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“STOSKWALL JACKSON’S WAY.”
The Boston Courier says:“The following stanzas
were found on the parson of a rebel sergeant of ihe
‘StnnewsU Brigade.’ recently captured by onr troops
near Winchester Virginia”:
Come, stockiand*, men! pile on the rails—
Stir up the comp Are bright,
No matter if the canteen fuils,
We’ll make a roaring night ! ’ • ,
_ Here Shenanuo.ih .brawls along,
There Imrly Blue Ridge echoes strong,
To $weil the brigade’s rousing song, '
Of “StsuowaU Jaikson’s wdy.”
We see him now—the old slouched bat
Cocked o’er bis eyes askew,—■
Tho shrewd dry smilo—the speech so pat,
So calm, so blunt, so true.
ThoyBluq'Light Elder” know i’em well,
Says he, “that's Banks,—he’s fond of shell,
Lord save his soul!—we’ll give him”—well.
That's ‘•Stonewall Jackson’s way,”
Silence! .ground arms! kneel all! .caps off!
Old Blue Light's going to pray,
Strangle the fool tint dares to^scofF!
Attention Fits his way!
Appealing from his native sod
-• Jn forma panjrvrit t ■> Coil,—
“Lay bare ihiio; arm, stretch forth thy rod,
Arnua!” That’s “Stonewall's way !
He’s in the saddle now ! Fall in!
Steady! the whole brigade!
Hill’s at the fo\*d; cutoff; yro'll win
His way out ball and blade.
Whnt matter if.our shoes are-worn?
AVhat matter if our feet are torn ?
“Quick step ! we’re with him before morn,”
That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s way :’
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists
Of morning—and by George !
Here’s Longstreet, >tniggliiig in the lists,
Hemmed in r.n ugly gorge.
Ptfpe and bis Yankees, whipped before,
“Bay'nets and the grape !’’ bear Stonewall roar,
“Charge, Stuart! pay off Ashby's score,”
is “Stonewall Jackson’s way.”
Ah ! maiden, wait, and watch, and yearn,
For news; of .Stonewall’s band !
Ah! widow, read with eyes that burn
That ring upon thy hand.
Ah ! wife, sew on, pray bn,'hope on !
Thy life shall hot be all forlorn ! ■
The toe had better ne’er been born,
That gets in “Stonewall’s way.”
ATHENS, JAJSrU^RY
Government paying his livery stable bill , 78 Act tostseure the tux upon certain
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rilKNS STEAM COMPANY.-
it Mi KKItSON-. Agent nnd Superintendent.—
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Vt a- 1 lietai I.DRUGGISTS, Athens, Ga.
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I Fnur D-rso IVagon,.
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1 Fair Carry-Log Wheels,
* Carry-Log, complete, second hand,
ti. IOJH'0 Buggy.and Wagon Spokes.
Shafts, Rubs and Felloes, Enamelled Cloth, Piit-
p! “ ca ’hcr, Buggy and AY agon Uaxnuss. all kinds of
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From the New- York Sunday Mercury.
BIOGRAPHY OF STONEWALL JACK SON.
Stonewall Jackson Ayashorn very early
—in lact, so young was be at that inter
esting period of his history, that the date
thereof hirketh not in his own memory,
nor yet in that of. his present biographer.
Sufficient ho it to say, lie was born. The
ancestry of S .7. has hitherto oeen shroud
ed in doubt. Some have asserted that he
is descended from Jack, surnamed the Gi
ant Killer, and that the “seven-league
boots” of thci aforesaid J. the G. K. are
yet in his possession, which accounts for
the celerity of his movements. Others de
clare him to be an offshoot of the Jacobin
family, the founder of which was Jackaloc
the Chinese Pirate. They are all wrong,
Mr. Editor Stonewall Jackson iR descend
ed in a curved line from the Wandering
Jew. In early time tho Jew family was
rioh, hut one evil day the head of it went
down into Egypt, “ bucked” against Pha
raoh, and came back with nary shekel,
having lost them all in that interesting
game. From that time till the discovery
of the Mississippi river, the family 4 was too
poor to have-a name. Stonewall’s grand-
frither ran a flatboat on the aforesaid river,
aid was extravagantly fond of the classic
g uae of “ old sledge.” He married, and
ii; the course of time had four sons, whom
ho named—to -commemorate his favorite
game—High, Low, Jack and the Game.
