The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-07-28
ALrssos FOR CHILDREN-GRowxU

ALEssoH FOR CHILDBE BEN--t'ROWN fs
away from ,",is fdthet'r house. and doing
business for yourself. ALWAYS be honest DO nothing
whir you ashamed Of, and in all your transac-
tions be open and faux. II you should become q
public officer and work icr the people, b. content
with your salary and never banker after the trim
mings. Attend To your proper business and do no,
strive To make uoney Of The public by dong its
work or taking its contract th,ough third person.
If YOU hire for twelve shiiiings per day, pay
them every cent, and deduct quarter from
each day bonus for yourself account Of giving
them work. The scriptures tell that ''the laberer
IS worthy Of his hse.'' Money -gained soon goes.
II YOU have public money belonging TO the people,
pay il to them, Tor rs wrong 10 be dscouning notes
unless from your own fauds. Do what is night and
you Keep out of the newspapers. IT you cleo
tionees with your Office, don't do il by giving
tractors money for job than it is worth, nor
sign their bills unless they in all particulars
rect. II you do wrong, acknowed IS, and don't
blame people cor s'cahng of it.--Iodeed you should
do just what the Law requires, and no more,-tA
knck.
DREADFUL SHIPwRFCK.-We learn from Capt.
Sweet, of the steamboat Northener that his way
up, "Wednesday afternoon, about 5 O'Clock, he
came upon nuneuse quantity of the fragments OF
the upper works of a steamer. They were evidently
portions Of upper cabin steamer. and they were
scattered for a mile in extent over the water. The
Of the wreck from thee To f,uF miles east
of Bo,s Blanc Island, and almost within sight Of
Matknac.
Capt. Sweet examined with the utmost care the
floating sgments of the wreck bu, could discover
human beings tell the story ul the teFs le
t,ophe. Il wnud Seem that the must have
been blown or boken into Thousand pieces. and it
IS not likely that = soul has survived
Nothing nas known of j, in Mackinar, bot Sweet
had learned that provellers had ,arscd dawn III.
lake bat few hnnrs before, oi which he met ,and
the other, which is supposed 10 be The Bscel hais,
A CHARGE As IsA CHARcE--Judae Jonas
Joles, western judicial digni,ary, recently delivered
the following charge TO the jmr, in the case Of one
Elm Crunch. "n u'al tor stealiog: "Juty, YOU kin
90 out, and don't show your rgy mugs here tH you
san find verdict. if sou can't find one of your own
si the the last jny used.'' The imy retired,
and after an absence %, fifteen minutes. retr ned with
verdict of "suicide in the ninth degree and fourth
verse" Thee Irdgc Jonah Joles pronounced ppon
Crunch this seuteecc. "Elim Ciunch, stan Up and
face the music. You found guilty Of suicide for
stealing. Now. this court sentence you - pay hre
Of two hiliing-, to shave yonr head with haeganet
in the barack and II you Try in the heads Of
any Of the jury, you'll catch thunder, that's all.
yous fate viii he waning to Others; and, in concla
sion, may the Lord have mercy on your soul.''
The Spirit Of the Times ,ele a good one upon z,
verdant limb OF the law, who resided Nsnticoke
creek and ia times of the absence Of the castor Of
"dsirict meeting" acted clerk. He had strange
way of manufacturing word when at loss for tLs
rig ht one.
Well, on a certain oceasion, when his services
ia request, he undertook IN give out b, NM in
which the word dox oiogy' occurred; but he could
get hold Of the word, he requested the congrega
ton to sing four verses and sockdologe!
Mrs. Swi,shelra, in her ictters to Young ladies'
says that every country girl knoWs hCw color red
with madGer' This we believe to I've an ethaolosi-
cal fact. Nc ha,e always noticed tiat win all the
girls, the more naadzo hey got, he edder h} co'of'
An invetcraie drinker asked a bar keeper the other
evening, If he believed 10 the appearance 81 SIRIUS.
No. Was the reply, 'bu' t-Iseve !" their map,
psaIance, for have missed botte cf GIN s!nce you
eame in.'
An exquisite young rSy ~rigssed irto men
drapess. and with tie :aost exc-ura;iug oIs~i 80
could aIer, incu;ied they rad any srodDeo r0'ss'
cologe6 siik.
.No.' replisd the draper, With sodden snd ex.
pressve twirI Of the yafd-siick, hut We nass 0'o'
enraged rat.coior.'