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en the proof of it. Whether the anaconda plan of encircling the Southern coasts and gradually constructing the coils of the anaconda, till the victim's bones are broken and he is ready to be swallowed, is a conception of Gen. McClellan, or of old Scott, we are not informed, though it is generally attributed to the latter. It is one of those big, stately looking plans, which suits the buze dimensions and pompous habits of the late Lieutenant General; but, whether there is any merit in it, is a s far, it has not produced any very remarkable results. The anaconda has gobbled down a few small villages on the seaboard, which had neither cotton nor tobacco in them, out he has not even approached the spinal column of the country. Giving to Scott, however, the credit of the anaconda, which is a reptile after his own heart, what has McClellan actually accom plished! He has had command of five hundred thousand men, and an unlimited amount of ammunition and warlike appliances nearly nine mo