The true Democrat., 1857-02-24

 tiles under Christ, and that there will be no change in the administration until the resurrec- ton from the dead, when all the saints will en- ter into the eternal inheritance of which Canaan was mere type.
 Gen. Scott and Secretary Davis---A Spicy
 Correspondence.
 WAsHINGToN, Feb 4.-The correspondence between Gen. Scott and Secretary Davis is quite voluminous. From nasty examination of the various documents it appears that Gen. Scott declined to give open and specific information to Mir. Davis regarding the expenditure of the secret vcelmoney in Mexico, believing that no obligation of public or private honor, accord. ing to the usages of nations and armies, required him to disclose names and circumstances. He however expressed a willingness to give such information for his private ear alone which the Secretary said he was willing to receive in con- idence. In November, 1855, the President of the United States writes to Secretary Davis say ing in substance:-" Gen. Scott states two grounds on which he has learned that hesita- ted to allow the five per cent. commission. It is proper to remark that he has been misnform. ed or misapprehended my position. He him. self fixed 3la per cent, which he might proper y receive for his disbursements in Mexico; and a balance struck upon that basis was the sub- feet of conversation between us'
 Mir. Davis, in response to the President, in- forms him that Gen. Scott had charged himself with the sum of $26l, ,69l, all of which. excep- ting $3O,OOO, were levied and captured in Mex leo, and took credit for dishursing S255, ,54l, leaving SC, l55 withheld by Gen. Scott on his account. This balance the President author zed Gen. Scott, through the Secretary of War, to retain.
 Gen. Scott, in a letter dated New York De- cember, 1855, writes that there are two items, making S11 1885, against him as not admitted or disallowed by the President on account of five per cent. charged by him on all moneys dis burSed. He says it was entirely within the competency of the President to allow that charge, and he asks that suit be brought against him by the government to recover the amount claimed 10 be due by him, nearly $6,OOO. But the President declined to enter suit. There are many explanations relative to these figures but the financial parts of the transaction cannot be fairly understood by this mere reference to the subject.
 Among the documents is the opinion of At- torney General Cushing, dated January, 1856, to the effect that the act creating the grade of Lieutenant General does not confer upon Gen. Scott all the authority which was imposed by the law of 179S upon Washington, who was thereby made the command of the armies, while Gen. Scott was appointed Lieutenant General by order of the President of the United States 1t carries retrospective pay and emoluments, but not retrospective authority.
 General Scotrs correspondence with the of iicers of the government goes back far as 1S4S and that between him and the Secretary of War during 1855 contains the following features:-Mr. Davis, on July 25th, says: "I leave unnoticed the exhibition of peevish tenn per in reply to an inquiry from this department, etc" Gen. Scott replies, July 30: 1t would be easy to show that the whole letter in which you charge me with exhibiting peevish tenn per is as tlippant in its statements and logic as in that accusation. Certainly as Secretary of War you have done enough to warrant more than suspicion that from the first you have considered it your special mission, by repeated aggression on my rights and feelings to goal me into some perlous attitude of official opposi- tlon."
 " To prove my long forbearance, for at my time of life all angry discussions are painful, will now proceed to enumerate some of the pro- vocatons alluded to. without dilating in this place on your partisan hostility to the brevet of Lieutenant General, and to the compensation Congress intended to attach thereto" The General then al!udes to one of the Secretary's "captlous retorts'' and his "capping the climax by usurpation and absurdity." He likewise says: "Foiowing out your personal rebuke in the letter of the l2th your object in violation of principle, IS to crush me into servile obedi- ence of your self-wll. Iknow your obstinacy, and l know also what is due to myself as man and soldier; and if 1 am to be crushed pre- fer it at the hands of my military peers.'
 The Secretary rejoins, in an unofficial note dated August 2d: Your present accusation charges me with usurpation for the most un- worthy ends and imputes to me motives incon- sstent with official integrity, is considered base ly malevolent and pronounced utterly false"
 General Scott replying, August 9th, says:--"I have received note from you dated on the 2d inst. which you seem to desire me to consider as unofficial shall not comply with your singular fancy, as you can have no legitimate claim to address me except as Secretary of War Accordingly, shall treat your communication, whether designed as private and scurrilous or as public miSsives of arrogance and supercilious- ness, equally official. There are beauties in them which ought not to be lost, and it shall not be my fault if l do not render your part of | oHlo NoiIColobuouCo d illeuOIdUlc cAatuplo tO be summed by your successors.
 To this the Secretary replies, Sept. 7th: "Nor am to be at all deterred from full ex. posture of the groundlessness of your charges or by the threats you make of rendering my part of this correspondence memorable ex- ample to be stunned by my successors. This is the meanest bravado in one who himself affords the most memorable example on the records of this department, of sane contro ver- sialist defeated and a false accuser exposed"
 TENNESSEE BANKs--IMpoRrANT DECISION. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decid- ed that the act of the last Legislature, forbid ding the banks of that State, except the bank of Tennessee, from issuing notes of less de- nomination than S5. is valid and constitution al enactment. The effect of this decision does not impair the value of such notes already in circulation but forbids their re-issuance after they have been withdrawn from ciculation, and restricts all banks alike from hereafter issuing any notes of a less denomination than S5, ex- cept such notes of the bank of Tennessee Cin. Eng.
 Married--On the evening of the 17th Feb. at the residence of ohn McAdoo, Esq., by the Rev. C. L. Jeffries, HENRY JAMES, of the city | of Camden Ark tO Miss SIrsAN WIIIa of