Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-02-20

4 lawyers "reminiscences OF Burr.
To the Editors Of tile Neto York Eoeniag
Post:
! am member OF the New York bar; and,
ABOUT twenty years ago. my practice was
principally IN Chancery. Col Aaron Burr
sought mo out-empioyed me to draw plead
ingS and tC move matters before the then
Chancellor; our very nicety and particularly
appeared TO please him. for he was choice in
expressions aud particular in the position OF
sentences. lie wanted me to become his
partner; bat judicious friends strongly urged
me agaiust IT, lie was always sensitive and
prompt in paying my fees.
On my first being closeted with him, / was
struck with his serpent-like fascination. Ills
mead, eyes and mouth were 50 very snGke-!ike.
i!lS habit IN talking to you while lie sat nj u
distance, was TO have one of his long fingers
rXtehGeo, with which lie really seemed to be
feeling you all over, while his remarkably
piercing small dark eye appeared TO have u
! nal III II that fastened you. lie aiWays had
/ queer people about him, whose free manners
were strange contrast 10 his measured cor.
rectness Of department.
! doubt his having packages of old letters
| about him at the time OF death. | remember
once being with him in what was known as
the Alderman's Room, at the City Hall
while the Chancellor was holding court.
/ pointed 10 the picture there of Washington
/ by the side Of white horse, aud observed
that Washington must have been a handsome
and remarkably wel-lormed man. "lle was
no such thing, sir" said Burr; Nv ashington
never stood for that portrait; be, sir, was
/ very ill-made about the legs and feet; a
! Captain Smith, who was considered the hand
] tl,,. H..
| for that figure" Burr as wo know, never
loved Washington. then suggested to the
| Colonel that there must be many unpubish.
! ed Interests facts connected with the early
| history Of our country, aud it was pity that
b. did not priut his remembrances. "Sir,'
said he, il would not be sele to do so at this
day; many truths would be too humbling to
be credited. | did once intend to write fully
| all my experience. and had collected together
a large correspondence aud documents. label
( led them very carefully, and with all my pr
yate correspondence and papers, had then
very particularly put up IN tin boxes. Pei
haps, sir, you know had daughter 2
bowed IN affirmative. "Well, sir, when my
daughter was about to take vessel for tie
South, | entrusted all these tin boxes aud nj
my other yaluah!es to her. The ship, sir
was lost, my daughter and all had eutrus
ted TO her"
An nnecdote has found its way into a news
paper, that Mr. Emmet. in cause connected
with the ManumissioD Society, mentioned the
naue of Alexander Hamilton in pointed
manner, and that Burr quailed. neither
believed that Enmet would have done sue,
a thing in the way it is mentioned, nor that
the name would have daunted the man who
shot Hamilton. Take an anecdoto in point
Mr.. John AUTH, q brotker lawyer had q
bust of Hamilton in his Office, aud IRON .
trick or habit, a., when in earnest thougLj
or talk would fix his eye upon the bust
Burr had consultation with him. and A.
unconscously, fixed his eye upon TIE pale
Hamilton bat instantly remembering, with
ore y his sight fiom IL, still uct before Burr
OWNED his thonShis. The Colonel quietly
slowly poked out his long fingers, pointed /,
the bust very deliberately and said; all,
may thank mel made him great man"
remember being in his room; things lum
beTed about Gecanter OF wine, and anothe
Of water, were on table with some glasses
A female child of three or four wears old
having long. fair hair, came, with Guicl
step into the room. Burr, with shaby hsGd
filled glass with water aud another wiil
wine, and held them out nvitugly toward
the child, who promptly rushed TO the wine
"Only see" said Barr with Il sort Of elate,
air. how the little imp prefers wine to wa
ter"