Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-11-09
a bit of Romance.

Six years agoa handsome young .cou-
pie were travelling tagether en- the cars,
IN Virginia, and, amid the rafting of
wheels and the whirl of rapid motion and
surrounded by strangers, they, moved by
the god ofIove, pligbted their troth to
each other, and vowed eternal constancy.
She, q blooming creature of fifteen, all
life and animation, With form and features
that might have mseed a Stole to love,
'eturned to the Jealous care Of her in
structors: he, distinguished for manly
beauty and eentlemanly demeanor, re-
paired once more to fac halls of learning;
and, cheating the argus eyes that would
have detected, they rddnaged, by frequent
missiles of afections,.o feed the flames
of devotion. Years af3ed By: the mai
ored ministers, had i wed to Nashville,
Tennessee, to assumeth the pastoral charge
OF a Baptist church, accompanied by his
family. The war bVue out the young
nan moved to George, for awhile was
engaged as pfeceptor ct Lagrange, and
then as minister of tn gospel in charge
of a church, settled nRome, Georgia.
Still other years (0ses their flight into
the past, and yet both remained faithful
to their vows !; but, unable longer to
endure the separation, the gentleman
wrote to his Faace ursing her to leave
her father and mother and sisters and
come to him, even if SIC bad to declare
herself an "alien sEsmy," 10 be able
to do SO. But this va not necessary.-
The Yankee general g2rted Il pass to
several Southern ladTs, and she was
among the number. Eesolute and faith
ful she sought the ebpe of her affections,
through no cominonOI.tacles and, prov
idence iayering her, sh reached Georgia
safely, vas happily united in the bonds
of wedlock to him wh Fad beer the
choice Of her young elections, and for
whose sake she had If. all, and now re-
joices IL the reward of true constancy
and devotion; while lie proud and ex-
ultant IS he should b, glories in the
possession Of so rarea prize, Does the
readsr desire to knos their names -
Let him read the following
MARRIED,
Near Rome, ga OF Iesday morning,
Oct. ID, 1868, by Rev j. f. Swanson,
Rev. D. WILL G1wN tsMIss JENNIE c..
second daughter of Dr.R. b. G.. Howell,
of Nashville, Tennessee
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FEMALE PATRIoTRM.-In every age of
the world, Woman has yinced patriotic
zeal in national conflict for liberty. In
every quarter of tho gasg. instances OF
-. 5scfl d1spfayed. LRiaasIis San
culinary scenes Of the Each Revolution,
countsless number Of fealss fell victims
to the guillotine, the hoors of impris-
onment and assassinatl, for real or
suspected devotion to nciples which
thew deemed for the goo5f their coun-
try. whether fer or advei to the policy
of the times. Many, it ane, were mis-
taken in the exercise ohsir zeal, but
still from motives coUted with the
public veal. In the ardls struggle for
Independence, clrcumstas are on re-
cord of the personal couD. of females.
Still more instances haven produced
of sell devotion under pa fatigue and
privation, in the great caef freedom.
Perhaps the South furps more ex-
! amples than any other of Amerlca
4 We hav. been led to d remarks by
a paragraph in GordfAnecdotes,"
an old vvlume, %evjncing ervadirg in
fuence Of the times Gil tklnaie mind
in other days that %triaen's souls"
The young ladies says fGordon) of
; the best families OF Rowa Mecklsn-
n burg counties in the westart ofNorth
+, Carolina, adopted and praed a res
n ~olutlon to refuse the addfany young
S men of their counties, e1 the brave
ID volunteers who served laexpedition
er to South Carolina to subhs Scovo-
lite, Insurgents Thefng ladies
drew their lives from ! Of war
proof" for it will be reered, that
I'D M~eck}enbufg county ds herself in
K faver Of independence before the
'p Thirteen States united f3urpese.-
les Miss6ssjpp;an.
by ATLANTA, Oct. 30-Ns reports
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