Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-28

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while prosecuting his experiments: Isl
From the first moment that the concepfiont sn-
tered his mind until his complete
irg period OF from sixteen to eighteen iyeaEs-hs
applied himself increasingly and enthusisstseelyfto
it's perfection and to its Introduction into USE IN
every form that his faithful genius could devise! So
intensely wefe his faculties concentrated upon that
he seems to have been incapable of thought or ac-
ton upon any other subject. He had no other &c.
cupation, was inspired by no other hope cherished
no other ambition. He carried continually about
his person a piece of India rubber, and into the
ears Of all who would listen he poured necessarily the
story of his experiments and the glowing language
of his prophecies. He was, according to the wit.
nesses, completely absorbed by it, both by day and
night pursuring it with untiring energy and with
almost superhuman perseverance,.
"Not only were the powers of his mind and body
thus ardenty devoted to the in. enton and its intro
duction into USE but every dollar he had or could
command through the resources of his credit or the
influences Of friendship, overwhelmingly cast in
to that seething caldron of experiment, which was
allowed to know repose. The very bed on which
his wife slept and the linen that covered his table,
were seized and sold to pay his board, and we see
him with his stricken household following in the fun.
era procession of his child foot because he had no
means with which to hire carriage. His family
had to endure privatons almost surprising beiet,
being frequently without an article of food in their
house. or fuel in the coolest weather-and, indeed,
it is said that they could not have lived through the
winter of 1889 but for the kind Offices of few char
table friends. They represented as gathering
sticks in the woods and on the edges Of the high
ways with which to cook their meals, and digging the
potatoes of their little garden before they were half
grown, while of his hungry children in spirit
worthy of his father, heard expressing his thanks
that this much had been spared to them.
"We often find him arrested and incarcerated in
the debtors prison, but even amid its gloom his
vision of the future never grew dim his faith in his
ultimate triumph never faltered. Undismayed by
discomftures and SORROWS which might we'll have
broken the stoutest spirit, his language everywhere
and under all circumstances was that Of encourage.
ment and of profound convection of final success.
Not only in the United States did he thus exert him.
self to establish and apply to every possible use his
invention, but in England France, and other coun-
tries of Europe he zealously pursued the same ca
In 1855 he appeared at the WoIld's Fair in
Paris, and the Golden Medal and the Grand Cross Of
the Legion of Honor were awarded to him as the
representative of his country's inventive genius
Fortune, however, while thus caressng him with
hand, at the same moment shifting him
with the other; for learn from the testimony
that these brilliant memorials passed from the En-
peror, and reached their honorcd recipient then the
occupant of debtors prison. among strangers and
in foreign land-thus adding yet another to that
long sad catalogue of public benefactors who have
stood neglected and impoverished in the midst Of
the waving harvest of blessings they have bestowed
upon their race"
GEN. JACKsoNs BIRTHPLACE.-The Lancaster
Ledger, in noticing the recent letter Of Col. Daven-
port, of Virginia, claiming Gen. Andrew Jackson as
Virgnian, says:
That if the statement put forth by those good old
people of Virginia, upon which Col. Davenport pre-.
dicates his claim establishes the fact that An.
drew jackson" was born in that State aud removed
with the intention of coming to this District it does
co1 -.
and statesman of history.
The family of jackson was Scotch, and emigrated,
at eazy period to the North Of NTH Ms
eons nah and Roher, ,eft TEL Trel.nd snd iandad in
Charleston in 1865, and removed to the Waxhaws
there to reside Maj. Robert Crawford with others
of the Crawford family, came oyer with him and
likewise settled in the Waxhaws. Andrew Jack
son died shortly after his arrival in this country
and just before the birth of his son Andrew The
latter was born on the 10Th day of March, 1867.
The Jacksons were in rather INDECENT circumstan.
ces; but Maj. Crawford was a wealthy man, and by
the marriage of one of his brothers with the sister
of Andrew Jackson's (sr) wifes sister, was some
what family connexion and the firm and undevia-
ting friend Of the Jacksons. From the best infor-
nation we gather, the mother of Gen. jackson
had left the place where her husband first settled,
and at the time of the birth of her son Andrew was
living on place belonging to Maj Crawford, and
very near to his place of residence In very short
III.
Crawford took her to his own house. and it was her
home until her death.
Maj. Crawford took good care OF his protegc and
was repaid by fal affection that died only when
the old hero himself ceased to exist. The descend.
ants of Maj. Crawford are numerous and the ira
dition of the family to the birth place of Jackson
is as we have above stated. There are numerous
relations of Gen. jackson, living in this Dis
trict-some of them second cousins-and the tradi.
ton among them is that Gen. jackson was born in
the Waxhaws This tradition is not vague and un-
certain; it is positive direct and is founded upon
information handed down from parents to their chill
dren There are men and women, now here, and
many OF them, who have conversed with persons OF
undoubted veracity, who were present at the birth
| OF Gen. jackson Some of those who were present
testimony to the fact that their distinguished kins.
man was born in the Waxhaws All the above can
be verified, if necessary, by men and women among
us of unquestioned characters.
! This is Sufficient, think, to rebut the claim OF
Col. Davenport; but there is further testimony
We refer to the several lives of jackson particular
y to shat of Kendall We believe it was never com.
| peted but several numbers were published. This
| work was dictated by Gen. jackson himself-is in
fact an autobiography-and is authentic. In it will
be found statement of the birth Of jackson, sub.
stantially the same as the above. Also, q map Of
the Waxhaw settlement, which is marked Jack
sons birthplace" accompanies the first number
But the testimony rests not here. Many years
| ago. it was mooted whether Gen. jackson was born
in this State just the line in North Carolina,
COL James Il. Witherspoon, then prominent citi.
of this District and intimate friend of Jacksons
addressed to him letter Of enquiry as to his birth
| place. The reply of General Jackson was full and
particular. He states that he born in the Wax.
haws. A man ought to know where he was born.
Doubtless Gen. jackson was, time and again, in.
formed by his mother and friend, Maj. Crawford,
where he was born and the exact spot was pointed
out to him. He was we'll nigh grown before he left
the Waxhaws, and must have been well iufor,oed Of
its locality. .--
In conclusion we will mention that Martin p