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E OUIISAWADEMDUCRA E. W. . ALSIEY-I *.**EDITOR. ALEXANDRlIA: Saturday, Nov., ::: :: 6, 1859. ii DEPhOGICATIC( STATE TICKET. u e FOR GOVERNOR, THOMAS 0. MOORE, or R!rD.x t 0R1 LIEUTENANT GOVERIOR, ( U. if. IIYAMS, b OF ORLEANS. f g Fox sunTrARy or CAtr, P. D. HARDY, of ST. LANDnY. 7 FOR ArTron.vIy oIRAL, p T. J. SEMMES, OF OULEA:NS. 75OR UDTOR OF PUCBULIC ACCOUNTS, E. W.,ROBERTSON, or IDERVII.LE. FOR TREASrRER, B. L. DEFREESE, OF JACKSON. t TOR SOFR Ti1SNDE.NT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, HENRY AVERY, It OF EAST BATOnS ROUGE. rOR COxoRRSS --VOUr DISTRIOI , JOHNM. LANDRUM, OF CADDO. t tOi;o rsa'~ sO~no, or se aoracwo% L... G. DERJSSY, or "Tsscaocas. of N4rcnDrTOC ns. ' s 70311335 UWTATIVES, , E. E. S6 RART, li. 1* . CLARK, 1 ,AMES C. wISE, 3 roes cixsa EUBTAVUS LABAT. I WILLIAM J. NEAL. io a.·S srasc areassr, TOR DISIRKIC XETOR3IIV, C. N.. 8IN1B. . s3« . SWA N.r loft coaoc4Ut, 9,ELES C. W @O W " Thes subacriber,kadvg exclusire chasgEof the bvsdeta deparhneit of the DsIocaAT, requests per peaswho ha4e aiuertmieat# to inserf or papen ts o awaue to call at Ais ofte. . MERCER 0ANFIELID. FarIas Bhstieate UterItst eai ee. it RIV0O4T, I T.IO4. r,. tA'SNING1, W. L I44 'l , . W UTSR Bil.UFY, MBE OilR ~IANigLTI.E Wg We are autheuimd taspeaae Nib, B. 7. TCEltINS M cnaidate for Justice of tha Peace for the uAl 5anPib WIrd. SVIGILANCE!t Democratic voters will do well to keep 'their eyes 9 pew. Whenever our oppok eats bib to talk of " Franla" we mar' be rwalyeritin that there is sorac raa. cality to$L5ea We never knew it to fall. They .miue this cry to divert our attention from ttieir owS treachlreas tootics, Look oat for them t 00UNLT~t~BBPIt) TICKETB! Tht Opposition condidate for Sheriff, Lnding as unwilling to aidd him in oppos ing the Democrvtitipsrty; has bad tickets, pribted at tJ'e Anmfcan ofice beaded ' Drxocunri Stmrs TicKE? containing all the names of our nominees except the noe for Shcriff, in place of which his own name, Vwx. L. Guatr, is inserted. We have seen a copy of this conterfeit and we lcarn that other oppositian candidates have had tickets printed with the semo heading', each inserting his owoi aniae and lawfiig those of all the balance of the isnqoies. Other tickets have been printed, headed as above, and containing all the Dames of the Demsocratic nominees in regular. order except those of Dr. SMsAr and Dr. CnaRK in plaa of tokik are hoo Mask spaces above the name of .3 C. Wise. Penmecratic voters will do will to be *6 their pgard. There hans been but one Democratic. ticket printed at our office and that will be readily recognized when it is seen. Our tickets wilt he at each Precinct ini abundance early on the morning of the Election and asy be found there all day. Rapides expects every Democrat to do hin duty-to get tb* right ticket-to be sure that it is the right ticket and then to vote ill vote it en tire Otir motto is " the Democratle nominees-the ticket and notbing but the ticket" Democratic candidates do not retort to splits aud counterfelta. Ise 03 )itday, tiero aeito be elected for tid Alenaudria Ward nFor Justices of a~ P0ss ~sdttbroe ownaah~ The Cal) didites are, for J ossiAOC wt Hal~~s~ E.C. Leckle, I;B; L~ ~L l.