y concerning the relative circulation of the _Herald_
and _Tribune_. The dispute was settled by an impartial committee, and this
committee found that the _Herald_ had a daily circulation of 16,711 to the
_Tribune's_ 11,455, while the _Weekly Herald_ had a circulation of 11,455
to a circulation of 15,780 for the _Weekly Tribune_. On the whole, the
result was a decided victory for Bennett.

His Announcement of His Marriage.

Here is the announcement of his marriage, written by himself and published
in the _Herald_ on June 1, 1840:

To the Readers of the "Herald"--Declaration of Love--Caught
at Last--Going to Be Married--New Movement in Civilization.

I am going to be married in a few days. The weather is so
beautiful--times are getting so good--the prospects of
political and moral reforms so auspicious, that I cannot
resist the divine instincts of honest nature any longer; so
I am going to be married to one of the most splendid women
in intellect, in heart, in soul, in property, in person, in
manner, that I have yet seen in the course of 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 letters of 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 holy rites
of the most holy Catholic 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 very large fortune.

She has no Stonington shares, or 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 on millions, equal to the whole specie of all the
rotten banks in the whole world.

Happily, the patronage of the public to the _Herald_ is
nearly twenty-five thousand dollars 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 associates of female
excellence--the progress of true industry--these have been