Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — The Minnesota Row-de-dow. [ARTICLE]

The Minnesota Row-de-dow.

Gofv. Gorman’s lute exposure of the Minnesota election frauds, whereby Sibley be-i camefthe Governor of the State, and Rice I and -ohields members of the U. S. Senate i has ijnade an astonishing'flurry among the; politicians and office holders at St. Paul. ■ Tne 'Pioneer of that city is particularly sav- ! ■ge tin Gorman, add indeavors to dragoon , him into an acknowledgment either that he I told a lie to the editor of the Chatfield Republican. or th it the ed tor told one in publishing his statements. At the same time it admits that if Rice &. Co. did perpetrat, the fraud alledged by Gorman, they should be provided at once with apartments in the Penitentiary at Stillwater. AijAkrel with (Boots on.—There is no accounting for little childrens inventionsand explanations ofithings. Two little prat lers were looking at the weather-van on the top <|f the steeple of a Universalist Church. Thiaj weather-van, which was put up there to Uli which way the wind bl w; was in the ahap of a man with boots on. The children! wondered what it could be. “Is it ar nng®l?” says one. “Net,” said the other, “it Can’! be an angel,because angels have wings andjaugels don’t vvea. boo’s.” “O,” sail the jrst; “I’ll tell you what it is: It’s u t angel,I with boots on, going to Heaven on foot. (Hy-fn JeffersonJ Ashtabula county, Ohio, at the residence of Hon. J. R. Giddings, the villagers amuse themselves, every evening, play ing at ball—a game in which the <>!«• statesman takes great delight. On the Ith a mptched game was played—fourteen on ; side!. Tho Sentinel says: “The highes’ number of scores (was made by Josl.ua R Gidpings, a young chap of six'y-four, who led the field, having made a tally as often as thejclub came to Hi s hand.” OtrA c ase of crime in high life has caused much excitement i ,n Bourbon county, Ky Robert H. Champpias been sentenced to th< penitentiary for fi teen years, f- r rape upoi -his Jbroth ’r’s widow. He is a married man with a family o r children, and has moved in the- highest circles. He first stup fied his victim with chloijo'bnn and then outraged her; person. The Court of Appeals has just grapted him a new trial.

OCTA correspondent writing to the Cin-1 Times, frbm G-egory’s Mines, at Pike’s Peak, on the 20th of June, says: ••The news Iromi the mountains has not chain .ed ma’erialljy ; a few of the miners are I reaping a h.inilsome remuneration; many ! mote are unsuccess ul; some are returning! to t'>e States, anti others are pushing on to! Caiiforniii.” “.I was in Prison and Ye Visited Me.”— Thja Superintendent* of a Sabbath School in Oberlin was recently sent to jail on a charge of having helped to prevent a band of Kentucky kidnappers taking hick a Fugitive Sitive into bond ige. During his incurceratio|i. his Sunday School children-)—four hundred in number—-v.sited him while in prison at Cleveland. Stonnington an epitaph runs thus: , “H|ere lies the body of Perry M. Haskell Hd lived a knave and died a rascal. brother drunkards, don’t wear crape, Since rum and gin are growing cheap; Bijt it the friendly tear you drop, VVjeep for the worms that eat him yp; Fir if, like him, they have no spunk, Tne worms, like him, will all die drunk!” Jones, have you got a match?” “Yes. sir, a match for the old boy! There ahfe is mixing up dough.” Jones pointed to! hii wife, and then slid from the front door. Tljie last we sow of Jones he was “kiting” it I dotvn the road, hotly pursued by a red-he.ided ]a<ly with a cistern put. The L.ivei.’s Puzzle.—To learn to read the following, so as to make good sense, is the mvstpry: I thee read see that me. E vt-is (low li will I’ll have Bui that and you have you’ll One and up and you if I