The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-05-29

FUNNY MATRIMONIAL ADVENTURE
Among other agreeable matter in
the April number of the Knickerboc-
er is an anecdote ofGovenor Wentworth,
the last of the Cujoroal Governors of
New Hampshire, anG his lady. The sto-
ry is true, and still related by the aged
people in the cighborhocd in which he
lived:
''The Governor, it.seems, married
very pretty litde girl some thirty years
his junior, who like most young wives
was fond of gaiety and liked better TO
pass the evening in stroling through
the woods by moonlight or in dancing
at some merry-meking, than in the arms
of her gray-haired husband. Neverthe-
less, although she kept late hours she
was in every other respect an exempla-
ry wife. The Governor, who was a qui-
Ct, sober parsonage and careful Of his
health, preferred going to bed early and
rising before the sun, to enhale the cool
breeze ofthe morning; and as the lady
seldom came home till past midnight, he
was not very we'll pleased at being dis
turbed by her late hours. At length af-
ter repeated expostulations his patience
was completely exhausted, and he frank
ly told her that he could bear it no lon
ger, and that if she did not return home
in future before twelve O'Clock she should
not be admitted in the house.
"The lady laughed at her spouse, as
pretty ladies are want to do in such ca
ses, and on the next occasion Of a merry
making she did not return till past two
in the morning. The Governor heard the
carriage drive to the door and the pom
derous clang for admmittance, but he
did not stir. The lady then babe her
servant try the windows; but this the
Governor had foreseen-they were all
secured. Determined not to be out gen
eraled, she alighted from the carriage,
and drawing heavy key from her peck
ct sent it ringing through the window
into the very chamber of the good old
man. This answered the purpose Pre-
sently a night-capped head peered from
the window and demanded the cause of
the disturbance. "Let me into the house,
sir" sharply demanded the wife. The
Governor was immoveable, and very I'M
gallantly declared she should remain
without ali night. The fair cuiprit coax
ed, entreated, expostulated and threaten
ed, but all~inf vain. At length, becoming
frantic at his impertuJ babIe obstinacy,
she declared that unless she was admit
ted at once she would throw herself into
the lake, and he might console himself
with the reflection that he was The cause
of her death. The Governor begged
she would do so if it would afford her any
pleasure, and shutting the window he re-
tired again to bed.
"The GorerneSS now instructed her
servants to run swiftly to the water, as
if in pursuit Of her, and to throw a large
stone over the bank, screaming as if in
terror at the moment of doing it, while
she would remain concealed behind the
door. The good Governor. notwith
standing all his decisions and noncha-
lance, was not quite at ease when he
heard his wife express her determine
ton. Listening, therefore, very atten-
lively, he heard the rush to the water
side, the expostulations Of the servants,
the plunge and the screams, and know
ing his wife TO be very rash in her mo-
ments ofvexation, and really loving her
most tenderly, he no longer doubted the
reality.
"Good God Is it possiben said he /;
and springing from his bed he ran to the
door with nothing about him save his
robe de null, and crying out "Save her,
you rascals! Leap in and save your mis-
tressm make for the lake!-In the mean
time his wife fastened in doors, locked
and made all fast, and shortly afterwards
appeared at the window from which her
husband had addressed her. The Cover
nor discovered the ruSe, but it was too
late, and he became in his turn the ex-
postulator. 1t was all in vain, however:
the fair lady babe him good night, and
shutting the window retired to bed, leav-
ing the little man to shift for himself as
best he might until morning Whether
the. Governor forgave his fair lady ira
ditlon does not say, but it is reasonable to
presume that he never again intcrfered
with the hours she might choose to
keep"
The editors Of the National Intelli.
gencer state that on and after Saturday
the 9th Of June next, weekly paper. en-.
ltled the Weekly National Intelligencer
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