Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-20
Miscellaneous.
BURa--HIs SECOND MARRIAGE

Jumel resolved Upon taking a carriage tour Ia
the country. Before setting out she wished TO
take legal advice respecting sumo real estate, and
as Colonel Burr's reputation in that department
was pre- eminent, to his OF 90 in Reade stree. she
drove. liz other days he had know her well, and
though many an eyentlul year had passed since
no had seen her, be recognized her at once. lie
received her in his courtlicst manner, compliment
cd her with admirable tact, listened with soft de
ference to her statement. lie was the ideal man
of business confidential, selfpossessed, polite
giving his client tie la:tering impression that the
faculties of his whole soul were concentrated up
ON the affair in hand. She was charmed yet fear
ed him. lie took the papers. named the day
when his opinion would be ready, and handed her
20 her carriage with winning grace. AT seventy
eight years Of age he was still straight, active,
agile, fascinating.
9on the appointed day she sent to his Office a
relative, a student of law, to receive his opinion.
This young gentleman, timid and inexperienced,
had an immense opinion Of Burr's talents had
heard all good and all evil Of him supposed him
20 be, ut least the acutest OF horrible men. lie
went. Burr behaved to him in u manner so ex
ouisitely pleasing, that, to this hour, lac has the
liveliest recollection Of the scene. No topics were
introduced, but such as were familiar and inter-
eating to Young men. His manners were such as
this age Of slangy familiarity cannot so much as
imagine. The young gentleman went home to
Madame Jumel only TO extol and glorliy him.
Madame and her party began their journey,
reyisiting Ballston, whittier in former times, she
had been wont to go in a chariau drawn by eight
horses visiting Saratoga, then in the beginning
of its celebrity, where, in exactly ten minutes after
her arrival, the decisive lady bought a house and
oil it contained.
Returning to New York to End that her man
sion had been ~despoiled by robbers in her absence,
she lived for a while in the city.
Colonel Burr called upon the young gentleman
who had been Madame's messenger, and, alter
their acquaintance had ripened, he said, Come
;,t, INV nfina can teach Won more IN q year
than YOU can learn in ten in an ordinary way.
The proposition being submitted to Madame Ju
mel, she, anxious for the young mans advance
inent, gladly and gratefully consented. lie enter
ed the Office. Burr kept him close at his books.
lie did teach him more in Il year than he could
have learned in ten in an ordinary way. Burr
lived then in Jersey City. His Office (23 Nassau
street, swarmed with applicants for aid, and he
seemed now TO have quite lost the power of retus.
ing. In no other respects, bodily or mental, ala
he exhibit signs Of decrepitude.
Some months passed on without his again meet.
ing with Madame Jumel. AT the suggestion OF
the student, who felt exceedingly grateful to Burr
for the solicitude with which he assisted his stud
les, Madame Jumel invited Colonel Burr to din
ner. 1t was a grand banquet, at which he dis
PLAYED all the charms Of his manner, and shone
TO conspicuous advantage. On handing to din
her the giver Of the feast, he said Il give you
nv haLd, Madame my heart has long been
YOURS" This was supposed to be merely O COM
Dllment, ana was litllC TGulhTheu III tuo tilhe
Colonel Burr called upon the lady called fire.
ouently. became ever warmer in his attentions
proposed, at length. and was refused. lie still
billed his suit, however, and obtained at last, not
the lady's consent, but an undecided NO. I'M
proving his advantage on the instant, he said, IN a
iocular manner, that be should bring out a clergy
man to Fort Washington OIL q certain day, and
there he would once more solicit her hand.
He was as good as his wore. At the time ap-
pointed, he drove out in his gig to the lady's
residence, accompanied by DR.. Bogart, the very
clergyman who, Just fifty years before, married
him to the mother of his The odosia. The lady
was embarrassed and still refused. But then the
scandal And, after all, why not? Her estate
needed a vigilant guardian, and the Old house was
lonely. Alter much hesitation, she at length con
senled to be dressed, and to receive her visitors
And she was married. The ceremony was wit
messed only by the members of Madame Jumeps
family, and by the eight servants of the house
hold, who peereG eagerly in at the doors and WIN
dows. The ceremony was over Mrs. Burr order
ed supper. Some bins of NJ. Jumels wine cellar
that had not becen opened for half a century
were laid under contribution. The little part.
was q yery merry one. The parson in particular
1t is remembered, was in the highest spirits, over
flowing with humor and anecdote. Except 10
Colonel Burr's great age, (which was not appar
emit the match seemed not an unwise one.
2 The lurking fear that he had of being a poo
homeless old man was put to rest. lie had
companion who had ever been agreeable, and Of
her estate a steward, than whom no one liyln
was supposed to he more competent.
As a remarkable circumstance connected Wit
this marriage, it may be just mentioned that ther
was q woman in New York who had asplred
the hand of Colonel Burr, and who, when sh
heard of his union with another wrung her hans
and shed tears! a feeling OF that nature ca
seldom, since the creation Of man, have been e.
cited by the marriage Of a man on the verge
f~ourscore.
Men of seventy'eight have been married befoi
and since. But, probably, never has there bee
another instance of a man of thai age winning
lady Of fortune and distinction, grleVlng anoth'
by his marriage, and exciting suspicious OF lncol
thence against himself by his attentions to
third.
A few days after the wedding, the happy pal
maid q visit to Connecticut, Of which State
nephew of Colonel Burr's was then governor
They we're received with attention. AT Harttor
Burr advised hi: wife to sell out her shares in Il
bridge over the Connecticut at that place, and l
vest the proceeds in real estate. She order
them sold. The stock was in demand, and t
shares brought several thousand dollars. /
purchasers offered TO pay her the money, but 6
said, mo; pay it to my husband" 10 him.
.rcordingly, it was paid, and he had 1T sewed up
his pocket, o prodigious bulk, and brought 1t
New York, and deposited II IN MS own p"nA'
his own credit.
.s Texas was beginning to attract the tide OF Ell
q grafton which, a few years later, set SO stron9
taither. Burr had always taken q great inter
in that country. Persons with whom be b
been variously connected in life had a scheme
foot for settling a large colony of Germans OF
tract of land in Texas. A brig had heen eh
tered, and the project was IN a state OF lorwa
ness. wien the possession Of a sum Of NOR
enabled Burr to buy shares in the entcrpri
The greater part Of the money which he /
brought from Hartford was Invested in this W
Il proved a total loss. The time had not yet co
for emigration to Texas. The Germans beca
failure Of the scheme, the title to the lands in
confusion of the times, proved defective. Meantil
madame who was q remarkably thrifty won
with O talent for the management of proper
wondered that her husband made no allusior
the subject of the investment for the Texas So