The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-05-09
Advertising for a Wife.
MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION, AND ITS RESI'I

"~AN AAAA"o "A"o o""he " lHc lOlIOWluS du-
vertisement:
WANTED-A WlFE.-A gentleman in.
tending to start for Europe on Monday next
wishes to take with him wife. ANY Young
lady of pleasing address and appearance viii
ling to perform the duties of tender wife
will please address before noon tomorrow.
X. J. HALL, Post Office.
Strange as 1t may seem, there were sixty
foolish maidens in the good city of Albany
SO much in want of husband, or so desirous
to take trip to Europe, as to be willing to
accept Of an advertiser ard take the chances
ia hundred to one) of marrying worthless
adventurer and a swindler Advertisements
of this kind are seldom published in good
faith, being generally intended to entrap
some unwary victim, without going through
the tormalities OF marriage. Such, loweyer,
does not seem to be the case with Hall, for
among the sixty billet doux which he receiv-
ed before | o'clock the next day, was one
signed by Annie Newton, residing in Frank
lin street, near Ferry, which was accompa-
MED by her daguerreotype, and which led to
an acquaintance, resulting in marriage week
ago Thursday. The introduction and court
ship We're Of the briefest possible description,
for the parties were united together for bet
ter or for worse on the very day on which
their eyes first beheld each other. In order
to establish his claims to respectability he IN
formed the credulous Annie that he was ac-
quaiated with two respectable physicians III
this city,and his statement was believed with
out taking any further step to satisfy her as
to whom she was marrying.
But there is consolation for the ffty-nine
disappointed maidens. The day of the mar.
riage Mr. and Mrs Hall proceeded to New
York, and stopped that night at Earls new
hotel on Centre street. On Friday he an
nounced himself to be clergyman, and com
menced making pastoral calls. On Sunda,
ne preached to an uptown church. The re
suit of his clerical labors and the denouemea
are thus related by the Evening Post Of Sat
urday:
Last Sunday evening Marshal Murray at
tended service in one Of the churches up
town, heard good discourse and had the
pleasure of seeing and hearing the Rev r. J
Hall, who was introduced to the congregation
by the pastor Of the church after the close O
the regular service. The doctor, in introduc
ing MIR Hall, said that he was loyal refuge
from Mississippi, whose story had warmly in
terested several persons in this city. II
was suffering for means, and collection hat
been taken for his benefit in Doctor --'
church that afternoon. 1t was to be hope,
that the congregation, after hearing NJ
Halls story, would be willing to give liberal
ly to a man who had suffered for the caus
of the Union.
So Mr. Hall told his story. lie was Il ph.
sician by profession, bat was licensed t
preach, aud occasionally Served at the altar
in Missouri. His known attachment to tn
Union had excited the attention of his Seces
sion neighborS, who called on him and ds
manded money for the support of the reb,
cause. He had none to give them and S
they murdered his only child before his eye
one Of the rebels knocking out the child
brains with the butt of his musket Then h
and his wife escaped, driving away in tn
night in buggy to the federal lines in Mi
souri,. They had hairbreadth escapes on til
way. Once five rebels on picket duty cam
out to the road; two of them seized the no
se's head, and the other three came to II
buggy, but Mr. Hall, according to his own a
count, put trust in Providence and put bu
iiet from his revolver into each of the re-
els.
Such suffering and valor were not to
overlooked, and the congregation respondt
by a contribution, which, with the collectie
taken by DIR - in the afternoon, made
handsome sum. The clergyman announc,
that Brother W. of the congregation, wi
was specially interested in MIR Hall, had he
ptably entertained him since Friday, a,
: would keep Mr. Hall and his wife in /
S house in Twenty-frst street until they cou
: do better.
: Such charities, rightly bestowed, arc
S ways commendable. 1t is thus that 10
e softens the features Of grim-visaged war.
S But yesterday Brother W. appeared at t
Marshal's office and stated that he believ
n he had regular fire-eater in his house
(, did not know but that he was jeff Davis
u Floyd himself
,r His wife had seen some letters in \
p Halls room which convinced her that all v
e not right, and he wanted those people to
- out of his house. The marshal remember
e the Munchausen tale of the five secession
shot by Hall, and sent detectives Samp.
re and Deyos to call on him. Two FIVE do
N. NJ bills on the "Monson Bank" were enclosed
ts the following letter.
re No. 2OS MADISON ST., April 4th, 1862
Rev J. r. Hall-Dear Sir Il have
III the pleasure of hearing your address at
's church on Sunday evening inst,
@ eG was deeply interested in the account of y
,s1 ,a1 sutferings in Mississippi.
ne At that time was without funds, and
y" to leave town early on Monday morning.