Show livil t 111 4 11 t PRESIDENT B BUCHANANS NIECE iJ i j I I A Visit to Mrs Harriot ILrmo Johnston at TIer I I Washington Homo I t i Stories of Herself and Her Carte > low She Enter tained the rnnce of llates I i I JtrUe of Frtudenl luelamni liMit House Expcnsei and Ia Code of I II i Official flmaMyQuttn Victoria Forty Years wlew low Eugenie Impressed I I J Harriet Lane Buchanan rJ ers and Whal are to be Done With There MIJ I IIi Letters to Hit NeceHs Love Affairhterestms MMer About a Most 11 11 I Interesting Iranian I I iHi 1 i ropyrsidiled 1817 by Frank 0 Carpenter A 7d I Ppeclal Correspondents of the NEWS j 1 WASHINGTON D C June I3 < i31897 I 1VING wlihln a few I p I i 11 I Z block of the White i I i House so near to It that I I I 1 I the strains of the Manne IL i VX j II r band at the Presidents I il receptions Can almost tc I I I 1 t heard within her pat 1111 I A lots It a woman who j I Ii i 1 I r a 0 forty years ago was one cl I C of the most ppu ir mi 1 i I n 1f tresses the Executive 1 r Ii i i i r mansion has ever had I j J 1 If I Forty years ago she was l 1 ll beautiful the most I i known as the most Int Iligent and most accomplihed woman Il wo-man rite United States The boux I i of the army and navy then bowed down I t j I to her diplomats from a dozen foreign l i I I f I 1 courts strove together for ner smiles 41 h statesmen fimoas for their eloquence J t 4 and wit repeated her ben mots and I II I t the American people without regard to I I party admired and rshiped her Today il l I r To-day this woman is mtellectua ly as bright H I I as she was then and physically I she seems oTmo as young as she was when I i I she presided over the While Houc I t ljH iI Her luxuriant truss of goden hair has 1 it Is I true been turned to fronted silver j 1 11 I 11 I by the brush of time but the blue ol her i i eyes Is i still clear the roses ot her coir f r 1 Ir I I peiion still bloom said the wrinkles of l I itliercd old age have yet to come h I I I wish I could show you Prcudent Bu j J it I chanans niece Mrs Harriet Lane Johnston I It t I I John-ston as I saw her in her aihington ri il I home this week Her film is slraijht j i r I as it was when she hed the position of J First Lady ol the Land and were it i I fl I not for her white hair jou would tike I her to be in the prime ol middle age J j She It I also young in soul I The IonA i 11 1j pathway of Yl her He hu Often been 1111 I marked wth bitter sorrow I irit her I I uncle then her husband and Jlr chil rren one bv one have passed away I U But she has not allowed her tr nblcs to I tour her and he keep Able st with the i II i tour sint of the times She Is In Sitars tny C with the world ol today and allhouih li she is till In ter sixties sheis Hill f ape of the queens ol Washington soN so-N l li ctety I I HARUIKT LANES WASHINGTON 110m Ii I I 1 MrsJohrstonh a wonan of mean ilrl I I rl 4 Her Wellington home I Is a large house I I mad of creatnco ored rick stinted 1ft 1 on tin corner of eighteenth and Istre I Is I 1 in them st fashion tie part i > t the cape taU In the same block is ill cap-e manion It1ft to milieu Secretaries cl rtll 1 ghujm and A Whitney aral Postmaster General Waiu i maker successively lived dr all I iII i-II lt I arethe houses 11 I d stmguishe I men and 1 f worn n Mrs Johnstons home Is I beau I 11 I tifull fumi hed It contain mementoes j of travel Iron many pnit ol the world r A screen Mojih work when once I formed a window to hide the beau ics ol i 1r Cairo front he gaze r tire passersby I 11 stands ii 1 the hall and upo i the vval s I j hang paintings I I1lt engravings i oa m lit I every one uf which Is tile I more valuabl I b Ystaintscer Delations I In tire par or for I f instance I there u a co trait ol the Prince I j ol Wales pa fired just alter the pnncs J left the United I Sttes and tent byhim I I to Preiident liuclwnan list under tne I portrait In a Ittle 1 black frame is the letter let-ter which the prince sent w tn the portrait I por-trait The leller was penned Dy his 1 royal hislmess on tie shores of Pales I Ili I I I tine where Ie I was traveling It reads I 1 JiHi March 29 1862 Buchanan 1 Ik Dear Mr Buchanan 1 I f Permit me to request lint you will accept the accompanying portrait as a I 1 slight ma k of my gainful recollection I ol 1 tne hospitable r ception and I agree able viSIt al tIe j Whiello on te 00 cation pi my to inn the United States I if Believe nil that the I cord al welcome I I I I which was then vottchiafed to me by the I American