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Show Had to Answer Similar Charge as Hi3 Namesake. Admiral Schley. (New York Times.) A very industrious delver into history has found a parallel in the history of Rear Admiral Schley with his namesake. name-sake. General WinfieM Scott. In l-'A Scott had won some victories over th Seminoles in Florida, and was summoned sum-moned home at the instance -of Gener-tals Gener-tals Jessup and Gaines to answer som sort of charge that he had made ;i j "loop" to get at the Indians. General I Scott was tried at Frederick, where he ' made a speech, in which he compared .t himself to a doge of Venice, compelled I to visit France and humble himself before be-fore the "inflated monarch." Every-b.cly Every-b.cly at that time knew General Scott r meant to describe Jackson as the "inflated "in-flated monarch." for he hated him wit.i a bitter and unreasoning hatred. c Scott was exonerated, but his trou-! trou-! bles were not yet over. He went t Mexico with a little army, half of his l 7.G00 being raw recruits, but with them - he stormed Chapultepec and won th- capital. When Generals Worth and Pillow found opportunity they mad complaints against Scott. He had not won his victory just as they would have had him win it. He was not accused ac-cused of making a "loop" to get past the Mexicans and into their chief citv. but he had been "reprehensible. President Pres-ident Polk degraded Scott before trial by depriving him of his command and then put him to court martial. Scoit sarcastically wrote the secretary of war: "Perhaps after my trial I may be permitted to return to the United States. My poor services with this gallant gal-lant army are at length to be requited, as I have long been led to expect they would be. Refusing honors due to him as a vie- ' torious soldier, he returned home as n private citizen, stood trial again, at t Frederick, and. while the treaty he had ' I arranged was being signed to note th i i victory of his arms In Mexico, he sat ( I in the dock to lister, to the charge j prompted by envy and hatred. dl came forth not only acquitted, but to v v I be honored with the rank of lieutenant I general by congress, being the first of- I j fleer of the United States to obtain I j that rank since George Washington. I |