Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-17
HE ELECTION RIOT AT ST. LOUIS.

We gater from the ST. Louis Inteigencer the follow
ing particulars concerning the popular outbreak which
happenedin that city Monday week:
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF PRoPERTY-As was gener-
ally expected the First Ward yesterday the Of
the grosss outrages upon the baot-box and the rights
of native orn citizens At early hour in the day it
became eident that large portion of the German voters
in this ward determined to prevent those entertain
ing viewsdissmiar to their own from voting and before
noon number Of peaceable quiet citizens who went TO
the polls r the purpose of deposting their votes
driven of with sticks and stones and preRaptd from
ercisiGg the slectivs franohise guars<a citizen.
I, La{s!in The day. Mr.. 6teItx, res EnAA re-
sidenf he First ward, Assailed Vile Pkssng the
polls IN his hnggy and grossly abused. Mr. c. w. Coote
assistant city engineer, assailed without
provocaton knocked down and beaten. The Wings,
general thing were beaten off from the polls and dared
not show their faces.
News Of these outrages reaching the Second Third,
Fourth and Fifth wards about three o'clock in the after
body Of native born well adopted citizens 10
the number Of some FIVE six thousand down and
efectually cleaned and drove the First Ward bues
from their position and from this time up the close Of
the polls the purity of the ballot-box maintained
The abuses heaped upon natvebon citizens, however,
enraged the crowd to such degree that the fact of
retang the polls did not satisfy and appease them Some
eight beer and coffee houses in the vicinity
broken up and the bar furniture and fixtures eectuay
demolished; not however until number of shots had
been fred from the windows and doors upon the unproec
ed crowd in the street. The Soulard Market coffee
house. directly the street from the polls first
demolished and the others followed in rapid succession
the Germans (for have every to believe them
such) all the while keeping up running fire. Several
persons shot and slightly wounded, among the
Der Mr. James Harper captain of the Missouri fire
pany and German in the employ of Hem, boot-maker,
on Chestnut street
Late in the evening, and after the polls closed the
uptown crowd started back and when at the Of
Seventh street and Park two shots
fred from the second-story windows at Neihemeyers
tavern upon the crowd and Mr.. JOS Stevens, wire
worker in the employ of Mr. Hough, Second street,
killed outright The windows and doors of the house
almost instantly broken in, and the crowd gaining
the interior fred the building and burnt
the ground
At the Of Park and Caronele avenues the crowd
was again fred on, and Mr. Edward O. 'Harn member of
the St. Louis Greys, dangerously wounded in the leg
The house from which this shot was fred also rdded
and those found within roughly handled The crowd then
pursued their way up town without further moesation,
and quietly dispersed.
The ST. Louis Greys and German Yeagers ordered
out by the Mayor last night protect the Anzeger Des
Westens printing Office large crowd had collected but
no violence attempted.
However much we deprecate mob violence in oil its
bearings, the closing Of yesterday were brought
about and urged by the party that suffered severely
from its consequences and trust in future oil native
well foreign born viii learn to know that qualified
voters not TO be driven from the polls without the pr
y attempting it meeting with the most fearful retrbuton