WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
{"character_count": 2595, "word_count": 432, "ccnet_language_score": [0.930400013923645], "ccnet_perplexity": [1734.699951171875], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Although the gentlemen who occupy the position of


respondents for the public press in this city the Admin


stration IN general with great fairness and Kindness
their letters dispeasing TO the Government Editor and he
decres them obscure" unworthy Of credit" This


is certainly the with several of them who both
known and respected The Union may be supposed jealous
of the revelations which the industry and Of these
correspondents enable them sometimes furnish the public
with of Government counse and purposes much the
noyance of the confidential organ and the paper
esve also under the hits which the writers now and then
deal the Administration generally good naured, and if Sc
vere only from their truth The following extract Of
recent letter from of these correspondence not unfrendy
to the Administration has just caught eye If may
be found 10 dispute its justice, all will admit its humor


"And here, in the middle of the nineteenth century the
advent of Christ, find President Polk the compromise
President, and Father Rchie the dear old man. hg
Cling and hagghng in with Mexico into which they
stumbled blind horse sumbles ditch headfore-
most neck and shoulders submerged in the mud with Taylor
leg and Scott the other, pulling their hardest pull
him out Oh, the glory Of territorial acquisitions How it
declines to discount, when find region occupied
large France not WORTH for purposes of cultivation, half
bushe of respectable potatoes Oh krikey what falling
of between the ancul descriptive and the desert journey
through California to the of the Pacific by Gen Kea
ny How delicious mule chops and horserbs through
that spontaneously productive region With what a longing
did The enapured soldiers wish for the dog soup the Chi
nese they mascated their old shoes the stretches the
hot sands OF California, whose lakes deposons of salt
and whose fountains hot and bitter the volcanic fires
below Oh what paradise Of country that for young
gosings.


"And Col Polk, cheated Of Texas by Tyler, "a
nterope-a accidental circumstance having clearly
defined right in the maer found that his only chance
make up the deficit by the of California
And satisfied that he believed that country to be
rich as Egypt and that would pay heavy dividend for the
taking. But he mistaken California q per-


feet humbug-a regular take n-a Yankee trick and out,


"And the whole Of this accidental incidental plain
ed and nexpcabe with Mexico may be clearly set down


TO the infatuated aud peposterous ambition Of John Tyler and
the unfortunate miscacuaons of President Polk upon
Tylers programme"