TIT WASHINGTON, Dec. IF. l845.
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GENERAL JAcKsoN.-As Everything con nected with the history of this great man l. interesting, we publish the following from the Camden Journal, in relation to his blith, &c., which comes from an old and intimate friend of the General -

 s.Ceneral .4ndreW Jackson.-Every cir cumstance concerning great men should be minutey detaield. The ancients were care ful to note every omen attending the nativity of their gods, heroes and great men. Gen eral Jackson was not without his horoscope he did not come into this troublesome world without that singularIty which would set astrologers to calculating, had there lived any in those days, on Waxhaw creek.

 The following account of his birth was related to me. some thirty years ago by the son of Mr. Crawford, at whose house Jack son was born Itappears, MT. Crawford, the predecessor of the Crawford family, still re- siding in Lancaster, had emigrated from Ireland, and settled on Waxhaw creek, close to the road leading from Camden, to Charlotte, (N. ca he left brother in Ireland, which brother and General Jackson's father, mar red sislers-come out to this country to- gether, and settled on the Waxhaw creek. about three miles from the elder Crawford On Sunday morning they concluded to visit the elder Mir. c. and spend social day with the family, as was the wont in those good old times. They accordingly saddled thelr horses, and took their good ladies behind them--no parade of coaches in those golden days; happy, happy days, when man visited his neighbor, his wife behind him on the same horse. her arm circling his breas. to keep her steady, and her words whispering accents of love to his delighted ear; envy them, ye sons of wealth-ye that rides in giided coaehes-you may envy, but you never can feel the thrilling joy that is derived from such dependence, such protection, such