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

" kick" him over. They hGG that pleasure. cp'lnt-
ing up from the ground the boy, m ifen1y VI P's-
sion. exclaimed; ,.,,
BY Cd, II one OF you laughs, III kiil hi'n
He soon bad an opportunity for pursuing meher
game. He was nine years old when the Declaration
of Independence was signed. BY The time the war
approached the obscure settlement in the region oil
the Catawba. where be was born he was little
more than thirteen. A change now came over ms
rustic life. The schOol-house was closed. the peace
fll labors of the people interrupted. His elder
brother 4Iugh lad already mounted his horse and
ridden southwark TO meet the bloody strife. at
was on the 18th of May, 1850 that Tareton, with
three hundred horsemen, surprised a detachment OF
militia in the Waxhaw settlement, and killed one
hundred and thirteen fthem, and woundeda hundred
and fifty. The wounded, abandoned to the care OF
the settlers, were quartered in the houses OF the
vicinity; the old log Waxbaw Westinghouse itself
being converted into hospital for the most despe-
rate cases. Mrs. jackson was one of the KIND
women who ministered to the wounded soldiers IN
the church. and under that roof her boys first saw
what war was. The men were dreadfully manged.
Some had received as many as thirteen wounds,
and none less than three. For many days Andrew
and his brother assisted their mother IN waiting
upon the sick men; Andrew, more in rage than
pity, though pitiful by nature, burning to ayenge
their wounds and his brothers DEATH"
Tarleton's massacre at the Waxhaws kindled the
flames of war in all that region Of the Carolinas.
Andrew, with his brother Robert, was present at
Sumter's attack on the British post of Hanging
Roc. where he might have received bis first lesson
in the art of war. Soon after he passed his four
teenth birthday there ensued fierce intestine war
fare in the vicinity Of his home; war OF wing and
tory neghbOr against neighbor, brother against
brother and even father against son. Among other
instances Of the madness that prevailed, case Is
related of whig who, having found friend muir
dered and INITIATED devoted himself to the staying
of tories. He hunted and lay in wait for them,
and before the war ended had killed twenty; and
then recovering from that insanity, lived the rest
of his days q conscience-stricken wretch. Andrew
and his brother soon began 10 take personal share
in the eyentful conflict. Without enlsting in any
regular corps they plunged into the fight on their
own hook, joining small parties that went out on
single enterprises of retaliation mounted on their
own horses, and carrying their own weapons. Mr..
Parton gives description of one OF his adventures
in This line which illustrates both the time and the
boy.
In that fierce, Scotch-Indan warfare, the alb
sence of a father from home was often better
protection to his family than his presence; De-
cause his presence invited attack. The mann OBJ
ject of both parties was TO kill the fighting men,
and 10 avenge the Staying of partsans. The house OIL
the quiet hero Hicks, for example, was safe, until II
was nosed about among the torres that Hicks was al
home. And thus IT came 10 pass, That when wing
soldier of any note desired to spend night with ms
family his neighbors were accustomed to turn out and
serve as guard 10 his house while he slept Behold
Robert and Andrew Jackson with SIX others, tns EN-
ployed one night in the Spring of lIol at the dOmcil
of a neighbor Capt. Sands. The guard on this occa-
sion was more friendly tribute To an active partisan
than service considered necessary 10 his safety. In
Short the night not far advanced before the whole
party snugy housed and stretched upon the 1oor
an sound asleep, except one British deserter, who
was restless and dozed at intervals
Danger was near. A band OF tories, bent on taking
the lite Of Captain Sands approached the house III TWO
divisions one party moving toward the front door, the
other toward the back. The wakefu soldier, hearing
suspicious noise, rose, went out OF doors TO learn It's
cause and saw the foe stealthily nearing the house.
He ran in in terror, and sezing Andrew jackson, who
lay next the door, by the hair, exclaimed:
The tories upon ns"
Andrew sprlng up andr an out. Seeing body Of men
in the dsace he placed the end of his gun In the low
FORK OF neartne door,
He hailed them second time. No reply They quick
ened their pace and had come within few rods OF the
door, BY this time, too the guard in the house had
been roused and gathered in group behind the
boy. Andrew discharged his musketi upon which the
tories fired a voey, which killed the hapless deserter
who bad given the alarm. The other party Of tories,
who were approaching the house from the other side,
hearing this discharge, and the rush OF bullets above
their heads supposed that the firing proceeded from
party that had issued from the house They fired
voey, which sent shower Of balls whlstllng about
tie heads of their friends on the other side. Both
parties besitated and then halted. Andrew having
thus by his single discharge puzzled and stopped the
enemy, retired TO the house, where he and his COM
rades kept up brisk fire from the windows. One OF
the guard fell MORALLY wounded by his side, and
another received wound less severe. In the midst OF
this singular contest, buge heard, some distance
of sounding the cavalry charge whereupOnthe tories
concluding that they had come upon an ambush of
wings, and were about to be assailed by horse and
foot fed to where they had left their horses, mounted
dashed pell-mell into the woods, and were seen no
more. 1t appeared afterward, that the buglecharge
was sounded by a neighbor, who Judging from the
noise of musketry that Captain Sands attacked,
and having not man with him in his house, gave the
blast upon the trumpet thinking that trick
STALE aided by the darkness OF the night might have
some effect in alarming the assailants.
After peace was restored to his neighbOrhood,
young Jackson embraced every opportunity to en-
gage in free fight" beside sharing largely in the
run ana ronc, which were almost as cODgenlai 10
his disposition, as the drubbiDg of all adversary.
Several Charleston families of wealth and distnc-
ton were waiting in the settlement for the evacua
ton of their city. With the young men, whose ac-
quaintance he thus made, Andrew led a life in the
Summer and Autumn of l7s2 that was more merry
than wise. He now began to betray that taste for
horse-fesh which became such a decided passion
in after life. He ran races and rode races gambled
little, drank little, INDUCED in cock-fght occa