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From the New York Etcnng Post, -January 0. To-day is the anniversary of ;i battle well I seemed at once to rouse hit to tl’ fid! vigor of health. Our artillery continued until two in the afternoon, > w ell as we look back upon the deeds of our fathers- , fought | Grasping his sword that l:i| onjt chair by him—“We to fire on the eneim whenever they attempted ?e ri-i Tlie “divinity of kings” occurs to us, and we spitup- und gloiioodv won hv our ccuntrymeu—the battle of! shali have a warm day,” sal h<J“ come on—but stop, from thediicii in which they had laid down for >iu 1- " !1 the earth, feeling in our expanded souls the glori- New Orleans. We can i>re-eit our readers with noth- let uj see to Chautard,* I an alfid he is badly wnim- tor. The reserve, a corps of two thousand nr'ii, who °us sanctity of freedom. i he sun of prosperity is j nig more season il>Ie, or win h tiiey will read with more interest, than the fidlmvig picturesque and ani mated narrative from an ey»-witne: mem: ded.” A brick struck from he «H by the cannon hall had not been engaged, were seen drawn up in the bad laid that brave officerprtftrate on tbe ground; ditches in several lines; and wounded men wiih iheir of the engage-Shut it was only a severe cqitui>n; he promptly rose arms in slings, wete distinctly observed returning from and bellowed ns to tbe line. the camp where their wounds had been dressed, to HiiTPrr r*c« . . vr7 , ov | A light breeze, when we reac the parapet, sweep- join their companies, to swell, no doubt, the number Lilt, Jr lit- itlbHl d Ur JAINU AKi. j ; n gihe mist from the field, showd us tlie British ar- of men under arms, and also to add to their appear- The asp*-rt of onr political relation* t nvanJs (ireat mv formed into columns of aboi sixty men in front, * nnce ofstren^th. These precautions showed that tlie Britain' no !»->< than tlie dale of onr pap**r, make* it | advancing in fine order in thelirection of our leftcommanding general feared lest tlie American army seasonable to publish, on this auspicious day, tlie foi- many of the sohliers carried fayues, and others bore should attack him in his very camp before the troops lowing narrative of the memonble battle which, to use along scaling ladders. All tlie guns and congreve had ireovered from the panic of their recent defeat. Napoleon’s words, dosed onr second war for hide- • b itteries poured in advance ofleir column a shower; This, the lie ul-lon jieudence of foreign dictation, ‘liva clap "f thunder!” ( of grape and rockets. This re was returned by It is nmv more opportune th v it has ever been, to re- all our batteries, not w ith so inosant a roar, but with vive in the minds of Americans, the emibli.ig remeui-! a deadlier certainty of aim, awas visible bv the . brance of that miparalled triumph of their arms, since frigh'ful gaps oursliots Aiidgrafsmadein theadvan-i mu-t (lurin'; the excitement of tlie list election, attempts cing columns; and yet these c«dd not he checked;' Tl unpetnositi Ameriean valor would soon have done, but that t he prudence of Jack- son forbid this dangerous tempting of fortune, after we h k1 already receiyed at her hand, fir more than the nine had ever hoped. suit of this battle, even with respect to the now smiling over a portion of the land where, twenty- six years only since, the advance of a powerful foe ( spread terror and anguish among o: r homes. Even j now, at sound of the notorious “beauty and booty,” see the crimson tide rush into tlie cheek of a Louisian ian. Not yet forgotten is tire trial and the peril of j 1815. We are free, onr victory lias been achieved, and with temperate and manly triumph yve now look j round upon our rich country, blessing the glorious | day and the brave spirits that freed it from a desp^r 'DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN NOMINATION ate and deadly danger. Tlie veteran of 1815 is still ! a towering Hickory, lifting his head erect as ever while j FOR FKNOR. lime piles «-it the snow, but though the sear leaf is Charles j. McDonald. miUi£BeeyiLL£: FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5. doomed to f gre- n (breve ad difference the laurel never fades, and will bloom for Old Hickory. Poli'i.al prejudices — Im.died in oblivion, for the OJ® Tln re will be an Eclipse of the Moon to-night commencing a few minutes before 7 o’clock.