The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-05-09
From the New York Times, April; III
A CURIOUS CASE.
The VIII of Aaron Burr,s widow.

Harlem river StandS a fine old mansion, dat 1
ing back long before the days of the revolu-
ton: a house in which Washington, La
fayettc and their contemporaries wrote their
dispatches. during that dark period when /
the British landed and occupied the city; a
house from which one may now overlook the
steeples of this busy town, the pleasant hills
OF Westchester, and the distant waters of tue |
sound s. So
In this pictures lue spot lived, since 1903 or 4
1904, Nine. Junel, whose eyentful life ended
nigh a year ago at a very advanced age;
whose esentfui story, could it be written,
might be more interesting than any romance.
An obscure but beautiful Yankee girl, she
had come to be the wife of the rich Jumel.
Frenchman driven away from ST. Domingo
during its horrors Full of ambition and
talent, she did and dared many things which
made the tiniia and prudent stare, which set
the tongues of the enyious and the curious a
wagging, and made her as famous and as
BRILLIANT as any woman of her time One of
the episodes of her later career was with
Aaron Burr, which was soon terminated by
separation, but which identified her with one
OF the most remarkable men of the country.
From her marriage to French gentleman,
and q rich one she came to know Louis
Philippe, Tallcyrand and all the rest OF those
remarkable men who had refuge in this coun-
try from time to time, and wien afterwarl
she visited France, with her husband, she
had access to the court circle, which then
few Americans ever entered, and where she
made her mark. For n time she was a
| star among the beauties of the court, and if
to be taiked'about. to be enyied, is to be hap
py, then Mme Jumel was as happy as mortal
woman well could be. But for the past Is
years she has heen growing very old, and has
spent her time in the retiracy OF her own
home, with few inmates, and little intercourse
with the wcrld-her companions and friends
being her niece and adopted daughter and
her children. These she had taken to France
to be educated. There one of them married
by the agency and consent Of the madame
| The landed estate she received from Jumel
| she had held on to with tenacious grasp,
until in progress oftime it had become pro
| perty of immense Wholesome estimate it at
million of dollars.
But now it has to be fought over, and out
| of it is to come the great Jumel will case"
| in which will be arrayed some of the most
| distinguished lawyers of the New York
! bar
1t appears that in her old age, when past
| 90, Nine. Jumel made new WILL cutting
off her relatives and adopted child and her
children, giving her entire property to va
rious public charities, with the single eXcap-
tion of her pastor. who was to have an equal
share with the other devisecs. These rcii-
tives and heirs who have lived with her some
forty years, naturally do not respect this pa
] per, and they CLAIM, that she had become in
coiaptent to make a legal will. They are
inclined to charge undue influences, and they
/ demand that this paper shall be set aside as
!, nul! and void, so that they may enter in and
enjoy tie good things which they think they
had good and reasonable riShtto expect
On the other hand, the deyisees take quite
the opposite view they think no woman was
in better frame of mind than Nine .Jumel,
and that the very judicious bequests made
to them entite her sanity to the greatest re-
spect. They claim, too, that Mme Jumel's
relatives are no relatives at all, and that it is
| altogether wrong and improper to set up the
! claims they do Here the issue is joined,
and on Monaay morning the respective for
ces were mars!saied in presence Of the judge
of the first division of the supreme court
Mr.. O'Uonner and Judge Pierpont for the
relatives, Mr. August is Smith and Mr. Slough
ton for, the will. The presence of room
filled with legal profession testified to the
interest the case was exciting; but a short
contest on the part of the devisees of the
will to have the case postponed. on the part
of their opponents to have it go to immedi-
ate trial, resulted in its postponement to the
May term, when it is entitled to preference
over all other gases. We shall then look for
curious and interesting developments.
a SAD Story FROM THE SoUTH.-The
Monroe La) Telegraph of recent date has
thefoilowing:
"a couple of gentlemen living on Beul
river were out hunting hogs, when becoming
tired they dismounted. and hitching their
/ horses, lay down to sleep near an old tree on.
fire. Eight days after this, neighbor was
hunting in the vicinity, when attracted by the
barking of his dog, which would come to no
c,hs, he went to the spot where the men lay
J down, and found that the tree had fallen
(, across the head of one and across the chest of
the other
Zone of the horses, had broken loose, the
other was sill standing where, eight days
i before, he had been tied One of the gen
tlemell, Mr. Day, leaves a wife and six chill
dren in distressed circumstances. The wife's
history has been IA sad one. The conscript
authority. always too loose or too rigid, drag
getl her first husband from home, and sent
him to Shreveport in acar.
!" His wife followed just in time to see him
] conscripted by death. She returned home
and in about a week had her house, and
everything she possessed, but wheel, a sad
die, and pair of cards, burned up.--Alter
frequent importunities, she married Mr. Day,
| who was widower with three children,
which, added to her own, made six. This
helpless charge is now left upon her hands" I"
THE RADICALS HAVE MET THEIR MATCH
The N. Y. Post, a paper which has con-
demned the President for his 22d of February
speech, nevertheless tells the destructive
Radicals:
''The extreme men in Congress, have dis
covered too, that they have got to deal with
man who can repel violence by violence,
with man of earnest convictions, of firm
and positive character: one who is not to
be driven, nor brow-b beaten; one who is to
be treated respectfully as full grown states
man and power. = And he holds
that loyal representatives, capable Of taking
the proper oath, ought to be admitted at
once On that head we do not see how
there can be two opinions; and yet Con
gress persists, from mere punctilio, in refus-
ing loyal element of the South.n
4 The election of Rev. Dr. Doggett, of this
city, to the high Office Of Bisnop in th,
church to which he belongs is just tribute
to his talents, learning ard piety, and th,
: wide reputation as divine which he hal
held for many years. The congregation o
j Ce2tenarY Church which he has been servins