The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-06-07
9ailp Mpuntalneer.


MARRIED BY MlsTAKE.-The S. F..
Morning Call, of May 10th, tells the
following story:
On Sunday last, a party of matri.
'monially .inclined persons got things
strangely mixed, in style that is any.
thing but agreeable, and necessitates
an appea! to the Courts to remedy
hemfstakes of a moment. Itappears
that two young hearts, yearning to
enter into matrimonial copartnership,
obtained license permitting them
to cousummate their desires, and ar.
ranged all the preliminaries for the
ceremony to take place in church,
down town. On Sunday evening,
the party, consisting Of the gentle
man, and friend who was to officiate
as attendant, and the lady, and fe.
male friend who was to act as brides
maid, repaired to the church. A is
usual in such cases, the parties were
very nervous, and hardly knew how
to conduct themselves; in fact to this
nervousness is attributed all the diff.
Guilty they have since experienced
When the minister called uron them
to come forward and take Che required
oaths, they did SO, but by some means
which cannot be explained, the brides
maid took the place of the bride, and
the marriage ceremony was comple'
ted, and the marriage ring placed up
ON her finger, before the mistake was
discovered. Here was pretty dilem.
ma. The parties were legally mars
ried, and the was'to.be bride left out
in the cold. All parties retired from
the church in good order, and but few,
ifany, of those in the congregation
were aware of the faux pas, but when
they reached home the reader may be
assured that there was no end to fem.
.inine tears and masculine curses. But
all availed nothing-they had to com.
promise matters-and yesterday they
were consulting lawyer, who thinks
he can induce one of the district Judg.
es to either declare the marriage null
and void, or grant them divorce In
the meantime, the marriage between
the original parties is indefinitely
postponed.
PRENTICE ON SUMNER.-The Louis>
vile Journal thus trails the hero of
Brooks rattan for his attack upon
Gen. Grant. AS the N, Y. World says,
what General Lee failed to do, Mr..
Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, has
undertaken to accomplish.
"The American people, who believe
that the Republic owe something to
the soldier who led our armies to fin
al victory over the rebellion, will be
edited by the modesty of Massachu-
setts Senator who, the other day as
sailed, scrap'book in hand, the honor
and veracity of Ulysses S. Grant
Gen. Grant has seen the South. Mr.
Chas. Sumner has never ventured be.
yond the line of our National bayonets
arrayod for war. Grant defeated the
gallant armies which, for four long
years, held at bay the whole power Of
the Union. Sumner wasignominious
ly thrashed with a cane by South
Carolina representative, long since
dead and turned to dust.
The hero of hundred fights recon-
mends that the Southern people be en-
trusted with their own affairs. The
victim of Mr. Preston Brooks, writh
ing still with an impotent lust of per-
sonal vengeance upon the innocen
fellow citizens Of q rash and hasty
man, whom God has removed from al
retribution, shrieks out foul-moutbet
abuse of the President, and clamor
for the practical abolition of the Con
stitution and the Union. AaU
Heaven forbid that we should of