—Thp have been made to divest that glorious anniversary they still rushed on, their stepsless rapid, yet still actual loss of the vanquished army , i of the grateful associations yvbicii should, • v.-r connect borne onw ard by the first imps's; but at last they | in the annals o modern warfare. It exceed* iiiprercdented "hite-haired conqueror is in the In-t ray of a declining \ Eclipse will be total; another Lunar Eclipse will o c 1 >r r nr- <l:n - and shadoyv is fast enchaining liim from view, j cur on the 2nd August, next, also visible to us. its commemoration with tlie fame of the democratic reached the impervious thougiiinvMble girdle that i iy the number <>fmen xxhicli their adversary had under tbe state some service, and the state J « bieftain yvho achieved that great victory. breasted our lines, the iron andlead deluge of shot \ arms in the field. The best informed from among the knows it, and has acknoxvledgvd if; and proud wid be j Jackson’s lines (fir thus has history designated the 1 P ou, ‘d incessantly by the Tennssee and Kentucky j British officers with yvhom we conversed yvlien yve met the destiny of America ii she never knows a yvorse ■’ ‘ •’ ' • ■ * • .... son than Andreyv Jackson.— Picayune. breast work b. low Ncxv Orleans.) was only a parapet fdlemenl No power of disciplie could make men j them during (lie truce for bury ing their dead, com- k hastily thrown upon the left bank of a can d, former- I a ‘lvance in the face of destructio so certain. The! puted th-ir loss in die battle at four thousand men. lv. used as a mill race, and defend'd by eight batteries j vo ' ce of tlie officer lost its magi* effect—the spell of | Our whole army at the lines never exceeded that mounting sixteen guns, of variouscalibre, from thirty- command yvas dissolved—-the instuct of nature broke! number,,and on die morning of the eighth, detach- ttvo to six pounders—a defensive position admirably j asunder tlie shackle of habitual ibedience—tlw col- | meins sent to guard the canal Pieruas, to yvatch the chosen. General Jackson, while on Ids inarch to at- . tack General Keene, saw at one glance, all tlie ad vantages of this spot. Tlie strip of high land between tlie river ami the woods is narrower there (ban any w here else near the citv, and even then, while his mind was buoyed up . with the hope of~ ,J tttng off General Keen’s w hole de tachment, lie determined, if he failed in this, to take the position and fortify it. The breastnok yvas thrown up hastily by tlie sev cral companies, cacti on tlie front it occupied along tliebauk of tlw canal, and batteries successively estah- j ’lished on it at irregular intervals from die river to the ; woods. The portion of the parapet that ran through tliese to impassable prairies, or shaking marshes, as I they are termed in Louisiana, from their tremulous I motion w hen trod !en upon, mounted no guns, as no artillery could be brought to bear against it. General Jackson bad been aware since the Gth of Jutiuary that General Packeuliam intended to carry ins yv-uks by a vigorous assault. The distance at w bicli the enemy was encamped did not conceal his mnveine ts alto- getlier from the vigilant eye of our commander. On the Tih he spent the greater part of die day on tlie top of the house where he had his bead quarters. Thence with a good telescope lie di-coyered the whole Brit ish army, as it lay encamped upon the river to the wood, through yvhich it kept up its communication y\ith the fiett. II>- saw distinctly a canal newly dug, through the fields an-l leading to the Mississippi. Along tlie hanks of this large bodies of men were «»b— j umns stopped short, wavered a n<>ment, and then, I skirts of the v»oods from the citv to tbe camp, and to breaking in wild disorder, disperse!, every man obey-j reinforce Genera! Morgan’s command on die other ing only tlie dictate of self preseivation. And yet,! side of the river, bad reduced it to 3200 men. wm 0*c- .wn.:.:,l, discipline, curb, too. the | Tbe American anuv, on that day only 5200 sirong, native valor of die Saxon race, that the troops rallied j was attacked by fourteen thousand veteran troop ASSAULT UPON STATE CREDIT. Having offered last week, a few remarks upon the j views of the Southern Recorder in relation to relief ! of die people, through die agency of their representa- TIIE JOCKIED FRENCHMAN. j tives, and die course of the last legislature upon that A Frenchman in this country, who rvos little nc- I '•'d’ject, yye had neither