The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-03-04
SINGULAR MODE OF coURTsHIP.

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SINGULAR MODE OF coURTsHIP.
| The Rev. DIR. III, an eminent ocotcn
divine, and professor Of theology, was remark
able for absence of mind and Indifference 10
worldly affairs. His mind, wrapped up IN
lofty CONCENTRATIONS, could seldom stoop to the
ordinary business Of life; and when at any
time he did attend to secular affairs he gener-
ally went about them in way unlike anybody
else, as the history of his cOurtship will show
He was greatly beloved by his elders and con-
gregation; was full of simplicity and sincerity,
and entirely unacquainted with the etiquette
of the world Living the solitary, comfortless
life of bachelor, his elders gave him frequent
hints that his domestic happiness would De
much increased by his taking to himself wife,
and pointed out several young ladies in his con-
gregation, any one Of whom might be mt
match or companion for him.
The elders, finding all the hints had no effect
in rousing the Doctor to the using of the means
preliminary to entering into matrimonial
alliance, at last concluded to wait upon him,
and stir him upto the performance of his duty
They urged on him the advantages of mar
riage, its happiness; spoke of it as divine In
stitution and as affording all the enjoyments
of sense and reason; and, in short all the
sweets of domestic life. The Doctor approved
of all they said, and apologi2ed for his past
neglect of duty on account of many difficult
passages of Scripture he had of late been at
tending to- and promised to look after it {" the
first convenient season." The elders, however
were not to be put off any longer; they insisted
and exacted from him promise. that on Mon
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house of widow lady, few doors from him,
who had three pretty daughters and who were
the most respectable in the Doctors congrega-
ton. To solve any difficult passage in the hook
of Genesis, to reconcile apparent discrepancies,
or clear up knotty text, would have been an
easy and agreeable task to the Doctor, COM
pared with storming the widows premises.
But to the opening of the siege the Doctor must
20, and with great gravity and simplicity,
gentle reader, you can imagine you see him
commencing the t-fs"s .<&s5 7
! After the usual salutations were over, he SAID
to Mrs WI:
"My session have of late been advising me
to take wife, and recommended me to call
upon you; and as you have three fine daugh-
ters, would like Us say word to the eldest,
if you have no objections"
Miss W--n entered, and the Doctor, with
his characteristic simplicity, said to her:
any session have been advising me to take
wife, and recommended me to call upon
you"
The young lady, who had seen some thirty
summers, was not to be caught so easily. She
laughed heartily at the Doctors abruptness,
limiting to him that in making sermon it was
necessary to say something first to introduce
the subject Rroperly, before he entered fully
upon it; and as for her part, she was deter
mined not to surrender her liberty at mo-
mene's warning; "the honor Of her sex was
concerned in her standing out.N
This was all waste of time to the Doctor,
and he requested to see her sister
| Miss f. WI then entered; and, to save
time the Doctor said
AMY session have been advising me to take
a wife, and | have been speaking to your sister
who has Just gone out at the door and as she
is not inclined that way, what would you think
of being Mrs NIB
"Oh, Doctor, | don't know it is rather a
serious question. Marriage you know, binds
one for life and it should not be rashly entered
into would not consent without taking time
to deliberate upon it.
4" My time,n said the Doctor is 30 much
occupied, and my session have said so much
to me on the business that ] must finish it to-
day, if can So you had best tell your mother
to send in your youngest sister to speak to
me-"
| In moment comes the honest, lively Miss
Mary w.
Come away, my child; it is getting on in
the afternoon and ! must get home to my
studies. have been speaking to both of your
sisters on little business, and they have de-
| al; nad I of 60 nd nd mill
out misspending precious time, what would you
think of being made Mrs L-ni"
"Indeed, l always thought deal of you
Doctor; and if my mother does not say any
thing against it, have no objections"
The Doctor left Miss Mary in few minutes
enjoning her to fix the day, for any would sui
him, but to send him up word the day before
The Doctor was scarcely gone, before keer
dispute arose in the family among the thret
young ladies' all claiming the Doctor The
eldest one said the offer was first made to her
and she did not positively refuse The second
declared that she wished only little time t.
think upon IL; and the youngest insisted thai
it was completely settled with her The mother
of the young ladies was in such difficulty with
her daughters, that she was obliged to cal
upon the Doctor himself to settle the dispute
She called and the Reverend Doctor, in hit
characteristic way, said
"My dear Mrs WI, am very fond o.
peace in families it is all the same thing t.
me, which of them; and just settle it among
yourselves, and send me up word
The Doctor was married to the youngest
and one of his sons is at this day a respectable
clergyman :" in the land of the mountain ant
the flood"
IMMIGRATION INTO AMERIcA-We extrac
the following passages from the leading article
in BiaekDoofs Magazine for January:
"The emigration during the year 1851 ha
not yet been made up but the number will b
at least three hundred acknowledging prob
ably the greatest exodus recorded of mankin'
since Moses led the children Of Israel acros
the Red Sea- and far exceeding anything mar
rated in similar period Of the Goths AM
Vandals.
"The emigration movement is not confne,
to Ireland. Go into any village, even in tn
eastern counties of England or Scotland, ant
you will find that continual drain of the YER,
best inhabitants is going forward In the small
village of Staindrop at the gate Of Raby, II
Durham, fifty-six Of the best inhabitants emf
grated during the last summer From tn,
smaller village Of Hovingham, in the Nortl
Riding of Yorkshire fifty went off in the SAM
period. IL is the same wherever you 20 il
Great Britain. Not only are great number
of the inhabitants constantly emgrating bu
the class who do so are the very best Of thu
communicable industrious the thrifty thu
well-doing The reason is obvious They ar,
the only ones who can get away the poor can
not, but must when thrown out of employ
ment go to the workhouse or starve 1t il
painful to think what this country must com,
to- if this extraordinary flight of our industri
Gus population continues. How are tho taxes