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THE FKEBMAH'S JflDHML, IS PUBLISilZD o k SATURDAY MOKNINSS, BY JOHN H PRENTISS ThRRs—-One dollar and fifty cents mail, in classes, orothe r aqnnnt by. u w i i , u i v i w n u * w i o i n e r w w e , n e y a b b i n a d v a n c e . Subscriptions that nm a Year without payment- will be chaiged st two dollars, and thai sum bouivanably exsctedfrom and after 1st July, 1845. Advertisements charged 91 per square for the firat three insertions, audgj contra weekthcreeficr, Ad- vertitiUg^per year* from 110 to920. Legal notices aisled by thoetatutetrai ■rites. r m t i n g o t ' a l l k i n d s , d o n e n e a t l y . CrThe following beautiful and tauchUe liars were writ ten by Oapf. 0, W\ Patten, qf the V . S. A r m y , oa Itie eeei- mg p.evlqu* to the haute of Cerro Gordo; o u . l k t us s l e w ! Oh,, let u s pleep awhile to-night! i. • Our weary limbs with toil are sore i To-morrow brings the dubious fight— Beyond—and we may crave no more! Beneath the tropic’s burnineiray ■ Faint are the hearts, ’midst strife which dare, And hands, strong nerved to meet the fray, Droop listless wrth-fhe sultry air. Oh, give fa eleep—a wakeful rest— Adreafa which breaks ere scarce begun— And then our arm shall do its best ■ To strike until the field be won j And purpose for the combatripe. Our strength, renewed, shall proudly show The glory ofthe star and stripe. Ob, give us sleep!—’Tis toil severe ' Wiiich bids our feet: the marcli restrain— And we would steal a moment here ' To see, in dreanu, onr homes again; Fhosehomes,alas, far, fata way. Where now, ’inid tears, with trembling tongue, For us theprayer they nightly say— For us tlie Vesper hymn is sung. Yes, give us sleep! No downy bed, Nor pillow solt, our limbs demand; * r \ I t i s n o t i n a B p l e p f l i d g o v e r n m e n t , s u p p o r t e d h y p o w e r f u l m o n o p o l i e s , a n d a r i s t o c r a t i c a l e s t a b l i s h m e n t s , t h a t t h e p e o p l e , w i l l t i n r t h a p p i n o a s , o r t h e i r l i b e r t i e s p r o t e c t i o n ; b u t i n a p l a i n s y s t e m , v o id o f p o m p , p r o t e c t i n g a l l , a n d g r a n U n g f a v o f s t o n o n e .— A n d r e w Jackson. VOLUME XJCXIX.] COOPERSTOWN, OTSEGO COUNTY, N. Y., SATURDAY, JULY 5M, 1847. [NUMBER XLVIIL We only ask tolay our head Awhile upon the desert sand. The nieht is near—the voice of cheer To glad our hearts is iar away j To-morrow brings the strife severe— Oh, give fa sleep 'till dawn of day 1 ttj’The following lines were written snd ptildislictl In tlie Waslilngton Union, after reading an mccount front our little a rinj ln Northern Mexico, u n d e r trite of GblhinAiua, March 7, which «ay«: “fti, coinipg t W '« tnounmin f a r c e , called tue Jornada, there wns not s drop ot water K> he fouiKl inserefety oii.es! Our wenriedhninisit—particular, t y the oieo—became exhausted; amt sunk down, tit we supposed, to rise no more. Our sitilalltw was appalling, ahd . relief seemed tu be beyond tbe range of pouibllity. At this moineut a clap of muuder ww lisnrd, snd straaks «f lightning were seeu to play along the JiiounUun—Mack cloud, rol Vd rapidly Up, and tlie rain came down ill tor- Mnits-.ilte parefied 'deseit was soon drenched—tbe animals and men refreshed, and the army moved, wondering and' re ioicing- No rain had fallen In ihi»p«n of Mexico for up. wardsof feur ntontlit, and no due expected a drop until the beginning ef'tbe rainy season, which cosnmeikcs about the 15th of Juiie.” Rouse uf—-rouse ap—awake—arise. Men pf this glorious land 1 The God o f Battles, in your cause, ^Has fared iris red right.jiand I As Israel’s hosts, im Hd;** ' Ilie arm Sustained th’ unequal fight, , Till the conquered legions fled! Ason our languid'squadrons moved, Beneath an arid sky, The mountains piled above their hcadsi, The earth beneath them dry— That Power who caused oi old tlie flood From Ilorcb’s hilt to bursr, • Poured down th’ untimely rain fiom Heaven, And slaked their bunting thirst! At Palo Alto's spreading plain— Rtsaca’s bloody fight; On Buena Vista’s gloriotwday, On Ccrro Gordo’s height— At Monterey, and Vera Cnt*. Tlie stars and ytripes unfurled, Proclaimed the justice o f our cause To an astonished world! Tlie shining hosts of Heaven once grieved Over atraitor’s birth, And treason from that day has roomed Inevery land on earth: •• It roamaabroad in thlafair land— New Aroold’a hem we aee, Eager td sell their brethren’s blood, g And aid an enemy Rouse, patriots—rouse—awake—arise, And with one votce prociaim, Thatait the world may hear and know Each mulct's blackened name; And while you doom tlte vnnpyre host To fill (be coward’s grave. Bring wieatha of flowets ana inure is green, And heap them on the brave! lot * and quirt . Whenever wnderbowets of myrtle. Love, summer-Uteri’d and vernal eyed, At noon or eve is seen to wander, A dark-eyed girl is at hia side. No eye beholds the virgin gliding UnaandaU’d through the tbtcket-glocms. Yet some have mark'd her shadow moving, Like twilight o’er the whiter blooms. A golden bow the brother carries, A silver flute the sister bears, And ever at the fatal moment The notes and arrows fly m pans. She rests her Date upon her bosom, * While up toheaven Itis bow he rears; And as her kieses make it tremble, That flute is moisten'd by her team. . *' Ths lovely twain were bom together, And iu thesame sheH-cradle hid, And in the bosom of one mother Together slept, snd sleeping, played. With hands Into each other woven, ' And whispering lips tiiat seemed ta teuch Each other in their rosy motion What still their favorites kam frotn each. Proud ot her boy, the mother showed hint, To mortal surd immortal eye, But hid, becaoae she loved her dearer, The deeper, sweeter, mystery. Accept them both, or hope for neither— Oh, loveliest youth or maid forlorn I For Grief has come when Love is welcome, Arid Love will comfort those who mourn! RraQnnr.—Religion fniylSe raid thus io address every individual: “ The station which you ocrapy is tiie appointment of God. Tiie relations Which you hold to other beings, result from his constitution, Yourlalciitaire bestowed by him. Occupy thepost assigned yoo.be it hunrhfe or exalted, with steadiness and fidelity- Be punctual in the discharge of the duties wMch yoo owe to the beings wiih whom yon are connected. Employ with diligence the talents which are committed io you; and by employing,en large them, so that you may every day operate tnore wifely, and accomplish and acquire more good. Fill up your time induMriousiy. Yon may SCTVe God by serving the crfaalarsa pf Chri. You ate performing your ofoty-wheuP you. rite doing the good wtncti; yonr dmdiffon antf powertfcttderpracticiblei the highest of the servants o f God cannot do more.’