Jack followed the example of his father,
married, and had one son, the subject of
this sketch, who was naturally Jack’s sou,
a id in course of time, Jackson. A family
trait lurks in Stonewall, for at any critical
slage of the game he is sure to “turn” up
aod become the trump.
Young Jackson in his youth gave great
promise of future usefulness; so mtich so,
’.hat when he was sent to school ho invaria
bly ran away to play “tag” and “leap frog,”
to the constant study of which he owes
his agility. One day Jackson’spere, learn
ing of ids w;n’9 trnancy, determined to
<Shasti8e it out of hinii'arid so collared tho
incipient hero over his knees; thus throw?
ing a prominent part of the youth into bold
relief. Mrs. Jackson (the mother) then
seized a shirt board with both hands, and
proceeded to bring the youngster to a
sense of his duty by divers ponderous
blows. Young Jackson squirmed like a
at west rmntann Mis passage
lines. While passing through our army
he stopped to make a sketch of our fortifi
cations, whertan inconsiderate sentinel de
manded his pass. The sentinel was im;"
mediately sentenced" to he hung, but was
afterwards allowed to resign.
The New York papers have given such
an accurate account of Stonewall’s military
exploits that I heed no more than give a
brief epitome, taken from the same reliable
source. v
His firstdiattie was at Bull Bun, iu 1861,«
where he slew a whole division of the Fed
eral army with his own hand, and thou got
slewed himself. In this battle hoth armies
were defeated ; but, unfortunately, neither
of them found it out in time to taks ad-
vantage of it. The Union army was great
ly outnumbered, but “ gained a material
advantage” (see MeD’s dispatches.)
In J une; 1862, he took command of 60G7-
000 men, (see Northern papers of that date)
and turned his attention to the political
economy of the Shenandoah Valley. Not
liking the state of tho currency there, he
determined to abolish Banks; in doing
which severaldeaperatebattleawerefonght,
in all of which, though outnumbered, our
troops “ gained material advantage,” (sue
B—k’s dispatches) but our cavalry horses
becoming thirsty; the army fell-back to the
Potomac to water them. v
Jackson’s horses, also being dry, he push
ed on for the same watering' place, but
learning that Fremont had cut loose, fell
back. Fremont following; a desperate en
gagement took place at Front Royal, in
which Stonewall would have been annihi
lated had not the U. S. Government stop
ped the battle, (N. Y. Tribune) to hold a
court of enquiry, to see if Fremont had not
paid three postage stamps too much tor a
bushel of oats, furnished through a Califor
nia friend, to a horse of his body guard.
While the court was in session Stonewall
skedaddled. Fremont followed, however,
and would have bagged him, if he had not
taken the wrong road, (N. Y. Heraid) and
travailed J'forth while Jackson was going
South. Getting safe back to Richmond,
Stonewall bore a leading purlin the battles
irr front of that “ doomed” (see all the pa
pers) pity.
According to the Northern prints, Jack-
son suffered terribly in person m these
battles. He lost his right leg at Hanover
Court House, and his left a Gainesville.
The next day. while leading his corps at
Savage’s, his horse baulked in front, of a
barrel of beaus, which had been abandoned
by our army, and was compelled to dis
mount arid go it on foot, in doing* Avhiclr
he lost ins right arm. The succeeding day
he lost his leit arm at Peach Orchard*
Two days after, at the battlool Malvern
Hill, lie stooped down to fasten his shoe,
and while in that position his head was
blown off by a 103,000 pound shell. This
was the unkindest cut of all; but the old
veteran merely raised his martial form
erect, and said: “My bleeding corn! v,
I cheerfully make the sacrifice. Old head
farewell !” These avo but a fcw of the
wounds the old man has received—record
ing to the papers. EvSn as I write, the
'report comes that the modern Briareus
lost another arm at Antietam.
- Stonewall Jackson, in personal appear
ance, is most unlovely—and it is said that
he—like the Ashantos—files his teeth to a
sharp point every other morning. He
stands eleven feet five inches (or five feet
eleven inches, l am not certain which) in.
his hoots, when lie lias got any to staira in.