*.asb shora#Jp Er' . qlIphare THE PRESi IPTIONU OF THIE INDEPENDENTS. ti We have been told by opposition can Jidates that a great many Democrats area going to vote for them. This is tdl) us by candidates who are still Know .uttn- p ings to all intents and purposes-jmast as V much Know Nothings as they were in the c early days of the wigwamn , when one could' not shake hands with a dozen neighbors a without enduring a variety of strange d gripe and pinches. Some of them say F that the whole "foreign population," (meaning American citizens who are asuch by preference and not by accident) are going to vote for them. We cannot credit P such a story. It is a very great compli ment for any Democrat to pay to any P very intimate and highly esteemed friend t who is not the regular nominee of the a party, when he neglects to tell him that t hIe can give his vote only to the nominees r of his party. But there is something re- 8 volting and absurd in the idea that the u very men whose rights were threatened I by the followers of the dark-lantern-who t were classed by them as serfs and enre-t mies-who were denied to have the right t to vote when the laws gave it-who were exeluded fromn office by all the oaths of ' the Know Nothing ritual-whose term of ' probation was sought to be lengthened I out to twenty-one years or mare than half i the average life df man-who were sub- ' jectedl to every ;taunt and accusation which bigotry and intolerance coluld Cen- I graft upon the fruitful tree of political I ,animosity--we say it is revolting and t absurd to be told that these men are going to vote for the bittrest and most active c of their persecutors. Who first drew the i odious line of distinction between native 1 citizens and those born on }be other side < of the Atlantic ? The Know Nuthisgs. Who first proclaimed that a man not born i on American soil was unfit to hold an American offee ? The Know Nothings. Who first assumed that-mire than twenty I years residence should be required before 4 an adopted citizen -coald vote F The.I Know Nothings. Who east the slime of calumny upon the holy robes of the Cat- - oaic priesthood, slandered Catholic bishops, I iavaded Catholic schools with legislative I visiting committees, ransacked Convents, 7 circulated filithy, c.a4bout (Gatbo ic ii. tutison, mrked th nuage of the ,to I1 sacred rites in their druonkeu etreet brawls, 1 and insulted even the-funeral procesions 1 of deceased,Cathoiics hbe liwtw Nothl t injgs of the North and , L the - ie of thd 4 ISouth. Who have caused the ftters of Lonieville,Batltitsians d New Orleans tai run with the b bt laborin i'mel .who were only attempting to exercise right whicth oar Constitution and lhrs confer and which a bold aiid hr tible *peo$ph oughft to aintialt ta ? Tebatlieb and assassin. in the employ f tnow Nothing party. While a.l the~' things ' are fresth in the memory it is -absurd -and standerous to say that our foreiguSborn citizens are goini8 to vote for !hen who were tile moat active ia the eryvIe 4' the Soatb'bound and proscriptive faction'yho have not yet repented of their own follies nor worn sack.cloth and ashes for the crimes of their party, who still cling to the rooclleotion of the midnight conclave, k the lantern-llghted wigwam, thesatealthily concealed blue-book, the gripsan tsignals, the rallying calls and "'logau cries" of '5&, '56-and '5T T It is with reluctance that woa-lfdtte to this matter for we would forget, It we a eguld, that, in this enlightened age and in -d this favored land, the spirit of bigotry, l denmngognism and intolerance ever got sI. e strong a hold upon the passio a and pre judices of so many thousands of the Amer e ican people. It is a blot on our history d that an entire political party should have , adopted a creed so illiberal, so unjust and a so odiuus. Tnu PlorossO UNfo.-Thet National EBr, a thorough Black Republican papir esontitas the fol. D lowing sigoiftant paragraph on which membeus ol ig theSourhern Opposition party will do weltlo ueiect. 