Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-01-14
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ky runs free to all who have votes in
ing the officers of the House. How
many arc to be purchased with drinks
We shall be better able to Judge after
the election. A GROCERY and restaur-
ant had existed in 4 basement room OF
the Capitol for some years previous to
the, commencement Of the XXNth
Congress but no sooner was Mr. VIM
throp elected Speaker ofthat Congress
than he ordered the Sergcant-at-
Arms to clear the groggery out forth
with, and it was promptly executed.
Now free groggery is established on
the same floor, and within few steps
Of the Hail."
The 1Olst anniversary of the birth
of Robert Burns is to be very gener-
ally celebrated. The festival occurs
on the 25th of the present month.
In France, love is a comedy ; in
England tragedy in Italy All opera ;
in Germany mellodrama, and il,
America either reality. or = farce.
The celebrated Charles lIcidsick
has arrived in this country. lie came
not in a bottle, but in the steamer
-Arago. What ''lots'' Of sin he's got
TO answer for.
ONLY twenty miles Of the Nlississi,
ppi Central Railroad remain to be
completed before the iron horse will
run regularly through from New Or.
leans to jackson, Tenn.
THERE is cold weather III Louisiana
and part of Mississippi. Below Batol,
Rouge, on the 7th ultimo, they had
any quantity of home made ice, while
in the country round about there was
snow an inch and u half deep.
Mr. f. L. Bracket of Boston, has
just completed plaster bust Of the
Hon: Rufus Choate, which pleases his
admirers.
A number Of interesting drawings
and manuscripts, by Michael Angelo,
have just been discovered at Floren.
&C.
One POUND BABY.-A woman in
Florida, named Gross lately gave birth
to an infant son which weighed only
one pound. That Cross wasn't hard
to bear.-Erchange.
A lady, in Winona, last week gave
birth to two babies-.one weighing
fourteen, the other eight pounds
We'd call that Cross-6eari,,g to ad-
vantage.
THE New York Observer thinks
that the testimony of Bayard Taylor,
in his recent lecture on Humboldt, con-
clusively establishes the infidelity OF
the. distinguished German. Well,
what then?
ScHAMYL, who is putting his house
in order at Kaluga, has sent his son
Kasi- Mahoma to fetch the remainder
Of his family from Caucasus. The
warlike Imaum has no fewer than 10
wounds, II Of which are on the chest.
Mrs. GARR1cK, wife to the nephew
oft great actor, died at Sutherland
few days ago, having been an actress
sixty FIVE years. She is the last OF the
name connected with the stage.
Iowa must be under sinister plane.
tary Influences The Dubuque Herald
says that the State is infested by gangs
Of men banded together for tee perpe.
.tration of crime. Old and wealthy
men have been engage in and
young and promising men have been
convicted for horse stealing; mel
Of inf ucnce have been CONDEMNED
to long imprisonment for passing
counterfeit bank bills.
A man falls in love Just as he fall
down stairs. 1t is an accident, perhaps
and very probable misfortune; some.
thing which he neither intended, or
forcsaw, nor apprehended. But when
he runs in love, it is as when he runs
in debt it is done knowingly and in.
4cntionally, aud very often rashly and
foolishly, even if not ridiculously, mis-
erably, and ruinously.
THE Legislature of South Carolina
has appropriated 5000, 900 for the pur.
chase Of knapsacks, muskets, &C., to
play soldier with, and have refused an
appropriation of half dozen thousand
dollars to continue the geological sur
veys commenced some years ago, and
now nearly completed. The South
Carol;nian says this most valuable
work is stopped inst at time whe,
patriotism and interest both demanded
it, continuance.
DURING the past year, twenty six
persons have died in the United
States one numbered years Of age and
upwards. The oldest was a negro Of
14ouisiniana, aged las years. Two
were aged lee years. The longest
lived were colored, and from the
Southern States. ,I
A LETTER from New York say.
that, in December 1856, JHoN G
FREMONT, after being defeated in hi.
aspirations for the Presidency, became
very short of money, and sold to Ben
iamin and Fernando Wood ono 1,al