time nor space, to review the qiiaiited with horse-jockies or horse flesh, was griev- J ^tihsequent portion of theii aiticle, which is chiefly 'Holy taken in by a cheat, in tbe purchase of a steed. ■■ de\ oted to State bond?, and to yybich, it is our pur- He gave one hundred dollars for a miserable jade of P oseno ' v > to call the public attention, an old mare that had been fattened up to sell: and ■ I hiding the Harrison and reform legislature in bad she turned out to be ring-honed, spavined, blind and odmir with the people, on account of their refusal to witul-hr ko.i. The Frenchman soon discovered that aci n P ont * lc Governors Message, or t \tn 10 make an du as soon as they had receded from tie full force I trained to war during tlie long and bloody war ofthe he bad been used up in the trade, and went to request efiort to devise some other measure “more faithless' I ..tl'..,,* ..t’ ..... !»*... ».. A C. — i. 1! t.. i • t i • i » i * »i . .i • . . . i i i ^ i • i i i® i . i tr\ rplipvp flip npmile tl.n .. LI..L ! .1 and effect of our musketry. and forming h line, in- i stead of columns, began that constant ruling fire wliose tremendous noise was heard in the uty like rattling peals of distant thunder. The pretence of General Packenhatu, who gallantly rode in r ront of! works, and killed, wounded and took prisoner tlie troops, urging them again to advance; tin exam-, hundred more men than their own number in Peninsula, togeti er with two thousand sailors and marines, behind a breast work hastily thrown up, at d running almost in a strait lino. It repelled their eral asi-aults, made pri-oner the jockey to take back tbe animal, and refund the money. to relieve the people from the ruin which impends over tlirni. tlie Recorder lias made an issue between of all who cut ev- red the i, eight lie bat- ‘Sare,’ sad he, ‘I’ave lech back de mare horse vat ,!,p Harrison party, and the credit of the State, and you s back. 11 mt, and I vant de money my pocket ''as a ttempted to ju-tifv them, ! depreciating State bonds, at a t by crying d.>w„ and u it is all ia,. tie. That Englishmen should w i-.li the memory of so glorious a victory to pass away from the mind oi’tlie nation vi hose aunuK it t nobles, w e can easily conceive, but that the madness of party feeling should have attempted lo filch from the hero of that day the fame and will pie of General Gibbs, who inarched at the heal of a regiment; of General Keen, win* on that oica-ion showed the same gallantry that had saved the Iritish army on the 231 of December, sustained foi some time longer the courage of tbe troops against tie most deadly fire ever w itnessed by the veterans of Tanvera ( »f liis'bigli deed, astonishes cutetnpnraiic and Badajns; but when Packeuliam fell from hishofse scarcely be believed by posterity, mortally wounded—w licu Gibbs expired in tlie arms j |„ t j,i s hasty sketch, 1 could not inscribe the names of the soldiers, w ho were carrying him from tbefield, t ,f t |,e valiant lieutenants of Jackson—Cofice, the "lien Keen, also severely wounded by a rifle bal, was daring, the unassuming, the soldier without fear and obliged to leave the ground, that column finally c!i>- | without reproach, lives only in history. Adair died persed in irremediable confusion. MOt many months since, but' Carrol! lives, faithful to It was now tbe turn of tbe other two coitions to friend.-hip and to principle.;, make an effort to retrieve the day. The troops com- J have not alluded to tlie action fought on the light posing them, were seen forming behind a ditch lay- bank of die river. It wasadistinet engagement. The ing down their knapsacks, that they might rushoii to enemy, though be succeeded in driving General Mor- * lie assault with greater speed. Ibis was an awful |' rom lines ill cliosen and fidelity defended, failed moment for both armies. Jackson, followed by his to obtain the end they had in view—to cause General sending reinforce tin 1 genius of w ar, ‘lour porket back!’ returned the jockey, feigning. ! ,orta,,t to 5,Ist:iin pttLIic cridit, to carryout a work surprise ; 1 lent understand you.’ j of Internal Improvement, ofjncnlculable importance. 1 i on no land under me!’ exclaimed the French- ' 5 "'**■ I’-oown to the L- curder, that tlie only man, begiming to gesticulate furiously: ‘you no oieans w itum the control o* the S ttc, to complete the stand uiulei me!—Sare by gar! you be von grand M e.