The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-05-09
by biting off and swallowing tho ends of some loco
foco matches, which it accidentally got hold of.
From the National Intelligencer.
HYMENEAL STATISTICS.

ulaton Of that part Of Penns taken in relation
to the blessed state of matrimony; of which word by
the-by the half is, nowadays often almost all
that is made any account o-that half being thought
more valuable than the whole
The Examiner divides population exactly according
to the female plan of drawing up census that is, it
ranges every body in two great orders-the married
and unmarried; mode Of division which,we take it,
there is scarcely any young lady who will not easily
comprehend.
1t proceeds to state the whole number of married
people in that county 81 ,29s, including, we pre-
sumo, that class of "wdows'' (like the wife of Bep-
po) who, for the time being, are tethered in that
knot tied by the tongue which the teeth cannot
loose.
Of this number it estimates the entire Of those
who have married for love $3.50; proportion
tainy very large, and which we know not how to
plain, unless Lancaster be county in which there
fingers very primitive state of the manners, or where
there is avery great lack of money;or, lastly est
mates all those as Glove matches'' where there is
love either side.
But if this computa exhibits some decline Of
virtue, the next fact displays large compromising
cesslons of another and far more useful one-hat of
prudence; for the number of those who have PREFER
ed nuptal benedction pronounced by Plutus to
lisped by love is no less than 1874
Such being the multitude of those who in this ten
der connexion have thought that what is denomina-
ted ''the main chance,' ''the quills' and makes
''the pot boil and ''the go,' should be chief
y looked to the Examiner finds yet another class who
happier still, and who, indeed, have combined in
their wedlock quantity Of bliss rather excessive for
any mortal lot: we mean those who have been able
TO hovbc -
number is no less than S,l44 Whether, however,
the two elements have entered equally into these
matches, whether they have been made out Of
little love and much money, the Examiner neglecs to
| Inform
In addition to these classes, has been ascerained
yet another: of those who have married neither from
passion for pelf but out Of curiosity. OF these,
the returns give just $50. But is this motive
which operates very unequally upon the two sexes,
| we presume these are marriages in which the males
have been passive, else have been led by the love
ofthe untried, which manifests itself in the mas
culine business Of politics, and have got married.
sub.treasuries and the like set up by way of
! pertinent.
| There may be others who have rushed into this
state Of felicity because they asked, did not
know what to do with themselves, or feared to do
had,'' married because they were getting old, or
yet again because they young, or Gas the
ner's ures say) "n state of mental alienation ''or,
in short, for which nobody could divine.
There may I'VE say, be other classes of cases. but the
four already mentioned embrace all but mere anonla-
lies. Well, the result, very exactly arrived at, is,
of happy matches, just l6: which makes precisely
four apiece for each the great divisions of the roll
tits, however, consolatory to that there
5000 who ''toeraby happy that is, have for
ttude enough neither to hang nor drown or run away,
whom Christian patience and the thought Of bet
ter world supports. Besides these favored mortas,
there appear to be 6, 404 who ''happy times'
possibly when asleep, away from home, or if
they deaf their spouse dumb, such sub
ect fits of catalepsy other visionary states that
at times triumph over the real.
Cheerful as the proceeding facts are, we come now
however, to the reverse of the picture, the wrong
side Of the tapestry. No mortal happiness is perfect
Wedlock itself has its occasional crosses Adam and
Eve are said to have had their ts before they NOV
ed from paradise and located ''big survey some-
where on the Euphrates. Milton praises marriage,
but is known to have been much henpecked. Cow
per also expatiates upon its delight; but, dying
bachelor, must nave taken Onny upon EepoTI.-
And Campbell, while counting, wrote some very pref
ty things on the same score, but lived to marry
shrew. In short there must be some unlucky
rages, if for nothing else merely to make the other
sort conscious oftheir ecstacies,o for the pur
pose Diminishing exceptions enough to show that it
was possible be married without being at the very
summit Of unvarying enjoyment. Thus 1t has, by
this admirable and accurate statistical inquiry been
demonstrated that there in the county Of Eancas
ter some rather ILL., assorted matches, exactly
swering the description being s'made in heaven;' in
a word, ,629 spouses who are perfectly miserable
We come next to the results Of wedoc< in sense
which may be called public and political; that is, gov
ernnentay and it has been found, in the county Of
Lancaster, that out Of $40 couples the sovereign
authority is held in 564o cases by the wife; while
there are just nine husbands who permitted
W ear the garmept which one must not name in the
presence of ladies, but to the possession Of which