The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-10
Women and Marriage.

rlmony. L have seen young and beauti |
full women, the pride of the gay circles,
married, as the world says. well. Some
have moved into their costly houses, and
their friends have all come and looked at
their furniture and their splendid home
for happiness, and have gone away and
committed them to their sunny homes,
cheerfully and without fear, 1t is natu-
raj to be sanguine for them, as the yonng
are sometimes carried away with similar
feelings.
love to get unobserved in a corner
and watch the bride in her white attire,
and with her smiling face and soft eyes
meeting ne in the pride of life, weave
waking dream of future happiness, and
persuade myself that it will be true. I
think how they will sit upon the luxuri
ant sofa as the twilight falls, and build
gay hopes, and murmur in low tones tie
| not now forbidden tenderness, and how
thrilling the allowed kiss and beautiful
endearments of welded life will make
even parting their joy, and how gladly
! they will come back from the crowded
and empty mirth of the gay to each 9TH
er's quiet company.
picture to myself that young creature
who bushes even now at his hesitating
caress, listening eagerly for his footsteps
as the night steals on, wishing he would
come, and when he enters at last, with an
affection as undying as his pulse, nesting
upon his bosom. l can feel the tide that
goes flowing through the heart, and gaze
with him upon the graceful form as she
moves about in the kind offices of affec-
tion, soothing all his unquiet cares, and
making him even forget himself in her
young and unshadowed beauty
L go forward for years. and see her
luxuriant hair put soberly away from her
brow, and her girlish graces resigned into
dignity and loveliness, chastened with the
gentle meekness of maternal affection.
Her husband looks on with proud eye,
and shows the same fervent love and del
icate attentions which first won her, and
her fair children are grown about them,
and they go on, full of honor and un-
troubled years, and are remembered when
they die.
a LOVING AND LADY WIFE.-The
following matrimonial incident is from
the Quincy (Cal.) National of February
9th:
A miner living in this place has wife
in Oroville. About the first of February
he wrote her, asking for certain informa
ton. lie wrote her he had been poison
ed by eating cake, and that he had giver
some to an Indian, which nearly killed
him. BY the last mail the husband re-
ceived the following answer from his caro-
sposa:
ORovILLE, Feb. IS, 1869
G.: l have received your letter
I was much surprised and e.rtrenseIy CON
cerned at hearing of your late misfortune
| really hope they have been exaggerated
by your report, and that upon investiga
tion you will find your health in much
better condition than you imagine.
eff, indeed, it is true that you have
r been so badly treated, let me beg Of yor
to live up under your Affections, puttine
your trust in Him who directs all things
for the best, and whose All-seeing ey,
!, watches over US continuously. l have
but lit1le time to answer letters, and es
: pecially letters of so little Importance.
! ooh how sorry feel for the poo
Indian. Tell me-and quickly, too-wa
it buck or squaw you gave the cake to
i Innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
1 Tremble at patience
s'1n excellent health-getting alons
l nicely. Some one-no matter who
:; was telling me the other day that Thomp
| sons colt is dead. -"