3s Political necesity sometimes mak-e the hters of r. Democracy "acquainted with strange bed4ellows." ye Sawstai;.The Rishmond WIaig Nashville Bac. er., and Louisvile Jouriauq the three leading organs of the Southera Opposition, concur in thie tg opinion that under no etrametan shouki- die Soothorn Pppositiow metabers assias lie SlAm De nmocracy in orUipizing the ilose ey inshyt that Oe upon the elemuenof an honest Op tion Speaker will depend the qwueiio -whether we are to have a in full mvestipnSion into the abuses oft) e Admlnistra Sh tion. If the latter succeed in etecti a tpeuker, it he wil be &helrinteress sad policy ni ppressinvesri gLatimiaid thereby hash up and the e'armous id fraUds whwh they have perpetrtue doring their lease of power. The journals refert d to are right we rehisand we glad to see Soim hera -men at 'at length becoming superior to the b ghsaiS cry of ji ocofocoismdustht their oalen with Mthern Re. publiuainainaputthig id rararii ainapti inid idule 0* ia evidkebe ot tnek-ftaithhemnhes the -ooth, & "Deaouratid detinagogues have ,nheated and detdeluded the South with the cry of bohitiwilhm so he i dtxi; thaa he ndek iS becoming tra parent to tle dt ullest capacity. The Scareeanw hteal worn out, and, four or Bro years hence, - on derw tate it ever AMghteneiatdy y Thedlitor of the Kichmond tYA Gdehires em. ~4 pht~birles skit~Iraiire ibtiret (l iti~ss hQ6 would nb Tot y*.~9~it~pji~!iL~l~iif~O ma-ip-rcfbreuwe to usai No~~rthirnor~oc·* ltet~! it 1)t?~iauoci'ai ·. - . # When th,- iOIaeId (itsig ga ashrill ·n Wns, LouiOMifIqi~ own r ary winter Davis, Botis, . Bell ad th eother meg uiStbo 8theropoi4r reIott petysucaOeegdsa tIin oposo41 aU aba t idtio lt ee-soR p putpert go~r taEirth they will -need a Dew name for the combtnstuion. Wlesg get thatians~miutiiated bansliuig he ,oaltod tbe Ossawatoitle party, ind thtinbeiisraoftesaognldog fs memberp by the ld questimrba "Itaverd senSamu," the peword shal be: "te.ve yo' veen Brem?" PRESERVE YOUR LAURELS. In the ordinary course of publication the DEMOCRAT would not have appeared c amain until after the election. But, al- a though we have been duly diligent in presenting the issues of the present can- I vass, we do not feel disposed to let tbeh campaign to rmainate without a little more friendly talk with our Democratic readers, and more especially with those of Alexau dria and its immediate vicinity, for it is probable that before this number reaches Iour distant subscribers the election will i be over. It was in this town that the wigwam I party received its first check in the State, where it was most vigorously opposed, where it has been uniformly beaten. InI the stormy canvass of 1855 the zeal and I activity of the Democracy of ilapides at tracted the attention and won the adrni ration of Democrats throughout Louisiana, gaining fior them the deserved distinction' of constituting " the model Democratic Parish." Firmnn as granite, true.ne steel, they Were the sobljet crf gemer 1 appro bation by the Democratic press. When the Democratic voice of the city was stifled by the bloody hand of violence and when anxious men who cherished the Iwell-being of the State looked to the Deimocrats of the country pariahes.to save it from the polluting and degradinrg rule of Know Nothingisin, they were lheered by the light which ashoie in the North and nIowhere more bnrightly tihan in Rapides. In calculating in advance til result of the election in '54 and of subsequent con tesls they always. set down the Demo cratic vote of Rapides as a certain major ity. When ambitious and disappoiuted. demagignes first raisid the baninr of disa or ganization