The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-08 00:00:00

GENERAL ALBERT SYDNEY JOHNSTON.

General Albert Sydney Johnston was born in
Macon county, Kentucky, in 1803. He was edu-
cated at the Transylvania University, Lexington,
Kentucky, under President Holloy, graduated at
the United States Military Academy, at West
Point, at the age of twenty-three, and entered thv
army as second lieutenant in the same year.
His first service was with the Gth infantry, with
which he was ordered to the West. During the
Black Hawk war he acted as adjutant-general, Pre-
sident Lincoln et that time serving as a captain of
volunteers. At the close of the war he went to
reside first in Missouri and then in Texas. When
war broke out in this latter State he resigned his
commission in the United States army, and rushed
to her aid, alone and unknown, and entered the
service as a common soldier. He soon made the
acquaintance of General Rusk, commanding that
division, who at once promoted him to a command ;
he rose to be the Commander-in-Chief—was Secre-
tary of War under President Lamar—fought the
battle of the Neches, defeating 700 Cherokees. At
the breaking out of the Mexican war, at the urgent
request of General Taylor, he again entered the ser-
vice as colonel of the Ist Texas Regiment ;, when
this was disbanded General Johnstone became in-
spector-general of General Butler's division, and
served as such in the glorious battle of Monterey;
he was in the hottest of the fight, and his horse
was three times shot under him, After this
he retired into private life, and turned his
sword into a ploughshare, until, in 1849, the
United States Government, in consideration of his
necessity and long service, bestowed upon him the
appointment of paymaster in the army. In 1855,
ho was appointed to the command of the second
regiment of cavalry, with the rank of colonel, and
ordered to the department of Texas, and in 1857
was appointed to the command of the expedition to
Utah, and in 1858 was promoted to the rank of
brigadier-general. He started on the expedition
to Utah, under orders, in September, 1857. On
the Gth of November, in the Rocky Mountains, he
e
encountered a storm of snow and wind, which, in
his own words, "racked the banes of" his men, and
starved the oxen, horses, and mules. The snow
was from two to four feet deep, and the thermome•
ter at from 16 to 18 degrees below zero for 90 days
afterwards, but he pursued his march, making only
35 miles in 15 days, where he went into camp and
subsisted on mules, withoutte government bread o/
n h
salt,i
t until
the
provisions were sent by h
follow-
ing spring. He continued to fill the post of Com-
mander-in-Chief in Utah ; being, in
fact, dictator in
the country which he occupied—until the rebellion
broke out, when he abandoned the flag of the Union
to enlist under the banner of the Secessionists.
Johnston was put in command
Last autumn General
of the rebel soldiers in the department of Kentucky
and Missouri, and invested with plenipotentiary
authority to control all the military operations in
the west. His Kentucky nativity and his thorough
knowledge of the western country, coupled with
his great ability' rendered him an especially appro-
priate selection to this important position. Gen.
Johnston was six feet one inch high, of large, bony,
sinewy frame, quiet and unassuming manners, all
conspiring to form a person of imposing and attrac-
tive address.

ANGLO-CHINESE MARRIAGES IN AUSTRALIA...—
Marriages of Chinese with females of European birth appear
to be becoming more frequent. But hitherto the brides
have generally been of the lowest class of Irish women, and
John Chinaman has probably no reason to be congratulated
upon his bargain. One case we recollect of a successful
celestial digger who, smitten with the charms of a lady of
this class, was foolish enough to marry her, but found that
she laid forcible hands upon his hardly earned wealth and
quickly dissipated it. The unfortunate Chinaman applied
to the magistrate to save the remnants of his property, and
could not bo made to understand the legal doctrine that,
under these circumstances, a wife could not steal from her
husband, and still less could ho realise the probability that
he might be also liable for her debts. The Sydney papers
by the last mail announce an Anglo. celestial marriage of
higher pretensions, for we learn that on the 10th day of
Feb. last, Mr. Yung Sing, Chinese merchant at Sydney,
was married to Emma, daughter of the late John Mann,
of Parramatta ; and as the marriage was solemnised in due
form by the Rev. Dr. Fullarton, of the Scotch Presbyterian
Church, we infer that the happy man had renounced the
doctrines of Confucius and abandoned all hopes of returning
to the Flowery Land. Several of the Chinese merchants
in Sydney aro well to do, and such are the vicissitudes of
colonial societ Mrs. yang Sing may yet keep her carriage
y,
and be presented at Goverunient-hOUSe‘•—.4l43trakn and
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