GEN. JACKSON'S ADDRESS AT NEW

ORLEANS.

FELLOW CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS: Inhabitants of an opulent commercial town, you have, by a spontaneous effort, shaken off the habits which are created by wealth, and shown that you are resolved to deserve the blessings of fortune, by bravely defending them. Long strangers to the perils of war, you have emboldened yourselves to face them with the cool countenance of veterans. With motives of disunion that might have operated on some minds, you have forgotten the differences of language and the prejudices of national pride, and united with a cordiality that does honor to your understanding, as well as to your pa'triotism.

Natives of the United States! They are the oppressors of your infant political existence with whom you are to contend. they are the men your fathers fought and conquered, whom you are now to oppose. Descendants of Frenchmen! Natives of France! They are English the hereditary, the eternal enemies of your ancient country, the invaders of that you have adopted who are your foes. Spaniards! Remember the conduct of

your al-lies' at St. Sebastian, and recently at Pensacola, and rejoice that you have an opportunity of avenging the injuries inflicted by men who dishonor the human race.

Louisianians! Your general rejoices to witness the spirit that animates you, not only for your honor, but your safety. Commanding men who know their rights, and are determined to defend them, he salutes you as brethren in arms, and has now a new motive to exert all his faculties to the utmost in your defense.

have begun, and he promises you not only Continue with the energy with which you safety, but victory over a foe who has insulted you by an affected doubt of your attachment to the constitution of your country. Your enemy is near; his sails already cover the lakes. But the brave are united; and if he find us contending among ourselves, it will be for the prize of valor, and for fame, its noblest reward.

Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, the 15th of March, 1767. In 1815 he repulsed the British forces in their attack on New Orleans. In 1828

he was elected President of the United States, and again in 1832. He died near Nashville, in Tennessee, June 8, 1845. The equestrian statue of which we give a representation is of bronze, and occupies a conspicuous place near the White House, in Washington.

LIFE OF KANE.

ELISHA KENT KANE, the young and distinguished Arctic explorer, was born in Philadelphia on the 3d of February, 1820.* Although of a delicate frame, he delighted, while yet a boy, in all kinds of field-sports. He showed an early partiality for geographical explorations; and manifested a taste for chemistry, geology, and other of the positive sciences. We are told that "at ten years of age he studied the weather, watched the moon, and carefully scanned the opportunities afforded by the nights for scaling fences, and getting into the treetops, all round the square that was overlooked by his dormitory. Wherever a cat could go, he would."

For most of the facts in this memoir we are in

debted to the excellent biography of Kane, by Dr. Elder, just published by Messrs. Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia, in the style for which they are celebrated.

One of his ex-ploits' was the ascent of a tall kitchen chimney, which rose temptingly above the roof, sixteen feet high. He had made up his mind that he would seat himself upon the top of this towering pile, and, in order to accomplish his purpose, he persuaded his younger brother to assist him. After the family were abed and asleep, he got out upon the roof, and, by the aid of a clothes-line which he had secreted for the purpose, he succeeded in accomplishing the aim of his ambition, at the imminent risk of breaking his neck; and, having seated himself on the chimney-top, he went back to bed.

Entering the University of Virginia, he remained there a year and a half, and distinguished himself by his proficiency in chemistry, having also made considerable progress in Latin and Greek. But his health was delicate. In his eighteenth year

he had violent attacks of disease, and for the remainder of his days he was more or less an invalid. His disease was an inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart. One of his physicians told him that an incautious movement might prove fatal. "You may fall, Elisha," said he, "as suddenly as from a musket-shot."

His father said to him, "Elisha, if you must die, die in the harness; " and Elisha resolved to act in conformity with the advice. He found that incessant employment was the best way of combating his bodily infirmity. In his twenty-first year he was elected Resident Physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Brockley. On one occasion, when he was going the rounds of the hospital with a companion, they encountered. a wretched cripple, who had been married to a healthy young woman in the house. Looking at the miserable man, his companion asked what he supposed must be the thoughts of the cripple's wife, as she reflected that he was her lord and master. "It is to save some lady just such reflections that I have made up my mind never to marry," replied poor Kane.

