The New York herald., 1845-06-19

Saturday morning, there will appear beautiful
wood engraving OF St. Peters Church, a very taste
ful Gothic edfce lately erected at Chelsea.
o. The artist engaged in engraving portrait ol
General Jackson for this paper desired TO call al
the office this morning.
Jackson's Parentage and Personal Character.
We give in another column number of interest
ing anecdotes illustrative OF the personal character
of Andrew Jackson. They exhibit the characters-
tic traits of the man in most interesting manner.
The dauntless courage-the keen sagacity-the un-
conacerabe hrmness-the COOL calm sefpossession
in the hour OF difficulty and peril-the warm afiec-
tons--the earnest, mpulsive nature Of the hero,
are thus exempifed very strikingly. These anec-
dotes will, therefore, be universally read with the
greatest interest.
Itis circumstance worthy of note that three OF
the Presidents Of the United States Jackson, Mon
roe, and Polk, have sprung from the same race-the
Scottish colonists of the North Of Ireland.
Jackson certainly exhibited in an eminent degree
the strongest and best points of that ancestral char
acter, which presents a singularly happy union of
the stemer virtues that distinguish the Scot with
the strong impulses, quick perception, and warm
affections Of the Irish people. Washington, Jefer-
son, Madison, and the Adams, were of English
descent, and in the lives and characters of all, in
varying proportions, we can clearly trace the dis
tinctve traits which point to their Anglo-Saxon
origin. Van Buren has been the only descendant of
the Dutch colonists that has attained the highest
honors in the Union In this reference to the parent
age of our Presidents, suggest a subject
of study not little curious and by means unwor
thy of attention and philosophical investigation
The birth place of Andrew Jackson's father is still
pointed out to the stranger by the people of that dis
trict, in the North OF Ireland, with marked and pc
cular feelings Of pride "Thsre," the traveller will
be told, with an air if something of the greatest
interest was communicated ''there is the place
where the father of General Jackson was bornr'
Throughout the North of Ireland, indeed, the name
of Jackson is familiar as household word He is
identified in the minds of all with America-that
free America, Of which every man from his child
hood has heard so much-that land, amongst whose
citizens almost every family numbers near and dear
relatives. The Presbyterians of Ulster have always
been distinguished for their ardent attachment to
liberal principles; and it was in that very county
from which the parents of Jackson emgrated,
that the formidable society of s'Unied Irish
men," who produced the memorable rebellion of
1898, had of its chief strong-hods. The de-
scendants of these men retain all the unquenchabe
love of civil and religious liberty which character
zed their fathers, and their ancestry of still reno
ter period, who contended even unto the death, on
the muirs and amid the wlds and Businesses of Scot
land, against the tyrant and oppressor; and there is
spirit amongst those Northern Irlshmen that will
yet do good service in the struggle that must one
day come between monafchical despotism and hu-
man liberty in the British empire. To these peo-
pie the life and deeds of Jackson speak full Of hope
and promise and encouragement They regard him
taken from their midst. So, too, in the case Of
Mr. Polk, we find that his ancestral home in Scot
land has acquired degree of interest with the peo-
pie of that land, which evinces feeling something
deeper than mere curiosity. Even in these appa-
reny trivial things, the significant tokens of
that growing and pervading influence which this re-
public-its institutions, and its public men, and its
mighty popular movements-are exercising the
masses of Great Britain. But this is subject to
which we can now only thus casually glance.
We intend to continue these anecdotes of Jack
son, and will in the series introduce many which
have not yet been published.
Our Relations with Mcxico-Peacc or War ?
The developments which have taken place du-
ring the last few days, and the accounts received
from Mexico, Texas, and Havana, through New Or
leans and elsewhere, are not so warlike and mena-
cling the peace of the two countries in relation to
the annexation question they were formerly
Amongst other significant indications of this altered
condition OF affairs, the release of Santa Anna
his banishment from Mexico-and his presence in
Havana, afford very important hints in enabling us
to estimate the present position of Mexico as re-
spects the policy and purposes of its present govern
ment. Amongst commercial men both in Vera
Cruz and New York. and their correspondents, the
general impression is prevalent and strong that
peace will be maintained and that Mexico will sub
nit to the inevitable result Of annexation.
Yet there are some points not sufficiently solved
in relation to this matter. And first, it has been
peatedy stated for several days past, that Mexican
army has taken possession Of the disputed territory
between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, and i
seems that even in Texas there has been great di
vision of public opinion to the propriety Of the
claim ofMexico to the line fthe Rio Grande, (which
includes Santa Fe and an extensive territory reach
ing to California. Still that annexation will
take place now seems certain. The recent develop
ments made by General Houston in New Orleans
when he excused himself and apologized for his
equivocal conduct and that of Jones, the present
President of Texas, in relation to the secret nego
tations with Mexico for independence, have entire
ly removed all doubt to the ultimate result of the
movement. However discreditable it may be tc
public man to acknowledge thatthey had been guilty
of deception towards dplomatists of other coun
tries, still we cannot help being amused on finding
that the dupe has been Mr.. Commissioner Elliott
who appeared to think himself quite too cunning
bird to be caught with chaff, and who was, we oan
not doubt very actively engaged in the efortto dupt
the others. A better man than Mr.. Elliott could mo-
easily have been selected as diplomatic agent ID
Texas. He is fine, joval, off-hand, hearty "hail
fellow, well-met." He kept open house at Calves
ton-treated all the official personages and others
with the greatest hosptality-had glorious wines
and entered into all the amusements and social en-