Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-29
Fashionable Wedding.

Our New York exchanges of Friday, give
the following account of what is called the
most fashionable and aristocratc wedding
which has taken place in New York for sew
eral years. We extract the following from
the Journal of Commerce, which gives the
! most modest account Of the great affair:
The marriage of the Cuban millionaire
Scnor Oviedo, with Miss BARTLETT, daughter
of Capt. Bartlett, late of the U. S. Navy,
took place yesterday at st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral and the high anticipatious of the fash
i0nao;c world were more than satisfied
From III to II the venerable cdiiice was be-
sicgcd 10y q throng of the wealthicSt metro
poitans, and it was with the utmost difficulty
that the police could keep an opening III the
streets for the constant stream Of splendid
carriages, bearing their burdens of beauty
and fashion to the wedding fcte. About 100
tickets of invitation had been issued. and
long before noon thc vast cathedral was
crowded, and hundreds cf a;,:;.lsts were cxclu-
ded for want of standing room, and so were
compelled to form part of the undistinguishcd
lhrong Of citizens who packed the sidewalks
for squares around, and testified their inter
est i'll the occasion by loudly cheering the
bride and groom, and their accompanying
party of six bridesmaids and six groomsmcn,
rs they drove up to the church door The
ceremonies were conducted hy Archbishop
lIughcs with all the Splendor Of the Roman
Catholic ritual and, at their conclusion, the
Archbishop made q brief personal address
to the happy couple, in which he alluded to
the sancity OF tic marriage tic, to the repre-
hcnsibc facility with which divorces are OBJ
tancd, and to tic impossibility of what is
called II double marriagc--onc solcmnizcd
by the Protestant and Catholic priesthood in
succession. The latter observation was con.
strucd by those who heard it, to q manifesto
in behalf of the exclusive marriages of the
Roman Cnthclich Church in cases where las
in the one under notice. one of the contract
ing parties is Catholic aud the othera Prot
cStant. The bride presented q fine appear
ancc at the altar. After the ceremony. the
newly welded pair and their friends left the
Cathedral amid tho cheers of the outsiders,
and proceeded to the residence of the brides
parents in 18th street, where there was u
grand jam of congratulation until 3 p. m.
The bridal presents were superb. Those for
the groom, in the shape of jewels alone, were
valued at S35 900.
The brilemaids, six in number were
clothed two in white. two in blue, and two in
cherry-colorcd Tarleton dresses with double
skirts. The dress of the bride cost over fvo
thousand dollars, the lace and voil costing
over four thousand The dresses of tho
bridesmaids cost about ono hundred dollars
each.
ALMOST TRuE-Somebody, speaking
of the hurrying propcnstics of the Yam
KEGS, says; " If big mortar could be
constructed, which would throw an i'm
mcnse bomb shell, containing fifteen pas
scngers, from ST. Louis to Boston, in five
minutes, with an absolute certainty that
fourteen would be killed by the explosion,
tickets for seats by the " Express Bomb
Shell Line" would at once be at o prenii-
um, each passenger being anxious for the
chance to prove hilnsclf the lucky ff.
tcCnth,'