ith the prudent and effectual
precautions taken to make them passive in the event of Santa Anna's
approach. It concludes by stating that all apprehensions of Santa
Anna's advance subsiding, Gen. Butler returned to meet Gen. Taylor at
Monterey, to report the condition of affairs; and the latter, having
taken the command at Saltillo, transmitted a leave of absence to Gen.
Butler, to afford opportunity for the cure of his wound.

This paper affords evidence of the kind feeling which subsisted
between the two generals during the campaign, and this sentiment was
strongly evinced by Gen. Butler, on his arrival in Washington, where
he spoke in the most exalted terms of the leader under whom he served.

In person Gen. Butler is tall, straight, and handsomely formed,
exceedingly active and alert--his mien is inviting--his manners
graceful--his gait and air military--his countenance frank and
pleasing--the outline of his features of the aquiline cast, thin and
pointed in expression--the general contour of his head is Roman.

The character of Gen. Butler in private life is in fine keeping with
that exhibited in his public career. In the domestic circle, care,
kindness, assiduous activity in anticipating the wants of all around
him--readiness to forego his own gratifications to gratify others,
have become habits growing out of his affections. His love makes
perpetual sunshine at his home. Among his neighbors, liberality,
affability, and active sympathy mark his social intercourse, and
unbending integrity and justice all his dealings. His home is one of
unpretending simplicity. It is too much the habit in Kentucky, with
stern and fierce men, to carry their personal and political ends with
a high hand. Gen. Butler, with all the masculine strength, courage,
and reputation to give success to attempts of this sort, never evinced
the slightest disposition to indulge the power, whilst his well-known
firmness always forbade such attempts on him. His life has been one of
peace with all men, except the enemies of his country.

MATHEW MIZZLE,
OF THE INQUIRING MIND.

BY THE LATE JOSEPH C. NEAL.

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How could he help it? Born with an inquiring turn of mind, and gifted
from the first with a disposition toward experimental philosophy, by
what processes would you undertake to change the current of Mathew
Mizzle's mind? He is one of those who take nothing for granted. A
weight of authority is little in his mind when co