The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-29
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+ ruling house OF Grant upon the glory which
stone around it yesterday in the success
full engrafting of one of its branches an an
ancient English house. We hope that Mrs.
Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris will
be rs happy during her future life as she
bas been during the years that have already
passed over her head ; for she is reputed
TO be a very gcnteel and sensible girl and
certainly since her family has emerged
from its Galena obscurity, she has had a
very plerssnt time of it at the capital and
roaming over Europe and before that
time, when her sire subSisted on the char
ty of his brother Orville, she was doubt
less too young to DC greatly disturbed by
the family tribulations. We sincerely hope
she VIII find her AlgernOn to be all that
she now thinks him to be but we confess
TO some doubts about the matter. We do
not trust these bloody Englishmen -
they are queer creatures, even the best of
them, and are subject to strange vagaries,
especially in regard to women. We think
of Dickens and his treatment OF his wife
| Then BluebeaId was an Englishman, and
most of the other horrible husbands that
nursery history tells of. Gazing upon the
81, 800 set of Silverware presented to Miss
Nellie by MesSrs. Drexel & Childs, pro-
prietors of the Philadelphia Ledger, which
was placed in Chestnut street window
for exhibition, we inwardly brcathed a
I tLaN lACg never pt uiNcIIGu
from their legitimate use upon the break
fast table and be converted into missiles :;
for we have heard of such things. Mr.. A.
/. Stewart, who was also one of the
guests, was more discreet and gave the
bride softer fabric out of his own stock
of dry goods-a big $500 lace pocket
handkerchief Miss Drexel, displaying an
bounded confidence in the ainiability of
/ Sartoris, contributed to the housetire
sill foul
I parents selected the guests with care !:
they were all able 20 make valuable pres
euts.
The President, it is reported, gave his
daughter a check for $4,000 and may
have had several good reasons for putting
his gift III this form. 1t is choice form
with unSentimental parents and also with
impecunious ones with the latter because
1t looks SO well, is SO easily written-and
so readily torn up when the guests are
gone aud an examination of the bank
book shows the account to be short. We
do not of course include our revered Chief
Magistrate among those whose bank ac-
counts are habitually lean, for everybody
knows that it was the merest accident in
the world that he had overdrawn his ac-
count with the First National Bank of
/ Washington, when that too we'll Cooked
/ institution closed its doors. 4 gentleman
! who enjoys salary of $4,000 and has
houses and lands of great value at Long
| Branch, St. Louis, Philadelphia and else
/ where, besides bonds and stocks to n large
amount, given to him by grateful people,
and interests in stone-quarrieS and other
valuable business enterprises Of like char
acter given to him by the grateful quarri-
ers, so wealthy a gentleman as this. we
would not suspect of perpetrating so sour
( Wy joke upon his daughter as TO give to
her worthless check and we Indignant
( ly repel, as utterly unworthy of belief, the
intimation that S,rtoris had his father-in-
laws check certified before he left Waah-
I ington on the noon train.
In accomplishing this marriage the head
of the house of Grant deserves well of his
country. He has set good example to all
/ the fathers in the land, and has shown
/ himself to be as great in conquering hus-
bands as i'll overcoming rebels. He has
! taken good care of his gentle daughter, as
| it was right that he should do He was
unwilling that she should encounter the
I troubles which attend the none yless, and
of which he had such a woeful experience
! at the period of his life intermediate be-
/ tween his forced retirement from the army
/ and his rc-entrance into it at the outbreak
/ of the war. He relentlessly refused to
permit his fair daughter to marry her Al
| gernon when he was poor but cheerfully
| hardened unto her prayers when the elder
brother considerably died and made ber
suitor the heir of the ancestral acres
Love in a cottage may now be considered
to be, in this country under the ban of Of
! fetal disapprOval; and every parent will
understand that he will have failed of do
| ing his whole duty by his charming daugh-
| ter If he permits her to marry a gay and
handsome fellow just suited to her mind if
/ he is not also rich.
/ 1t gives US the EXTREMIST pleasure to see
how prosperOusly the bright and amiabie
daughter of our President sails forth on
her career of married life and to know how
comfortably she is going to be made on her
sail across the ocean. The captain of the
vessel has given up his cabin for her bou-
dorr it contains but one bed, and that is
a sofa bed that no one would suspect OF
being a couch then it has looking glass
and liqucur racks and chandeliers and ever
SO many nice things, and ''the roof is fret
ted gold,' or at least painted in the shni-
est china gloss, and gilded so as to look like
that gold which her husband so luckily in
herited, and without which the happiness
of the young couple had not been.
We greatly fear, however, that when ouI
young Princess gets to England, complica-
tions will arise which diplomacy may not
be able to settle, and that may necessitate
a war or becoming an empire, in order tC
arrange the difficulty. The question that
troubles us Is, whether it BELTS our dignity
as 4 nation that the daughter of our Pres
dent should give precedence to any woman
in England. The same difficulty has ariser
between Russia and England, for the Czal
is not willing that his daughter, who mar
ried the Duke of Edinburg, should yielC
precedence to the Princess of Wales. whC
is only the daughter of the King of Den
mark. To pacify MIN, the Queen has of
fered her youngest daughter as bride tx
his son Alexis but the Car and his son
protesting their high appreciation of the
value of the peace offering, decline The
sacrifice and we are waiting to heal
whether they are going to war about 1t.
TO placate America, Queen Victori;
would doubtless offer her rejected daughte
to Colonel Frederick Grant, provided W.
consent to change our republic into a king
dom and make Ulysses its head. Tn,
young man would doubtless be willing anC
so would his sire, who is accused of hav
ing aspirations that way, and to be aiming
at third term of the Presidency, with
view to making it hereditary in his family