His hair is black, and was furnished to
order by Bachelor, of New York. In re
ligion he is at times a devout Catholic—at
least, ho followed closely in the fxHsteps
of the Pope during one of his campaigns;
4*nd at others he is a colporteur for the
American Tract Society—at anj’ rate,'lie
has probably left more tracks in' Virginia
than any other white man ; and, according
to the papers, always goes into battle with
a family Bible under one ju’in, and a Greek
Testament in the coat tail pocket, which
he reads during the. intervals of the
fighting.
He is abstemious in his habits, having
been known.to live mne days off of <ine
sardine and a barrel of whiskey. ’ In dress
he is.oxtromely neat, never wearing a sbirt
more than throe months without chang
ing it. . -
To sum up, Stonewall, in private is—as
ShakRpeare says—“ a man as is a man, that
wc may never look upon his like again ”
articles of merchandize in this State;
79 Act -for the relief of Jesse Fitts, John
Huff!, and Jaaxes W. Burnside, of Lumpkin
county.
80 Act for the relief of Z. M. Winkler, of
Chatham county.
81 Act to amend an act to incorporate
the Savannah Gas Light Company,-and
Augusta Gas Light company, approved
Dec. lith, 1819. •
82 Act to settle conflicts between the
Code Of Georgia, and the present General
Assembly.
S3 Act to change the time of holding
elections for the members of cougresi..
84 Act to increase Jailors fees in this
State. V
85 Act to enforce the payment of taxes
due by free persons of color.
86 Act to exempt from professional tax
all physicians, lawyers, and all nth or per
sons liable to pay a professional tax, now
enlisted as privates in the armies cf the
Confederate States, or of ibev State- of
Georgia, during their continuance in ser
vice.
87 Act to provide for the,better defence
of the State by the removal and support
of all indigent non-combakiins of this State
in certaiu cases,
88 Act to altar and ameqd -the Art in
corporating t.he Cotton Plaid is' Bank of
Georgia.
89 Act to iprovide for raising a revenue
for the political year 1863—to appropriate
inondy lbr the support of the Government
♦luring said year; to make certain appro
priations, and, for other purposes.
90 Act to incorporate the Cobb county
Salt Mining Company.
91 Act to extend and continue an act.
to incorporate the South Georgia and
Florida Railroad Company;
92. Act for die .relief of James and Lu .
cintla Jordan.
93. Act for therelief of the estate of Hon.
F. S. Bartow. •
94. Act to allow i,ho receiver arid col
lector of taxes for tue county of Dooly,*
until the 30(h of February, 1863, to make
a final settlement.with the State Treasu
rer.
95 Act to legalize the proceedings of the
Court of Ordinary’ of Oglethorpe county.
96 A(d to alter am] amend the revenue
laws of this State, (fnd to provide a penal
ty* for the-violation thereof.
97 Aoi to abolish the office of county*
Treasurer of Stewart county, and for oth
er purposes
98 Act for the relief of John Bclinger,
Adm’r of VY. S. Dobbs, deceased.
99 Act to appropriate money for the
State Lunatic Asylum for 1863.
10G Act to change the line between
Luiupkm and White counties, so as to add
a part;<d-Lumpkin to White county
ldl Act to incorporate the Castle Coal
Company of Georgia.
102 Act to repeal an act and the acts of
which it is amendatory, entitled an act to
provide for the indigent Deaf and Dam cit
izens of tlj.is State, and for other purposes,
approved January 13, 1852.
The above constitute the whole number
pfacts (approved by* ttie Governor) of the
late session of the General Assamoly. There
werp forty-seven resolutions approved,
some of which are very important. All
the acts and resolutions, a public and gen
era! character, can be found, in Water’s
Phainphlet, which is published, and ready
for delivery* at 82 per copy.
RESOLUTIONS.
1 In relation to the defence of Savan
nah, and for the removal of the help
less women and children to a place of
safety*. .
2 To appoint a committee to consider
and report upon questions concerning the
salt supply’.
4 To facilitate the transportation of salt
to Georgia.
4 Relative to the defense of Savannah 1.
5 Thankfulness to Alm'giisy God for
the glorious victories achiev 'd by our ar
mies over par common enemies: ^ .
G To adopt means for the general vac
cination of the people of this State.
7. To investigate the counUiou of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
8 To prov*i(ifi %, eoiton_c;u*ds for the peo
ple of this Sta te. ,
9. Authorizing the Governor to. provide
clothing and shoes for thq destitute Geor
gia, troops .in-Confederate-service...
