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Will there be Trouble in this City at the Next Election?

The question is in everybody's mouth, and there is a universal apprehension that there will be serious difficulty at the polls, and these apprehensions are not without foundation. Demagogues have been and still are at work among the foreign population, doing all they can to excite them against the native born portion of the community. Speeches have been made to foreigners in their native tongue, in which they have been urged to arm themselves and prepare for the contest, and these appeals have been followed by the most villainous newspaper articles, representing Americans as thirsty after the blood of the foreigners. The result is that committees are out soliciting subscriptions for the purchase of arms. Recently organized associations, it is said, must be equipped, and the disarmed military companies be put in fighting condition before the election.

These facts are well known in the community, and it cannot be expected that the Americans are indifferent to them. It is notorious that one great cause of the excitement at Louisville, and on the morning preceding the election riots, was caused by the universal knowledge of the fact that arms had been supplied to foreigners, and that a number of the places, like Quinn's Row, were stored with weapons. And so it will be here on the day of the next election if foreigners, aroused by the patriotic and unwarrantable appeals of interested demagogues, arm themselves for a contest, Americans will follow their example, and if a collision should occur, Heaven only knows how fearful would be the result.--Times.