Year: 1877

How James Gordon Bennett, sr., Informed 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, 1840. It created a 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.

 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 suspicious that I cannot resist the divine instinct of honest nature any longer so am going to be married to one of the most splen- did women ill intellect, in heart, in soul, in property, ill person, in manner, that I have yet seen in the course of my in- teresting pilgrimage through human life. * l 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. I must give the world pattern of happy welded life, with all the charities that spring from 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. I 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 ill mind, soul and beauty, mil lions upon millions, equal to the whole specie of all the rotten banks ill 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 of 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 reverential feelings as I 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 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 a 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 I 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.

 MT. Bennett published postscript td the announcement to the effect that unti 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