The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-07-13

The Miners Ten Commandments.

The Miners Ten Commandments.
We received yesterday from an old and
valued friend in California, beautifully illus
trated letter sheet containing the 'Mincr's
Ten Commandments" They are quantity
written, and while they raise the risibles, it
will be seen that pure sentiment, like pure
gold, lies at the bottom. Each Command
ment" has a proper Illustration, which forms
a border around the whole. The engraving
is very fine, equal to the London Pictorials:
4 man spake these words and said: | am
a miner, who wandered "from away down
East" and came to sojourn in a strange land
and "See the elephant" And behold | saw
him, and bear witness, that from the key of
his trunk to the end of his tail, his whole
body has passed before me; and | followed
him until his huge feet stood still before the
clapboard Shanty; then with his trunk extern
ded he pointed to candle card tackled upon
a shingle, as though he would say read, and
| read the
MINERS TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Thou shalt have no other claim than
one.
! U.-Thou shalt not make unto thyselt
any false claim, nor any likeness to mean
man. by Jumping one; whatever thou indeSt
on the top above, Or on the rock beneath
or in a crevice underneath the rOck-for
will visit the miners around to invite then
on my side; and when they decide against
thee, thou shalt take thy pick and thy pan
thy shovel and thy blankets, with all that
thou hast, and go prospecting" to sccb
good diggings; but thou shalt find nome
! Then when thou hast returned, in sOr
row shalt thou find that thine old claim i,
worked out, and yet no pile made thee, tC
hide in the ground, or in an old boot beneath
thy bunk, or in buckSkin or bottle under
meath thy cabin, but hast paid all that wa:
in thy purse away, worn out thy boots anC
thy garments, so that there is nothing gooC
about them but thy pockets, and thy patience
is liIlened unto thy garments; and at las
thou shalt hire thy body out to make th.
board and save thy bacon.
III-Thou shalt not go prospecting before
thy claim gives out Neither shalt thor
take thy money, nor thy gold dust, nor tn.
good name, to the gaming table in vain; fo
monte, twcnty-onc, roulette, faro, lansquen
ct and poker, wifi prove to thee that I'll,
more thou puttcst down the less thou shal
take up; and when thou thinkest Of thy wifi
and children, thou shalt not hold thysel
guiltleSs, but-insane.
IV.-Thou shalt not remember what tn
friends do at home on the Sabbath day, les
the remembrance may not compare favorabl
with what thou dOest here Six days tho
mayest dig or pick all that thy body ca
stand under; but the other day is Sunday
yet thou washest all thy dirty shirts, darnes
all thy stockings, tap thy boots, mend tn
clothing, chop thy whole weeks firewooC
make up and bake thy bread and boil tn
thou returncst from thy longtOm, weary
} For in six days labor only thou canst wor
enough to wear out thy body i'll two year:
/ bu, if thou workest hard on Sunday also tho
: canst do it in six months; and thou and tn
, son, and thy daughter, thy male friend an
. thy female friend, thy morals and thy col
I science, be none the better for it but rcprOac
s thee, shouldst thou ever return with tn
wornout body to thy mothers iireSide; an
thou strive to justify thyself, because tt
-, trader and the blacksmith, the carpenter al
G the merchant, the tailors, Jews, and bucca
I GERS, defy God and civilization, by keeplr
e the Sabbath day, nor wish for day of res
such as memory, youth and home, make h;
|; lowed
= V.-Thou shalt not think more of all Il
:. gold. and how thou canSt make it faSte:
s than how tLoa wilt enjoy it, after thou ha
e ridden rough shod, over thy good old parcn
&c precepts and examples, that thou mayc
= have nothing to rcrroach and sting tho
n when thou art left alone in the land whe
n thy fathers blessing and thy mothers 10
le hath sent thee
II VI-Thou shalt not Kill Thy body by woI
p ?, ING in the rain, even though thou shalt mr
al enough to buy physic and attendarce wi
5 Neither shalt thou kill thy neie' .oors bC
n in duel; for by Excepting coCl," thou ca
VS. save his life and thy Coz. science. Nett
q q shalt thon destroy thv .eIfby getting ''tigl
he nor "Slewed,' no high nor 'oored,"
half seas oyt.," nor three sheets in
y wind, by drinking smoothly down