The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-13
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private spicy letters to the New York press.

private" spicy letters to the New 1orK press.
| LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF HUMAN LIFE.-In
another column will be found an account Of the
wedding of New Orleans editor to a rich
Southern belle, which, in the parade and circum-
| stance attending it, seems to have been an ur-
usually brilliant and exciting affair. The happy
pair were received at church by an immense
gathering, and on returning to the house of tn,
lady's guardian were similarly welcomed. The
wedding took place between eight and nine in
the evening, and from that time until an sd
vanced hour next morning the festivities were
kept up with unceasing activity. The enter.
talnments provided for the guests, who mum
bered over five hundred, were dancing, fire.
works, concert, poetical and dramati: recita-
tons, and then dancing again until daylight
reminded the company that it was time to sepa-
rate. One Of the features of the evening was tho
employment of colored orchestra instead Of the
fashionable German band usually hired fur
these occasions Another was the omission
rom the caterers list of brandy smashes,
mint juleps and other exciting beverages, which
are apt to stimulate the hot Southern blood to-
indiscretions-uide the Parrish difficulty at
Niblo's theatre. Whether owing to these innovs-
tons, or the general felicity of the arrangements
the evening seems to have passed off with har-
mony, cordially and enjoyment which have left
lasting impression upon the guests.
In sad contrast to the enlvening picture pre-
sented by our correspondents description of this
| event is the communication which follows it,
and which forms one of the depressing but una
voidable transitions to which his duties daily
subject the mind of the journalist. 1t constitutes
another phase of the life of great cities-the
| story Of poor widow lady, who, after being
| swindled out Of the provision left her by her
husband, is now reduced, with her sickly daugh-
! ter, to state of the greatest destitutien and
| misery. If there are abundance of rascals in
the world, there are also benevolenty minded men,
| and this poor woman has had the good fortune
makes on her behalf, through our columns, the
| present earnest appeal.
Such is life. The sky which opens 80 brightly
! for the young bride to-day, may at any moment
be overcast with the clouds which darken the
future of the poor widow. Such, too, is the task
of the journalist: ct one time called upon to re-
cord happiness to which there seems no imit-at
another to chronicle despair which knows no
relief but death. But truce to such reHec-
tions. They belong rather to the pulpit than to
| the province to which our labors are confined
In the way of wedding festivities we shall soon
! be able to show our New Orleans friends that we
do up these matters in a style that, without
meaning any disrespect to them, no merely
provincial city can pretend to. We are en-
tering upon the fashionable hymenial season,
when the marriages of milionaires become
affairs of daily occurrence with u.s. and
when we can rush from house to house to inspect
| corbeles that would outfit dozen expresses.
Our New Orleans correspondent may sneer at
Sexton Brown; but what would newly made
princesses be without their chamberlains to re-
concile the conflicting interests of the old and
new regimes. Without Brown fashionable life in
New York would be impossible; for does he not
borrow the spoons, as well as ensure the atten-
dance Of the fHe including the polyglot counts,
the dashing Zouaves, and the foreign decorss who
vegetate in this neither world of ours.
In two or three weeks the first of these great
events will come off here, and will, it is affirmed,
cast into the shade all Browns previous efforts.
! The rich Cuban, worth we don't know how
many Millions who has fixed his affections on
one Of the most beautiful and attractive of our
| New York belles-the daughter of retired
officer of the Navy-claims within that period
the hand that she has promised him. The sums
spent on the bridal presents and trousssau would,
it is said, make dowry for an Austrian Arch
duchess The festivities by which the event is
| to be celebrated will of course be commensu-
rate with the wealth and extensive connections
| of the parties. If, in the intoxcation of the
good fortune and happiness in store for them,
the appeal of the poor widow should meet their
eyes and elicit favorable response, perhaps that
act of opportune benevolence will, when the
orange blossom has turned to ashes, prove one
of the most fragrant souvenirs of their marriage
| day.