bloody work of Know Nottingham before the people. The "bloodv spot" will adhere 10 that party for many long day, and so it ought:
 A correspondent of the Louisville Journal writing from Owensboro, under date of the l7tb. gives the following account of the speech de- llvered at that place by w. D. Reed, the demo. cratic elector for this district:
 Mr. Reed commenced by stating that Sana was dead! dead. dead! Next he indulged in a show CT of abuse and vile denunciation of George D. Prentice. He then spoke of the evil conse- quences flowing from the American party which, he said, were the election riots in the United States and especially in Louisville on on the 9th of August, 1855. He related many horrld Instances of death from said riots, which he sald were occasioned by the American party As MT. Reed IS resident of your city, perhaps It will be of some interest to you to hear of those :" horid instances He said in the course ot his speech upon this part of the sub- Je@t, that poor old decrepit lrshman, who was dependent upon the labors of his wife for support, was shot down by member of the American party while crossing the street with oucke; of water interrupting no one in any way, and, after he fell, another member of the American party placed the muzzel of pistol to his head and tired-that the vsctim was then taken and hung to lamppost and shot at by various Amerlcans-then taken down, butch CTS hook stuck under his chin, the rope tied to dray, and the poor creature dragged in that way through the street."
 How tauc this version may be of what Mir. Reed said, we cannot tell; but if Mir. Reid did so state 1t by no means transcends the truth. Indeed, It does not come up to the horrors that took place on that bloody day.
 The Journal, however, furiously denounces it as lie and islander. But in proof of its correctness, we here give the sworn affidavit of Eliza Mcdonald, who witnessed the scene to which Reed doubtless referred, and which the correspondent of the Journal says took place in the street, instead of in the house.
 DEPOSITION OF ELIZA MCDONALD.
 On Monday, 9th August, was living in the same house with Mrs. Trainer she occupying the front, and 1 the back part of it.
 About half-past five o'clock Monday after noon, number of men burst into my room, where Mir. Barrett from whom 1 rented my room and who with his wife roomed next to me, was; and going up to where he was kneel- ing behind the bed, one of them broke gun over hls head and another shot him with d pistol. They then dragged Mr. Barrett across the bed and pulled him out of the room to the porch and there hung him. While hanging one of the men took cane loaded with lead and broke Mir. Barretts skull in several places. Some of the men took butchers hook, which was fixed in the wall to hang meat upon and inserting 1t in Mir. B.'s chin endeavored to pull him along with it; but the flesh gave way and the hook came out Mr. B. died that night at about nine o'clock. Mr. Barrett had not been out of his room but once during Monday when he went after some water, which was at three o'clock. From that time until five o'clock he remained in my room, where he was waiting for his wife, who had gone out washing.
 Mir. Barrett did not fire at any one, I am sure: because he was in my room, and because l know he had no pistol or any other weapon. MT. 5. was poor, harmless, sick man. una. bic to earn his living, being dependent altogc- ther on his wife for his support.
 make affidavit to the foregoing.
 ELIZA MCDONALD. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 29th day of August, 1855.
 JOHN H. NEW, N. P.,J. c. Here, 1t will be seen, are the facts. as sworn to oy an eyewitness, and they are even more a.roclous than the Journals correspondent says MT. Reed represented them to be.
 NOT was thls the worst piece of scoundrelism that took place on that bloody day. | Men were dragged from the very arms of thelr wives, and butchsred before their eyes.
 man and hls wife were burned to death their charred and blackened corpses fonnd locked Tn each others arms--as tbav ,yor. ,,a, day exhibited in the court house ward.