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oCN ohlNEo oCCU SupeTStutu HIS command, and ordered to Washington. The order to this effect is published in the New Orleans papers of last week, and is as follows:

 ICoPY WAR DEPARTMENT.

 Washington, June 2d, lS46 By direction of Inc President Mai. Gen. Gaines Is relieved from the command of the Western Division of the Army, and will pro. ceed to Washington W ihout delay.

 Brevet Brfgader General George N Brooke is assigned to the command oI the Western Di. vision.

 (Signed) w. L. MARCY, Sec'y of War.

 A public meeting was held in the city of Mobile, on the Huh inst, for the purpose of giving public expression 10 the feelings of that community, on the subject of Gen. Gaines suspension. The meeting was held at the Mansion House and seems to have been oc,ua,ed more by desire 10 make war on the administration, than to do Gen, Gaines service. The subjoined sentence, from one of the resolutions, juslifes this opinion.

 alt is the firm belief of thls meeting, that had Gen. Gaines been governed by the iardy action of our present Secretary of War. one-haf of our gallant Army had strewn the plains of Texas with their bones, and the massacres of Fannin and ihe Alamo been again repeated"

 This declaration has mol a solitary fact iG sustain it. The troops sent by Gen. Gaines did not arrive until after the victories of Gen Taylor; the flourish abou, the massa- cres of Fannin and the Alamo is, therefore, all balderdash. Furthermore, Gen. Taylor was empowered by the war department to call on the States contiguous 10 Texas for troops, should he need the services of a greater force than he had under bis com- mand-which precaution relieves the Sec. retary of War from the imputaton, of "tardy action" cast upon him. We are no. disposed to condemn Gen. Gaines, believing, as we do, that his action was the result of the most patriotic motives :--and that the position of Gen. Taylor, prior to the battles or the Sth and 9.h, justified unusual vigi. lence and activity on the part of General Gaines. His greatest.error, was in not set. ting on, and carrying into effect, definite and we'll considered plan of action-and then informing the war departmen, of what he had done. By this course, conflicting orders might have been avoided the ob- iects of the war department anticipated and all the troops called for, mustered into the service without delay.