The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-25
.an Extraordinary Martial
.--ss. 1as h-64yl.3E Case,

| twill not be forgotten by those nowliy-
ing familiar with the society of Washington
during the Presidential term of General
jackson, that Mrs Eaton, the wife of Gen
eral Eaton, then Secretary of War; was re-
fused recognition by the elite at that period
resident there, They will also remember
thatrthe infexiblewilI of jackson overrliled
this objection, and in time Mrs. Eaton was
acknowledged as.one of the reiguing bellies
of. that period Is 49,, .s :, a 80 I''i
I That truth is stranger than fiction" is
again exemplifed in the case of this same
Mrs. Eaton, who is still living, will be read
lily admitted after the perusal of the follow
ing facts regarding her career subsequent to
that time. ho-baDa aa'n 'HHs 9" s'.-s '11.isien'a
ea AT the death Of General Eaton his widow
was left with such q handsome competency
that Recommended the respect of her for
nnef associates In w ashington, and retain
ing her widowed condition until the aul
ftumn of 1857 she was the admired of an
admiring throng. At that time she became
aenamored with an Italian dancing master,
one Antonio Buchignani, who was then
teaching the lads and lasses of the capital
the art of tripping the light fantastic. -
He was gay and attractive, and, in fine,
SO ardently did he return the affection that
notwithstanding the disparity of ages, she
being sixty-six and he but nineteen years
of age, they were married, Here Mrs.
Buchignani experienced new troubles in
spite of her wealth, for her old friends for
sock her and refused to recognize her when
on the street with her boy husband, and for
one year her parlors were closed and they
-, of 1
however, he behaved himself so nicely that
her former friends overlooked her short
comings and once more she was admitted
to society.
At this time, 1858, through the interces-
sion Of United States Senators, Mr.. Buchig-
mani, after refusing several political and
military commissions rendered him, was
made the librarian to Congress, which posi-
ton he held two years. The seeming fell
city with which the lives of this remarka-
BILE couple ran along was only imaginative,
as Antonio succeeded by intriguing in OBJ
tanning the control of the bulk of his wife's
property-some $73,000--and one oppor-
tune moment he decamped to the sunny soil
of Italy with the entire amount, not neglec-
ting to take female partner, in the person
of his wife's own grand daughter, bloom
ing girl yet in her teens.
In the city of Lucca, twenty-five miles
from Leghorn, the absconding pair lived in
all the princely grandeur in which their
surreptitiously gained fortune enabled them.
But the shadow of dark cloud even then
encompassed, their existence, and still again
it was marked with Sill gotten gains the
pilferer never prospers,n as Antonio lost
ar aynanded the h,,lLr of bia fnrtr1na and
with the little left he fed with his wife to
Montreal, Canada, there embarking in a
common business enterprise. 3
Forgetting or not fearing his shameful
act, Antonio few days since came to New
York, where his aged wife has been living
several years, supported by son, who is a