Col SAMUEL D. PAFTERsox,

 Editor "Norristown Register"

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 WAsHISGroS ciTY. May IT, ls47,

 It will 10 doubt be gratifying to the numerous friends of the late Col YELI, tand it certainly is credi:able to the heart of the President of the Uni ted States) to know that perhaps the astister ever written by Col YKLL. vas directed to the Presi- dent, in which he committed 10 his old and long tried friends draft on his pay with reques, that he woald distribute the proceeds among his ehil- dren. The letter was dated oa the aeth February, and oa the 23d the gallant soldier was numbered among the brave spirits whose blood has consecra- ted Buena Vista. The lamented YELL did not mis- his sad fate be sent for the son of Col. YEL pro- missing student of that excellen; institution, the Georgetown College and kept him at his house during the first days of his grief for his lamented father. The President then adopted him into his own charge, and took upon himself the expense of his future education

 After consultrg the youth 1t was determined to send him 10 Wes; Point. as soon as hs preparatory coarse will justify it. Until then the President has determined to continue him at Georgetown Col ege, and his stadies will be directed with view to the Polytechnic course, which is no doubt that which of all others his father would have selected for him.

 Itwas the good fortune of Col YELs. to enlist the sympathy Of many warm friends. and few men had more implicitly the confidence of President Polk. None with whom have eonversed, seem to lament more deeply his. Col Y, death than he. For my own part ain accustomed 10 regard much more the heart than the station, which any one may fill A nd during frequent intefcourse with the President, in which it has been necessary to regard the aaa than the Presidsni, can say, of a truth that a more sympathetic heart has seldom beat in mo- ble bosom, than that which animates the present chief magistrate. It affords me much more plaa- to record such traits than to contemplate the many acts of wisdom with which his able adfninis- tra,ioh has been characterized. The one makes the phiianthrophst and the christian the other the statesman and patriot. The former could only pro- ceed from kind bosom the latter might be the die tate of policy. good act should not be heralded to the public merely because it is such, but when it proceeds from man whose high station gives it the reflection of bright and worthy example among the people to whom belong properly the memory and remains Of Col. YELL, it may be pon- ted to as worthy of imitation. As such have ven tnred 10 communicate that which have learned from the President himself. Pw.G