True American

Marriage of Senator Douglas.

Washington, Nov. 20th, 1856.—Our Thanksgiving today was signalized, at 2 o'clock, by the marriage of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, to Miss Adele Cutts of Washington, after which the marriage couple took the cars for their future residence in Chicago.

The bride was accompanied to the altar by several bridesmaids; but the Senator, being a widower, went alone. Only a few of his personal friends, including General Shields and Senator Slidell, were present. The marriage ceremony was performed by Father Byrne of the Roman Catholic Church, in the religion of which the bride was educated, at the Georgetown Nunnery. Senator Douglas himself is not known to have decided leanings towards any religious faith, though some of his friends draw a favorable inference from his recent land donation to a Baptist College in Chicago. In the matter of age and beauty there is a wide difference. Miss Cutts is tall, elegantly formed, with a sweet countenance, large oval face, large brown eyes, small Grecian forehead around which are entwined the heavy braids of her glossy and abundant chestnut hair. On her clear peachy complexion there is a perpetual war of the roses—the red and the white—each failing to maintain a sole supremacy. Altogether her tout ensemble, as the flunkeys say, fully vindicates the good taste of the "Little Giant."

Miss Cutts may be twenty-two years of age. She is a contemporary and member of the circle of belles, now all married off, including Adelaide Smith, Florence Greenhow, and others, who once formed a great attraction at the receptions and balls of Washington. Her father, James Madison Cutts, an officer in one of the Departments at Washington, is a nephew of Mr. President Madison, and enjoyed considerable intimacy with his uncle, in whose family he resided. In politics he is an old line Whig, though not long since he volunteered a communication in the Union, testifying to the good opinion which President Madison held of Mr. Buchanan. He is a gentlemanly, quiet man and much liked in Washington society.

As for Mr. Douglas everybody ought to be familiar with his antecedents and appearance. In point of years, he has decidedly the advantage of his bride, being about twice as old. In person he is short and stocky, a sort of truncated giant whence his well known designation. He has a red, somewhat ruddy face, large features, the nose being rather retroussé, but still with an expression indicating rather a rude, unrefined nature, and an imperious energy, than any settled meanness or malignity of disposition. In truth, I think him a very good natured pleasant man, individually. He is perfectly willing, after abusing or being abused in the most violent manner, to extend the right hand of fellowship to his enemy, though his political hostility is unrelenting.

He is said to be worth at least one hundred thousand dollars, the result of fortunate speculation in Chicago lots, aside from the property, mostly in Louisiana plantations, left for his two little boys by his first wife. While at Washington he lives in a handsome, old fashioned stuccoed house in the outskirts of the city, together with a sister who, with her husband, superintended his domestic affairs.—Correspondent of the Evening Post.