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

day or two before my arrival in the VII
lage, to an old friend who accompanied
me there on business with some other
merchants. recolected, too, that the re-
quest was made while we were on a walk
through the village, that lady was close
behind US all the time, and my friend who
saw her face, thought she must be an an
gel. She turned out TO be one!
My horse was sent back to the stable,
and the next morning was leaving the
village and the beautiful Ellen, and py
fifteenth cousin and his family, as fast as
steam could carry me" -
The HERM1TAGE.-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
instant:
81 found Gen. Jackson better in health
than / expected; yet so weak, if 1t were
any other man, could scarcely suppose
he would live a week. For the last four
months he has not attemted to take his Gus
tomary meals with the family. He sits
through the day in well-constructed easy
chair, with his writing materials, his mini
ature 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 bo-
Oily 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 a
knowledge of the state of that question,
as it exists in the interests and feelings of
the people of that country and OF the
Western States, that is not generally I'M
derstood by the people. Ills feeling for
the result of the vote in the Senate was
intense, and his whole countenance
frightened at the annunciation in letters
of two successive days, that majority OF
the Senate tvauld probably voio for tir-
resolutions.
"The General has heightened out his
life for years by his prudence and absti-
nence. His complaint is pulmonary: one
lobe of the lungs he believes TO be entire
ly consumed. This condition is shown
by the shortness of breath, which almost
entirely precludes the benefit Of personal
exercise. When he moves, it is so quiet
ly as TO produce no disturbance. His fee
and ankles are swollen from continued sit
ting, and finds substitute for salutary ex.
erclse only in the bathing of his limb:
every evening in those enolienfs calcuIa.
ted to produce healthy action of the
, skin. Weak as he is, he shaves with hi:
, own hand, and combs and adjusts the am
pie gray hair which continues 10 add tc
the dignity Of his appearance.
is not age simply that has reduced
, the old Hero TO his present weakness
, Had his life been that of thousands of the
present generation, he might have lived tC
be an hundred years of age, and no more
J exhausted than he now is. Exposure il
the campaign OF 1915 brought on diar
rhea, which continued with more or les
violence for four months, and which wa
cured after the case seemed TO be hope
less. In the Seminole campaign of 1918
he had hemorrhage of the lungs, which
was probably the commencement of tn
RI disease ever afterwards gnawing his vitais.'