Danbury Times

STAY AT HOME GIRLS! The Boston Traveler heads a paragraph "Be off girls," and then quotes from a letter written from Jackson, Miss. by a wandering Yankee: "Just bring out a thousand of your industrious Yankee girls. I want a wife, and I will find husbands for a hundred more. How unequally the good things of this world are distributed." I will venture to say, that twenty thousand New England maidens would meet with a welcome reception by the gallant and noble hearted Mississippians. I think every one would have offers in less than a year."

This is what we call the most impudent request that ever was preferred to "ladye fayre." If the Yankee girls, or the New York girls—for when matrimony is on the carpet we'll be bound there shall no "sectional difference" separate the maidens of the Empire State from New England -if, we say, our young women are not worth coming after, they have independence enough to stay at home alone. They have industry enough to pass life along easy in the improvement of the thousand resources which civilization puts within the reach of spinsters. Jacob served seven years for Leah, and seven more for Rachel-and if there be errant Yorker or Yankee in the west who can't spare seven weeks to come home and be married, let him rest single and be hanged to him. All the diplomacy in the world, and the semi-daily repetition of Ex-President Jackson's famous toast, "The Union, it must be preserved," could not do so much for the preservation of our political compact, as will the loving errand to the east of these disconsolate bachelors in the west. It is really a pretty proposal to the young women to ask them thus to consign and ship themselves to Wolverine, Hooshier & Co., and throw themselves in the western market, trusting to strangers for a protective duty. Stay at home girls--and tell these extra gallant fellows that if they want their necks noosed they must "fetch 'em on!"--N. Y. Sun.