Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-03-10

On the appointed day she sent TO ms Office
relative, student of law, 10 receive his opinion
This young gentleman, timd and inexperienced
had an immense opinion OF Burrs talents; hst
heard all good and all evil of him; supposed
him to be, at least, the acutest of possible men
He went Burr behaved to him in manner 81
exquisitely pleasing, that, TO this hour, he has
the liveliest recollection OF the scene. No topic
was introduced but such as were familiar ant
interesting to young men. His manners were
such as this age of slangy familiarity cannot sc
much as imagine. The young gentleman went
home to Madame Jurnel only to extol and glorify
him. It.'f
Madame and her party began their journey
revisitng Ballson, WHITTIER in former times
she had been wont to go in a chariot drawn by
eight horses visiting Saretuga, then in the be.
ginning OF its celebrity, where, in exactly ten
minutes after her arrival, the decisive lady
bought house and all that it contained. Return
ing to New York to find that her mansion had
teen despoiled by robbers in her absence, she
lived for while in the city. Colonel Burr call
ed upon the young gentleman who had been
|madame's messenger, and, after their acquant-
ance had ripened, said to him, "Come into my
office can teach you more in a year than you
can learn in ten, in an ordinary way" The
proposition being submitted TO Madame Jumel,
she, anxious for the young mans advancement,
glady and gratefully consented. He entered the
office. Burr kept up close at his books. De
did teach him more IN year than he could have
learned in ten in an ordinary way. Burr lived
then in Jersey City. His office (23 Nassau
street, swaTmed with applicants tor aid, and he
seemed now to have quite lost the power OF re-
ltusing. In no other respects, bodily or mental,
did lie exhibit signs of decrepitude
Some months passed on without his again
meeting Madame Jumel. At the suggestion OF
the student, who telt exceedingly grateful to
Burr Tor the solicitude with which he assisted
his studies, Madame invited Colonel Burr to
dinner. 1t was grand banquet, at which lie
displayed all the charms OF his manner, and
shone to conspicuous advantage. pn handing
to dinner the giver of the feast, he said, II give
you my band, madame; my heart has long been
yours" This was supposed to be merely CON-
pilnent, and was little remarked at the time
Colonel Burr called upon the lady; called fire.
Queutly; became ever warmer in his attentions /;
proposed, at length, and vas refused. He still
piled his suit, however, aud obtained at last, not
the lady's consent, but an undecided NO. Inn
proving his advantage on the Instant, he said, IN
a ocular manner, that he should bring out a
clergyman to Fort Washington on certain day,
and there he would once more solicit her hand.
He was as good as his word. At the time ap-
pointed, he drove out in his gig to the iady's
country residence, accompanied by DIR. bogart,
the very clergyman who, just titty years before,
had married him to the mother OF his Theodosla
The lady was embarrassed, and still refused
But then the scandal And, after all, why not
Her estate needed vigilant guardian, aud the
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she at length consented TO be dressed, and to
receive her visitors. And she was married.
The ceremony was witnessed only by the mem
bers of Madame Julnel's family, and hy the eight
servants of the household, who peered eagerly
in at the doors and windows. The ceremony
over, Mrs Burr ordered supper. Some bins OF
M. Jutnel's wine cellar, that had not been open
I'd for halt century, were laid under contribu
ton The little party was very merry one
The parson, in particular, it is remembered, was
in the highest spiris, overiowing with humor
aud auecdoye. Except for Colonel Burr's great
age (Which was not apparent,) the match seem
ed not an unwise one. Tile lurking tear he had
of being poor and homeless old man was put
t. rest She had companion who had been
ever agreeable, and her estate steward than
whom no one living was supposed to be more
competent.
AS a remarkable circumstance connected with
this marriage, it may be just mentioned that
there was Il woman in New York who had as
pred TO the hand of Col. Burr, and who, when
she heard of his uuion with another, wrung her
hands and shed tears A feeling of that nature
can seldom, since the creation of man, have been
excited by the marriage of man on the verge
OF four score.
A few days after the wedding, the F'happy
pair paid Il visit TO Connecticut, OF which State
y nephew of Col Burr's was then Governor
They were received with attention. At Hart
lord. Burr advised his wife to sell out her shares
lin the bridge over the Connecticut at that place,
and invest the proceeds in real estate. She or
dered them sold. The stock was in demand,
and the shares brought several thousand dollars.
The purchasers offered to pay her the money,
but she said, No; pay it TO my husband" To
him, accordingly, it was paid, apd he had 1t
,ewed up in his pocket, rrodigious bulk, and
throughput to New York, and deposited in his
own bank, to his own credit.
Texas was then beginning to attract the tide
of emigration which, few years later, set so
strongly thther. Burr had always taken great
interest in that country. Persons with whom
he had been variousy connected in life had q
scheme on foot for settling a large colony of
Germans ON a tract of land in Texas A brig
had been chartered, and the project was in q
slate of turwardness, when the possession OF
suin Of money enabled Burrto buy shares in the
enterprise. THE grearer part OF the money
which he brought from Hartford was invested
in this way. 1t proved total loss. The time
had not vet come for emigration to Texas. The
Germans became discouraged aud separated,
and to complete the failure of the scheme, the
title of the lands, in the confusion Of the times,
proved detective Meanwhile, madame, who
was remarkably thrifty woman, with talent
tor the management of property, wondered that
her husband tnade no alusioa to the subject of
the investment; for the Texas speculation had
not been mentioned to her. She caused him to
be questioned ON the subject He begged to in
innate to the lady's messenger that it was no
affair of hers, and requested him to remind the
lady tl,at she now had husband to manage her
affairs, and one who would manage them,
Goodness between the husband and wife was
the result of this colloquy. Then came remon
strances. Then estrapgement. Burr got into
the habit OF remaining at his Office in the city.
| Then partial reconciliation. Full OF schemes
and speculations to the last, without retaining
auy of LIS former ability to operate successfully,
he lost more money, and more, aud more. The
natienee of the lady was exhausted. She filed a
complaint accusing him OF srytdettty, and pray
ing that he might have no more control or au-
Ithonty over her affairs. The accusation is now
known to have been groundess nor, indeed, at
the time was it seriously believed. 1t was used
merely as the most convenient legal mode of de-
priving him of control over her property. at
first he answered the complaint vigorously, but
: afterwards he allowed it to 60 by default, and
proceedings were carried no further. A few
short weeks of happiness, followed by few
months of alternate arrangement and reconcile
alton, and this union, that begun not iaauspi
ciously. was in effect, though never in law, dis