Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-11-19

died at Washington, April 4, 1871, aged
60.
TO- JOHN TYLER is native Of Virginia;
was elected vice president OF the United
States in 1910; and became president by
the death Of William II. Harrison.
GEN. ANDREW JACKSON ALL military
men who have made themselves acquain-
ted with the position Of the English and
American armies near New Orleans, af
ter the battle ofthe 9Th Of January. 1915,
are decidedly Of the opinion, that had
Gen. Jackson pursued the British army
after their deteat, the chances were nine
in ten that lie would have destroyed the
whole Of them. So satisfied was Gen.
Gaines Of the certainty Of success which
would have attended pursuit, that on his
arrival at New Orleans, OH the evening
Of the 9el Of January, and in his first in
tcrviews with Gen. jackson, he pointed
oat to him the brilliant opportunity he
had lost OF adding to his own reputation
aud that OF the nation, without jeopardiz-
ing thcsatety OF the country.
II saw the opportunity that presented
ITSELF said the General, s'and with q per-
fec. knowledge Of everything attending
our respective situations, estimated the
chances in my favor even higher than
you do. Success was almost certain, but
would have been attended with terrible
destruction Of human hfe, aud there was
u possibility oil failure! What would
have been the consequences of sucn tail-
urc!-Would the conquest Of the British
army have rendered the country my
safer than it now is by their defeat? How,
then, could have justified to rejecting
people, even il had succeeded, on act
which might have been attended with such
disastrous effects? Believing rs did.
that the safety Of The country did not re-
qulre their capture, would not consent
10 purchase additional laufcls by the sac
ritice OF some eight or ten hundred ot'my
fellow citizens, whu had assumed arms In
defence Of their native soil, and not u
win reputation for their leader"
On relating this annecdotc, Gen Gaines
remarked, II had long known Gen. Jack
son to be q mer,oriotis; high minded man,
but never ill then did properly estl
mate the patriotism which had marked
|every act OF his pubic life, and laugh,
him to despisc personal fame. And. inli
mate intercourse with him los. many years
has lorcibly, impressed upon me the con
vsction. that both as public and private
nan, he more closely resembles Wash
ling,on, than any individual that America
has produced. "-American Anecdotes.
ABSENCE OF M1aD.-We have just GO
our finger upon an old case OF absence o
mind, that is infinitely better than any
thing modern VIC have ever seen. Ii
some respects, La Fontaine was not un
like Oliver Goldsmith; both were forget
Iiul, generous, unaffected. The French
poet almost forgot he had q wife; ane
when his friends told him it was shame
to absent himself from her, promised Il
call and sec her.-The servant, no
knowing HIM, SAID she wi s gone K
church; upon which he returned to Pari:
in the company Of his friends. Bein:
l one day III q house, his sen came in; bu
not having seen him for some time, he
did not recognise him, but remarked t
some Of the company that het shough
him very promising lad. lie was iose
this promising lad was his own sou
. Aha!" exclaimed the poet, upon my
soul, I'm very glad to hear IT.
The English language contains atou
l4O 900 words, $4,000 Of which arr
primi,iyes; lworthirds are direct from
tho Latin or through the naQd,um Of m
French; the res, arc compounds from til
Latin aud Greek.
ssl'm not in the yein," as the lance
lsaid when i. went through the man
arm.
4 sOut Of darkness comes light" us III
ldcrR said when he looked at tho ink kes