The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-28
n PERSONAL Sensntion-JamesG Gordon
Bennett's Marriage.

Mr. Maverick, in his life of Henry r
Raymond, reproduces the following. which
appeared in the leading column of the
HeraId on the lst day of June, 1910, un.
der flaming caption:
"T0 THE READERS OF THE HKRALD-pEc1,A A.
RATION OF LovE-CAUGHT AT LAST
GOING TO BE MARRIED-NEw MOVEMENT
IN CIVILIZATION.
81 am going to be married in few days,
the weather is so beautiful; times are get.
ting so good 4; the prospects of political and
moral reform so auspicious, that I cannot
resist the divine instinct of honest nature
any longer 30 am going to be married to
one of the most splendid women in intel
lect, in heart, in soul, in property, in per.
son, in manner, that have yet seen in the
course Of myinteresting pilgrimage through
human life.
81 cannot stop in my career
| am to fulfil that awful destiny which the
Almighty Father has written against my
name, in the broad letters of life, against
tho wall Of Heaven. must give the world
a pattern of happy welded life, with all
the charities that spring from nuptial
love. In few days I shall be married &C.
cording to the most holy rites of the Chris
tian Church to one of the most remarkable,
accomplished, and beautiful young women
of the age. sought and found fortune
very large fortune. She has no Stoning-
ton shares of Manhattan stock, but in pu-
rity and uprightness she is worth half O
million in pure coin. Can any swindling
bank show as much? In good sense and
elegance another half million; in soul
mind, and beauty, millions-equal to the
whole specie of oil the rotten banks in the
world. Happily, the patronage of the
public to the Uerald is nearly $50, 600 pei
annum, almost equal to Presidents sala-
~. But property in the worlds goods was
never my object. Fame, public good, use,
fulncss in nv day and generation; the re-
ligious associations Of female excellence
the progress of true industry; these have
been my dreams by night and my desires
by day. 49,.
"In the new and holy condition into
which / am about to enter with the same
reverential feelings as l would Heaven it
self, | anticipate some signal changes IL
my feelings, in my views, in my purposes
in my pursuits. What they may be know
| uOt-tilllc tSlis uANSoe w
sires have been through life to reach th'
highest order of human excellence by TIT
shortest possible cut. Association, nigh
and day, in sickness and in health, in wal
and in peace, with woman of this highes
order of excellence, must produce some GU
rious results in my heart and feelings, snt
these results the future will develop in th'
columns of the Herald.
Meantime return my heartfelt thank
for the enthusiastic patronage OF the pub
lie, both of Europe and America. The hol.
state of matrimony will only increase m.
desire to be still more useful. God AL
mighty bless you all.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT"
In the postscript of this announcement
Bennett gives notice that he shall have n
time to waste upon the editers who attacked
him "until after marriage and the honey
moon"
On the Sth of June, l840, the marriag
was announced at the head of the editoria
columns of the Herald as follows:
MARRIED.,
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