New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-19

,h,orgb q pair of Trustworthy ewes DO we find him
trifng with life. We find him often wrong ogs a..
WAYS earnest. lie never so much as raised heia OF
cotton which be did not have done in the best manner
known 10 him. II not in the nature Of this young
man 10 take e great deal Of trouble get a chance 10
stnJy law and then entirely 10 throw away that
CHANGE. OF course he never became, in any proper
seuse of the word 0rysr but that he was not dil-
Gent and eager in picking up the legal knowledge me-
eessarv for practice az that day VIII become less cred
ibla 10 the reader the more he knows Of him. Once,
in the White House. fortyve years after this period,
,vben sotoe one from Salisbury reminded him of hts
residence in that town, be SAID with smile ana look
of retrspeetion on his aged face les, hNeu az eid
Salisbury. l was but raw iad 'hen' ""' "~ my
best" l.. -.
There IS now in Salisbury but one person who was
resident of the place when Jackson wss student OIL
law and that il Aunt judy an aged aad beloved ser
want of the family who live on the site OF the former
residence of Judge McCAy. Aunt Judy, ~ mat tlme
was a girl about twelve yearssid and belonged 70 the
landlord of the Rowan House, where she waited az
table, and assisted IN the general WorA 81 sue nouse
She remembers the three lnseparabes AT the tavern
Jackson Crawford and McNary. jackson, she says
was fair, clear-compl exioned young man. win iong
sandy hair" one of the genteei young men OF mo
Mace" He owned horses, che thtnks; certainly no
was much occupied with horses, and was often away
ON rarties of pleasure. He was very fond OF the -
dies quite bean in the town, and very gay, hveiy
fellow, says Aunt Judy She remembers just 0hy
triiling incident of those merry times jackson ana
his two friends came home from hunting Que day. anu
eft their guns in JacksOns roonl, which opened upon
he street. While the lads were gone 70 dinner, sho
was sent 10 pnt Jacksons room IN order; ana while
here took up one of the guns, and began 10 " fool
with it," lt went of in her hands, and threw
shower of huck-shot about the room. She heard tho
thunder of the boarders rushing 10 see what was tho
matter but waited 40; 20 explain. She dropped the
onn ran ont of the room and concealed herself I'LL
The furry over. That Is all Aunt JUDY can
remember clearly. She THINKS she used TO hear THAT
all three of the students went away from Salisbury
unable 10 nav their bill at the tavern. She has also
dim recollection of once handing young jackson n
glass of water at dinner bat she never spoke 70 him,
nor he 10 her.
Among the most respectable ladies in Salisbury, are
the Misses - whose ancestors were old residents OF
the town when Lord CORVALLIS had his quarters near
their fathers house, Their parents auns, and uncles,
were living in the town when jackson lived there
One of their unces, George Dunn by name, was an
Jacksons own FOSTERING set, and afterward Went
with him 10 Tennessee and lived long m his family.
These ladies' therefore, are well informed respecting
the life of jackson in their native town, and the
more So as their mother much in the habit OF
talking of him in their hearing after he became Ia
NOUS They fully confirm the current Tradition OF tho
town with regard TO the young students sporive hab-
it's He played cards fought cocks ran horses, threw
the long bullet" cannon ball. sung in a strap, and
thrown as a trial Of strength, carried of gatee,
moved out-houses TO remote fields, and occasionally
INDUCED in downright drunken dehanch. But no
war not licentous nor particularly qparresome.
After completing his studies, according 10 the
fashion of the times, Jackson makes his way to
Tennessee and becomes an inhabitant of that State
about the time of his reaching the age of twenty
one. Here, as lawyer, judge, planter, country
merchant, horse-racer, cock-fghter, wbisky-drnk-
err, ho finds full scope for his athletic energies His
entrance on political and military life took place
within few years. Of his career until 1914, the
volume contains ample and satisfactory details.
We need not dwell upon the incidents of this period
of his life, as for the most part they are familiar to
| the readers of American history. Mr. Parton has
evidently spared no pains in the accumulation Of
materials for bis comprehensive narrative. He has
mastered the voluminous mass Of literature relating
to the subject visited in person the principal local.
tiles of which Jackson resident gathered
rich store of facts from the recollection of cotem-
poraries and embodied the results of his researches
! in volume which, if il has not strenuously aimed
at elegance or precision of style, is never deficient
in vivacity and force 1t forms worthy COM
mencement of noble work, which, we doubt not,
will enhance the fame Of its subject, well as the
| popular reputation of its author.