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I ' * - 11 I 11' -iU J -UJ- L J i . mmmmmrn*** ????i i ?- - ^ DEVOTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. ./?'> : 'p ::T?F5f*'nTfi^??TrP'??iya8~l?l^Paaeaaq,Maa'^a^"WiMa**c^ca*CM^^Mi833*a=!!:^=a=!a?5=,agi'p:*?^^^ . VOLUME I. ' LANCASTER, C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1852. NUMBER 20. * 1 ' ?|? I -1? I ? | THE J LANCASTER LEDGER A" 18 PUBLISHED EVEKY -WEDNESDAY MORNING. f IR. R. BAIIiEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS: Two Dollars per year, if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in six months; or Three 1 tollars, if payment is delayed until the end of the year. These terms will l>e rigidly adu hered to. Advertisements will bo conspicuously inserted at seventy-five cents per square of twelve Hues, for the first insertion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each sulMequcnt insertion. A single insertion One Dollar. Nothing will bo counted less than a square^ Advertisers are requested to state, in writing on their advertisements, the number of times they wish them inserted ; or A they will bo continued m the paper until ordered out, and charged accordingly. v# - ' i?l? ALL KINDS OF )JOB PBfflTfflG EXECUTED WITH NKA^IEivS AND DESPATCH At this Office. j ? | ^iagrnjijiiral $Mrj). A From Sartain Magazine for July. I ANDREW JACKSON. BY J. T. IIKADLEY. . V Tho spirit of faction is always unjust, [ 1 and often tmel. A MKttless character, and a lifo of aolf sacrifice and devotion ' 4kl An n*knw. .A .11 i A_ A A in unu-rs, i.iimi'L niny us ri'scniinem, or shume it into honour. Lt was, therefore, a ' doubtless, well for both Generals Harrison And Taylor, that they fell on the threshold V* of their political life. They had already experienced enough of detraction and in justice to convince them of the untiring ha- 1 tred of party spirit. Goneral Jackson not only asted the hitter cup which an uujiint op|Mjtrftion presented to his lips, hut drank it to the dregs, during the eight years of his stormy presidency. Hut now, each succeeding year that sweeps over his grave, obliterates so:ng of the marks of f ?rmer struggles, And former hate, and retouches thueo half-effaced lines which a grateful nation had traced to his memory, and which will be read with pride and love, when the animosity that obscured them shall bo remembered only to be pitied and condemned. 1 / In J 706 a transient vessel modestly | ( crept into the harbour of Charleston, havt ing on U>ard (t#uvyjd>et^.of emigrants, who had fled from persecution in the old world, \ to find shelter and repose in the new.? < Among them was a Protestant famih /from the noith of Ireland, by the name f of Jackson. Like nil the Protestants from that section of Ireland, they were desA i cended from tlio Scotch, who came over i to settle on lands confiscated by the En{ \ glish government. This family consisted i of Andrew Jackson, his wif#, and two 'sons, Hugh and Robert. The father was 'the youngest of four sons, and thongfctmj accustomed -to the management of a 1 large, wild farm, resolved to leave a land torn with civil distentions, and vexed and outraged by Knglwh injustice, sml make for himself a home in the distant colonies of America. He was accompanied by three of his neighhoore, who, with him, disliking the . f low lands near the coast around Charleston, passed north, to the borders of North Carolina, and settled in a wild remote spot, on the Wsahaw Creek. Two years aftar, March 16th, 1767, Andrew Jackson, the subject of this sketch, was born. The hither lived but a short time after the birth ofthaaon who was to bear his name, i and render it i.afitortn'., leaving the dieoooaolate widow to straggle with the difficulties Uiat attend the settlement of s . \ naw country. Tha jwoperty left to the family, was . wuau, vuv vj uiq energy w mrs. ^kCUOO ^ and her imo older *hw, H vm made to yield a comfortable subsistence. Hnch a mother an watched over the opening existence of the fatherleaa Andrew, is seldom given to children. Like the mother of the yoeng Napoleon, she waa gifted with a j * strong intellect while, in the strictness of \ v ber religious principles, flxednem of pur-y $ pose, and fnrlcmin of heart, she raeeinUff the old Oovonantera, from whom sha^sneendM. Had she lived in those Uytsblous titnea of her church when the V ftMfiU of Claverhottae vm making the .. y llWR Of Scotland ruddy with the blood of )U children, *he wou]jL have been among the flmt to reeiat the oftweaaor, even at the coat of her life. From her, Andrew derived hi# daring wririt, inthxihh' will, tire leaa energy, aud hatred of oppreanon.? i Tlte MaOirv of both her Iriah and Booteh anrewtora, had been one of wrong and cruelty IttfBded by EngKvh power, -%d i jm ihe recounted the paat to her Katening , ? child, deep and