, 1867-02-15
Marriage Extraordinary.

an old acquaintance, a former resident of A.
lanta, but who recently settled in Boston. w,
were pleased to hear from "Bill B. - as the bow
usea 10 call MIN, but We bad to smile some q
Que item of aews be writes. Here it is:
Married-in Boston, Mass, bv Rev. Il. NM,
Ter, D. D., at Berkeley Street Church, Mr.. Henr,
tGwinn, late Of Savannah, Ca, TO Miss Abby N
tidge of Boston,"
Now this simple announcement would proba
bly, convey to the careless reader no other de,
~ n - lhst thu bride had made very good chang,
gestise Of al old. and better family than Pidts
6ut there Is something else "a, De considered
commencing with the lady, (for gallantry sake.
we are Informed that sue is only about tbjri,
years ofage, of good family and tolerably good
iooKlng. SO much for the female partner ia the
concern. Now we come to the male, whose na me
she mas taken, and whom, ia the presence aud
| oy the sanction Of the Rev. Henry NJ Dexter. D.
y, formerly the respected pastor Of Pine street
Chuieh, aud now, as it seems, the presiding Of
| ncial OF church in Berkeley streetl she has
promised to love, honor, cherish, &c. This Uen-
ry Gwinn is negro, aboutthe color of a baked
potato. Many of our citizens will recoIlect him
rs naFiug formerly belonged to the Rev. Peyton
L. Made, OF Scriven County, and having worked
Tor Messrs Z. c. Wade Co, of this CIV Tbe
celebrated proclamation of the late President
Lincoln set him free, and he went North. TO soe
how bis so-called friends would meet ana tro,,
him We have heard from Savannah men who
have met him during their summer trims thai
Henry thinks "there is no place like Georgia IN
live IN, but AS long as be can make anything on,
ofthe Yankees, he is going to try i: on As he
mas got married to a white woman, who posses
ses good looks, Is of a respectable family. and
mas fdr supply OF money, it is very doubtful il
he returns to his native State. Well we are
glad 70 see some of the Massachusetts people
Carrying out their ideas Of equality to a practi.
pal den sfrn rfn
negro as good as any white man, and WHY
should they not marry him Henry is smart.
there is no doubt Of thdt-his speeches at Sara.
toga Springs last summer proved that. although
they did not please his radical friends-aud MS
last move OF his gives additional evidence that
be looks sharper after the mainschance He has
nov worked himself into a position where ne can
live at ease; introduced into society, money
enough to live on, liOn at the ':Hub"-all these
are better than sampling cotton. His former
employer and acquHIntauces congratulate him
on his suddenly acquired popularity and pros.
perity. If audtcity ever deserves success he is
certainly entirely to it.-SucdRRqh AdcerHser.
-
TIE AviToR-Speaking of the proposed new
flying machine, the Nees Letter says:
We repeat that we entertain profound faith in
tbs soundness aud prActcability Of the principle
which tits now attempted to apply We kaotr
sumatiOn Of their triumphant success with more
perfect reliance upon themselves or confidence
in results The old notion of ballooning has
been al! a mistake; the new notion is pilpably
practicable the moment it is known. Not sin,
gle person to whom it has yet been communica- !
ted but has instantly expressed his conviction of
its correctness aGd as we dwell fora moment on |
RriaI uaYig ttiOn a succes. achieved Il triumph
of invention and skill whose Llbitual use shall /
have lowered it with us to the commonplace, our
soul expands with the thought Of the triumphs |
of geographical, meteoroOgic, astronomical dis
coyerv which will he opened up to the enterprise
and daring OF mar! Right TO the heh:t ofk ktne's
open polar sea, of Speke and Baker grand Ny
anzas 10 the now inaccessible SUBMITS Of the
Cordillera and Hlmaayh; over ocean and cOuti-
nent, plain and mountain, pathless forest and
trackless desert, man will navigate the air ocean,
and the next great maps of the world snail de-
picture with equal certainly the innermost nook
of Africa, the vast space of the Russian Steppe,
the unpenetrated Brazilian forest, and the iden-
ted slore line of the Antartic continent Is there
not about this prospect something glorious;
something almost sublime? Can any reader re-
alize, and convince himself that he realizes,
that within few weeks the experiment will be
made here in this comp Iratvely obscure corner
OF the globe, which shall transfer all this from
the domain of possibility to that of certainty,
which shall soon remit it to the department of
history? When he does realize it, and not till
he realizes it, he enter into the feelings with
which we say that JeiieUe it is about to be
done. And when done, California-as the birth
place of ierial navigation-will take higher rank
in the world of civilization and occupy a larger
space In that of history than all that gold and |
wealth can win for her. Nor any good citi-
zen good American, or good man refuse to offer
up from bis heart the brief Prayer-God speed |
the Avitor.