Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-04-23


day or two before my arrival in the WI
lage, to an old friend who accompanied
me there on business with some other
merchants. recollected, too, that the re-
quest was made while we we're on walk
through the " &c, that a lady was close
behind us all q time, and my friend who
saw her face, thought she must be an an.
gel. She turned out 10 be one!
My horse was sent back to the stable,
and the next morning | was leaving the
village and the beautiful Ellen, aud my
fifteenth cousin and his family, as fast as
steam could carry me.n
TIE HERYiTAGE.-We make the fol-
lowing interesting extract from letter Of
the Hon. ISAAC Hill, to The New Hamp-
shire Patriot, describing visit to the ven
cradle Patriot Of the Hermitage on the 4th
insant:
81 found Gen. Jackson better in health
than | expected; yet so weak, if it were
any other man, could scarcely suppose
he would live a week. For the last four
months he has not attemted TO take bis Gus
tomary meals with the family. He sits
through the day in a well.constructed easy
chair, with his writing materials, his mini
allure bible and hymn book before him. =
To him are brought as soon as the mail
arrives, the newspapers; and during the
four days ! tarried at the Hermitage, his
first inquiry was for the daily Washington
newspapers, and the letters bearing the
postmark-of the capital. With all his DO.
div weakness, his intellect seems to have
been frightened and matured by time,
and his attention TO the most minute pub
lie affairs is greater than that of some Of
the most wary statesmen and politicians
engaged in public life. The all absorb
ing topic with him now is the annexation
of Texas. His correspondence,with Gen.
Houston and others, has given him q
knowledge Of the state of that question:
as il exists in the interests and feelings Of
the people OF that country and oil the
Western States, that is not generally IN
dersiood by the people. His feeling fol
| Tue ICSult VI lHc NOtC III NIiO 9OhNto WOE
intense, and his whole countenaneC
frightened at the annunciation in letter;
/ of two successive days, that a minority Q
the Senate would probably vote for tn
resolutions.
"The General has heightened out hi
f life for years by bis prudence and absii
/ nencc. His complaint is pulmonary: one
lobe of the lungs he believes to be entire
" consumed. This condition is showr
t by the shortness of breath, which almos
| entirely precludes the benefit Of persona
| exercise. When he moves, it is SO quiet
, " as TO produce no disturbance. His fee
/ and ankles are swollen from continued sit
ting, and finds substitute for sautary OK
erclso only in the bathing of his limb
1 every evening in those emolienls calculo
r ted to produce a healthy action Of tn
, skin. Weak as he is, he shaves with hi
, own hand, and combs and adjusts the am
, pie gray hair which continues 10 add I
, the dignity Of his appearance.
r "Itis not age simply that has reduce
Q the old Hero 10 his present weakness
: Had his life been that OF thousands Of tn
j present generation, he might have lived I
! be an hundred years Of age, and no NOR
1 exhausted than he now is. Exposure ]
/ the campaign Of 1915 brought on dial
4 rhna, which continued with more or les
violence for four months, and which wa
/ cured after the case seemed 10 be hope
less. In the Seminole campaign Of 1915
he had hemorrhage Of the lungs, whic
5 was probably the commencement Of th
/ disease ever afterwards gnawing his yitals.
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