* G ood S ociety —It should be the aim of youngmen to go into good society; by good society we mean not the rich, the proud and tlie fashionable,but the society of the wise, the intelligent, ind the good. Where you find men who know mote titan you do, and from whoee conversation you can gather information, it ti always safe to be found. It has broken downmnny a man, by associating'with the low and vulgar; whcie thc ribeld song vvas Inculcated and the mdecen t story told re exdfaTanghter, or influence the bad passions. respected, i f you desire happiness a n d not misery, We advise you-to associate with the' Intelligent aiid the good. Strive for moral excellency and strict integri ty, and you Wili never be found in the sinks ofpoTlu. tion, o r on the benches o f retailers and gamblers. Once habituate yourself to a Virtuous course, once se cure a love for good society, and no punishment would be greater than b y accident to be obliged for half a Say to associate with the lo w a n d vul gar.— .Fortiaatf Tribune. BEAtrtlFta. AKSwfat.— W h a t wonderful questions children Often fa*, snd what equally wonderful an-, swerg’ do they sometimes: give. W h a t rail be more touching than the following, from the N - Y , Organ f A friend o f o u n while dressing quitea young child, afe ur days ago, said in rather an impatient tone, You -*fe such a lamp of a shape, i t is impossible to make snything to fit y o u !” The Jips of the child quivered. And, looking tip, i t said in a deprecating tone, God made me.” (for friend w a s rebuked, and tlie little liiip o t (fcshaitd Hood waskim ed a dofah Upie*. “ God made m e !” Had the wise men ofthe world pondered on a fitting answer to Brich a carelewre- nwtk for a century> Utey could not have ftwrid o ter than flowed nstttrally arid spontaneously from the wounded heart o f the child. “ God made me, mother j .' h is not my fault that I am what you thus aeeni not | to like— such a liflle furfan/Godm a d e m e ! Bleas- | mgs oil thy innocent heart, sweet child-T“ o such are * fae kingdom of heaven.” i. 1 The twilight hour— most beantiful whea lio sun or •jar appears— when fleecy cloud noy erivery moon I fait in the boundless realms ofspace. T h is type o f | Wjty and immennity-rvhnmciwriy that embraccsand ! fantains all things, and unity that admits of no oppo- *fe—doea not tins to the believer seem the pteaerice | ar.fh# Deity, an ufldividedfarid all-pervadhng essence, I fafatnting. to the depths o f his inner life to the exefo. | , fan ofall oppoaing quslilicfl, . - R - i %t bfan(te to your faal by dieeretiori. io erroi' hy 1 l'S\h to pession by reason, to divisions hy charity. I ..i% e moreidcas amnn has of pihc? things, the less ! M riiakeriupw itlttheideaofliiinsclf. .Agood library, a good temper, a good -wife and a ttod friend, ? r e four of (he choicest blessings of life. Col. Doniphaii’ireefipUoii at St. Louis. The military companies,civic societieeand citizens generally, turned out en masse to join in Itecererno- nies appointed for the format and publio reception of Co!, Jfoniphan and the gallant fellows who follow ed the uncertain fortunes of his extraordinary enter prise through the wilds and wastes of Mtxitio. Col. Benton was selected to make an address ota the oc casion, which service he performed mostadaniiably, os will be seen fiom what follows: C o l. Donipuam, a n d O fficers and Mis' I have been appointetj. to an hpriocablo and & pleasant juuty— that ofrnakingyouthc congrat-' ulations o f your fellow-citizensof St. Louis; on yonr Jfeppy retura from your long, and almost fabulous expedition. You have indeed marched far, and done much, and suffered tnucli, and well entitled yourselves to the applauses of your fellow citizens as well as the rewards and th»«ks of.yonr government. A year ago you left home. Going out from tiie weslem bor der o f your State, you re-enter it on the east, having made a circuit equal to one-fourtli of the globe, providing fpr yourselves as you went,, .and returning with trophioq from fields, tho names of which were unknown to yourselves and to your country, until revealed by your enterprise, illustrated by your valor, and im. mertalized by your-jdeeds. History has but few 8 U c l i oxpcilitiond to record; and when tliey Occur, it is fa honorable and useful, a s it is: just and wise, to celebrate and commemorate the events wlifcli entille them to renown. Your march arid exploitafaiave bcen among the most wonderful of theage„ At the cull o f your country you marched thousands of miles to the conquest of New Mexico, as a part o f the force under Gen. Kearny, arid acnioved that conquest, wilhout the loss of a man,' o r the fire of a gun. That work finished, anri N ew Mexico, itself so distant, and so laloily the ultirna thule—the outside boundary o f speculation and enterprise—so lately a distant point tp be attained, becomes itself a point o f departure—^beginning point'for new and fair mpre extended expeditions. You look across the |bng and: lofty chain—the Cordilleras o f North America—which divide the Atlantic from the Pacific waters; and you see beyond tbat ridge, a savage tribe which had boon ia the habit o f depredating upon the province which had just become au American conquest. You, a part only of the Chihuahua column, under Jackson and Gilpin^ march upon them—ijrlii] them to terms—and they sign a treaty wit— Col. Doniphan, ui which they bind themselves to cease tlieir deprodations upon the Mexicans, and become the friends of the United States. A novel treaty, that! signed on the weatorra confines of New Mexico, between parties who had hardly ever heard of each others names before, and to give peace and protection to Mexicans who were hostile to both. This: was: the meeting, aud this the parting of tho JMIj- souri volunteers, with the savage ami numer ous tribe of Nayaho Indians ori the waters o f the Gulf of California, and so long the terror and scourge of Sonora, Sinaloa & New Mexico. The object accomplished, and impatient of inactivity, and without orders, (Gen. Kearny having departed for California) you cast about to carve out some new work for yourselves. Chihpahua, a rich and pqpulous cityof (lie S u te of that name, and formerly the residence of tbe Captain* General o fthe Internal prov inces under the vke-regal government of New Sy>ain, was the captivating object wfelclt fixed your attention, lt was a far disunt city —about aa far from S t Louis as Moscow is from Paris; and towns and enemies, and a large river, and defiles and mountains, and thc desert whose ominous name portending death to the travelers — eljournada de toa anterlat— the journey o f thes dead—all lay between you. It was a perikut enterprise, and a discourag ing one, for a thousand men, badly equipped!, to contemplate. No matter. Danger and hard- ship lent i u charm, and the adventurous march was resolved on, and-the execution com menced. Firm, the omnious desert was passed, its character vindicating its title to its mocarn- ful appellation—an arid plain of ninety niDpe, strewed with tho bones of animals perished of hunger and thirst— little hillocks of stone; and tire solitary cross,erected by pious hands, mark ing the Spot where some Christian had fallen victim o f the savage, o f the robber, or o f desert itself—no water—no