OLD RoUeH AND READY.-A letter from
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OLD RoUGH AND READY-A letter from
Washington says


Rumor says that Old Rough and Ready
has written long epistle 10 Young Hickory
(Polk,) that he has gone far enough into
Mexico for all useful purposes, that he has
found no gold mines or boxes ofdiamonds
in the chapparals; but his men keep up the
old habit of getting hungry at least once in
24 hours; and thai he has neither horses,
nor mules, nor jackasses, nor negroes, nor
wagons, nor, carts, nor bread, nor pork, nor
beef, nor whiskey, nor meal, nor -four, nor
coffee, nor sugar, nor salt, nor potatoes, nor
corn, (and puts in word to the Secretary of
War about the necessity of patching panta-
looms somehmes,) and that should he get
safely into Monterey, he will stay there, un-
less the department shall send him the mis-
cellaneous articles hereinbefore mentioned.
And he talks, too, of certain moneys, and OF
the difficulty of passing treasury drafts, in
the English tongue, among people who
speak only an Indifferent Spanish, Report
whispers, too, that MIR. Polk and his counsel.
lors especially Marcy and Walker, are sorely
perplexed thereat, while Buchanan says that
matter had better have been left TO him 10
negotiate; because he did not get 81 40 Of
the British, he is certain he could bully il
out of the Mexicans.


P. S. Father Richie has cleaned out all
cavlling upon the Oregon question. He
has clearly established the 3 following propo.
sitions:-


l. That Mr.. Polk began with 81 40.
/. That, though he offered 40, and signed
49-still-


3. That he never was, never has been
aud never can be satisfied with any thing
short OF Sd 40, especially in respect of Mex
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