The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-04-16

shot and the horses taken from the stage. On
the same day, the same parties drove some fifty
Chinese from a camp in their neighborhood,
and carried away or destroyed their tents. On
the Thursday previous. Joaquin rode through
the village of San Andreas at quick gallop,
and shot three Americans as he passed through
the streets. joaquin is a young man, OF about
nineteen years of age, and must be one of the
best shots with a revolver in this or any other
country, as nearly all these men were shot
through the neck. The whole band, it is sup
posed, consist Of about sixty men, all of whom
are thought to be native Mexicans. A letter
from Jacksonville dated the 18th inst, says:-
The town is in the greatest excitement. A
large meeting of the citizens was held this
evening, at which measures were taken that
must lead to the eventual capture of the MUIR
derders. Nearly our whole population has
volunteered to turn out in pursuit tomorrow.
Wo to the Mexicans if they are caught!' The
party of Americans who started in pursuit,
found Chinaman near Suffers Fort. They
chased ithe robbers to JacksOn's Creek, where
they found more Of their work-one Chinaman
badly wounded. Mr.. Lake was living but
speeches., and died shortly after the Ameri-
cans arrived. The Americans followed on and
soon overlook the murderers, but they escaped
with the loss of their horses, blankets &C. and
one or two were wounded One of the party,
worn out by fatigue. having been in pursuit of
the robbers six days, returned to Sacramento
with three horses captured from portion of
Joaquin's party.--4lta Californian.
The following has been handed us by a
friend with request to publish. We comply
without any intention to become party to the
ecclesiastical controversy which has recently
been going on in our columns in relation to the
matter:
THE BIBLE IN SCnooIs.-The Bible is beyond
all controversy the best book of education in
the world. 1t is the best book for the fOrma-
ton of children's minds: the best book for their
acquisition and preservation of pure idiomat-
ic style in their native language; the best book
to promote and secure the purposes of family
government; the best book to make our chill
dren enlightened and good citizens of the Re
public: the best book, in fine, to preserve them
from all evil. and train them up in all good A
powerful volume might be written on its excel
lence as school book. and on the Importance
of still keeping where our forefathers laid it,
as the corner stone of our invaluable system of
public education. If you take it away, the sys-
TEN not only becomes worthless. but absolutely
pernicOus. Undue single rising generation
with the various knOwledgcs of our day. and
leave out the knowledge and the fear of God in
provisions for your cOuntry's ruin. You have
gathered fuel Of ambition and irreligiOn. which
any bold mind may set fire to. If Lord Bacon
could not talk of knowledge alone. without the
mingling Of Gods truth and love in it, as being
pernicious and dangerous aliment to older
minds, much more is it dangerous and hurtful
to the minds ofchidren. Our education needs
religious element: for it is not education
alone that will save us, but will merely train a
Iii 1f,l Of r1,li
ical strife. The only source of that element of
safety is the word of God. And if Won take
the word of God from your common schools.
you are teaching iniidcllty and practical athc-
ism to the whole nation. You are filling the
minds with elements that, without the safe
guard of divine truth, are sure 10 become fiery
bitter. and poisonous. in its general influence
over the minds of our children. and over the
whole business of education, the Bible in our
schools is Invaluable. 1t is constant habitual
nourishment an uninterrupted systematic in
fuencc over tender minds at the most suscepti-
BILE age-as steady, as cheerful, as healtbful
as the light of the sun. In this way great
many children are blessed with the privilege
oflstening daily to the word of God, who, alas
would never hear it read in the family: and
this is one highly important reason for main
tanning it. 1t brings the children even of the
abandoned, the vicious, and the worthless
of families where no family altar was ever
dreamed Otto the daily recognition of heav-
emily Father. and the daily table of that bread
which he has provided for the soul This seems
acting somewhat in the spirit of the Bible itself
This is writing the characters of Heaven upon
the soul deeper than all succeeding impressions
How bcneiicent, how salutary in all its cnliglt-
ened and elevating influences, is the daily and
appropriate use OF the Bible in school.
SUMNER Ry,MBI.Es IN THE WEST. This is
the title Of a new forthcoming work from the
gifted pen of Mrs. E. F. Ellct. 1t will shortly
be issued from the press in New York;. G.
Riker publisher. Minnesota will come in for
large share of its attention and we can be-
speak in advance valuable addition to the
store of information in regard to our Territory.
1t will no doubt be found one Of the best and
most reliable books yet written upon the West.
and as such we recommend it TO the attention
of all wishing to know something truthful of us
and our country. told in pleasant and graphic
style. Mrs. E. has had the Kindness to forward
from which we extract what follows in relation
to ST. Paul and some of her citizens:
1.-The situation of st. Paul is unsurpassed for
beauty of view. 1t stands on bluff eighty or
ninety feet high. overlooking the winding Mis-
sissippi. now diminished to an ordinary stream
by the lOwness of its waters; the plain is Just
undulating and broken enough to save il from
the uniformity of perfect level, and present an
agreeable variety in the appearance OF the town.
The streets are laid out regularly, and are of
ample width. not built up as yet with substau-
tal houses, but rapidly improving. Indeed it
is surprising how much has been accomplished
within three years, al the beginning of which
there were about dozen log houses and a
small log Catholic chapel, from which the town
afterwards took its name. Now the number of
inhabitants is twenty five hundred or more. and
there is an air of brisk progress and life about
the place; which with its advantage of location,
and the increasing resources Of the country
will, in short time, make it city of impor-
lance. In portions of the town not yet improy-
ed by buildings it is curious to see the print
tive underground of the woods and even trees,
left. In walking from the Rice House to the
residence of the Governor, in what may be
called the heart of the town. we passed through
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