-tern and Atlantic Rail Road, are the bonds, or rase a lie—ym be like Sam—like—Sam—vnt you call credit of the State, and that contracts have been made deFetle muiiitainf’ * ! ,or n portion of the work, to be paid in these ‘Sam Hil, 1 suppose you mean f’ bonds; and every a t unpt to lessen their value, or to ‘Oui Moiskur-—Sam de Hill.—yes, sare, you lie > bakc tne confidence of tie public, in the solemn like two San de Hill. \ oil sell me von mare for ; P'odges of tlie State, must operate injuriously upon the Von limulrei dollars—he no vort von hundred cent, hiterest of die whole peopie in that great project, and by gar!’ " ’ ’ stall, went along the whole line. To tlie Americans j Jackson to weaken iiis forces, by served bending forward as men towing heavy boats— i birth, lie said that they mti>t not prove ihen.selves nients to liis lieutenant, large pieces of artillery lay in Various places, and the j «|i? degenerate sons oftheir ancestors who had defeated Jackson, born, as it were tracks on which they were to be wheeled were visible, j *jie enemy that novy confronted them. To tlie {Ji(i not, like bis adversary, violate tins great maxim All was animation in that part of the field fronting our j L l em h be rei filled the high deeds of their <u lines un- war, “Ne pas faire tie detaeheuicut a la v pi lie d mie lines. Groups of soldi, rs were remarked engaged in j Napoleon; to tbe Spaniards be invoked the re- IJ at aillc.” The few men lie sent to Morgan were ii! making fascil.es with sugar canes, while others pre- i n^nibranreof their cities given up to plunder by these j armed and inefficient. Packenlunn. on the contrary, pared "scaling ladders, "officers on horseback were j vcr J' a,mips i t,le war Peninsula; to the men de|)rived himself, on tlie8t!i ol'Ja iuary, of twelveIitii.- described riding about the fields, stopping sometime j color lie said they must show themselves worthy ofj d ri .,l excellent soldier-, as well as ofthe services of at different posts, ns if to give orders and mark posi- j t,,p confidence he had placed in their valor, when lie ollt . G f i )C , t otlirei s- Jack-m, in spite of tli-.t de- lions. Nor was the night, dark and rainy as it prov- j P l,t anns i” ‘heir hands; to the artillerists, he said they inoiistratiou, knowing that a British general would V» hy, whit’s ihe inatti r with the beastf’ ‘Mattair ! Sare ! Mattair do you say ? Vv he’s all mattair—he 10 go at all—he got no leg, no foot, no \ in !—he b!;:d like one stone mit his eye—heno see iiohody at all viddat (ye—he go v-heeze o, v- he< ze o, likevon forge hammer bellows—he go limp, limp—in • nogn overall de ground—heno travel two mile in tree thy ! Oui sare, he is von grand cheat— von must tak'him and fund de money back.’ ‘Refund tie money ! Oil lio, I couhl’ut think of such a tiling.’ ‘\at! Yeti no fund me back de money?—You slieaty me vH one hundred dollar horse dat not can go at all.” ‘I lit ver promised that she would go ’ ‘By gar ! vot is von horse good for veil lie no go. He heno be'.ter as von dead >Iiackass, by gar. y on, sare take de mare horse back and give me mv cd, without its signs and Indications to the practiced j >n? st depress their guns a little, and not hurry their j not place such a river as the Mississippi (when it was money vat | pay for him?’ eye and quick ear of tlie veteran chief of our Indian j ^ r ‘ n o* Wherever the general appeared ihe loud ^ comma „d e d too hv his adversary) between his army ‘No sir, l cannot—’twas a fair bargain; your eyes 1 - i '“ 1 1 Tbert directly and ruinously, upon the contractors and la borers engaged in its execution. Looking to the completion of a w ork of so much importance—and know ing that nothing but the State credit can conduct it to a successful termination, we bold it to be the duty of the press to uphold it. But if it is to he thus run down and repudiated—if the presses of the State are to become the instruments of annihilating her credit, farewell to the Western and Atlantic Rail Road. Contractors will be compelled to abandon tlieir contracts,and laborers will be forced to seek other employment—and r.fmr an expenditure of nearly three mil]ions of dollars, it must w ind up in abortion. We here insert so much of the article referred to, a.