The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-06-30

MAJOR GENERAL ZACHARY TAyLoR.-A. Hofy No.
80 Walnut street. Philadelphia, has recently published
another edition Of portrait Of General Taylor, from
original sketch taken from lfe at Camargo by Cap
tain Eaton A. d. C.. It IL excellent likeness, and
vouched such by Commodore Conner, Captain Inger
soil of the Navy, and several military officers 1t be
obtained in this city of Charles Holt, jr 100 Fulton
street.
Ono of the returned volunteers who fought under
General Taylor at Monterey, has furnished us with
leaf Of his diary describing the appearance and
Of the great hero We insert It here for the
The hero Of Buena VISTA around whose military brow
many chapets of fame have been thrown, presents in
nature which mark the gentleman and the officer or
average medium height being about five feet nine
inches he incin"s to hesviness Of frame and general
well developed muscular outline, with tendency
corpulency of square build, he incnes to stoop
and from the great equestrian exercise the nature
life has led him necessarily to undergo his inferior ex
tremties bowed His expansive chest shows
him capable Of undergoing that vast fatigue through
which he has passed amid the and savannahs
Of Florida, and the still recent fields of Mexico
His Ia expressive ofgreat still SO
sotsned by the kindsr feelings Of the SOUL as to render
head is large, we'll developed In the anterior regions
and covered with q moderate quantity Of hair. now
tinged by the colorng pencil Of time which he
parted on side, aud brushed down. His eyebrows
heavy, and extend over the optic orbit the eye
Covers are called into play yet reposng as If plea
SAINT quiet. when in ordinary His nose is straight
neither partakng OF the true Grecian or Roman oruer
his lips thin the upper firm and the lower slightly
sctng The outline of his face Is oval, the skin wrn
kled and deeply embrowned by the many tropical suns
to which he has been exposed His manners are frank
social and left his company without feeling
that he had been mingng with gentleman Of the true
olden times He at times appears In deep meditation
and is then not always accessible In his military dsci
pine firm and expects all orders emanaling from
his Office be rgidy enforced and misunderstanding
his heots slaves but exercising only that
command which necessary for the good Of the whole
To the younger officers under him he is peculiarly
enient-often treating their little faults more with
father forgiveness, than with the judgment Of ruler
In his general toilet he does not initiate the beau Brum
mels band box handles of the present fashionable
epoch but appsrels his person in unison with his age
and has great prediction for the uniform In this
however be by no means peculiar, for majority OF
our regular military gentlemen seldom appear in their
externals duty and the stations to which General
Taylor has been assigned, have been in the warm and
sunny South, rendering the heavy blue cloth undress
coat disasreeabe to the physical feelings have gen.
orally him In pair OF grey trowsers, dark vest
and either brown speckled frock coat, reaching
lower than would suit the starched and prim bucks OF
modern civilization. He . long black silk neck
handkerchief the knot not looking II he had been
torturing himself to arrange 1t before full length
mirror he sometimes white hat, resembling in
shape those used by fiat boatmen and pair of COM
mon soldier shoes, not much polished