New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-27

COuriers fling hardly e&ceIs Gam 10 VII 81 'iu'
as it falls below it in dignity. We leave it to the
/ answer which unerring Time shall give
/ -yoiunteers Remrning-G eDeral
| Tnyior-HIs PoppIarity-The Presidency
/ Business, &c.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
EKw.ORLEANs, May l5, A.
We are in the midst Of Summer weather, with
very warm days, and cool nights of a beauty and
! softness unknown in Northern climes. The city
il full of soldiers returning from going TO Next
co-the latter looking fresh land sometimes oRLES)
and thouphtless while the former appear as ifthey
had enough Of War and its horrors, and many Of
them ragged, poverty stricken and miserable Yet
with all the thousand specimens Of misery we see
among them we do not know the first beginning OF
the untold wretcbedness they have left behind
/ them OF all the Volunteers with Scott and ray
Tor not one will resnst when bis term expires tor,
| in the language Of general officer who was here
a few DAYS ago, they are sick and disguised with
slaughter wounds disease and death-there IS no
fun there" i am glad that our officers and common
soldiers are tired OF carnage, though our enghten'
ed Government and some OF our clergy, even, are
not.
turning full of the warmest admiration Of his char
bat OVERLOOKING with wrath against the Admins
traton that they believe did its best to sacrifice
them. They cannot be convinced Of the contrary
am informed Of this by an officer who IS among
them on the Bio Grande. The people of this couu-
try will be astOnished and indignant when they
know fully the manner in which the concern at
Washington has treated Gen. Taylor. / kHoc,
from unquestionabe authority, that for five months
not single dispatch of his has been answered,
unless within the last few weebs,l and nothing
sent him except an insulting letter enclosing the
letter written by him to Gen. Gaines, aud demand
ing 10 know whether he wrote 1t. am glad to
saw that Gen. Taylors reply was in every way
worthy the spirit of heightened free, American
citizen. who has never learned to fawn that thrift
NAV follow. He replied that he did writ and
as he did not intend 10 for publication, had be
fore examined it very carefully but now, on re-
examination, he found not word or expression
that he wished to alter. He asked no favOrs-
they might make the most OF 1t. They took away
all his regulars save a handful, and left him none
but raw volunteers. Had he retreated on Monte
rev. as directed by the War Department, the
whole country from Saltillo to Matamoros, IN the
opinion of all military men there, would have been
/ lost There is much more yet TO be told on this
! subiect nj another time Thank God, he has sur
yved and broken down the base conspiracy, Tor
conspiracy lis considered here by all good judges
military men and others
n.
low me to say all that we know. He unites so
many exceuences of character that, opposed as ]
am 10 Military Presidents, aud detesting w ar and
every thing pertaining to 1t, 10 degree oil disgust
and hatred yet sincerely look upon Taylor as one
provdentially raised up 10 regenerate and reesta-
blish the responsibility OF this Government go
for him not because he is successful General 6ut
IN spite Of It, good Wing on eDery Potm-a0le
and honest-opposed to the Annexation OF Texas
and 10 this lodr--humane, modest unassumlng and
unaspring-what more can any honest man North
or South require think even the State OF OHIO
Notwithstanding the assertion OF your Abortion
friend in Ashtabula will be satisfied with this.
A Boston paper claims that, knowing the war tc
be unjust and unnecessary, Tay Tor ought to have
resigned 1t should be remembered that Military
men have a character soldiers and brave men u
I maintain and are not at liberty 10 question the
orders OF their superiors, though Volunteers have
not this excuse. Moreover, the War would have
gone on without him, and our troops would have
been slaughtered by thousands. No other maj
could have saved the Army at Palo Alto Ressca o
Buena Vista. No Wing or true lover OF the wei
fare aud honor and respectobty of the country nov
SO sadly disgraced) need fear the soundness OF Tay
lors views any point arh0teUer, nor need he Tea
his refusal to the country whenever and wher
ever required by the People. We have no appre
tensions that point here.
The. Commerce of this City is in a most singuls
: and unpleasant condition within the last few days
Exchanges within that time have gone from to 2
per et--the Banks unable to do anything
Cotton stopped aud all transactions suspended
: And why Because that great little man Rober
j. Walker lawyer, of hatcher so much better an
Justly known in these parts as shrewd scheme
for himself and bankrupt, chose to attempt I
, draw seven millions OF specie out ofthe Bank her
= payable at the North, for the benefit of Norther
brokers and perhaps his own. | am glad to know
however that some six or eight OF his drafts 10
100000 each today have been going begin
about the streets in vain. This community hs
l. been So long trampled on by the Government tn
o kers, Walker Cave johnson and those OF the sam
A genus who have experimental In former times q
/, / Washington, that they have smox ceased TO con
" PLAIN These dongs of Walker have inflicted a
Jury O! per CT all the exports OF this place, al
, they are $4,000 900 per snnum.
- There is no special news to-day. There is SON
prospect now, that before many months We sha
have something more steady than a nine or te
{ DAYS mail and that failing four times week !
Winter betwe cen this city and NewYork Som
d, Northern gentlemen are building telegraph Wit
funds furnished by the spirited and liberal porto
of our citizens, 1t has most durable aud suostai
tial appearance and is progressing rapidly. hav
. no doubt it will be both useful and profitable.
Yours. &c.
P.S.-The steamer Day has arrived here frol
: Cowes / send you what little news she brings
. DEPARruRK OF Mr.. PAKESHAM.-The BIRTHS
Minister to the United States leaves the City Hot
this morning for Canada, with the intention Of en-
barking early Boston for England on ea'
of sbsenee I, 10 but Of justice to say OF him
leaving our country that no Foreign Minister could