permanent impreaaion* were made that no change of cheumatanice* or time* could afterward* obliterate. Whether there waa aomething about ti*, Kftymgeet born,?in hw flaahew of youthful genius?the fervid and daring sprit, which even in boyhood would often hurst forth, or whether a deeper love liuking around the child of her bereavement, who bore the name of her lost companion, influenced her determination, at all events, she resolved, limited as her means were, to give him an education. True to the faith of her fathers, she dedicated him to God. That bright young intellect, whose developement she watched with such maternal solicitude, must bestow ita powers on no mere wordly object, and she resolved that he should beootno a herald of the cross?tliinVin/. - ? - ? '? soon tliat voice, instead of uttering accents of mercy, would ring loudest on the battle field. Amid the peaceful studies of Waxliaw academy, to which Andrew had been sent to commence his education, passed the first years of his boyhood. While here, the Revolution broke out, and though the conflict was principally in the northern "colonies, still the war notes which a free people uttered, found an echo in the bosoms of the inhabitants of South Carolina, and the battles of Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill?the news of the disastrous campaign that followed?the brilliant movement of Washington on Trenton? the toils aud sufferings of the American soldiers?the battle of Saratoga, and the surrender of Hurgovnc, fanned the flames of patriotism, and filled the hearts of young and old with a burning desire to strike one blow for their common country. Nor had they long to wait, for the desolating tide of war, soon lolled south, and the rallying notes of the bugle rang thro' the pine wisxls of Carolina. In 1778 Savannah was taken, and the riext spring the British troops passed over into South Carolina. They were met by the hardy yeomanry, among whom was Hugh Jackson, the elder brother of Andrew. He foil in his first battle, at St< mo, overcome by the heat and labor of the day. The next year Charleston sui rendered, and the British army, in three strong columns, pierced the state in three different directions. Colonel lluford, with four hundred men, slowly retired before the column under Corn wallis, who, hearing of the presence of his adversary, despatched Colonel Tarleton with two hundred and seventy dragoons, in pursuit. Colonel Buford was overtaken at Waxhaw, the home of Andrew, and cut to pieces. Out of the ' four hundred in his command, two hundred and sixty were left dead or badly i wounded, in the peaceful village of Wax- i haw. On the quiet green, along the ru- i ral street, around the humble cottages,lay the mutilated (todies, nearly all of them showing the ghastly wound! of the aabre. The fierce dragoons with their bugle blast and shouts, and trampling steeds, had come and gone like a whirlwind, leaving desolation in their path, while the silence that succeeded this sudden uproar, and short, fierce death-struggle, was broken only by the groans of the dying. The little village church was immediately turned into a hospital, and the inhabitants vied with each other in ministering to the wounded. Andrew was at this time but twelve years of age ; but as he listened to the tuniult of the battle, and afterwards gazed ou the ghastly spectacle, his young heart kindled into rage, and in that dreadful hour, the soldier was born. Not long after, as the marauders, under i Lord Rawdon, advanced towards the set- . tlements on the Waxhaw, marking their i course with rapine ami murder, Mrs. Jackson and her two remaining sons, together with most of the-inhabitants, fled into North Carolina, where tbey remained till the British commander was recalled to Camden. In July of this year (1780,) General Sumter made his gallant but unsuccessful attack on the British at Rocky Mount. Soon after, lie was reinforced by a party of Waxhaw settlers under CoL Davie, among whom were the two sons of Widow Jackson. Andrew, at this time, was but thirteen years old, and could scarcely stagger under the weight of his musket. It was sad to behold one so young marching to the carnage of battle; out there was a sublimity, a grandeur, about the gallant boy, that wins our highest admiration. It ir a terrible thing to have such a child cast into the midst of strife and bloodshed; and yet it is noble spectabie to behold so young a heart laid on the altar of hia country, so fresh a life offered a sacrifice to liberty. It waa hard for the solitary widow to part with her u Benjamin," the child of her love. Aa she strained him to her bosom she thought of the hardships and toilsome march before him, and alas! of the battle-field on which, perchance, his nale and innocent cheek would be pressed in death, while hia clotted locks lay