New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-17

Nenta, a. well as physical tisease appears 10 be
infections There are periods Of poisoning aud
mon.hs Of murder. OF ths Summer of 1853 the
prophet Of the Almanac must haze predicted
"About this time expect trouble for pspss.'
Certainly, pspas have been experiencing rather
squalIy sea,on. Mobile is not the only spot where
an injured parent mourns. The disease has desc
Grated even the capital of the country. and love
makes tee world of Washington go round at q
more eccentric rate than usual This affair Of
Washington, it is true, has not yet reached
the zenith of romance to which its rival
of Mobile has attained. Bat the hero dis
plays an importantly which bids fair to over
shadow not only the pertinacity of Riviere but,
to use q stronger Illustration, even the per-
seyeripg passion Of Wkof. And to such obsti.
nate affection, wikof notwithstanding opportunity
ever comes. Hitherto the history Of this courtship
has been dropped at intervals in small aud scattered
fragments. They deserve to be collected, and dain-
tily and deicately served up on one dish. Such
romantic matters cannot be ciibbed and coffined;
once ventilated they had far better be frankly and
fairly told than left to the whispers of scandal
which gives q sinister significance to every smile,
and converts every mole hill into mountain.
In mansion of rather pnlatal pretension on
President Square, combining to great degree city
spendor with suburban beauty, lives Mr. Corcoran,
a retired banker of somewhat modest Irish extrac-
ton, but much wealth. In his time he has played
to many Presidents the part of Pereire or Roth
schild, and is qYrious as being the only spec-
men of the Irish genus in history successful
in the loan line. 1t is generally understood
that in the borrowing business Irish intel
lect has found its finest field Be this as It may,
the Hotel Corcoran is one of the wonders of Wash
irpton, and, after "shake" with Buchanan, is
u,uslly taken by travellers. Its chief attraction is
gallery Of high priced pictures, chiefly BY modern
Italian masters, and some antique family portraits
in warrior attire, doubtless representing the earlier
Corcorans in that magnificent but somewhat misty
period Of Irish history in which every Irishman was
king, or a frst cousin thereto. For the rest the
mansion s reputed to contain an admirable French
cook, large cellsr, and small library, exquisitely
boubd. The proprietor himself is BY DO means
personally popular. On the principle, We pre-
sumo, of omne iemotum pro magnGe9, he
preserves kind of Dombey dreariness, which
self made men, aspiring to position, often mis-
take for dignity, and mars bis natural courtesy
By On affected condescension. For the rest, he is
a gentleman of handsome presence, and Of liberal
charity where there is no chance of ito conceal
ment. To bis personal unpopularity and the SYM
pathy which ever befriends the heart Of youth
against the head of age, through every danger and
distress, is doubtless owing the partial and mper.
feet colored accounts of this affair which CORE
spordents of the press aided BY the great and
mighty Union in its yesterdays impression have
scattered over the land.
As all song from time immemoria has told, and
the beautiful ballad of vllikens and his Dinah
more recently recounts, the nch banker had Of
csurss an only daughter
- fair to bhold
Ard che bad large fortune in silver and gold
Whether attracted by her fairness or her for
tune, q Mr.. Muruaga who possesses at ali events
the advantage Of not being Count, and who il
Secretary to the Spanish Legation at Washington,
commenced the career Of attentions which has
sted this romantic row. Mr.. kuruasa and Miss
Corcoran net, it appears, at several Of those
charming "hops' by which the Washington season
is 10 gsyly got over and on the splendOrs of whose
cripsllne and ice cream the Jenkinies Of some Of
our contemporaries 20 delight to dwell. With each
succeeding "Aop" their love hoped on. 1t is no
d,psr.sment to the attractions Of the lady to cay,
III At in field in which she had to encounter the
,Jupo.Eke richness Of Mrs. Douslass beauty, and
IN. sp;,itwM and fawn-liie fascinations OF Ms.
not 10 mention the lesser Lights by
which these two great stars Of Warrington society
are surrourdsd, and at an age 1t which even the
ursttis # women begin to grow little trendous
and unessy the devotion Of the gay and gallant
so.n;ard was not unwelcoue or unprized. For
setful Of the favorte Injunction Of the great mas-
ter of his At Taleyrand, "Above al things,
avoid too much ZEAL" Mr.. Murusgs dashed hoey
on. and lost DO opportunity to press his suit In
the lsdys rides in her visits, to friends or church,
The .hsdov of Ter lover was ever across her path,
and the work went lovingly on until in evil hour
came to Mr.. Corcoran one Of those kind friends
who .sem destined BY peIverse fate to raise up
those obst1uotons without which love would lose,
nil half in difficulties, I'll its charms.
Unsofteped BY the memory Of some similar pas.
sase in his own early career, the cd mans anger
rose. Accompanied BY trusty freud. the gallant
apd darntless Senator Bright Ct IadiAaA
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