Year: 1861




II is singular what shifts love win make to
accomplish its object Bolts, CRATES and bars
are Of little avail against Cupids picl-lock con-
trivance--his cunning will devise ways and
means to open them all. A young gentleman
had courted fair lady of this city, and il was
supposed that the two in time would become
one. Some little quarrel of trivial nature, as
lovers quarrels generally are, occurred. Nei-
ther would confess the wrong to be on their side
presents and correspondence were mutually
sent back, and the match was broken off The
young gentleman Immediately started off for
New Orleans, to enter into commercial business,
thinking that distance would lessen the attach
ment he really felt for the young lady When
the woman is injured, or thinks she is injured
by the one she loves, she is more apt than the
male sex Ito bite off her own nose, as the say
ing is to inhict pain, and be reyenged on the
offending object A gentleman. that the young
lady once rejected renewed his proposals and
was accepted within week after her lover had
embarked for the South. On reaching New Or
leans, be found that distance, instead of weak
ening his attachments only made the lady dear
er, and he became melancholy and low-spirited.
The first letter he received from New York from
friend of his, announced that his old fame
was to be shortly married to another. His
course was quickly taken; the next morning
saw him on packet ship bound for Gotham
The passage, unfortunately, was long, and the
poor fellow chafed and fretted so much that the
passengers began to think him deranged or a
fugitive escaping from Justice. The instant the
vessel touched the wharf he darted off for the
office of his friend the lawyer. 1t is to be sup
posed that the lawyer was surprised to see his
friend imagining him a couple of thousand
miles away. After the usual salutations he
exclaimed


"My dear fellow, you are just in time to see
the wedding. Miss -, your old sweetheart
is to be married this morning at eleven o'clock
To tell you the TRUTH don't believe there Is
much love about it, and the girl really thinks
more of one hair of your head than of the for
tunatc bridegroom's whole body"


"Good heaven! Where is she to be married
in church p


"No At her fathers house"


"My dear acknowledgements | will
have it. Have you any case coming on in any
of the courts at eleven o'clock p


ayes"


"Ihcn fill me up subpoena with the bride
groom's name. Don't stop to ask any questions
1t matters not whether he knows anything about
the parties in the suit. By heavens, Julia shall
be mine"


His friend saw the object at once and promis-



made out and placed in the hands of clerk to
serve on the unsuspecting bridegroom the in.
slant he was seen to leave his residence, and
was despatched in the cab to watch the house.
About ten minutes before eleven as the soon-to-
be happy man was about enteringa coach before
his residence. he was served with the subpoena.


Cant help il" said the clerk in reply TO his
gcsticulating about mot knowing the parties"
"going to be married" &c 1--WE shan't reach
the hall before eeven-thc case is the first on
the calendar, heavy fine, Imprisonment for con-
tempt, &C."


The bridegroom, who was rather of timid
nature, finally consented, particularly as the
clerk promised to send friend Of his who sat
in the cab, wrapped up in large cloak, to the
house of his bride in expectation, explaining the
reason of his absence. The reader can imagine
who this person was


Eleven o'clock came, but still no bridegroom.
The guests were staring at each other-the priest
began to grow inpatient and the bride that was
to be, looked pale and agitated, when carriage
drove up, the bell rang, and There he is -
"Therc he isl murmured many voices. A gen.
tleman did enter, whose appearance created al
most as much astonishment as that of Edgar
Ravenswood in the Hall of Ashton, in SCOTS
Bride of Lammermoor. The lady fainted-pri-
vatc explanations cnsued between her parents
and the lover, and the result was that in less
than ten minutes after, the two real lovers were
joined in the sacred bonds Of matrimony, much
to the satisfaction of all.


The bridegroom that was to have been, after
wards made his appearance putting and blowing
What he said, and what he did on teholding his
rival and being made acquainted with the affair,
was really tragi-conical.


The story of the subpoena shortly after leaked
out, and has created so much amusement that
the poor fellow declares that he will sue the
lawyer for $40, 900 damages in .subpenaing him
as a witness in case of which he knew nothing,
and by which he lost his wife.