Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-10-31
NEW YoRK. Oct. 90

Tri6une's dispatch, dated Washington
s2sth, says:e Nk
Gen. Scott will voluntarily retire from
his rank and duties within The next ten
days, solely on account of his physical in
firmities. The recent act of Congress pro-
yided there should. be no reduction in mis-
paw, subsistence, or allowance, in the event
of his withdrawal. IT'S well known that
Gen. Scolt has had an unsettled account
with the War Department since the Mexi-
can War. Senator Cameron has recently
given a careful examination of his claims,
now thirteen years old. Jefferson Davis
Indignantly brought him in debt on ac-
count of bis expenditures and receipts in
Mexico, and so far as the Secretary's re-
port could do it, discredited him as a f.
nancial agent of the Government. Mr..
Cameron has reported that Gen. Scott was
not only entitled to the money he claimed
of the Government, but that he saxed to
it millions of dollars, which, by the laws
of war, he could have pocketed, under the
settled principles regulating the distribution
of prizes and contribution money. -. g.
This opportunity Of personal advantage
Winfield Scott generously diverted to the
founding of Home for Invalid Soldiers.
One of the monuments long after he is
dead will be the Soldiers Home near Wash
ipgton. r-,.-. ..f..,,.t. j. -.-....-
On Saturday last the order Of the Com
mander-in- Chief, that Gen. Fremont should
surrender his command TO the officer next
below him, Gen. Hunter, accompanied by
letter of instructions to Gen. Hunter,
was sent out by the President to Gen. Cur
tbs, in command at St. Louis, with direc-
tions to deliver it to Gen. Fremont unless
he was actually in the presence of the ene-
my or preparing for battle. ~
Senators Chandler of Michigan, Wade
of Ohio, Trumbull of Illinois, and Wilkin-
son Of Minnesota are here representing to
the Administration that the popular de-
maud of their constituents is that McClel-
Ian, or some one else, shall Immediately
whip the rebels on the South side of the
Potomac, in pitched battle, and at or as
near Bull Run as possible, and from thence
roll the tide of war steadily Southward
till it meets the waters of the Gulf.
The Tribune states that one of our cor
respondents with the great Naval Exped-
tion writes from Hampton Roads, Friday
evening last that he had just been inform.
ed on good authority that the Private Sec
retary of Com. Dupont, the commander
Of the feet, had abseonded, carrying. with
him the maps and charts, and even the
sealed orders of the Commodore. We do
not vouch for the truth of the report, but
only for the fact that the writer is worthy
Of credence. We hope the report is er-
roneous.
The Heralds dispatch says
A scouting party of Union troops went
into Fairfax Court House village to-day,
and learned that The rebels had not been
there for many days, and were as far back
as Centerville, and were not strong even
there.
The rebels all along our lines to-day on
the Upper Potomac, have not been seen.
There is no news to-day from down the
river. The vessels of the folilIa are on
the watch below Matthias Point and above
the mouth of Quintice creek. Our troops
on the Maryland side are opposite Aqua
creek and along the shore, and are active
y engaged erecting batteries. ..-..