President Polk

The President struck me as being the most solemn-like personage I ever beheld. To say that he never once smiled, would convey but a poor idea of the chilling reserve with which he appeared to greet every visiter. He looked for all the world like a moróse Presbyterian elden receiving tho kindly condolence of his neighbors, ofier nuflering some terrible domestic calamity - so gloomy wus the look, and so stift' was the bow, and so formal was ihe shake of the hand! The common prints which you meet al! over the country, give a tolerably accurate notion of the Presidont's visage ; but I am incHhed to think thnt even the best portrails do not nltogeiher do justice to the iutellectual expression. It is a counienance in which great shrewdness and craft, tempered by caution, are strongly and legibly marked. The eye - light grey, cold, and quiet - slruck me as very remarkable ; but I cannot say that t left an agreeable impression. The President's lady stood near him, surrounded by o group of elegant women - one of whom, a fragüe creature, with eyes like stars, and a complexion "Fair as the iremMingsnow, whose iieecejclothr Our Alpine hitlfyV would have shone in any court-circle in Europe. Much dignified grace mnrked the deportment of Mrs. Polk. Her features are not regular, but they wear an inlelIecUial and somewhat saddened expression, which is exceedingly plensing ; and her smile, perfectly natural, is one of peculiar sweetness. - National Era.(t5 A son of Gen. Cass has been appoinled Major of Drngoons. The General voted against the Wihnot Proviso. - Mr. Edsall, of N. J., voted against it in the House. A nephew of hs has been appointodaMnjor of infantry. Mr. Russell, of N. Y., voted in favor of the Proviso before it went to ihe Senate, and against it afierwards. A son of bis has been appoinled a Lieutennnt in one of the new regiments. Thus thcy have tl.eir reward. The N. Y. Express well says : "The Ten Regiment Bill, beyond ali question, defeated the Wilmot Proviso." ff Nine free States, throngh their Legislatures, have protested against the extensión of slavery into new territory, and iheir resolves werelaid hefore Con gress. We hope that another Congrefs fnay receive anoiher protest from every State, now free, or desiring to become such. - Era.(L? The Legislature of üelaware which ndjourned on the 20th ultimo, passed a joint resolution requesting the Senntor and Repreresentaiives of thnt State in Congress to oppose the nddition of new territory to our Union, which shall not thereafter be free from alavery. In the Senate, the vote Btood 4 to 3 ; in the House, 10 to 1.