Weekly Reveille, Volume 38, Number 9, Vevay, Switzerland County, 22 August 1855 — Page 1

THE WEEKLY?.REVBILLE.

DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE, TEMPERANCE. LITERATURE. MORALITY; AND

VOLUME XXXVIII.

YEYAY,' INDIANA,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1855.

NUMBER 9.

[ Sworn and subscribed to before me.

! Saturday night before Iho election, Isaw j many of them with arms, and they had.; 5 resolved, / heard thepi say so, to attack’ him proccsMoh, but it turned out, as they afterwards told my husband, to bo too i numerous, and so they,let it pass. They- ■ :had been led to believe the procession would 1 small by those i cho opposed the. Know / *■ Xothinys;' this I heard them say. I saw mdny oT them with arnas six or eight -days.before the last election, and they. | said they wore ready for it. . ’ | I ha\c not seen my. husband since Mon:dny< last, nor heard of him. 1 fear ho | induced tp Join them in Quinn’s jrow. They had begged him to receive (aVnis in his house, but bo declined. AVo ;did not live in. (Quinn’s row.

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strongly induced' by several Americans and several Germans to fire upon the Americans who were in. the hack. , I did go, firing both barrels of a loaded shot gun; it was loaded with small shot, A1-. ter firing, I was attacked and wounded by an American party; 1 cannot tell who they .were; 1 acknowledge tliat-I was to blame, and 'would not bavo shot, but by thA ovet'persuasion of the Americans and Germans who urged me to the dreadful deed, • JOHN VOGT.

the First-Word-polls. When wo,had been at the polls some ifive minutes, I saw a crowd running out Shelby srtfcel. Hodge and I went in that direction in the buggy. When we came Id tliq corner of Green and Shelby, wo saw a party of Americans .retreating before a party of Germans, There were a good many bloody hepds. among tba Americana.— The Americans had no arine except slicks missiles as they picked up from Hm jhiveulciit. The Gonnans crally armed with guns/some yagers, 801U9'hliort £uns f and every desciiptioq of guns. ;

We went to the place pointed out to us by the bby.* When wb gtot to a. point' on Gjccn street where it is intersected by Campbell Mreot, four or five squares from the" place of voting, they discovered a largo 1 number of foreigners, some with' muskets, some' with pistols, some with Bowie, knifes, pome with rakes, and others 'with* M-ytlios, which ihey/lourbhcd over their heads, ‘

tliio 81I1 August, 1855. . n • L. A. WutTELEv, Notary PiiWii*. -loljn T. Trice, on oiitb,makes a statement similar to the above. . There is-no

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material difltfreme in the affidavits in re-

gard to thc’bcginning of the affair. 11c \vas in company with Sowdcrs,. Iltcu.im) Maumj was in company with the above, anti. pn outh, verifies' their 1 .statements. Ho Aiys tlie Iri-ljinen were tac/t armed with JjwiV.Vf 'revolvers, that' they fired at least twenty shots at the Americans. The Aiitorirans tvcrc quietly talking, and were [unarmed. ' ■ ' LEASnr.ti Ant eg ate, being • sworn, states that- ho whs present at the commenccnumt of the shooting, mid that the affidavit of. March id true in cvcrj'particular.