tramjded in the earth"; yet, Spartan-like, the bade him, in God's name, go, and strike for the land of his birth. On the 6th of August, General Sumter attacked the British post at Hanging Rock. At first he wee soeoessfai; but, f aa ska.1 1^?If - -A * owing u> Hw nnuDwqnpioa Of some Of DM troopa, he *m at length compelled to retreat. The young Jackson* were to Out. Davie's corps, which fought gallantly to the last This was Andrew's frst buttle, and in it he showed the metal he was made of. Soon after this engagement, be returned to his mother, who again lied for safety to North Carolina. Here they remained tilL February, when they once more i romed the borders, in search of their home. '* The conflict which now raged with vio- ] fence to the Caroltoaa, was not ooeflned ?a iha ftattu.- .~a * ??. 1?? -t?i I T ' uui HTll | war hroko forth hi ad H* ftity. Town*, I w?d ?r?a fumlm, wwadtrfctoa; and wife V V ? HIVU ? V MIVII IIIC1IUIS All Hit" IllCftU' time, Andrew had re-entered the house, and, running to the west door, began, with two others, to fire <>n the eneinv. In a short time, botli of his companions wenshot down by his side; but the gallant boy, though alone, boldly maintained the contest. It was uncertain how this unequal conflict would end; when, suddenly over the crack of the musketry, there rang on the clear night air the shrill blast of a bugle, sounding the charge. The Tories, alarmed, turned and fled precipitately.? Andrew expected every moment to hear the tramp of cavalry sweeping along the road ; but no cavalry caine, and' he and his remaining friends kept undisturbed watch ever their dead and wounded comrades until morning. It turned out nfierwards that Major label, who was in the neighborhood, had heard the firing, and, supposing that Captain Land's house was attacked, snatched down his bugle, and blew a charge to alarm the assailants, though he had not a man with him. The coolness and self-possession of Andrew in this night attack exhibit a presence of mind and courage seldom witnessed in a tried soldier, and foreshadow the the great commander. In the mean time, Lord Rawdoo, hearing that the stubborn and patriotic Waxhaw settlers had returned, despatched Major Coffin with a detachment of infantry and dragoons to capture them.? the sturdy settlers were informed of their approach, but resolved to maintain their ground. Some forty of them assembled at the village meetir.g-hou.se, and were waiting for reinforcement which was momentarily expected, when the British detachment approached with the Tories, dressed in the garb of settlers, in front.? Deceived by their dress, the patriot) supposed them to be friends, till they were entering the village ; when, discovering their Mistake they leaped upon their horses and fled. The drago ns, however dashed in among them, srd captured eleven out of the forty. The two Jacksous were among the number who escaped. Andrew and his cousin. Lieutenant Crawford kept together; but, in galloping across a marshy fleld, the horse of the latter mired, and fell. Before he could recover hirasell he was fired upon, wounded, and taken prisoner. Andrew kept on, and soon after encountered bis brother, when the two continued their flight to Cain Creek, on the banks of which, in a dense thicket, they concealed themselves, till next rooming. Crouching like hunted panthers in their place of retreat, the two brother* passed a long and anxious night, and watched the son struggling up through the tree-tops with longing eyea. They however, dared not venture out till late ir die day; but, aa hour after hour passed by, and they heard no sound of pursuit th?f finally rwolved to tally forth in naarct of food, which they had not Uwted aina twelve o'clock the day before. The bourn of their mnm, Lieutenant Crawford, wai ear; and leaving their horeea tied in tin thicket, they eaatioualy approached it.? Unfortunately, a party of Toriee had die cowered their retreat, and immediately eur rounded the houee. tteeietance and ee eape were alike hopelrea, and they enrrari derod themaetvee prisoner*. A arene a ntAankua and brutality followed. Thi the success of the British, the Tories in creased both in numbers and boMness,em in knowing the country thoroughly, ren dered concealment on the part of th< Whigs difficult. The patriotic inhabitant were compelled to be on their guard ai much as if surroutidod by hostile Indians Andrew and his brother, therefore, witl others, kept their horses and guns to Ix ready at a moments warning for any en terprise that might offer itself. One nighi a Captain Lands, an officer in the relx* army, came to the Waxhaw to spend ? night with his family. Fearing his arri val might be known to the Tories, whc would at once capture, him, a guard 01 eight men volunteered to keep watch around the house. Andrew and his eldei brother Robert were among the number No si^ns of disturbance having beer seen during the evening, the party lay down on the floor of the house and wcnl to sleep. One of them, however, being u British deserter, .md fearing re-capture, could not so easily compose himself. The night wore on, and all was still without save the music ot running water; ??,i ??.v.:?i??