The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-06
RICHM 0ND, VA,
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1855.

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EXTRAORDINARY MARRtaGE.-A female
friend sends us the following translation from
q December number of the Courier des Etats
TAiS. 1t will amuse our lady readers We
have seen no mention of the fashionable mar.
riage it describes in any of the Philadelphia
papers,
A Marriage in Fashionable Lite For some time
the Jenkins and the Jones, tue Browns and the
Smiths, OF the fashionable world Ia Pbilade,phia
have been telling wonderful stories of marriage
which to be celebrated last week The affi An
ced fortunate stars of the fashionable quarter OF
West Locust Street were to display on this occa-
zion, all the resources of potnp aud elegance
which had already obtained for them distinsu uish
ed rank in gilded society Ii was said, among other
things that from the residence OF the lady to the
Episcopal Church, where the ceremony was 10
take place, the pavement and crossings were to be
covered with rich carpet for the exclusive use OF
the bridal party, and that strong police force,
placed near the Church was to defend the entrance
against all who should present thems without
de OF invitation.
II Mr.. Sanders had any reason to compare e New.
York to Paris, 1t is that IN the Empire City not
more than IN the inteilsctu capital of the modern
world no one troubles himself about the affairs OF
has neighbor. Ii IL Otherwise in Philadelphia in
spite OF the 400 600 inhabitants which the traterpal
city numbers. Ii Is enough that a man, in the
nelghoorhood OF Independent Square, takes it into
bis head TO beat his wife, to put the whole city in
commotion. Figure to yourself, gentle reader the
effect OF the reports put In circulation In regard
to This famous marriage! In passing from mouth to
mouth they had acquired colossal proportions, and
| the general interest was at It's height
| The great day having arrived (the same that Gov
| Bisier had set apart for returning thanks to the
| Great Giver of all our blessines) there was hardly
| young lady in the whole city who did not have
some disposition to employ her leisure moments In
adnring and perhaps criLicising the toilette OF the
| bride. Accordingly long before the hour fixed ior
| the ceremony, there had assembled in the neigh
borhood OF the residence of the bride, a crowd SC
Dense that 1t would have been dangerous to al.
| tempt to pass.
However, the carriages filled with guests arrived
one alter another but in spite of the exertions the
oeths, aud some, tinlid blows of the whips of the
Jthus in white gloves, they found themselves stop
| ped in their course by this living barrier. The
police officers who had distinguished In the crowd
| great number of young ladies, beautiful and
well dressed as those whcGe eyes flaming with an
| GER they perceived within the carriages actuated
by spirit OF gallantry, declared in loud voice
| that it would be imprudent to drive into the
| midst of so many spectators. Behold then the
| guests, who had promised themselves wedding fes
tlyities, obliged to content themselves with casting
looks OF iinpatlence and OF desire upon the bril-"
lianty Illuminated windows of the nuptial mansion
| In the meantime, the bride, surrounded by some
intimate connexions of the family, found herself
| In no less embarrassing situation. 1t was long
| pa;t the hour for the ceremony; but how was she
| 10 effect sortie and, in robes of tue and almos!
| lmperceptible shoes make her way through the
| multitude that blocked up all the avenues to the
| house Alter many consultations which were all
| rejected as impracticable gentleman. stout and
| short and OF a choleric temperament, resolved TO
present himself before the people and to try TO dis
perse the provoking assemblage by the power of bis
| word. The great door opens then, by his orders
| and he appears upon the threshold. His presence
alone suftced to reanimate the interest which toe
| long attendance had nearly extinguished "The
| crowd must dispersep' cried he at the top of his
| voice. Before qaos ago unexpected the men
rent the air with shouts and the women bursts into
peais OF laughter. The little orator, whose irasc
bility Is more and more excited, casts around him
furious looks "If the crowd" continued he, 'does
not disperse-the marriage will take place in the
mouse" A thousand cries of feigned terror were
the response to this menace. "Oh," cried they on
every side, "do not do any such thing What a
terrible misfortune oh that is too cruel Good
Heavens ! What will become of US If the marriage
| should not take place in church Only come OUT,
and we will disperse according to -FOUR commando
However, no one evinced the least disposition to
retire; on the contrary, at 10 o'clock of the
Ing, the crowd was still increafing the guests
snil va1nly endeavoring 10 open passage; the be-
sieged in the house were becoming more and more
perplexed, and the famous carpet was not yet un-
rolled upon the pavement leading to the church.
Report does not say to what expedient they f-
naly resorted to to eXricae themselves from their
embarr sment.