Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-05-07
From the Now York Express.
GENT. JACKSON.

The value which the brave and humane
General Taylor sets upon the Hve res; OF us SUI
diers. as manifested in his unwilingness to
throw awav fifty or hundred OF Them unne
cessarilv. in storming Monterey, has sugges-
ted to friend characteristic anecdote OF zen
eral Jackson. strongly evincng the same trait
in that stern. valiant and unquestionably sa-
pacious commander, TO whose memory the Gill;
cumstance does such honor that we are happy
to be able to present it to the public, on the
high authority of the person to whom jackson
made the statement Our informant arrived
at New Orleans on the fourth of February,
1915, (about four weeks after the crow
ming victory over the British,) and being an
intimate personal friend of Jackson, proceeded
to the generals headquarters, and passed
nearly the whole night in conversation with
him, mainly, upon the incidents OF the recent
great battle After narrating many OF the CIR
cumstances Of the conflict, General jackson
said-s'i suppose you have wondered why
permitted the British army to retire from the
field and make good their retreat, without al
tempting to hinder or moless them, alter they
had been so thoroughly crippled in their at
tack on our lines" His friend replled-"No,
General, did not; because knew you would
not have taken the course you did, without
good reason {" Yes said Jackson, 81 had
good reason formy conduct | knew that my
brave volunteers were invincjble, in their pa
triotism, and that, behind those breast-works,
thew could defend themselves against the best
troops in the world. But knew that in the
open field their want OF military experience
and discipline would expose them to terrible
loss from the fire of the well drilled veterans
of the British army, still capable of opposing
several complete battallions to met is true,
could have routed them and cut off their re-
treat, and destroyed or captured their whole
force; but it would have been at the sacrifice
of hundreds of my best volunteers unne-
cessary sacrifice, because my success was COM
plete withoutit had done all that was to
be desired. And then--to think of throwing
away the lives of my brave volunteers said
| the old General, indignant at the idea of such
wanton sacrifce-''my brave Tennessee
volunteers many of whom, mere boys OIL
eighteen and twenty, were brought to me al
Nashville from the country by their parents
in some instances by their widowed mothers
who said to me, Here General, is our only
son'-or' as sometimes when one parent
brought three or four boys to me, Here are
our sons! Take them, and make then
fight for their country! Make good soldiers
of them! But don't expose them unne
cessarily! Take good care of them, General
Why, continued Jackson, 'by the Eterna
God | wouldn't give the lives of twenty
of my brave Tennessee volunteers for thu
whole British armyn
A powerful expression of that generous hu
mainly which so well becomes true courage
and OF a just appreciation of the value of tht
life of an American citizen And, much a.
we regret to repeat the characteristic protani
ty which accompanied it, we are reminded by
associations of the oath of which Sterne says
The ascending spirit who flew up to heavens
chancery with it, blushed as he gave it in; anC
the recording angel, as he wrote it down, drop
ped tear upon the word, and bIotted it GU
FoREvER!''
We rejoice to know that Taylor, with all o
Jackson's successful courage, has in no par
ticular less than Jackson's humane horror o
the waste of his gallant soldiers lives for tn
empty glory OF the determination OF conquer
ed and retreating foe.
BEES-HIVING AND SWARG1ING.
Mr.. EDITOR: As | have assisted in hiving
two or three hundred sWarms of bees, my eX
perience may be of use to some who are les
acquainted with this part of their management
[ am well aware that many persons do no
keep bees, for the sole reason that they do no
know how to hive them.
When | first had the care of bees, it wa
my practice to make all the noise that | coult
at the time my bees swarmed, to induce then
to light, but | soon become satisfied that tn
noise was of no use; for am convinced tina
it is almost universally their custom, to ligh
in the immediate vicinity of the present stock
if undisturbed and left entirely to themselves
| have, to my knowledge, had only twt
swarmS to leave at the time of swarming.-
One OF these was a swarm that melted down
at which time the bees all came upon the out
side of the hive and the contents were reno
we'd vet they never entered the hive, but re
manned two or three days on the outside an
then left for the forest. | accompanied then
to their new abode, about one fourth of mil
from the bee-house. They had evidently Sc
ected the place, as they went in as fast a
they had lit upon the tree.
The other think left in consequence O
there being nothing convenient for them t
light upon-for at this time | had very fey
trees near my bee-house This swarm, Xix
the other, moved very slow, SO that wake
along with it about half mile, when it alight
ed and was hived. This, evidently, had n
place selected, for they appeared to be search
ing all the trees around them for place, an
so numerous were they about the trunks G
the trees, that they were very much in on
way when living.
When the bees have gone up into the hive
it should be Immediately let down so as t
exclude the light, as think more swams al
lost from this neglect than all other causes
There is nothing iaughable in the practice {
making noise, to induce swarm to ligh
yet | do think it is worse than useless If
swarm does not readily light, and appears t
be making for the forest, if not disturbed
will move very slow and can be easily follow
ed whereas, if it be followed by nois
throwing dirt, &c, it will move quite fast an
consequently it cannot be pursued. am col
. tident, that person who observes the alloy
+ directions about hiving, and adopts the pra
tce of not disturbing his bees at the time
swaming, will rarely mourn the loss of
r warm.-MdSSachuset Poughman.
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