Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-28

J queerly mated couple. Jackson DeIeVeu,
and had every reason to believe, thal MIS-.
Robards had been divorced, and both were
| deceived by circumstances. Mhen tue
mistake was finally discovered by the
! publication Of the decree OF divorce Two
years after it was supposed TO have been
/ granted, a second marriage ceremony was
/ quietly performed AT Satchez. Thus the
Eastern shore beauty passes Into tue
I pages OF history. Her good looks, however,
were not so constant AZ her good heart.
/ Mrs. Jackson, truth to tell, coon grew
stout and dumpy and hOmely, but she
never lost her charm FOR Old Hickory,
who adOred her while living and fairly
worshiped her after her death. one can
scarcely suppress a smile at the figure
this 0nce-beauutul and always good
woman cut in the gided drawing-roOm OF
a leader OF society in New Orleans just
after Mai Gen. jackson had won his
immortal victory and driven back the
most magnificent expedition ever sent
against this country. society had tom
dered the General grand reception. New
Orleans was at that time socially the most
elegant city IN America, and the ladies'
were upon that occasion decked out in the
most splendid OF costumes, many OF them
just from Paris.
Presently entered the hero OF the hour,
Jackson.-tRll, commanding, as graceful
and digutel as "a French Ambassador;
for no man II bis time had grandcr air
than Old Hickory. Upon his arm was
Mrs. jackson, fresh from the buckwoods
OF Tennessee snort, fat, with no waist,
fat, chubby hands, and red, fat, g0Od-Da-
tured, but by no means, refined face. And
yet Andrew Jackson thought that she WAS
the finest woman in all that assemhlage.
one beauty, indeed, this h0mely wife Of
jackson retained. She still had the bright
black eyes Of Rachel Donaldson, bit
the dark, ewarthy skin also remained,
aud added nothing 10 her personal appear
arce.
But II Rachel Donaldson had lost her
vanity ard sometimes smoked clay pipe
with the General, she was none the less
a good and wise woman, and exercised a
salutary influence upon the hOt-headed
and sometimes pig-headed man who never
found an obstacle IN his path which he did
not remove. Mrs. Jackson died in 1898, just
as her husband WIS about to start from the
Hermitage for Washington TO De sworn
in as President OF the United States. The
concluding sentences upon her tomb,
written By Jackson himself, are these:
ut being so gentle and 80 virtuOus, Sian
der might wound but could not dishonOr.
Even death, when he tore her from the
arms Of her husband, could but transport
her TO the bosom OF her God"
SANDER had indeed often wounded her,
for the circumstances OF her marriage
were made use OF in the many political
contests in which jackson was involved.
Jackson resented this bitterly, and Charles
Dickinson would not have been the only
victim OF his deadly pistol could the per-
sonal responsibility have been fixed.
What might have been. or rather what
might not have been, had this woman
lived few years longeri Did not Martin
Van Buren, win the everlasting friendship
Of Jackson and the succession to the
presidency by adhering to the cause OF
Mrs. Eaton? Had Mrs. JacksOn lived
there would in all human probability have
been no Eaton issue, Martin Van Buren,
would not have been President, and the
course Of politics for many years might
have been changed. All this by "a few
more years of life 10 the girl baby who
was born one morning in June in the old
mill on the Eastern shore Of Virginia.