The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-02-06
a pleasant GtorD.
HOW l CAME TO BIZ MARRIED.

prosecutors Il speak of the bachelors am :
prosecutor of the Jews myself are those who
are bound in bonds of wed ock and who vii
persist that cvclybod shall! be :. both almost
and altogether such as they are" iacl,,d,aa
" those bonds" was a victim of this per.
Seculion Tor dare not say how many years
AMI for long time was the special care of a
society insttnted in Connecticut (mv native
State) for the conversion and coupling of
single men and women"
II was plain from the beginning that should
have to give in | was a marked man.
Stephen Pearl Andrews could not hay. saved
me. But fought long and mantnlly against
my fate, and fell at last under circumstances
which 1t was impossible to resist. Let the
reader judge.
During the long period of my single life
my most intimate companion was u young
man by the name of Drugs, who was one Of
my class mates at college Now, if any one
OF an antl.thetical turn If mind will describe
character The exact opposite Of what IS call
"a last man, he will describe my friend
briggs to the life. He was the slowest man
IN the world slow in thought, slow in speech
SLOW IN gait, slow in everything bu. eating,
urlnklng, and paying his scot. But though
slow he was sure. Whatever he uplertool,
HIM than you could move mountain; but
ut Will. How he did il nobody knew, but
there no was resisting him. lie ask nothing
and got everything. lie came upon you when
he had an object to gain las he generally had)
unawares. and without observation, and
moved steadily on. as though drawn by a
million or two snails, who couldn't be hur-
hot l,,t ~,
other hand he couldn't be stopped, and car
ried everything along with HIM. One day
he resolved to marry. lie went to a farm
house, told the farmer that he wanted his
daughter, told the same thing in the course
Of conversation to the daughter herself and
the next week came in a one-horse chaise,
took the yoang woman to church, ana got
the minister, after sermon, to mary MIN to
her, which, of course the minister did, with.
out asking Il question; he would as soon
have questioned his off deacon.
AS briggs never told hi, love" or any
thing else for that matter his flierds found
cut that he was married by reading the an
nouncement in that beautilic corner of WI
lage newspaper decorated very appropriate
iy) with transfxed heart. None Of US we're
surprised, for nothing that he could have
done could have surprised anybody. We all
thought we should like to have seen the court
ship. lie managed the matter in his own
way. be didn't "pop the question like an
imPulslve lover, but propoundcd 1t like
cocI'hcadsd LAWYER: and the poor girl doubt
less said Yes" because no mortal could
have met that stnlid face Of his with a" No
SAID - Yes, and the one and .ahalf Il re-
pndatc the idea Of the equality Of the scycs)
were tuI thWlth made one --alIu that one
Joseph briggs.
Now briggs had an affection for me, ard
devotion which nothing could shake-nol
even slltlng up with the Il fortnight when |
mad the cAllls and fever. 1t was his finn
belief that l couldn't take care of myself, and
that ne was my special providence. He Was
resolved. therefore. whatever happened, to
. put me through '--,,ot that he had ever
nSedSo last an expression but that was his idea
to put me through. Being the exact opposite
Of himself, nc took, CT, as Fanny kcmble
would say, co't0net. to me. He was the best
scholar in our class. aid helped me throus,
all my troub. s, though in such droll way
as to make IN" half suspect that WAS help
ing hin in fact, got the credit of so doing,
though don't now remember ever having
helped him in any other way except through
an occasional Dinner. And having seen me
safely Though college, he determined to see
me safely through life. I.dccd, | found 'our
the other day, that he had actually secured a
placefo me at Greenwood, and had composed
my epitaph!
Now. part Of his plan. it seems, vas that
l should marry but understanding the weak
point in my character. he knew very we'll
that should never fall in love with any
woman whom was at all likely to obtain,
though he gave full credit to my senSitivoness
(ano,her weak pont) TO female charms
Unfortunately, l had always found those
women most charming who were married, or
at any rate, engaged. The question was, how
to ohvate this difficulty, for marry | must,
if had to be chloroformed into it. 1t is
necdl 'ss to say that this resolution on the
part of my friend was never even suspected
by myself, else he had surely been fooled. and
Miss - had not now rcjoiced in the name
of Mrs. Crawfsh! In fact, though he was
always speaking to me about my future home,
he never once alluded to marriage. | often
led him up to the subject, but he didn't ap-
pear to like the locks of it; it was like lead
ing horse who had just been drinking to
spring he would glance at it, pause for a
moment, and then turn his long head around
at me VERY horse-like, that as who should
say, How stupid you are -
Well. about six months after briggs had
Set the example he meant should follow,
met him in Broadway, flor We both had set
tied in New York } with a lady on each arm,
and looking. for all the world, like steam
tug being towed down stream lin reversal of
the usual order) by two little yachts. " Yacht
No. IT, said to myself, lis evidently Mrs.
briggs" What splendid woman she is, to
I've sure! What luck some people have in
this world What could she have seen in
briggs 2" Yacht No. 2, didn't like much.
l approved neither her cut nor rig; she look
cd 100 much like smack. had just got
this ridiculous idea of the smack in my head
when came full upon the party, and, hall
ing briggs asked him where he was bound,
and (sotlo roee) how he happened to be under
such convoy? The result was an immediate
introduction all round, one Of the ladies' turn
ing out, as had supposed, to be my friend
wife, and the other her sister-Miss Thorp.
Twill you join US 2" said briggs we
are going to take an ice cream
Nothing, of course, would give me greater
plea, ure; so offered my arm at once to Miss
L Thorp Though not without look ut her Sis
1 ter, which said plainly enough that i had nc
4 choice in the matter, else, ect., and in few
moments we We're at Maiard S, where w
Isl ent an hour-my frierd briggs in such un
&usual spirits that twice he positively smiled
and the unhappiest and awkwardest o