A LIEUT.. GENERAL TALKED OF.
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A private letter from Washington says "I have it from a reliable source, that the Government have had it ln contemplation for more than q month past, to appoint q Lieutenant General and Commander-n- Chief of the Army of the United States, and that our Consul at Liverpool, General Armstrong, has already been sounded as 10 its acceptance! Of the truth of this have no doubt, though for certain reasons, for the present, it may be denied Is it not Imaginable, 10 hear of an attempt at this late day, to bring this worthy old gentleman out from his peaceful and profitable occupa- ton abroad. when we have such men as Gaines, Scott, Taylor, Wool, Twiggs, Worth, Kearney, and others already in the field, and fit for any station the times may call for. 1 have heard it stated, that the last steamer brought a declination from Gen. A.; and since, some of the wise ones, who have been under the caves of the White House, hint at the name of Colonel Benton for the place. But, as our venera- ble father Ritchie would say, Nous Vcrrons"