The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-10-28
a LOVE ROMANCE OF THE OLDEN TIME.

Few gentlemen were better known in New
York city Of their day than Jacob and Wash
ington Morton They were both lawyers,
with an honorable place at the bar Of the
metropolis. in the most brilliant period Of its
history. The elder brother was for thirty
Years or more Major General of the First
Division of the State Militia of New York.
During the war 1912 he was mustered into
the service OF the UnitcdStates, and appointed
military commander of the city. He was the
Immediate predecessor of Gen. Sanford. who
not very long since terminated Q term of ser
vice OF about the same duration. He was u
hospitablo, tuultlcssly dressed. wel-brcd gen
tlcman, Of the politics and school Of Gen.
Washington, and universally esteemed by
contemporaries.
Washington Morton was some Years his
Junior He graduated at Princeton IN 1892
He was young man of extraordinary pow
crs Of mind and great strength of body. Ma
ture had layishly endowed him with her best
gifts. He was strillngly handsome, elegant
in his manners, and possessed 4 rare tascina-
ton and tact in conversation.
OF his physical powers of endurance, and
his athletic skill, he gave proof at one time by
walking for a wager from New York to Phil
adelphia in day. 1t was considered most
unprecedented feat, and made great noise
through the country.
1t is said that when he had finished his
walk, and thereby won his wager. that he
took q bath and made his toilet, and then
spent the remainder Of the night with some
Philadelphia choice spirits, and the friends
who had accompanied him from New York
ON horseback, over 4 supper table which had
been spread in his honor, where the conviv-
ialiy was probably more answerable to the
greatness OF the occasion of century amo
than at the present time. Everybody knew
everybody in those days. The convenient
and Democratic system OF over-crowded re-
ceptions by which ladies and gentlemen are
now entertained by hundreds at q time and
n thousand imperfect social obligations dis
charged as imperfectly once or twice year
was unknown to the gentry Of early metro
polls. Dinner company, well chosen, fire.
quent and elegant was the style of the time
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton was one of the
acknowledged leaders in the polite and fash
ionable world and no one entertained her
guests with more charming grace. She might
almost have been said to have maintained a
court of her own. Her family connections
were numerous, of great influence, and her
husband was in the zenith Of his popularity.
Her Younger sister, Cornelia SCHUYLER. spent
much of her time with Mrs. Hamilton. She
was not belle in the brilliant circles of that
period, tor her beauty was OF the SOFT and
touching kind, which wins gradually upon
the heart, rather than strikes the senses, like
that of the more dazzling order. She usually
wore her dark brown hair parted in waves
over a low, white forehead, and her complex
ion was of that clear paleness which better
interprets the varying phases of feeling than
a more brilliant color. Her eyes were dark
grey, but so shaded and Swallowed by lashes
that they seemed black in theimperfect light
Her small, rosy mouth had slight compress
sion of the lips, that betokened determination
and strength of will. The superb curve of
her neck, and the rounding of her shoulders,
would have enchanted a statuary. Her ma
ture, too soft and clinging for the role of
leader in society, in which so well became
her sister, had yet tirmness that promised
full development whenever called into action
through her affections.
Washington Morton was often a guest in
the hospitable home Of the Hamiltons, and
being thrown much into the society of the
beautiful girl above described, it is not sur
prising that they should have fallen in love
with each other.
Miss Schuyler returned to herfathcr's house
in Albany accompanied by her lover who al
once sought an interview with General Schuy-
Ter, and asked for her hand.