The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-05-12

SIX DAYS IN A GRAyF.-An account was given,
a short time ago, of two men and boy having been
buried ,N days aud six nig hts in marl pit at Ecrec
vile, the depal tment OF the Seine lntereue and
then rescued. relation ot the affair, deriv ed from
the suiletetS, j. now given in Rouen paper Du-
ring the whole of that time they were without food
without water, without hghi, and almost without
c.ohce; and they in such confined place, that
with the exception of the boy, they could stand
upright. Botnd, the eldest man, declares that du-
ring the whole time he did not sleep more than two
hours but his two companions, and especially the
Youngest slept They slept back to back
They ielt no hunger, and Boitard says that if
they bad had provisions. they would not have touch
ed them; but they experienced great thirst.
Or the fourth day they found little thick
with mari, by digging into the bottom Of the pit. Ii
was this water, probably, which preserved their
strength At first they heard the noise of the pickax
es and spades above them; but during the last days
their breathing so loud TO prevent it from reach
ing them, and this circumstance naturally increased
their agouy Of mind they feared also the miners
digging in a wrong direction.
One Of them had about fifty chemical matches and
a small piece Of candle but though the, often tried,
tn " could not, for want If air, the candle
burn.
During the latter part Of the time they became so
exhausted 10 he unconscious OF their postion but
they remember that the boy cried # in
dream, There i, the rope Bolta,d! let ascend!'
Only one OF them, BrIard able to shed tears
and whea he did 50, the boy consoled him by tein,
him they were sure 10 be rescued. The
breath fresh air reached them they tainted, but al
ter a while they recovered. The tnst thing Botard
said b:ing rescued, was, ''Gve me pinch of
snuff and he took it with intense dcGsht.-fGa-
lignani.
Is 1T So THE celebrated VI. dc RochefoucauIt
gave, a maxim, that E'there is IN our friends ms
fortunes something secretly pleasant TO us and con
sequcn, that their good fortune is dlsagreeabIe. Ii
th. BIZ so. it a sad commentary on human nature.
Another wiiter remarks on this, that "n It's hard
Tor a mau bear his good luck, It's harder still
io! his friends to bear it for him., and consoles him.
self with the hought that there is pity well as
the human heart, and that the rivalry stops hen
the competitor tumblcs. This may be partially tue,
but the thought that ,nstinctlvey reJoces IN the
mis,rtuae of his f;reid involves the existence of
principle snperatiy ely mean, that we doubt its
stence, but if il does exist 1t must be past all cure.
To KEEP SrovE BRIGHT BY Two APPLr-
CATIONS IEAR.-Makc weak alum water and
mix Your British LuStre with 1t; let the stove he
cold. bsuSh with the mixture, then take dry brush
aud dry use and rub the stove until IT is perfectly
div. Souid ANY part before polishing become SO dry
as to look gray, moisteu As aboye.-lN o. Courier.
John Murphy who killed his wife in Fall River
Mas, on Saturday night, by pouring vitrioi down
her throat, has not Vet been arrested. He was
In New Bedford on Monday.
His wife at the time she was tied in bed, was in
toxicated
An exchange paper saws that the Methodis,s Of
Virgin have preached to the slaves about the
morality Of dancing that nearly the whole OF them
have (nrsdken the "fddlc and the bow" and taken
t. gambling. This is Just hat common sense would
have prophesied likely to happen. Wage war
against amusements, and you open the door 10 wee.
Men viii have pAstime of some KIND. 10 set boys
to robbing orchards, could mag nothing better
than a statute against ball playing alley taw.
We were much surprised on Sunday morning, at
seeing elegant drawn up IN front OF city
Jail; yet more surprised to learn that the
fair creature who presided iii the pageant had come
To unite herself in the bonds matrimonial with Young
Kennedy who had been convicted at our last of
burglar, and sentenced to the peniteutary for four
years.-C COu,l gton rag.
Nor GuILTy.--W illiam b. Mcsser, the conduc-
tor who had charge Of the trans the Pennsylva-
MIA Central Rail- Dad, at the time of an accident last
ye;u, was tried in Lewiston short time since, Tor
the murder Of passengers The jury returned
verdict Of not guilty, but to pay the costs
MURDER At CLEvELAsD.--On the 2S,h ult. it
was discovered, that "A shocking murder had been
! committed at Cleveland A woman named Christi
| ana Sigsby, whose reputation was not good, was
found with her throat cut, and her person ied OF ITS
ornaments. The house had been shut up for several
days. till suspicious aroused that soncthins was
! wrong. The door burst open, and the body
/ found described
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fugitive slaves. men and women, from Kentucky and
the Caronas, who had arrived in this city by the un-
derground railroad, passed over the river ioto Cana
| da yesterday morning, about ociock.-t Detroit
| Free Pres., April 20.
! Mrs Sinclair, late Mrs. Forrest, has sailed from
New Orleans for Aspin~ail, on her way to Panama.
Gold is found on the tops Of the California hills, as
we'll az in the river bottoms and valleys.
The Bank Of East Tennessee, reported TO have
! f,;led IL is now said will meet its liabilities.
Green the reformed gambler, ectured at Easton,
! Nd, last week.
| Major b. Il. French has accepted the appoint
ment Of the President Is siguer Of land patents
salary ~ 800.
! Accounts from Newfoundland state that about 20
vessels, manned by 1000 men. have left the ports o
the island on their annual sealing excursions.
Reese Evans has been sentenced to death for The
raursier er Lewis Reese, at Wilkesbare, PcnnsylS