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I When we gol[within from 50 to 100 I feel from the front of the crowd, Mr.„ Selvage raised In‘a supplicating position, and begged the rrowd to de.s:.‘;| from any ho-.tile action. While Selvage was thus engaged, nfiiant saw aman on the north: west corner of Green and Campbell pointing his gnn toward* Selvage.— Affiant spoke*loudly to,'Selvage,'telling him-lo “look out.” He supposed^Solv a "it 1 1 ad not seen his danger. About the*momcnt, ho spoke to .him the man shot,;the first gnn ho heard of; haing shot Outbid day. Selvage was shot in the; face" and breast, and iw- he staggered, he turned his hack on - -the crowd and was shot in the backi the shot taking effect almost alj over him. .. !JTe bled profusely. I e states that.at ‘ the time Selvage wr.s I 5! tot, Edward Williams was standing: within two or three feet oMiim. Wii-| II tins turned rapidly o round with, the intent,'as witness supposed, to catch Sel-vage-as he fell. ■_ , This action turned Williams around from the and as ho turned an nthe*g»im was shot arid contents of the gnn w£e lodged all over his hack.- He then drew his pistol and Williams drew his pistol, and they alt (Selvage without' arms} started toward thorn. They started W in a hum 1 —some up Green and some along ‘Campbell. They (the foreigners) would stop and then fire. Selvage's son was coming about the lime when S. :was shot, was also wounded by several ishots. Further; he says that when approaching!, the csowd ’of Dutch anti. Irish, they, saw a one horse wagon ■.wit's’two ° r three men in it quietly passing down Green street, when on petting pear by and in* the midst of thevrowd, fhey/were atoned and beaten by nea>lyJl' ’of; the Dutch crowd.

Win. E. Jones states that r on Monday evening last, he and another man wore coming do(wn Green street in a peaceable, quiet way, not even talking loudly, if at all, when just as. he got opposite Wm. Gray's h'ousc on Green street, near the brewery, he was shot al out of the brewery! in the nmnediate neighborhood. He | knows that' his life.was in great dongef, for though the ■ bullet or shot rnis/cd him; he (distinctly heard the same;whittle close to, his hiati. This

■ When wo reached the rear of tho’American party I met Alexander Gilmore; tho two parties wore then* about a square apart; I told him to 'do what he could id keeping tho American party quiet 'and 1 ironM go'to tho Germans und .sco what I could do with, them; I drove right up into the* crowd and commenced, talking to them; I indeed them to go home ami put their guns army, arid; told .them if I they ironld do so there, would bo no fur--1 tlier' difficulty; theyrycro ’unwilling, to 'listen to such, advice; the only reply T [iurild gct was exclamations froiri the Ger* jnans. ol *• Drive, ihcmiiito tho river ! ifrivri‘them Into tlio river!” When 1 found.I coldd riot influence them 1 turned round, alid had scarcely’ succeeded in turning tlitl buggy “ when -tliey let tly a yplley of shpt, : balls arid stones at ns, and wo were obliged to drive at full sjieed tb escape; this brought back the Aiiicrl,Can party,’ they irishcd upon the.Germans amt. forced them to retreat toward Campbell street,; on. Green, • • “ f t! While ( ; the German, party were, at Campbellslreet, George Selvage, AlexanderGrose, and..Edward Williams came rip! arid w erit toward them, between. them and the'American party. The two parties wore about -a Square. apart; when Selvage ami Williams came within about fifty ' or seventy - yards of the Germans, Selvage’raised bis hands and said something to them. Just then the Germans fired; a volley at him and Williams, and wounded them severely. The Amoritjan party }hen rushed upon them and they scattered in every direction.. * J

lior CAROLINE. 'A WALL. -' ■ * mark.

Michael O'CohmdL oh bath, says: 1 reside on the cornet of Clmpclnml Main streets, Louisville, Imd- keep there u gror eery store. On the Gth of August, inst,, in the afternoon, Theodore Rhodes ami David Dougherty came to my grocery; they Averd my acqnaint«nce.s and friends. They informed me that there were drank[cn men going about this part of the city, I ami I (tad heller dose hiy grocery, I did so at once; as I closed the doors they left and went on , the sijleivMk; as thpy left my doors some one fired from the opposite >ido of the street form the house of Mr. McDonald, a very clcvetman, and who] believe knew nothing of it. Rhodes fell when the shot-Was fired, and; died soon after. . Dougherty was also >hot, but I did not see that. Dougherty ami Rhodes were both quiet and perfectly so-, her.' They neither did nor said anything to give olfenso to any one. * They were peaceable and; clever, wed 1-behaved gen tlemcn. .Rhodes had just shaken hands with my wife at the door before Ijo was shot. Immediately and-at once after

