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Show Pope la For It. Washington, 19. General John Gibbon ot the army has preferred charges :igaiast General Pope for conduct con-duct unbecoming an officer aud c getulenu-u. The specifications ag&inot n Pup-" lire based on hid publication c i yt.r, rtj.,) ot what hi entitled: ' A r briet ftaement of tut case of F.tz a Jui.u Poiter," containing an extract c iroin .-ionewall Jdckaou's report ol c ti.e military openvtioua of the oUlh ol i Augiibt, lSb'2, Thia dato was changed t to ibe 2ytbtotbe eerious damage of t Porter, by reason cf lU connecting i withonedata, events which actually w occurred on another. Geueral Mo I Dovsell haa recently admiiltd under 1 oath that he furnished the extract to I Pop? and tiubstqueuily was notified i of the error of date, but be d;d not I ihink it uectusary to make any correc- t tion of the mistake although be i understood that it worked injustice ' t. Purler. Another wilneoe, Col. T. i C. H. Sinith.has testified on the Porter ' inquiry that he called Pope's alionlion ' to ihe error notwithstanding which 1 Pope continued Iherealter to circulate the pamphlet without making the correciion. To is is the gravamen ot Gibbon' b charges which will nut be pressed until utter the pending Porter inquiry ia concluded. The cate oxciteH much interest umoog army ( officers especially in view of the I natural . inference that if the . charge ii sustained against Pope it must be againat McDowell also, i neither of them having attempted to i undo the wrong to Porter by correct- : ing their own error. One purpose i ut nulling Pope aa a witness before the Porter inquiry appears to bj to get him to reconcilo his denial that he was Porter's real prosecutor, with ihe Btitemeno of hia report of the campaign that, having now brought Porier to justice be took leave ol' military uffuira in Virgium. |