The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-03-18


not to publish his speech as he had but one, and
that one he had 10 deliver again. II is quite
milk and water, mainly pamby performance,
and contrasts remarkably with thu fiery address
of The reverend gentleman who followed him
" \. Herald
For the Minnesota Pioneer.
Appeal Of Rich'd Roe. Esq, in behalf
of his Client.
MIR. Court, if the jury please, | now pre-
sent myself before your honorable body.
do not deny that my client committed the
horrible crime OF susanside, in the fourth
degree; but is that any sign of his guilt!
He now stands before you in all the najes
~ OF an innocent man. A man who has al
ways sustained high depreciation in socie-
ty--a man whom you all esteem and sus-
pect for his mhny good quantities. Yes,
gentlemen, a man who always provides the
best for his family-a man who eats three
hearty meals in day-a man that never
attended meeting in his life a inalii OF
good moral responsibility. Can you.
say, think for moment that such a man
would he guilty Of committing an act of
such rantankerous, inconprehensible, ne
fariouS, repugnant, peri Iious pasologiem*
OF cruelty, on his brother man!
Gentlemen of the Jury, how can you sit
so stupid aud dormant to al, the cries and
entreaties Of fellow man, whose feelings
run out arter the whole inhunIan race? Cen
llemeH, it you ever expect to I've anything
hut q sneakug set of low-lived scoundrels,
cEt-throats, and braided ends of humanity,
whitfield down to instInctibility and annhi-
h!late.l, quit my client aud save your coun-
try.
fLaw always expresses itself with gram
NAUTICAL precision. never confounding moods,
cases, or genders, except, indeed, when IL
woman happens to he slam, The verdict Is
always brought in ''nan Slaughter
! That man is 'stotally depravel,o is strik-
ingly shown in the value placed on Macaws
and other talking birds, the harder they
swear, the greater being the amount asked
and payed for them. While n poll parrot
that rehearses the Peuteteuch will not sell
for price larger than that paid for most
guinea hens, another that tells ladies' to ego
to-" IS considered cheap ut thirty dol
lars. n. Y. Dutchman.
The VALUE OF GRANpMerHEa.-As
of them fell and broke his picther which he
was carrying. lie then commenced CRYING,
when the other boy asked him s'why he
took on so!'
"Canse" said he, 'swhen | yet home
mother will lick the for breaking the mug"
"N hatn' said the other ''haim't YOU rot
no grandmother living al your honsen'
"No'' was the reply.
"W ell, have. and | might break two
mugs, and they duren't lick me.
LAMENTARLE OCCURRENCE.-The Berls
county, Pa, Press, of the 18th ut gives the fol-
loving particulars of a horrible death in the ice:
Neare PANIED TO record a heart-rending occur
renee on Sunday last, in Berne township. some
seven miles above Reading, by which Young
lady, named Miss Miller, aged about 20 wears,
met with an untlmely death. Wishing TO visit a
nt'ghbor on the opposite side Of the Schuylkl, at
keeniS 5 ferry Miss Miller walked on the ice un-
I'll she had reached the middle of the rivor. when
II broke, intnerslng her in water mp 10 the arms
She seized hold o the edge CT the ice and kent
fro'h sinking altogether. Her cr,es brought the
nelshpofs 10 the shore, and n boat was obtained
'of nef reilei, nut alas, none had the courage to
enter II ter her Rescue. Those on shore looked
on for more than an hour, when the poor girl. be-
coming exhausted and fiozen, shipped off and dis
appeared under the ice. Even after she had Civ
en- up her hold on the ice, she swan on the sur
lace Tor some time, and yet no effort was made
to save her life
An editor in chief should never write Latin and
then GO 10 bed without reading his proof The
editor of the New York Tribune the other night
wrote Sic itur ad Gsfra, (this is the way 10
heavenly about wasted day in the Senate, and
the ''devll'' made 1t lie i!ur cd asfra D. if w.
ing were the way to heaven. how few would miss
that happy place!
| "Honk," "Honk," greeted our ears YES.
terday morning, about un-rise, and casting
our eyes aioft, we discovered those welcome
harhingers of Spring, the wild geese, wing
ing their flight TO the north. Thus has old
winter received his Quietus, and .one Of
these fine mornings" VIC NAV EXPECT to he
startled from our slumbers bv that "melodi-
Gus whistle. "-Burlington Tel. Feb
The papers inform us that a steam plnw-
ing machine has been invented by A. T..
Watson, of Staten Island. rs intended
Tor driving IL plows, and performing the
operations OF blowing, sowing, and harrow
ing simultaneously. Verify, as a certain
Mr. Theophilus Pumps once s,,id, there
VIII soon be no use for people; nor, we
would add, for horses either. Ii was con-
so''ng reflection to Paddy, as he looked up
on the steam stevedore that 1t couldn't vote
1t is now settled "pint' that Mianeso-
ia will receive heavy addition to her Don
u'at'on in the Spring. This conclusion is
not made on what Minnesotians say, hut
frCT hat Lea.
we surplus of produce, it would find
ready market up north for the next six
months Grant Co. Herald.