The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-09-21
TIkEN Ar HIS WORD:
OR
THE DOUBLE BRIDAL.

A few wears ago | made one of twenty-nine
passengers on boald the steamer Emily Barton,
bound up the Tennessee. A pleasant intrlli-
gent, go-ahead captain, 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 afternoon, it was
whispered that we were to have a wedding be-
fore the boat reached her destination, said whis
Der starting first and low near the stern some
where ia the vicinity OF the ladies cabin, and
speedily making its way to the ball, the boil
er deck, and even to the main, like the snow
ball down the mountain, gathering size, form,
and momentum, as II rolled forward, until the
priacifNls in the interesting M4Are not ou-
ly pointed out, Dot the person-some scraps OF
the history of each, fiction, fact and surmise,
all haShed up ingeniouslv, leaving you in that
half pleasant, halt painful suspense and doubt
that opens the eyes wide and strains the drum
of the ear so tight to all transporting around
vou Well, we landed to wood at magnificent
beach bottom, the tall heavily lrayed trees with
their silver gray trunks making a deep, cool
shade, while they, with the grassy green bank
that bore them, were lmaged IN the CLASSY nv
er, so clear, true, that lntervlSion Only poin-
ted The false from the real. Cutting this char
med spot in twain came murmuring crystal
spring brook scarce four spans wide, to lose IL
self IA the mass of Tennessee waters, they in
turn to be- alike lost in the bonndleSs sea.
No sooner was the staging out, than there
emerged from the ladies' cabin fine, manly
looking fellow, dressed in iaultess taste, intel
lrct beaming in every feature, while over his
face perfect happiness shone like the phosphor-
Us on the SEA. Leaning on his arm was a most
oveable woman it ever has been our lot to be-
hold, her fine hazel eyes (tell-taleS they were)
speaking deep emotion, and her expressive lip
quiverirg with suppressed excitement, while
her dress, step and grace was that OF queen.
There they are ~ '.Fhat's her !" ooh, how
handsome - burst from many lip IS we n-
snctlvely made way TO let them pass to the al
tar, and where that was we had about as clear
aa idea as a transcendentast generally has Of
what he is talking about. But one thing we all
seemed 10 know, that there was fun ahead, and
10 follow 10 the wake was the way to sPe it.
Asthe ladies' passed an arm was offered to each,
and thus we marched out of the cabin, down the
stair, across the staging, and up the sloping
bank
Some fifty yards up the pair stopped, and
jolning hands, they stood with the clear water
between them-bridged as it was by their twi-
ming fingers and crossed by stream of love as
pure as itself. All was slent--stiIl- bro
ken by the ministers, reading in an impressive
manner, FAnd of the rib which the Lord God
had taken fom man made he woman and bro't
Ter Of the man. And Adam said this is now
bone of my bone and flesh OF my flesh, she shall
oe called woman because she was taken out of
man. Therefore shall man leave his father
aad hs mother and cling to his Wife" The
oTIde slowly sinking on her knees raised her
eeautllul face, all covered with tears, and her
cIaSPed hands, and in the most touchingly sweet
Voice, tremuIous with deep emotion, said
sand now, o, mercful Father, grant that our
'@o lives thus united, may peacefully flow in
one, even as this rivulet, until we reach the RI
Yer OF death, and undivided in faith and con-
auct, be permitted to enjoy Thine eternal smiles
81, ,he land Of the pure and the bleSt Every
pulse seemed stilled, hoping, wishing for more
o' this beautiful drama. Not word, not
movement from the tbrong, all, all was bappi-
'iess ., lovely panorama, how thou art gra
ven on this heart The happy man was in the
4c' M OF lmprinting kiss upon the smiling lips Of
Ils magnificent bride, when the clear tones of a
manly voice startled all from their pleasant re-
, ,%'e the universal gaze rested on handsome,
u" iennesSean, whose eagle eve spoke the
NN-s ut representative of a State where
aeeps Jackson.
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