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ROMANCE DEsrRoTED.--We have never been more shocked than al the destruction of the romance attending the accident that overlook Col Cushing at Maiamoros. Ae- cording to the first accounts, the Colonel was vending his way along the s,rects with . seaoriia upon his arm, who, we imagine, had eigarito in her pretty mouth, and dark eyes that were doing Paixhan destruction to the lucky Caleb. There he was displayed, all smiles and epaule.ss, making love it sn unknown tongue, feeling from top to toe. that ssnone but the brave deserve the fair;r when suddenly he comes io ditch of ihe Polk-General school of military, thst is. placed on the rrcng side of the banquet, Down he plunges, amidst his dreams, and meets with sad lnishap. We thought we saw the poor Mexican enchantress raising her dark eyelashes in wonder, to heaven. and lowering her dark eyes with as,onish- meut and pity, and then extending her pretty hand to help the fallen soldier out of hts en- irenchnenis. But all this was gaminon, mere dreams of newspaper scribblers, for Col. Cushing. writing home to Newburyport. says he was walking with Col. Belknap --a man who has face as hard as .. new Eag- land rock, and as expressionisss, st ssi bfo- ken limbs and heads as bunch of pine shin- gies; An old veteran that was tn the kss war, stuck up against the sides of ths sally-poss of Fort Erie, as if he had been ssspscimen'' in a naturalisl's cabineu . man who has, since that time. been growing grey in the hardest service ofhis eountry--swearing and fighting. and growling, that his much labor of 35 years Is just az likely to be remember ed by the present powers that bs. a if he had been returned dead to the Adjn,anl-Gen- erals office the day aftsr King David's bat lle with the PhiIistines. We can inagine how little ..sid and comfort" he was to Gen, Cushing, who so far ranked him in the army, without essr seeing hostile ',hoss piial.'' or his owa regiment when Col ia the Rsld.

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