Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-06-30
From the Louisville Courier Racr,1k S,n AhA ~:A~
The Result in the City. tremendous Know Nothing Loss---Plug uglyism in the Last Gasp---Democratic Gain l, ,147---Glory Enough for One Dav

tremendous Know Nothing Loss---Plug
 Uglyism in the Last Gasp---Democratic
 Gain 1,147--Glory Enough for One Day.
 Elsewhere the reader will find the result of the vote Tn this city yesterday for Judge of the Court ot Appeals. It shows that the Know Nothing majority in the city has dwindled from l,oll, what 1t was in November last at the Presidential election, down to 664, which it was yesterday, showing net loss foI the Pluo OSlies of JAY! This is a wonderful achieve ment for the independent and national men of the city, when 1t is considered that they enter ed into contest without any organization what. ever, while the Plug Uglies had been holding thelr secret meetings nightly, drilling their forces, and using every possible effort to primo out thelr vote. The Plug Ugly organ also did everything Tn its power to excite it's partisans and appealed to them to bring out their full vote II they had any regard for the existence ot their party
 he result yesterday shows to the demo. cratlc party what they can accomplish by a thorough and efficient organization. With such organization they can carry Louisville by majority of one thousand votes. There is not a particle of doubt of this. Let every moment therefore, from this to the election be properly improved, and Thos H. Holt will be Oui h0A1 ie epieSouldIlVe Tn congress.
 THE JUDICIAL ELECTION YESTERDAY. When the polls were opened in our city ves- terday all things promised that we should have quiet election-an election becoming the dic nlty of a free people who were choosing one of their highest judicial functionaries The Plug Ughes, however, were not satisfied to have things go off quietly. They knew that any disturbance at the polls would effect their pur- pose ot keeping off voters. The foreign voters or our city, who vote against the Know Noth- lngs, have learned by sad experience that they stand no chance Tn fight with those who claim the name of Americans. Hence, any manifes tatlon of violence keeps off the foreign voters as eifectualy as If there was DO voting at all
 These were the tactics of the Plug Ugly por ton ot the Know Nothing party in the First ward, where there was known to be a large democratic majority. To keep off the demo- crats from the polls in the First Ward was to increase the Know Nothing majority. A fight was necessary to terrify the democratic voters who were mostly foreigners. fight was therefore gotten up by the Plug Uglies in the First Ward, so soon as 1t was ascertained that the votes were not being boiled to suit tie Know Nothings. A decided disposition was manifested on the part of the Plug Uglies in the First Ward to assault and make away with the democratic candidate
 In the afternoon hostile manifestations he- came more decided. The Plug Ughes saw that their cause Was desperate and showed dis position to wreak their vengeance upon the de- mocrats Some few democratic gentlemen who were at t1e First Ward poll, together with the democratic candidate himself, felt outraged at the Interference of the Plug UgIies, in prevent Ing German from voting. The democratic gentlemen concluded that the officers appointed oy law to take the vote were the proper ones to determine whether or not d vote was leoiti- mate. They were then assaulted by the Plug giles and charged with interfering with the election. A general fight was anticipated and but for the firm resolve of Col. Preston and few other democrats who were present not to suffer their fellow citizens to be disfrancbjsed by these Plug Ugly bullies, disastrous conse quences might have followed Col. Preston gave unmlstakable evidence of his determiua. ton to stand up for the rights of his fellow. citIzens, and he was supported by a sufficient number ot resolute friends to secure this end as far as 1t could be secured even at the ex pense of their own lives had it become neces- sarv.
 The disturbances began in the morning about J o'clock, ln the First Ward A notorious Plug S'g ud'brd IIIIdin nay, KnOCkcd KOWn an old man named John Smith, who had been voter the fall number years required for a newborn babe to become of legal age to vote. Alex. Gilmore, Jesse Talbot, and others, nterfered to protect Mr. Smith, when they were assaulted by crowd of Plug Uges. One of tn 3se as saultlng Plog Uglies was Dubois, the quarry man at the work house, who Is now a candi. date for reelection. Of course this Plug Ugly will be rewarded with a reelection for his con. duct on this occasion. We have been informed also that the watchmen of that locality were rather the encourages of these Plug Ugly vio- lences than the guardians of the peace as they should have been.
 We have not space nor time for a further no- tlce ot these Plug Ugly outrages. We shall recur to the subject again. The election of yesterday will teach these Plug Ugly ruffians that they are not ruling America as Anne ricans should rule 1t. Our people are becoming weary of such horrible wretches as have for the last few years rloted around the halot-box. Our people are beginning to see that physical pow CTS will not suffice to control the interests of great city. There must be mind, and honor, and principle, and patriotism, enthroned in ho- nor, instead of brute force. We have suffered enough already by Plug Ugly misrule, and the day has dawmed when men who have soma in- terest at stake, and some intellect to guide them and some true patriotism, are going 10 stand up for their rights and to be no longer trampIed upon by irresponsible Plug Ugly bulhes, and ruiiIdns, and vagabonds, and outlaws.