Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-05

under General Leclerc Pauline Bona
parties first husband) in Santo Domingo
and after carrying dispatches home To
France had gone to Martinique. in com
mand OF u frigate. Leaving his station
in 1903 he sailed for New York, where
he was warmly received. Joshua Bar
ney, then not long returned from SER
vice under the French flag, invited him
to Baltimore, and there, at the house OF
Samuel Chase, one of the signers of the
Declaration of independence, he met
Miss Patterson, OF whose beauty and
wit he had heard in Martinique. 81
know the most beautiful young woman
in the world had an ex-Baltimorean
lady said TO him, "whOm you must
marry" and when one of his suited, NJ.
RUbelle, married at Baltimore, and Je-
rome BOnaparte declared that he never
would we'd an American, receiving the
reply 10 wait till he had seen Miss
Patterson. \ recent chronicler-not
particular as to dates but evidently
writing from conversations with
Mrs. n-BOnaprate-says Eliza
beth's mother sent her to Virginia to
have her out OF the way, that Jerome's
curiosity was piqued by the absence of
one they all talked about, and that when
he met her in Mmec. Rubell's carriage,
acting as thSir escort to the races, she
resented his familiar method OF talking
of her as his pretty woman" by turn
ing OF her back upon him, an act OF
brusq"'ric that completed her conquest.
At this first meeting Miss Patterson
wore a buff-colored silk, very scanty as
to drapcry, lace tchu and huge Leg
horn bonnet trimmed with pink gauze
and long ostrich feathers. Jerome was
an ardent wOoer; the maid was willing
to be won, for long before she had laid
it out as her fate to wed distinguished
Frenchman, q prediction she recalled
when at party young Bonaparte's
chain accidentally became "entanglcd
round her neck" On the twenty ninth
day of October, 1903, license for their
marriage was issued; extensive prepare
tons were made for the wedding, but
Mr.. Patterson received, six days later,
an anonymous letter accusing the
groom-elect OF libertinism, and declar-
ing that he had just proffered marriage
TO Miss Wheeler, and would not dare
"marry your daughter at the Catholic
church before the bishop in open day.
and the match was temporarily broken
off. However on Christmas eve the
wedding took place in accordance with
the Catholic ritual, BiShOb John Carroll,
brother OF Charles Carroll, of OF Carroll
ton, officiating and Alexander 5. Dallas
drawing up the contract. The bride
wore a plain and very scanty India
muslin, with old lace, and Il string Of
pearls at her throat; the groom a suit of
laced and embroidered purple satin, the
whitc-lined skirts of which reached his
heels, knee-brccChes, diamond buckles
and powder. There were no grOOmsmen
and but two brideSmaids-the Misses
Brown. Burr writing to his daughter
early i'm 1894 saws: "SerOmc BOnaparte
and his wife are here. She is a charm
ing little woman-iust the figure and
nearly the size of TheOdOsia Burr Ais
ton; by some thought little like her
perhaps not so well in the shoulders;
dresses with taste and simplicity-by
some thought too free; has sense, spirit
and sprightlinesS."
According to the correspondence
found seven years ago in heap of paper
stock i'm a Baltimore warehouse, three
weeks after the marriage other anOny-
nous letters came to Nine. Bonpparte'S
father, warning him that the French
Top of fool" would have his wife, 90
home TO France and repudiate his mar
riage. Early in February, 1904, Mr..
Patterson was writing to Mr.. Livings-
ton, our Minister at Paris, to prepare
him "to explain or repel any uniavora-
bic or undue impression 1t (the mar
riageJ might make on the mind OF the
First Consul, or any OF the family" and
assuring him that jerome had never re-
Ceivcd the smallest encouragement to
address his daughter. On the 18th OF
March, Robert Patterson, the brides
brother, arrived ut Paris and reported
that at Mr.. MadiSOn'S request MIR. Law
ingSton was making every eXcrtiOn to rec
oncilc Bonaparte To his brothers mar.
rage. "BOnaparte, the letter cOntln-
ued, "is of very irritable temper, and
is at present highly incensed with his
brother. Still, Mr.. Livingston thinks
he will after time become better salts
fed with the union" Joseph Bona
parte had consulted the Minister about
letting Jerome live in America as cit
izcn of the United States" but found
Mr.. Livingston calculations that an in
come of from $4,000 TO $4,000 a year
much too high" Two days later Rob
ert Patterson had an interview with
"Lucien BOnaparte, who said the Con-
sui was displeased but that the family
reiOiced, and that they wished jerome
To become an American citizen and
settle here with an allowance
-Sl5, OOO-irom funds the principal OF
which was To be beyond his control.
On the 2Sth he dined with Mr.. Joseph
Bonaparte and wrote, at is little sin
gular ne did not throughout the even
ING speak word of his brothers mar
riage.' Ii was not singular, for on the
10Th of April NJ. Dacres, the French
Minister of Marine. wrote 10 the Consul
General at New York, NJ. Pichon, to
convey NapOleOn's resolution that no
money shall be advanced on the order
of CitiZ N Jerome" 20 prohibit all cap
tains OF French vessels from receiving
on board the yonng person tn whom the
Citizen Jerome has connected himself,
and to insist on Jerome's return
to France bv the first French
friga,e. Such were the wishes
OF the First Consul whose iuHcxihil-
itv can be compared TO nothing bnt the
vastncss Of his conceptions" "Sole
fahricator of my destiny VI. Dacres
reported 1.-THE hero as saying To him,
II owe nothing to my brothers, >
but they must not leave me insulated
and deprived of the aid and services
which | have q right To expect from
them. 80 young, rs yet, and
only known by iorgetiulncSs Of his du-
ties. assuredly ii jerome does nothing
tor me. | SEE in 1t the decree of fate
which has determined that | ought to
do nothing for him"
These letters were intercepted by the
British frigate Ieander OF this port, but
transmitted to their owners after copies
had been taken. Owing To this delay
il was not till May, 1904, that Jerome
Bonaparte and his wife, coming
here To seek passage in French
vessel. heard the news from Dacres, and
that all the civil officers of the empire
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