Daily American Organ

A Queer Operation.-On Saturday, in Shelby, Orleans county, New York, the Republicans put up a Fremont pole one hundred and thirty feet high. On Sunday morning it was discovered that the Fillmoreites had put a large cross at the top of that pole. A large crowd-including deacons, elders, and ministers-assembled soon after the discovery, and efforts were made to get down that cross, but the rope breaking, these deacons, elders, and preachers (according to the Rochester Union) advised the procurement of rifles for the purpose of shooting away the cross, and the advice was followed. What a proceeding in a Christian community on the Sabbath day! A noisy rabble firing at a cross during the hour for church service, aided and abetted were men occupying the first positions in the church! The cross was finally brought to the ground and the crowd dispersed.-

But the finale is not yet. On Monday morning complaint was made before a justice of the peace, and a number of those engaged in the Fremont demonstration of the day previous were arraigned and fined for a desecration of the Sabbath, and among them was one of the preachers who figured most conspicuously in the attack upon the cross!