Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-05-07

For the ''house not made with hands"
Who pulled Andrew
.Jnclxson's Nose3
"Selum," in the New York .St1,
gives the following bit of early his
tory:
Two hundred and flfty-six years
ago this month, Pocahontas, daugh-
ter of Powhatan, was married to Johr
Rolfe, at Jamestown, Va. She died
I'm England, in March, four years of
ter her marriage, leaving one son
who returned to Virginia to reside
and there left defendants, among
whom was John Randolph, of Roam
oke. Robert B. Randolph, cousin o
John, died ut his residence on the
corner of four-and-a.half and {
streets, Washington, on the morning
of the Goth inst, at the ageof rs, and
was buried yesterday. He was the
man who tteeakcd The nose of An.
drew Jackson, Old Hickory being
then President of the United States,
If you search the history of your
own city, you may be able to find the
author OF this trouble between Jack.
son and Randolph-trouble which
shadowed the life of the latter from
early manhood to the tomb. You
well remember that very few years
since n person named Bouganini,
think, eloped from New York with
the property and niece of his wife
whom he had recently married; ant
that the forsalzen wife was once th,
wife of General Eaton, Secretary O
War to General Jackson and priol
to that the wife of one Timberlake
who died rs Purser I'm the United
States Navy. On the death of Tim.
berleke, Randolph who was then &
Lieutenant i'm the navy was appoint
ed to act temporarily as Purser I'm hi,
place. He found his accounts I'm
mixed condition, and deficiency
existing against him. Before h,
had chance to settle his accounts
Mrs. It. became the wife of Genera
Eaton, Secretary of War, who wa
also surety for her former husband
It became apparently of interest :.
both that the deficiency should b,
shifted to other shoulders than thos,
of the dead Purser. An attempt was
made to carry out such a scheme.
with Randolph as the victim.
Randolph asked for court of In.
quiry, which, being granted, he was
cleared of all suspicion by its report
But. nevertheless, President jackson
ordered his dismissal from the navy
Not long after this, while Old Hick.
ory was passing down the Potomac
on a steamer, In front of Alexandria
and during pause of the boat mt the
place, Randolph came on board anc
deliberately and most effec tually
wrung the nose of His Excellency,
Let one imagine the anger Of the
old hero OF New Orleans.
No wonder that Randolph had t.
dodge from place to place for two
years to avoid arrest. Finally IL ii
reported that an officer now living
was authorized to inform Randolph
that If he would apologize for his
insult to the President, he would be
reinstated. This Randolph declined
to do until the President had first
apologized. It Is hardly necessary
to say that no apology came. AT
ter twenty-three years of service In
the navy and much gallant conduct
Randolph, without much property
and without profession was
turned adrift upon the world. Dur
ing the administration of James
Buchanan, John B. Floyd, then
Secretary of War, gave Randolph
the position of Superintendent O
the Armory i'm Washington, but h,
only held the place O short time, O,
Buchanan hearing of the appoint
ment ordered it revoked for reasons
best known to himself.
Randolph entered the navy at abou
the age of sixteen, and had commans
of division on the quarterback 0
frigate Constitution Decatur, I'm he
action with and the capture Of th,
British frigate Macedonia. He wa
also In the President when that shil
was captured by the Endymion, an,
other British vessels, and was carrie,
prisoner to London, where he COW
hided British officer for using con
temptuous language concerning
America. A brother of his wen
down with the sloop Wasp, whicl
sunk at sen after a fight with lin
of battle ship, the name OF whicl
escapes me. He was less than fiv
feet ten In height, rather slim, ha
hair OF light color, In youth, q
shown by miniature taken at Ne,
London soon after the capture of th
Macedonian: his nose was slighti,
Roman, and he had eyes like an ca
gle in clearness and power of expres
sion. In his eyes and nose alone
1
were perceptable traces of his Indial
origin. lie leaves a wife and fou
children, one son. There 10 littl
pleasure in the thought that the fam
lily of this high spirited man, VIII
was loyal to the government despit
of injustice, to the last, are withou
proper support, while within q hal
mile of them live women of the BIT
terest rebel sympathies, who dra,
pay as clerks I'm departments here q
this time. But SO goes the world
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