10 Authorizing the.Governor to appoint
a commissioner or commissioners to audit
claims for gnus furnished for State de-
21 Authorizing the Governor to have
salt transported to Georgia.
22 Authorizing the impressment of free
negroes us well as slaves.
23 Relative to the construction of an
act passed at the present session, to pro
vide for the electiou of Commissonera for
the town of Madison, for the year 1868.
£4 To appoint a joint committee to re
port on the propriety of purchasing the
rfcjbt to Clement's Patent Hand Loom for
the benefit of the people of Georgia.
26 Thanks to the Governor and people
of Flordia, for assistance afforded us in
procuring salt.
26 Raising a committee to examine a
new work on Arithmetic.
27 To allow additional time to Tax Col
lectors of the counties of Glynn, McIntosh,
Camden, Quitman and Fulton, to collect
the taxes of the same. -
28 To consolidate the Standing Com
mittee of the House and the Senate on tho
Lunatic Asylum.
29 To provide ambulance cars for the
sick and wounded soldiers on the State
Road. . - . '
30 To appropriate the School Funds of
Gilmer and Scriven counties.
31 Concerning the collection of dues to
the State.
_ 32 Relative to the soldiers in the military
service. • J
33 Authorizing ownersftofurnish substi
tutes for slaves when impressed.
34 Relieving the slaves of certain citi
zens from impressment. -
35 Requesting t he Confederate Govern-'
inentto return acertain quantity of powder
Georgia has loaned to said Government.
36- For investigating the frauds suggested
by tho report of the Committee on the Pen
itentiary, and the subject of a lot of shoes
by A. P. Bell..
37 Authorizing the Governor taeall out
two regiments Of Militia for guarding Rail
road Bridges.
38 Requesting the Secretary of War to
investigate the conduct of Quartermasters,
Commissaries,surgeons, and their assistants
aud ward masters of the Government,’and
to prevent theirabnses and the speculation
of Government officers by partnership or
otherwise.
39 Relative to the planting of Cotton.
40 For forwarding the efforts of the Cot
ton Spinners’ Assotiation, and Cotton Plan
ters’ Convention of the State.
Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
Effect of the late Battle in Washington—
Sketch of Stonewall -Jackson.
* Richmond, Dec, 23d. 1862.
.'*■ The blow administered to the invader
at Fredericksburg’would seem to have de
moralized, not only the Federal army, but
the Federal Government also. Our bomb
shells, it appears, felUin Washington as
well as in Fredericksburg, and it is diffi
cult to say whether they produced more
effect on the Rappahannock or the Poto-
< _ _ _ ^
variably attendod campaigning in the win-
ter, slum Id teach ns the necessity of avoid*
uig them. The army, moreover, requires
restbut if it did not, the outfit of tho
troops is not of a character tQ prepare them
for the rigora of a campaign in January,
in this high latitude. t
STONEWALL JACKSON.
Let me conclude this letter with a brief
sketch of Stonewall Jackson.
It is said the hero of the Shenapdoah
made his apperrance on the field at Fred
ericksburg in a bran new uniform, includ
ing a fine dark blue overcoat, and a hand
some cap, with the requisite quantity of
gold lace about it. His disguise was com-
E lote— so much so, indeed, that he was
ardly recognisable by bia intimate associ
ates. This suit was doubtless, the gift of
some admiring friend; since his ordinary
apparel is very plain, and his tastes and
habits exceedingly simple.
Gen. Jackson is not yet quite forty years.
old. He is of medium size and height—
weighs about one hundred and forty-five
or fifty pounds—has dark, not black, hair,
and wears short side whiskers. His com
plexion is rather pale, and his features,
when at rest, are destitute of expression.
His manners are wholly devoid of grace,
especially among strangers, when ho is
both awkward and elnbarrassed. On horse
back his appearance is anything but pre
possessing, as it is under almost any cir
cumstances ; and ouo who should meet him
on the road, would be apt to take him for
a quiet farmer, with full barns at home,
and no creditor abroad, going to the Court
House; br, better still, for a schoolmaster
who, though all unused to the saddle, had
undertaken to ride over to a neighboring
patron’s house on Saturday, and was mean
while engaged in some difficult mathemat
ical calculation as he jogged along. But
place him on the battle field—let the can
non begin to thunder, the small arms to
rattle, and the sabres to flash in the sun
light—and the quiet farmer, the awkward,
calculating pedagogue, becomes a hero-
calm and self-possessed, it is truo*—but full
of fire and energy, quick as lightning and
terrible as the thunderbolt.