it was well known anrid: l declared among Democrats of otherl 1,I. ities that the movemennt would. lisi neither syn.p a griy ate countenaice here. . Will isu this well deseryd .rpn tation to b lost by indifference or mac tiv.ty"? Willyou forget the flete 'sttig' gles and the :gei ions triamphs of former yeare? Will 'ydn be deceived by the tuninnig appe l boieisbiste cla elru and industrins' s:tuychiladted faibrica'tis 'Iof the leaders mid orgaUs of the opposition? femoqtatic principles are now the sanne nitble ones 1or which you have forn gal' ' tanutly cotOtemnekd. Demnoerati. orgmiisa. tion is the smae as that aundter which a apast generaition of Democrats descended in compact columns upon coherts of Fed realists, Yourave vo ithj istioras f didates ait the lead ®f tthiih stand~ 'the ottonored nniae of onre ofot ivr own citizens. gihait more can we edesi ? Tbhere is t surely inothing in the ,deisared purposes of ono oppinieate. nor is the character and capacity oif their candidates to merit our Ispproval to win oer sympathy or to make v a lIove Demoerlae7 ess. We kow thet7lS e ihe orw elaborate Srrgumei tatiiun e past andy that whatever I ~ve miight now present in tho eway of tfacts or of kdqec iiNies: orqfpet4 wo ce .- littl) filbt4. Qur ptrpotu will he ftcus Spliushed and am wiblea grntifie4 if oiw a tfinlh issue of the campaign shall serve toc : remintd the Desmcrats of Ahleurdria (if a the benors wn lt hlenut ti carteslt , and of their duti t' wpig lia ' es ow b ty beqwtiwg acttility and union, f Bloody and Brutal Work, The following sad picture of thug political e99ou duct in Kew Orleans li from l te number of the Bee the olddsi opposition paprein Louisasts T'he Bee, Itke tho National Integligencer, areats politi culitirs w itth gravity and sobriety at, all tiies. ' When it compltins there is fixlscaque itronmplaint. Prior to the election, assassins coinaerce their work and seek by every means of disorder to in. apir.: terror anioug the voters. This has. been our y contlitioio torscvera weeks past. Mmuder'acceeds , murder, and our city apyars to be in the power o1 a band ot nlisceeai~ts (ad asisasdins. El It is iing (b day undkib~ug by nilht. Istoody is sziti'.. last n 1riddy Oie oi* owr tumIipositor leeve his woak at half-past one in the slternooa ~4 owi tumning the corner of the street hia is assailed by a a min wish a brass knuckle, who stakes him a terri his blow on the ack otf his head. Lie in taken up i bled~in: aIriedl thome lita dreadful condition ) The authlritirs are inrinei, witnesses rie looked t. tor, aeighbors are quesuqioupd. .'body has asien d the attack, nobody has eet the a~ggresauortaad ie' ,the assault was made in the ihiost popu.ons and centralportioi of the city in broad daylight. ra Verily, fear wake those blind who do vat wish to g see. We recounted, somi6 tiue since, the attact upon ie B1arry a mate of a ship. The wouAded wan e- havingtevuvered, is tat en before the Recorder ol it the Tiird Distruits etioibntronted with the two in er dividuals who by s IIuanadthei b kit eand the pistol, a iiearly wuwccedthd in raking away his jits. lie a- declaes he Abit toeecoguise sthen, and they it are intitli atMtet at liberty, 1z the face oc i- such incrddibe bransaeitons, wbat becmues o0 as souociy, surroended r yb so many perils ir Cotlte housesafe pihbged;.th-e~ssilants walk the La streets witl knife in hand, aiid hAbet down the at passev.b with revolvers. Thisis the way e pie ot psri qunselveas for i i election. is i ausprising e. bhe thie s act, which should be t e grandest: eipres il sioa of pop'llar gosernmtetit, is ndw exccIated by b. peaceable and