Jcifersvn county, set: • • *]-' Subscrilxitl and .sworn to before me| August10,1$55, . ' / J. I. Dozier, Examiner. ’ Bash, . Erodes, •' father of Theodore Rhodes, testified us to the manner of his death, corrobrat tug previous statements; Aboqt 5 o'clock, P, M,, of that day, I was Bitting nt my door, when X heard : [the report: of iirc-anns, and, on looking! iop Main, 1 saw my son Theodore, faU at [Mqin and Chapel. In an instant I heard ;-0 or 30 shots fircdin rapid succession, . >q quick as to. scorn to bo a volley. Tho pilots were fired from north side of Main. - j My soil was on the south side when bo l fell. ‘ 1 could see him distinctly; ho rais-' cd bis.head) mid was in a reclining position,: wheji I saw a , man. ran from tho-- : north nidc;of Main (6 within 10„or 121 feet of ray/fion nnd ; deliberately shoot at . my 'soil , three times With a revolver, ' when t ly son fell back and did notmpvo again: The man fan at oneb back to .Quinn’s row, whence ho' came'. | • My son was A very' tall man and wore' a broad brim hat, and was casiljr lecognized at the distance 1 was from jhim.—; i While reclining ho seemed tp beckon with' his hand to some one for help. Ho’ was sober, and a sober man in his habits, lie was very quiet,.pcaccablo- nndihoftenfiivc, as I think. Up to this time Jhero had been no distnrbanco on Main in that/ part of the city. :* B. BDODEEI. * Jefferson county, set ;. '} ■ . • Subscribed and sworn to before me, August.10, 1855, _ J. I. Dozier, L. L, Parker testifies as to the attack being made from tlic Irish houses. Therewcib few persons in tiro street and no disturbance. At least thirty shots wore fir-

was five or MX; square)! ftom where any voting was had.' Wil. E, J0N|’1S. Thomas llnfitlreing sworn/says: About halCpasl 4 o’tjoiik,’: P. M., un Monday, Aug. B, 1H55, Im was;walling dow n iIij sontli side of, Xtilia md, .svest of Jack-, sbn, - - in Lou!sv{Ue, ra' company I several others, npt ftiolesnhgany one, when they [were fired! a poly from' the opposite sida'or Maiirslpwt; - from the third-story of a brkk iioinl^'SfsveuiI shots were filed. - ; [ J TilaMAS HU .NT. ; Subscribed (n|d .sworn t to before me,' August 11, 11:55. ‘ ' 11. StBATTAX, N; P. “

