The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-03-02

sigh. Angels said; also" The old man
is changed y but the words gave JOY in
their counsels.
One day there were two funerals. The
Judge and the gray haired drunkard were
gone to their long home. One mourner-
whose tears were of deepest guef-follow
ed in the long train, and she is only
waiting" to follow father and grandsire
With God, who alone judgeth in perfect
righteousness, we leave them ALL
Hatchnaon d Reflector.
General acksOn--IIIs vaIor
when "a Boy.
The following incident of the boyhood
of General Jackson is copied from Parton S
the partisan war in the Waxhaws:
In that fierce Sootch-Indian warfare, the
absence Of father from home was often
better protection to his family than his
presence because his presence invited at
| tack. The main object of both parties
was to kill the fighting men and to ayenge
the staying of partisans. The house of the
quiet hero Hicks, for example, was safe
until it was noised about among the Tories
that Hicks was at home. And thus it
came to pass that when whg soldier of
any note desired to spend night with his
family, his neighbo were accustomed TO
turn out and serve as a guard to his house
while he slept. Behold Robert and An
Grew Jackson, with six others, thus en-
ployed one night in :he spring Of 1871, at
the donicil of a neighbor, Captain Sands
The guard on the occasion was more a
friendly tribute to an active partisan than
service considered necessary to his safe
ty. In short the night was not far advanc-
ed before the whole party was snugly
housed and stretched upon the floor, all
sound asleep, except one, British desert.
er, who was restless, and dozed at inter
walls.
Danger was near A band of Tories,
bent on taking the life of Captain Sands,
approached the house in two divisions /;
one party moved towards the front door,
the other towards the back. The wake
tul soldier, hearing suspicious noise, rose
and went out of doors to learn the cause,
and saw the foe stealthiiy nearing the
house. lie ran in, in terror, and seized
Andrew Jackson, who lay next the door,
by the hair and exclaimed:
"The Tories are upon usr'
Andrew sprang up and ran out. Seeing
body of men III the distance, he placed
the end of his gun in the low folk of tree
near the door and hailed them. No reply.
He hailed them second time. No re ply.
They quicked their pace, and had come
within few rods Of tie door BY this
time, too, the guards in the house had
been reused, and were gathered in a group
behind the boy. Andrew discharged his
musket, upon which the tories fired a vol
ley, which killed the hapless deserter who
had given the alarm. The other party of
tories who were approaching the house
from the other side, hearing tie discharge,
and the rush of bullets above their heads,
supposed that the firing issued from par
ty that had come fYom the house They
now fired a volley, which sent a shower of
balls whistling about the heads of their
friends on the other side. Both parties
hesitated and then halted
Andrew having thus, by his single dis
charge, puzzled and stopped the enemy,
retired to the house, where he and his
comrades kept up brisk fire from the
windows. One of the guard fell mortally
wounded by his side, and another received
wound less severe. In the midst of this
singular contest bugle was heard some
distance off, sounding the cavalry charge;
whereupon the tories, concluding that they
had come upon an ambush of wings, and
were about to be assaiIed by horse and
foot, fled TO where they had left their
horses, mounted, dashed pell- into the
woods and were seen 70 more. It ap-
peared afterwards that the bugle- charge
was sounded by a neighbor who, Judging
from the noise of musketry that Captain
Sands was attacked, aud having not sin
gle man with him in the house, gave the
blast upon the trumpet, thinking that even
a trick so stale, aided by the darkness of
the night, might have some good effect in
alarming the assailants.
FREEMASoNKY AND GAIDIRoNs.-A wor-
thy police captain, says the New York
Post, entertained fancy to become a
Freemason, and was accordingly proposed
and elected. a friend accompanied him
to the place of meeting which was used as
a place of entertainment. The neophyte
was left in an apartment next to the ser
wants soom. while his friend went up
stairs to assist in the opening ceremonies.
A Celtic maiden who caught glimpse of
the stranger, resolved to take a part in
his initiation, and procuring a gridiron,
placed it over he range. 1t was not long
before the captain looking inquisitiyely
through the door, saw the utensiI redden-
ing in the heat. The recollection flashed
through his mind of Masonic candidates
and some peculiar ordeals which they were
made to encounter.
"What is that, Bridgst'" he eagerly
enquired,
'And sure" replied the Hiberoian
nymph, ''it's only the gridiron that was
told to put over the Goals"
"And was it not the gentleman who
came with you z"
"What could be want Of n demand
ed the captain.
"And sure can't tell, replied Bridget,
they are often using it. 1t belongs to the
people above stairs | always heat it
when they want to make a Mason.
This was too much for the excited cap
tain; and taking to his heels, he put safe
distance between himself and the Lodge