The Placer herald., 1865-01-14
FINDING OF rnE SULLIVAN Coukr MARTIAL

| FINDING OF THE SULLIVAN COURT MARTIAL
-MR. MCCARTHY SHOWN Up IN BAL
LIGHr.-The Court Martial recently conven-
ed to investigate certain charges made
agains, the patriotism and honesty of Capt
| Thomas I. C. Sullivan, Chief Commssary O.
Subsistence, Department of the Pacific, b,
u. O. Mccarthy, Of the Flag, has just been
made public. Ii must be terribly morfyino
to the Flag man, for he is shown to have
attacked Capt. Sullivan without good cause
Read the finding Of the Court Martial
THAT The accusations and inputatons
agaiu>islh- integrity and official conduct OF
Captain I. G. Sullivan, Chief Commissary
at Sci si>'ence, Department Of the Pacific
made III 'he American Flag, and in the let.
ter Of d. O. Mccarthy, editor and publisher
of ihe American Flag, to headquarters OF
the Department Of the Pacific, dated De-
cenber IA, 1864. and in the extract from
the American Flag enclosed therein, signed
"Front Street," we're aud are utterly and
wholly false
And that in the opinion of the Court, that
said publications of false accusations and
i,npulations against the integrity Of an officer
Of the Government, while in the faithful
performance Of his duties, were without any
justification, and are highly injurious to the
interests Of the public service.
Thejproceedings of the Court are approx.
ed. The Court of Inquiry, of which Lieut.
Col. Ambrose E. Hooker, Sixty Infantry, c.
", is President, is hereby dissolved.
BY command of Maj General Mcdowell
Official: r. G. DRuM,
Assistan, Adjntant General,
The finding Of the Court has placed the
informer, Mccarthy, in very unfavorabIe
light, and he is naturally regarded by all
high minded men, as an object of contempt
He attempts, through bis paper, to vent his
spleen upon the members Of the military
court, and charges Col. Drum, the Adiutant
General, with being disloyal, as having ruined
Gen. Wright, aud trying to do the same 10
Gen. Mcdowell. He is also very bitter on
Lieut.. Haven, the Judge Advocate, and says
that during the trial that it was with diff
Guilty he Was constrained from chastisng
Haven in the presence Of the Court. The
Bay papers laugh at this, and assert that no
one held Mccarthy during the trial, and
that he had full opportunity to "pitch in
to Haven, if he had been anxious for a
fgbt.
Filled with rage against the military au-
thorties, for pilloring him as an iuformer,
Mccarthy invites the private soldiers to at
tack their officers, BY means o' anonymous
communications, through the columns of the
Flag-and says:
1--WE will state here that our columns are
now open for the communications Of soldiers:
we will take all the responsibility, and Will
refuse to reveal the name of any correspond
ent. except on The demand of regular Court
of luquiry. We believe that this Depart.
ment Is rank with scoundresm and treason
which must come to the light"
No stronger proof is required TO show that
The Flag, the seltassumed leading Adminisl
tration organ in the State is the vehicle of
spies and informers, aud the editor about the
mos, scurvy dog in the State.
The San Francisco correspondent OF the
Sacramento Union intimates that the invita-
ton for anonymous letters from soldiers
against their officers, will bring the Flag
man into trouble at some period not far
distant.