Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-01-14

Ofuer OF the PRESIDENT:
(Signed) w. L. MARCY, Sect'yo of War.
The following is a paragraph of the General
Regulations for the Army, established on the
LIST of March 1925, referred to above:
$500. Private letters or reports, relative to
military marches and operations, are frequent
ly mischieyous in design, and always disgrace
full to the army. They are, therefore, strictly
forbidden, and an officer found guilty of MAX
ing such report for publication, without spe-
cial permission, or of placing the writing Der
You'd his. control so that it finds its way to the
press, within one month after the termination
of the campaign to which it relates shall be dis
missed from the service"
By command final. Gen. Scott
(Signed) WIN. G. FREEMAN,
Asst adj. General.
GENERAL ORDERS-No. $40.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Mexico, Nov. II, 1877.
The attention of certain officers of this army
is recalled to the foregoing regulation, which
the eneral-in-chi is resolved to enforce so
far as It may be in his power.
As yet but two echoes Trombone of the brill
liant operations of our arms in the basin have
reached us; the first in a New Orleans and the
second througha Tampico newspaper.
1t requires not a little charity to believe that
the principal heroes of the scandalous letters
alluded to did not write them, or specially pro-
cure them to be written, and the intelligent
can be at no loss In conjecturing the authors
chiefs, partisans, and pet familiars. To the
honor of the service; the disease-pruriehcy of
fame, not earned-cannot have seized upon half
a dozen officers present, all ofwhom, It'll be-
lieved, belongs to the same two coteries.
False credit, may, no doubt. be obtained at
home, by such despicable self-pufings and ma
lignant exclusion of others; but at the expense
of the just esteem and consideration of all hon
orable officers who love their country, their
profession, and the truth of history. The in
dignation of the great number of the latter
class cannot fail, in the end, to bring down the
conceited and the %envious TO their proper
level. .A'
BY command of Maj. Gen. Scott.
H.. L. SCOTT, A. A. A. G.
The letters alluded to by Gen. Scott, as ssthe
echoes from home" are evidently the sEeoni
adas' letter, and the other letter which appear
ed first in the Pittsburg Post, was then trans
ferred to the Union, whence we copied it on the
9Th October, with some introductory remarks.
and the whole then appeared In a Tampico pa
per. When Gen. SCOTS orders, Were publish
ed, Lieut.. Col. Duncan came out promptly in
the North American with the following frank
avowal of his connection with the ssTampico
letter." so called. According to the North A
merican the tsTampico letter. was compiled
from two letters written by officers of the army
IN Mexico to a brother officer in Pittsburg; for
his eye alone" But read what Col. Duncan
has to say TO it:
Mexico, Nov. 13, 1917.
To. the editor of the North A~merican-Sir-
| herewith present a copy of the '~sTampico
letter. Characterised as ~'.scandalous,' . s.des-
picable," ''~malignant," &C., in general orders
No. 349, published in the American Star of
this morning.
To the end that the true character of this let
ter may be known, | desire that you repubiish
it in your paper, and that none of my brother
officers may i%nnocently suffer for a publication
myself to be its author. The substance of it |
communicat ted from Tacubaya, soon after the
battles, in a private letter TO a friend in Pitts
burgh.
The statements i'll the letter are known by
very many officers of this army to be true, and
| can but think that the publication of truth is
less likely to do violence to individuals of
the service, than the suppression or perversion
of it.
Justice to Gen. Worth, (who is evidently
one of the heroes" pointed at in order No.
349) requires me to state thathe knew nothing
whatever of my purpose to write the letter In
question. nor that it had been written till well
on its way to its destination; he never saw
nor did he know, directly or indirectly, even
the purportof one line, word or syllable of it
till he saw it il print, and heis equally igno-
rant of my design to make this declaration
which | do, as | wrote the letter, unprompted
and on my own responsibility.
Very respectfully your obedient serv't,
JAMES DUNCAN,
Brevet Lieut.. Col. u. S.A
After the publication of this letter, Colonel
Duncan was placed under arrest, and subse-
quently Gen. Pillow was arrested, and next
Gen. Worth. The North American is of opin-
ion that Gen. Pillow was not arrested or ac-
count of the s.Leonidas' letter, but ON the fol
lowing grounds. a
There has been another arrest, that of Gen.
Pillow one of the chiefs aforenamed, but not
as appears, on account of the letters which he
is the hero. We hear, generally, that the
cause was these: Gen. Pillow having taken ex-
c~eptions to the finding ola court Of inquiry,
which finding has been approved by Genera
Scott, addressed a paper relating to the matter
to the Secretary Of War, through the COM
mandar-in-chief, preservinga copy which he
ayowed in letter accompanying, he had sent
or would send, directly to the Secretary at
Washington. This transaction is judged to be
a contempt, and for the SO judged contempt
tGen. Pillow is arrested. Not understanding
. The ~technicalities of the case, we are not a dvised
whether part or the whole transaction is regard
ed as the contemplate that is immaterial.
Gen Worth's arrest is thus noticed in the
North American of the 26th ult.
The last arrest occurred yesterday-that o.
Brevet hajor General Worth, and the charge
lis, we believe, contempt towards the com
mander-in-chief. Without a full knowledge
of the facts, we do not purpose to lengthef
this article by any remarks upon this proceed
ing.
Os-Itcosts $1S, 600 to carry the returns o
votes for President oWashington. So macf
for a useless provision of law, when it couIt
Be doEe By the mails for half edozen dolIars.