The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-08-15

son, in his work on the Economy of Health,
says that matrimony should not be contracted
before the first year of the fourth scptcnnial,
on the part of the lady, nor before the last
year of the same, on the part OF the gentleman
in other words, the female should be ut least
twenty one years of age, and the male twenty
eight years. The doctor says, that there should
be difference of seven years between the SEX
cs at whatever period Of life the connection is
contracted There is q difference OF seven
years, not in the actual duration of life in the
two sexes, but in the stamina of the constltu-
ton, the symmetry of the form, and the Inca
mcnts of the face. In respect to early maria
gcs SO far as it concerns the softer sex, for cy-
cry year at which marriage is entered upon,
before the age Of twenty ono, there will be, on
an average, three years of premature decay,
more or less apparent, OF the corporeal fabric.
ASAD WEDDINc.--Aftcr publishing tic mar
rage Of MIR. Adam Tate Of Chicago, to Miss
Jeanette Pcttigrcw, late of Scotland, the Chi
cago Tribune adds: "rherc is a hi. Of romance,
sad enough in its character, connected with
this announcement, which the parties will for
give us for relating: Six young Scotchmen of
this city, worthy men ALL who bad left their
piightcd faith and lasscs behind them when
they sought fortune and contcntment on our
Shores united for the purpose Of sending for
those to whom their troth was pightcd. They
were to, and did, come out together For mu-
tual protection and society they took passage
in the same vessel. The pcrous ocean voyage
was made without accident, and the party--a
merry and happy party-arriycd safely at
Quebec, where they took passage on the Mon
treal. Our readers know and have lamcntcd
the fate that overlook that i'll fatcd steamer
and her hundreds Of passengers. When she
burned, Of the six trusting and generous girls,
Miss Pcttigrcw was the only one saved. Her
five companions found either watcry or fiery
graves Miss p. was rescued, she knows not
how or by whom. Taken up for drowned, the
struggle between life and death was long and
doubtful; but at last decided in favor Of the
former. The kind hearted at Montreal learn
ed her history and admired her honest worth.
BY them (she had lost every thing but HERSELF
her immediate necessities were supplied, and in
few days, with their blessings and prayers,
she continued her journey hither. A few Of
the five young men, who besides the happy
husband, had precious freight on that steamer,
attended the wedding. How sad that festive
gathering was--how the shadow Of the fearful
past dimmed the brightness Of the present, who
that has not felt the dcstroycr's touch, can tell!
FREE NEGROES AND ABoIroSIsrs.--The fol
5 lowing extract, which we take from an article
n in the Cincinnati Enquirer, contains an idea
! worth looking after:
"Therc is a remarkable and very suggestive
/ fact in regard to the negro emigration into this
+ State or the twenty-five thousand free ne
: groes in the State the vast majority reside in
S counties where there are very few abolitonists
Q and which have been chiefly settled by emf
b grants from the southern states These he
grocs appear to have great dread Of the Alb
| clifton counties; they give them wide berth
S Thus, for example, Ashtabula has q negro pop
g ulaton Of forty-three, Geauga, seven; Trum
bull, sixty-liyc. The other counties on the lak'
have Il proportionatc number Of negroes; thes'
s counties are settled almost exclusively by New
0 England cmigrants. On the other hand, Ros
S county, Virginia settlement, has one thou
n sand nine hundred and six negroes Gaa ma
@ one thousand one hundred and ninety eight
L and Hamilton county has over four thousand
}. In these counties, the negro is regarded as al
, inferior, socially and politically, and the Abo
r litonsts have but slight hold. What is tn
5 cause of this striking discrepancy? Is it tina
o the negro feels and knows his inferiorty, an'
V naturally attaches himself to the population
}, which is disposed to regard him as an inferior
v or is it that the whites on the lake shore ar
: Aboitionists from an ignorance of the rea
c character of the negro? Certainly there is IL
: better mode Of curing ncighborhood of Abe
litioDism than by in0icting on them colon
of free negroes The only way in which Gid
. dings can be defeated, will be by a few NOR
y such philanthropic efforts as those of COL Mel
: dcnhalI, in settling few hundred North Can
:, olina or Kentucky negroes in Ashtabula.
- our Southern friends will send us their surplr
~ negro population, let them provide that the
- may be located among their kind and gcnerou
=" friends in the Western Reserve. Such carnc'
d philanthrophy as they profess, ought not to l
= wasted on the desert"
n TIE Mosr POWERFUL OF MAGNETs-A &C
rs cbrated lecturer on natural philosophy was OF
o, evening dilating upon the powers of the ma!
net-defying any one to name or show al
n thing surprising its powers An old gentl
Oh man accepted the challenge, much to the lie
u turcr's surprise; but he nevertheless invite
en- him on to the platform, when he told the lc
n tupnp that woman WAC tha n,oonof of ma nm M