honest CitieSisn It supfresaee in Id trete persnqal secuilty by the egltatioidts pravokes so and rri p n40s it oriengender.. As tsma otbet, to he suok outrages, we were pernikted taenjoyipotieat rn liberty. Political. tibel-ty, indeetll Yes, wg have t- I th permissiontigo v:tohe polls and. have our htsekl. ptopen ihoure vate asould dislilease the ni tihluliaeisho are pat there to watch. Ld Nlber persunail securiy nor poliicdal liberty 15 ae our lot . What, thene,4s eft ust Alas1 nothing, or neast nothing. T; irzmpoeence or ithe con. plicity of tlhe alnthoritiea-,-for we oan not undertake Lu- to d4tisj where tfw oae etds and the other oiamn t4 wecne threateus tii plitie as into qIplefe it, e. iacI5y. The eitiwsn as l tasue oen so ts t pio .li- cgted, tihaz. they have it'tei toheiyr ownjeris rity. U£ Everv is sotople4 terbe prpaqd foor ini at ltask,andr ipeh itnie. with w knufel 4 i srql with ig. pistoL laha iltloa of a rer rthis he ort l ( Gord 1 wlsa: ouwplsare we elru ia the midst of hi ti nde 4.. radation ar t ey *.* In aut barare neawh eflface and have at Rh i wpt o the fathtur! RRTROSPEVTIvE. Upon reviewing the course of tle Dem ocrat for the past. ix motths it is please ant to observo that the plnt. apnnounced itn May of conducting tbisisaeet on our part 1, has been adhered to. We know of no pinglt;ar araphconatainedin our columns which we have the slightest reason to e- a gret or the least desire to recall. Neither b the zealous advocacy of the cause of our e party nor our esteem for its prominent Ia members nor our pcrsgnal relations with its candidates, nor any attacks leveiled , at them or at as have termpted or pro- i yoked us to any course not sanctioned by. the rules of strict decorum and propriety. r The candidatee of the opposition, however t nominated or brought before the public, have been treated by us with uniform consideration. We have neither dragged private matters into a public discussion nor sought to attack their party by re peating the idle personal gossip or neigh. borhood tales which are put in circulation by the wanton or the mischievous. With. in the latitude allowable in political dis cussion we have engaged in the examina., tion of the tenets, arguments, purposes t and tendencies of the opposition with the ' greatest freedom. If we have seometies ' been tempted to indulge slightly in satire I we find a sufficient excuse in the gro tesque absurdities which cur opponents t have exhibited, inviting irony and ridicule rather than serious argument. Thoroughly convinced of the useless nesa of newspaper controversies, which are interesting only to a few individuals on either side and seldom instructive even to thierrn', which are oftler employed for the gi atfkication of editorial vanity than for dte good f& readers, which generally descend from irgument to personalities, which too oftet learve unnecasary bitter nessa of feeling, whicih detract from the dignity of the prues marcly.- they di- I minish its utility-$e did '1it for toar I nmonthslallude to our eotemporary pub liehed here except to ackuiwledge' couoi tesies and favors of a businese cuiteirh I It was' with relnetaa e that we at I ngtt i I tega to notice :and 'correct such of its F frequent hblunders - a mistatenmeite 'is we could not coasistantly witb oar .duty. 