[SPAM] Ambrose E. Burnside, who

Nthusiastic reception when he reached his destination. I have frequently
heard it said that Mrs. Scott as a young woman refused the early offers
of marriage from the man who eventually became her husband because his
rank in the army was too low to suit her taste, but that she finally
relented when he became a General. I am able to contradict this
statement as Mrs. Scott told me with her own lips that she never made
his acquaintance until he was a General, in spite of the fact that they
were both natives of the same State. This did not by any means, however,
indicate a marriage late in life, as General Scott became a Brigadier
General on the 9th of March, 1814, when he was between twenty-seven and
twenty-eight years of age. In the _Sentinel_, published in Newark, New
Jersey, on the 25th of March, 1817, the following marriage notice
appears: Married--at Belleville, Virginia, at the seat of Col. Mayo,
General Winfield Scott of the U.S. Army to Miss Maria D. Mayo. Mrs.
Scott's record as a belle was truly remarkable, and in the latter years
of her life when I knew her very intimately she still retained traces of
great beauty. Her accomplishments, too, were extraordinary for that
period. She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp,
but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of
manner and brilliant powers of repartee added greatly to her social
charms. On one occasion during Polk's administration she attended a
levee at the White House, and as she passed down the line with the other
guests she received an enthusiastic welcome and was soon so completely
surrounded by an admiring throng that for a while Mrs. Polk was left
very much to herself. It was Mrs. Scott who wrote in the album of a
friend the verse entitled, "The Two Faults of Men." Two other verses
were written under it several years later by the Hon. William C.
Somerville of Maryland, at one time our Minister to Sweden, and the
author of "Letters from Paris on the Causes and Consequences of the
French Revolution." Women have many faults, The men have only two;
There's nothing right they say, And nothing right they do. _Reply_ That
men are naughty rogues we know, The girls are roguish, too. They watch
each other wondrous well In everything they do. But if we me

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