Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-03-26

EVENING BEFORE HI wEDDINs.-"l
will tell you," continued her aunt to Loui-
sa, I" two things which | have fully proved.
The first will 60 far towards preventing the
possibility of any discord after marriage ;
and the second is the best and surest pre-
servative Of feminine character"
ssTell mel" said Louisa, anxiously.
1.-THE first is this, to demand of your
bridegroom, when the marriage ceremony
is over a solemn vow, and promise yourself,
never, even in jest, to dispute nor express
any disagreement. | tell you never! for
what begins in mere bantering will lead to
serious earnest. Avoid expressing any
irritation at one another's words. Mutual
forbearance is the n great secret of do
nestle happiness. If you have erred, on
TESS it freely, wen if confession cost you
some tears. Farther, promise faithfully
and solemnly, never, upon any pretext or
excuse, to have any secrets or conceal
ments from each other /; but to keep your
private affairs from father, mother, sister
and brother, relations and the world. Let
them be known only to each other, and
your God. Remember that any third per-
son admitted into your confidence becomes
a party TO stand between you, and will ma
turalIy side with one or the other. Prom.
ise to avoid this, and renew the VOW on ev.
cry temptation. 1t will preserve that per-
feet confidence and union which will in
deed make you me-. O, if the newly mar.
ried would but practice this spring of con-
nubial peace, how many unions would be
happy which are now Observation-Disclosures
erbockcr.
Tue INDIANS AND THE STEAMBOAT
'Ifany thing ever did astonish the Indians,
it was the steamer -
"These poor and ignorant people, for the
distance of 1900 miles [up the Missouri
river] had never before seen or heard of a
steamboat, and in some places they SEEM
ed at a loss what to do, or how to act they
had no name for it-so it was like every
thing else-with them-whlch is r1yster'-
GUS and u~naccountable, called aedisin
Tmystery.1 We had ON board one twelve
pound cannon, and three OIL four eight.
pound swivels, which we were taking mp, to
arm the Fur Comyany's Fort, at the mouth
of the Yellow Stone; and on the approach
to every village, they were all discharged
several times Id rapid succession, and
which threw the inhabitants into utte'
confusion and amazernent--sou.e of them
threw their faces to the ground, and cried
to the Great S~pirit,--some shot their hor.
ses and dogs, and sacrificed them TO ap-
pease the Great Spirit, whom they conceiy.
ed was ofTended-some deserted their vii.
Iaee, and run to the tops If the bluffs some
miles distant and others in some places,
as the boat in front of their villages, came
with great caution, and peeped over the
bank of the river, to see the fate of their
chiefs, whose duty it was-from the nature
of their ohce-to approach US, whether
friends or foes, and to go on board. Some.
times in this plight, they we're instantly
thrown neck and heels over each Others
head and shoulders-men, worien; children
and dogs-sage, sacheini, old, and YOUNG
all in a mass, at the ftightful discharge Of
The steam from the escape pipe, which the
the captain of the boat let loose upon them
for his own fun, and amusement. There
were manve nrious conjectures among thei'
wise men with regard to the nature ane
powers of the steamboat. Among the
Mandans, some called it the "big thunder
%canoe;" for, when in the distance below the
village, they saw the lightning flash from
its sides, and heard the thunder come from
it; others called it the big medicine canoe
with eyes; it was medicine Imysteryl be
cause they did not understand It,andi it mus
have eyes for said they, ait seees it's owl
way, and takes the deep water In the middle