The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-14
EUGENE AND HoRTENsE
J 0 S E p HIN E
AN EXPOSE OF THE" KNOW MOTH
lNGS.n

1AA> h-AA oSE Vt ri II P" kNOW MOTH
| lNGS"
Yesterday morning pamphlet Of 80 page
was issued from the press of one of the chea
publishers, and sold for shilling 1t is enlitles
Inc Know N"things an Expose of tn,
Secret Order OF Know Mornings; the ms
iudcrous and startling Yankee Notion eve
conceived BY a Know SOMETHING. la,e %
| the Grand Council The author sla,es in
| The introduction that the obj cts the as.ocia
ton have never been made known, as many Of
hnaw Nothings theiHsel Ives are unaware o.
me ultimate object of the order The write,
does not give any account of The objects for
which the order was established He states
that 1t now Numbers five millions of members
and that it is increasing at the rate of tiv,
thousand per week. The account of IN.
iniuatory cere monies is highly absurd, and
must be incomplete.
According to this pamphe, the real name
adopted by The general is Babelorlum, from the
tower OF Babel. The order is divided INTO three
degrees, each separate from the other. The
first is called the Mamsome degree the sec.
ond, Mummore the third. Mummost. Wnie
the order in general takes the name of Babel
Drum, the Undivided societies in different places
are called Toweretts. The number of Tower
et,s IN the city of New York at this date. is
almost two hundred and fifty, and applications
Tor new ones are so numerous, tina. the in,tia
ting officers are overwhelmed with business.
The officers are dressed in revolutionary and
Indian costumes. The candidate is hood
winked, and a string tied around his tonoue
After certain questions asked and answers
returned, the conductor withdraws the fools
cap from the eyes Of the candidate the usher
seizes him behind by the coat collar with both
hands, and pulls back as if determined To cause
strangula,ion the Wampum Master, II, iaont
draws on the cord tied to the candidate S tongue
and the Captain Mum stands a little on The lief,
with an upraIsed tomahawk.
The candidate, vita lolling tongue. choking
throat, and dstend-d eyes sazes round and IN
addition to the figures directly before hun, Is
struck with ludicrous yet painful amaz ..nen,
on behodng the room fl led about him W! h the
most lndescribabe images. Every wan If tn
assembly has on a fools cap coming DOWN
over his eyebrows, and tapering back at an
angle Of Ity- five degrees, about eighteen in
ches in length. Every man has th., f,refinref
ct each hand in the corners of his mouth, and
with bread grin on his face tugs on the cor
ners OF his Po,atoe trap, 10 see which can pro-
duce the most horrible grimace, and exLibi,
the deepest cultural cavern, studded with the
10 lgest rows Of bad ivory.
The candidate then proceeds to make oath IN
that we have ever seen. One clause is
sufficient
To the true and faithful performance of all
OF which, pledge my most p-rtinaci"us loyns,
binding myself under penalty no less man
having my boots drawn off over my head, NV
hair twisted into a cord nine tee, long, tn,
skirts OF my coat cut into forty nine strips, and
IN this unfortunate plight suffer myself to be
rode on three concerned rail- nii e iret l,ng
over the railroad track of Hamburg rock,i,
at the rate of ninety miles per hour.
The pass word OF this order is diroso eht aeh
yrf-nouc-ruo. This pass word Is
never to be givsn whole, but TO be halved when
ever used.
The remainder of the work is equally ridicu-
lons, and il is stated that it was written IS
our.esque on the whole atfair 1t appears Ia lie
a mixture of the ceremonies of the Tammany
Society and the Odd Fellows, with little of
the vagaries of the Bowery boys.-[N Y.
Herald.