Year: 1877

How james Gordon Bcnnctt, ST., IhlOrUcu
the Public Of His Approaching Marriage.


The following is the announcement Of
the intended marriage of the senior
James Gordon Bennett as published by
him in the Herald in June, 1S4O. 1t
created sensation when it was pub
lished:


TO THE READERS OF THE HERALD-DEC-


LARATIoN OF LovE-CAUGHT AT LAST


GOING TO BE MARRIED-NEw MOVEMENT


IN CIVILIZATION.


I am going to be married in few
days. The weather is so beautiful times
are getting so good the prospects of
political and moral reform so auspicious
that I cannot resist the divine instinct OF
honest nature any longer so l am going
to be married to one of the most splen-
did women in intellect, in heart, in soul,
in property, in person, in manner, that
I have vet seen in the course of my in
teresting pilgrimage through human life.
= I cannot stop in my career. l
must fulfill that awful destiny which the
Almighty Father has written against my
name, in the broad letters of life against
the wall of heaven. l must give the
world pattern of happy welded life,
with all the charities that spring from a
nuptial love. In few days shall be
married according to the holy rites of
the most holy Christian church to one
of the most remarkable, accomplished
and beautiful young women OF the age.
She possesses fortune. sought and
found fortune-a large fortune. She
has no Stonington shares or Manhattan
stock, but in purity and unrightness she
is worth half million of pure coin. Can
any swindling bank show as much ? In
good sense and elegance another half
million in mind, soul and beauty, mil
lions upon millions, equal to the whole
specie of all the rotten banks in the world.
Happily, the patronage of the public to
the Herald is nearly $25, 900 per annum,
almost equal to a Presidents salary.
But property in the worlds goods was
never my object. Fame, public good,
usefulness in my day and generation, the
religious associations of female excellence,
the progress cf true industry-these
have been my dreams by night and my
desire by day.


In the new and holy condition into
which I am about to enter, and
to enter with the same reverentlal
feelings as / would heaven itself,
I anticipate some signal changes in
my feelings, in my views, in my dur
poses, in my pursuits. What they may
be I know not-time alone can tell. My
ardent desire has been through life to
reach the highest order of human excel
lence by the shortest possible cut.
Associated, night and day, in sickness
and in health, in war and in peace, with
woman of the highest order of excel
lence, must produce some curious re-
suits in my heart and feelings, and these
results the future will develop in due
time in the columns of the Herald.


Meantime / return my heartfelt thanks
for the enthusiastic patronage OF the
public, both of Europe and America.
The holy estate of wedlock will only in
crease my desire to be still more useful.
God Almighty bless you all.


JAMES GORDON BENNETT.


Mr.. Bennett published postscript to
the announcement to the effect that until
after his marriage and honeymoon he
would have no time to waste in replying
to the attacks of rival editors, and two
days after the wedding the event was
noticed as follows at the head of the edi-
torial columns of the paper:


MARRIED,


On Saturday afternoon, the sixth inst
by the Rev. DR.. Power, of ST. Peters
Catholic church, in Barclay street, James
Gordon Bennett, the proprietor and
editor of the New York Herald, to Henri
eta Agnes Cream. What may be the
effect of this event on the great newspa-
per contest now waging in New York