The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-16
Washington and Jackson.

MT. bancroft, the historian, relates the follow
ing aneodote of the Father of his Country:
'once. while in New Jersey, coming out to
mount MS horse, he found a child beside il. at
tracted oy the trappings. He placed the child
upon the horses back, and led it around the
yaro' win Its youthful ioyance. 1t was to Wash
lngtons honor, that although Heaven did not
bless him WITH offspring, he had a heart to love
eaitaas3A ssn'istake them to his bosom
Mr. Hlidreth, with equal justice and proprie-
~ relates an interesting anecdote of the revered
Jackson; the mar whose iron will prompted him
20 take the responsibility" when duty ctlled
him to do IL and before whose infexible deter
mlnatlon all Obstacles surmouutable by human
effort were forced to give way.
After the battle Of the Great Horse Shoe, in
which nearly thousand Indians were kill ed
and two hundred and fifty prisoners were taken.
all women and children, the men having been
extermlnated, the following incident occurred
The grim General who presided over the bloody
scene, which seemed TO carry US back to the
early Indian wars of New England had still
tender spot in his heart. Moved by the wall of
an Indian infant, picked up from the field, whose
mother had perished during the battle Jackson
strove to induce some nursing women auonr the
prisoners to suckle it. '.Its mother is dead !"
was the cold answer. 'slet the child die too -
The General, himself childless man, turned
nurse himself. Some brown sugar formed a.
part of his private stores, and with this he eau
sei the cnllu 10 De ted. he even took 1t home
with him and reared it up in his own family.
The Republication of the above has reminded
us OF an account given up. some years since, by
n highly respectable gentleman, who was pre-
sent with others, when Gen. Jackson was the
occupant of the Presidential mansion at Wash
lngton- When breakfast was announced the
venerable patriot. with his guests, entered the
room at one door, when Mrs. Donaldson with
her two children entered another at the opposite
end. Immediately on seeing him, they ran to
him to receive the morning kiss. Extending
his arms, and bending his yet graceful form, he
them with all the fondness of a doating parent
They returned to their mother, and all were soon
seated at the table. Bowing his head, with the
humility of a dependent suppliant. conscious of
the rectitude of his intentions, and yet feeling
and direct the Judgment. he devoutly
invoked the blessing of God. The was
deeply affecting, and drew tears from eyes unu-
sed to weeping. Such was Andrew Jackson at
HOME. When called upon to defend his country,
on the battle field, or to preside over her coun-
ellis in seasons of peril, he decided, resolute
and irresistible. His mind, wonderfully intui-
tive. comprehending at glance that which those
of inferior intellectual powers could only reach
and comprehend by a laborious process of inves-
tigation, ''a law unto itself" He ac-
cused of rashness, when he should have been
praised for superior wisdom. But while in
IN amer he was the accomplished gentleman. his
true manhood was most conspicuousy displayed
in the sphere of the social and domestic atfec-
tions While embalmed in the admiration of his
friends, he will be immortalized by the blind
of his enemies.