Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-31
&au National Democrat.
washington Correspondence New York Post
-, mcclellan is Doing at Washin gton

bv oversight, but he is the stronghold in
ma. ~ II rts assemble. He never reviews
Wp;t u,ents on parade-he goes through their
res..a a.ors thrice in forty EIGHT hours-and at
qu'avniration Of that time they are grumb-
,ne Leca,se he has never given them q
pilIe h, of him. Perhaps he dances badly. He
sot sst brilliant object in saloons. lie might
- rkely to break fans large scale, if
Val 10 hold them during the walzes He
Jnes not blossom in stars and shoulder straps.
Rut. if YOU happen to be stopping to per-
.n;re under the shadow of broad white oak
~ the road between the Potomac tete- -du-
,oat and Arlington House, you may see a
Kan about the size of our gallant color-res
"mer Stedman, with significant hige brdged
nose keen blue gray eyes, mouth not unlike
hat of generous mastrff, who bites on no
email provocation, but when he does. bites
Immediately. and leaves a souvenir. Clad
;n a blue blouse--like that of a Partisan car
neuter-and pantaloons hatmight have been
any color before tile sacred soil in pulverzed
f,Im was half an inch deep on them; you
may see this man, | say, rushing his horse
through cloud of dust and an aidde-camp
puang twenty yards behind him, in the vain
endeavor to keep up with the rider who, to
quote his acquaintance, rides like the Devil,
As he pulls his brown mustache to wipe
away the honest sweat of a man in earnest
he may turn his face towards you-be sure
he will see you at any rate for there is no.
thing that he does not see--and you will have
a glimpse at George B. Mcclellan.
In the first place. be the fact morally de-
fensible or not, the effect of new name is
wonderful in this world. Still more so, a new
name which is synonymous with invariable
success. Then, again, like the iucognito un
der which Mcclellan travels-all the more
as it is not assumed, but inevitable from the
necessities Of his character. 1t is impossible
10 maginea Mcclellan done in pipe clay.
lie cannot, in nature, sit for his statue to any
other artist than worker in granite.
lie knows very well what we boys used te
know at boarding school, when the principal
on examination day got up magnificent
dinner and put the youngsters in their best
clothes, addressing the younger classes with
an invariabe suave my dear" and paternal-
" pressing the astonished lads to second in
sediment of semi-anaual plum pudding-that
examination days are the exception to a
.dreary rule of daily life. He will have no
body COTTON up" to receive him, He wants
the habtual condition of the boys-not their
holiday sham appearance. Hence that blouse,
that unheraded approach to camps who
have no idea of his personnel, who suppose
they see sapper and miner eccentrically on
horseback, or at the farthest one of the Stur
gis Rifles, who are McClellan's body guard
and so devoted to him that they would go
this day to Manassas behind him, an unsup-
ported corps
The fact of McClellans having brigaded
the army has now become an old tale to the
public. lie unostentatiously goes on after
the same method with the great bodies of
troops who are constantly arriving. But for
the implied parole of honor above mentioned
| should like to state the exact numerical
amount of work enjolned upon him by the
necessities of this Rlethod as applied to the
vast inpouring.
1t is only possible to say that nothing on
SO gigantic scale in the shape Of military
disposition has ever been demanded of a man
On this contnent-searcely on the European
and though the fact of this new arrange
ment be how well known, its results are to
be immeasurable. For the knowledge of
their field officers by sight, and still more by
personal conference.-the position of the
right field officer over any given body-the
discipline Of the brigade as distinguished
from that of the isolated regiment-these
9esderata are Of the utmost Importance in
our future advance We may add that it is
the conviction ST some of the ahlest command
crs with whom our editorial delegation con-
hulIpu Ill w usnlU5lout tIlil JHcse WOuIu INV e
made Bull Run n victory after as well as
before three o'clock =. NJ, on July 2lst.
Washington, since Mcclellan is no longer
field for target shooting, with an after pic
mic under the marquee of Wizards and
Browns. II is now possible to reach the
door from the clerks desk or bar of either
withot blowing epaulettes or getting tang
Ied in dress swords. Let not these words be
Thought to Indicate decentralization of the
army before Mcclellan came. Up to that
day we had heard the sermon of Bull Run in
eloquent cannon voice, but the fist of the
preacher had not come down on the desk in
personal application.
We said: "The panic happened equally to
the French at Solferino it was only II
chance, it may never happen again" SO we
took our cobblers at Wizards when we
should have been in our camp on the hills,
lnoralizing over the straw at midnight about
remarkable Providences." forgetting that
our soldiers needed an eye to their comfort
and discipline, if that eye would be their
talisman and inspirer of victory, Mcclellan
came and said, not there may be- but there
shall be- no more panic. And he has taken
the means. lie has made the officer as re-
spOnsible for the men as the men to the Off
GERS.
Without his pass neither bands nor stars
can Junket at midnight. But night or two
ago a sergeant approached gentleman high
in military rank, taking his hook aud soda at
the spout of the little drug store under Will
larl's Lie asked him for his pass, and re-
ceived an indignant answer that he was ad-
dressing an officer. "My instructions said
tie sergeant, care TO see you to your
quarters" az give you my word of honor
that willgo there" replied the officer |
am obliged. sir,"replied the sergeant, " to
give you any word of honor that | will see
You there" And they marched away to-
gether .---.,-----
1t is this broad -niinde1ness--tlfs view OF
rank as honorable more for its grave respon-
fibility than its cloth and metal which makes
every true soldier, be he commissioned or in
the ranks, iooize Mcclellan even without
having seen him. AS for the loyal people OF
Washington, TINY repose in him with a con-
hdence which is like the first rest in port
after voyage of weeks through alternating
tfeacherous calms and dismasting typhoons.
PHYsIoGNoMY OF DoUGHFAcE. Describing
q Northern sympathizer with treason. an
iowa paper says:
lou may know them by the piteous whiu-
ttnBs with which they deprecate war-hy
enolr groanings about Coercion" and blu
canon, and by their extreme concern about
Mr' Lincolns violations Of the Constitution.
in his efforts TO preserve it, although they
I Iave nothing to say about Daviss efforts to