Old Hickory's Rough Honesty

Ihe late Peter Hagner, for many years Third Auditor of the United States Treasury, appointed originally under Washington's Admiiiistration, and continuing in the Treasury Department until General Tuylor's Administration, used to teil the following charaeteristic anecdote of President Jackson: It seenis that some sharp politician had boen long making etforta to have Mr. Hagner removed to make place for hiinself. He discovored that Mr. Hagner, many years before, when General Jackson was in the aruiy, refused to pass certuin of his accounts, amounting to some $15,000, for want of sufficient vouchers, wliich he had lost in an active campaign. Armed with this inforniation, he approached the General, and made the uatortimate mistake of proposing to him, that if he was appoiuted the account could be audited and paid. This roused the ire of the General, and threw him into a violont passion ; he called his bervants to " turn the infernal scoundrel out of the house," and direoted one of them to go to Mr. Hagner and order him to come to him instantly. Mr. Hagner was quietly sitting in his office when he received his peremptory order, and immediately obeyed it. He found the General walking up and down the room in a violent passion, and the first salutation he met with was : " Give me your hand, sir ; you're an honest man ; I respect you; youdidright, sir, in not passing my account. I lost the vouchers. By the Eterual '. to bö insulted in my own house." Of course this was all Greek to Mr. Hagner. The affair had happened many years before, and was entirely forgotten by him. It was some time before he succeeded in quieting the General down, when he asnd what it all ineant. The General theu told him the circumstances, adding : " Go to your office, sir ; make yourself perfectly easy ; there shan't be a hair of of your head touched as long as I have the hoiior to fill the Presidential chair."