Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-13

The WAY QUAKERs MARRY-There was q mar
riage at early hour one morning last week, at the
Friends Meeting House on Fifth street, near John.
Cincinnati of two members of the Society of Friends
The meeting. house filed long before the hour
for the ceremony, by well dressed but laxative Ia
dies, attracted by curiosity, anxious to the
sual method of doing very common thing. These
ladies, however, did not preserve the decorous 81.
lence which becomes any house consecrated to the
worship of God. ard especially house belonging to
q religious denomination with which quiet is so es.
sental part of religion it is with the Friends.
Their hardly subdued whispers were heard like the
peepng of brood of chickens just out of the shell,
during the whole ceremony, with the exception of
the prayer. The males who visitors
respectful. There were but few of the Friends
there in the dress of the denomination, and even
these observed only an approach to unifor nifty Of
cut and color.
After the groom and bride, accompanied by three
groomsmen and bridesmaids had arrived and taken
their seats, there was q long sileuce.
At length an elderly Friend rose and delivered an
exhortation on the solemnity Of the contract which
the young couple were to make, and the necessity
Of reliance upon Divine strength to fit them for the
duties and trials of life.
Then there was another silence which was broken
by one Of the Friends kneeliag and making de.
vout and fervent prayer. During the prayer all but
the one who offered it stood-the men, who during
the rest of the services their hats uncovered.
After the prayer there another interval Of ST.
IenCe AT leHStn tue young couple FOSe ana tue
man, taking the woman's hand. said in a low voice:
In the presence Of God, and this assembly, take
thee to be my wife, promising by Gods grace to be
loving and faithful husband till death parts u.s."
The bride, speaking much louder and more dis.
tinctly than the groom, in the same words nutatis
mutandis took him for her husband
They then signed their names to certificate,
which set forth that the parties had declared their
purpose Of marriage before a monthly meeting of
the Society Of friends and had it approved and had
further in the presence Of the assembly, taken each
other Cor husband and wife, This certificate was
then signed by the friends and relatives of the party
and the ceremony at an end.
The bride and bridesmaid were dressed in plain
but rich white dresses and the groom and grooms-
in black dress coats and pants and white vests
DESTRUCTION OF rHB CRYSTAL PALAcE-The de.
sruction Of the Crystal Palace, yesterday was one
Of the most disastrous conAagrations that New York
has been visited with in a long time. The calamity
has struck every one aghast, for the possibility of
such an event has never been calculated upon. The
peculiar character the building constructed as it
was almost entirely of iron and glass, appeared to
bid defiance to the flames, yet its destruction
more rapid than any building Of wood could posi-
bly, have been; in less than fifteen minutes from
the time the fire was discovered the flames spread with
such fearful rapidity that the immense dome, which
has so long been an object of beauty towering
the City, and landmark from every approach, fell,
and the work of destruction was complete. It was
like fash. The great fabric of glass and iron with
its priceless treasures of art suddenly wiped
out of existence as though they had been mere
substantial vapor. The earth hath bubbles as the
water hath, and this was of them.
At no other time could the disaster have been
more deplorabe in its consequences than the pres.
ent. The building itself, though immensely costly,
was but of secondary importance to the wealth of
objects which it contained. The Thrtieth Annual
Exhibition of the American Institute was at its
hoio md tharo co11action IF Ohiecto orf
and industry whose value could not be represented
in figures. There were models of machinery which
had cost years of toll and study, precious inven-
tions rare gems, exquisite examples of mechanical
ingenuity and skill, and many products of the high
arts There were also cases of splendid jewelry,
Of gold and silver ware of immense value, and innu-
merable objects which never be replaced. The
entire value of the articles destroyed by this terri
BILE fire cannot be accurately estimated but it can
not be less than half million of dollars. As always
happens in such cases, there appeared to be fatal
concurrence of accidents to accelerate the ruin
The fire broke Cut in that part of the building where
there happened to be the greatest quantity of inam
mable materials; the apparatus for extingushing
fires gave out at the moment it was needed, and
there high wind, which sucked the flames up
into the dome and along the galleries, where all
sorts of combustibe articles were placed, as if on
purpose to feed the devouring elements
There were in the building when the alarm of fire
was given some two thousand persons, and the one
consolation to be derived from the great disaster is
that all of this crowd enabled to escape with
out harm. 1t was a miracle that no one was killed
in the sudden collapse of the enormous structure