BENNETT’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS MARRIAGE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 248, 25 July 1872, Page 3

BENNETT’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS MARRIAGE.

(From the New York Herald of June, * 1840.) To the Readers of the Herahl—Declaration of Love—Caught at Last—Going to be Married—New Movement in Civilisation. I am going to be married in a few days. The weather is so beautiful, times arc getting so good, the prospects of political and.moral reform so auspicious, that I cannot resist the divine instinct of honest nature any louger, so I am going to be married to one of the most splendid women iri intellect, in heart, in soul, in property, in person, in manner, that I have yet seen during my interesting pilgrimage through human life. I cannot stop in my career. I must fulfil that awful destiny which the Almighty Father has written against my name in the broad letterssrof life, against the wall of Heaven. I must give the world a pattern of happy wedded life, with all the charities that spring from a nuptial love. In a few days I shall be married, according to the most holy rites of the most holy Christian Church, to one of the most remarkable, accomplished, and beautiful young women of the age. She possesses a fortune. I sought and found a fortune —a large fortune. She has no Stonington shares of Manhattan stock, but in purity and uprightness she is worth half a million of pure coin. Can any swindling bank show as much ? In good sense and elegance another half a million ; in soul, mind, and beauty, millions of 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 25,000 dels per annum, almost equal to a President’s salary. But property in the world’s 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 inv desire by day. In the new and holy condition in which I am about to enter and to enter with the same reverential feelings as I would heaven itself, I anti-, pate some signal change in my feelings, in my views, in my purposes, in my pursuits. What they may be I know not—time alone can tell. My ardent desire has been tlnough life to reach the highest order of human excellence'by the shortest possible cut. Associated night and day, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, with a woman of this highest order of excellence, must produce some curious results in my heart and feelings, and those results the future will develop in due time in the columns of the Herald. Meanwhile I return my heartfelt thanks for the enthusiastic patronage of the public, both of Europe and America. The holy estate of wedlock will only increase my desire to be still more useful. God Almighty bless you all. James Gordon Bennett. In the postscript to this-announcement, Mr Bennett gives notice that lie shall have :: i time to waste upon editors who attack him “ until after marriage and the honeymoon.” On the Bth of June, 1840, the marriage was auuo-inced at the head of the editorial columns of the Herald , as follows :—“ Married. On Saturday afternoon, the 6th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Powers, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, in Barclav-street, James Gordon Bennett, proprietor and editor of the New York Herald , to Henrietta Agnes Cream What may be the effects of this event on the great newspaper contest now raging in New York, time alone can show.”