Lynchburg Virginian

A leading article in the New York Evening Post, written with an attention to dates which implies that it was prompted by Gen. Wool himself, boldly claims for that officer the credit of the battle of Buena Vista. The Courier and Enquirer calls upon Gen. Wool to avow, or disavow, the pretensions thus set up for him. So far he has not done either and we may expect disclosures which will not tend to add to the fame of the second in command on that day. Gen. Taylor has never manifested a nervous, fidgetty uneasiness lest his countrymen should not do him full justice. He has, at all times, been ready to do ample justice to the merits of his subordinates.—But he is not the man to sit calmly by when an attempt, originating in personal vanity or party intolerance, is made to bestow upon another laurels which are justly his own.

Gen. Wool is a good disciplinarian, and a brave man, doubtless, though of not much intellectual vigor.—We regret to see him lending himself to such a scheme. The attempt to injure the reputation of Old Rough and Ready will recoil upon its authors.

The Washington correspondent of the North American says:

"When the truth of history shall have been recorded, the singular fact may be disclosed, that he for whom indiscreet friends have claimed a distinction of the highest and most commanding prominence, was one of those who advised a retreat, when the bloody scene of the 23d of February had closed and the fate of the field had been decided. If there is not testimony in existence under Gen. Wool's own hand, to the effect that no other man than General Taylor could have won that great battle, my information is strangely at fault. But what needs there of witnesses to prove what the monuments of the dead and the lips of living actors have vouched in language that no historian can improve? The audacity of this pretension is only equalled by its absurdity; but the temerity with which it has been ventured, exhibits a purpose which is doubly barbed with malice and ambition."