Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-10-01
Jackson and Polk when Boys.

In the neghborhood of Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, (says the Charleston Standard, there lived,
until within the last two years aged lady, whose
many recoections of early life were very interes-
ing. One, we remember, afforded us great amuse
ment. Gates had been defeated the shattered
fragments of his army had been swept like the de-
bris of tempest past her secluded home ; her ia
Their and brothers all out under some partisan
leader; the tories were forming a nucleus of or
ganization, about the Waxhaw, and supposing this
would attract the attention of her relatives, and
seeing young man riding from that direction, she
was told by her mother to learn the news from him.
She was buxom lass of sixteen summers, educa-
ted in the freedom of the country, and being toler
ably assured of her ability to cope with any body,
was nothing loath to go, and gave us the following
story of the meeting:-The lad seemed an honest,
well-meanng body, but not much in the way Of
looks. He was thin and awkward and bilious, and
rode CRASHED colt, that reeled about so [ Won
dered how in the world it carried him.-"How do
you, do sir' says I. GLOW doyou do, nam, says
he Says I, (which way did you come from %
Il come from the Waxhaws' .'Dd you see or
hear anything of our people down there - mo
says he, ''but there some tories about there,
and we pops them down sometimes" Thinks l.
you look like funny fellow to pop any body down,
but did not say SO; just asked him. ''Where
are you going?'' 81 am going to Uncle Mellow
all's. I've had the chills for long time, and |
want to stay uphere until get we'll. And what
! is your name ?" my name is Andy Jackson"
The old lady had to the day of her death, the
appearance of this young man SO indelibly impress
ed upon her mind that she could never realize his
Importance, and it always struck her excessive
ly whimsical and ridiculous that such looking
customer could ever become President of these
United States.
She had the same difficulty with respect to Mr.
Polk She had known him when a child he
would stay for months at her house and go to school
with her children, and was SO easily outdone and
so put upon by other boys of his age, that she
could form high opinion of his abilities she
always, from the force of habit, called him little
Jenny, and we think never mentioned him in
connection with the presidency without feelings of
jirrepressble amusement.
Poor old lady she stood for eighteen years
alone in the world her children and grand children
all were dead, and none could hear her indulging
in "reminiscences of her early life without a sense
of how great blessing it was to have rich so-
ry of early memories,
1t is reported that the Grand Lodge of the Uni
ted States, l. o. o. F., now in session in Philadel
phia, has voted donation of $500 to the suffer
ers by the epidemic at New Orleans, and $3.50 to
those at Mobile. The New Orleans Bulletin bears
testimony to the devotion and care of the Order
in that city to the sick, and states that ever since
the fever broke out, they have literally supplied
the necessary wants and procured nurses for every
one gifts members who have been Frustrated, while
hundreds of others who were strangers in the city,
but belonging to the Order in different sections
of the country, as well as many who have no con-
nection with it, have been freely and kindly cared
for by them. This has involved them to large
pecunary extent and the Bulletin calls upon the
Order throughout the country to come to their re-
lief by contributing such sums as may be convent
ent
DIED at one o'clock yesterday morning at his
plantation above Carrollton, HARRY R. W. HILL.
The deceased was a native of Halifax county, N.
c. and had resided great number of years in this
city, where his upright conduct in business, the
honorable and liberal spirit which he displayed to-
wards all with whom he had dealings, his kindness
and muniicence to the poor and distressed gained
him host of friends, and will embalm his memory
in the hearts of thousands who were witnesses or
partakers Of his goodness. His age was Sc years
He fell a victim to his benevolence in nursing and
attending to sick persons on his plantation and in
its vicinity, from whom he took the fatal malady.
The world contains few such men as Harry Hill
: He seemed to live only to do good-and to that
, which he used that wealth, placed it beyond the
reach of every envy-every one that knew him ad.
mitted that it was well bestowed upon such pos
5 sessor.-N. O. Courier Of Sunday,
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) The New York Sunday Atlas says it has been
the practice of Capt. Isaiah Rynders, of the En-
pire Club. all his life to keep diary in which is
recorded all his political, financial and personal
exploits, and that be is now writing book for the
press which will contain all the minute reminis-
) cences Of his political operations.