The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-05-18
Disabilities Of California Bachelors
Legal Protection 20 Husband.

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/ The Washington Globe, edited By Johr
G. Rives, IN inveterate old bachelor, has ths
following article:
An oct has been introduced in the Cali
fornia Assembly, 70 exempt from attach.
menk execution or garnishment one month
wages, not exceeding ONE hundred and fifty
dollars, of married" mechanics, laberera
and clerks, ana of persons having under
their charge, and dependent on them for
support, fathers, mothers, minor brothers Of
sisters, children of deceased wife, or other
orphan children
On this proposed preference Of married to
single men, a bachelor writer, il the San
Francisco Bulletin, sorrowfully comments
as follows:
"Ihe Yankee notion of putting ali the
burdens Of taxation and Government upon
single men is becoming alarmingly preva.
lent throughout the whole country, and it
won't be long before they 1.-THE bachelors)
will have to organize for their own protec
ton. The Washerwomen impose on u.s.
the landladies tyrrannize over and bully US
the married men 'snnb' us-the law
makers fleece US in every way imaginable,
besides making odi0us exceptions to our dis
advantages. lfa war breaks out, who SO
proper volunteer for . sbeuld soger bow
as your bachelor2 This whole community
call on him to 60 to the wars, and be can
didate for glory and food of powder. II
doesn't make any difference, say these kind
hearted people, if he does get killed-,he
ia nobody to care for him; never considering
that the poor fellow might have care for
himself And thus they continually irritatc,
annoy and badger US, like bull in ring.
until, in fit of desperation, the poor bache-
lor either throws himself away on the first
petticoat that comes in the way. or else
takes to the sea, the field, or-poison.'
The credit or shame of originating le-
gal preference Of married men to bachelors
ioes not rest with the inventive Yankees,
who have only applied the means used by
he ancient nations for the promotion Of
marriage. The Roman ccnsors frequently
imposed fines on old bachelors. Dion. Hall |
'arnassus mentions an old constitution, bv |
which all persons Of full age were obliged |
0 marry. But the most celebrated law of |
bis kind was the Julian law, which Horace
Mentions, made under Augustus, by which
remiums were awarded to married men,
nd bachelors were made incapable of re.
Giving legacies or inheritances, except from
heir near relatives
The Jewish rabbins maintain that by the
sws OF Moses, all persons, with few ex-
options, are obliged in conscience to marry
twenty years Of age. One of their max.
ms declares bachelors to be homocides.
II, as the bachelor writer OF the Bulletin
GEMS to fear, the California legislature in
.nds to turn its attention to the best means
promoting marriage, it might be well for
he bache lors of the State to unite in me-
'orial to that body, ss1ting forth that the
rowing extravaganza of young ladies has
ade marriage costly luxury, attainable
My by rich; that the celibacy of young
ZEN, therefore is not perverse and yolunta-
7. but compulsory and necessary; and that
lblie policy and justice to young men de- ,
and the passage of a law, similar in char
tier to the Maiue liquor law, prohibiting
re sale OF dry goods, except in limited
lantities to each purchaser in cases Of ne
'ssity. Such statement of lamentable
cts would place the responsibility of the
arming increase of celibacy where it right. 8
belongs, by showing that the comparative :
'verty and not the will of Young America b
.nsents to the drear loneliness of single 9
e. :