Though it is the boast of Gen. Jackson’s
friends that he has nQt a spado in his whole
army, yet it wjuld be doing him injustice
to suppose he is unmindful of tho.advanta-
ges of a strong position, or that he neglects .
any honorable means which may contribute
to his success. No officer in tho army is
more attentive to his duties, or labors
harder and longer than he does. He is /
very careful to ascertain the strength and
position of his adversary ; and having done
this, he swoops upon his prey like the eagle .
from his oyry. *
TbereisSoine diversity of opinion among
military men in regard to Gen. Jackson’s
qualities as a strategist and commander of
an armj*, ImUnone as to his abiiity_as a
fighter. In his battles he has been attend
ed with a larger degree of success than
Ho is. the idol of
mac. The anny^cut to pioces and driven 1 any officer in the army
” ’ s the people, and is the object of greater en
thusiasm than any militarj' chieftain of
fish-ivorm; but, with that Spartan firmness |. j n capacity he is,'to quote Sheridan claims
that has ever distinguished him, shed not ' KnMwl I n peace a'lamb, in war—a - le ™°y - . , .
a tear. At about the fortieth blow the old f i am < er 11 In refbrenee to salt transportation
lady paused, while the old gent eased oir 1 * — 4 12_ Appointng a joint committee -of
his hold, and inquired, “ My son, wi 1st thou j From the Milleil-erille Confederate Union,
go to school ill future?” The young hero ; passed byThe Legislature of Cieorgift at
raised lus head, Mt.iped his sleeve across his , the session of November 1S62. A :•
nose, and louaing up into Ins fathers face,
said: “1 saj - , old gentleman, why am 4 like
a cabin passenger'on a carial boat?” “ My
son, I know not,” sagely observed Jackson,
senior. f‘Wi>y,” said the young’ incorri
gible, "with n knowing wink, ‘tit’s because
I am boarded astern.” The poor outraged
father could only ejaculate., “ board him
again, old lady,.board him again.” “ Not
I,” said, the mother, dropping the shirt
board. * £ You might as woll larrup a Stone-
wall”
Rrom that day to this the hero has gone
by the name of Btono wall Jackson. “ But, j
.mother,” said the. father as. the released j
[CONCMJDED.j *
68 Act for the support of indigent wid
ows and orphans of soldiers, who have died
or been killed in the service of the Siato
or of the Confederate States arid for other
purposes.
09. Act to levy and collect a tax for
thd political year, 1862.
70 Act to prevent the spread of small
pox in this_Stale.--
71. Act to a nth on /.o the Governor to in
crease the salaries and- daily or montidy
Wages of tiift several officers an i employ
ees: of the ■ W..& A. R. R.
three from tho Senate and five from the
-back like the waves of the soa from a rock-'
bound coast, is now seeking shelter—not
from the winter’s blasU but Lee’s victor
ious legions—rbehind the fortifications at
the Federal capital; whilst the members
of* the cabinet, defeated in their wicked
purpose and overwhelmed in the sea of
blood they wantonly shed, are already
searching foe places in which to cover up
their shame and-confusion. The time witl
yet come when they will call upon the
; rocks and mountains to fall upon them,
• and hide them'from the wrath of the io-
j furiated moo arufthe gaze of an indignant
| world. Yerrly, 1111 'the rider and his horse
| hath He thrown into the sea.”
The enemy attribute their defeat iu part
| at least to the thick fog that hung over
the Yalley of the Rappahannock on the
I morning of the LBth, and which teas not lift
ed until preparations against their attack
! had been completed! "And-they may; for
“ it was a cloud and darknes to them, but,
it gave flight to these” 4 If Gen. Leo had
been-Rcciie-shitter in that rugged amphi
theatre of hills, he could not have rolled up
the misty curtain that hid his army from
the enemy, at a moment more oppportune
for his purposes. He had been reserved '
for another duty, however. The ‘.‘cloud”
had been placed between tho camp of the
South by an Unseen Handy but at the
proper time, that same Hand gathered up
its folds, and pointed the way to victory.