Having been appointed surgeon in the navy, he sailed in the frigate Brandywine, May, 1843, for Bombay. The vessel, after touching at Madeira, passed on to Rio de Janeiro. At the latter place he improved his time by making an ascent of the Eastern Andes. Arriving at Bombay, he visited the caves of Elephanta, and soon afterward started on an elephant-hunt in the island of Ceylon.

We next find him making an exploration of the Phil'ippine Islands. He traversed the largest of the group, Luconia, from Manilla across to its Pacific coast, and, at great hazards and imminent perils, he made the descent of the crater of the volcano of Tael — a feat which but one European had ever attempted, and he without success. This feat very nearly cost Dr. Kane his life-first, from the poisonous gases he inhaled; and secondly, from the attacks of the natives, who superstitiously regarded his descent into the crater as sacrilegious.

He now visited Borneo and Sumatra, and, crossing over to the Indian peninsula, made the ascent of the Himalaya Mountains. Arriving in Calcutta, he visited Persia and Syria, and passed on to Alexandria, whence he visited Thebes and the Pyramids. He did not traverse all these regions without some narrow escapes and dangerous adventures.

Returning home, he was ordered to the frigate United States, bound for the coast of Africa. He cheerfully obeyed the order, but caught the coast fever, and was again brought to death's door. From the effects of this disease he never wholly recovered. He reached Philadelphia on the 6th of April, 1847, a broken-down man.

But he could endure any thing better than inaction. The war of the United States against Mexico was going on. Kane procured the appointment of bearer of dispatches to the commander-in-chief in Mexico. Arriving at Vera Cruz, he started for the capital. When about twenty-five miles from Puebla, he and his escort encountered a party of Mexicans, among whom were several officers.

In the conflict which ensued, Generals Gaona and Torrejon, and Colonel Gaona, with two captains and thirty-eight common soldiers, of the Mexican party, were taken prisoners. The fight being over, the men of Kane's escort, who were renegade Mexicans, would have killed the prisoners, but for Kane's interposition in their behalf. In defending them he had to parry four saber-cuts that were made at him by the renegades, and tò fire his revolver at the leader of the band. In this contest he received a lance-thrust in the ab-do'men, and his horse was killed.

In the spring of 1850 he was ordered to join the expedition under Lieutenant De Haven, in search of Sir John Franklin. He returned from this memorable voyage in May, 1851, after an absence of sixteen months, during nine of which the vessels had been ice-locked or adrift in a frozen ocean. He wrote a history of the cruise, but had no sooner completed it than he

gave all his energies to the organization of a second Arctic expedition, of which he was to have the command. Though suffering from debilitating illness, he completed his preparations, and on the 31st of May, 1853, started in a little brig named the Advance, with eighteen chosen men.

On the 5th of August they passed into Smith's Sound, at the top of Baffin's Bay. On the 22d, after many encounters with the ice, the men being harnessed to the tow-lines, they tried to make some further progress northward by pulling the brig along by the edge of the ice-belt; but this was found to be slow work. On the 10th of September the little brig was frozen in at a harbor near a group of rocky islets. And here they had to pass the whole of the dreary winter. For much of the time there was no distinction between day and night; the darkness was constant and intense, and the thermometer fell to ninetynine degrees below the freezing point.

Sledge-partics for exploring the coast were organized by Dr. Kane, and, through much suffering, privation, and danger,

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many interesting results were attained. The summer of 1854 came, but the ice did not break up around the little brig. Dr. Kane fitted up a boat which he called the Forlorn Hope; and this was carried across the ice, to be launched in open water. But they were finally obliged to return with the boat to the brig, and prepare to pass a second winter in the ice; "another year of disease and darkness, to be met without fresh food, and without fuel."

The adventures and privations which the little party, its number now diminished by death, were compelled to undergo, are set forth with a simple pathos in Dr. Kane's narrative. At length, on the 17th of May, 1855, they abandoned the ice-locked brig, and prepared to coast along the northern and eastern shore of Smith's Sound and Baffin's Bay in their small boats, exposed to the weather, and to continual rough encounters with the ice.

At a place called Etah they found a settlement of Esquimaux. An Esquimaux boy was catching the little birds known as auks from a rock, by means of a net fixed