~i ? -uu wci jruiiup; Iicwsmwi IT|Wlie STH1 SSICty. Hut a little after midnight, the llritith deserter, who sat, wide awake, outside the door, thought he heard a noise near tire stable, and, stealing cautiously out saw a party of Tories stealthily approaching the house. Hushing back, he seized the person lying nearest the door by the hair, exclaiming, MThe Tories aro upon us I the Tories are upon us!" The sleeper thus aroused was the boy Andrew. Instead of showing the agitation natural to a lad of fourteen, he quickly snached up his musket, and running forth in the direction pointed out by the deserter, saw the dim outline of a body of inen silently advancing. Vesting his musket in the crotch of an apple tree, he stoutly hailed them. Receiving no answer, he hailed again, and still receiving no reply, he fired. A volley instantly followed, and the desertv fell dead by his side. The party, however, finding themselves discovered, halted, uncertain whether to advance or retreat. Hie house had a hall running directly through it, from east to west, with a door at cither extremity. The party at which young Jackson fired was appproaching tho east door ; but, in the mean time, another detachment had taken a slight cir cuit around the house, in order to stop the inmntes from escaping by the west entrance. The latter, mistaking the vollcv which had been discharged at Jackson for that of a sallying partv from the house, wheeled, M/l ri~wi ?I - house was sacked, the Airniture destroyed, i the clothes of the inmates torn in pieces, - and every indignity put on the family of a Mrs Crawford, without a word of rebuko s from the British officer in command. The s latter, coolly sentiug himself, ordeted An, drew to clean his boots. Tbo fiery young i republican, whose heart was swelhug with 3 suppressed wrath at the brutality lie was compelled to witness, indignantly refused, t when the dastardly officer struck at him I with his sword. Andrew, throwing up i his loft, arm to parry the blow, reeeived it on his hand, which was nearly half sever> ed. The officer then turned to the elder f brother, Robert, and peremptorily comi manded him to perform the utenial service, r Meeting witji tho same proud refusal, he, . in his cowardly anger, laid open the head i 01 tne unarmed tnan with a sword-cut, inr flieting a wound from which the sufferer . never recovered. i After this exhibition of cowardice and , ferocity, young Andrew, with his hand gashed and still bleeding, was placed on I n horse and ordered to lead the way to ; the house of Major Thompson, a gallant Whig. He was told that if he flinched, ' or failed to do as lie w as directed, he would i instantly be put to death. Forgetful of * his wound, and scorning the threfits'of his , captors, the noble boy thought only how he would save the American officer. Feari ing the latter might be at home, he rosori ted to a stratagem, that seems marvellous in a lad only fourteen years of age. Surrounded by vindictive men?assailed with threats of vengeance, and bleeding fast i from a ghastly wound, he still rose superior to the fear with which inan is always able to overcome a child, and self-collected and reserved, plotted in their very midst how he might thwart their plans. Knowing if he took the direct route to the house, their approach would not he discovered till it was too late for the fugitive to escape, he made a wido detour, and crossing fields and traversing patches of woods , at length cnmc in sight of the building from an eminence half a mile distant. As he cast his anxious eye down, he saw Thompson's horse tied near the house?a certain sign that the rider was within. The British dracroons immediniidw imt their steeds and dashed forward. ' feut before Ihey could reach the dwelling, Andrew, to his inexpressible delight, saw Thompson rush out, leap into the saddle, plunge boldly into tho creek near by, a&d swim to the opposite shore. The latter, seeing the dragoons pause on the brink of the rapid stream, afraid to croaa, turned and shouted back his curse and defiance, and then trotted, leisurely away. Andrei 'TaST'infl "brother with some twenty others, were then pl&ced upon horses and started for Camden, forty milt* distant. No food or water was allowed the prisoners dnring the whole route?the attempt even to snatch a handful of water from the streams they forded on the way, was resisted with a brutality, that would put a savage.to shame. ArrivingatdJnmden, they were thrust, with two or throe