Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-08
a GOLDEN WEDDING.
New York Tribune, March 9th.

I new oEK tribune MarCn 24tn.
In an old parlor in Tarrytown "a
quiet Pennsylvania village), there still
hangs portrait by InBean of Rachel
Carey, of whom the artist said hers
/ was the most rare and fine face he had
ever seen. In the village, however,
she was not regarded as so handsome a
woman as the Squirrels daughter, whose
eyes were black as slOes, and whose
cheeks were like spice pinks. The
Careys, too, being near kinsfolk OF
Thomas Jefferson, were held to be of
better blood than their neighbors, and
were paid homage IS only inferior
classes in a village know how to yield
Difference to the Brahmins among them.
Her mother took Rachel to the sewing
bees and "tea-assemblies" of the coun-
tryside, but only the young men of GER
tain families presumed to ask her hand
in dance. The Careys were not rich.
1t required a good deal of saving to
spoons of each kind which were to be
part of her wedding outfit; for, as was
customary, as soon as the girl was born
this outfit took its place in the family
plans. Madam Carey put aside her
lace cuffs, and emeralds set in guinea
gold, and as soon as Rachel was fifteen,
being then a most expert needle
woman, webs of fine homespun linen
were given her which she embroidered
and made up into underclothing for
the time when she should be n bride.
There were no balls, no lectures, no
morning paper then with its record of
news and crime to furnish her with
thought; and when we remember how
much Of her youth was spent in quiet
sewing and in pure sweet maidenly
fancies of her lifes to come, we do not
wonder that when marriage came At
last she was most true wife and ten
der mother.
1t was, however, usual for women to
be so then. She was Just eighteen
when Israel NewbOld asked her in mar
riage; young counsellOr-at-law, of
good family, and to whose credit was
known that he had been approached
by Burr (while he was in Western
Pennsylvania, and had Indignantly
refused him his aid or that of his fam
lily. The young people saw each other
only in the presence. of others; their
letters were studied and formal; the
engagement was kept secret, as was the
custom. But love was as strong and
fiery then IS now, and burned all the
clearer because hidden under modest
reserve. One can but envy them the
delicious thrill of their sacred Sc ret
when their hands touched in the state
ly quadrille or their eyes told the
sweet unspoken story. When Jack
and Belle, having flirted with and
kissed half a dozen other girls aRd men,
engage themselves nowadays between
the pauscs in the waltz and HE away
together next morning TO announce
the fact to all their acquaintance, the
story does not seem sweet at all. Isra-
el and Rachel we're married on Easter,
1920, and Israel took his bride to Phil
adelphia spending a month in crossing
the mountain, where many assemblies
were given in her honor. Mr.. Jeffe 2
son met her there and wrote to her IA
Their: MY young kinswoman is shy as
a doe, but she has a ready and delicate
wit when alone with q friend She
never conquered this shyness; when
We knew her the pink blush would rise
to her wTinkled checks If she was
forced TO speak before strangers. Her
beauty was then 50 marvellous that
crowds followed her coach in the
streets, to the great wrath of her young
husband, who had no mind to make his
rose common property; much indigna-
ton, too, was expressed by her friends
ia the city when it was found that GER
tain engravers had stolen a copy of her
portrait for insertion in a book of the
Year.
Israel Newbold became a judge, and
never left the quiet country neighbor-
hood. He was a stern man, who lived
long enough to grow cynical with a
time which rewarded cheating and i'm
pudence rather than integrity and hon
or. His wife concerned herself very
little with the times. She had q fam-
lily of eleven children, and controlled
a household of many servants. In it
was carried on the business of a farm,
weaving, dairy work, the making of
clothes for the whole family. She per-
sonally superintendent not only all
these works, and the storing away of
provisions, fruits, meats, and herbs,