Marriage Certificates

Wo publieh tho following important article hora tho New York Herald, iu roffrenoK to marriage certifícales, which cannot fil to bo oí' iijterust to n very lnrgo class of readers : For u.any yeara in the history of our country mnrriage eertifictites have been of eomparatiwly littla account, apd, we presuma, have seldoui baon asked by parties who havo been married, or given by tho clergynïan or inagistrate oificiatiog. But our circumstunces as a nation havo chtuiged, and it bacomos in rasny cases, a matter of great impor tance that íney should be given and preefirved. Thig is ospocially tho case witli all who may be, or who liava buen connectod with our armies. A nuirriago ceitificato of gomo kbd is the ouly evidence whioh oau be given to entitle the families of our soldiers to reoeive their pay or pensions after their der.th. In many circumstances they become net only invaluable, but ndispeasible. A few days since we wero called on by the wife of a soldier, who had pent a whole day in a neigh boring city in looking np the olergyiaan who had married Ihem, and alter all her pearch, ahe laarned that he d I e cl severa! years ugo, and shu had no evidencs of her marriage. Her special object in seekingit was to visit her huibaod in his nicknesa within tho Anny of the Potomac, whioh she w.is not allo wed to do without producing ii c-jrüüuüte of her marriage. Suoh a pnj.er rnay becotne much more valuabla to her in case oí his deáth as the evidoaco of her being erititled to a penHÍon. In our courts of liiw the faot that two persons ba va beon recogniztid ;;b such iu siciet), is gneniliy accounteü as suihwent evidênce of 'hcir having boen married, but we tiiink that il is not go in regard to ihosa wko havo been couneoted with our army. Soine evitfefice of the actual laavriuge is rwquirod bofore U penswin caá he socurect. Mahy vvidows of KoTólationary soldiers and of those enftïged in tli o war of 1818 kiled to secure punswns lor the want oí suffioienl evidonce of their marriage. wVltfoUtd thorcfoio advise all persona who m-iy be murried in time to coma, aud all who havo beon in time pist, to secure n roguLu' certifícate ti-ooi tho person oiliciatug, and also to hava thft uaiues of cvoral ol' tho witnestia appunjud to t!io annio. It ;nay ava a great araount of irouLlo at Rome luture time $nd be of vory essontiul eervico to ihe partías coucernod. A fiva cent stamp U retpired for fiuc'n a esrtifioato by the United States Rpvbnue Law, witbrnut wBTcli it ia of no value, snd theyn ia n lioavy penalty Umtig sny egl oertiScato wiMiout such i ta-ap.