Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-12-23

want anything more Of you, General" +
and conducted him from the ground
They had gone hundred yards, Overton
walking on one side of jackson, the sur
geon on the other, and neither speaking a I
word, when the surgeon observed that
one Of Jackson's shoes was full Of blood. /
My God General jackson, are you /
hit:" he exclaimed, pointing to the blood. !.
ooh! / believe" replied jackson,
&" that he has pinked me a little. Let's
look at it. But say nothing about it
there pointing to the house.
He opened his coat. Dickinson's aim
had been perfect. He had sent the ball
precisely where he supposed Jackson's
heart was beating. But the thinness of
his body and the Iooseness of his coat
combining to deceive Dickinson, the ball
had only broken a rib or two, and raked
the breast bone. 1t was a somewhat
painful, bad looking wound, but neither
severe nor dangerous, and he was able to
ride to the tavern without much incon-
yenience. Upon approaching the house,
be went up to one of the negro women
who was churning, and ASKED her if the
butter had come. She said it was just
coming. He asked for some buttermik. |
While she was getting it for him, she OBJ
served him furtiyely open his coat and
look within it. She saw that his shirt
was soaked with blood, and she stood ga
zing in blank horror at the sight, dipper
in hand. He caught her eye, and hastily
buttoned his coat again. She dipped out
quart measure full of buttermilk. and
gave it to him. He drank it off at a
draught; then went in, took off his coat,
and had his wound carefully examined
and dressed. That done, he dispatched
one of his retinue to DR.. Catlett, to in
/ quire respecting the condition of Dickin-
son, and to say that the surgeon attend
ing himself would be glad to contribute
his aid toward Mr.. Dickinson's relief
Polite reply was returned that Mr.. Dick-
inson's case was past surgery. In the
course of the day, General Jackson sent
bottle OF wine to DR.. Catlett for the
use of his patient.
But there was one qualification which
Jackson could not, even in such circum-
stances, grant him. a very old friend
Of General Jackson's writes to me thus !:
" Although the General had been wound
-, ed he did not desire it should be known
until he had left the neigbborhood, and
had therefore concealed it at first from his
own friends. His reason for this, as he
once stated to me, was, that as Dickinson
considered himself the best shot in the
world, and was certain of killing him at
the first fire, he did not aoant him to hare
the qualification eren Of taoeoing that he
had touched him
The early public career of Jackson is
as unattractive as his private life. He
was elected to Congress in the last year
of Wa5hington's administration, and was
one of the few who we're bitterly oppos-
ed to Washington. He was one of the
twelve who voted against the compli-
mentary address to the President, in re-
Spouse to his last regular official commu-
nication to Congress. and he carried his
animosity so far as to vote against the
appropriation of $4,000, for the pur.
chase of furniture for the new President
ial mansion at Washington. He was in
the House but one year, when he was
transferred to the Senate, remaining
there, however, only one session, but
l. gaining no distinction, his name not even
i appeared on the lists of yeas and nays
He was subsequently elected by the leg
d islature to q seat on the bench of the
h Supreme Court of Tennessee, but not {
# decision of his is on record. The best hi.
t, biographer can say Of his Judicial career
e is, that tradition reports that he main
y tanned the dignity and authority of III,
:, Bench while he was on the Bench; anC
d that his decisions were short, unteehnical
j, unlearned, sometimes ungrammatical.an,
at generally right" IF we add to such
ID public and private record the fact, tina
p he was deeply implicated in Burr's con
re spiracy, we may well wonder how such
l. man ever found sufficient favor in tn
eyes of the people of the United State
to be elected to the Presidency. Blu
General Jackson was a positive character
born to command, and he pushed hi
way to distinction and power by the fore
:, Of his indomitable will.
q, Sr. LoUIs.-The statistics Of the ii
crease Of St. Louis affords another illu!
tratiOn of the raniditv of Crowtb ooos