Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-09-01
COURT MARTIAL EXTRAORDINARY.

clai account mas yet appeared in the Union, and
there rs no evidence that the sentence of the Court
has been fully approved. Under the crcumstan-
ces, we shall expect the official journal to deny the
correctness of the report and even 10 deny the auhen-
ITCHY .. he whole proceeding. But no one will be
m'sod by the contradiction, or induced TO put less
confidence IN the report than they otherwise would
The probability that such thing should have ia
Ken place, may without great violence, be presumed
from what is known to have occurred Ii the re-
port be untrue, il is something like Macbe,h's witch
cs, it 'leth like truth ,
PROCEEDINGS OF A Court MARITAL,
Convened at Mango Clavo,' for the trial of Gems.
Scott and Taylor. upon charges preferred by Gen
eral Santa Anna:
The Court organized with Knon Poo,,e as
President, and Seignon .4imOnte as Judge Adyo-
cate, with the following members Lieut. Benton.
Warrior Marcy, Kave Johnson, Admiral Mason,
Martyr Richie, Sausage Sawyer Ministerial Will
sing Shannon and Sucker Ficklin.
Charge-DisoJedieic of Orders
Specfcation.-rhat whereas the aforesaid San
ia Anna did leave the Island of Cuba at the instance
and upon the invitation of their superior officer to
w.t. the commander of all Duck river and its de-
pendcnclcs, at an immense sacrifice of cocks paf1s
and siashers, abandoning favorte bet valued by
all cock jockies ut thousand douboons upon the
following safeguard which they, the said Scott and
Taylor, disregarded to the manifest injury of all the
Chevallers d'lndustrie of Havana and scandal to
their superior of Duck river and its dependencies
aforesaid. Here the Judge Advocate read the Pass
TO all Jac6 ImS, greeting: If the foresworn
refugee here OF San Jaclnto comes in your way,
you needn't see him, as am playing IA game with
him, and you mustn't disturb the ra,ne .
lsIgned) KNOX 2. of Rio Duck
10 all of which the prisoners plead g,,ien saJe.
The evidence having closed, Mason rose and
said, he wished the court and country TO bear i'm
mind, that the Duck river pass had been duly re-
specled by the Navy, and subsequently dishonored
by the Prisoners at Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo.
The Lieut.. General deprecated invidious com
parsons between those two of our national de-
fence, and hoped the court would trown down all
subjects calculated to make breaches between them.
lhis brought Marcy to his feet he wished to
know II Bullion had any allusion to him by the
word breaches?
Tho Lieut. General disclaimed any intention to
attack the head of the War Department in SO SEN
sl'lve point; he fully agreed with the hero of
l.undy's Lane, that rearward attacks were decided
ly uncomfortable. But he would take occasion to
say that things were not going as well as they
would II he mad been permitted to sacrifice himself
into Plenipo- General. He was fur peace, an
honorable piece, which meant large piece, and
had the warrior plenipo sacrifce been consummated
he would have such a piece and not a mere patch
at the bottom f Here Marcy rose again, and
demanded whether patch, had any allusion to him
Bullion explained; he meant patch at the bottom
OF the Rio Grande. He hoped he would not be in
terrmpted again; the department should restrain
lis impeuUsiiy there occasion for it to burst
It's breeches--Marcy again jumped up, but Kave
claimed the floor, and sought to throw oil upon the
waters of discord He implored the Court not to
permit Itself 10 be rven and rent to pieces like
Marcy In extreme ire, demanded an explanation of
the word rent
Great confusion cnsued. Bullion appealed to the
president, who, after whispering with the Judge
Adv la.,,t IL
Fundamentally out oforder.
Marcy rose with great wrath and said he had
been Invited there to condemn the prisoners not TO
have his breeches continually thrown In his teeth
He was the head of the War Department, and a
proper respect for that Department required that he
should fight or retire; he hoped the Court would
spread upon the journal that he retired not retreat
ed Hereupon he left precipitately, having obqued
to the door. but he squated round to pass out a
small patch was visible on the seat of honor which
Marcy said was crescent, selected no doubt as a
coat of arms from his ancestors having been crusa
ders but old maero'-fact swore it looked like a
llnsey half dollar.
The Court then resumed business, and Bull
lion with modest blush again advanced He beU-
ged that the Court would not consider any time
consumed by him as mlsspent, in fact, his was the
sacrifice; he was speaking for the veal of mankind
and not usual, for his IS per diem; besides, he
was negecting treatise on Algebra, particularly
adapted TO the computation OF mileage.
Indeed. both the court and the country had very
inadequate idea of his importance true he did not
consider them very much to blame az it was ex-
trerncly difficult TO comprehend him in all his vast
magnitude. 1t would seem greatness had of late be
come family affection, and if not soon relieved
both he and his sOn-in-law would have to put the
government at the expense of the Marcy quarter
ings:: In conclusion, he would remark, that every
one knew MS sentiments; they had LONG been be-
fore the country, they were simply to condemn ev-
cry body generally, but himself and son law and
/ TO violently advocate both these gentlemen.
! The venerable father Richie next addressed the
court in the following laconc speech-".Nous ucr-
! 30nsN
Sausage replied he thought no good democrat
would make use OF "furrin" words. II sraacked of
arlsocracy, but he hoped from the proverbal cour-
tesy ut the valuable martyr, that ''nous pe,yous'
had no alluslon to his innocent indulgence in sau-
sages u was true they there to treat for war
and 10 try two old warriors but he must confess
That, amidst swords, epauletes and porfpoons his
gentle thoughts still turned on sausages il was his
passion and his weakness he rcioced in democracy
but nc gloHed In sauSages. II the two refractory
old bantums were 10 be punished he would propose
that the sausage ration Of Taylor be stopped for thir-
/ ty days. and Scott stopped from writing proclama
/ tons.
| Hickey Fickln said he had great respect for the
gentleman who had just addressed the court he was
top Od"yer. aye, a up-top Sawyer, and If titles
were not anti democratic he would like To see him
created Duke of Bologna; vet ne must admonish
his friend that his degree of punishment did moi
meet The cases and crimes of the two prisoners, for
what Taylor, the first transgressor. cared but little
for sausages, land odry up SCOTS ink horn was worse
/ than frying live cells. lie would therefore propose
that they both be sentenced to read his last speech
In Congress every morning before breakfast for thr