hundred others, into the redouht which surrounded the jail, and left, half-naked, and their wounds undressed, to suffer and to die. Andrew was separated from hi6 brother and Lieutenant Crawford, when their relationship was discovered, while, to add still inore to the horrors of hjp? confinement, nothing hut the moat disgusting bread was allowed him for food. One day as he sat by the entrance of his prison, basking in the warm sunshine of a spring day, the officer of the guard, struck by bis boyish appearance, began to question hiin. To his surprise, the highspirited lad, instead of complaining and appealing to his sympathy, boldly denoun ceil the treatment he and his fellow prisoners received, as inhuman, and unso'dicrlike. A report was immediately made,in the proper quarter, and meat was added to the rations, and comforts hitherto denied wero allowed. While the boy hero was thus counting the hours of his weary prison-life, growing old before bis time, he heard that (.toneral Greene was advancing to attack Cainden?indeed was already encamped on llobkirk Hill, only a mile from the town. Knowing that a battle would soon be fought, he dcterm'ned, if possible to witness it. From the eminence on which the jail stood, llobkirk Hill, and Greene's encampment were in full view. But soon i after the arrival of the American army, a 1 high, tight plank fence was built around the rodoul*, which effectually shut out all . the surrounding country. Young Jacki son, however, was not thus to be foiled^md i having obtained an old razor, used by the prisoner* to cut theirs provisions, he, on the night of the 24th of April, commenced > his attack on the planks. While the rest of the nriaoncrs were wninnrtl in klumfer f ho worked away, by the dim li the I i stare, hour after hour, and at length, to wards morning, ha succeeded n looaening ) a knot. Applying his eye to tba aperi turn thus made, h? found, to bis infinite , joy, that lie had a fine view of Oraene'a encampment. The next morning, aaceri taining that Rawdon was about to iaaue i forth with all his force and attack the I American entrenchment*, he mounted the i redoubt and placed his eye at the knot, hole to watch the progress of events, while i the prisoners gathered in a crowd below I to hear his report. What hopes and fears , alternately shook that young bosom aa he i watched the English column slowly sscen? ding ths hill, making straight for the heart ? of the American encampment His eye ? gleamed and his voice trembled, aa he 7 ?mw win iiiiin vAii jm avvn wtuvi wi r guard rapidly driven in, but when he he ird the artillery of fireene open, and he beheld the descending wing* of the Ann erica o army swoop like nn Might, on the contracted flank* of the enemy, erashf Ing them hi their headlong charge, a try I bf joy startled the hstenere below. And | again, us he caught a glimpse of Wash| irglon'a cavalry about to buret on thereat he believed the battle gained. But the sudden unexpected panic of the veteran Maryland Regiment, made the tide of batI tie nirain set airainst the imirW nrmv nnri w O _ r ; VI ",,u at length, with grieT aud anguish unspeakable, lie saw the latter rolled back, and disappear over the hill, while the English flag waved above the spot, where, in the morning, proudly floated the bannef ol his country. The excited boy, watching from far the wavering fortunes of his country?a group of prisoners standing breathless below, gazing intently on his form, to catch every word that fell from his lips, present one of the flnest scenes to the imagination, which our history affords, ltebecca, leaning from the battlemented castle, looking down cn the tumultuous fight at the base, and rejwjrting its progress to the wounded Ivauhoe, as he tossed on his impatient couch, docs not exhibit so much the true sublime, as this young republican, watching the progress of freedom's battle, and now in exultant, and now in mournful accents, reporting to the ragged, emaciated group beneath him, its changes and its disastrous issue. Soon after the retreat of Greene, young Jackson was surprised to hear that his mother was in town. From the moment her boys were taken prisoners, she had not ceased to devise means for their release. She had lingered round their prison walls, and prayed and wept in secret, over their fate. At length, through her influence,an exchange was effected, aud Andrew aud lipbcrt, together with five others were 841 at liberty in return for thirteen British soldiers, who had been captured by a Whig. The spectacle those two sons presented to their mother, was enough to break her Hpartan heart. The wound in Roliert's head had never been dressed, and he lookeel haggard anel wan, while the faces of both showed that they were infected with the small pox. The hospital was the proper place for them instead of the highway, still