The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-12-25

i, PAag BEEJAAIN ON MArRIAoNY.--Mrg
Benjamin delivered lecture on the above
subject, to a crowded house az Newark, a
/ few days ago. 'rhs Daily Adyertisss Of than
/ city, speaks very lavoratilt oe the address;
the lecturer thus sums up the Requisites for
cnnnubiai felicity: a., sssek
"l look upon amiahiIily Of disposition a
| the first of charucteristies in ones partner
for lifr-secOnd, good principies;' third,
good sense; fourth, good breeding; fifth,
good education. Amiability includes good
temper and good hearr; good principles
includes decisis Of character and religious
aud moral worth; good sense connprekends
both talents and taste; good breeding takes
/ in polIteness, deneanor, manners; good ed
ucaliOn, all ether good things that are need
fui to make up perfect wotf1aii.
On the subject Of female vanity, be SAYS.
"Taik Of the vanity Of woman! Is there
no vanity in mani Show me one g,rl with
her pretty head stuffed full of conceit Of her
own beauty and consequence. and I will
show you fifty youths, upon whose lips the
small down, by much coaxing, has ventured
to appear, and a hundred hirsute dandies.
sxuiting in fal facial crep of spontaneous
growth, who are more perfectly possessed
with selfish estimation Of their own irre-
sis,ible charms than any miss in her teens.
| Each Of these apologies of 5men fancies
every woman, whom he happens to encoun-
ter, desperately enast1ored Of him, and is
fully persuaded in his own mind. that he
bears to the fair sex the same relation which
the late Capt. Martin Scott did to the ra-
coons. Don't fire. said a coon TO the Gap.
tain, as the latter was about to raise his TN
erring rifle, i will come down. 'Don't
pop the question: says some fascinated
/ 4 ~ -. Il L..
| killers. Il will marry you.' ALI that these
conqnerors of these fairs, these Cesars in
their own esteem, have TO do, is to come,
and see, aud conquer" "
HoNEsrf N LrrTte THfSos.-ThA fol-
lowing curious account Of a practical ser.
mon is copied from the Vermont Chroniclei
! "a brother in the ministry took occasion
to preach on the passage iD Luke xvi, 10,
'He that IL unjust in the least, is unjust also
in much. The theme was, TINT men Who take
advantage in small things Of others, have
! the very element Of character to wrong the
community and indis iduals in great things,
where the prospect of escaping detection or
censure is little TO te dreaded. The preach
or exposed the various ways by which peo-
pie wrong each other; such as borrowing;
mistakes in making change; by errors in ac-
duties; 10y managing TO escape postage; BY
| finding articles, and never seeking owners;
and by injurng articles borrow ed, aud new
er making the fact known TO the owners
when returned. One lady, the next day
met her pastor and said, Il have been up to
Mr. -, to rectify an error be made 10
giving me change few weeks ago. for
| f.lt bitterly your reproof yesterday Anoth-
er individual went to Boston, to pay for m
article not in her bill, which she noticed
was not charged when shs paid it. A man
going home from meeting, said to bis COM
panion, Il did not believe there was man
in the meeting-house to-day, VINO did not
feel con,iemned.' After applying the SER
mon to score more of his acduaintanEes,
be continued, 'Did not the pastor utter
something about finding pair of wheels"
Il believe not, neighbor A. He spoke Of
keeping things which had been found.'--
well, ] thought two or three times that he
said something about finding pair Of
wheels, and really supposed that he meant
me. found pair down in my lot little
while ago. 'Do you,' said his compauion,
'know whom they belong tor 'Mr. B. lost
them short time ago. The owner was
soon in possession Of his wheels"
JOHN ApAMs-In the Seth year Of h;s
age John Adams made the following entry
in his diary. He was then practising law
in Boston, though living in Braintree: s92
''lt has been my fate TO be acquainted in
the way Of business, with number Of very
rich men, Gardiner, Bowdoin, Pitts, Ham
cock, Howe, Lee, Seargent. Hooper,
Doane, Cooper. Gardiner, Howe, Lee, and
Doane, have al acquired their wealth by
| their own industry; Bowdoin and Hancock
J ~.
wise. Pitts by marriage. But there Is not
one Of all these who derives more pleasure
! from his property than do from mine. My
little farm and stock and cash afford me az
much satisfaction as all their immense tracts.
extensive navigation, snnptuous b0ildiDgs,
! their vass suuIs at interest and stocks in
trade yield them. The pIsasures Of prop
erty arise from acquisition more. thaa pos
session, FROM what is TO come rather Than
what is. The rich are seldom remark able
for modesty, ingenuity or humanity. Their
wealth has rather tendency to make them
penurious and selfish"
| PTcKLiNG Mar Professor Refnessus
ienoInces the use Of saitpetrs in brius in
tended for the preservation Of flesh to be
kept for food. Iha, part of the saitpetrs
which is absorbed in meat, 10 nitric acid, or
4 cSo'tfy poiSViis uefus
previous to the addition Of pickle, consists
Of gelatinous and fihrous substances, the
former only, possessing nutritious virtuc;
this gelatins is destroyed by tho chemical
action Of salr ansi sa|petre, and, as the Pro-
fessor remarks, the meat bscomes as diffsr-
ent q substance from what IL should be, as
leather is from the raw hide befofe j, ID
subjected to the process Of tanning lie 40.
cribes 10 the pernicious effects Of the cher,-
ical change all the diseases which are COM
mon to mariners and others who suhsisi
principally upon sailed meat, such % scur-
w, sore gums, decayed teeth, ulcers, &c.,
and advises q total ahandcament Of the use
Of saltpe,re in the making Of pickle for
beef, pork, &c., the best substitute for which
fis, ne says, sugar, n small quantity render-
ing the meat sweeter, more whoiesoms, and
equally as durable. as ssgloH IS vsa
i TO PosrAAsTrRs.-Ap Postmaster feceht-
Iy in Pennsylvania, had Judgment given
against him for the amount Of several years
subscription to q distant newspaper on the
ground that he had NOT riyer snffic;exf, m.