THE LOUIS VI LllE RIOTS' AG AIN. Foreigners Proved Giitlty. present to our readers this week additional accounts o{ the Louisville - ri-. ols, and thpugh our space will not permit ns. to give near all wo have at hand, still there is enough to convince any man . that can, be conviiibcAnt all, that the re- 1 amt bloody and outrngvoir/ scenes at . Louisville were drigiiiatedv by : foreign Catholics, and foreign Catholics alone — that they wens commenced by whole platoons of foreign Catholics firing from tlio upper stories of houses, and other places of concealment, on peaceable and unarmed citizens, while they were quietly walking tlio streets. the old lino papers and - speakers, true to their instincts, have [shouldered all the blame on .the American citizens, mul have charged and reiterate ivith uunparalleled impudence 1 that the Arrierican citizens were almio in the fault ! Is U not a burning shame, in the face of tlio facts given below, and ten Times ‘as, much more ofCjydmc sort that we have roomTo .old should oven attempt to charge the origin of these outrages to the A men cans ? They must calculate largely upon t|te credulity and ignorance of our citizens., Any man that will reflect one moment must see,, even without theTestinibuy given in this case, that tjicse bloody scencn d6 not and cannot originate with pur own citizens; the very genius,, of their ■institutions,and tlreir cdifcalion under them |rom childhood, have taught the American people to regard .os sacred the civil and religious rights of otheis. The rigid to worship Goa according to commence, and, the right (o, exercise the elective franchise, are the moU sacred of tjresd rights, and we repent ogain that the veryVnaturo of oqh civil institutions and our education, teach us to regard and respect these n’gl t*— ■ and wherever the’ American popul it Ion lnrgo|y predominates wo find they ar i ex‘ereised by every person, native and foreigner, without disturbance; and itisfpnly in localities where tlio foreign Catholic II population Is largo that these'diffietd ties • occur.. But in the face Bf*ail these facts, . the old line papers, andjpld lino political •demagogues, ask yon to* believe that the 1 American citizens havebecotrie cut throats! assassins! human butchers'j fieadd nnd devils I more: they ask you to fieltove, lhat‘foreign priests, and there blind and bigoted minioug, most* of whojn have been brought up in a country whqVe civil liberty and ; feligioWuolernlion arc strangers—men who are in fact themselves iho very quintessence; of intolerance; — <who, in their own co.inlry, have never failed to resortto the rack and the faggot | to convert others from their heresies; — I whobaniah from their soil the'Word of| Goil—in whose eyes the' slightest expres-j sum in favor of civil or religious liberty, j or even being found in possession of thoj Holy.Blble, is an offence so heincous as to consign the offender to the rack or tlie flames;—jtbeso men, we say, the old lino editors and demagogues would have us. believe are as pure as the angels in Heaven,' while American citizens, bora and 'nurtured under onr glorious' institutions,have become devils inhuman shape. Citizens of- Switzerland county, are yon - prepared - to believe .this monstrous absurdity t" :-Np, fvo know you are not. But .-wjo, -you tjcT read, and carefully ponder The evidence we .publish below, and. wo;-know you wi|l be more fully convinced than ever of tha perilous situ* atibn uf,our country, and will ho more determined than over to give the slanderera-, of.your tonntrymen the robuko they deserve, dt thoballot-box:

John Pettit states, on loath,* that lie resides on Green street j o/b o veWcnzelfop - iposito Amlmtsler’s brewery. In the afr temoon of Monday;'(election day) .the Gormans commenced firing their guns from-the hreiVery, upon inoffensive.citizens passing by.? lie believes that there was a large mimber of Germans collected in the brewery. -; One of iho balls fifed frorn.it, lodged in the door of Ins (Pettit's) hoiiM'. - [ All tin’s occurred U'frfre there had been] any 1 manifestation-of disturbance in pelgblrnrhood, and while everything .was quiet, before the brewery \vos attacked hy'thc Americans and before lire Americans had even made 4ny demonstration in the, neighborhood: ■ ’ . . - i . JOHN. PETTIT. " Sworn to hefqfp me, this 13th day of August, 1855. ; •• ‘" • v J. 1 C. Raihd, J. P. J. C.

Rhodes was shot, about 17 shots ‘.were fired from the same house in quick succession. The shots took effect'’in- my house, and arc now to be sciin by any onfi; one of them struck me in wife right leg. When these (.hols were fired T saw no disturbance arid heanl ot none, and there, was not tho (.lightest tauso* for it, that I can iniflgino, and but for these shots 1 believe there would have been no difficulty or disturbances; at any rate they 1 were the beginning, and.’l am sure the .cause of what a I occurred. 1 am an Lhliniau and a utitiiolie. d . . MICHAEL O’CONN DLL.- - fiubsciibcd and sworn to, v August 8th, 1855. ,

x). t. bligh; Subscribed and sworn‘to before, me this’ llthAugust, 1855. J I L, A. White ley, Notary Publicf

