his friends, saying be desired to be before Yortown now. He (Mr. McDougall) had endeavored to see the Secretary of War, but failed to procure audience, and he thought the country had fallen upon strange times indeed when the Secretaries of the President could not be seen on official business.
There was no excuse even offered by this master of all the Government forces, who set aside law and statute, but had never seen a squadron to the field.
Willten applications had likewise failed.
Gen McClellan had three distinct times demanded of the Secretary of War a court-martial for Gen. Stone, but had failed He then reviewed the European and American military codes, showing that they were for the protection as well as punishment of soldiers.
The Articles of War provided for summoning a court martial eight days after the arrest.
Yet no steps had been taken for one hundred and fifty days after Gen. Stone's arrest, and, worse than this, no charges had been made, nor could any one be found
the fierce onset of Beauregard, and the panic and flight of a whole army before Johnston's division at Manassas.
The Federal--at any rate, those of the Western army--have learnt to stand, and the Confederates can no longer match a sudden victory by a rapid assault.
Whether the army of the East has been raised to the same standard of efficiency is what remains to be seen, and the suspense in which the question is kept provokes natural but unpleasant comparisons, while it furnish as Gen McClellan's enemies with arguments to his prejudice.
For the rest, however, the Confederates still enjoy the one great advantage of having time on their side.
If the check inflicted on the Federal in the West and the resistance offered in the East should have the effect of prolonging the war under its present aspect for a few weeks longer, the season for operations would be at an end, and the campaign will be closed, not indeed, without success on the part of the Northerners, but without any mat
The dirt Digger
Gen. McClellan, alias the "Young Napoleon," has given it to be understood that he in tends to take Richmond as he has taken other places, with the spade, and not with the musket.
He has muskets enough, but he prefers the spade.
Let him sit down and dig dirt, and there is sure to be a universal evacuation.
ly suggest that it scarcely resembles the which set down and dug dirt nowhere except with the hoofs of cavalry and with cannon balls.
Napoleon was the fastest, McClellan the a lowest of Generals.
But, even admitting that to dig dirt is an efficient means of crushing the Southern Confederacy, we submit that the General who adoptstheir ditches, and half of them might as well be equipped with spades as muskets.
What mar glory is there in overcoming an enemy by digging dirt?
Suppose that McClellan should adopt the device of bringing with his army vast quantities of codfish; and placing it to the windward of every Southern town he wished to capture, and the
Gen. McClellan.
It has been generally believed that McClellan, whilst overrated in a military way, possessed at least the qualities of a gentleman.
We understand that his deportment on the Penisut has not been such as to confirm that impressioMcClellan, whilst overrated in a military way, possessed at least the qualities of a gentleman.
We understand that his deportment on the Penisut has not been such as to confirm that impression of his character.
Perhaps the "outside barbarians" of that region, who have derived their ideas of a gentleman from certain antiquated models not much reverenced among the elegant and refined circles of Lincolndom, may not be able to know a gentleman when they see him!
But their impression is that McClellan is a humbug in that as well as in some other things, and that the veneering over his mats vulgarity is very thin indeed.
We are informed that on a late occasion he rode up to the clerkhe American army.
Insult to the memory of a dead enemy never yet fell from the lips of a gentleman and a soldier.
Let McClellan be content with carrying on a war which has brought to the grave so many of the noble sons of the South.
Let the man w
Yankee news.
--A prisoner caught by our troops yesterday on the Chickahominy, four miles north-east of this city, reports that orders had been given by McClellan to attack our army on Tuesday, but the rain prevented, and that an attack would be commenced this (Thursday) morning.
Another Yankee, captured near Ashland, says that Lincoln has issued a proclamation calling for 50,000 additional troops to fill the vacancies caused by death, desertion, and the incidents of battle.
and the rescue of a prisoner — has taken place in the city of Washington, the capital of the nation.
In the very presence of the assembled Congress the majesty of the law has been insulted and the dignity of the republic set at naught, by orders of General Wadsworth, who, because he wears epaulets, imagines he may play the despot and do what he pleases with impunity.
