The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-02-04

disguise it as we may, is too frequently the case
in the country, and we fear increasing ly SO, and
especially in the south, does the husband in reali
ty not purchase his wife? Purchase her? Aye;
revolving as may be the idea, does be not, in
fact, purchase her with gold? Strip him of this
in multitudes of cases, and would the fashion
able Miss consent to wed him? Ofcourse not;
The folly of such policy has been too often and
too terribly illustrated by the stern facts of prac
teal life to need any illustration from us. In
country, where the wheel of fortune revoves
so rapidly, who can tell whether the rich man
of to-day will be in any better condition to-mor
row than the poorest of his neighbors. Hence
the folly, even admitting the proprlety of the
consideration of wealth in suitor as an indls
pensable prerequisite to marriage. Untortun-
ately, the sons of wealthy men have frequently
very little practical knowledge Of the world, and
possess very little Of that tact and industry, and
of those notions Of economy that are indispen
SADLY necessary to the retention of wealth even
when once possessed for short course only of
fashionable extravaganza is requisite to cripple
and dissipate even large fortune. And, there
FORE it is an every day saying that such and
such person "was once rich. but fortune for
sock him, or he was unfortunate and now he
is not worth a dollar"
Our Vicksb writer thus continues: The
only remedy is a reform in public and social
TASTE Of course such revoluton-for re-
form in this particular would be a revolution
is not expected to take place for the special ia
vor of the writer. If he stood alone, he would
be content to suffer in silence. But the fact is,
he knows a score Or more young men situated
Just as he is, and all wish to get married-ev-
cry mothers son of them; and he has taken
pains to count, and there are more than twenty
mothers ofhis cquaintance who have marriage
able daughters, and if he can Judge from the
pleased look Of each when there are pair OF
patent feathers under the Widespread mahogo-
ny, and he has broken bread with most OF them
he would say that load of care would be off
the hearts of each.i they could see their daugh-
ters well settled in life. He knows the young
ladies all desire to marry, for Il great many
have been asked, and all said eyes" How
delightful it would be if these twenty couple or
more could just wake up in the morning and
find tie social circle so reformed that they could
all get married without the least fear of starva
ton or the sheriff! And this reform must be
had, or some of the interesting marriageable
girls of the writer's acquaintance must live to be
old maids, certain The reform is easily effected.
Let these mothers take the lead, backed as they
will be by their beautiful daughters, encour&g
ed by the prospect Of a husband, and all sustain
ed by a score Of brave young men, under the
lead of the writer, who would run idle, fashion
able F. F's and hoops, and twelve width skirts,
wine glasses, decanters, &c., out OF society, and
establish fashionable society of our own, in
which the wife who would do the most work
and keep her house in the best order, at the
least expense, will be the leader of ''ton,' in
stead of giving, AS at present, the leadership to
! her who can spend the most money, buy the
most jewelry and finer clothes, do the least for
her family or race, and, by her example yltate
the taste of the young and ruin the ambitious
poor
Bravo And let all the people, including
''mothers with manageable daughters the
daughters themselves and their papas, say
amen Let the reform be commenced at once.
The best interests of society demand it,.
! LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND SHooTING.-In No
vember last, while Mr.. Blanchett of Grant
county, Kentucky, was in the mountains hunt
ing, young man named Peter Jones ran on'
with Miss Emma Blanchett, his daughter, who
was under age, and married her. To accom-
plish his purpose, Jones committed a most ne
tarious, but singular fraud By his procure
ment his uncle and aunt went to the clerk of
| Che Owen county court and represented them
selves, the one to be Peter Jones and the other
Miss BIanchett and asked for license to marry
and they being both evidently over age, the
clerk issued the license without asking any
questions.
They then left and handed over The license
| tn T,,ac yub, in with Mice hot
went to a rev. Mr.. Sparrow, who married
them. The health and spirits of Mrs Blan
chett, (the mother of Miss Emma as soon as
she heard of what had occurred, became deep
ly affected. To give her beautiful and lovely
daughter up to such wretch as Jones seemed
to her worse than consigning her to the grave
Mr.. Blanchett went over to Jones' house and
accosed both him and his daughter in very
friendly manner, and told the latter that her
mother was unwell and deeply distressed, and
that if she would come home and see her he
thought it would restore her As for himself,
he said he had no objections to the marriage,
but it was preying upon his wlfe's mind and
making her very unhappy. If Mrs. j. would
only 60 with him and stay a few days, he would
satisfy her mother with her conduct: and she
could then return to Mr.. Jones again.
Well pleased with these representations,
Mrs Jones went with her father, but remained
several days longer than had been agreed up
on, and her husband therefore went over to
BIanchett's house to see what was the matter,
but Mr. Banchett and family had gone visit
ing a near neighbor that day. Jones found
where they were, and his wife, who, it seems,
| did moi meet him with as cheerful smiles beam
| ing on her countenance as were seen when they
parted, a few days before. He requested her
! to home with him, but she refused, and inform
ed him, that she would have no more to do
18th him.
But he was determined ''not to give it up
So" He then went away, and came back the
same night with a gang of rutfians, mostly his
relatives, and attacked BIanchett's house, he
and bis wife having returned home. They
broke down the door and rushed in, and then
/ fight commenced. In the melee one OF the
Jones party was shot in the back and BIanchctt
J was struck over the head with the butt OF
! horscwhip, which knocked him senseless and
! bleeding TO the floor. The Jones party, sup
posing that they had killed Blanchett, retreat
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