animal life—no sign of habitation. There the Texan prisoners, driv en by the cruel Salazar, had met their direst sufferings; unrelieved, fa in other parts o f tbeir march in the settled parts of the country, hy !he*compassionate ministratidna (for where is it that sooman is not compassionate I) ofthe pitying women. T h e desert was passed, and the place for the crossing the river approached. A little srm o f the river, Bracito, (In Spanish) made out from its side. There the enemy* in superior numbers, ami confident in cavalry and artillery, undertook to bar thc way. Valii pre tension ! Their discovery, attack, and rout, wero about eimultantious operations. A few foinutck did the work! And in this way our Missouri Volunteers o f the Chihuahua column spent their Christmas day e f thd year 1845- The victory ofthe Bracito opened tho way to the crossing of the river D e l Norte, ani to admission into the beautiful little town of tho Pm sadel Norn, where; a ' neat cultivation, t comfortable people, fields, orchards arid vine, yards, and a hospitable reception, offered tho fast aiid refreshment, which toils, and dangers, and victory had won. You rested there till artillery was,brought down from Santa F e but tho pretty Httlc town of the Passodel Norlc, With all itsmnjoyments, and they were nmrayf and tho grehter for the place in which ihey were found, was not a Capita to the rnon of MiBBOuri. YoU moved forward in February, and the battle of the Sacramento, one o f tfie military marvels of the age, cleared the road to Chihuahua, which was entered without far ther resistance- It had been entered once b e fore by a detachment o f American troops; bwt under circumstances how different! I lithe year 1807, Lieut. Pike and his thirty bravo men, taken prisoners on the head of the R io del Norte, liad been marched captives into Chihuahua; in the year 1847, Doriipliart and his men entered it as conquerors. Tho paltry triumph o f a Captain General over a Lieuten ant, was effaced in the triumphal entrance o f a thousand Missourians into the grand and an- cient capital of all the In ternal Provinces ! --and, old men, still alive, could mark the grandeur of the American spirit under both events—the proud and lofty bearing of the captive' thirty— the mildness and moderation o f the conquering thousand. Chihuahua was taken, and responsible du ties, more delicate than those of arms, wero'to be performed. Many American citizens were there, engaged in trade ; much American prop erty was there. All this was to bo protected, both lives and properly, arid by peaceful ar- •rangement: for the command was too small to admit of division and of leaving a garrison. Conciliation and negotiation wero resorted to, and successfully. Every American interest was provided for, and placed under the safe- guard, first, of good will, and next, o f guaran tees not to be violated With impunity. Chihuahua gained, it became like feentafe, not the terminating point of along expedition,, btit the beginning point of 4 n cw Gen. was somriwlirife-^no one knew exactly. hjm. Like good Americans, you did not be-1Rio lieve a word of i t ; but, like good soldiers, you thought it post to g o and see. A volunteer party of fourteen, headed by Colling, of Boon- ville, undertake fo penetrate to Saltillo, and bring you informmion of his condition. They sot out.. Amidsr innumerable dangers they accomplish - their object and return. You march. A vanguard of one hundred men, led by Lieut. Col. Mitchell, led the Way. Then came the main body, (if the name is not a bur lesque on such a handful) commanded by Cob Doniphan himself. Tho whole table land of Mexico, in all its |>readlh, from west to-east, was to be traversed. A' nutnqroiis and hostile population in towns-*- treacherous Cumanchcs in tho mpuntains— (Wcre to be passed. Everything was io bepro- vided—provisions, transportation, fresh horses for remounts, and oven the means of victory— and all without a inilitary chest,.or evdn an empty box,in. tvhich government gold had over rejxraed. All was accomplished. Mexicali towns wore passed, in order and quiet; plun dering Cumanches were punished ; means were obtained from traders to liquidate indis pensable contributions; and the wants that could.not ke supplied, Were endured like sol diers of veteran service. I say the Cutnatrcli.es Wero punished. \And here presents itself another episode of a novel, extraordinary aiid romantic kind—Americans chastising savages for plundering people who they themselves came to conquer, land forcing the restitution of captives and of plundered’1 property. A. strange story this to tell in Eu rope, where backwoods character, western character, is not yet completely known. But to the facts, In the muskeet forest *f EMian d e M a p m a ,m d in the sierras arorind thp beau tiful town and fortiie disfrictof Parra^.and in all the open country' for hundreds of miles round about. thc savajgeGumancliOB liave held dominion ever since the usurper Santa Anna disarmed tho people, and sally fortli frofiv tlieir fastnesses to slaughter mon, plunder calile, arid carry off women ami Children. Aii f ’ '' ' this kind had just been performed ou of the Missourians’march, not far frotn and an advanced party chanced lo be in that town at the lime tire news of tho depredation arrived thero. It was only fifteen strong. Moved by gtatitude, for the kind attentions of the people, especially the women, to tlie sick of Gon. Wool’s command, necessarily left at Parras, and unwilling to bo outdone by enemies in generosity, tho heroic fifteon, upon the spot, volunteered to go back, hunt out the depre dators, and punish thern, wilhout regard to numbers. A grateful Mexican became thoir guide- On Iheir way thoy felt in with lifteon. moro of their comrades; and, in a short time, jevonteen Cunaanchos killed out of sixty-five, eighteen caplives restored to tlieir families, and three hundred and fifty head tifpattlc recovered for their ovtfriors, was tho fruit of this sudden and romantic episode. Such noblo conduct was not without its ef fect on the minds of the astonished Mexicans. An official document from tlie Prefect of the place to Capt Reid, leader o f this detachment, attest# tho verity of-the fact, and tho sraiitudc; of the Mexicans; and constitutes a trophy ofa new kind in annals of war. Hero it is in the original Spanlib,ahd I will read itoffinEnglish. It is officially dated from iho Prefecture of Ihe Department of Parras, signed by tho Pre- 'foct, Joee Ignacio— Arrabe and addressed to Capt Reid, the 18th May, and says; Atthe first notice that tire bsibatinrrs, alter kill- lifieen o f y o u r c r o s s in g th e F o s o , e x e c u t i n g & enterprise With ccferiiyv address and bravery worthy of aii eulogy, aud worthy o f the brilliant issue which ail celebrate. You recovered many animals and much plun dered property j and eighteen captives were restored to liberty and to social enjoyment, their souls over- flowing with a lively semlmcnt of joy rind gratitude, which all the inhabitants nf this