The State guard., 1848-03-28
Correspondence State Guard.

l WASHINGTON CITY, March IA, 1S4S.
 Mir. Benton, ninety-nine to one, has no
 been to-day nominated to the Senate a. the Commissioner to carry out the amend
 ed treaty, and to press its ratification upon
 the Mexican Congress. The quid-nuncs
 however, think differently, and will have it that the Colonel is the man. Indeed
 the public have no knowledge that the President has certainly been advised tc send the treaty out thus, rather than to trust the remaining negotiations, (for such there must be, in the hands of MT. Trist and council of war. feel wei assured, however, that the Senate hape re- commended the Executive to nominate
 such functionary for their confirmation ; and that though he may highly appreciate the talents and character of Col. Benton, i neither that gentleman nor any other op- p)nent of the treaty has been selected.
 In civil. as well as in military affairs, that is of State, it is an axiom never to select for the consumation of an enterprise one who has no faith in it. The sound policy of this rule must strike all men of good sense. Indeed Col. Benton himself would probably be the last man in the world to covet the duty under existing cir cumstanccs. He does queer things at times, where he himself is concerned, I know. But never such as this-whcrein he would want sclf-respect.
 The terrific Bolts has certainly prepar- ed for publication letter upon the sub- ject of tine recent fedora! State Convention. in Richmond, (Va.) in which he aims to expose the humbuggery of Tylerism under the name of Taylorism. When he com plctes the task the world will understand in what shallow water Virginia Tylcrism is really sailing so swimmingly. The Lord help the Tyler managers, who plan ned and executed, what he terms in the papers "thc mcndacious telegraphic delu- sion," by which the nomination of Gen. Taylor was there procured. In the mean time the N. Y. Tribune, by means of correspondent in Washington, is showing up the identity between Nativeism and Tayorism, proving that at the North it is but Nativcism rc-vamped. Peter Skcn Smith, Glover, Levin, the late Senator Archer, II. $. Dearborn, of Mass, and others of that ilk, being the great Taylor managers of tie day in that region.
 "Courier Cassius," to having lost the confidence of his kinsman, on account of the injury he did the latter in the canvass of lS44, has come out for the General in the Courier x Enquirer. This will hard ly hurt the gallant Harry much, for the re- cent twistings of Cassius have made him as much mark to be despised by con- science, as his mcndacious abolition labors in the canvass of lS44 have rendered him to be odious for the balance of his life in the South.
 Indeed, the embodiment surely remem. bering the result of the famous mission of Cassius, is probably blessing his stars that the latter has snuffed "glory" enough of late, to tack himself as a chief hurrah boy to the Generals coat tail.
 The Washington admirers of different American sculptors are hard at it, endeav- bring to obtain orders for one or both the National mOnuments--to Washington and Jackson-soon to be reared in this city, each for his favOrite artist. Greenhough has friends here thus engaged, and Pow CTS has Slots and cords" of them, while the model of an equestrian statue of Jack son, as he may be supposed to have ap- peared at the battle of New Orleans, now being exhibited in this city, is making many advocates for giving the order for the Jackson statue to Clark Mills, of Charleston s. Carolina. No other sculp- tor has presented model, which tells in favor of Mills; for we have been so humbugged with faulty works for the government, ordered on the strength of the reputation of the artists, that no Washingtonian will agree to have the de- sign of either of these statues taken on trust.
 Mills has avoided everything not strict. ly American, and though representing Jackson and his horse somewhat in the action of the famous statue of Peter the Great, his model in no other respect re- sembles that. It is beautiful, a very beautiful thing.
 Nothing of interest transpiring in the House to-day, where the debate on the veto message was continued by Messrs. Tompkins and Stanton.
 The feature of the days proceedings of the Senate, was the confirmation of the of Senator Sevier and Walshe of ph;ladalnb;a Tho fret fo ha Cop,