- relates lo Slate bonds, to which we invite the attention of the people generally, and the contractors and l.i- yjll borers upon tlie Rail Road, in particular. Fro.n ilie Recorder of the -bill Jiinunry 1041. “Tlie measure proposed is to sell the bonds of the state to tiie amount of three millions, and to loan the wars; he watched and listened for then, in every light j <»f the troops proclaimed his presence, that glared oil tbe surrounding gloom, in every ! was no time f° r words, deed* responded to his ani- breeze that wafted sound through the air. The first i tnated address! sometimes borne rapidly along, and then hemming ! Tlie lasl ‘"'set was the most vigorous that we had stationary, and again moving or. quickly, pointed m.i j vet sustained. Some platoms of the Scold, reg.- clearly from w here the different head's of columns ! advanced to the very edge of the ditch before , . .. , money so obtained to the people, w ithout loss to the vour own market, as we gentlemen of the turf - , r ‘ 1 - c state. i\mv, by reference to any newspaper giving tlie sales of stale stocks, tlie reader w ill observe first, and his line of communication v itb his fleet, remained w en quiet and as insensible to this initiative of Ids antago- say.’ nisi to change the seat of operations. ‘Gentlemen de turf! You lie no gentleman at all— . . , , „ , . , , - . ^ 1 n- i i - r „ , that they can only be sold at a great depreciation Moil Dieti! y ou be von grand 1 ur!- - n ‘ The firmness of bis attitude, the indifference with you he no turf. which he viewed the show of success exhibited oil the light bank of tbe Mississippi, bv the victorious de- would take their direction. The latter sometimes pro- j the troops that had attacked our left dispersed, and taclunent’s under the command of Thornton, ronvine res eed on them. ed General Lambert tint the designs of his pn sor bad not worked the .'iid expected from ils exert! lion. Ayvare of the d;.tiger of leaving a corps thn isolated, and with such pre tation as it pos anous nn .’ssed in the few boats ans of transpor- it had at its dis- Being noyv satisfied hv all lie had observed thai the 1 corps designed for this attack, bad been kept out ot position, this experienced chief, eagerly seizing tlie duced by blows ofthe hammer, sometimes hy the sought shelter among the busl.es on their right, or re- stroke ofthe whip, urging on stubborn mules or'wta- dred to the ditch where they bad formed the columns rie.l oxen, told plainly enough that platfioins were of attack, about six hundred yards from our line,, erecting, and the cannon slowly advancing to be pla- Our right and the greater portion of our centre had as yet sustained no effort of ihe enemy. 1 lie of view under the shelter of some large buildings near advantage of a dark night, had tli the road. These troops in order o avoid tlie fire of j back t() t |, e5l . o^inal position, the Louisiana, whose g"ns syvept the highway, sci- zed a moment when a thick smoke hung over tbe i . , . • . ,, , , .i'll I Ts Gen. Gaines in Ins dotage, that lie is permuted to river, to creep unpcrceived, beiweeti tlie bank and the water line, until they had got very near our extreme right ; and then, rushng yvith resistless! When tlie measure was discussed, we stated the high est rate at which onr inform ition w ould allow us to put the bonds of Georgia, as seventy dollars to be re ceived for one hundred dollars of the bonds of the attack would be made on onr lines early in tlie morn ing, and probaly a little before day light, Jackson walked along tlie yvltole line, stopping often to con verse yvith the soldiers, who sat around their fires drinking coffee; for no brandy was used to keep up the spirits of that patriotic army. He told them that the battle they had >o ufl( n wished for would be foil lit troops brought tote his w ife about the country in the disgraceful man ner he is doing? If so, lie had better lie removed - i , i i i . .i i from the service, tliat the reputation and character of in the morning; that he believed the enemy would j impetuosity to the unfinished ledou >t, hey lc^p- ^ | east , n; , v be preserved.—Gloucester Td- come to it in good earnest this time—that lie had | «1 into the ditch, and entered it through the e.n- , _ done bis part as their general, placed them in the best j bnmires, putting to the sword all who attempted to - th( . n , is „ ot a (loill)t ofit . Ti.ey had heller position that soldiers could yyisli, their flanks se- I 1 . . . . , , - i dress Mrs. Gaines in uniform, set her astride a horse, cured, *uic 1>V a miitlitv river, llie oilier In an impas- "lull hi possession ol tliat lastion, to1 "ir titter j _ n)(| ||fl . fc]ll t | w | la „|,, s „ri„. r eoutilrv in tlie sable morass; that svliat remained lo do « «• their o»n : i.ismay, they jn rceivetl that I «ns tlislim t Inim . ?ver . r)a<)os „f Florida. As to the old General, Vo fear task anil would soon hesin—he entreated them to he, ; null unconnected t.ith the mam lir.