The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-19

Bodisco and Catecazy.
Lovers are thicker In Washington than
blackberres in August and the story Of the
Capital Ia chain of romances. Down on
the banks Of the Potomac, In the shadow of
the Washington Monument, still stands the
moss-covered cottage where Marcia Burns
entertained Tom Moore, the poet, and where
CLAY Burr, and Hamilton all made love to
the old Scotchman's daughter. She was
captured by New York Congressman, who
got a big fortune with her, and in the mansion
which now stands beside the old cottage the
two spent money in a more lavish way than
even the President. Their housewas modelled
after that of the White House and the pretty
Marcia was the envy of all the girls of her
time Amoug her friends was Dolly Madison,
and doubt not that Mrs. Madison may have
met Aaron Burr at Marcia Burns's house and
with him gone over the story Of her love-
making.
HOW DOLLY MADISON CAUGHT HUSBAND.
Dolly Madison's courtship took place at
Philadelphia when Congress was sitting there.
She was young Quaker widow and was living
in the same quarter as Madison, who was then
over forty and who was supposed by all of his
friends to lie confirmed old bachelor. He saw
the pretty Qualeress and fell in love with her.
She kept posted on the things before Congress,
cramuied the books she knew he liked, and
was able to talk most learnedly to him. When
ne went back to Virginia he left number OF
books with her, which were, it is said, beyond
her intcllectural comprehension, and asked
her to write what she thought OF them. She
looked at the books, and the more she looked
~ tI, cbn nft tha, Sbo
was afraid to express an opinion and she took
the books to Aaron Burr and asked him to
write out an opinion upon them. He did SO
and she put this in her next love-letter to
Madison. The future President was delighted
at the wonderful intelligence shown in the
letter, and he proposed instanter to the young
Quaker widow as soon as he came back to
Philadelphia. Dolly made him splendid
wife, but sly wink must have passed be-
tween the young woman and Burr when they
met after the marriage.
PEGGY EAToN's TROUBLES.
The romance of Mrs. Gen. Eaton still hangs
about Washington and you hear old ladies
talking about it every now and then. Peggy
Eaton was the daughter of clearinghouse
keeper, who was very popular among the
Congressmen about the time that Jackson was
elected President. sold Hickory" was very
fond OF u pretty face and he admired the lovely
Peggy, who was bold in her manner, but
whom he thought was pure and good notwith
standing Among others who paid attention
to her was Gen. Eaton, who thought enough of
her to marry her and thereby astonshed Wash
ington society. The fashionable world here
was much excited over the marriage and the
ladies banded together and said they would
not call upon her. President jackson took
her part and tried to make the women do as
he said, but for once he found his match. 1t
came TO such pass finally that the wives of
the men who would not call on Mrs. Gen.
Eaton were made TO suffer through their
husbands, aud Martin Van Buren,, widower
that he was, curried favor with jackson by
giving parties to which he always invited Mrs.
Eaton.
ONE OF BUCHANAN'S LOVES.
There is pretty little tradition extant con-
corning the reason of President Buchanans
lifelong bachelorhood which has not hitherto
been published. The story runs that the one
woman whom he ever really loved was none
other than the wealthy Miss Coleman who
owns and still occupies the spacious house ON
the north side of Lafayette Square, between
the Arlington Hotel and St. Johns Church.
For some triding cause the two ouarreled,
and, each too proud to make the first ad-
vances, they never spoke again and rarely
even met in society," though it is but short
walk across the square to the White House,
and the President, had he been so minded,
could readily in less than five minutes have
accomplished the brief journey which might
have given to his own life and that of his
lady-loye such happier ending.
BARoNs BoDIsoo AND CATEcAzY.
No account, even the briefest, Of the women
of Washington whose lives have been marked
by more than ordinary degree of romance
would be complete without mention of the
beautiful Harriet Williams, who in all the per
feetion OF girlhood's charms became at sixteen
fhe wife of the septuagenarian, Baron De
Bodisco EaYOy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from Russia. The school