Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-05-06
From the Richmond Wing,
MAJOR LEE AND HIS PUPIL.

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MAJOR LEE AND HIS PUPIL.
1t Is said the Nashville Committee exercise
a stric, espionage over the newspapers, and O.
yer the letters, forwarded 10 Gen. Jackson; for
fear that some of the structures on his charac-
ter and conduct, meeting his eye, might, in evil
moment, occasion an outbreak. We approve
their caution; and were they to extend their in
QUESTION still f.r,her, TO the letters written by
the General himself, it might perhaps prove
still more ~salu,ary 10 the Cause they have un-
dertakeu to support. A friend describes the
General as most devou,ly and laudibly studious.
He has gone back 10 The elements, and daily ex-
~ercises in Murray. When he writes, he i, flank
ed by Walker on one side, and a Dictionary OF
quotations Recommended by Major Lee as a
most valuable auxiliary to the learned on the
other. His progress is SAID 10 be lattering,
having since the elections in New York last
fall (tha, is since his own election had become
~cer,ain) arrived at the %conjugating OF verbs
Major Lee, casually meeting with the story of
the conjuga,ing Du,chman, that lately went
the rounds of the newspapers, arIfuily threw it
in the way of his pupil, hoping that the General
would prof, from the exam pie Of tina. ingenious
and Industrious person He was not mistaken
in the conjecture. The General laughed hear
,ilv at the means the Dulchman had taken 10
perfect himself in The moods anc lenses; and
ihs Major, tho same evening, had the satiSfac-
,iun OF overhearing him ~conJugating 10 himself
after the manner OF his model Major Lee takes
no small credit to himself for this ingenious
stratasem, and it is thought it will fin a place
in The Biography; but as the General, who is
10 revise that work, may not so well like The
anecdote, we think this improbable. So de-
lighted is the General with hi, new occupation,
that instead Of proposing like Jack Cade, when
he shall be king, 10 pu, TO death every man who
can read and write, he is determined 10 be ,
patron Of lean ming. When the mind takes so
much delight in its occupation, improvement,
Of course is rapid, and accordingly Major Lee
writes TO Major Eaton, under date April the
first, that the progress The General had made
was astonishing, and that he intended very
shortly TO Carry him on to The Diversions Of
Purley. He farther observes, that the General
could now parse quite iucntly, and that in a let
ter lie had written the day beIo;e 10 Governor
Houston there was not more than one word in
ten spell wrong He is quite in raptures with
he native capacity of his scholar, and AYERS his
belief nat il the Generals mind in youth had
taken the direction of letters instead of arms,
he would have been like another Pangloss, an
l.. l.. d. and a.. S. S.
In a postscript the Major brags. that there were
more words ~mis-spelt in IIouston's letter to the Gene.
raj, than in the Generals reply.
The Generals Or~thography mol so bad as
repreSeafed..-A writer in the Washington
under the signature OF "No Peda- |
asserts. without denying The auihenti.
city Of the Uerbahm epistle OF the General to
Mr.. Campbell, that there are not TO be found,
after the most rigid scrutiny, a dom words
NJ SPELLED in a letter containing upwards OF
one Thousand words! Qui,e consoling this
The Same writer links the above fact is full
proof OF the f1isehood Of the assertion, that a
Member Of Congress (supposed 10 be Mr..
Sloane ofOhio) has in his possession an auto.
graphic letter from The General which contains |
twenty-ihree words misspelled in twenty-five
manuscript lines. Quite conclusivc.-The
also gathers some further consolation
from the fact, that if the Generals letters are
badly spelled, they are acknowledged 10 be well
Long and Taluabe Services.--The New
York Republiean kson.C Committee,
in a voluminous Circular to the Electors Of the
State, speak very exultingly Of the "Iong and
valuable civil services Of General Jackson"
Without thinking ii hardly worth the pains TO
contradict the assertions of these Men Of Co.
ham, that he was appointed-a District Attor-
ney Of Tennessee, by Washington, and tina, he
EVER held a seat in the A assembly of that State,
which, nevertheless, are untrue; a writer in the
Journal, who is well ac acquainted with
he chapter and verse of his subject, says, That
lie did serve as a Representative in Congress
rom Dec.5, 1896, to March3, l7e7-Did serve 7
a The Senate for a few months, and as his bi.
'grapher and the journals inform US, gave ST. {
ent votes in the minority-one Of which votes,