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Show THE GRIEF OF GEN. SMITH. It was a sorrowful and pathetic homecoming home-coming jesterday. In San rrnnclsco, from Mnnlln An nld man, gray In tho service of IiIb (ountry, eminent ns a soldier, loynl and truo as a patriot, courteous nnd klndl) ns a gentleman. Is met on arrival nt his first home port, with tho severe ceusuie of Ills commander-in-chief, nnd nn order for his compulsor) retirement from the nrm), to which he was bo many years an ornament nnd strength Tho renRon for this public disgrace and humiliation humilia-tion was that Gen Smith, In a moment mo-ment of forgetfulncss of the hli.li morale which must over attach tn the American nrm), had Issued an order so Indiscreet nnd snvngc that It had tn be repudiated nnl condemned It Is nnt much tn the purpose, theoretically theoretical-ly and In a disciplinary sense at hast, tn plead thnt the nrder vvas a mere bugbear, that It enmes under the definition defi-nition so nftcn heard that ' tho bark Is worse than thc lite," nnd that sn far from shying nnd burning universally, univer-sally, ns the order rend only such burning ns vves strlctl) Justlfioblo under un-der tho rules nf wnr was done, nnd thnt so far from a general massacre of tho people, ns many have construed tho order to commnnd thero wore no massacres nt nil nnd with the excep. lion of a peremptor) execution b) MnJ Waller nf the unfaithful (.uldcs to his trnos there was no sln)lng except ln skirmish nr Inttle It was In recng-nltlon recng-nltlon of there facts, tint tho obnnx-lous obnnx-lous order was practically harmless In Its effects that Secretary Hoot cited In his summing up of fien Smith a case, precedents from Washington and Sherman Sher-man under which Smith could be Jus-title Jus-title 1 but he nevertheless held that a violation of the regulations nnd of tho rules nf war had been cnnimlt-ted, cnnimlt-ted, and Judrment was pronounced agilnst the General Tills win followed fol-lowed by the Presidents order nf censure cen-sure mil nf retirement It la evident tint ficn Smith hnd expected to be heird before the final determination of his case, nnd dlsnppolntmf nt In this added to the keenness of the grief ho manifested on being Informed of tho n. tlon tnken ittalnst him Hen Jacob Htird Smith wis born In Jnckson O, January 23 1810, he was graduated nt tho Cnllcglato nnd Cnmmcrclal Institute New Haven Conn, in ISIS he imirlcd Adelal le M Hall In Toprkn Knn rebrtnry I IBS! He took art In tho War of tho Hebelllon from Mny 8 mi tn its closi j he was wounded In tho Wnr nf the rte-belllon rte-belllon nnd In the Spanish wnr, nnd wns ln th Indian wara of the Intervening Inter-vening years He wns promote I in he Majnr In the regular army. November 26 1M4 Colonel Orlnbrr 20, IS9D, Sev-tnteenth Sev-tnteenth Infmiti), Brigadier General of Volunteers June 1 moo nnd In the regular army Mnicli 10, 1001 He vvas nlwii)s a brave efficient nnd tlusL worthy nfilrcr, his record wns n shining shin-ing nnt up to the lime nf bis fatal inlsstrp nnd It Is n the, pts tint suth a rirccr ns his , ,, u(i out un ler n rloinl |