Indiana State Sentinel

A Letter Written By Gen. Jackson But Two Days Before His Death.—It has hitherto been supposed that the letter of Gen. Jackson, dated May 16th, to the President, in reference to Gen. Armstrong was the last ever written by the departed Hero; but the New Orleans Courier, of the 17th inst., informs us that there is in that city a still later letter from him, written only two days before his death. The Courier says—“We have seen a letter from General Jackson to his friend Gen. Plauche, of this city, dated June 6, and postmarked Nashville, June 7. It occupies two pages of letter paper, written and signed in the veteran's well known hand-writing, and without more than the ordinary indication of feebleness and old age. The frank on the outside is also in his hand writing, and his signature is in unusual bold characters, remarkably uniform and bold. The direction is in the writing of another. The letter relates chiefly to the General's private business. Near the conclusion he says, "my health is bad." Its tone, its length, and the character of the hand-writing would induce a person, not acquainted with the circumstances of the case, to doubt that it is the work of one so aged and enfeebled by a protracted and cruel disease." "My health is bad" are almost the concluding words. The effort of writing a long epistle probably caused the weakness which obliged him to call upon another to subscribe the name of the gentleman to whom it is addressed. The frank, as we said before, is written in remarkably firm characters.