Minister from Texas;
Mr. Martineau, Minister from the Netherlands; Mr. Buchanan, who had
been Minister to Russia, and was then Senator, and afterwards
President of the United States; Baron Saruyse, the Austrian
Minister; Martin Van Buren; Mr. Kemble Paulding, whose father was
Secretary of the Navy at that time; Mr. Forsythe, whose father was
Secretary of State. Each minister had his own carriage and
attendants dressed in livery. The house and grounds were thronged
with noted guests, strolling amid sweet-scented flowers and lemon
trees hanging with rich golden fruit.

Among the distinguished guests were President Van Buren; Daniel
Webster; all the Diplomatic Corps and a host of other notables,
including James Gordon Bennett of _The New York Herald_.

The bride was taken to her new home in Mr. Bodisco's gilded coach
with driver and footman in bright uniform, drawn by four horses. The
same afternoon, Mr. Bodisco gave a dinner to just the bridal party.
At nine o'clock the same day he gave a general reception for the
families of the attendants. The morning after the wedding the
bridesmaids took breakfast with the bride and, girl-like, as soon as
breakfast was over, went on an investigating tour. In her boudoir
they found many beautiful things, among them an old-fashioned
secretary, with numerous drawers, one was filled with ten dollar
gold pieces, another with silver dollars, another with ten-cent
pieces, another with the costliest of jewels, and still another with
French candy.

The next week Mr. Bodisco gave a grand ball, on which occasion
Madame Bodisco wore her bridal robe. Shortly after the wedding,
President Van Buren gave a handsome dinner at the White House in
honor of Madame Bodisco and Mrs. Decantzo, another bride. To this
dinner all the bridal party were invited. Madame Bodisco wore a
black watered silk, trimmed with black thread lace and pearl
ornaments. President Van Buren sent his private carriage and his
son, Martin, to escort Ellen Carter (an adopted daughter of Jeremiah
Williams who was an important shipping merchant of the town) to the
dinner. The President thought Miss Carter like her Aunt Marion
Stewart of New York, to whom he was engaged while Governor of that
State. At the dinner table he drank wine with her, and again in the
reception room. Miss Carter