town equally breathe, in favor of their generous deliverers and valiant chief. The faff oflhe Indiana kilted in the combol, and tlioee which fly wounded, do not calm lire pain which all feel for the wotmd which yottrrxcellency received t- 1I I P|.I th. I I.Y. I -f. 111. ■>,,.! rt, ■! llli^l.l f hwil*t-rt r fff l»A ktiawtbat in your own noble lout will bo found tlie fast reward for your conduct, they desire to address yoa the expression of their gratitude arid esteem. I am honored in being the organ of the publio senti ment, and pray you io accept it, with the assurance ofmy most diatingnistied esteem. “ God snd Liberty 1” This it a trophy ofa now kind in war, won by thirty Missourians* and worthy to he held up to the admiration of Christendom. Tho long march from*Chihuahua to Monte rey was mide more in the character of protcc. tion arid deliverance, than of conquest and in vasion. Armed enemies wore not mot, and peaseful people were not disturbed. You ar rived In the month of May in Goneral Taylor’s camp, and about in lho condition to vindicate, each of you for himself, your lawful title lo lho double souhritpiet of the General, with thp ad dition to it which the Colonel of tho expedition his supplied—ragged—as well as rough and ready. No doubt yon all showed title, at that time, to that third soubriquet; but to see you Dow, so gaily attired, so sprucely equipped, one might suppose that youjiad never, fpr an rnstarif, been a stranger to the virtues of soap and water,or the magic ministration of the blnnchisseuse and the elegant transformations ofthe fashionable tailor. Thanks, perhaps, to thef difference between pay in the lump at the end of [he service, arid driblets along iii the course of it. You arrived in Gen. Tayior's camp ragged fan (Trough, as we can woll conceive, and ready, sais f can quicklyshow. You reported for duty! you asked for service!—such as march upon San Luis do Botosi, Zacatecas, W ^ | ^ ^ n . o r eight hundred towards the other side of Mexico. You had beard that Gen. Tavlor was dfefeated—lliat B m i a Vista had not been a good, prospect; to or the “ halls o f Montezunias;” or anything in that way that the General should have a hiiiid to.’ If Lo tvas going on any excursion of that kind, oil right. No matter about fatigues that were passed, of expiratloiis of service that rnigh t ac crue : you catne to go, and only asked the privilege. -That is what I call ready. Un happily thc conqueror o) Palo Alto, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista, was not exactly in condition that tho Lieutenant Gen eral, that mighthave been, intended him tobe. H e was not at the head of 20,000 men ! he w a s not at the head of any thousands iliat would enable him to march ! and had to de cline the profi’ored service. Thus tho long marched and well fought volunteers—the rough, the ready, and tho ragged, had to turn their faces towards home, still more than tivo: thousand miles distant. But llri.s being most ly by water, yxru hardly'count it in the recital o f your march. But this is an unjust omission, and ag'ainst the precedents as well as unjust. Tho Ten Thousand” counted the voyage on tffo Tfla&k Sea a s well as the march fionj, Babylon; and twenty centuries admit the va^ jidily of the count- Tho jiresenj age, and pQ‘s« terity, will include in \ the goipg out and coming in’* of fhe Missouri Chihuahua Volun teers, thc water voyage as well as the land march ; and then the expedition of the One Thousand will exceed that of the Ton by sonic two thousand miles. ' The last nino hundred miles of your land march from Chihuahua to Matamoros,yoti mado in fertv-five days, bringing seventeen pieces o f artillery, eleven of which were taken from thc Sacramento and Bracito. Your horses traveling the whole distance without Unit ed States provender, were astonished to find thoinsclves regaled, on their .nrrivah^n the Grande frontier, with hay, corn and oats from the States. Yoa marched farther than the fartliorest, fought a s weil as the best, left order and quiet in your train* and Cost less money than any. You arrive hero to-day, absent one year,_ marching and fighting all thd time, bringing’ trophies of cannon and, standards from fields whose names Were unknown to you before you set out, and only grieving that you could not have gone farther. Ten pieces o f cannon roll ed out of Chihuahua to arrest your rparch, now roll through the streets of-St. Lou.is, to gsace your triumphal return. ’ Many standards, all pierced with bullets while waving over the heads o f tire enemy at Sacramento, pow wave , at the head of your column. The black flag brought to the Bcacitn, to indicate the refusal of the quarter wliich its boarers so soon need ed and received, drooping in their noble pres ence. To crovvn the whole—to make public and private happiness g o together—to spare thc cypress wliere thc laurel hangs in clusters —this long and perilous march, with all its: accidents of field and camp, presents an increfr ihly. small list o f comrades lost. Almost ail return!—and the joy of families resounds in termingled with the applauses of the State. I have said that you made your long expe dition without government orders; and so in deed yon did. You received no orders froin your goypmmont, but, without knowing it, you wero fulliltiiig its orders—orders which never reached you. Happy the seldiar who executes the command ot his government; happier still he who anticipates command, arid' does, what is wanted before lie is bid, This is your case ; you did lhe right tiling, at the right time, and what the government intended you to do,, and without knowing its intentions. The facts are tliese: Early in the month of Novem ber last, tlie President nuked my opinion on tho manner of conducting the war. I submitted a plan to him; which, in addition to other things, required all tho disposable troops in,New Mexico, anil all the Americans in that quarter who could be engaged, for a dashing expedi tion, to move down, through Chihuahua and the State of Durfuigo, and, if necessary, to Zacatecas, and get into communication with Gee. Taylor’s right, as early as possible in the month of March. In fact, the disposablo'Mis- SQuriane in Now Mosico wero to lie one of three columns, destined for a combined mov<£ ment on the city of Mexico, all to be on the table land, and roryly for tho movement, in the month of March. Tlte President approved the plan, and the Missourians Loiirg most distant, orders wore despatched to New Mexico, to put them in motion. Mr. Soloman Snblette carried the order, and delivered it lo tho com manding officer at Santa F e, CoL Price, on the 23d day of February—just five days beforo you fought tho marvellous bntUe of Sacramento. I woll remember vvlmt passed betwoon tho President and rnyseif, at tho time he resolved to give this order, ll awakened his solicitude for your safety. It was to send a small body uf men a great distance, into the heart of a hostile country, and upon the contingency of uniting in a combined movement, the moans for