Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-07-18

A QUAKER MARRIAGE.-A correspondent
Of the Zion's Herald gives the following de-
scripion of a wedding at the Friends meeting
house in New Bedford. The parties were Dr.
Benz. F. Hardy and Miss Sarah Coggeshall.
The hour appointed was eleven IN the fore
noon. AT that hour large assembly conven-
ed within the walls of a plain but somewhat
ancient edifice. After the lapse of few min
utes, The bride and bridegroom, attended by
their friends and the elders of the church,
made their appearance, and seated themselves
according TO the usages of the society. The
bride and bridegroom, with the elders of the
church, sat on platform facing the audience,
while the friends of the parties sat Immediately
before them
The dress of the young couple, though rich,
was plain; and their department and manner
grave, as became the followers of Penn and
Fox. | was never so struck with the marriage
ceremony in my life before; nor did see
smile of evity in the whole assembly.
After sitting in silence fifteen or twenty min
utes, an aged man-probably the leader of the
meetng-arose and made few sensible re-
marks on the general Importance Of covenant
keeping; after which the bride and bridegroom
joined hands, and each in an audible voice
promised TO be faithful to each other till death
should separate them. They then severally
signed printed covenant, on parchment. be-
llcNtt AFTER WHICH covenant was Ittu III INC
hearing Of the meeting. II was read by the
venerable MIR Sherman, the oldest printer of a
newspaper in New Bedford.
The audience were now invited TO repair 10
n central part of the house, where n table being
placed, the covenant was laid on il, and those
who We're willing TO do so, appended their
names TO it as witnesses. The ceremony of
witnessing the covenant was long and some
what tedious, but nevertheless interesting
The company began to leave the house in ST.
ence, before half the names were inserted.
REApINe THE FauITs.-The slaveholders. at
the South are already reaping advantages rom
the annexation of Texas. SLAVE propertyEis
rapidly rising in the market. late paper,
published at Marion, Alabama, contains the
following scale Of prices
"Ncgroes sold last sale day at the Court
House rather high, it seems 10 us, for the buy
ers and times, but most assuredly not too high
for those compelled to part with them. Eel
lows brought near $3.50, average; one brought
as high as $500. Woman sold for from $500
to 500, one only bringing the later sum-
Girls about fourteen years old sold from 1915
to $780, Some families sold in proportion
much less"
The New York Express, in some remarks
relating TO this subject, says that the annexa-
ton OF Texas has raised the price Of slaves
from thirty to fifty per cent, and the effect OF
this is a most powerful stimulus to the slave
trade and to the breeding Of slaves for SALE
The domestic slave trade was never liveier
than il is now in most parts Of the South and
West. The rush OF emigration 10 Texas is
prodigious, and the purchase of slaves for that
market is beginning 10 be prosecuted with as
tonishing vigor. The roads towards New Or
leans, and the routes VIA the Red River, are
thronged with slaves In the meantime, as the
negroes go up the land goes dotrn.-.Mercan-
Tile Journal.
THE WIFE OF THREE IIUssANDs.-Lady
Gage, the wife of first baronet, Sir John, an
ceslor of Viscount Gage, when first widow
was only seventeen, beautiful and rich, She
was courtcd by her three husbands, Sir George
Frenchard, Sir John Gage, and Sir William
Hervy, at the same time; and TO appease a
quarrel that had arisen respecting her between
them, she threatened her everlasting dispeas-
ure TO the first that should be The aggressor;
which as she had declared for neither, by CLAN
cling their hopes against each other, adding
good humoredly, that if they would keep The
peace and have patience, she would have them
all in their turns, which, singullrly enough, did
happen.
"Opposiiion is the life of Trade."-In the
Pitsburg papers we find the following spirited
card:
WIN. Thorn announces that he has Gitoays
been in the habit of furnishing medicine gratis
to the poor. Seeing it announced by some OF
our druggists that they will give medicine
gratis to suffering poor By the fire, DR. Thorn
takes this method to give notice to this class
he will from this time out, give double doses