Carroll Free Press

Gen. Scott and Gen. Taylor.

It gives us much pleasure to learn from the following which we copy from the Courier and Enquirer, that the statement we copied from that paper yesterday, in relation to an alleged misunderstanding between Gens. Scott and Taylor, is incorrect. It seemed incredible, but as the writer was not anonymous, and vouched for the accuracy of his details, we distrusted the justice of our own misgivings on the subject, & re-published his statement as a matter of general interest.

The President and Gen. Scott.—The annexed reply to the article in this paper of yesterday morning, referring to these two distinguished persons, comes to us over the signature of a perfectly reliable and responsible person. Reluctant, however, to unnecessarily obtrude names upon the public, we withhold this signature—only adding what indeed may seem superfluous, that the communication is not from Gen. Scott:

Having seen a statement in the Courier and Enquirer of this morning, which purports to give the facts connected with Gen. Scott's late visit to Washington, and having been in the way of seeing and knowing what occurred during that visit, I beg you will publish the following to correct the error into which Col. Webb has fallen.

Gen. Scott reached Washington on the evening of the 13th inst., agreeably to a notification which he had about the 2d inst., despatched to the Adjutant General at Washington, expressing his intention to be there about that time for the purpose of paying his respects to the new President of the United States in person, and to learn of the Secretary of War the views of the latter in connection with Gen. Scott's position.

On the morning of the 14th Gen. Scott called to make his respects to the President, but learning at the door from the porter that the President was engaged, he left his card, saying that he would call again, meaning when the press of business upon the President should be less—Gen. S. himself having no business to transact with the President, except such as every rule of official propriety required should pass through the Secretary of War.

General Scott did not, at the President's door nor anywhere else when in Washington, receive any message whatever from the President.

General Scott, after leaving his card at the President's door, drove to the War Office, where he had official business, which could only be transacted with or through the Secretary.

The meeting at the church took place on the Sunday subsequent to the day on which Gen. Scott called on the President, under the following circumstances:

Gen. Scott being nearest the door, was the first out of the church, and there waited several minutes for the President—advanced to meet him, and accosted him with courtesy and civility. The salutation was reciprocated,—Gen. Scott said he had not pressed himself upon the President, but that he had waited or should wait, before repeating his call, for a period of some relaxation in the President's business. The reply to this was courteous—and if Gen. Scott did not again call, it was because as the Secretary of War knows, public duty required that he should leave Washington earlier than he had at first expected.

Gen. Scott has not spoken or complained of any want of courtesy toward him on the part of the President on this occasion, and it is to be regretted that any rumor of this character should have been deemed of sufficient importance to be brought before the public.

It is scarcely necessary to say that any paper which may have published the original statement should also copy this.—Clev. Herald.