The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-17

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more misunderstood than; he. He is
represented ~ haYing been stern, mex
artble and hard natnred. He was Just
the opposite He WAS demonstrative
as affectiounte and as yielding as IL wo-
| man. At home he was tender, playful
and loving The dignity, sternness and
reserve that he wore in public was
thrown off the moment he was out of
the sight of the public, and he became
natural, spontaneous and happy. fon
can never know how irksome it was to
keen his real nature bound down be-
meath this habit Of reserve. 1t WAS a
mask, and he wore it as martyrdom.
"His whole life hung around his
home. He had no ambltion--no love
Of power-no thought of place or
pornp. His horror of bloodshed was
! insti1ctive aud powerful. He served
hLs c0untrv from "a seuse Of duty. As
7 | said to some one the other day,. the
happiest moment of his life during the
war was, in my opinion, when he had
sent in his resignation to the Confeder-
ate government, and contemplated re-
/ taruing 10 our little home III Lexington.
! The differences between him and the
government were such that he did not
| believe he could be Of further service.
Hence, his sense of duty was recouciled
to his laying down his sword
"His love for his daughter gave an
Instance of the misappreheusion that
prevailed concerning him. He wds pas
sionatelv devoted to his children Our
first child died, and my daughter was
born only few weeks before his death
He never took days furlough during
the war: not even to come to see his
child. Just before the battle of Chan
cellorville l took the little baby and
went to see him. You should have
what raptures he went into over that
little girls cradle. I have seen him
kneel by her cradle for honrs at time,
inst gazing into her sleeping face
Those who had known him in public
life were astouished at the apparent
transformation of his character.
at is partly that l may put his trne
character before the world that l have
determined to write sketch of him
for the Times. | am now ut work on
it, and it Will be ready III very short
time I can give certain facts that can
be obtained from no other source; |
shall give them in a plain and simple
manner.
l suggested that his letters to her du-
ring the war wonld give her many inter
estiug points. "Oh. no." she said,
charming blrsh stealing over her face,
while soft remembrances p1t new
light in her expressive eyes. they were
all real love letters. He had little rJoln
for ANYTHING else in his letters home.
And then he was a very prudent man,
and never talked Of his plans to sny
one I only gathered from them some
general facts, rs follows: He was ALSO.
lutcly confident of the final triumph OF
! the Southern arms, and Of the pnrma~
4ent establishment ~ the Southern
Canfe,leracv He felt Ill the time that
tthn var was heiug wagrl on wrong
! n'aH. His i>le, was that there was tcD
much ielay-too little rig0r in pressing
matters t. hastY conclusion. He felt
that the S,nth would be worn out if
the struggle was protract3a. He even
romptnne1 that General JJe" wHs too
slow. although he had great admiration
and love for him.
| 1T has been said he was u sort of
laughing stock at Lexington. This was
surely a mistake. From the very be-
ginning of the troubles he WAS turned
to as the head of affairs in Lexington.
He was put in immediate command OF
the cadets, though not by rank enti-
tiled to that place. The who'e city
loved him and respected him. He was
the po,itest man in the world He
never passed lady on the street,
whether stranger or not without rails
ing his hat. One thing remember of
him-hA never looked into q room that
he happened to pass when the door was
opcn-not even nav own.
Mrs. Jackson is very pleasantly stu
ated in Charlotte. Her father, Pres
hyterian minister, lives near the city.
She has brother and two married Sis
tiers (Mrs. J. E. Brown and Mrs. ID. H.
HID living in the city. She spends her
DAYS quietly at the Institute. surrounds
ed by bevy of innocent young girls,
and in the midst of loving and devoted
ifriendo
Her means are limited, but sufficient
She has few desires, and lives cheaply
aud comfortably. AS signitied above,
she is desirous Just now of building q
home in Charlotte for har daughter and
herself. ms she has determined TO make
this city her permanent residence. To
laccomplish her purpose she has closed
q contract to write sketch Of her hns-
bands life for the Philadelphia Times,
and they have allowed her for this work
the extraordinary price of one hundred
dollars per column. A movement was
Einaugnrated some twelve months ago
Iby Mrs. Morehead, of Charlotte, to
have the various memorial societies OF
the South raise special fund on me
mortal day for the purpose of building
Mrs Jackson n home. For some cause
or other the movement failed, oulv two
or three hundred dollars being raised.
! A dread of the notoriety that it will
bring has almost dissuaded Mrs. Jrck-
son from fulfilling her contract. She
shrinks from anything like a conspicu-
ous place. An amusing instance of the
annoyance that publicity brings is fur
nished in the following: Some months
ago, paragraph slipped into the pa
pers, saying that Miss Julia jackson
was a pretty girl of sixteen years or
thereabouts. BY the time the para
graph had made the rounds of the
press, Miss Jacksons mail was greatly
augmented. Each post brought a num-
, ber Of epistles from strange (very
, strange) Young men, begging that
miss Julia" would, in the language of
, the "letter writer" favor them with her
, confidence" 1t is hard to conceive
, how the whole brood of young men
, throughout the North and West were at
} once with impudence intent, but SO it
} was. The letters-all sorts of letters
| kept pouring in pouring i'll through
Mrs. Jackson's hands to the fire.
| 1t is a pleasure to witness the uni
versal love in which the people OF Omar
| lotte hold Mrs. jackson. They cluster
, around her as some great family about
fa loved member. Could the great hero,
/ whom she welded, have spoken his
mind before he ''had crossed over the
: river to rest beneath the trees, he
/ could have left no richer heritage to
his wife and daughter than the legacy
of love in which they are enfolded.
Cor. atlanta Constitution.
A MAN once took piece of white cloth
to dyer to have it dyed black. He was
a