New Albany (IN) Daily Ledger, April 28, 1856, p. 2. NOTE: The article below was abbreviated as noted by the ellipsis. MOB AT SALEM Salem, Indiana, April 26, 1856- Dear Sir: Our hitherto peaceable town was on yesterday the scene of mob violence and riot. A number of women, headed by a lot of Know-Nothings, made a descent upon the groceries in our town. We are no apologists of doggeries, yet when the law is not attempted to be enforced against them in any shape, we are opposed to mob violence to put down liquor selling. Doggeries are a curse, yet mobs and riots are a greater one. They passed by two groceries after holding a consultation with their keepers, and proceeded to the residence of one Warner Zeik, a German, in a part of whose dwelling liquors were kept and sold. They talked for some time until he was finally seized by force by men and held while his liquors were destroyed, as well as molasses and vinegar and other things. Such a scene our town has never witnessed, and we hope never to see again. After the mob had dispersed, and towards evening, knots of men were seen in earnest conversation until in the end another mob was about to be got up when, by the united exertions of Dr. J. B. Wilson and Horace Heffren, the excitement was for a time allayed. This latter one was for the purpose of retaliating, and strong hints were thrown out that the Flag office (Know-Nothing) was to be destroyed. About eleven o'clock the mob reorganized and proceeded to the Flag office and threw its contents mostly into the street and making pi (sic) of the type and breaking up near the entire furniture of the office. A shoe shop belonging to one of the leaders of the first mob was literally riddled, and several others damaged materially. The whole people are in a state of excitement, and the Know-Nothings are now threatening the demolition of the Democrat office, Dunham & Heffren's law office, and G. R. Harris's Daguerrean room, all situated in the same building. Preparations are now being made to defend them to the last extremity, and each of the above individuals are resolved that only over their dead bodies shall violence be done to the offices. What scenes may be enacted, I cannot tell; how many lives lost, none know. Yet if the Know-Nothings strike a single blow today, the result none can tell. Men are now coming in from the country, resolved to maintain the Democrat office at all hazards. N. B. Since writing the above, the Democratic editor has thrashed the K. N. editor. Excitement still rising. The following article appeared in the True Flag a day or two before the mob, and we suppose was the cause of the attack on that office: They have the Power-We hear it whispered about, that the ladies of town have under consideration a project that, if carried out, and we know of nothing to hinder, will most assuredly add greatly to the character of our place and show, too, that the ladies have a deep regard for the youth of the town. The project we allude to as being deliberated upon is that of endeavoring, by some way or another, to stop the traffic in intoxicating drinks.