which had not^yol boon ablninpd from Con gress. Tho President nude it a question, and vory properly, whether il was safe, or prudent, to start the small Missouri Column before the movomcnt of tho left and centre was assured. I answered that nty ovvn role, in public affair#, was to do wliat I thought wvi-riglit, and icavo. it for others to do what they thought was right; nnd-thal 1 believed il the proper course for Trim to foljow oil the present occasion. On this view he acted, lie gavo tho order togo, with out waiting to see whether Congress would furnish the means of executing tho combined plan; and, for his consolation, 1 undertook to. guarantee your safely. Let lho worst come to\ the worst, I promised him you would tako care of yourselves. Though tlte oilier parts of the ell, dated m November las), informing mo far involved in advance,.and deeply comprom ised iu tlio enemy's country, and without sup port—still I relied on your courage, skill, and enlorprise, to extricate yourselves from every danger—to iimko daylight through all Mexi cans that should stand before you—cut your way out—and make good your retreat to Tay lor'# catnp. This is what I promised the Pres ident in November last, and. wliat you have so manfully fulfilled. And here is a little manu script volume, (the duplicate of one iir tho hands of the President) from which I will read you a page, lo show you tliat you are the happy soldiers who havo done the will o fthe govern ment without knowing its will.: “ T h e I t t c n i T V V ino. — T o b e c o m p o s e d o f n l i d i e d i s p o s a b l e t r o o p s in N e w M e x i c o — t o a d v a n c e r a p id l y t h r o u g h t l w ' S t a t e s o f C l i i h u a l m a a n d D u r a n g o , a n d t o w a r d s Z a c a t e c a s , and i o a t t a i n a p o s i t i o n a b o u t o n a l i n e w i t h Gon T a y l o r in tln> m o n t h o f M a r c h , a n d bn r e a d y fo r a p u s h o n t h a e a p i t a l . T h i s c o l u m n t o m o v e l i g h t — t o h a v e n o r e a r — t o k e e p i t s e l f m o u n t e d f r o n i h o r s e s in th u c o u n t r y — a n d t o j o i n t h e c e n t r e c o l u m n , , o r l o c u t its w a y o u t i f t h o o b j e c t l a d s . \ This is what was proposed for you in the month of November last, and what I pledged mvseif lo lho President iliat you wotild per form ; and nobly Iiaveyou redeemed the pledge. But this vvas nut thp first* or ihe only time, that 1 pledged myself for yuu. As far back as June, 1846, when a separate expedition to Ctiitiuafiria. wars first projected, I told tho Pres ident that jt was unnecessary—that the Mis eouri troop’s under Geh. Kearny, would take that place, in addition lo tiie conquest of Now Mexico—and that he might oVder the column under Gen, Wool to deflect to the left, and join Gen. Tayior as soon as lip pleased. Again : when I received a loiter froin Lieut. Col. Mitch- plan should fall—-tliouglj you should become that he was leaving Santa I'Y with lOO men to open a communication with Gen. VVool, I read that letter to tire President arid told him that limy would do It, And again ; when vve heard that Gol. Doniphan, vvith a thousand merijrafter curbing tho Navelio?, was tin down tovvardsthe south, and lhreatenirig,lhe ancient capital o f tlie Captains General of the Internal Provinces, I told liim they would take it. Iri short, my confidence in Missouri enter prise, courage and skilL waa boundless. Your performance lias boon boundless. And now let boundless honor and joy salute, as jt does, your return to the soil pf your State, and to the bosoms of ymir families. Col. ppNiriiAN, in reply, commenced by warmly thanking C<d- Benton for the terms in Which he had; mentioned! tho achievements ofthe Missouri column, remarking further, that liis minuteness o f detail wilh regard to their march?, fntttlqd his speech to the claims of history itself. $ »J4 SR *■& * ' fc Col, D. observed, very ernphaticaiiy, that this was a strange wav. It was strange at home and strange abroad. It was branded by Col. D.’s own party as an unjust war, and yet opponents as Wel l as supporters rallied to sus tain it. Whigs and democrats composed the same, messes, and slept la flie same tents : lie was only sorry that the same ynity had not been evinced in tho councils of the govern ment. As ati instance of whig feeling while in the field* Gol. D. said that after long, long months, during which notliing had been heard from the States, and whife all hearte were yearning to hear from home, the first thing met with iri American papers* was the speech of Corwin,of Ohio! dt wad ti complete shower bath I -I[ was received with achock—a shudder! After having overcome weary league?, im practicable mountain? ; after ruttingjheir way through the enemy, all <hen thanks waa to bo told that they, were robbers and cut-throats! Col. D. denounced every speech and every paragraph which went to decry the prosecution of the war toa prompt close. It was said that those who made stich speeches belonged to the peace party; no such, thing! They would on the contrary postpone peace to eter. nity. Prompt action, and sustained action, or all efforts were in vain. Col. Benton’s plan, as stated by that gentleman, would have achieved all, Taylor would have been in force. Santa Anna ^would have been crusbed forever, and the doinihant,the democratic party, would at once have dictated a government to Mexico. Nothing could have interposed to prevent instant negotiations. The war would havo been terminated. Scott’s efforts have been cramped for the same want of • moans.— Gen. Taylor, after his four unrivalled victories, may be said to have- arrived at no result. • It was like it man in a fever, his most'violent efforts were followed by a corresponding ex haustion ! Taylor’s line of operation, at this moment, is as far from bearing upon a jieace question as if he were at Jefferson barracks. He is whete he was last September, arid there will be found next Octobeh Scott is nearly as badly off. He has won victories-only to re mind him how much he was crippled, while Santa Anna was left to find fresh Resources and to give further trouble. Col, D. appreciated fully the moral effect this war mukt have upon tiie world. He saw the triumphaut contradic- tiori to the slander^,with regard to the bravery of citizen soldiers, .It was a war without the loss of a single battle. He spoke of the con duct of the volunteers at Buena Vista, He spoke further of their progress and readiness for discipline under Generals Tay lor and Wool. Co). D. took an affectionate farewell of his officers ant) men. They wore from different parts of the Stato, and might never meet agajn.. Their year’s connection bad been a memorable one, but they were again simple citizens. To the eternal honor ofhis command,he said that in spy companies, Iris expresses, his many ser vices of peril, he had never had occasion to make a detail; all had been done by volunteers. Ho alluded touchingly to the dead whom they had left behind them; to the victims of dis