The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-08-09

Gen Jackson moved from North Carolina
to Tennessee in l1SS, and in 1904 he built the
hut where lie lived 80 many years.
There j, not in the whole country Il log hut
so rich i'll historical associations 1t was the
home of Jackson when his deeds as an Indian
fighter thrilled the Young republic from one
end to the other. 1t was here that Burr Wis
itcl him in 1867 ami uufodei his famons
project Of IN empire in Mexico. Jackson
was lvin. in ilsis Int in lsl2 when war was
,leclarte against England and it was from
this hut t!lat lie started out with his little
army ii 2.5ll volunteers TO sail down the
Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi
one thousand miles to New Orleans.
In this log cabin he heard the nc~s of
the Fort Minns massacre by the Greeks in
August, 1873, an! from 1t le again took tho
field at the lipat Of 1000 men. called out BY
tho government of Tennessee 1t was here
that he received his commission as major
general ii, the regular army, aud from here
he again started on the march which ended
with his seizure of Pensacola, then belonging
to Spain. lie returned to the hut after tho
battle of New Orleans, and again set forth to
return n conqncror from the Seminole war,
and to it after the Florida purchase came his
commission as first governor of the new ter
rtory
III 1878 Gen, Jackson huilta handsome man
sion on the site of which is the present build
ing. This house was nearly all destroyed
by fire in 1886. In the same year the pres
ent structure which is mn exact copy of the
first one, was erected Mr.. Parton, in his
Life Of jackson" thus describes it:
1T is not very spacious building. and
very far, indeed, from being an elegant one.
A two story brick house with double piazza,
both in front and in the rear; the piazza
wooden and painted white, supported by
thick grooved pillars of the same material
and color. The floors of the lower piazza arc
of stone, and each end terminates in wing
Of the house
"Just behind the cdifce is u large garden
with pcbbled paths and beds bordered with
bricks. The rooms are lofty, rather small
and plainly furnished. The parlors are hung
with portraits OF the general and his friends
Coffee, Bronaugh, Gadsden, Eaton and
Others There is q portrait OF Mrs. Jackson
in white satin, topaz jewelry, low neck and
short sleeves; fat, forty and not fair. In the
hall are busts Of Edward Livingston, Lewis
Cass and Levi Woodbury."
The New York World gives a short history
of the present movement to preserve tho
Hermitage which is extreme interesting, and
from which we copy the following:
This is not the first attempt which has been
made to save the famous Hermitage with all
the associations which cluster around the
home of the great soldier, patriot and presi-
dent. In 1856 it was bought by the legisla-
ture of Tennessee for $4,000 from Andrew
| jackson, Jr., an adopted son of Gen. Jack
| son, and bonds, which are still part of the
| state debt, were issued for that purpose The
| property thus acquired included the mansion,
tomb and 500 of the 1000 acres which Gen.
| Jackson died possessed of in 1916. Mr.. jack
son, after the sale had been effected, was al
| lowed to reside in the place for two years,
| until he could make other arrangements.
| At the end of that period he removed to
| Louisiana with part Of his household goods
and negroes, leaving a few of the old servants
behind to protect the property, Just before
the outbreak Of the civil wa; he returned to
the Hermitage at the request of Governor
Harris, and again took up his residence there.
! Shortly afterwards, while hunting in the
Hermitage woods, he received a gnnshot
wound III the hand, which resulted IN his
death through locS1aw.
Mrs. jackson herself died about two years
ago, and then it was that the state authori-
ties resolved to resume possession OF the prop
erty. For two years tho house and grounds
have been molderlng III decay, until last
spring, when the questloh OF "hae should DC
done with the hermitage again came up Tor
consideration. Tho idea then occurred to
some Of the ladies of Nashville to form an as
sociation on the Mount Vernon model, raise
fund to restore the house and grounds as
nearly US possible to their condition when
Gen. Jackson died, and to preserve them as u
memorial to the man who was admired and
beloved by so many OF his countrymcn
A few lcading men OF the state who were
consulted on the subject were in favor OF the
scheme as happy and patriotic solution OF