Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27
Rarn,nca ara ilatrimony.

cert in Philadelphia under deception, which, be-
ing discovered, he disappeared
Ouryillage has been in a state of terment for a
few DAYS past in consequence ola recent affair of
love, romance and matrmony, the prominent ac-
tor or rather actress IN which, IS not unknown in
this vicinity We have not room for detailed
history OF the matter, but give the prominent facts
as they were related TO Us by eye and ear wit
ness.
Dir. Okah Tubboe, chief in The Choctaw ma Jon
of Indians in Arkansas. is a distinguished per-
former on the flute and has been giving musical
entertainments in this section ofcountry for some
time past. Heis thoroughly educated, Is the mas
ter OF seventeen different languages, and plays oni
over one hundred different instruments A few
DAYS since a lady Of respectable connexions resd-
ING in this place stepped on board the packet at
this village with the intention OF visiting friends
two or three miles up the canal
On entering the cabin she net DR. Iubbee,
whom She had heard of buthad never before seen.
Fond ofmusic, and having heard ofthe Choctaw's
remarkable performances on The flute, she Ventur-
ed to ask him 10 play The Indian complied, and
the lady was charmed with his music. She con
versed with him, aud was more delighted with the
music ofhis voice than the silvery notes of his ia
nous izzse The boat arrived at the point where
she was 70 meet her friends but she concluded moi
10 leave: and before their meeting had been pro-
ongcd to a single hour their mutual esteem had
ripened with such amazing rapidity, that the lady
now fully given over to the fates, declared, III the
most passionate language, that she loved the chief
with unconquerabIe fondness, and gave proof TO
her sincerity in a flood of tears.
The Indian, in return, fell upon his knees and
assured the trembling girl that her love was reclp-
rocated. He told her that seven years ago that
very day he had dream, in which he saw beau
tiful woman who presented to him as his wife
Since then he had been wandering up and down
of hut 70 M
this providential meeting had brought him face to
face with the identical image which he had seen IN
his dream.
At Middleport the parties exchanged cards, and
the enamored woman left the boat to make suita-
bic preparations to follow hert awny lover to Nj
agara Falls on the following day. At the Falls
they again met, when the matrimonial alliance was
fully completed, and in the presence Of the thun-
dering waterfall sealed with kiss. TWAS agreed
that the ceremony should take place on the banks
of the river under the blue arch of Heaven, and
in the majestic presence of the great cataract
Friends were invited and clergyman secured, and
at the appointed time the matrimonial group We're
standing the brink OF the great preclpice, on a
grassy prominence near the American Fall, wait
ing the arrival of the man of God to oiClate In
uniting the tawny chiefwith his fair betrothed in
the holy bonds of wedlock. After much delay he
made his appearance clad in the robes of his sac
red office Timidly he approached the company,
gazed wildly at the swarthy Choctaw, cast hasty
glance at the fair woman with bridal wreath,
peeped cautiously over the precipice, trembled,
grew fgety, and finally backed out. Under the
circumstances he dared not marry them.
He tried to persuade the matrimonial candidates
to postpone their marriage for few days until
they had consulted friends, but to no purpose \
clergyman of better pluck was employed, who pro
ceeded forthwith in the hymenial ceremonies.
The parties were married and the priest received
for his services twenty dollars IN gold from the
hand of the fair bride.
Mrs. Tubbee retuTnedto our village the day sue
ceeding that of her marriage, and remained here
until Wednesday, when She left with her husband
for Rochester. DR.. Okah Tubbee is now travelling
with Mr.. Gardner, and Englshman, and we under
stand will leave with him for Europe in a few
days.-lNediaaa Neso York Citizen
We published yesterday clever little romanc
of matrimony The New Orleans Courier says 0
it When the editor a student in the Law
office of Gen. Quitman, at Natchez, Mingo Okal
Tubbee was his boot-black and errand-boy. III
is bona ide mulatto, born in Natchez, his nam
being Warren Carey. His brother Bob, popu
lar barbar, still live there, and his sister Kitty wa
the beauty and belle, of her class. Warren picket
up his lingo from the Choctaws who in those DAYS
traded at Natchez He has much musical talent
and was the fifer of the Natchez Fencibles-a gal
liant corps, still in existence, and whose member
have left their bones every battlefield in Tex
as, Mexico and Cuba
There is some consolation left Mrs. Tubbe
will now have time to repent. Musical Indians, a
we'll as foreign Dons and Counts, should be aske
for certificates of character before they are faIle
in love with
THE GREAT ENGLISH EssATIsT AND HIsToRIAN
MIR. Reah the London correspondent of the In
yerness (Scotland) Courier says:
''There is common pedestrian of Londo
streets we'll known to all who are acquainted wit
their notabilities. He is a short, stout, sturdy
energetic man. He has big round face, an
large staring and very bright hazel eyes. HI
hair is cut short, and his hat flung back on th
of his head His gait is firm and decided
with little touch of pomposity. He is ever pre-
vided with umbrella, which he swings and fioul
ishes, and batters on the pavement with might
thumps. He seems generally absorbed in excl
ing and impulsiye thought, the traces of which b
takes no pains to conceal. His face works, hi
lips move and mutter. his eyes CLEAN and fasl
Squat as IS his figure, there Is an unmstakable al
of mental power and energy, approaching to gran
deur about the man. He is evidently under til
influence of the strong excitement of fiery though
People gaze curiously at him, and stop to star
when he has passed. But he heeds to no one
seems, indeed, to have utterly forgotten that he
alone in his privacy, and pushes on, inviting
step respectfully aside, and look with curiosity an
regard upon Thomas Darlington Macaulay. o.
casionally, however the historian and poet give
still freezer vent to the mental impulses which appes
to be continually working within him. frien