■ After tho facts'- above stated had transpired, a party of Americans. hearing and seeing the firing, cams running up in pursuit, and the firing and fighting became general in the neighborhood. Many shots bcihg-fired from fhe doors and windows along the streets of this neighborhood at the Americans, as'they ran thro' ihc Ktrrflls in pursuit of different parties of-foreigner.-. , ALEX, C.’ CROSS. The foregoing statement having beon written in onr. presence, lias also been carefully‘rcr.d to ns. and weV’oncur in the statement of facts, having been eye-wit-nesses to theuu

j.' Jos. Selvage, being, sworn, states: I jVos appointed by the Mayor a policeman for the Second \Vard polls, I wossliorifl’ at the polls. While at- tho Second W«rd polls, about two o’clock, news was brought'thcre that the foreigners up town Were in arms.. ; Ed. Williams and Alex. Cross, night-watchpien .in - the Second Ward, urged mo: to go with them to stop them. "1 hare been nil the; season working on public contracts oh street,'some GO or 70 foreign laborers) mostlyInch. Williams and Oross askcd ino to go with them because they -believed I would have epaside wilh the foreigners. 1 ’went llllainsi ‘ When wb reached ilio wmer of Shelby & Green streets, wb discovered adjody of Germans, about 75; congregated at the' comer of Campbell anX Green: .. :I bade tbb.crdwd-that accompanied ns to remain and T would go to the Germans and talk to Uiem.V The Amoficans remained at the corner of Shelby st,, except Williams and Cross and myself. We went towarti Campbell street.,. Williams and myself; were abdut Mix feet in advance of Cross.. When wo came within some seventy feet of the Germans, 1 raised ■ hiy ;bands: and. begged them “for God’a, sake to go- Iiomo : and their guns,’.'I. said this several tufef while my liauds were • raised. ntjd. 1 > was ixliortrng themtogohoine, sorpo one in* tire’ crowd of Germans cried out' to Moot; a gun was rdiscd;aud I received the contents i n myface, neck, and breast; I reeled ogainsta feu'eb and I wos then shot im the back aud . legs. Some .12 or 13 guiis were fired at that time. Williams wdfs wounded in the head ami legsduring this firing; ‘ . ■" . The Americans then rushed up Green ••trei!’. ami the general melee commenced; J.wasj altogether unarmed, and did not 1 >-■* any fire-arms among the Americans at tlii- time;, this was the beginning of tho difficulties at that point: the G- rmans wore fcattercii and pursued I.'in every dK U'ftion; wl;at happened afterwards I nW, unable to state." D. SELVAGE.

Win .ill.' Richardson stales on oath: That oh Mondhy,'August 6t)»i (election day) about 2+o’clock, IVM., I Was quietly walking* out Shelby street, justsouth of Madison, >yiicn n mhn'(uot an'Apjeri- . can): from the second Idtcast of.Shclby street, discharged a double barrelled shot gun, taking cTrcbt in my leg, and break*, ing the leg.of Sir. Laity yrho was ■ with me. There -.wab at the: time 'no disturbance on ibestruet vWo then got into, a hack and parted jdown Madison 'street whhsomo othefr persons rvho I .did* not know; we, discovered a largo crowd, of Gerihan$ and drishy armed: with double barreled gnus and revolvers, attbo corner of Clay, and Madison strecty, and they commenced*bring on the hack,; < ;Mr. Latla and the‘gentleman with us, laid down jn the bottom of the hack, I, being too tall .to shield myself in that way, got out and ran .with the hack be-, tween mo and the mob, and .was shot- in the leg, the shot passing under 'the horses, and 'back; when' wo got. opposite . the crowd we had to pass .between them and a carton the opposite ibo street,' ah Irishman, from: behind' tlio cart shut me, the ball .passing through the (Salt, of my right lug; f then found I jwas losing; strength,. and: opened’ the hack door ; and; threw myself in the hack whilst thp hor-j sea were running;- my, legs hung out. and in that conditidu, : I was shot iu the legs under the hack/' . > : •• : . • • ; 'i

