Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-12-30
Observation-Disclosures

From the Ner York Commercial! Adrertiser.
Though Mr.. Skinner, since his appoint.
ment as Assistant Postmaster General,
has relinquished the editorial chair of the
American Farmer, there are strong signs
in the following essay on "the signs of a
good husband" which appeared in the
last number of that journal, that it is yet
sometimes favored with anonymous effu.
sions from his pen:
THE SIGNS OF A GOOD HUSBAND.
MONTPELIER, residence OF DR.. =. Thornton, !
September 9th, l84l.
To THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN
FARMER Here, Mr.. Editor, among the
mountains, in one corner of R%appahan-
mock county, in the Old Dominion, |
am overtaken by a late number of your
paper. wherein go in the corner prom.
ises to give his signs of a good husband,
as a set off against his signs of a good
housewife. This rash promise is thrown
up to me at a moment Of exhilaration and
excitement, i'll adapted to grave discussion
it finds me one among the happiest as
well as one Of the most concerned Of a
very large company in attendance on an
old. fashioned Virginia wedding frolic!-
a regular " plumb" blow out, which prom.
Uses to last, who can tell how long? for
every person knows that in true hospitality
and the love of fun and merry-making,
e" ole Virginia never tire"
Were my plain matter-of-fa fact grey
goose quill" equal to the task, it would
be out Of place here, in a sober agricul-
tural journal, to describe the festivities
that followed the solemn ceremony. How
should | pourtray the beauty oil the blush.
ing bride, the gallant bearing of the too
happy groom, and the graceful and seem.
ly department Of the twelve bridesmaids
and groomsmen, many Of whom had come
from far distant points to be anxious wit
nesses OF this most interesting epoch in the
lives of their two young friends and old
school mates. But in regard TO this To-
Gale, with all the appointments ofthis mag.
nifcent residence, the well known hospi-
tally Of its proprietor, the unaffected and
graceful ~affability of the accomplished
hostess, the joyous and delightful compa-
nv SO in harmony with the scene ana the
occasion-it really requires no stretch of
the Imagination to conceit oneself to be
sojourning for the time in the midst Of that
happy valley which the policy of antiquity
dedicated TO the residence OF Abyssinian
Princes, as described by DR.. Johnson
for, though one may not say literally that
every blast shakes spices from the rocks,
and every month drops lis fruits upon the
grounds, yet, with so many lively and
gentle young ladies, displaying among
them every graceful and charming varie-
ty OF person and character. with hospital
ity at once so luxurious and refined, with
a elm ate pure and delicious, encircled on
all sides by a we'll defined undulating line
of mountain scenery, it would be scarcely
any exaggerations Of my own feeling at
least to declare, hat in this temple Of
health and gaiety, "the blessings Of ma
ture seem to be collected and its evils ex.
tracted and excluded-that every thing is
which can contribute to make Sc
pleasant, to ill up the vacancies
attention and lessen the tediousness OF