The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-09
Correspondence OF the New York Tribune.
Know Netting Strength in St. Louis.

know-Nothing Strength in st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Friday Aug IL, 1854.
Perhaps some of your readers may wish tc
know the strength in st. Louis of the myster-
ious party called the "Know-Nothings'' as ex-
hibited in the recent election in the CITY and
Country of st. Louis and, from the manner
in which the vote has been polled, am enab-
led to give it to you and it is probably correct,
within hundred votes, more or less. The ag-
gregate vote of ST. Louis City and County. as
shown by the election of Monday last, is H.
$50. Of these according to the returns in to-
days Republican
Kennel (Whig) received. ..6,275
Benton Observation-Disclosures
received. ............... ..2,297
Polk Observation-Disclosures re-
ceived. 1913
Now, it is estimated by some of the Admin
istration Democrats that their whole vote did
not exceed 1880 consequently, Kennel (Whig)
received of these, 352, which, 6,275, leaves him
1923,
On the Wing ticket for State Senate was
Henry T. Blow, who received 1910 votes,
(nearly the same as Kennett,) and he, Blow,
being also on the KnOw-NOthing ticket, re-
ceived their votes.
On the Wing ticket was also Wayman Crow
and ne not being on the Know-Nothing tick
et the strength of the Wing vote proper only
was cast for him, amounting to l,Sl1 vOtes.--
Now. deducting the Wing vote received by
Grow from that received by Blow and we have
the following result:
Blow, Wing and know-NOthing vote. .-6,21O
Less vote of Administration men who al
SO voted for him as the did for Kenneth. $50
$500
Less Wing vote for Grow. ISL
Leaving strength ofKnow-No Nothing vote. 1919
This is proved by the vote thus given on the
Congress ticket, thus:
kennett, Wing receiving the Wing and
know-NOthing vote, and also $50 Adj
mini tratiOn votes, got. ,275
Deduct Administration vote. ............. $50
1927
Deduct from this the Wing proper vote as
given TO CrOW. l,Sll
Making the Know Nothing vote. ..4,ll4
or nearly the same as on the State Senatorial
ticket.
The reason of a portion of the Admnistra-
ton of Anti Benton men voting for Kennett,
the Wing candidate. and Blow and his col
leagues, on the Senatorial ticket was as they
knew there was no chance for Polk. (their own
candidate) and wishing to defeat Benton, they
threw $50 of their votes for Kennett and the
same probably for Blow and his colleagues. as
the knowNothings had placed on their ticket
(alOne with Blow and the other Whigs) two
Administration or AntiBentOn men. These
received 1850 votes, although Polk, their
leader. on the Congress ticket, got but. 37S
votes. all told the difference being the Know
Nothing voters who came to the help of the Adj
ministration State Senatorial (Childs and Pip
| kim in their extremity.
The votes have & iven You above, for the
State Senatorial ticket. is about the average
of the whole VOTE and have singled out but
two candidates to illustrate the Know Nothing
vote. The vote for the Wing candidates, who
were not OH the Know-Nothing ticket runs a.
bout the same. thus:
Crow Senate.
Garrlson Senate. .................1,7S $50
Charles. House. .S3s
ChOuteau House. Observation-Disclosures. 80 |
PllkinStOn: HOus OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100
Graham. House. .................... 800
Blow, (Whg and Know-Nothing). .6.2IO
Now here is ne'c party, the first Orgdniza-
tion tchich took place ut sir reeks before the
election and by the result of the vote on Mon
day last. it is seen that out of an aggregate
poll of 1880 they pollcd more than 1000
votes, or one-third the whole and it is but
fair to infer, if these numbers increase in much
Tess ratio than they have done the past six
weeks. that at the next April (city) election.
they Will sweep the whole city like u political
tornado.
L. :. No one, out of their Lodges. knew
the day before the election how the Know
Nothing men were going to vote, and their full
strength three days before the election was es-
timatcd by politicians at about 750--not over
1000 at most They struck off every foreign
er and Catholic OH the Wing aud Democratic
tickets.
CAMrHoE PRoDrcISG INsASirY.-The Toronto
Colonist says:--Wc are informed that no less
than eight persons have been admitted into
the Lunatc Asylum in a state of insanity pro-
duced by consuming quantities of camphor to
prevent cholera. Some of them carried about
in their pockets, and kept from time to time
eating small quantities of it. Others took il
dissolved in brandy. In all where it was ia
ken in any quantity, it produces insanity. 1t
is fact well known. that comparatively
small uu1ntity of m N bor will cot n do, mad