Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-12-29

with the Minis,ers.SSo excitement was
by one ofthe Governors,whose
nameis not given making public the pri-
yate deliberations and secrets of the Coon-
elk, He said 10 be apartisan Of Santa
Anna, whose finger is plainly 10 be seen
in This The. Sacrament of the Holy Ghost
has been administered 10 Gen. Herrera,
lrum which would infer that there is no.
hope ofhis recovery.
THE, ,D[FFICU Guilty. IN THE ARMY.
I: The difficulty among prominent officers:
of our army appears 10 be quite as serious
aaewas asrepresented. Weipublish here The
orders OF General Scott, redecliug upon
the officers who we're said 10 be: under ar
rest. They betray no lillle temper-per-
haps we should say, ,sascerbity of flemPer:
GENERAL ORDERS Nc. 8.
War Department, Adj. GEMS. Office,
Washington, Jan. %. 1877.
The following regulations has been re-
iceiyed from The War Department: ...s.,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Jan. IS, 15a7.
The. PresideurofIhe United States di- ,
rects thai paragraph $50 Of The GeneralI ]
Regulaiions.lor The Army, established on
the 1st March, 1925, and not included
among those published Jan, 25. lsal, be
now published, aud that;its observance as
part of the General Regulations, be
strictly eDjoined uponllhe army.
by order ofths President.
Is tSigned) * ~ SW. II. MARC Y,nts - 4
+ + 6 Sec'ry. Of War.
The foI flowing lis 5theS paragraph of The
General Regulations for slhe Army estab,
|siished on The lsrof March, 1925, referred
above: s.; -
3Ss'oou irivale letters or orts. relative
10 iIitaryi marches and operations, are
frequently miscaievous IN lesign n,7 md ais
ways diygfacefui 10 s.s:s:==7=.7
fbefef ase,. 1sfctiy forbid den; and any ofHs
Eeerfound; guilty orSnaking such feport for
publication. Without special permission, or
ef:placingythe wiring beyond. his conirol,
sothat it finds lis sway 10 the press. within;
one month alter the Termination of the
campaign 10 which it relates, shall be:dis-
missed from service
By command of.Niaj. Gen. Scott.
s- (Signed) ::ffuR
S WIG. FREEMAN,.Asts. Adj. Geul.
s. GENERAL2ORDERS-No 349.
Head QUARTERS. OF THE ARMY, 4
Mexico, Nov. IL, lS47.
The attention of certain officers Of this
army is re,called5torthe foregoing regula-
lions, which the General-in-Chigf is re
solved TO enforce 50 far as it may be in his
power. -
As yet but Two echoes from home Of The
brilliant operations of our arms in this
basin have reached us; the first in a New.
Orleans, and the second through a Tam:s
pico newspaper .3E
Ii requires not little charity TO believe
that the principal heroes of the scandalous
letters alluded to did not write them, or
specially procure them to be written, and:
The intelligent can be al no loss in conjec.
turing the au.hors-chiefs, partisans, and
pet tfamil!ars. TO the hunor Of the ser.
vice, the disease-pruriency of: fame mol
earned-cannoi have seized upon half a
dozen officers tpresenl all Of whom, it is
believed, belong to the same two coteries.
False credit may, no doubt, be Obtained
alhome, by such despicable self puflnss
and malignant exclusion of others; bnt;al
lhe.exPenselof The just esteem anFconsld: Z
eratiou of all honorable. officers who love
their country. their profession aud the truth
OF history. The indignation of The great
number ofthe latter class cannot, fail Lin21hes
END, . bring down ihe-conceited and en-;
yiolIs 10 their 2DrODer level - :. E.tsl.!.
By command ofSMaj. Gen. Scott, r..
H. L%SC OFT, sA.A.5A. Gsi,
The letters alluded TO by Gen. Scott as
t.the echoes from 9home,"s are evidently.
The iSLeonidas' i letter &lhe other leilerj
which.ap appeared first indhe Piltsburs Post
was thence transferred 10 the Union,
whence We copied il on 9Th October, with
:someidtroducmry ren,arks, and the whole
then appeared in T am pico papers, in /
which Gen., Scott saw FIRST rhe letter..
Upon The pnbicationof Gen. Scott's or.
ders, given above, Lieut.. Col, Duncan.
came out promptly in the north American.
with The; following frank avoWal of his.
connection with. the Tampico letler," SO
.called. According TO the North. American
Tho "1ampico letler'' was compiled
from two letters wriIen by officers oflhe
.armyin Mexico toa brotherofficeriu5 Pills.
burg, fol. his eye alone, But read what
Col. Duncan. las 10 say of!it:
!. - MEXICO, Nov.sl3, lS47. :.
Tothei Editor of the N, Amsrican-Sir:
/ herewith present a copy oflte "Tampi-
co Iettets'' characterized as ..scandalous,'
sdespicabie' malignant" &c. in general
orders Nc. 349, published in1lIe Aneri-
can Starthis morning =
SS To The end thai the3true character .oi
Fthissiellsr may be known, / desire tina