The Nevada journal., 1856-10-17
ANDREW JACKSON
To Maj. w. B. Lewis.

ANDREW JACKSON.
To Maj. w. B. Lewis.
True STORY OF OLD BUCKS LOVE-
CAUSE OF HIS BAcHELoRHooD.-T
have been so many improbable versions
given of Old Bucks early disappoint-
ment in love, that the public mind Ii
considerably obfusticated on the subject.
Ex-Mayor Harper wrote very touch
ing and romantic story of the matter,
which Unpublished in his Magazine, and
it only lacked little truth to make it
very pretty little electioneering romance
which might have been the means of
obtaining for one of the attaches of the
Harperian establishment the post of
Consul at Liverpool, in the altogether
unlikely event of Old Bucks election
But Mr.. Buchanan's next friend, the
amiable Forney, who rendered SO i'm.
portant service to our American Ros-
cius, was compelled to deny the truth Of
the Harperian romance in the PeansyI
canian. Ali these circumstances have
induced us to apply to Mr.. Bancroft, the
historian, for infol nation on the subject.
who has kindly permitted US to copy
the following true account from the ten
volumes of the history of America, now
in manuscript! All the reward we ex-
pect Of Old Buck is that he will not Of
fer US a seat in his cabinet.-Neo York
Courier.
"In the year 1856 there happened
very remarkable circumstance in con-
nection with the contest for the Presi-
dency. An old gentleman named Buck
or Buchanan, for the authorities are at
variance as to his name, was nominated
for the post of President in opposition to
the illustrious Fremont, whose career
fills bright page in his country's his
tory. 1t was discovered, after Bucklin's
nomination, that he had never been
married, and as it was in the commepce-
ment of Mormonism, when to remain
unmarried was regarded as an o6ense
against the laws Of society and an In
putation upon the fair sex, an investiga-
ton into the matter was held, which re-
suited in eliciting the true cause Of the
unfortunate Buckley 'sremaining bach
elor. Early in life, when the great
Scott sat on the throne of British litera-
ture, and the Brave Bulwig was prime
minister in the realm of romance, and
| Capt Cooper was commander of the seas
of fiction, Blackstone fell in love with the
daughter of a Dutch grocer, in Chest
nut street, who afterwards broke Bid
dies bank by dashing glass CT hard
cider against the bow window. This so
| al liz, ~ L. Pol1 - I.zl
and being left an orphan with nothing
but lager beer to console her, she took
to reading romance, and requested her
lover, buckingham, as proof of his af-
fection, to bring her a copy of Nicholas
Twist, by Sir Charles Lytton Bulwer
Dickens, then in the height of his pop.
ularity.
Old Buck, who was then, by the way,
quite a young Buck, not having sufi.
cient change about him to buy SO costly
a work, and his friend, Biddle's bank
being bad broke, so that it was quite
impossible for him to negotiate loan,
and the Sub-Treasury not having been
invented, stopped at second hand book
store, and purchased an old copy of Cor
nelius P. Il. Mathews epic poem of Huf-
fer Popkins, thinking that she would not
know the difference. Whereupon she
flung it at his head, which caused him,
all the rest of his life, to have that lop-
sided look which is so striking in his
portraits. This so wrought upon his
feelings that he never told his love, and
she was carried off to Moyamensing
raying maniac Mr.. Poe having written
a poem about her, she was ever after
known as Poe's Raving. Old Buck
swore he would never trust in woman's
love again, and the whole affair was
made into Philadelphia opera, under
the title of Fry's Leonora.
This, we believe is the only true and
authentic story of Old Bucks disappoint-
ment in love; though another high au-
thority, the celebrated Gordon Bennett,
says that Old Buck never loved any
body but himself, and that is the true
reason why he never was married"