The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-06-06
SAINT PAUL:
An Expose OF sKnow Nothings."

Yesterday morning, pamphlet Of ,hirty.,wo pnge
was issued from the press Of oue Of the cheap pub
liehere, aud sold NJ shilling II il entitled, Ths
Know Nothings; an Expose Of the Secret Order 81
Know No,hingss The most Iuicrous aud s,nrtiine
Yankee Notion ever conceived. BY a Know Some
thing, htc Of the Grand Council" The ouho,
states IN the introduction that the objects Of the ass
citation have never been made known, as u.any O.
the Know NOthings' themselves arc unaware OF IN,
ultimate oljrc, Of the order. The writer does no
give any aecc~n' II the objects far which the orde,
was established. He states that Il now numhors Z.
millions Of emlers, aud that il il ncrea.ng A. m,
rate of ave thuusa"d per week. The account Of ,ho
.n't'atry ceremonies 10 highly absurd, and mus, be
incom,,le,c>
According 10 this pamphlet the real name adopted
we "sSw "a general is Babelorium, from the tower
Of babel. The order is divided into three degrees
each separate from the other. The first is called the
Mnmso'He degree; the second, Mum,nore; the third
M"'n"osi. While the order in general takes the
name 1t Batelorium, the individual societies in the
diftcrcht places, called Towcrets. The number
almost two hundred and fifty, and applications fer
new ones are numerous that the initiating officers
are ovcr~ helmcd with business.
tke officers arc dressed in revolutionary and In.
<i'an costumes. The candidate is hoodwinked, and
string tied around his tongue. Alter certain aucs
Tons asked and answers returned, the conductor
w'thd'aws the FOOLS cap from The eyes Of the cand.
date: the usher sexes him behind By the coat collar
"Vu UWu uaOus, ana puts Dack u determined to
cassc stranguIat0n; the Wampum Master, in 'front.'
draws on the cord tied to the candidate tongue: and
the Captain Mum stands little ON the left with an
appraised tomahawk.
The candidate. with loiiing tongue, chokeing
threat, aud distcnded eyes, C;xcs around aud in all
'i,on 10 the figures directly before him, is struck
with mdicrous yet painful amaze IT, on bcholdny
the room allied at0ut him with the most in.csc, ,s.
b'c images. Every man Of the assembly has on "a
sool's cap coming down over the eyebrows, and a..
Pcrns back at AN angle Of for,y-Gve degrees, about
c'ghteen inches in length. Every has the fore.
finger "f each md in the corners o( his mouth and
with broad grin on his face, tugs the CORNERS Of
his s',a,'e trap, To see which produce the most
horrible g IMAGE, and exhibit the deepest gutteraI
cavern, studded with the longest rows al had ivory.
The Candidate then proceeds to make oath To "a
string OF the most alr"rd attempts nj fun that we
have ever seen. One clause is sufficient.
''ro the true aud faithful Performance of all Of
which, plcigc my most pcrtinacious Iogos, binding
mys'y nndr psnahy no less than having nv boot.
drawn of over my head my hair twiste into "a cord
n,nc feet long, the sknts of my cut into forty.
nine strips, and in this unGtnate plight suffer nv
sell to he rode on threcLcorncrrd rail, nine fec,
long, over the railroad track Of lau.bus rocket at
the rate of ninety miles per hour.''
This pass word ~ the order is, dhome tt,ntt.tdna
fsr yd.nu~-rmc. This password is never 70 be civ.
en- whole, but TO I've halvcd whenever used.
The reminder Of the work !. equally ridiculous,
and Is stated that 1t WAS written ~ brIrsque On
ceremonies of the Tannany Society and the Odd
Fellows. with a little of The vagarics Of the BOwcry
hpss.@.N \. Hraid.
W-A young gentleman, upon time, WIS left
hrs da combat, b. the reply Of old lady to his 90.
ct'c expressions Ot ecstatc hope in Watri,n which
81 o'r memory serves us correctly run Us follows:
With friend AMI n wife.
Those blessings of life.
What "h earth can our en,c1 cond u Anen11
st""h sweet offspring t,c ours,
Grant this ~ SO io,yrrs
Be tho girls like my wife. nn the boys like my ftirni
"And ,hr boys Ike yoar what, .ir |" asked the old
lady. Like my friend. +" answered the young gen.
ten.an. "llunph," said shc ".uch things will oc.
ca.ioa,i'y happen IL the best regulated families, ia,
is an odd th,ng top,n, for"
NV Yonx Messy MAnktt.-rhe Tribune of
the 10Th says
on call a, g., Ter ccI IN ~ rccp Hics. ~.
pei IL IN small supply the street. md short first
class sors NJ = III per cent. and long ~ ~ 10 per
cent. Some six months twVnai'e paper Wns Inssed
to-day at y per cen,.
The boston Courier tnys
The price of none, felt III per cent. yesterday
with iac'eascd -ulgly. aud p'mc paper ~as passing
at n per ccnt Collateral lodns ranged from \ 10 10
lss psessag than u Ia. lrtn iur ~,,e tiuw part
The stock market was b,o,nni IN spite of blue Mon.
day. anl so,Wc Of the "Was" wilicd liiitc 10 the
bright sunshine, Tho street Ia largely si"tt of the
speculative stocks, viii ID can Sistaii rise NJ fly
pr CO II. ',cCwc wsRi,ing tho quotations which we've
carrc Il only two months ay,, Emily ~ March.