ease and suffering, as well as to these of the battle-field. In conclusion, Co], D, declared tliat^ it was not generalship whicli was to be admired ; the victories of Bracito and Sacra mento omphatically belong to the rank and file. It was the intrinsic spirit and valor of the mon which wero to bo remcrabo'red; aud, if Mis sourians ever recurred with an unpleasant feeling to the supposed tarnislyipon thoir fame in Florida, at Ocbee Chobec, they have only to remember that the battle of Bracito was fought on the; name day-—Christmas. T h e N i g h t a f t e r t h e B a t t l e o f B u e n a V i s t A , —The night'of the28dof February last was ono of tho moet intense auictety to tho participators in the blpody fight of Buona Vista. After 12 hours o f obstinate fighting, with final result yot unknown, nothing but water having passed tho lips of thoso gallant men for the last 12 hours, the flower of their respective corps dead or wounded, and tire cortainty of a renewal of the onslaught life next day, it is hard to imagine a period more calculated to u try raon’s souls” than that night. After thc, cessation o f the fight, camo tlie lassitude su perinduced by thd extraordinary excitement oftheday; men fell exhausted and bivouacked in line—“ tlie weary tbrcstand tho wounded to die.” The depression of physidal energy was so great that neither hunger nor danger could incite them ; that bloody field was at 8 o’clock as silent a s tho grave. It can hardly bo surmised what tvere tho fooling# of that “ great old man” npon contemplating the re sults o f that day’s work. No officer sought repose, anil the camp fires, which on btner occasions had been the scene of jest and mor- riraciit, were now stiff, and the deep anxiety depicted on the faces of the various groups of offic( From California. By a late arrival in New York, files of the California Star, printed at Yerba Buena, have bften received. Edward Bryant, a Mormon, is the present Alcalde ofthe place, which has some 500 inhabitants, and is rapidly filling up. Gen. Kearny is the Governor of California, and Com. Stockton has command of the naval , forces. Col. Fremont, with the troops, is en. gaged in the southern part of the country, quelling the Mexican disturbances. The U. S. transport ship T. H. Perkins, arrived atSait Francisco, March 7th, and was immediately ordered to Monterey. The utmost harmony prevails among Ihe officers of tho land and naval forces in that country. The files of the Star exhibit many characteristics of the old States. One number isoccujied with discus, sing the laws of the new settlements; a spir ited editorial squabble between the Star man and a contemporary in Afonterey; an attorney advertises for business: a farmer wauts thresh ing machines; a public school is to be Opened; John Fqjjef forbid#’any one trusting his wife Polly—and many other evidences of'advanced civilization and social progress, doth the Star afford. About 1500 emigrants have arrived in California front the United States, within three mouths—mostly Mormons. The harbor of San Francisco, or Yerba Buena, iri described as one of the largest and best harbors in the world. The climate is said to be delightful, and the “ oldest inhabitant” was horror struck . in the middle of January, by finding something that resembled ice in the streets, The only drawback discoverable in this “ land of prom ise,” is the fact that the judge of tho Court and his dork smoke cigars incessantly, while it is in session, W e observe that in one re- spcct, Mexican custom has lost nothing by the clrange; pronunciamentos and proclamatimis from the military authorities, are as plenty as at Ban Luis Potosi. But it id destined to be a great country. core impressed you with a solemnity, fore boding ill, that was truly painful. All eyes were ttirned evor and anon to the tent of one upon whom all their hopes were placed, but not a light, not a movement coaid be discern ed. The occasion made that single tent an object of intense solitude. Somo wondered if ho wore alone; others would have givon their earthly wealth to have known the thoughts, tho hopes, the wishes, the interitions of the old hero, but all was dark and silent as the tomlr. Capt S. ofthe Topographical Engi neers, had visited the battle ground at night' He had mado some discoveries vvhich he thought important to bo communicated imme diately lo the commandcr-m-chief. On ap- preaching the general’s head quarters, he overtook his servant, who had been attending to his master’s cam lry, and inquired if ihe “ old man” was alone and awake. 111 spect he fast asleep, captin, fpr ho oat a monstrous hearty supper, and witen he eat a big supper, he sledp berry hard and sound, and I recon you won’t see de 1 old hos’ 'fore 4 o'clock in de mornin. Listen* you hear him snore clean out here.” Whcti the captain made a report of tliis last reconnoissance, joy and satisfaction were diffused through the camp. They knew that all was safe.— N. O. P ic. ____ W h o W r i t e s G en .T aylor ’ s D espatches '! — It having been insinuated by some journals that Major Bliss was the author of Gen. Tay lor’s despatches, the Hagerstown, Md., Torch- Light administers a quietus to that idea, by the. following facts, vvhich the editor obtained from a gentleman who was a graduate of West Point, and a class and room-mate of Gen. Davis, of Mississippi. General Taylor, without doubt, writes bis own despatches* and a blessed time it will be for the printers, as well as everybody else, when the direct, concise, comprehensive missives of “ Z. Taylor\ issue from the White House: Irt conversation with General G , of the U. S. Array, riovy stationed at Washington, our friend ask d f Ufa question, if Major Bliss did riot write the despatches. The old gen eral’s eye sparkled vvith indignation, and he replied that he had served with Gen, Taylor upon thirteen Court Martials, and that he (General Taylor) had been selected by each Court to draw rip its report, because of liis superior ability in composition—that all were willing to accede to him the facully of ex pressing in the clearest, strongest, antl most forcible manner, the views of the Court, arid Iteiico lie was uniformly selected for this pur pose. Gen. G—— also stated, that in Florida, a misunderstanding aroso between General Twiggs and Gen. Taylor, from atomark made by the latter in regard .to some tnirititry opera tions of the former. A correspondence ensu ed, which proved perfectly satisfactory to Gen. Twiggs. One pf Gen. Taylor’s communica tions, in vvhich he gave, at large, his y#vve of the matter in dispute, reached Washington, and, as Gon. G— — remarked, was regarded by the gentlemen of the army as one of the most powerful military productions they had ever soen. This communication seems to have fore-shadowed the despatches whose fame has spread ovor Europe and our country. Ono of the peculiarities of Geri. Taylor's stylo of wri ting was also noted- Instead of leaving, as is customary, a margin at the top and sidri of the sheet, Gen. Taylfa commences at