'ash Peucocratio jiotwrnaist, i the miist of an'imitportalit canvas!, tit hr to pass " Without coutriaidietion at` disproof. Until a similar occasion Wtiies iD some future I campaign we, shall resumte the plan on I - which we 'ctomeneed and valthr iW It - only wheraftrictI n say ±.. ltiger It is tbefotr' Ie gne sity o he bet lter tiisfted a ubahl le Vliil t1he` niag of:l: Presidential 3 campaigirne eve ao ntb em ober I colnns willinot' a gci e6ti tin pro portion of` pse'y political ietter whichb we hae'ifound recessarty during, thle con v~uie now chiinsg4 By giving more room for other ~temp general atereI we hope to winatie the Demoerat a *iaeabkle paper to l ivwelcome messenger to : t how V4'n4 firegides ofr patrons. TQ0OBAS t TIy T nsat diabolic. i i)represontationa cance ~ r te ' Ths~is color and ornla· I rel~~~: of th~:e IUe~3u¶~ic TPitckethve bees ftoatisg~ throng' the vo ttytiuity nince SatpFtaads. Thie: $ihtetok'Wttei-'s miraculboS f'wery boa toeiesed witb tore than it&#gg cpwiweent of v'iaouna, sad sanU4# "sboe 'outrages " have been on B te eve of' prepetrmtion. it -.is Icredikbe e how lt sh poflbioai feelini will increase te then dency to credulit in (he minds of 1Oen.'J Up ou us other Itwpotleire ca we acconUUt for the even partial credit at tached tuthe foolish. stories that bary r hdies eiralsteh it has. been asserted, fhw instaune, that oar Ticket was to be adoined, by a wood ~ cut, represp.ting the conductor of the ee American ia an unbectoing and an ut: a usal position. Others have said it was to P represent a lean and weatze-faced animal 4 hestride a lancet, pouring on all sides a Stbladciash looking liquid aut of a vial, d which, is 4lbelled "Distilled ?iiecluief." L. Me and wonen are fleeing its presence, 0 with looks of .minlpIed version, horror, a disgust and Lf~ea' '- it keeps in its a course, scatteri e bdletul liquid - through the cro chattering and . whispering wl Wiitth t e 0" (apposite' y sides in its rear .tartd two mec, near ' enough alike to be brothers, who are bid ding each other a sorrowful adieu, for the IC path of the mischief-paker is 'distia tly e ma ked between thiem. Sibers have oqjured up a more ' gro Y tesqpe picture ~abl4i t is that of a crea ture atlnding oa a pedestal which, dan o closer isp ec ttiun, rns est -to be a P'it at lux: '-kif th face li thdt' of -a~ gnosed' ar fice, fauwing ith ?lnge, aid barkigng and "' snapping at 5oDuetl tht ia like a is shirt cohir, ,ich seeia ts1$ he ott. ohjtsct of its fury a tW fl we meIt ezfress 'oa a$4inish% 's uent at 'these 'btse outragesP 'the th. Smocrs-tic Tkikfit ; anat o i*peent iutiun o .-any thing' a ifsr 't ebe of these scenes, and we can otlsgy to tijty~ p thugt)h a~~~P~3~ et lookhsi $ thaywll.sed *ell eoncocIted I . pl a tohe:qyft will .e i~tuapg~gh. 'tytttw lae~o ib~aueyli·zjiiOO ¶4j 3JtJ5ll i~~~~·irt~-t 'The Kon. Johbf . Smxar..L The following card, which explains it seel wig reeived along with numerous d other similar documetis too late foi our o last isste i 4a ,We, the ugdersigned eiti ces of the Parishes of C Rapides anidt Sabine haiWe+en with surprise and 8 mortification, the coimunnication of W. B. Shelton, ri bearing date Oct. 8th, and to he found in the Am- g erican of the 15th Oct., I. which he charges, and attempts to prove by certain certificates that some of shestatemnents contained is the lloes Johin R, Smart's letter, to be fmesd in the 1Demnterat of the 28th Sept., and bearing date Sept. 18th, to be 54 false. p Now, this is to certify that we have ncarefully p read the said letters of the said Smart, and that we believe every statemaent It contained to be virtually P tru". a W4 C. Aircloth, Sea., P . B. Burr, · C T. B. Stephens, J. S. Dancas, Matthew Stephens, Thomas J. Gill, Isialh Kirk, 1'. L. Gill, 0 G. A. Smith, John Gill, b L. Cooper, A. S. Williams, John Uooper, D. W. Krutinan, P J. E. Cooper, Robt. W. MartIn, o J. P Eddleman, T. L. Thompson, Addisou Miller, I Mark IkAlpip. t We have before us seven other