Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-27

lived happily together unui DIS DEAN, when re-
suited IN bis 70th year. from an accidental fall
At this tine Colonel Burr vas practieing az
with grea, success in Ne~ York. His legal
position was in the front raRk, triumph succeeded
triumph. and although old 10 years. be seemed
but in the prime Of life There was talk Of
cholera Ia the city, and Madame Jumel, who
bad large interests In real estate, determine
upon . eArrsge tour into the country. Desiring,
however, 10 take legal advice on some matters
tsfore leaving. she determined 10 consult Colonel
Bur., whose pie eminence Ia real estate Law was
universally conceded. IL was long time since
she bad seen him. Years had changed them both
oceans and events bad separated them: marriage
and lie consequences bad turned the thoughts Of
each in other directions; sDi now when the one
was an old man and the other n well advanced
woman they we're 10 rect. lie was perfect In
all the subtleties OF social life; she Was the Ell
ponent, n, plus ultra, Of fashionable life. The
one could not hope to blind. mislsad. or seduce
the other. His Office was at No. rs Nassau
street and she drove thither 10 consult him.
Never forgetful of eye. or feature. or figure, ne
recognized her in . moment, and, As fsrton 10
his life of Aaron Burr. says:
He received her in his courtliest manner com
plimsnted her with admirable tact, listened with
soft Difference to her statement de was the
ideal man Of busness-conhdential, self posses
sed. polite-giving bic client the fattering i'm
preston that the faculties Of bis whole soul we're
concentrated upon the affair IN hand. She was
charmed. vet feared him. He took the papers,
named the day when bis opinion would be ready,
handed her to her carriage with winning grace.
At seventy eigh. years Of age. he was still
straight, active. agile. fascinating
On the appointed day she sent TO his Office
relative. student Of law, to receive bis 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
to be, at least. the acutest of possible men. He
went Burr behaved to him in a manner so ex
quisitely pleasing that, to this hour, ne has the
liveliest recollection of the scene y o topic was
introduced but such as we're familiar and inte-
resting to young men. His manners we're such
as this age OF slangy familiarity cannot so much
as imagine. The young gentleman went home
to Madame Jumel, only to eItol and glorfy
him.
Madame and her party began their journey,
revisting Ballston, whittier. in former times, she
had been wont to 90 in chariot 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
house aud all il contained. Returning TO New
York to find that her mansion had been dis
poiled 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 mes
senger, and. after their acquaintance had ripen-
ed said to him, "Ceme into my Office | can
teach you more in one 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, gladly and
gratefully consented lie entered the Office Burr
KEEP. him close al his books He 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 swarmed with applicants for
aid, and be seemed to have quite lost the power
Of refusing, In no other respects, bodily or
mental, did be exhibit signs of decrepitude.
Some months passed on without his again
meeting Madame Jumel. At the suggestion of
the student, who felt exceedingly grateful to
Burr for the solicitude with which he assisted
his studies, Madame Jumel invited Col: Burr to
dinner. liz was grand banquet, at which he
displayed all the charms of his manner and shone
to conspicuous advantage. On handing to din
ner the donor Of the feast, he said 81 give you
my hand, Madame; my heart has long been
yours" This was supposed to be merely q com
pliment, and was little remarked at the time.
Col Burr called upon the LADY, called frequently
became ever warmer in his attentions; proposed,
at length, and was refused. He still piled bis
suit, however and obtained at last not the lady g
consent, but an undecided no. Improving his
advantage on the instant, be said, in a jocular
1
Fort Washington on certain day, and there he
would once more solicit her hand.
He was good his word. At the time ap-
pointed, he drove out in his gig to the lady 5
country residence, accompanied by DR.. Bogart,
the very clergyman who, just fifty years before,
had married him to the mother of his Theodosa
| The lady was embarrassed, and still refused
But then the scandal And, after ALL why not?
Her estate needed a vgiant guardian, and the
old house was lonely. After much hesitation
she at length consented to be dressed and receive
her visitors. And she was married. The cere-
mony was Witnessed only by the members of
Madame Jumel's family and by the eight ser
wants of the household who peered earnestly in
a. the doors and windows. The ceremony
over, Mrs. Burr ordered supper. Some bins OF
u Jumel's wine cellar. that had not been opened
for b alf a century, were laid under contribution
! The little party was q merry one The parson,
in particular, it is remembered. was in the high
est spirits, overlooking with humor and anecdote.
Except for Colonel Burr's great age, (Which was
| not apparently the match seemed not an unwise
one. The lurking fear he had had of being a
poor and homeless old man was put to rest. She
had companion who had been ever agreeable
and her estate a steward than whom no one living
was supposed to be more competent.
As remarkable circumstance connected with
this marriage, IL may be just mentioned that
there was woman in New York who aspired to
the hand of Colonel Burr, and who, when she
| heard Of his union 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 feurscore.
A few days after the wedding the "happy
pair paid visit to Connecticut, of which State
a nephew of Colonel Burr's was then Governor
They were received with attention. At Hart
| ford Burr advised his wife to sell out her shsrea
| in the bridge over the Connecticut at that place
and invest the proceeds in real estate She or
dsred them cold. The stock was In demand
and the shares brought several thousand dollars
The purchaser offered to pay her the money, bu
she said. No; pay it to my husband" To him
accordingly, it was paid. and he had it sewed W
| in bis pecket-an enormous bulk-and brought
it to New York. and deposited it in his own bank
| TO his own account
| Texas was then beginning to attract the tide of
emigration which. a few years later, set 50
strongly thIther. Burr had always taken a great
interest In that country. Persons with whom ht
had been variously connected in life, had a
scheme on foot for settling large company Of
| Germans a tract of land in Texas brig
had been chartered and the project was in state
of forwardnes., when the possession of a sum oil
money enabled Burr TO buy shares in the enter
prise The greater part of the money which hs
had brought from Hartford was invested in this
way. lt proved TO be a total loss. Tbs time
had not yet come for emigration to Texas The
Germans became discoura ged and separated and
10 complete the failure of the scheme, the title
.fs 81 L.. al. 81 g..