ed in a 'minute, from McDonald, (he Irishgroebr's house. ; ■ ; . • ■ ■. Jas.J. White, on loath, Bays ho was on Market street when the firing commenced, lie ran.to Minn street. ■ "When witness got to Main street, >ho placed him- 1 self in such a •position':as wonld enablo him,10 eeewhen*. the fill oo tiiig entn o from. Hc'snw plainly that there were two men . at every window in Quinn's houses except one, .which was the honso directly .opposite tlicjiiotisc occupied by Mr. McDonald.. Hp saw- that each of.the men hint two double-barreled guns or muskets or pistols, and lie saw them shooting oat oMie windows rather up Main street. — L’heShoiiting continued with increased fifteen minutes, after, ho got /l)r.‘ A. Y. Brewer testifies that o party ; of Americans (unarmed) coming down . Market street, were fired upon from Irish coffee-house on. the - corner of Market ohdCbapchstrcetiii One fell.; . George M. Kirk, oh oath,* testifies that 1 . lie was .near; the comer of Market; and Chapel streets, ahd-.Eaw passers-by fired upon twice tiro |ip{>er story of flii Irish home."- Thi$ 'was about the sapio time the firing on Main street, Several persons were wounded by theso volleys. . -/ , - .

O. 1L Stuattas, Notary Public. I, Joanna O’Connell, wife of Michael O’Comiell, pn omit, say—I have* heard the above affidavit of my hinlmnd read,; and know the same is true, aiid I,adopt and iuake it part of thisaffidavit. ■■■'. J.OA'NNA O’COXXKLU •- Subscribed and sworn topleforo' mo August £th, 1855. K; ■ O. II. Smvrrix,‘X. P. ,■ R. CVIIuRD, of the firm ofjlI.,T. Otml it Co., anakes affidnvit-a-. tojihe rduibi!ity and character of O’CoJinell and .his wile.; , J * i! ✓ * State of Jicntnc.{i/, JtJfcrtKD comity. set: { This day Ilavtd Tbmg'terty jsifttes on; oath Ireful e the undersigned, .V jnTice of! tlie peace for said county, that, on the; evening, of Monday, A :;g., .Oth, 1855, j .about 4 or 5' o'clock, Theodore Rhodes] and himself went to the 1 house of . their I -friend Mr. M. O’Conmdl, an Irish grocer, [ corner of Main and Chapel sts., in’ an I office of courtesy;'.haying- rendered' .the j friendly duty, we si upped out* Intending j to gp. home, but almost instantly Rhodes; was allot jlown, (aortal ly 'wounded; and ■ inys£lf fcliot 'in the shoulder, arm 1 and { side, both of* n$ by ah Trishmannnned j willi n double-barreled gun, from the op- 1 posiie side , pf-tho street, in the passage; way*of J, MepomddVhouse. . Previous;

KDW. WILLIAMS, AARON RAY. J. D. SELVAGE.

THE EIGHTH W.HJD—TESTIMONY.

‘ The Louisville Journal publishes several columns of affidavits of numerous persons in regard to the origin of the riots in the eighth wan! of that city, which show conclusively that the foreigners, and not tho Americans .were to blame for the bloodshed and loss of-life on the election day. Wc should like to publish them in fulldiad we tho accessary room, but must content ourselves with uiakiiig n few extracts:— ' , ; • •

