Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-19

acceptable to our citizens. They know
General Carter, and to know him is to be
satisfied that he will perform his duties in
the trying position to which he has been
called impartially and vigorously.
marriages In nEngIand-whyE English
Bachelors and Spinsters do not Mar
ry-SOme CuriOus Statements.
The London Athensun has the following
picture of English life; r. .,....
"In London and in every part of this
healthy country there are hundreds npon
hundreds of persons of both sexes who
abstain from marriage because their means
are narrow, and from early life to extreme
old age exist as celibates on incomes
slightly greater or less that the $500 per
annum which society deems insufficient
for matrimonial comfort aud dignity. But
the lives of such persons cannot be said to
support the theory. The educated celibate
with "a comfortable income for bachelor
who occupies chambers and frequents
Pail Mall club, is, as rule, not less selfish
and grasping that the poor pRterfamilias
who, according to the author, 'be he law
yer; doctor divine or man of letters, must
needs, in all his ways and works, regard
not the pure aim of his profession, but the
pecuuiary interests involved thsrein.'-
Celibacy cannot be said TO have raised the
Roman Catholic priesthood above the
moral level of our own clergy; nor can
it be allowed that the maiden lady with
'geuteel suhiciency' is in most cases a
better Christian than the poor mother who
by anxiety for her own offspring is taught
to feel for every orphan child.
"The proceedings Ia the Divorces Court
have shown that uuqusstiOnabIe love
matches are by no means exempt from
Wretehedness, and that women of fortune
(WhO are under no necessity to marry for
a msintenance) make unhappy marriages
quite as often as girls without penny
Nor does experience encourage . belief
that women are disinterested just in pro-
portion as they are placed above want
The heiress in o west end set is usually
qnite as anxious 70 seek advancement by
matrimonial settlement as her penniless
cousin, who has nothing but marriage to
look forward to- If poverty sometimes
makes a girl say, 'Pu answer ''yes" to the
first offer gst,' the possession of indepen-
encs quite as frequently induces woman
TO think, q can afford to wait, so i will
not marry till have really eligible pro-
posaI.' Asa rule, the poor parsons daugh-
ter, whose marriage portion is modest
trousseau, with &20 note 10 her purse, is
not whit more calculating than any Miss
Violet who has 92O, 900 at her command
and score of suitors from whom to make
selection. 54.a
moreover, women whose circumstances
secure them from the necessity of marrying
to better themselves are especial objects
of desire to men who, if not absolute for-
tune hunters, still desire not to marry with
out some advantage more substantial than
womau's love. Thus, independence on the
part of the fair sex would scarcely have
the result anticipated. If it diminished
their present inducements to seek for ad-
alliances, it would, on the other
hand, increase the chances that they would
be sought ont by selfish worldlings, and
lured into unions where love would not be
the motive of either of the contracting
parties. The sex might be less SHINING,
but it would be more sinned against and
brought about by base desire
of gain, would, at least, be as frequent as
they are at present"