Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-21
From the Richmond Whig.
The IllustriOus Trio!

From the Richmond Whig.l
The Illustrious Trio!
About two weeks before the Baltimore Con-
vention the Boston Atlas published the follow
| ing letter
| CONCORD, N. H., May II, 1852.
alt is doubtless known to you that Gen. Gid
con j. Pillow and Gen. Caleb Gushing were
recently here on an electioneering excursion, and
from here they went to Connecticut to arrange
matters there. Pillow is not to return to Ten
nessee until after the Baltimore Locofoco Con-
vention. General Pierce is away with Pillow
and Cushing, and, it is said, they to visit the
leading men of their party in the New England
States Immediately. They are doing what they
can for General William 0. Butler, of Kentucky,
for President, and, as well as we can learn, for
General Pierce himself for Vice President. i
presume General Gushing would not decline the
Office of Secretary of State any more hastily than
General Pillow would that of Secretary Of War"
This is a rich development While Capt Scott
& Co. were fixing their traps to catch gulls,
| these three heroic generals were quietly prepar-
| ing dead-fall for the whole party. They had
wonderful success-far better than they had in
the battle e-felds Of Mexico-and yet their scheme
did not succeed in all its particulars. The orig
inal plan contemplated Pillow for the Vice Presi-
dency; but Pierce will provide for his disappoint-
ed friend.
In the event of Democratic success, these
three gentlemen will constitute the chief pillars
of the State. They are mighty men of war-all
three being suddenly manufactured into generals
by Mr.. Polk, and sent to Mexico to embarrass
the operations of General Scott and General
Taylor. General Pillow is the same gentleman
who immortazed himself by the ditch around
Camargo-into which his illustrious friend, Gen.
Caleb, had the misfortune to fall He also ac-
quired great distinction by celebrated letter,
signed "Leonidas," in which il is stated that
Gen. Pillow had personally encountered most
ferocious Mexican, in single combat and, after a
long and dubious conflict, overthrow and des-
poiled him. At the court-martial il was proven
that this letter was written by Pillow, and that
on the day named, and the occasion referred to,
he was not within a quarter of n mile Of any
Mexican Pillow defended himself by asserting
that he 81 substantially slew a Mexican"
General Caleb is remembered as the virtuous
patriot who set up the Tyler administration TO
the highest bidder, and acted as auction Jer.
Finding few bidders; he took share himself
His military career was distinguished by nothing
except the feat already alluded to-his falling
into Pillows ditch
OF General Pierce's noble birth, his precocious
genius, his extraordinary generosity, and his
martial exploits which consisted in falling from
his horse, brief mention was made yesterday.
To these three, for the due governance Of this
vast republic, win be added the Hero of Che
patchet-the mighty man Of war-Dorr. With
the doughty Douglas, to convert the Caribbean
sea into close waters, we may look forward to the
most brilliant administration in our annals.
BoYs-The Nashua Gazette thus daguerreo-
types "boy' of the present age. All who read
it will confess it is the best likeness yet obtained
"This has been termed the age Of progress
The most striking exempliication Of the pro-
gressive tendency of the age may be found in
boys from fifteen to eighteen or twenty years of
age. The boy of fifteen and upwards must wear
better broadcloth than his employer, and boots
to match. He gets the spring and summer style
of hats as soon as they come on from New lork
He wears dickeys Of fabulous dimensions He
has his hair curled and unctfed by the most
approved of BARRIERS He would wear nous
tache or imperial if he could He has woman
who he pays attention to- lie sometimes carries
a cane about as large as your little hnger, win
ball of lead on the end of it. lie struts; he
smokes he chews; he swears; he drinks. VI
n fair Sunday he stands at the corner OF the
streets to show himself. He stays out oil night,
or into the small hours, sitting up with his
woman or otherwise raising Ned generally.
He takes his woman out to ride. During the
winter he goes to all the dances, which come of
about every other night. lie makes magnificent
to his woman His horse-hire bill is
as high as the milionaires. He reads nothing
but the Pirates Own Book Life in London
and works of the yellow covered species.
The Washington County (Wis.) Blade says there
is solitary peach tree in blossom IN that vicin-
ity-the only one that survived the severity OF
the winter.
Hon. Ben. Harden, Of Kentucky, was serious
ly injured, on the 9th inst, near BardStoWn' oy
being thrown from his horse
A Minnesota paper announces the marriage Of
Thomas II. Curd, formely of Ohio, to Miss Whirl-
inp Thunder, Winnebago lady.
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