Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-07-22
DBSER
WASHINGTON, 10th July. 1913.

i have sent you a telegraph despatch ear
ly to-day, but know not whetherit has reach
ed you, as understood the wires were out of
order. Its purport was the court of inquiry
in regard to the charges brought by Gen
Scott has been abandoned and that General
Pillow has left the city.
have written you some three or four days
ago that the charges brought against the war
worn veteran chief were all of frivolous
character, and this presumption is now fully
sustained by the President refusing to order
their investigation. ] understand, too, that
General Pillow did the handsome thing in
the premises, and so this most agreeable af-
fair is now happily disposed of. ! now trust
that the hero of so many battles, whose name
history will cherish, when all the charges
brought against him, will be forgotten, trust
say, that General Scott himself will now
allow the matter TO rest, and not insist upon
the trial as he now has right to do by the
articles of war. The abandonment of the
charges is sufficient vindication of his
honor and ought to satisfy him.
think that the Select Committee of the
Senate, to which have been transferred the
Territorial bills Wilmo, Proviso, Missouri
Compromise, &c, will report Tomorrow or
next day; but have not the slightest idea
that their report will be unanimously adop-
| ted The short armstce may be followed
by a re-commencement of hos,ilities; but |
can assure the frightened readers of the Led
ger that the South will not Immediately be
arrayed in glistening bayonets, and that the
'Union," Il mean the confederacy ofStates, J
is not in the slightest danger The eagle will
not lose its feathers, and the stars will not
fall, even if the Missouri Compromise should
fall through this session. The South will
retreat fighting, as may be expected, when a
question is up which involves not only their
property, but their personal safety.
not report in favor of the Missouri Compro-
mise---a majority being not in favor of it
but in favor of one of two things, viz Ell
ther TO fix the period when all three terrific
ries, Oregon, New Mexico and California shall
come into the Union us independent States.
and investing the President. in the mean
time, with the power of establishing gov
ernment in each of them or to leave ont in
each of these territorial bills each and every
thing relating to slavery, except the clause
that slaves carried their by their masters
shall continue to be slaves to their masters,
though they shall not be bought or sold in
the territory. This, says MIR. Calhoun, is the
only compromise to which he will agree and
Mr.. Underwood thinks just as his master.
Gen. Pillow, it is whispered, received last
Saturday some very hard knocks in secret
executive session of the Senate; but he still
survives the furious onslaught, and what is
more, he will be confirmed. General
Kearney will share the same late. He will
be taken to pieces by very great Sanator,
and then put together again by that Senator's
colleagues of the same and the opposite party.
Gen. Kearney will not only be confirmed, but
also retained in the army by the House refus-
ing to agree to Senator Bentons amendment
to the bill reducing the officers of the army.
DIR. Clinton, of Virginia, an assistant en-
aminer in the patent office, made highly
calumnious statement in regard TO his chief
the able and ndefatigable Commissioner of
Patents, who appointed Mr.. Renwick, brother
to the celebrated architect from New York,
an examiner under the new law, allowing
the patent office two additional examiners
and several clerks. The Doctor, il seems,
applied for promotion, and was quite nettled
at the idea that more perfect scholar, and
practical as well as scientific man should be
appointed over his head He first lodged his
charges with the Secretary Of State, who
would not receive them, but Mr.. Burke, !s.s
Commissioner, insisted, himsslf on trict
investigation Of them, and the President at
last consented to appoint MIR. Gillet, the soli-
ciior Of the Treasury, and Mr., Mccullough,
Comptroller of the same department. Board
Of Commissioners for that purpose, Clinton
appeared. With bis coupssb and desired to