they resolved to start for their home. "They ha<l means only sufficient to procure two horses, one of which was given to Mrs. Jackson, while Robert was placed on the other, supported by his fellow-prisoners. Young Andrew trudged along on foot, with every vain in him swelhng with the fevei of disease. This sad, sick group, presented a sorrowful aspect, as past desolated dwellings, and deserted hamlets, they slowly travelled back to their homes. The second day, when within a few miles of the settlement, a sudden shower of rain overtook them, before fhey could reach shelter, which drenched the party to the skin, ami drove the small pox in on both the boys. They were immeiiiately taken dangerously ill, and the disease combining with the putri<l undressed wound, brought on inflammation of the brain in Robert, and in two days, he was dead. Andrew become delirious,and nothing but the constaut care and nursing of his affiieted mother, saved him from sharing the fate of his brother. Ho bad scarcely recovered his health, wnen uns ~ mother ot tnc liracchi," forgetting her own sorrows in the sufferings of her countrymen, resolved, with four or five other ladies, to go to Charleston, and, suocour, if jioasible, their neighbors who were there confined 011 board a prisonship. Her last surviving child demanded her attention nnd care at home, but she had long since placed him, with her other children and herself, on the altar of her country, and the successive immolation of the victims could not swerve her great heart from the sacrifice. Taking with them such supplies as they thought would be needed, these noble women commenced their tedious journey ol nearly two hundred miles to Charleston Having arrived there, they sought out th? British commander, and asked permission to go on board the prisonship and attend to the sick. Inhuman as the conduct ol the British had been, it was not in the heart of man to refuse this request, and it was granted. The stench and filth and malignant sickness that made that prisonship lite the crowded hold of a slaver in the horrors of the middle passage could not repel these angels of mercy from theii kindly ministering*. But Mrs. Jackson weighed down with h f heavy afflictions?having just aVison from the grave of one son and the sick bed of another?was not in a condition to combat successfully the effects of the putrid at uoaphere in which was raging among tho prisoners, sickened, and died Stn nger hands placed her in an unknown grave, and though her son in after years i /viiil<l nnl iIa kniuir In lior InmK linr mum. ory has been enshrined in the heart* o millions. Young Andrew was now alone in th< world. Amid the utter desolation of hit father's house, the orphan boy stood ant surveyed, with an angious heart, the work before him. Through what scenes o bloodshed, cruelty, oppression, and suffer ing; through what grievous afflictions In had passed ! How they had developet his character and matured his mind befori the time ; so, that, although but a bpy it years, he was a man in uiought, energy resolution and resources. . But as he contemplated the dcvastatioi that had swopt his home and left hin alone in the world, h- remembered tin u .11 ul. . 1 i imuu umv mvu^ni iv mi. iapi inuirr ihw been driven from the lend of his nativit; by English oppression; one brothe* h*< died on the battle-field, nobly repellinj English invasion ; another had sunk ur der English crueHv and barbarity; an< last of all, the mother he loved more tha his life had fallen a victim to EngHah ir humanity, and buried in an unknown, ur honored grave; and no wonder there b< eame planted in hi* heart aa mextingatti able hatwi^llwinMilmtlia 4>ha wfjf run up a long and bloody score, which, i with the accumulated interest of years, | i that orphan boy was vet to wipe out with i one terrible blow which should cover the British Isle with mourning. I After the death of his mother, he went ' to live with Major Thomas Crawford, and I still later, entered the fa/nily of Mr. White, ( an uncle of Mrs. Crawford. Cutndeil bav1 ing been evacuated by the enemy, tho P Waxhaw settlers were left unmolested.? Many of the wealthiest citizens of Charleston, who fled when the city was captured had taken up their residence at Waxhaw, with whom young Jackson became intimate. This led to habits of dissipation, and lie soon squandered the little patrimony left by the family. At the close of the war, these wealthy and gay companions returned to Charleston. Mounted 011 a splendid horse, the last of his property, Jackson soon followed them to seek his fortune. In the hotel at which he stopped, he found some of them engaged in a game of dice. In the recklessness of spirit, which had characterized him since he departed from the counsels of his mother, he staked his horse against a sum of money, and won. The sudden