The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-16
SECRETARY SEWARD.
His Reported Intended Marriage-The
Bride and Groom TO BE.

Woshfn0ton Correspondence Hartford Post
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-rhe ews is not OF facts
put OF indications. A few weeks intervene
#spout? In the interval all the prophets are out
with horoscopes, telescopes, smoked glass,
Hcaufs, life preservers, dream books, aud other
Things, making regulations by learnedness or
|satisiyiDg their fears.
II it's u deluge hope you will publish news
paper up to date, even TO the entering OF Sey-
Emour and his sons sons into the ark, with all
Hthe creeping things that belong TO them after
their kind. But my ne VS. IS the olher way.
3eaw letter from Charleston editor of charac-
Per to-day, saayine:-"We think 1t looks as blue
|as the devil"
Blue for him is clear weather .or mankind.
His happiness is the British sailors, WHO, COM
Ding bone from foreign cruise in November,
paw the familiar bogs of Kent, aud said:-'None
sof your Id blue skies here!"
MR.. sEwABD's WEDDING.
1t cannot be premature, since a journal which
ought to know the properties OF life so well rs
the New York Tribune has already adverted to
it editorlIly, for me TO speak OF the alleged we'd
ding of Mr. Seward. 1t ls believed around town
<generally that he is to be married within
short time TO Miss Olive Risley, daughter of
Ieither the Assistant Solicitor OF the Treasury or
|of The Deputy Commissioner OF Internal Revenue.
Miss Risley has been familiar friend of Mr.
Seward, a good while the sharer of his car
riaee, the apprecator of his conversation, and,
think, visitor to his house. She was one of
the party OF eXcursionists West year or more
|sgo, and distinguished herself as brilliant aud
u
good aud sensible woman. Her family came
from Cnatauqua county, New York, | have
understood, and If this be true, perhaps Mr..
Seward made the acqaain ance of her family
when resident of that region in 1886, as the
aeent OF the Holland Land Company. Miss
Risley is not above twenty-seven, / should
Nudge. She Is what we call "6ne woman
large in shoulders and figure, with height to
give her carriage, fine large eyes, the features
about the mouth and chin being less delicate,
but altogether she Is perfect physical pre-
sence.
l am only repeating what will probably get to
the public through other mediums before my
letter reaches you that the story goes here to
Within recent period Mrs. Risley, mere, died,
being supplied by Mr.. Seward with his own ply
sican from New York, and otherwise tenderly
treated. She called uD the future groom and
her daughter, and told them that she wished her
death 10 embarrass no wishes which at Auburn
fbey mad entertained. 1t is, therefore, current
|all over Washington that two weeks will not
relapse before the nuptials will be consum-
mated. Mr.. Seward will get an intel.
lectual helpmate equal to the eXpecta-
q fions of his house, and of person and tempera-
ment which young person might be glad TO
possess. His great place at New York is quite
lonely now, Providence having afflicted him in
his family, beyond the lot Of few men, with
wife and daughter at a time when partisan
mal1ce had scarcely enough decency to spare
him alive while he proceeded to their graves
and bis large edfce here demands a matrOn to
preside at its receptions, since pretty little Mrs.
Fred Stewart loves her family more than this
ostentatlous grandeur, and will readily yield her
place. say again, that If any case seems to be
a hard one it is Mr.. Stewards, A social beng,
still with fine. powers of endurance, fond
OF glass of wine, who can ride all
S or three @ mes and talk ' ali the 1ee dstance
write and deliver speech that almost tires
his hearers and stand up in public receptions
from nine to twelve o'clock, and be a versatile
miracle. Weddings of this sort are so far from
being disproportionate, quite the custom in
Europe. The diplomat there never turns gray,
but turns a sort of foxy silver, like Gortschakof,
who grew more foxy and wly capable OF diving
deeper, swimming further, and coming up
oftener he approached one hundred years.
MIR. Seward was born in the year 1901, aud we
hope he will continue amongst US till the year
1893. By that time full justice will have been
This last conquest of our distinguished diplo.
matist is truly an unassisted one, aud q compll.
ment to those rare powers of fascination which
are the admiration of Europe as OF his country
men. The aged soldier-not to speak of the
first Black Republican, othello.-n seemed
to wed. So with the diplomatist, whom we may
admire in his own description of the State
quoted by him in the peroration of his Auburr
speech in 1866, with nothing changed but the
gender:-
go sound his gates gate, with With solemn pOmp
Mark every battlement and see,
II lhere ye miss a stoneW
grieve to quit this subject, as it is SO ex
u
''movess" checkmates, and material matters 1
demonstrates that
"Love rules the camp,
The court, the grove,
For love is heaven,
And heaven is lover
At that rate could quote poetry all day, anC
cite instances of happy state marriages. Th
renowned Lady FRANKLIN, pursuer OF her hus
band into the polar seas, was a second wife, an(
diplomacy that he disappears from our sight, h.
may find his Lady Franklin also. James Madi
con was nearly President before he married
nearer it, think, than is Mr.. seward-an'
Dolly Madison made the most brilliant house
keeper in history. Therefore, In the words O
Robert I. Conrad over General Taylor:-
"weep mt for him The Thracian wisely gave
Tears to the birth couch, triumph 10 the gravel"
Cited TO posterity with Oxensteirn Taleyrand
Richelieu, Cavour, Gortschakof, Metternch
Cornell Jewett, and particularly Palmerston
Awhom he most resembles, we may commit hin
TO Hymen with Hoods most beautiful invoca
tlon:-