people and bv you as their I i chief t never bi effaced from 1 nij J I memory I venture to ask yea at Ihe same I time to rcmen br me kindly to Ml s i Lane tnd believe me dear Mr llu chanan i 1 II I Yours very truy it r The Prince ot 1 reE viiitec TWARD the I jtl I I United States as the guest ol 1iesidiiil 1 I lucnaran He was at tie time III hU i twentieth year and Miss Lan could not i I have bern mucn older bi i WAS you I J know then mime 01 the White House I and the xetU which the prince > pent 1 I there must have been one ul the fullest I I s eeks ol that evtntlul perod of her life She says herell that the vilt of 11 I the prince was a most erjovable on He came hen en an English manol war accompanied by a large suite 1 he i J prince and his mite all staved with the Vince at the White House The I time was one round of receptions dinners 11 din-ners and usements Every evening with one exception 1 mident Buchanan I I I gave a dinner at which distlngul lied I I 11 people were invited lo meet the prince i I and Miss Lane also gave an invited reception i 1 re-ception Introducing his royal highness 11 I 10 the socie y cf die capital At the I dinners the English m nlstcr and his attaches at-taches wire present and 1 the minister i who was Lord Lon gave a t inner at I the Itgation at wi ich Mis Lane and the Iresiatni atttnded One ol the features of the occasion was an excursion tJ T Mount Vernon In which the party went 11 I i on the dispatch I oat Hair et Lane I F one of ihe revenue cu ttrs belong g 14 to the treasury dtiurtm nt I 11 DICIIANAUS IDEA OF IKSIDENTIAL EX il t PENSLS r I It was In talking about the Prince I Wale Iit that Mis Johns on gave me Jilii I lorn Interesting Informal on as to how I 11 t her uncle tegtdtd Hesiue tiai cxpn Sea lc wa one 01 I Ihe most conscen I llous I Presidents e have ever ruel 5nd S Has scrupulously careful none 01 h s I k P pron I eipen es houlu to lead i by Ihe I t gi vertmi nt Allot he bi Is connitted i fj I f Nth tile 1lce el Waei al 11 to vash I l Eton were telted ly Buchan and i I I the cost uf the nip lo Mount Vrnon i I I as privately airanjtd for bet ten him I and Mr Cibb tho secretary ot the treasury Congress was not asked I for n cent end even the fui1 which was men Ir I the revenue cnttir for that ay was paid for by the Presld nt Ircsiden liuchlinan bre re ft kdhttor W Ilutlnnan never thought of planmn r hand g excursions ad vacation tours for himself 1 in government vissels as our Presidents have done tf late years During hit stay la the White House he tnterumed to such an exi unt that his i salary wai hardly uunl I lo h s pncs It I cost him much more than 110 I salary to live when he wis a minis er to Lit i mil The salary ol the ml ilstcr at th itt it-t was in the nelithbo h ol cf I Inc thousand I dollars with a tl 1 girl ddi Ion for traveling expenses between London and the United States Mrs Johmton 1 tells me that Mr lluchanau paldalmot his whole alary for his house rent and ilul she understood that it qured all hH private Income In additl > n to met Ins expenses lie appreciated ihe dignity dig-nity ol the British mlion and knew nilwiun I that In order lo do t m lent work hit sochl expenditure musi bi great lie wasuiiif few miners whom we have rt to Iondon Alto popular bet i with theL iiiluh and thi people here at h me This rigid code of cffi ii il I honor Mr Johnston s iys was kepI by chanan throiiMuut his tie lie dev ted Ihe m s if H h years lopo His and statesmanship lie neld mn offi c al pcs lions and je he never made u tent out of uuli Ici AI < 1 of his fortune uccumuUtel I at the law before he igftn hs pj It Cll career and he was soc so-c as to have alwajs been above suspicion 1IOVV DUCIIANAN REALLY LOOKED There are a number of fine portraits of President Buchanan m Mrs John stairs home Among others sue showed show-Ed me a beautiful miniature painted by a famous arllst when Mr Buchanan was in in prime It represents n face much handsomer and mire human than the stffand stately figures shown In fie or dmiryenprivlng In it the complexion of the President li rosy his eyes are as blue is the summer skies and his lace is till of kindliness slid tout RESIDENT BUCHANAN NOT A SOUTHERN SVMIATHIZER Mr Harilet Lane Johnston almost worships the m < m > ry of her uncle She sas the wo Id of today does not I know him and that histt ry has not done i celt to his ability Sue ec lots in mil words the tr ub ous t me of hs administration when tl e norm and the booth were being torn apart