stroke of good fortune instead of iutoxicating him, as it would have any other character, sobered. The youthful follies to which all are subject, and which, in his case, were the result of his lonely condition, and the excitement they furnished him, were suddenly thrown aside, and he resolved to change at once his whole course of life. Mounting his horse, ho turned his head homeward, a wiser and a better youth. That long journey had not been in vain, for it had reformed him ; and day after day, as he rode thoughtfully towards home, the past (Mime back with fresh sorrow, and the gentle pressure of a mother's influence was felt upon his heart, and he resolved to devote himself to the profession to which in his infancy she had dedicated But after continuing his studies awhile, he changed his mind, and adopted the legal piofessiou as more congenial to his tastes, lie removed to Salisbury, in his native State, where, in the winter of 1780, ho was admitted to the bar. At this time, ho was but nineteen years of age, yet by his energy, good conduct, and superior ability, he soon won the confidence and esteem of the most influential men of the State, and two years after, without solicitation on his part, was appointed by the Governor solicitor for the western District of Carolina, now the State of Tennessee. Crossing the mountains to Jouesborough, he remained there several months. lie then visited the settlements on the Cumberland, where he louud that the debtors who composed a large portion of the j>opulation, had monopolized the services of , the only lawyer in their dictriet, and thus tied up the hands of their credit rs. Of course the latter flocked around Jackson, and he issued seventy writs the morning after his arrival. The rude and fierce frontiers-men did not relish this interferencnce with their plans, and they threatened him w ith personal violence if he did not desist. This was the only mode to be adopted successfully against such a man as Jackson, aiul he determined at once lo remain. There being no hotels or boarding houses in the settlement, he, together with Judge Overton, took up his residence in the family of Mrs. Donelson, a widow, near Nashville. Tho animosity which his arrival had excited soon began to manifest itself in attempts to embroil him in quarrels, and thus drive him out of the country. Men who dared not attack the young Caroli' nir.n themselves,hired bullies noted for their I p physical strength and brute courage,to do it for them. A flax-breaker, a huge,powerful ' man, of whom all the neighborhood stood in awe?was first Set upon him. Advan! cing in the full expectation of giving the . young lawyer a sound drubbing, ho was about to strike him; when the latter,whoso rapid movements and almost ferocity of , countenance when enraged took the sturdiest fighter all aback, aiezed the bully's winding-blades, that lay near, and boat . hini over the head with such violence that _ the bruised and astonished fellow begged lustily for quarter. He expected a regular fist-fight, and not such a fierce and ' murderous attack. Not long after this, while he was attent ding court in Sumner County, a noted fighter, whom he had never seen before. , deliberately walked up to him and trod on ' his feel. Jackson immediately seized a j slab that lay on the ground by his side, and sending the end full against the fel' low's breast, bore him heavily to the earth, f The crowd standing around then interfered and separated them. But the baffled and j enraged bully rushed to the fence, and, I wrenching out a stake, came back on j Jackson, swearing horribly, and threatenj ing to dash out his brains. The crowd f again attempted to interfere, when Jackson begged them to keep aloof, Rnd let , the villain come on. They immediately j drew back; when, with his slab poised like 8 a spear,and his gleaming eye fixed on that1 of his antagonist, he fiercely advanced upon liiiu. The terrified mau gazed for a ' moment on that embodiment of wratb, y then, throwing down his stake, leaped , over the fence, and ran for the woods.? B ITiysical force ho understood, and had j been accustomed to meet; but a human v soul on fire with passion was something enj tirely new, and he dared not meet it. It ~ was man taming a brute by his eye. Borne * nature* are capable of an excitement that I would paralyse a weak man, while the ij feature* transmit the pamion to the senses t. with such vivid oeaa, that the beholder reH coil* from the expression aa he would from ^ a blow. Jackson was one of tho*e; and ty when hi* excited soul flashed forth on his d Csce, hit brute antagonist forgot the alight frame before him :?nay, it swelled into gigantic proportions in his sight. These efforts 10 intimidate the young solicitor were soon aba?doueu ; i'or they found that the intimidation came from the other side. [CGSCLUStON KEXT WEEK.] MrlpH. - O?