ANECDoTE OF GEN. TAYLOR.
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The Washington correspondent of the N.Y Y. Tribune is authority for the follow ing capital anecdote :-

 IL is said that Gen. Santa Anna, on approaching the American Forces at Ag> ua Nueva, dispatched one of his Aids, to Gen. Taylor with the Pass MT. Presiden, Polk had supplied him with, and deman> ded permission to proceed toward Monte> rey. or wherever else he thought proper to go to " conquer peace"-according to the stipulations entered into between lhe " High Contracting Powers" His Excel lency Santa Anna, President: of iEs Mex ican Republic, aud Commander-in-Chie of the Army of defence on the one side, and His other Excellency James K. Polk. President the United States, and Com mander in Chiefof the Army of Occupa- lion, on the other

 "Old Rough and Ready'' looked first at the pass and then at the officer that bronghti,

 ".Ths is all very well for sailors and marines" said he. "but it won't do for soldiers. Tell your General thatthe on> ly pass he can have, so far as I am cons cerned must be over my dead body !'

 Now if this story is not true, it might be without any violent outrage upon char acter or circumstance. If not true. 1t IS t.,,th l;lyO /. ..ss