Daily National Intelligencer

United States Military Academy at West Point.

One of the regulations of this institution lately established by the Secretary of War, provides a gratifying and very honorable mark of distinction to be conferred upon the more meritorious of its Cadets. Five of the most distinguished in each class are to be selected annually, and reported to the War Department, for the purpose of having their names inserted, with honorable notice, in the official Register of the Army.

The object thus offered to the ambition of the Cadets, became, for the first time, a subject of competition among them at the late general examination; and, although the above regulation had been adopted so recently as to afford but little time for preparation, the exhibition of talent and proficiency on the part of the competitors was highly creditable to them, and extremely interesting to all friends of the institution. The examination of all classes occupied about three weeks; at the end of which, the rolls of merit being made out, the following gentlemen, in their respective classes, appeared to have the highest claim to public notice.

In the 1st, or graduating class.
1st. Richard Delafield, of New-York
2d. Andrew Falconet, of Connecticut.
3d. Samuel S. Smith, of Delaware.
4th. Horace Webster, of Vermont.
5th. Samuel Ringgold, of Maryland.

In the 2d class.
1st Wilson M. C. Fairfax, of Virginia.
2d. William A. Eliason, of the District of Columbia.
3d. Aaron K. Woolley, of New-Jersey.
4th. Frederick A. Underhill, of New-York.
5th. Edward D. Mansfield, of Connecticut.

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