Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1855-02-17
Miscellaneous.
HOW TO MARRY.
BY s......L, OF TENNESSEE.

A few years ago l made one Of the
seven,y-nine passengers on board the
fast steamer Emily Barton, bound up
the Tennessee. A pleasant, intelligent,
go. ahead captain, a good steward, and
social refined company, made the trip
one of pleasure; indeed long shall |
remember the saucy Emily Barton and
her superb living freight. One lovely
summer afternoonit was whispered that
we were to have afwedding before the
boat reached her destination, said @his-
per started first and low near the stern,
somewhere in the vicinity of the ladies
cabin, and speedily making its way to
the hall, the boiler deck, aud even to
the main; like the onow-ball down the
mountain, gathering size, strength aud
momentum, as it rolled forward, until
the principals were not only pointed
out, but the parson-some scraps IN the
history of each, fiction, fact, and sur
mise, all hashed up ingeniously, leav-
ing YOU in the half pleasant, half pain
fal suspense and doubt that opens the
ewes so wide and strains the drum of
the cur so light to all transpiring around
YOU. Well, we landed at magnificent
beach bottom, the tall, heavily lesved
trees with their silver grey trunks, ma
king deep. cool shade, while they with
the shady green bank that bore 'hem'
were in the CLASSY river SO clear, SO true
that inversion only pointed the false
from the real. Cutting this churming
spot in twain came murmuring crys'
tai spring brook, scarce four spans wide
to lose itself in the mass of Tennessee
waters, they in turn to bo alike lost in
the boundless sea.
No sooner was the staging out than
there emerged from the ladies cahin n
fine, manly looking fellow, dressed in
fautless taste, intellect beaming in ev-
cry feature, while all over his face per-
feet happiness shone like phosphorus on
the sea /; and leaning on his arm was the
most loyeabe woman it has ever been
nv lot to behold, her fine hazel eyes,
tell tales that they were,) spenking
deep emotion. and her expressive lip
dnivesing with suppressed excitement,
while her stop, dress aud grace, was
that of n queen. "There they are p
/" That's her!" "Oh, how haudsome!p
burst from many lips as we inslinctive-
ly made way to let them pass TO the al
tar, and where that was we had about
as clear un idea as q transcendcnIaIiSt
generally has Of what he is talking u
bout. But one thing we oil seemed to
know, that there was fun ahead, aud
that to fall in their wake was the way
to see it. As the ladies passed. n gal
liant arm was offered to each, aud thus
we marched out of the cabiu, down :he
stairs, across the staging, and up the
sloping bank. Some fifty yards up the
brook the pair stopped, aud joining hands
they stood with the clear wafer between
lhem-hrdged It was WIN the twlIitls
fingers and crossed by a stream Of love
as pure as itself. All was silent-s'ill
until broken by the minister, reading
in an impressive manner; And of the
rib which tho Lord God had taken from
man. made he woman and brought
her to the man. And Adani said, this
is bone of my bone and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called woman be.
cause she wus taken out of man. There.
fire shall man leave his father aud
his mother aud shall cleave unto his
wife, and they shall he one flesh" He
closcd the book and offered touching
and bonutiful prayer; not heart hut
seemed to feel that earnest appeal to
the throne of grace. Then asking the
!