"Were trampled by the hurrying crowd;"
where
"—fiery hearts and armed hands
Encountered in the battle cloud,"
and where unarmed hands were now resting on cold and motionless hearts. After a search of between one and two hours, she found her child on the bank of the river, sporting with a little band of playmates. Clasping the jewel in her arms, she hurried back and reached the fort in safety.
THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENT POLK.
Holy as heaven a mother's tender love!
The love of many prayers, and many tears,
Which changes not with dim, declining years.
Mrs. Norton.
The late President Folk's mother, who died at Columbia, Tennessee, in the winter of 1851-2, was a member of the Presbyterian church, a highly exemplary Christian, and a faithful mother. The lessons which she taught her son in youth, were not forgotten when he had arrived at manhood, and risen to the highest office in the gift of a free and sovereign people. A single anecdote will show the abiding recollection and influence of her teachings.