* * uci>viug>.a oupBcnoer. Tired and fntigued from a long day's ride ; covered with the dust we hud gathered on a dry, sandy road; we called at Squire Ilobb's to wet our mouth, rest our bones and have a chat with the Squire.? On our part, however, there was a disposition very soon to talk less and doze more. This, Hobbs?a good natured soul?perceived, as by intuition ; and soon left us to the soft influences of Nature's "sweet restorer." Now how long wo slept we needn't tell, and our readers needn't Know. It wasn't long, however, for loud talking in tho Squire's " otlice" soon aroused us, and wo listened to a conversation highly interesting to us. It seems that Joacnm Gulic, Old Joe a clever sober-sided, close-fisted neighbor of the Squire's?had called in to talk about " the craps" and matters and things in general. "Well, Squire," said Mr. Gulic, "do you know where a fellow can buy a right smart chance of a nigger boy, these times ? " Iteallv, Uncle Joe, I don't know, at this time. There was a sale in town last week, of some six or eight at one time." " There was ?" 44 Yes. And I got a right likely negro boy, eighteen years old, for $450. My word for it, I wouldn't take a thousand dollars for him to-day." 44 Just my luck?why, I never heard a word of it. Who told you, Squire!" 44 0, you know I take the paper. I saw the Riilo mwl ?a 1 l.n-1 ..uu ao * IU ??' to town any way, I went on the day of sale, thinking perhaps I might hit a bargain ; and I did hit a bargain sure." 44 Well, I swear, I have got to have a hand, somehow. You see I have nut in more than I have hands to work. Who's got a hand to hire any whores about ?" "You're too hard for me again, Uncle Joe; the hiring season is over. About a month ago all the negroes belonging to the estate of II , deceased, were out at auction : nnd I'm told tliey went very low." 44 The d?1 you say. Why didu't you tell me, Squire !" " I hardly know why. I saw it advertised in our paper, and I supposed everybody took that. More'n that, I didn't know you wanted to hire. Did you know I have sold niv Harden tract of land." 44 No, indeed. Who to ?" "Why to a rich old fellow from Alabama. It was day before yesterday ; and I got the " yallow boys," cash up?only six dollars per acre, lie said, that he came across our paper in " Old Alabamaho liked the description of the country; saw my wee bit of an advertisement, nnd came to see about it. We struck a trade in no time." 44 Jeruralem !! And here I've been trying to sell a tract of land for the last two years, and couldn't get a dollar and a half an acre. It's better land than your'n too, and you know it Squire. Well, what is, tis, and can't be 'tiser, but I reekon, Sqire, I've Wat you on sugar. I bought, last w eek, two barrels of sugar at ft wlintt luulw l?o?l v ?uvu v?vij w\ij viov uau iv/ u 7 cents. Heat that, eh ! "With all ease, Undo Joe?I bought i mine at 5 cents." "No, sir?I dontbelieve it. Now say where!" " At the house of W Co. I got a rare bargain. You see they advertised in the paper that they were selling off at cost. I knew groceries would go quick, so I went in and bought a year's supply. Their groceries were all sold before night, I didn t pay the monev either, for they look my U. S. Land Warrant at $1 25 ?. per acre. " Now. now, Squire ! that can't be, for my lawyer told me that it wasu't legal to sell my land warrant." " Very true, some timo ago ; but tho news come lately in the paper that Congress had made them assignable." " Well," tisn't fair !?it's rascally !? What right has these Editors to get all the news and keep it to themselves ?" "Ah ! Uuclo Joe, you misunderstand it. Editors and printers labor night and day to gather the news, and give it to the people?to instruct their readers?to inform them of all the improvements of the age ?and ameliorate the conditon of society. Their paper goes abroad, recommending our people and country to enteresting and intelligent emigrants. Can they labor thus for nothing? Should they not bo paid ? Is there a mat) who is not benefitted by a paper ? Is not every subscriber repaid four-fold for the pittance of $2, f inn iMiuncTii'iiuii prnu I " Stop, Squire! stop right there 1 I'm going to take the ynper. I'll talfc six,and Rend Rome back to my kinfolks in Georgia." 44 You needn't go far aa that,?here'* the Editor right in the room." Hero the pnrtiea mulled in upon us, where we were acting out moat admirnbiy a person fast asleep. It is enough for us to say, that after an introduction, the name of Joacuin Gulic was entered upon our note book as a sutacriber?paid in advance. And n< w, when the paitiee alluded to shall read this, we hope they will pardon us for giving to the public the substantial facta urged by the flynre?aiding us so snoot rnuiy m - a kubschiI sms."?Tkt Herald, Jeferton, Texut.