The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-07

Is Northumberland ScoTT dead? Letter
writers from Washington speak of him as the som
tuagenarian chief who still directs the noovements
OF the various divisions of 'sthe grand army of
''the United States" They tell us that tbonab
shattered IN body, his mental vigor was never
more remarkable than it is now. and tbav dro,,,
striking pictures of him as he appears surrounded
by mis- military family" They describe hin, .,
sui lovng-"not wisely but too welp,-tbo ho,,
'n''' Tue market affords, and as paying the usual
'ei''''es "hich nigh living entails He sufers
'l'ch' 'hey say, from that aristocratic comnIaint
the govt. One correspondent finds him racr,oho,,
on lounge, with his swollen feet swa,bed - a.,
nes. In his hand he held lone reed wiz, a.
point OF which he directed the atten ion Of tho off
GERS ABOUT him to certain positions on the mans of
maryland and Virginia that fell within the scone
OF undlyuIged military operations. We, more.
over hear from various other sources that Cen
era ocorr ordered this, and General ScoTr directed
'hat, OF Dir. LINCOLN referring to him with deli
clous nd'c0e as the "boss, " and are triumphantlv
assured that General ScorT's plan of the campaion
Us a masterpiece Of military science, and that
he takes especial care never to leave anv rear o bo
attacked. From all this talk about General
SCOTT, and how he looks, and what be does
ana what he Is about to d--if the South will,
let him-one would suppose that the old hero
OF Chippewa and Lundys Lane is actually ssaI;vA
no'-perhaps we might add, in the popular
phrase kicking" but that the reported cond;-
tion OF his neither extrenlies preclude his induIp
ing in so violent an exercise of their feyors and
extensors. But, notwithstanding all that peonIe
have said to the contrary, General SCOTT is posi
lively dead-dead as JULIUS CRsAR-dead as cold
'JoHN BRowN.' We have positive proof Of tha
iact-proof that a whole army of scribbers cam
not gainsay-proof conclusive for II is tbo to,.;
Hony vi tile late General SCoTr himself. and
suieiy ne ought 10 Know. At recent meeting of
the New York Historical Society," "a resolution IF
respect for General WINFIELD SCoTr was 7o,,.oa
by that body and transmitted TO Wasb;noto,
The members of the Historical Society who wore
present on the occasion, appear 10 have labored
under the delusion that General SCorT was in the
land of living, and framed their testimonial ac
cordingly. They were speedily undeceived The
image, or eldoton, of what was once General
SCoTT-that sembance of the departed soldier
which has been described as occupying a lounge
at the War Offce-responded to the courtesy in
letter OF thanks, one paragraph of which assured
the Society that "this posthunaous honor was the
bright reward of long life devoted to his coun-
try" Was ever the decease of great soldier
more decately announced
"fosthumous honors" being, as every intelligent
so"oo. ooy well knows, honors paid to the men,
wy Vi person after his death, and as the writer
" inc ie''er signed WINFIELD SCOTT must GER
tanly be allowed to be the best iudoe 90 70
whether he is dead or not, and as it would he
physically impossible for any LIVING man 20 80
knowledge compliment posthumouslv paid to
INN, The only legitimate conclusion which can bo |
irawn from the extract we have ouoted i. e;,bor
hat the Federal Government has been nlaving off |
lpon the public one of its usual tricks Of suppres-
ion, or that the WINFIELD SCorr whom Mr.. Inn
'oLN salutes as 'boss' is not the same officer who
. calamity distinguished himself in the war of |
90 ana who, in 1876, planted his victorious |
=. lei On The walls of the capital of Mexico. We
nofe impressed with this opinion for the fol-
S NV. reason; 1t is hardly possible TO conceive
' i 'Ae IsFIELD scorr Of Canadian and Mexi-
ia 10 ice