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Show MAY AND DECEMBER. Gcnornl Caasius 31. Clay's Wedding to His Fiftoen-year-old Ward. The only witnesses to the marriage were McClelland Richardson and Dr. Casius Clay Smith, the latter a physician physi-cian of Richmond, Ky. Dr. Smith refused re-fused to say anything abont the wedding, wed-ding, explaining that ho had promised General Clay not to do so. It was learned that the ceremony took place in the sitting room. The bride was not dressed as brides usually are. She wore a plain dark dress, was bareheaded, bare-headed, her long black tresses hanging in an almost disheveled mass down her back. She wore no gloves, had no orange blossoms and carried no brid's roses in her hand. It was a simple ceremony. cere-mony. The girl, who had remained sitting sit-ting until General Clay and the magistrate magis-trate arose, got up from the divan and took her place beside her white headed bridegroom. It was a touching scene. The man who had led admiring thcra-eands thcra-eands in a crusade for human liberty, who in his youth was a perfect Apollo Belvidere in appearauco, if not a Napoleon Na-poleon in the cause of abolition, stood as meekly as a little child, with an expression ex-pression of unspeakable happiness upon his time worn'but still fresh and almost youthful features, and by his side that simple, trusting country girl, as shy bj a gazelle, knowing as littlo of the great world in which her venerable husband had played so conspicuous a part as the most untutored daughter of nature. The ceremony was very brief, and when it was over the bashful child went back to the kitchen, and General Clay and his family physician sat talking by the large open fireplace, in which glowed rvo bushels of burning coals. And thus was celebrated one of the most remarkable weddings that evi took place in the United States. Lot isvillo Courier-JouruaL |