In the midst of crushing disasljsrs in the
field, the distraction of trio Government,
the hitter factions of the people and the
scorn of mankind, the Federal Congress
undertakes to continue the war, and
that end has just voted an appropriation
of over seven hundred millions of dollars,
for its vigorous prosecution fhe coming
i •'
House ty investigate the official condu.ct.oi | year.- The party m power, driven head-
tho Quarter master and Oo:nraissary Gen- | long by a fury as blind as it is wicked, that
ei ‘M 8 - - ' refuses to see the truth as it is, v and that
72 Act lor. the relief of Joseph State, of
13 Thanks' to the gallant officers and
soldiers.
14 Declaring the sanction of the . State
upon the coimraets made for the manufac- +-reason, and had arrived at that point
ture of salt ip Virginia, and autiiprizing
the Governor to make all .ueeossitry ar-
rengemantstp secure the prompt tpfcnspor-
for supply of Georgia.
15 Requiring the tax payers 4 pf this .
State to give in the blind, deaf tuid- dumb
children iiv this State.
16 Tjjanlcs to 'Chd ladies of thin State
for the comforts and necossitios of our sol
diers. ... . . Ar- 4 -’ 4 - - •••j!-*
closes its'eyes to the frightful abyss which
yawns to receive both the government and
the people, acts as if it were bereft of all
whore the wicked are deserted both by
God and man. If the war be continued,-
without the intervention of some power*
tation of salt obtained there find elajS where f not now foreseen, the dissolution of both
fnr J * — — a I*. _ A!.
ICtrj Tei
government and society cannot be far dis
tant.' ’ There -mnst’ be peace, or the mon
ster Republic of the North will go to. pie
ces: Like the dying whale, it may be that
it will he more formidable in thc struggles
of deal*, than it has been in lifo. Such
was true of Prance during the Re'
our day. And this, too, notwithstanding
the fact that he marches his troops faster
and longer, fights them harder, and takes
less care of them than any officer in the
service. Indeed, some go so far as to say
that if he had no'enemy to encounter; and
nothing to do but march his troops about
the country, be would yet loso one third
of them in the course of a year. This in
difference to the comfort of his men is only
apparent, however—not real. No man
possesses a kinder heart, or larger human
ity; but when he has anything to do,, he
is so earnest, so ardent and energetic that
he loses sight of everything but the work
before him. If, for example, ho were re
quired to move his carps from Fredericks- ,
burg to Richniond apd had two weeks to
do it in, he would bo almost sure to per
form the march, in four days,; or one fifth
of the time, because he does not know how
to do anything slowly. His style of cam
paign, as he is reported to have told Gen.
Leo just-after the second battle of Manas
sas, is to seek for the enemy, and to strike
him whenever and wherever found, in sea
son and out of season, and whatever his
position or numbers.
Gen. Jackson is a member of the Pres
byterian church, and a sincere and humble
Christian^ He considers hiiqself an instru
ment in the hands of God, and never arro
gates any credit to himself when victory
perches upon his banners, but ascribes all
the praise to Him, without whose know
ledge not a sparrow falls to the ground.
Many apocryphal stories have been set
afloat in regard to his religious: practices
after a battle—such, for example, as that
he is iu the habit of drawing up his troops
in ?ine and returning thanks to God for the
victory. l am assured that nothing of this
kind has ever occurred. He is tpo sincere
a Christian to indulge in-such ostentatious
displays of his piety. c
It is said that the bold chieftain has but
one Weakness, and that relates to his mid
dle name. It is generally Sujpposed that
his nam'ejs Thomas Jefferson Jackson; but
this i* a. mis take. The J. does not stund
fur Jefferson, nor Johnson, nor Jeremiah,
nor Jeroboam, but for a name more ugly
■and hated than - cither or all of them.—
What, then, do you suppose it is, reador ?
Why Jonathan! the name (Uncle Jona
than) by which the "*“*'*“
at swept over that beaut.:
' n occur?, shall Gen. T
Sion of.the military
that now distract
neiit of the United St
offensive and march i
This inquiry can l
another,:
that kind
i r.o
-sopmea. The Genera
.get out that he bears any
it is hoped, Mr. Editor, t u:
. .will say nothing at *
