East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-01-21
THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.


business matters, there is no cbatemen'
in the item Of matrimony. The list Of
annexations each day is as large as on
the corresponding day of any previous
season. - In looking over newspaper files
we find that the tendency to connubial
indulgence during the present month ia
quite as marked as in the fall when gold
was first mined in Californis, and every
peanut vender imagined himself knight
Of the golden fleece. Apopular uptown
clergyman, who does up large share OF
our matrimonial ceremonies, informs US
that he has beatified eight couples al
ready this week, and is booked for three
more between now and Sunday. When
the war first broke out, he informs US, he
cemented a larger number Of couples
thar, in five months previous to that
time. Instead of postponing the matter,
and awaiting the fortunes of war, our
young volunteers rushed Immediately
into an instant fulfillment Of matrimonial
engagements. This state of things has
held good ever since. Some weeks ago
our friend married, in one week, eighteen
couples, of which eighteen nearly two
thirds Of the Benedicts appeared on the
occasion in volunteers uniform. rIhHJ
People who suppose that hard times
react upon the marriage market are i'm
rnensely mistaken. Love is beatific
lunscy that rarely takes cognizance of
the par value of doughuuts or butchers
meat. Love lives upon nothing for
time, and no more looks into the. future
than does an unweaned infant. The
same rule that applies to young men ap.
plies equally to young women. While
the former advance into the country OF
the enemy the latter spend their time in
doing up sentiment and studying geogra-
ply. This, by the way, is matter upon
which war posts everybody. During the
war with Mexico all womandom became
posted in the topography of that locality,
as they are now doing in that Of the re-
bellious States. To return to the sub
Ject, however, the reverend gentleman
who posted us up iu these particulars in
forms us that the number of marriages
solemnized throughout the past season,
in this city alone, has fallen little short OF
an average Of two hundred sweek. To
our friends the clergymen the perform
anoe of this pleasant task is doubly
pleasant. While the minister is giving
to people the happiest moments Of their
lives, he is at the same time receiving q
tangible recognition Of his services. No
matter how mean q man may be, the
least latent liberality must be elected by
such surrounding. Though the stool OF
repentance be ever SO near, then Is no
time to play the curmudgeon. Marriage
fees, says our reverend friend, run all the
way from five dollars to a hundred. The
average, however, except to the pastors
of wealthy congregations, is not oyerten
dollars. t.,.,.,,;.s. ,.t .,if,sI ue, ,ieo
Our informant was sold, the other day,
in rather provoking manner. He had
retired for an afternoon nap, after la
borious mornings work among the poor
Of his parish, when the servant announced
that couple in the parlor awaited to be
married. As this was something the
clergyman was never known to decline
the minister arose, held his head for .
minute under the shower in the bath
room, and descended to the parlor. II,
there found rather rskish looking cou
pie, the man presenting strong suspicious
of being either piokpocket OF an over
dressed hostler, the woman counterpart
Of Miss Emma Taylor when personatinf
the character Of eLize" in the play o
that name. yaa afIv issiK ,hl hUr sf1oI
"You desire to be marriedp'' blandl,
asked the divine. ,rrs sdt bss .sbgeraF
eyer guessed it right Off" replied tn,
lady, Hippanily. '''
''You have no friends whom you woul,
like as witnesses?p Ia5i ~ fasa1-r.
"Nary one, sir; / reckon some of you
folks kin do that, the bridegroom said.
The minister summoned his wife to &C
as witness, and the ceremony was dul
performed. BY request Of the partie
the clergyman filled up certificate @
once, which the, groom received, on
handing the divine a package, which b
took for granted as containing coin, tn
groom took rather hurried leave. Whe
the clergyman opened the roll, which aI
peared ten half dollars, he found its onl
contents TO be the same number Of Eng
lish pennies, commonly known as Bunl
town coppers.J The man had actuall
procured . marriage certificate for thi
equivalent, rather than acknowledge
I such were the case,-that he was out {
funds. The minister, in order 20 satisf
his own curiosity, made some inquiries {
4 Detective Franklin, and is pretty we
: : satisfied that the man he married was
thief, called English Jake, alias Jake II
Ticker. The clergyman is more full
IS confirmed in this belief by the absence /,
a silver card case and y pair of gol
spectacles that he missed soon after h
: friend had left the house. If such wei
q the case, the bride was the well know
shoplifter, "shinoy Mary, The lady d
rives her title from the briliancy Of h
,s hair, derived from liberal saturation in
l. ,, lsxstives for Juveniles termed castor oil
= A wslch girl onOe applied TO q clerg
man to bs married. The clergym'
= asked her what property her hushal
:. possessed. The answer was, nothing
w.