certifi- h cates signed by the nei ghboi e of Mr. Shel-t tnn, who are gerrtlemen of indisputable veracity, which corroborate al the state nuents made by Mr. Smart in his letter as publisheld in the Democrat of Sept. 28th. We do not deem it necessary to .spread them before our readers at length except in the event ofa reiteration of the ground less charges contained in the late letter of Mr. Shelton to the Red River American. They substantiate thet abvo card by pe- t cific details plainly and eatcfully pre sented. it There seems to us to be no neceesity for documelits to refute tile aspermsios cast ppom tim Uon Joh& It Suiavt by Mr. Shelton in ka tter whichid, was in rmny re spects unlit for pulilicationr and which disgausted a great rnumrber even of ins , litict rieind*. The hijgb reptflei n which , this distingcuhed citizen of Sb 'ine a woo by ha btnest, pure and tpright tear to in, all the relatits -o life in te 1 it pussittle riadi t ioiU gt oi the the ii- i 'h'ti 1~rs ii op t' 1hi:re .;. b l1id' per-~ soiial enemies H o'wellP na it widely kown as a trii t t1: trto% oid u peusible gentleman to be slhlkd;Aup n to, reply to the lcmrtge. ` f pct lhit and , disuppifiited aspiratr :. f h a, irindicatipu werq tueeded there ir o main in Iouttisian to wihiom e wvoni more cheetfully lenpd ntr aid and the u's of our columns than t tlhii it let ; j it at zon and at g DeNmocrat Bt I sure hihe t~h the wieat adu sh-il washiy letter of Mr. Shaltuin canuotliuj u t ,iji 4illi the slightest degree nor avter 9te opilionsi of any mnan in liu 5sou ! hose i 3 worth a pitch .of sati ' On the evening f i seduy Oet Stlths, a Iaigw p etsra o of tlhe regeri j Know thodthihg 'party " otr a pkassing thtK corner 1 ld mmln RL al str lN * Qrtlensh Itbviin git id th& St. E. miait weteagatin~' ~ ~ b hds Intfif ')t the Orleatiy are an4 w~e from the corner, s thip l p promtc1e4 they wont to the. ose rt see it, Amnauog eo wore threeyw t tp n j of' respeotabte chiracter, Mr. Batl'Wtr. ltmanttl Ilaacu 4 thei# friebd h asame is ruit gived. They werf p b tf tie Iudepteu e4t Arserie ()I4 oti to the p.Aitica of thoes who forued the procession: As the-latter pasised, Mr. Butler in spite of tIle rem1t3oaatraucooa of lis two tricitd 1 wayed tits or. mitn re poated several times " Hiirsi foi Bern fivtr' risbu." What subsequently ccmurred is related by the Qu)rier of Fri'Ay5 ftc a cIreflul iniveitsgatioat, as follows ~ The mea fp the~. peessai, sonm of whoa knew them, answeretd Basletsi'cheerswir rhl groitu4 a they passed hita. Onieof the horsemen oMixe ured cup. club at the head of the protession turned buick,. . uwd looking at Busier as if to reoogqize htmuasook itis whip at umsanyhg, " l'li fig ygto-suarrawl" t lie then rode on, and' just as he wheeled his hlorwe around, a man of small stature teti the rankreross- 1 ing just behind the horse, ag it~tl~kit up to But ler, said soinaethig which our infotmiunt id11 not i hesr distinwtly, but whicalt sipraqd mQ4 yI a threat 1 dnd a. order to hush. ,L4ullniv susagbg biving another e4te; and t.e Tian, whQ ws then some tour steps Fron him, drew a pistol and shot at him. this first s was'followed by three or (tour others in rap,4Ai esaon; our intormositt coutd not say i by wHoftlney were fired, but he is positive that. 