The North Carolinian

CAUTION TO LETTER-WRITERS.--The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has given a judicial exposition of the law on the subject of love letters, by instructing a jury, in a recent case, that where a written correspondence is kept up between an unmarried gentleman and an unmarried young lady, of suitable age, who is not his relative, the most common and natural inference is, that it is upon matrimonial subjects. Young marriageable ladies, at least prudent ones, do not allow themselves to be engaged in a correspondence with unmarried men, unless they suppose a marriage contract exists between them. And unmarried men do not desire that such a correspondence should be carried on where an engagement does not exist, unless it be from some improper motives, or with the hope and expectation of an ultimate engagement. If these instructions are to be taken as law in other States, all sentimentalities, not looking to matrimonial conclusions, between unmarried persons of opposite sexes, will have to assume an oral character.