The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-07

Court offn4akvy-Csss o. General 0aanss.
FoHr MoSRoE, OLr PorNr,
August 8. ls4e
The Court met day at the usual hosr no O'Clock
AMI and was thronged with ladies'
The REcoRpEn reed the minutes of yesterdays pro-
ceedngs, which were approved.
commune alton wss read from the Quarter Master
General General Jessup at Washington in reply to
sSdsnc 5sm sSs hs cou to designate and make
so SION $500
The RECORDER here read the fourth instruction upon
which II had been directed to inquire
ath In giving orders, since the LIST of May, 1916 to
pay departments, issue and distribute ordnance and
ordnance stores subence stores and for the dsburse
individuals or bodies Of men and to inquire also whether
the persons to whom such issues or payments were or
Ssrsd or made wsrs Legally in the service Of the United
custody Of public property or money.
The court is ordered to report the facts Of the and
to express opinion thereon.
General GAINE here and said II the court should
consider authorised to give orders to aid General
Taylor and ask the Commssary furnish rstions the
Quarter Master to supply camp equipage and other
cessares we can't ct along at all unless have evil
20 the
and any other supplies ordered BY me, the
within the provisions of the law. am myself person
ally responsible for them labored very hard raise and
before the Court, in Consequence Of the imminent Pc
I'll" which threatened General Taylor IL had right
and to A.
accuse any man. but to let the Court and community
know that was right in what did under the cad arti
Gle of war; The department the words "Brevet Ma
jor General Ganss in its correspondence have only
to tell them that am proud of the brevet for
very grave offender. which offences, if were
guilty Of, the Court of Inquiry should order to &C.
nerrl court martial and should be shot, but acted &C
| q m % tha mi tied
States and not "a party but to serve the citizens Of
the United States acted under conscientious upright
pure motives, and called out volunteer aid to defend my
emergency" suggested in the letter from the depart
The emsrgency which would tolerate or excuse the
assumption Of this authority by military officer in
cpation Of the Presidents action must be one
great and imminent peril to the countrya peril great
Prssidsn with full knowledge Of ali the crcum.tancss
of the would have felt to be his duty to resort to
such aid"
acted in the letter and spirit of this instruction II
my duty to do So and if refused, would be dsgrsced
live are required to be hunting up letters Of CORES
to do by the communication just read. General Jessups
letter will nquy th; ,s may mot NJ a.,
court to his letter of 18th May to- the
which he predicted the triumph Of Gen. Tayler before
receiving information of the result Of the battles of the
9Th and 9th May The letter also suggested the propre
ty of having mounted gunner, which he said would
have materially aided Gen. Taylor and enabled him to
The RECORDER here read some communications from
the departments in relation to the pay of officers and
these document as tev nave nothing to
do -ith this business, be put In the appendix.
Gen. GAINES here remarked in relation to of the
letters read informally that he had given orders to sup
ply two pieces of artillery to the proper officers in Baton
Rouge in the middle ofMay last, because nsurrsc.
ton anticipated among the black population in that
vicinity However, this had reference to the case
before the court but he the explanation the
letter was read He felt himself authorised to order
tho vo of had urrod
upon their borders otherwise he would not feel himself
authorized do without orders from Washington,
Capt MONTGOMERY, who had been examined yester.
day, was here recalled
Gen. BRooxs Capt Montgomery. will you let the
court know what General Tsylor's forces were on the
| 9th Of May
WIrNnn-About 22oO
The RECORDER, (Capt Lee)-Do you mean his fight
WrrEss.-His fighting force amounted to about 1900.
Gen GAMES here called the attention of the Court to
another of the letters from the Department of War al
ready published in which the Secretary states
Of Judgment with such motives as have governed
your conduct in this instance the President cannot
be regarded crime, to which, continued General G.
replied "that though appreciatng the favorable in
depreciation put upon my conduct by the President who
did not question the purity of my motives still if he did
not consider acted right and that my conduct
rect insisted upon being being brought before Court
Martial If War had not occurred" II war had not
currsd-f the enemy" had not arsen-I would net have
been justified in acting without orders from Washington
authorized to act in any emergency why should you
gentlemen, be kept in the service, unless know
suppress insurection-and act in Of invason-a
General Officer not to act until he heard from the
have no business to do with poitics-our duty is to
attend to military affairs Military men should not
be encountered with too much writing There is
too much in the way Of writing required from Of
fcers in this way. There are too many papers. We
are incumbered with too many papers, and have
too much writing to do. Military men should have
only to do with the sword, the gun, the cannon and
the rife and to be incumbered with the
and accumulated labor of writing fourteen hours day.
tOnm mi
G. having concluded, when
Capt. MoNrcoMERr again recalled, and examined
by the court He testified the amount of Gen
force before the battle of the sth May wasthe arm of
artillery acting as infantry, about 45o strong the in.
fantry 450 dragon, us light artillery, 100
rangers, 80 strong making the aggregate Of 2ls5.
Witness withdrawn.
The Court here went into secret session, with view
to inspect the documentary testimony from the Depart
ment of War; and select such portions of the official
communications between General Gaines and that De
partment would apply in evidence against him before
the Court the government having solely to rely upon
this species of testimony The two captains, Hopkins
ed on the part Of General Gaines in order to
date them yet his defence is not yet into formally
understood that the Court will not accede to the appca
ton to call the Governors of Kentucky and louisa
will be examined and is daily expected here with some
other American officers, direct from Matamoras The
whole case will be finally disposed Of il is expected by
Saturday or Monday. The veteran hero, SO far, has
knocked the Department at Washington into cooked
hat" but the entire proceedings, understood, have
military law than to condemn Gen. Gaines as an Offender"
He has you perceive commented more than upon
the undgnied and unprecedented of the Union,
in publishing surreptitously the charges against him.
previous to their being officially brought before the
Court with view to PREJUDICE his case. The gallant
veteran, with many others, will not condole much with
poor Hess and Richie for being kicked out of the public
printing by their party. Good All public hum
bugs and regulators deserve to be sent to the right
about" ALAS poor Yorck ~ The weather is awfully
warm here-we are 90 in the shade.
Police Intelligence.
Auo. 6.-Unfortunate Resem blance-A man by the
name of Abraham d. Cole, arrested on Wednesday
night, the complaint Of Mr. Alexander Drummond, Of
Peersburgh Virginia. suspicion OF being the indiv
dual by the name of Eppes, who stands charged with
the murder of Mr.. Muir Of Virginia Upon being taken
to the Police Station House. and the matter
Mr.. Cole procured satisfactory evidence, showing
clearly that he the murderer although the
semblance was so near that it puzzled MIR. Drummond