tho extreme limit, and fills the (Sheet so completely, tbat, as our informant observed,it is im)toS8ibloio. crowd jn, arty where* even a little i. .This seems to be onc'of tlie many peculiarities of and. Ready” Tlw Boston Traveller has also received California- papers, and makes up from theni a summary , parts of which we copy: There was apparently a good deal of excite- ment among the people in regard to the selec tion o f persons to represent them in the new legislative council. Public meetings were held in various places on the subject, at which strong dissatisfaction was expressed at the or ganization of tho council by tho appointment of the pseudo-Governor Stockton. That coun cil was composed of seven members, four of whom wero Californians—one a British sub ject, and but two Americans. And these two Americans, it was alleged, were, in conse quence o f a fesiilonce of fifteen years in the country, so identified with the Californians, tbat in truth the Americans were without a representation. Itwas urged that the recent immigrants, who constituted moro than four-fifths of the American population, and who had been the first to take up arms in defence of the country, were without a semblance of a representation. At the public meeting at Yerba Buena, reso lutions wore psesed, that as the population of California was divided into three distinct class es, to wit, the Californians, “ foreigners,” (in- clpding French, English and Americans, who have long resided In iho country,) and the re cent immigrants, all of whom had distinct in terests, they should, he allowed a representa tion from their respective classes in the council. The Star gives the moat distressing details of tho sufferings of the patty of emigrants, o* whose detention in tho mountains) on account of the snow, wo have already heard. The company was composed o f some twenty-three wagons hnd some sixty'or eighty persons, and was a port of . Colonel Russell's company, which left Missouri a year ago last May. Through aome neglect or mfsmanageriienu they parted company with othor wagons which reached the settlement in October last, and losing their way, were overtaken by impassa ble snow. After suffering much for want of water and grass, and losing many oxen, they sent forward two oftheir men to find assist ance. These men reached Fort Sacramento, where Captain J. A. Sutter furnished , them wilh seven mulelfandtwo Indian vaqueros, and a supply of flour'and beef. With these they returned to the company. This was about thc middio pf November last, and from that time till the first of Febru ary nothing more was heard of them. Then a messenger canie io Fort Sacramento from Capt Wm. Johnsou’s, the first house of the California settlements, bringing the astound- ng information that five women and two men had arrived at that point, almost entirely naked, with their feet frost bitten. They said that the company had reached a small cabin near Trucby’s Lake, on the east side of the moun tains* arid about 1(X) miles from Johnson’s, where they found siiow so dcep lhey could not travel. Fearing starvation, 16 of the strongest (11 males and 5 females) agreedi to start for the settlement on foot. Scantily clothed and ill provided with provisions, they commenced a journey over the mountains, in comparison with which Napoleon’s feat oft the Alps was childsplay. - After wandering a numbcf of days, bewilder* Od in the snow their provisions gave out, arid, after long hunger, they resorted to the horrid step of casting lots to see who should give up their lives and bodies as food for the remainder. As the weaker ones .began to sink under their sufferings‘however, it didnot become decessa- ry to take life. One after another nine of them died, and their bodies rycro eaten by: their companions. Mr. C. S.Stanton, a young; man from Syracuse,N. Y., was the first who died. He was oneof those who wont forward to Sutter’s fort, as we have mentioned, pnd re turned to the relief of his companions. After travelling thirty days, tire seven survivors of the band of pioneers reached-Capt. Johnson’s settlement, fa stated above. All the five females withstood the horrors of the journey, it seems, but only two of the eleven men, and onc of thein was so exhausted that he was brought into Johnson’s on the back, of an Indian. Tlie party were at one time, thirty-six .hours irt a Snow storm without fire, arid they had but thitee quilts in the company., Oue woman was obliged to eat part of the body ofjier father and her brother; and there are oilier statements in regard to their sufferings which: are too horrid to repeat. Suhsequerv ly ari6ther party of 24 made an attempt to cress tho mountains. They succeeded in reaching the top ofthe mountains, bt«t7 all perishedin a> severe snow storrn-a .jew days afterward. ' The company finally loft behind about 150 miles from Fort Sacramento, consisted of 40— almost all of whom were women and children! They have not had provisions enough to last them through the month of February. A par- 1 ty had been fitted out at Fort Sacramento witli provisions, &c,, arid a company of twenty men had gone from that placp to tho encampment of the sufferers. ___________ . . . V I nfluence of Bad E xample . —An Ala bama Journal learns from a gentleman whose source of information entitles it to high credit, that Ahe conduct of Mrs. Winston, which brought about the killing, of X>r. Perry, in Sumpter, Alabama, was in a great degree attributable, to the influence produced on her mind by the reading, of Mrs, Virginia Myers’ letters. Sho,, too, wished to wntp letters, which should be circulated, read and admir ed. . \Flip Presenx ASD THE FuTfalE.-^-Tha fah itor of tho New York Coromermrraakes the following sensible remark's in relation to the future destiny of this country, and the great influence it will Gxort upon the destinies .of the Eastern Hemisphere. \Vc are of the opinion that in fifty years hence, if we bIiow an undi vided front, and God grant vve may, that the United States of Nwjtlit .America will not only be able to feed the nations of the world, but whip them, too, wliwrevcrTfiiiy become, unruly. The Commercial says : —^ . “ If some Rip Van Wink le liad gone to sleep, say in 1820 or from there along to 1825, and were now to wake from his long nap, he would nrarvol exeeedtngly at the altered stati af pur reldtrtns to the old world ; but tjiose-ef-us vvhu live to see 18fl7:may fiqd -jmoftrrooin for vycn* der in the stato of r-efot MmsUlien existing, Tbi- influence exerted by this Continent upoif the \ destinies of the eastern hemisphere, but espe cially the continent of Europe—confining bur obserfcrtrons tnevciy to tlrp. physical effect-—;s already very great; and it seems to be tn ttie natural state o f things tliat it must become much greater. W e now supply Etrrope mainly with the greatest and most important staple for manufiltituring industry. We partially sffpply Europe with food. VVe are rapidly advariting to a position iu which vve supply .the whoIfi.Avorhi .~;witli.