Phenix Gazette

From the Cincinnati Gazette.

"NINE LIVES."

Biography is all absorbed. The Hero of Orleans is the only thing in the market. We hear of the life of Jackson-the memoirs of Jackson-an account of Jackson's services, &c. In the last Frankfort Argus, we learn that the General's life is to be written again, "in a series of numbers-the facts to be drawn from the most unquestionable sources." The first number published takes the General from his infancy down to the time when he resigned his judgeship in Tennessee, and retired to his farm on the Cumberland river. During all this long period, not a word is said by the "impartial writer" of the General's fiery and impulsive temper. His numerous broils and personal contests with his neighbours and acquaintances, are all that his memoirs will be such as the historian will approve an hundred years hence!

We select the following from the memoir as a curious fact: "Jackson had been devoted by his mother in his early youth to the ministry; and with laudable pride, that fond and pious parent, on whom the superintendence of his education had devolved since the death of his father, spared no pains to qualify him for that sacred vocation in the most creditable manner! Never was pious mother more woefully deceived."

The memoir confirms the fact that Jackson was in Congress for a short time in the year '96. His opposition to a vote of thanks to Washington is carefully concealed. Not a word is said of his association with Giles and others, to tarnish the reputation of that great and good man.

If we may judge by appearances, the Life of Jackson is not so ready sale in our market as perhaps in the South. Many devices are resorted to to get them off. In an advertisement of the distribution of property by lottery, we find, frequently interspersed among the small prizes items in something like the following terms:-- "Life of Jackson and the Yankee in London-Prize 2 dollars!" The object of the lottery is the encouragement of domestic manufactures, and we have no doubt will furnish a considerable outlet for this precious work.