Portage Sentinel

Letter from General Taylor.

His views as to the Presidency, &c. - The New Orleans Picayune publishes a lengthy letter from Gen. Taylor to his friend Gen. E. G. W. Butler, of Louisiana, containing many items of general interest. We can, however, only make room for the following extracts.

After alluding to the fact that Gen. Butler, of Ky., had been mentioned in connection with the Presidency, he says:

I may observe that I have been also named as a candidate for that high office by a few newspaper editors and others, which has been done without my knowledge, wishes or consent. This I have assured all who have written me on the subject, assuring them I had no aspirations for that or any other civil office; that my whole energies, mental and physical, were and had been absorbed in such a way as I thought best calculated to bring this war to a speedy and honorable close, believing it was for the interest of both countries the sooner it was done the better - at any rate so far as ours was concerned; and that Presidency making should be lost sight of until this was accomplished.

I hope the greater portion of the good people of the country will be satisfied with what we have done on this occasion. I flatter myself that our compelling a Mexican army of more than 20,000 men, completely organized and led by their Chief Magistrate, to retreat, with less than 500 regulars, and about four thousand volunteers, will meet with their approval. I had not a single company of regular infantry; the whole was taken from me.