-le-ad,—.i4iUr.oti.fw*d.CQp' vve have enough to supply the world, the « thing wanting at present ibemg tha incan^of' procuring and fpryvavding them cheaper. It is far from improbable that in time wc shall sup- ’ ply a large portibn of Europe with fuel. Cot ton, food, lead, copper, iron, coai—.if yge become great exporters o f all- tbcs5;’wba't'an1m^irihfa' tribute we Bhall dfavv from the wealth and in- dustry of other milieus. But this, is not all. Circumstances are rapidly^tfringttig to full de- velopeincnt a process, as betvyeen Europe and America, the magnit ude jimLresulta. of which it isinipbisible novv to estjriiale. This is li)e proceajof.orriigratidn. 'There can be no doubt that tlie wide-spread desire of: the European- jopiilationft to transfer tlieir labors and their destinies to this country, though stimulated to its present activity by the parti;*! scarcity ct food, has elements of endura nre, and vvill con tiirue lotig after that scarcity idiall have passed away, Apart from reason's tvhich may be calk ed political, the enrigratioti itself will tend to its own perpetuation ; those -vviiu cotne leave behlnd them rel; tivey, or friends, of neighbors, whose feelings will prompt them to follow , and if tidihgs of prosperity go biitk frqm those alxeady here, tbe desire to share 'it will add to those fbeliilgs a Strength vvhich no slight ob- staele Will be able to ovefcomo.'' A Sei.BN'Din Passage —The archbishop of Cauler bury delivered a discourse at tiio opemug of tfau northern railroad in France, and in il was the follow ilie p a s s a ito • “ Soailid political economy trniinplin on these occasions; it sees tho diffusion of, products, and the equality of prices j bo does philosophy, contemplating so potent and rapid a vehicle oi intellectual light and civilizing sentiments Religion, too, niay well rejoice. Some men. indeed, sincerely devoted to her cause, have seemed, on hor account, to fear this nevv im petus to human activity, this universal contact of souls and ideas, as it a sensible deterioration of creeds and irtotals would inevitably result Let me speak my whole mind-on this topic, f do npt share in sucli foreboding: of this I Vm profoundly convinced, that all the great dis'- covories whicli enlarge the old bounds and change the known relations between men, belong primarily to tiio bene tii. cut deaign and action of Frovidonce, advancing aa it does, at epochs marked by its, wisdom, our poor hum;in itya stiep towards tlie goal fixed for us at the creation. Tho tfue origin of most pf those diseoverfes is hidden in mysterious clouds ot remote lime: interrogate history for tho name ofthe first inventor, nnd you remain without a certain response. It is God’s secret. What, them, has religion, the daughter of Heaven, to dread from tlio works of Heaven 5 Can she adnnif that tiie Divine Author wiii contradict hitnsolfi by exposing hor fo trials stronger than hor divine- constitution 1 If steam transports evil ib well as good, falsehood as well as truth —if, as did the discoveries of printing arid th'e now world, it should widen indefinitely tlie arena o f the eternal battle between mtionalcsir. antl faitlr—=-eftili, can wc think victory doubtful * Has not God himself pledged his word--rtc truth o f Gad shall <viiidm f o m e r ? Wings are granted to the gospel, not less than to the doctrines called neio. Light reaches our eyeo by the sattre medium vvhich the thunder and the storms Wildly trainrso.” A Misolasipjji volunteer writes a Idler from Gamp Allen, which is published by special request m a Colombospsper.' Some ofit is rather droll.— 1 I promised 1 would write to yon from inex- tco^trd iuteaht Dowsing has give me this sheet of papef and Mr Cuty is a going home to morrow i thought f would write you. these few lines to inform you lhat I am well and hope these few lines will..find you and your tailor shop alt Well, 1 like solderring tolerably well - but woulij like i([belter, If 1 get shute old San- ( ta Antra this isft putty cpuntry here first rate Water ftrhl a heap of Mexican gals but vve poof privates cant git to ha ve milch fun with them the ofllcefs is hard to beat though I tell you Captaiii —— ia pnnkiiia atnoug them they like his red Load, t dont believe' Lieutenant —— goo* to soo thcrtnmucli Lieutenant— r-is rite sly but t believe hegoc6 it como tinka I havo saw Old Genera I Tay lor arid he is a nnty plane lookrn old man and t a going to vote for him for president and you aiid all your talor boys mast do likewise I never vvffi vote for old Skott because;bc vvuddcnt take uu wuh trim for iFlie had iuahy I might got to ahuto tha' old yallar ekrn’ Saritaann.i Somclimca I felt like t wanletl to rotf a few ten pi nd but they ant none out here you musf tel tire boys to kCpc old Wilkins ally hot till I get bark I want.one more blizard before I die 1 ivanf you t * to! old hovwtly for me and tel hun 1 ant chdt nr. hogs soncc I hcert out here itn have -.v.o tht elofant out here and rodc liirii bar back .at- tirat I vvas about thc first one to back him but j ani use to him how and I can ride hun any vvliar t vvant to, bo is got to be f ile geiit Ie. Old Rake stravvr has had the stiiallpnx but gottirt weff. 1 ant saiv nanny patty vvliito vr iininru : ence I left Colunrbusf^ ________ ___________ A necdote of G en . Tavlor —The fullawmg anec dote is coiiimumcatpd hy a corrpF-pundrut of thp Montgomery (Ala 1 Journal, and is •'ne of die rno.v toucjinig incldenls we lwve ever met : - “ The Gojueiftl had occasion to vitif Point Isabel, after the battle of Buena Vista , Ond the Captain of tiie stcanfboat had reserved a suite of staterooms for the (lonetal’s acconi - modatipti. There were several sic it and woumi ed: volunteers on tho boat, eii route for Nevy Orieans1, who had-to lake the Wayfare incident to a crowded boat, and particularly so on this occasion. Gen. Taylor soon saw all thi.', an.l at otiec ordered these men to be placed in W state rooms and proper attention paid them. Ir was rather a cold, rainy day. When this occur • boat, did net know General Taylor. Tiie wind blew high, and the firemen liad raised a nail in refl. 'The deck hands and many others on thr- front of the boilers to protect iliemaeives froni thc rain; and undef this sail there « ere some old; waitresses; Here General Tavlor laid down and went to sleep. At supper timn greatinquiries vvere made fot iho (ioneral, arid servants sent off to look birn np. But'he could not to found! At last some one going below, inquired if ho had seen anything of siich and such a man—the fireman siyd no, but, added, \there is a clever old fellow asleep there, under the sail, iri front of the fire Jt was Gen. Taylor. Yes, sweet indeed rnuet be tho sleep of such'a man, who his tire hear’ to change places with the poor sick soldier, ap TayJof did qrr this occasion. Ruch humannv stands put in bold relief and greatly mitigatcn the evils incident to , Mr Richard\ purrhreproi Joe op Ii Br.tva .pane’s estate at Bordehtown, !Y r , !F aj,0‘fo ,f convert the dwelling house, info o o|.ipB iinnt: fa