William.Sowders, being sworn, states: About 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, August G, I was silting with three others bn the curbing on Tenth street, in ; front of QralFdj, WeyiPa, aWhc comer of Tenth ohd Main; therd werfe three of four small boys] from 10* to 12 years old,fitting upon the Curb, about 15; feet from us, on Tenth street. .* -While sitting thus, three irishmen ■ came from the - north side of Main, between Tenth and Eleventh, ami passing ns, mat about half way between Main auih Mmkct, bn' Tenth, when they turned and canid-back; as : theypassed the .boys, m ;coming’’ back, one; of the boys made .some remark; and The Irishmen immediately drew out revolvers and commenced' firing upon the. crowd, while wo were still quietly sitting on. the curb. ,1 sprang up hnd ; ran down Main street; fowaVd Eleventh. As I approached Chap cl street shots jvoro fired from several of the windows of the houses in Quinn's row, on the north side of Main street.' J [saw a man down on the pavement; whom I afterwards found*out was Theodore Rhodes. I tiyncd up Chapel streer; as I came to the corner of chapel and Market,- I met two Irishmen, whom I believe to be two of those who had commenced firing at the corner of Tenth and Main; they hud pistols in their, hands; they ran into the coffe-house at the comcr.of Chapel and Market streets and fired twice as they went into the door. As I passed they slammed the door and commenced fastening up the house, 1 ran on until I met some Americans who had been summoned to the spot bp,the firing; they went toward the house at the comer of Chapel afid 'Market; ns (hey approached the coffee-house, several shots weao fired at them from the upper windows of the coffee-house. The Irishmen in the house screened themselves with the blinds of the windows, and fired from behind them until the blinds were dashed in by rocks thrown against them. The house was broken open and the two Irishmen were captured. I did not see the procceflings in the honso. \VM. SOWDERS.

1 have in both legs 11.5 shot, and one bullet wound, and ouetshot in mV right hand. \VM. ft. RICHARDSON. - Subscribed amV sworn to, August. S, 185o. ' 6: n. STiiArr.\N, N. IV

to this there was no mob, no crowd, • no j 1 Joseph Hnckcr, on oath,'says.ho rcsi- ■ diflijinlty, and but few persons bn the; joj , on (ho-- 6th of August m one of . Streep • The^hots.'were ashmcxpected; a* j Qoinn’tj houses, in what is called Qninn’a an.earthquakc—it was utterly unprovoked ;t- 0 w, on the north side of Main street, bo- ' on’ our pjart either byword or. gesturerr- 1 tween Tenth and .Eleventh, There, w.Jts (up : toThat tijno nobody jffioiit-.; jj e there aliont,7 months, 1 [Hero ing orknottkjng.dowp, up or' down the’ follows a statement of (hqlajlingof MK sireuf. eo'far I cohM’ learn* 'or see. , Rhodes, which Is; the samp jw the. bikers, : Whilst talking Mr. O’Connell I'afij W o omit.il.] ! . 1.:': , : • • / :.: was near, the fitmfdoor.and; must have j Thplrish nil, along the‘roW;Wcro -well l>cnrd aild ;*ce,n any;;Ipst le - or disturbance most, of . them; having Two .pistols '< in that.immediateneighborhood. v ...: ij ’jeacbjand also a gnni There,were.about I)AVID 1)0UG1IERTY. or 100 Irishmen living in that tow, I Subscribed anil fiftorh to befofe irie lh)s, think; and they had in wy visitors bfTheir 8tb day ofi Angust, X855.v -•: ;"{countrymen;.• , 1 saw.maoy ‘of. thinh^ofteu.. ; . Sam’i/ Matlaok,/ J. C v .. jwhh 1 pistols - arid- .gnus during, the two; . Mrs. IltroBY l)obp, and - her Two daugh- j weeks, preceding. the, ,qI«ction of lore, on path,’ isay that the irislpn Quinn’a l855, and one* : pf Them, who had sovoral row had for two weeks oeforo the .clec- i.pistols. tphl a maif .in, my hearing on. tion; been ’preparing arms, «e! ; ’’ - j Saturday; before - the election; - that' he wad; Richara.H. Lee, a special policeman, ’heady. Two or three weeks ago I saw/, on oath, states That-HeAvds iti tlio*noigh ; Mr. Quinn, cany a doablerbanoled,8hotborhood of the disturbances. He saw tho g«n into his house at two different Umea.j Americans fired:, upon from the - Irish ’ O n the night of the riot there waa a i houses without : provocation. He and of powder in the alloy opposite Quinn's* others were fired upon several times. The bouses, which I-covered up with bed. Americans were unarmed. ' ; clothes to prevent explosion. Mr. Qnina Catiousk Wall, wife of John Wall, had called on mo and insisted on my votopon oath, says she is an Irishwoman and i n ff> notwithstanding I had told himThat. a Catholic. Saw the death of Rhodes, 1 wa3 not naturalized. ■ ' . and corroborated previous statements jis!. Ho violence was offered mo or my fainto, the cause of it. Wo-give the latter Ny* The Americans aided-me and my ' part of her affidavit in full: j family to remove out of my Loose which. There were a great many Irishmen in was burned, and told mo to leave there Qumn's row, some oi whom were relai or the' Irish might shoot mo. lama lions of my Unsbnud, and they were "Very German by birth and a Catholic in rebgoften fogo.hcr.' For some weeks previous ion, JOSEPH HUCKER;

