The Arkansas banner., 1844-12-04
KISSING THE BRIDE.
\ STORY OF TRUTH AND HvsIo

you; which you know ought not to be the very day one is married. It is not at my husband, though, dear good man as he is.--- Oh! l wns vexed beyond endurance last evening. That vile practice! Would you believe 1t A hundred and fifty kisses, of S all sorts and sizes, fair and foul, from old and young, from male and female Faughi could any bride endure all that and preserve her temper Such cargoes of snuff! such showers of tobacco spitfle such fumes of tobacco smoke! No poor man covered with vermin was ever more drenehed. If this fashion ol the whole company kissing the i bride must be followed, in the name of all l that's decent, let old grand-daddics burn out their pipes before they offer to poke them under your very nose And those whose lhroats are at best so many sepnlchres, would advise before they go to wedding, to fill their pockets with cloves, cinnamon, or coriander seed, and commence chewing at least an ounce before the Marriage cere- mony begins.
 Only think of poor creature standing up an hour and a half after the blessed knot was tied, only to be nozzled and slobbered over by all the masculine gender of the neigh berhood! Only think of delicate, modest female, standing like target, the object of all the lipshots of large corps of militia, and then thought should have dropped down with fatigue; lverly believe l used an ounce of hartshorne to keep me from faint ing. But vexed as was, Mir Editor, could not, to gain the world, help from laughing sometimes at the queer spectacle we all made. And you would have laughed too, if you had been there. Only imagine, if you please, the chief person of the group, mf, Dorothy DanodIl, at the right hand of my dear spouse; and crowd of men like . swarm of flies round a cup of molasses, all pressing forward, and making up their lips ready for a smack and then, one after an- other, poking their shouts into my very face, and me wiping my face every whipstitch, to appear little decent. But the most ludic- rous part of the exhibition was to see basin ful fellow go through the maneuvres Like a shy trout venturng up to the bait; advan- eing little and then dartng back among the reeds; you might behold the poor man with heart beating audibly, coming forward with cautious step, stopping sometimes through fear, or slipping behind the friendly corpora ton of some broad-backed fellow a little a. head. Having advanced within yard or so, you might see him us if afraid his cour- arge would fail by delay, dart forward from behind his shelter, snatch kiss, and be of m the twnkling of an eye. But alas ludic- rous as 1t may appear, my poor cheek had to suffer in consequence of 1t, and even now bears the mark inflicted on it by Simon Snag- gletooth
 Some of the old fellows must needs buss me, they said, on both sides of my face--and some of them said my breath was as rose ill October, and others that 1t was as fra- grant as load of new made hay. Some of the old fellows with one foot in the grave, and the other on the brink, said they kissed my grandmother and my mother, and now suppose that they think they have capped the climax of gallant exploits by nozzling over me as though was mere baby.
 ptied my poor husband, poor man, to be obliged to stand and look on me as silly as a fool, and see his new married wife gummed over believe in my soul he would have knocked down half q dozen of his own un- adulteraed feelings, instead of being restrain- ed by the rules of etiquette. But, Mir. Editor, after all my sufierings and yexations, here am alive, and pray heaven never may be married again, till the custom of kissing the
 
 Yours, sincerely, D. D.
 HE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN ALABAMA.-- The opinion of the Supreme Court in Ala bama in our paper to-day, settles an impor- tant principle in relation to the validity of the forms, without the legal sanction of mar riage. The question presented by the re- cord, was whether such conspiracy had been proved as was punishable by law Several persons combined to accomplish q wicked purpose. They forged marriage license, showed t to the young lady and her parents, as evidence of the good faith of the suitor; and one of his associates falsely represented himself te be Justice of the Peace, authorised to perform the rites of matrlmony; whereupon, consent was yield- cd, and the usual ceremony was repeated by the pretended magistrate. Afterwards, the cheat was detected, and the parties to it were indicted for conspiracy. The only one found was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Butler. On points reserved as novel and difficult, the Supreme Court has delivered an opinion affirming judgment be- low, and indicating by the numerous author-- ties cited, that marriage, being civil con tract, is valid where the persons united de- clare their intention to be husband and wife, in formal manner, in the presence of wit nessess, even though no marriage license has been obtained, nor the usual ceremony administered by an unauthorized person.-- This will open the eyes of those who some- times in levity undergo mock ceremony of marriage Tuscaloosa .Nonitor.
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 A MILLERiTE AND HIS LAwYER.--A law yer i'll Boston a few days ago received a very queer letter from debtor client, who has become convert to the second advent faith The client states that in the first place he is poor, that he owes the lawyer the debt, and that the world wifi undoubtedly come to an end on the 23d inst, but he feels that he can not die in peace unless the lawyer will for give him the debt. If assured by the lawyer that he would release him from the demand,