Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-22

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THE N. Y. Herald denies the denial Of /,
difficulty between Gen. Grant and secrs.
taFy Stanton, and aasgerss positively thai
Mr. Stanton complat1edyto sthe Presidsn
that Gen. Grant had ordered to the from
yeFiOps detaohmsqls gsrFispqipg forts
without consulting him; thai Gen. GRAM
asserted his right tosdo this, and the Pres.
ident sustained him In it, This is good il
true. S, ~ z q 7sef9
Col. D. Il. Moore of Kentucky, is il
Washington in1reieIspce to his summary
dismissal ftom, the service BY Secretary
Stanton, for alleged ebsence .withols leave
he was on tarlongh ghsand siclsaaad the
records at Washinet etga they any;
should have shoWn IL. Col. NoSFe is the
man who last summer CALAMITY rspuIsed
Morgan's force OF ave thousaad; with, two
hundred men be6ina an abbatis otgfallsn
trees, in Kentucky. - 5 1880
Military men are Indignant at Secretary
stanton's reply to CSngrssslin the. case sof
Major N. q Mclean lhat that ofieers was
ordered to Vancouver because it was
deemed expedient to the service that he
should go there, and that lis not deemed
compatible with the public interests to
make further answer on the subject. The
charge has been made and repeated in the
western papers that Major Mclean was
banished to the other side ofsttfe continent
that he might not tell the congressional
war committee some things he knows. -
The Army aud Navy J ournaI, alIudltng
to the frequent dismtssdls of officers with.
out trial, in the name of the President, but
usually by tho Secretary of War iu fact,
says with much reason
All officers take their Commissions IN
holdat the pleasure fthe President; bur
they are legttimately entitled to retain.
them 80 long as by good conduct they
show themselves worthy, and even 10
cases of derslictfou, it is not proper that
they should forfeit them except alter trial
and conviction. There arc but few cases
in which arbitrary dismissals can be justi-
fed. Judge Advocate Holt, In his report
on the subject, says that the President's
po"eF nAs oeeu carefully exercised, and
that bnt few cases of injury have occurred.
We think the weekly official records show
that he is mistaken, Ia almost all the
lists, which we publish from week TO
week, will be found noticesiof dismissals
revoked, and the orders say that the off
GERS will be restored TO their grades un.
less the vacancies have been filied by tho
governors of Fheir EctiVe TStaEss. Here
10 evidence of haste hnti error in dismiss
al-WhOever may be the parties at fault;
and through the,errOneons action in such
cases, the officers are not only subject to
public disparagement, but lose positions
to which they cannot be restored, even
when their innocence is established. = i
The Journal predicts that after the war
there viii bea great shedding of ink by
aggrteved officers, whonow feel compelled
to reticence, and says 80
There are general officers who have ac-
couuts to settle with The government aud.
the army, which they would be sorrysto
die without FIRST having ad the privilege /,
otfadjusting wittP their own pens. There
are other officers, high aud low, who will
have tales to tell that will make the blood
run cold, aud be startling enoughin their
exhibitions of facts, Influences and actions
to satisfy the requirements of the most
journalism