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successful" Again, he says: "I would like to impress as firmly upon the Committee as it is firmly impressed upon my mind the fact that this whole disputer has resulted from the delay in the arrival of the pontoons Whoever is responsible for that delay is responsible for all the disasters which have followed" This is plain speaking. And he adds, that he does not believe they could have crossed at the time they did had the enemy chosen to prevent is, General Hooker deposes, that Hallock, or Meigs, promised to have the pontoons down and everything ready in three days. When Sumner arrived there were only five hundred rebels at Fredericksburg; "but," he adds " the same mishap was made there that had been made all along through the war" From Gen. Halleck's own testimony it does not appear that he is of any use whatever at Washington. He acts the part of a mere clerk, copying orders but not seeing that they are carried out. He neither plans campaigns, nor gives efficient