-astviork, Inch In )h |,-„ m a„|iood. Ii on •he morrow, the men he had seen then, in Florida, j tlie rear of.., ran into ihe river .sell, where it was ; ‘ , b , iat I!revl .,. Mi , to receive tl.e onset oftheir Ihe as many he 2*1 | more than five feet deep. The capture,I work was 2 5 23th of December and on tin- 1st of this year, | open^ Uicw^r snl^and Comnoi^Fattei^m, . „ , :„ c sM War ,| lal |„. Ims (1 to Florida,—there lie w111 linve ail op- i iiriMiliii (i iicui %■ (tiiti vu.auwy.iMy »•• w ►-'v. »»_•«« • vum »ng ..... ive (i — von sacre damn deceptione. You cheat your ow n born mudder—you play rasealle trick on Vour own gotten ladder, you have no prinripaile.’ ‘Tlie interest is y'bat 1 go for. ‘Yes, sare, your interest is no prinripaile —You lie van grand rasealle slu-at. Mou Dieti, vere you die ven you go lo hell ." Dediabli—he fetch von no time quicker by g;ir.’ Failing to obtain redress of the jockey the poor Frenchman seat his “mare horse” to an auctioneer to he sold. But the auctioneer seems to be about as great a fees (or steed. “By gar,” siid the Frenchman, yvlien relating tlie story, “1 be slieaty all round. shearv me in trarin, and the hauctioneer, lie slieaty me in dispose of(l* i.anin.alle; he sell,! de mare horse for the ce|)t ? W i„ y ou give fifty per cent, for tin ten dollaire, and gar lie sliaieg d me ten dollaire , 1 ,. ; * for sell him. Mon dieti! so I he take all round in. suite. Here, then, is a loss at once of thirty dollars in each hundred, with this important addition, that with the loss we pay interest on one hundred, for sev enty received. Noyv let us see what per cent, these two items come to, before we proceed farther. We, start then, yvith first, an inter* st of lbr:y i ercent. for she depreciation of tlie bonds; then immediately commeii- . . , ."N'cestheinterestofeiglitpercentjononehundreddol- rogue as tlie lockev, lor fie took care that the . *, ... , c , . - , . lars, for seventy received, winch is at the rate of over selling should eat up tne price he got for his , ; , • r „.i „ r. * . c lie. ; eleven per cent, per anniini: making, for the first year, over fifty per cent, for the loan. Now, the people T , . i are to bear (he state harmless, say our opponents l stoi y xirse h ; t], ese spcciitl friends of the people; all we have to ask 1 of onr fellow-citizens is this, are you willing to give I loss ’li ven am! one hundred .lollaire all in my poc ket clear, for one saere (lain limp limp, v-heeze vind no see at all, good for nothing shape of a marc horse, vorse as niuetueu dead shackass, by gar.” Mils per been order* port unity to talk with tlie Indians. We copy in lieu of any remarks oi our oyvn, tlie following beautiful and eloquent tribute (o the “Hero of New Orleans”—the more readily as it comes gnsli- yvliicli they ushered in by a glorious victory These yyinning yvords made tlie hearts of tne bmn-t ; , , ■ , ■ j.iic.1. wiiiuiii .. . ii, . ! officers, though already yvonnued, vere seen cliecmg to jK.lpitate. Every man while bstenmg looked at ; ^ ^ ^ a J Mnlt aRJ|inl t!ie intervening ihe pruning of his nlle. There was something mex- I, Colonel Renee had tlready began to pressihly affecting in inis ;.im ur comersa mu a-. moJ|nl t j ic breastwork, when one of he gallant voltin- tween the chief and the soldiers; Mere was ea>e, eye.. , ^ nn(ler Capt . Beale, shot that valiant sol- familiarity, but no licentious forgi tfulntss of it I,igli j lJiroi j, t j, e |,e a H. Deprived of their leader, i'mg from the heart of one opposed to the polit rank of their leader, v onie of t ic y eler.iii> o . .ipoc i t | iese brave soldiers called for quarters, and laid down | ic«! vicyvs of tbe veteran cx-pre-ident. It is a on, yvho yvituesscd t iese em.eaung . omnumu ations, aruls qq, e American batteries nearest the river exclaimed that Jackson reminded tliero of the li't.e cor- a ,j „, e wlli | e5 so deadly a fire on the rest of poral’s w alk-among his troops on the eve «». ,o...e of l ^ c J unw , lhat k fel , back itl ,| ie greatest disorder, Ins great battles. . , . , , . leaving ti c road, tbe dyke, and the ground near tlie Hall of the tronns spent the mg ita tlie breastwork, i . ° , , . . , ' • - - - ' river, over which it had advanced, and noyv retreated strewed with heaps of the slain. This yvas the last efiort made by the enemy; no thing remained on the ground of tin formidable Iiom yvhich in the morning marc hed to tli; attack with all loan of money? Do you think such a measure would be one of relief.' Would you be yyilling to give (ii- teen hundred dollars fora negro worth one thousand? If y ou are willing to ruin yours; Ives cither way. (<•!