and wnin one by oneth lieslJent av the friends who had premised lo uphold hm leav n Coo rs 10 en ate la secession and inx in plots to destroy tho government Tin I wear and tur of that line was such I tlat It ullmiattly caus d his death Mrs Johnston thinks hr uncle was Ihe only oneof thegrcat then public m n I who realm d what the rtsilts ol the Air would be in the loss cf property and Hie an 1 that he was the only one ho apprechtrd how Imminent war vas Prvaprec1hutcd irnidini uchanan I she says did all that he ciuld to prevent scccsn He strove lo harm nun and to hold back ihe south and he saw ihit hU elf rs were in vain He was true to his country and to his con < ci nc > and th fact that be could not nave his country Irom war Mill d him He was throughout through-out In spirit and n deed n Ire d of the p ople never way ring for a tit intent in ill I lojaty to Ills trust I asked Mrs Johns n as to wh ther litr uncle had much deir to be President She rc pLed tint t an earlier point in his po itl cal career lie pr bably had such an am bllen I but hit whrnhe saw the dirt c lion towards which parties wire tending tend-ing and the growing feeling between tte sectlors tic shrank from it Tne mo ement In his favor sprang oil when he was mini er to Eng and 118He vvrole may letters proles lug against the use of his name a > a candidate but In si He olliiprocsts I he wis made the nominee nomi-nee LX1SRIENCES WITH QUEEN VICTORIA AND EMI RUSS EUGENIE Mrs Johnton has In her home here ma y mementos 01 her slay in England title her uncle was minister She at tracltd you know more attention per lisp than any ether American girl who has ever been pro Antt d it the court of Si James She was made much of by Queen Victoria and as the niece ol AIr Kucnanin she took the place which would have been accorded to Ihe minis lerswile She has today the pIcture of the queen and the toy al faml y hich tne Iriiceof Unci gave to tier on her dcpanure horn England tG America the I pictures represent the ucen and tile I family as she knew them Her majesty was at that time very beautiful woman Silo was most charming in her mannHS and was tvely inch a queen During her stay Miss laccnut Leas Napoleon emperor cf the French and be Lmpren Eugenie who were then Yi egavisitto London The empieis Jill rtsacd Miss Jane I as being elegant and RrcC I but as net Having the dignity dig-nity nor regal look of Queen Victoria Ui s Lane met at this I time nil of the di < tlrguished people of England Disraeli rlu whu was the leider ol the opposition did not impress her so much as some others aid Gladt one s tms to have mde no special impre icn u on her mind < I Dunngherviit t to Oxford Co lege that iasti I lion conferred the I degree cl doctor ol civil laws upon M n ster Buchanan and Alfred Tennyon bin relllembers Tennyson as having long hair and as loome very much like 4 poet He l was nt t is time in his I prime lblI and had written the best of his poet Cal 1 works low PRESIDENT BUCHANAN TRAINED HIS NIECC The relations ol President Buchanan and his vice were more like those of a father and daughter than an uncle and niece Miss Lanes i arents had died wlun she was I ute more than a baby and James Jluclunan wts both lather and m tlur to her lie was fend of clIor nand dtlighied In having his nicelfrle ids about him He enlciycd havi g oung people at the Mile louse en > > RICIIU ewasaijachelor hU adml islri ion was socially Ih 1 Baj st one we hnve i ver had Mr Buchanan was very careful in the brirc lipupct Alls Lane He drt elect her educallcn I tending her first to school al Lancatter where he lived then to a private school at Chiilestown and finally final-ly lo the Georgetown Convent He wrote reguUrly to her tiring her school dajs Ills letters were full of new and gossip and fun and nt the tame time ol mnrh good advice tot the onng girl I I as tot her vinda to-t Here for instance U an extract from one written at about the time Harriet Lan e tared her Irons WAstiiNOToN February 16 1842 Mv Dar Harriet Your letter I af for < ed me very great pleasme There IS no wsh nearer my heart than that jou 6 101ld I bcel11o nn am abc and Intel tent wonia and 111M I rej need tn Icnn that you siM continue at he head of jour cliss You can render joursef very dear to me by your conduct end I nrtici ae with pleasure the months wh ch i trust in heaven we wlil pass together to-gether alter the adj urnment of Lon gress I expect lo bi in Lancast r fur a vi or ten dAys about the ut ol April wire n I lir pe