New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-12
GOSSIP.

GOSSIP.
Newspapers make villages Of the cities, ana
the magnetic telegraph contracts continents to
the limits of tea-table. The Trustworthy, well.
Informed and talented correspondents of the
country press who date their valuable weekly
letters from this City, though they may not
draw upon imagination for their facts are
certainly obliged to detail me- occurrences
TO secure the requisite spice, which escape the
attention Of other metropolitan observers, or,
at least, are not deemed worthy Of type. The
beer which they chronicle may not be small;
bet it Ia often drawn from private and personal
taps and with small regard for the sanctiies OF
domestic lite. Vow far the intelligence thus
communicated may be of public importance,
we, who find it no easy task to determine IN our
own business, will not undertake to decide IN
regard TO the business of Others. II may be
necessary and profitable for instance, for all
the world to know of an event which it is stated
has recently convulsed the topmost ten thousand
Of New-York-the clandestine marriage of
"A minister of sixty years Of age, high in
the Church. of unmpeachable private
character, to a maiden Of ago not
stated, rich and fashionable maiden of Paris
ian polish ma len Of most excellent family
Gas families GOETHE minister Of sixty years Of
age having grand.chdren-the family of the
b-idc being transported with indgnation-the
match in every ws7 being unsuitable. As cor
respondent declares, with a little moral groan-
nobody, not even " the officers. Of the church"
being pleased, if We except the happy pair
whose wishes, tastes and pleasures in the
premises, are not supposed to be Of the slightest
consequence. Correspondent, who knows
everything, informs us that the parents are
highly "indignant;" and he concludes by
pointing ont the hotel which has been llumin-
ated by the honeymoon; though he does not,
which is a singular OMISSION give us the name
of the popular and gentlemanly landlord who
has kindly afforded the new pair shelter from
the eyes of curious world and the Indignation
of "a very rich and fashionable family who
live in great STYLE" Correspondent, by this
neglect to name popular and gentlemanly land
lord, has probably lost bottle Of the best wine
in the cellars of tho "small hotel on the
Avenue"
We tell the story as we find it, carefully
avoiding names and guesses, and not desiring
to add to the modification Of persons who had
done us and the world no harm, and who have
a perfect right to be married without being made
the subjects Of all this gratutous tittle-tattlc.
This is marrying world-gallant grooms are
leading blushing brides to the altar every hour
of the day, and tuns of bridal cake will be baked,
Will be cut, will be eaten, while we are penDing
this article. How these victims appeared on
the great occasion-what fee they gave the
clergyman Il how much the lace cost how
much was expended for flowers and wine-what
presents the swain bestowed upon his beloved
is simply none of our business. 1t is our bust
ness to collect Of the parties few shillings If
they wish to advertise their rapture i'll our
columns. 1t is our business, if they are married
under circumstances of notorious and scandal
Gus immortality, to make those statements which
a regard for the public welfare and the honor Of
matrimony may require. IT is our business If
they have made a prominent and Haunting
pdTduc VI tuc ccichoH1, W hoeiSo ~ 10 "O
would notice ship-launch, or parade Of the
militia. But it is not our business to tell what
they had for dinner on the happy day, nor to
publish to the world their estimates of future
housekeeping expenditure.
There is in almost every village some old
woman, or some young one, or some weak
headed and laxative male-we will not say
man-who makes it q business, first to pry into
the affairs of the neghborhoOd, and then to
publish them with nimble and tircless tongue.
The world, weary, indignant, outraged, or sim
ply bored, has decided upon the social standing
of these two-legged gazettes-it has voted them
to be moral nuisances, which 1t may be imposs-
bic to abate, either by contemptnous silence or
well-leigned deafness, or even by open rebuke.
Still will they continue to chatter, to peep, to
sumise, to dstort, to invent, to insnuate.
There is not clergyman in the whole country
who has not been embarrassed, and, unless his
temper be uncommonly sweet, has not been ex
ssperated, by the mischief which these meddlGs
have made in his congregation. There is not a