The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-15
PERSONAL ITEMS.

The lOng-talked-Of marriage between Mr..
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Alice
Gwynne, took place in New York on Monday,
February 4. Long before the hour announced
for the wedding-l o'cleck-the Church of the
Incarnation was thronged by the beauty,
wealth, and fashion of the city Seldom have
we seen a more crowded church. Every avail
able inch of room was crowded by fashion
ably dressed ladies and gentlemen. The scene
from the gallery was very gay. The sun,
shining through the colOred glass windows,
shed a sort of hazy light over the whole
church, the many brilliant colors worn by
the ladies, and the incessant hum of voices,
made it seem more like public matinee
rather than a fashionable wedding. About
half-past ! o'clock the bursting forth of the
music and the rising of the assemblage an
nounced the arrival of the bridal party The
trains of the bridesmaids dresses were so long
that one couple had to wait at the door until
the other had gone some distance up the aisle.
The bride wore an elegant white satin, with
point lace peplums, and tulle veil. The brides
maids five i'll number, Misses Sherman,
Gwynne, Vanderbilt, Adams, and Thompson,
wore white tarletan, with very long trains.
The hair was dressed very high, and orna-
mented with a wreath of white momingglo-
ries, with green leaves, which went once
around the chigROR, and hung below the waist.
They were imported from Paris, for the occa-
sion, as was also the entire bridal trouSSedu
which was very handsome. The reception,
which took place on the same afternoon, at the
residence of the brides parents, No. "a West
Thirty-third street, was a very brilliant affair.
Mr.. William H led the German" and
introduced the popular ball figure. The brides
presents were many, and very costly and
elegant. Altogether, it was a most brilliant
affair, and, the parties being wealthy and of
the first society, it created a great sensation,
and flutter in the fashionable world.
Madame Anna Bishop has written letter
from Hong Kong to Mr.. Henry C. Watson. the
musical critic, from which we Gull one or two
interesting facts. She says:-'I am glad am
able to send you photograph (tallen from a
sketch by Lascelles) of our preparations for
departure from the outlet of the island, and
the boat in which we were packed, and in
which we made the wonderful passage of four
teen hundred miles I'M thirteen days not
moving scarcely from our position in the boat
The shock is still too vivid for me to dwell Oh
the subject. / 60 soon to Macao and Canton
return here, and leave for Singapore, Batavia,
Calcutta, and hope soon to be among my kind
friends in America. We have not a note of
music. All lost"
Mr.. George Perry and Mr.. J. H. Elliot have
become associated with Mr. Morris Phillips as
editors and propretors of the New York Home
Journal. They have both been contributors to
its pages for many years; Mr.. Perry as literary
and art crluc, ana more recently as one of the
editorial staff, and Mr.. Elliot as a contributor
of poetry, essays, sketches, etc. The addi-
tional strength thus introduced is indicated in
the announcement that the Home Journal will
soon be enlarged
1t is reported from Madrid that the Duke
and Duchess of Montpensier have been ordered
by the Queen to leave Spain before the end of
the present month and from Seville we hear
that their royal highnesses are preparing to
leave for England. They will hereafter live at
Richmond, near London. Queen Isabella has
banshed some of the first civilians of her king
dom and now shows her impartiality by
striking at the princes.
Mr. James Wick one of the ablest iOurna
lists of Northern New York, has left the edi
torial tripod, and gone into the flower, fruit
and vegetable growing and seed business al
Rochester. He is now the most extensive
florist in the world, and is a prominent candi
date for the position of Commissioner of Agri
culture at Washington. He says he prefers
the flowers OF nature to those of rhetoric
Secretary McCulloch has appointed S
johnson, a colored man, to a regular first-clas
cleTkship in the Treasury Department a
Washington. Mr. Johnson is the first coloreC
man who has occupied a clerkship in any 0
the Government departments. He was a sol
dier in the late war.
The Emperor Napoleon has sent to tn,
Prefect of Police, the sum of fifty Thousand
francs to be distributed among the most necessi
tous families in the capital