The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-07


"Reminiscences % ne 10an whO Lest he
Presidency BY One vess---lieu Ne a1sn-
sged to Procure Possessions u he
Poor--His Popularity Ames0 tAs osllss.
From tue wssbinzsos Pea.
There are not few old people in the
city Of New York who remember
when the name Of Aaron Burr Was
used TO frigbten them indoors 1t night
and to scare them into temporary quiz
etude. Though Hamilton was not iess
Of a roue than Burr, and carried his
social entanglements even into his
official life at Washington, his death
wiped away the clouds that had hung
about him, and left Burr enveloped In
the blacklist Obloquy. Bereft Of friends
and home, left childless by the awful
fate of his only daughter, Theodosia,
in the last years of his lie, at Brigh.
ton, Staten Island, were sad beyond
expression. His physician, DR.. Edgar,
has often told me Of those days, and
even he was moved to tears - he spoke
Of the solitary old man-who had once
ruled the Senate, came within one
vote of the Presidency, and almost
carved an empire out of the Southwest
who dragged out his days past four
score in proud loneliness, asking no
sympathy ,fespising the world that had
forgotten him and who died and gave
no sign Of repentance. For want Of Q
balance wheel, he just failed Of being
the one
GREAT MAN OF HIS DAY.
The house in which Burr lived. after
he had married Madame Jumel, still
81 at his,s NJ unerwhNs ehn
Harlem river, little changed since
Washington, from its upper windows,
watched the smoke of British and Con.
tincntal guns, and since, before that,
its mirrors shadow ed the fair form of
Mary Phillipse, its owner, who reject
ell the addresses Of the Virginian, Col.
George Washington, and married
Capt. Morris, of the British army.
Hamilton's home, the Grange, IL still
i'm existence, though shorn Of its for
mer glory, and on Jayne street the
frame house to which he was taken
after his duel with Burr and in which
he died, is the home of q half dozen
families. But the house at Richmond
Hill, which stood near the present
corner Of Narick and Charlton streets
how third-rate neighborhood-dis-
appeared fifty years ago, and gave
place to the solid brick houses of sub
stantial burghers. 1t was q magnIfi.
cent country seat, embOwered in thick
woods, and there Burr entertained
American statesmen and foreign visi-
tors with royal hospitality. His coun-
try seat proper was Mt YOnkers-and
from the latter place he went. after
spending many days i'm pistol practice
his black slave and attendant. who
died a few years since As janitor Of
Trinity College, has often described
those days to mel to fight with Ham,
iiton.
so long ago did the mansion at Rich
mond Hill give way to the march Of
improvements that few are living who
remember it i'm its best days. Some
few there are who can still give
PERSONAL RECoLLECTIoNs
of the place and its owner, and two of
them have just come to the surface, as
lively and chatty as they were three
quarters of n century ago. They are
women of course. Mrs. Rachel erole-
man celebrated her ninety-second
birthday in Brooklyn, on Monday,
surrounded by her eight children,
'"ei'e eia"vn'o'e" anu 'o"I,
sreil-grahd-chiiareh. Wheh cniia
ne USED 10 play IN the WOODS attacned
10 richmond mn, ana, win the othef
chi'uren, used 10 scahiper away IN
hioriai terror wheh the master 81 the
mansion passe1 through the grounds;
iianusoine, cola, naughty, ne had
morning out sheers ana curses ior the
chiiureh. her rear was not unher
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iacent 10 his estate. to sign papers
which he alleged were to secure her
iather's debts. but which really gave
him posses.ion of the property. AZ
lawyer he had a reputation then of he |
ing sharp and tricky. as well as elo- |
By a singular coincidence. i'm the
same city, on Thursday of this week.
another sprightly mairon. who was
with Burr, Mrs. Sa-
rah Wilkes Banta. descended of an
cestors who Joined the North Dutch
in Garden street, now Ex-
change Place, i'm 1865, celebrated her
birthday. Her numer-
Gus descendants include three great