PENSACOLA, Feb. 20.
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 We learn that a Court of Inquiry ordered by Gen. CLfNcH, at the instance of Col. PA RlsH at Fort King, have unanimously acquit- ted Col. P. of all improper conduct in the unhappy occurrence which caused the death ofLieut. Ward. We have examined the pro- ceedngs and testimony of the Court, and are satisfied that the shooting of Lieut.. Ward was melancholy, painful necessity, imposed on Col. P. not only by the rules of military dis cpline. but by still higher principle-the principle of self-preservation. He ordered Lieut.. Ward to be arrested. Lieut.. w. resis- ted the order-used offensive language to Col. Parish, and armed with three pistols, one of them cooked and presented. stood out in open defiance, and declared that he would shoot down the first man who attempted to execute the order. Much of the testimony goes to show that Lieut.. w. was in the act of pre- senting his pistol at Col. Parish when the lat ter shot him. We are informed that much excitement against Col. Parish exists about Tallahassee. but there can be no doubt that, so soon as the facts are made known, the ex- c'tement will give way to unqualified appro- bation of his conduct. In the bereavement winch the family of Mr. Ward has suffered, all must sympathize. and none, we feel assur- ed. from knowledge of Col. Parish, will 1 sympathize with them more deeply than he. The deceased was brother of George Ward l Esq. of Tallahassee.