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H. Jones, being swovij, : On Monday -about B o'clock, Gel. Tic.-tr'.i vVis standing in (Ire street in fro:<i.oJ {’;<> Firs-t Ward poll-, in the niido of u crowd of Gormans. 1 Iioc.mI him tell (lit: Gremans to spend one day tor th-it liuln-, and io stay arouild and not to ]c,.ic/ ; the ..polls, that he was the only Democratic candidate" there was out for .Congress. Col. P. was among the Gormans about tire polls nearly " all tire diiy—from early in the morning lilt nearly about 11 o’clock. ' ,

Sivoin to'and silicontH 1 '! (o bcforowe, 11 Notary Public, on the Sill Jay- of Angu>t, It&o. L. A. Wiutelv,. Notary Public. We were present at the time of the attack upon Selvage and Williams, and corroborate the above statement. „

Between 12 and 1 o'clock of that day ns I was on my way to dinner, as I passed Marshall street on the west side ol Cloy street, I heard a fuss on Marshall street, west" of Clay street. I stopped at the corner of. Clay and Marshall; 1 had stood there about two minutes, when an Irishman came out of a house on' Marshall street,, east of Cldy, and tired a pistol at me. I ran toward him; he escaped in the housp; I searched for him, hut he had concealed himself. 'I did not anticipate anything of the kind, and was altogether unarmed. ‘H. JONES. Sworn*and subscribed before me, this 9lh August, 1855, ■ ' ■ ,

, EDWARD WILIAMS. ' ALEX. *G. CROSS, AARON RAY.

Alexander C. Cross stales that on Monday the, 6th inst., the day of election in LonUville, he was at'tho Second Word polls, when a boy, say 12 or 14 years old, at about two o’clock, P. M., came to bim and complained that he had been badly treated by a largo number of foreigners on Green street, above Shelby, He said that he had started to water his horse, but had been driven off by ’thorn. Mr. Edward Williams was present' at the time boy came t» bim, and they concluded to seo Mr. Selvage, who was acting as Sheriff at the Second Ward polls, and got the benefit of his advice before they took any step. They, saw Mr. Selvage, and it was agreed upon that he.should* gd : along.—

L. A, Wnrreusy, Notary public.' D. T. Bligh states on oath: About 1 o’clock Chna. Hodge and I left Davis's etablo on Jefferson street; between Third and Fourth streets, in a buggy, to go W

John Vogt states: About 2 o'clock .on the$th-of .August, while I was standing ■ on {he. oomerof. Cl ay. and Madison ids, ’ J saw jk hack going up Madison.* I was

to the election of the 6tb of August, j Jtfferson-countyStd: 1855, they (not my husband) were pro- i ' Subscribed add sworn to, before me, paring for a fight, and procured and had August 9, 1855.' > many arms, pistols and gnus;, and, on , .J, L Doweh, Examiner^