to see you in pood health ard rectiie fucrable reports of your behavior a ISelieve to be jour vety off ctlon ate uncle May brave i bless yea JAMES BUCHANAN Here Is I another litter written about a a jear liter LANCESTER March 20 1842 My Dear Harriet It N i ne ol tne first deures of my heart lint you should become amiable and good g rl Cdu cat on and occ nip islimer H ire very in portant but the y fink into InHgnifi ance when c mpired with 11proper irovtrn ment of Ihe heart and temper How ally all-y ur trends and relates would love you how proud and happy I should be to acknowledge and rhcrisli 3 OU at an obiictol deep alf Eton could I say she is kind In heart amiable m tern I eraml behave in such a nitincr as 10 secure the alTec ion and esteem of all around her I now cherish the hone tat ere lor grills may be the case ar is What long Ist I of sludhs yru are engogd upon Tne rMmber wojld sum tile great lor any common Intellect but it would se m that voiinnrake them all whhout ifU ilty 11 At a umntr tabc at Washington duurg the lest sission a wager was made thll not a person at tte table coulo name all Ihe mu e and the wager vins w n Hid > iu I leen erne if the company Ihe resu t would djubtejs I ave been tiff sent I presume ihat Ihe lusts and graces are great fivoillcs uith > oi AttenJ diligently to your studies bu > ahove all govern ojr heart and your conduct Most affectionately 1 JAMES HUCIIANAN I PRESIDENT BUCHANANS TAIERS BAbs Johnston says that President Buctaenos papers are to be tlven over to Ihe Pnllailelph a Historical Society This ecinon has been reached during the t past lew weeks and within a short lime a vast am u at of valuable hisionral mtH < al1II b there ctssible to the public Th re was no man more careful care-ful ol his paper than Mr Buchanan lie lit vtr des toyed a Idler and at his death there were boxes upon boxes < of corres silence tacked away Ii his tv fsne II house at Wheatianils near Lancaster His cOIrspondence covered a vvde range There was hardly a character 01 rote in this country of Eur ole Jib whom he was nol at lion e tme In C Dill muieIo His letters to t Mis Lane coed every vatic y of subj ct and conld hey have been saved al o publish t d they would rave made a mot in ere er-e ting volume When Pieidenl Juchamn died lie left instruction as io the I wilting cf his memoirs He cose os the author Mr William B Kc dol Philaddphii Mr Ketd was one ol his cloiet friends no d fcntvv Just how Mr Buchanan wanted every mi ter In Moil Mr Reed hoeer had financial tioublis which ireventid I his earning wt his pan nd th txecutirs had tie biograpm written bv Mr Gecrjce Tick Crl nLr Curlis The letters ol Mr Buchanan Buchan-an lorlll It seems to m tile mot later elling part of Mr Cur iss book PRESIDENT DUCIIANANS LOVE Al FAIR It was owing to a mistake thai some of the moil Iteret nl papeisconntctt d with Mr Buchanans career were burned by bit exccutirs Thee wire the papers relailngto Hs lovealTiIr Ihe full I story ot the matter was it U believed believ-ed tola in the package ofliaperSLUt nhenhehad oiulnal nude it up belied h f rt lad wntt n upon it i lull stating tint it should re burned uith ul being opncd Alteruard hit gave d rcclionj to Hi blouaphcr that tire package be opened and die ru h as to tl is tragic episode ol his career be told in ills story If his i life hen the executors found the package they burned it before tney lei Ize w hit Mr Bucnanil had Slid told bo rp cr about Ihe I only thn C that can now be certiinly known concerning in matter mat-ter is tnai when Mr Buchan n was a young man practicing law in Ijincoster he fell in love with a beautiful girl the daughter of Robert Coleman one if the wealthier citizens cf the place Alter a time he beca ne engagt d lo her Then there was a loiters quarrel and the voulig lady wrote i letter breaking off the engagement Son aCer wil Ing it she wtnt to I ladilphu Ijr athort visit and duiinj her sly there died The lovers quarrel had not been I made up and Buchanan mourned the loss uf his sweeth art until the day ol his death Ileurotea I beautiful obiiuiry notice of Miss Coleman for the Lancaster news pat I er and a Icttr to her fa her publih ed In 1 Ticknors Life winch shows how great tire loss was to him Vhen he was seventy years old just before his death he referred again III Ilia matter shoving that he still f Il deeply concerning concern-ing it and stating that the truth nould be told alter his death TTP 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