't he first.5hht was fired at Bu llr Ily the small man - ie had seen leave the ranks. ' 'I The bystanders acattered in every diredtion. Mr. Blasco, who 'was standing alongside of Mr, Butler, aeeiiughiq life itr.dasrger, drnwy W revolver, and dhchiagad thie l9. be rrth at hls santalsia, after which lhe rtiested ip 0y1eaetreet;r lw was pursreed ad rnri jritatot Mtster sitlooki j s s the keeper tias closhig the'doos. H;te tvceheed a last - shot, which took effect in hil qoest etreli',sthe r sppedon thie very threshol4. His clothing was pierited io four dUhltitrevtt pleces, oan io( the balls eaigiq a gight wmead awt ms, m. re vgreeate-ata gi K aets ePPbeduyhrt, a tos fhriefd ot 1k . Alacok who hmod dicharged one shol hi his i defeuseR Thyav werepirsued, buit asiovrde great 4ist~t~*81~ Wle ra hutW Ulve personis fronre its ~ rnk#ofth~~rndoes ns~iw wonided, but awie asi .~ ~:;· Mayo Stitit WatSra fi h4 of the' red 'c~p. h ich citii ~ of' the' most otoioiis thuiges 4s M u B lug pwt ~ ft ew0prOrean fot ,the ~ Mayr tr 4j 4tpWi ujiwsb ar gt*W 4O~IJM4 ~v~t4~4~' e '~e" rc94 tot Ther'e i''ieason to. appre disturbanr ~ rat the lolls iin °-eµ: ont Muundty est a' sell :as' after the election. l'ta the? city press, fBou thereca o assassinsationat, from ·tih:e ib rioiis reprobates who are seen at'j'' '.r streets or inr the procesi of the"a of the Knuow POthimmg par~ty, Tit is that no ordinary animosity prevails Ecry mail brigsr us as connts o series of assanlts fetid kiflii 'a4 ~ proofs of the waht 'on the psi police, ot;both tme will and the pui ret protect the victims or to bring their aa·s ants to justice.:. It is even alleg`i i conservative and respectable. jo that some of the worst of the thegs o1)tho. Mayor's seeret police or . body-guard and ther fact that, in a processiont- of the Know Nothtinp]a `.' of men clothed ini Indian costhmte' caflif themselves the Wiflmebago -Cl' headtd by Mayor Stith who knewIjo of theta to be guilty of crimes deiwe :? the gal!ows, appears Jo eevrobo 'at. t allegation. The leaders of the, rgelar city warns. comstitumte a league of oAf*l1i and office borders' The annual s tares of the city anmontit to nearl and a half millions of dollais of.wbijh mnense sumn it is probable that half goes as profits into the `poce t~ ' offic-holders auIE the vfaiYl s Itgfea tornieP, co)itrncttrs. and employees w all' belong to t ht' sarme faetiufn. }y 'I :nag'mmificceit firnd is at ante ftie stno mative for retaining tlw trontrol *city, and the soumrce of ample pecnii mrrerans for electfoneeerfmi purpoae, enob. 060h'r tIf rlp facetio tai avail.. set vosof every pm1rehaaltfO! a (luding that of bhachkegs dnd 'bt For sdcf an elections as that which.:tC -take place Fo n Monday, fruntm'vig o"r whiose annua l satlaies ad pesqt ini the aggregate aun-t to' nea ly }ill's of ,a rJests it *tip 1 40 4ývt1idtbWi*tý:a iýt-f eil' tl~t'IKI °: Puri ~b4n ole th u"., opponents t Ci tjqi 'alete itinri . toi··' ;breaking ep of to mmtwirnhmlg of: nipt, s:%~yi1 .fDeminuertidR:tket4AshIs taut ktIlng ~it vtent,' flu' axt ` mmijcratic t ch.Itle lgý wera~the w<}here re~t*ai o ains ii.;e+ 'ecunrred. * t'i4 t. oth )f tcrrror w~thivfrtlý k; U"fw" ·~r)!·.iris ~ -~4f~ ~aoh (isut '-' ii' i tia RIytn- PHcrtut;:irltywichj: :. 1ir P- h 4ltave! heme 8UF the AmiJcieajms' and who 'hi~ i\i p rty w rilhae lth supib s: ~ fl:vrt the rcs~ori;th~oofhon amrtly lao" goverBnme mA tim .4~tl\ir .Ue cn. bil~t~t;inda'md rwl~r wigw~# quite. 'rhey R ih~·iJ4lfr , h:~h*spriid· yoe~u~W i truftue. r'EIher 59 tltaaan woul aoud:::wn t' uns upo I:hiKiRel : ~pavethbet ti~teac an wo il4 4i~j inctmlimed to thhik ic: w~f 1*: i tn ac~a ofM their t #i3bt.Vtil pctr well as oa'gamt #uI outpcrpagezs nutty d019# MO~ nyltr ie~iain·tlitgo ef llrt lobeQrt and bloods~ I StatesihRfl~hu mnadifeDi Cli it 3·to thrr~'Fipap .nii-e' a tii ~tit a~ppeaediaii*ned~1% 'O4O at~on warhigy 0 lnbtatogi w·U , 'aacrit5me teen, oZr7M A jO Itpas~r-lwt14buan b8equeD@ ~oun4c~ ihfnm ~·:! Shpii-t~aL ~we louni~4thath t,,, of~tl~eeandlasev4 4 ;I