It is very clear that Wadsworth is completely in the wrong, and he would have been far better employed in helping General McClellan to whip the enemy at Richmond, in sad of creating in Washington and helping to defraud the loyal citizens of Maryland of their property.
It is an our laws, and indeed of the laws of all free tries, that the civil power is supreme over the military, unless where martial law is proclaimed by the Chief Even if martial law did exist at the the District of Columbia, the act of General.
Wadsworth would have been a riotous proceeding, a high handed outrage; for martial law only suspend
ernoon brings a number of passengers from the headquarters of General McClellan's army, which were in proximity to Bottom's Bridge, over whic immediately sent to Gen. Wool, and will leave this morning for Gen. McClellan's headquarters, for whom they have some information which they 23.--The latest advices from the Army of the Potomac state that Gen. McClellan had crossed the Chickahominy at Bottom's bridge, and that his hot for pressing engagements at Richmond I feel satisfied that General McClellan would not order such a brief sojourn.
We are completely envible surface water.
On the highest hill are the headquarters of Gen. McClellan, from whose summit a fine view is had of all the troops here.
A single call of the bugle called each regiment from its camp.
Gen. McClellan and staff viewed the parade.
It was a beautiful and imposing s
Meantime our army is united and confident.
Their regard for McClellan amounts to positive worship.
The General will proceed cautiously
are a possession of the New Orleans Bulletin of Tuesday, 20th inst. The "Leader" is devoted to the discussion of "The law of Free Labor," throwing the superiority of slave labor, particularly in the South.
The news columns of the Bulletin are bare enough; not a single item of interest appears in them.
In the local column, however, we find the following paragraphs, which will be read with interest:
Sent to Fort Jackson.
Last evening, about 6½ o'clock, we saw Mayor Monroe, Chief of Police McClellan, Lucien Adams, Recorder of the Fourth District, Benj. S. Harrison, ex-member of the Council, and Lieut.
of Police Mazarat, on board the towboat Anglo-American, about to depart for Fort Jackson, to which place they have been sent by the U. S. military authorities.
The advertising columns of the Bulletin contain the following special orders from Gen. Picayune Butler:
Headqr's Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, may 16, 1862.
Special orders, no. 39.
I. The New Orleans
A second Daggett.
The Whig, of yesterday, says that after the battle of Rich Mountain, both McClellan and Rosecrane declared to Confederate officers, who were prisoners of war, that they had much rather be leading an army against Massachusetts than Virginia.
This, the Whig says, can be proved by unimpeachable authority if denied.
We have nothing to say about Rosecrans.
He is not worth the ink it takes to write his name.
But what shall be said of McClellan, the would be gentleman soldiMcClellan, the would be gentleman soldier, who is now leading 100,000 ruffians to plunder and devastate the country he once offered to serve, in consideration of higher pay, and, as he supposes, more certain emolument.
What, but that he is a genuine hireling of the Dugard Daggett pattern — a man that will serve any cause which pays well, and always that cause which pays best — a man that puts his honor and his conscience alike in his pocket, and offers himself to the highest bidder!
Mercenary wretches of this description were
e the other day that fraudulent pay-rolls have been forwarded to the Department.
Here is a good subject for an Investigating Committee.
We believe in Senator Wilson's figures, and they seem to be based upon an estimate like this;
Gen. McClellan's column125,000
Gen. Halleck's column135,000
Gen. McDowell's column25,000
Gen. Banks's column75,000
Gen. Fremont's Department30,000
Gen. Burnside's Department75,000
Gen. Hunter's Department20,000
Gen. Brannan's (Key West, etc)5,000
Geovernment as by the pseudo concern of Jeff. Davis.
About the first step of the latter was to initiate the building of connecting links between main routes in the South, to the end that troops could be rapidly concentrated at exposed points.
Gen McClellan was much condemned here, when it was ascertained that he was not going to march upon Richmond via Fredericksburg; but all see and approve his present line of communication, whereby he is, by steamers and rail cars, within ten miles of the reb
