coIonel Archibald Yell.
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Our thanks are due 10 Hon. K. W Johnson foI number of the "Picket Guard" published at Sal tito, of sth May. We take from il the following well deserved tribute to the memory of Col. Yell and further, eye witness sis;s ,eA of the manner in which Volunteers dePor,ed themselves in the fight. --

 Among the many brave spirits that fell on the plains of Buena Vista on the ever mem- orable 23d, there was perhaps none that ex- celled in many of the highest and most en- nobliag qualities, the individual to whose memory this is a slight tribute.

 His conduct on that day was marked by the highest degree of valor and coolness, and at the same time, the utmost eagerness to come in contact with the superior num- Der ofihe enemy. Together with Col. Mar shall, who was at the head of the Kentucky cavalry, he leJ on the Arkansas cavalry, in charge against greatly superior force of Mxeican cavalry, who were immediately driven back upon the support of an immense column of infantry. Still eager to come in conflict with the enemy, then strongly sup ported, the two corps were again drawn up 10 effect his desired object but much to his disappointment third corps of cavalry, who were to act ii conjunction, being drawn of suddenly to another I,ar, of the field, the pro- jses was abandoned for the time, and the two corps fell back in the direction of the ranche,