Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-08-10
MOKELUMNE HILL CAIAVERAS COUNTY, CAL.

duu UIOuSHt HSI uuIO tAC uldu Anu
Adam said, This is now bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall
be called woman, because she was taken
out of man. Therefore shall a man
leave his father and Lis mother and
cleave unto his wife ; and they shall
be one flesh"
He closed the book and offered a
most touching prayer; not heart but
seemed to feel that earnest appeal to
the Throne of Grace.
Then, asking the usual questions, he
pronounced them husband and wife.
The bride, slowly sinking on her knees,
raised her beautiful face, all covered
with tears, and her clasped hands, and
in most thrilling, sweet voice, tremu-
lous with deep emotion, said
"And now, O! merciful Father
grant that our Two lives, thus united,
may peacefully flow into one, even as
this rivulet, until we reach the River
of Death; and, undivided in faith OF
conduct, be permitted to enjoy Thine
eternal smiles, in the land of the pure
and the hlest.
Every pulse seemed still, hoping,
wishing for more of this beauti. ul
drama. Not word, not a movement
from all the throng; all, all was happi-
ness. O. lovely panorama! how deep.
ly thou art craven on the heart. The
happy man was in the act of imprintine
a kiss upon the smiling lips of his mag
nifcent wife, when the clear tones of a
manly voice startled all from theil
pleasing reverie universal gaze rested
on Il tall Tennessean, whose eagle eyes
spoke the mana fit representative
he was of the State where sleeps Jack
son.
81 can't stand this any longer, can
by -! Pardon, ladies, pardon ]
have proposition to make in the good
faith of man who rever lies or trihes
| must make it or die-so here goes
Now, will marry on this spot any lady
in the crowd who has the nerve to face
such music; look at me, and if you can
love me as she loves (pointing to the
bride), I'll promise to be husband to
you such husband as she deserves,
and su h husband as a true-hearted
man will make to the woman who comes
trembling under his wing l further
say that no spot Of shame attaches to
my name, nor ever shall. And this
arm will support and protect the one
who can trust it. Who'll take mel"
And his eyes ran slowly and steadily
over the crowd Of handsome women
around him his earnest manner and
novel speech had aroused an intense
feeling and all was surprise and deer
sym pathy with the fearless, excited ora.
tor, when to the astonishment and de.
light of every one, a fawn-like, blue.
eyed girl, from the howery banks Of
Alabama, stepped up to his side, and
looking confidently up to him, with hel
hands on his arm, said,
II am thine -
BY this time his arm was around hel
waist, and parting ner curls, he "sign
ed the contract" with a kiss that all the
married ladies afterward. pronounced Of
the genuine sort-perfect, satisfactory
Raising his flashing eyes with a trium-
phant expression from the pleasant job
just mentioned, he said:
"Where is that parson? Send him
right here-on this spot we met, and
on this spot we will be made one; |
never let such luck as this pass me by
waiting minute; so go ahead, all's
ready"
And the parson did 60 ahead, and on
that spot where they first met were they
solemnly united forever. When the
words, "what God has joined together
let no man put asunder," died away, a
shout went up that woke the echo for
miles; every hand was extended to the
happy, lucky, venturesome fellow; and
every lady in the crowd pressed the
lips of the handsome wife, (for mo-
ment [ wished | were her, but instant.
ly recovered my self-possession, and
thrust the weakness from me; women
kissing each other always seemed a
waste of sweetness to me, but they know
best and laughing, shouting, happy,
we all returned on board.
Our generous captain set a splendid
supper; the clerk made out two mar
riage certificates they were signed by
the parson aud seventy-four witnesses
Give more made the nine, you know,
men, women, and children, all told
Everybody signed. Then we danced,
we laughed, we made children of our
selves. Be that as it may, when the
watch changed at noon of night, the
bluffs on the dark shores of the river
returned only and unbroken the echo
of the hoarse coughing of the Emily
Barton's engines, for We slept, and our
dreams vainly tried to vie with the
lovely reality of the evening
! BLACK EMIGRANTs.-While white
men are coming from Europe and yellow
men from China, thousands of black EN-
igrants from the United States and West
Indies are fastening to Africa. Within a
recent period more than 1900 black emf
grants have gone to Liberia, of whom
934 have goneiu seven months. Farmers
and soldiers, lawyers and blacksmiths,
shoemakers and engineers, with their
trades and implements, have gone to the
young Republic of Liberia.
SHERRY WINE.-The sherry wine
merchants at Cadiz told our consul that
'the stuff sent to the United States was
not sherry at all. merely slons used to