- low-citizens, hard as are ihe times, you will bud no difficulty in doing it. Make as secure paper ns you would have to make to tlie Slate, tor fifteen hundred Anecdote of Bonapartf..-Ii. tbe midst of a j (|o])ars for lietrrot . s wllich v<m can sell for a thousand, ■adful can.leading, Bonaparte stood leaning near- , ;||)d you can b as manv a3 you want, or make a -e- ly exhausted with several days hard fatigue, against Clire paper as VO u would have to make to the State, at ‘he carriage wheel of a camion, and was in the act of j fiftv 1 ccnt j lltcrest? and hard as are ihe times, you taking a pu.cliot 1ns favorite stimulant from the box of j ni „ commanf ] en ougli of the articlee, to ruin you in twenty-four hours, in any county in Georgia. _ . i If the bond system is as ruinous as represented by tie of bis cinintenane, except in pity to bis fallen |hg Recorder? bow jjj,] | t happen to receive the sanc- dr attentively watching to discover the njiproaeli of the enemy, should they have dcteriuined on a night at tack, tlie companies relieving each other occasionally, so that all should have some rest previous to tlie com ing day. oui heart of him who , well as to the eulo- vievvs like honorable to the head penned it—to the eulogist gized. THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY. The Hero of New Orleans is now in his ind yellow leaf, and tlie light ol bis life is flickering, fad- It w as y et half an hour before daylight, when oar 1 the pageant and steadiness of vetenn discipline, ex- out posts came in; they had noiselessly rec. ded before cept a confused mass of fugitives, thr.wmg axvay their the enemy. «h" they said was advancing very slowly a rms and endeavoring to escape b; flight from the and in great force." At last, just as dav was dimly 1 frightful slaughter of lhat bloody feld. The noise dawnin'* - through a thick mi-t that Imng over the of the musketry had now ceased, hut the roar of the field; we indistincilvperceived the British army spread cannon, however, continued long ater. Our l.atte- over two thirds of the ground between tlie Mississippi l ies, now free to act against those of he enemy, which and the forest. A congreve rocket rose from the j 'hey had allow, d to play on them * bile they made ing, and stvifily passing axvay. But a modicum of time is left fur the old man, and it may be when tbe sun smiles again upon this anniversary, that sable badges and faces shaded with solemn though!, will tell hoxv the warrior’s spirit is disenthralled and the venerable form we knew so well, is at length sleeping in dust. The Eighth of January is a day never to be for gotten in American history, and with it the name ol Jackson will ever he entw ined. His unbending firm ness called together and directed the energies of tiii an officer, xvlirn a cannon shot came and killed tlie latter on the spot. Without moving a limb or a mus 1 friend, Bonaparte turned to another, and asked if lie j tion of a wl)ifr Governor? If our recollection serve- had a box: “for, ’ said be, “our friend, I suppose, Ins ; ^ {be act au thorising an issue of bonds to carry on taken his with him.” ; lb ^ g tales roa( ] ? W as passed during Governor Gilmer’s adminisiration, and received bis sanction. ! The Powf.R or Music.—A very modest young | jj„ t it is said, circumstances alter cases, and it may gentleman of the county of Tipperary, having at- be tbal wbat W as very xvise, and very practicable un- tempted many ways in vain to acquire the affections ; der a wb jg administration, is very unwi-e and im- ; ofa ladv ol great fortune, at last was resolved to try pra cticable, yvlien proposed by a Democratic Uliiel what could be done by the help of music, and there- Magistrate at least, such sentiments must he infused fore entertained her with a serenade under her win- j nto tbe people, or Harrison and reform, will soon go dow at midnight—but she ordered her servants to b y t he board. drive him off by throwing stones at him. “Oh, my ‘ R ut the Recorder must take its course.