Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-06-10
TAILORING.

nished no pas al an. but admits thai an orde,
to let Santa .dnna INTO .Merico ssas ;sssssd B,
Mr. Marcy to the Squadron IN the Gulf 81
II seems after years wrigglings and twist
ings, and every endeavor to creep GU, OF IN,
matter, that Mr.. Polk is endeavorng 10 plac,
that disgraceful and disrepuuhle ,ransac,ior
upon the shoulders Of Mr.. Marcy. But d,t
not Mr.. Marcy act BY the authority OF thu
PRESIDENT However, il makes no differenc,
who issued the Order or Pass, II is now al
mitted BY the Official Organ Of the Presidep
that Santa Anna was permitted by our Go
yermen, to pass the Squadron IN the Gulf o
Mexico, return TO his own country. plac,
himself II the head Of powerful army, an,
march against our own citizens and butche
them! A similar diabolical act was never be
fore committed By any country in any age
| II has renamed for the President of the Unit
ed States TO furnish an enemy, then at wa
with this country, with a powerful General Il
lead its forces against hrs own fellow citizens
What has he not TO answer for.
We heard gentleman, fresh from the the
are Of war. relate an anecdote of Gen. Tay
lor. One ofthe Illinois regiments was thrown
into rather close proximity with a Mexicar
battery, and the balls were flying tolerably
thick, and rather close--so close at least as tc
induce the bhoys to dodge occasionally Old
Rough was sitting astride of his old grey, and
being in position TO see the lodging cried
out, ssGen,lemen, no dodging--it i'll becomes
soldier to dodge.n Ole Rough's grey horse
presented q fair mark, and as the enemy had
learned his whereabouts because of his old
charger, very brisk fire was opened upon
Az vs =. Al LII
around Old Rough promiscuously, and the
thing was becoming quite too hot even for
him. Al last bali passed 80 near the old
mans cheek a. to cause him to throw his head
in an opposite direction with celebrity not at
all characteristic Of Old Reugh's plodding
habits; il was thought the old fellow was
dodging--the movement Of his head was no.
,iced by some of the Iliinoians, and hearty
laugh broke out from the b'hoys. Old Rough
straitened himslf up in his stirrups, and said
dodge the balls, gentlemen. butno running"
--yMiss lido.
SPLENDID WARpaoBr.--lf the paper, con-
,inue to give such evidences OF Gen. Taylor's
plainness as the following. we shall soon ex
sneered at Harrson's LOG Cabin and Hard
Siuei, venting thch dsouiZiuS VII upon OIu
Zach's rough attire Rich. Rep.
"Old Rough and Ready" says cotempo-
rary, sis remarkable for the extreme plainness
of his attire. When leaving New Orleans for
Corpus Christi, some of his brother officers
playfully instituted an appralsement of the
suit of clothes worn by him atthat time. The
result was, that the whole suit including round
jacket, vest, trowsers, hat, and unmentiona-
bles. was worth about seren dollars aud a
hail."
A LOUD CALL FOR THE LErrER.-The
Louisville Journal has the following:
Thar LErrER.-We doubt whether the AID
minis,ration will be able to withhold much
longer the letter addressed by Gen. Taylor to
battle Of Buena VISTA The public is clamer-
guess Il will have TO come.
Yesterday we received letter from an Of
fcer of high rank in the army, from which
we make this extract :-"Call upon Mr. Mar
cy to give up the letter of Gen. Taylor to him
in answer to communication from Marcy
taking him to task for writing the Gaines lei
ter. In conversation had with Gen. Tay-
lor, on the 23d OF last month, he gave me the
contents Of this letter, and the Secretary Of War
and the Standardization ore thoroughly used up
in It,"
OPINION OF GENERAL TAYLOR ABROAD
A letter from Paris, written by the Editor of
the N. Y. Herald, who IS now in that city
says;
"Among military men, Gen. Taylor IS con-
sidered one Of the greatest Generals of the age
II is asserted without hesitation, that he has
performed as much with the means at his com
mand, as ever Napoleon or Wellington did,
was informed this morning by gentleman
formerly distinguished diplomatst in Eu-
rope, that Marshall Soult on reading the news,
and particularly Gen. Tay lor's dispatches. de-
clarsd in emphatic language, 'roila ,m soldat,
as much as 10 say "a great General very
great General"
The veteran Taylor has passed some OF the
bestyears of his life IN the battle field, in which,
however, the Immortality offame he has won,
will compensate for his hardshps and suffer
ings. In late letter 10 the Department o.
War, soon after his splendid victory over the
Indians in Florida, he used the following Ian
guage:
81 write WITHOUT candida blazing pine
knot serving instead, in the middle of vast
prairie, in what they call cabbage tree copse,
upon dirty sheet ofpaper, the only one in the
camp"
In late letter to friend in Louisiana oc-
ours the following parallel PASSAGE;
"Since | left New Orleans for Corpus Chris
ii, have not slept under the protection OF
roof, and not always under the thin covering
OF soldiers tent"
A volunteer who has returned from the
Mexican war, says-"I have seen the ele
plant, trunk, tusks, and all, and am more
than satisfied. went out Polk soldier, and
return Taylor Wing"
The Louisville Journal nyS-"We have
before us mape Of the battle grounds upon
which Gen. Taylor won his four great vcto-
ries in Mexico. We have also before us
map of the battle ground upon which he will
win his great battle oflS48--that is 10 say,
a mop q The U. States"
II is said that young lady, who is great
admirer of Gen. Taylor's epistolary style, re-
ceived letter the other day from sweetheart,
enquiring If she would have him. She I'M
mediately sent in reply, Gen. Taylor's answer
to Santa Anna, -"Come and take me. "--Bos-
ton atlas.
Father said q little boy to his Loco Parent,
is Gen. Taylor Whig7 Yes my son.
Were Clay and Hardin aud Lincoln, Whigs2
They were. Is Gen. Scotia Whig2 Yes
L. y D. Ill loo