Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1858-01-30

TERRIBLE Seine IN a THEATRE. "A wrii.|
or from Europe gives the following descrip
ion Of scene at Lcghorn, whore, in the
lgony Of causcless alarm, one hundred men
# crowd. were t,ampled to death, and five
hundred wounded: .sss7
The house was crowded-the play, "The
r1king Of Scvastopol." The frs. acts went
Df we'll: battery after battery exploded and
The thrilling spectacle made the theatre ring
with applause. Alleges were tnrncd to sec
them take the Malakoff. At last twas
stormed. The soldiers rushed in-then the
explosion amid the widest cheers. At that
a, spark, caIght the scencs-they
blazed- audience thought it part of the
play, and chcered the louder, the scene was
10 natural. Alas lit was too perfect An
other moment they saw their mistake-a
Wild cry of misery drowned the applause
Higher and higher it rose, maddening the
spectators with fright: Five minutes more
and the fire was ext;ngu;shed, but the spec
ta:ors, like a herd of buffaloes: like a panic
army, like a flock Of sheep before
wolves, like passengers from a sinking ship,
losing all thought but self preservation, rush
ed from their seats. The shrieks of women,
the shrill cry Of children, the hoarse voices
Of men, all struggling for life, presented a
scene not describable. Some threw them
selves from the boxes in the pit, killing them
selves and crushing those beneath them
No judgement, no 3torethonght-out Of the
windows-over the lodges-stamping each
other to death. The sentinels were ordered
TO stop the passage with bayonets. They
planted, and those in the first ranks wer,
run through and through, and the soldiers
with the rest were mutilated with the feet o
hundreds. E@it
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The PR1cE or 1tEt,eroN ny BEEcHER.-
The pcws in Rev. Henry Warl Becchcr':
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y, were rented OF
Thursday evening. A fixed price was Sc
on each pew in the house. The auctionee
then took bids for a. choice until all were sold
The premiums paid for the best seats wer,
from $50 to, $50, thus making the rent o
the best pews on the lower floor 500 t,
$40. i The premiums were kept up eve1
on the cheapest seats.
~ Capt. Meigs says that the ventilation
Of the new Hall at Washington, will be i'm
proved by steam fan which he is now pre
pairing and which is capable of throwing
ninety thousand cubic feet Of solid air int
the Hall per minute, which will provide
complete renewal Of air in the Chamber eve
ry five minutes, as the cubic capacity of tn
room is not over 100000 feet. No amour
|of Congressional corruption can contaminat
such a torrent Of purity as this. 1t breathe
the very freshness Of the armament
" Six head Of pure Arabian blood stall
ions have been brought to the city Of New
York by Capt Land, state Of the combine
American AMI EnsliSh companies engage
in raising the sunkcn vessels Of war in tn
harbor of SchaStapol. These animals ar
direct from the Cars cavalry stables
These stables are the wonder and astonish
mcnt of all who have obtained admission 1
them. The Enclosure Of stone walls an
iron framework cover an area of ten miles i
length by five in width. The stables ar
twelve feet square each, while in the ccntr
is an arena where IN army of 5000 head {
the finest horses in the world arc broker
trained and OK .rciscd by most tie skillfr
trainers, jockies, &c. in the clrperors dc
miDions. By an imperial decree. sales AZ
permitted TO bc 1t,dc when Il certain mum
!, b.r Of animals are in the stables, Of whic
| Capt. Lane has taken advantage, thus ma
king an invaluable addition to the America
stud. They are said to have cost eightec
thousand dollars, so says the New Yor
Sun.
0-Thc manner wl.ic!, Christmas wa
kept in the city Of louisville was pecul,arl
bloody one. There was shooting affair a
the United States Hotel in which youn
man named Williams killed a young ma
named Potter In the Commercial Hote
two young mon. Warner Sage and Alex
ander Bplden. fricn'ls, but drunk. Tough
and Bolcn fractured Sagc's skull with
slnng shot so that he died. Alta place cal
led Hudson Hall, also James Bull and Esaa
Duel wall, friends. but drunk had diff
Guilty. Duckwall invited Bull to drink, h
refused. when Duckwall struck him with
bowie knife. inficting a mortal wound, Blu
dying in fex hours. u
These three murders in Louisville O
Christmas drunken sprees tell sad tale fo
the young men Of Kentucky.
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Con-. PAuLDiN;.-Hiram Pauldin.
comcs-honcstly by his skill in arrcstin,
unlawful expeditions. His father
the Albany Journal says, was that Gel
ebrated John Pan'aing, the Pcckski
farmer who was party to the arrest o
Major Andre. Hiram was born il
jWcstchestcr county. and early in lif
entered the navy, where he has work
ed his way up, through, the grades o
Mid~hipman, Lieutenant, Commando
aud Captain. He has been one of tn
most valued and efficient officers in tn
service; and Government short tim
since showed its appreciation of tn
fact by appointing him to tho comman1
Of the Home Squadron, which lie nov
holds. ! L i n W. East III
GA illhas hseen iatr6duccd in Con
gross, by Mr.. Grow, Of Pennsylvania, to pre-
vent the future sale 81 public lands, unde
the proclamation of the. President, until tn
same shall have been surveyed for at leas
fifteen years.
a. William Smitb, in Milwaukee, Wis