—Let it sink friend,” said on? of his companions, “your music is as i (states credit as low as it can.—Let it ti ll tlie Idle, as that of Orpheus, for it draws tlie very ; , - rom lbe seabnar d to the mountains—from the Savan- powerfui stones about you.’ nab, to the Chattahoochee. Let it proclaim to the contractors and laboiers upon t!ie K *ii Koad, am than two ! citv, when only an indomitable spirit like Ins own xva- ick. To ed guns, A little before nine in tbe morning, the : A foreign invader was ariven onca i.om me .«im pounder, firing having entirely ceased oi both sides, and the . the free banner ofthe stripes and stars was then plant- roused at smoke no longer obscuring the Aid of battle, a spec- j ed, to wave, we hope, over the ( rescent ( >tx until cli-er-: to tacle which, they that have beleld it, will never for- ! the end of time. Holidays, like every thing else, by skirts of tlie wood; it was followed bv one ascending', deep gaps m the attacking columns, in le - i ot a liuimre from the centre, and hv another again blazing over, hours forced the artillerists to abandon their dismount- j capable of performing the great work of the occasion ^ ^ , onfr ibe right. These were the signals of attack. To ed guns, A little before nine in the morning, the j A foreign invader xvas driven back from tlie soil, ami • this yve responded by a shot from a twelve fired from our left. The two armies, as it rmis once by tlie sound, gave three spontaneous rli , - , , - . , ... , tbe cheerings o„ onr side was joined tin- music of a ert, was presented to our sight Tlie whole plain , repet.tion become stale, and coolness w. 1 succeed full band, play ing Hail Columbia and tbe Mar- in front of our left, and of our extreme right to the j even where men’s warmest and highest cnt.iusi.ism i- S eiliaise—those" exciting l.vmns of American and j water edge, was covered with tie dead and dying. | kindled into heat, but cold indeed will be southern French warriors. * J In some parts of the field, nearesl to the xvood, I have ■ sympathies w lien the Eighth of January is forgotten The first shot fired from the British batteries went seen five bodies heaped one oxe- the other; close to j in New Orleans. It is a day to call forth the liveliest through the room where Jackson was sitting bv 'he 1 that spot, a space of two hundred and fifty yards in i feelings of gratitude lor the blessings which -urn urn: fire drinking a ca;> of warm coffee; he i.ad been mi- length by no more than two hunJred in breadth, was; us and the inestimable treasure of freedom which we well the preceding day and the whole night, but the completely covered with the bodies ol men, either dead, are enjoying. We *ioise of the cannon, tlie sound ol’llie martial music or desperately wounded. moist with the blood We’ll Ale Live as Long as we can.—Dr. i ring it along the line of that stupendous improvement, O’Connor, in his history of Poland, says that the Irish from DeKalb to Chattanooga, tliat State credit i= a are long lived—that some of them attain to tlie age gull-trap, and State bonds a humbug, of a hundred; “In short,” adds the Doctor, “they. Before we close our remarks it is proper t mt'>■ as taev can.” , should correct an error, into which, the Recorder i > '— no doubt, inadvertantly fallen. It says, “toe mt-a- Soliti de Sweetened.—To shut up a child in ure proposedi is to sell the bonds of the ’’ l ° 1 c the cellar, and let him have free access to tbe lases j amount of three millions fcc. when by relere,.^ce ... the Governor’s Message, it will be found that he pro " ‘ * ' posed no definite amount. This is bis language Gallantry.—A sailor, »l.o Itail spent nil his ‘-The ,a!eof State bonds lo an ilavs on the blue naves, and knew nothing of land Ihepurjiosf, y*r. to-ntt, t le pnpj. gear, came ashore the other day and in passing up relief requiredJiy the c^ountry, e it more or treet saw a little woman going along yxitli a large iliiflT- leS OI me pe*»H**= .. £ We stand erect of tyranny , up ail. 1 til? < 111 r i c n tn ye ; , a- if n 1st We ask the Recorder again.—Do you think the ne muff before ini. He stepped up very politely, cessit ies of the people demnnn reiitf. and afforded to carry it for her, as he was going the Did your party m the ^legislature, make the sl. = . ( exertion to rciitye u.ciu. same u ;:y