Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-12-24
OUR MILITARY BUDGET,
HOW To CAMP


The New York Tyibrss Is almost daily giving
the public lessons In the art Of carpingn In
making way, In Its covert assaults upon General
Mcclellan. In most cases Il uses the pens of cor
respondents to that end, taking due care to dis
claim for itself any possible responsibility for the
falsehoods designed to shake public confidence in
the Commander-in-C thief IL IL thus spreading
broadcast under the plea that they are statements
OF others-not it, own. A day or two since Il
however did venture to publish a virtual lie edi-
toraliy 10 that end, in Its story alleging that
gentleman In high position danced attendance
Ia the ante-ehamber Of General Nice for three
days, bearing letters from Gen. Wool and the
President to him on a matter Of great public i'm
Portsnce, without being able to obtain the de.
sired Interview. Such IL the gist Of the COM
plant
We have to say that General Mcclellan keeps
no ante-chamber. There are three places to which
persons 90 who desire to Bee him on business
HIS headquarters as the Commander In Chief;
the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac;
and the Once Of the Adjutant General U. y. A
AT each Of them, those seeking General Nc Clellan
always ind more or less members of hts staff
instantly ready to attend to any public business
sppefaining to his position. He himself is rareIy
more than once day In either place, and then
hardly for half an hour: his duties compelling
him to be constantly moving here there and
everywhere.
When one applies to see him, the business is
always atsentively heard by a member of his
stan, who instantly auanges to bring about the
Interview Is soon N General Mcclellan can he
found; for he Is up the river, perhaps, In the
morning, closeted with the President al noon eff
With the lower division Of the army In the after
noon, and, 1t may be, inspecting the camps or
picket lines over the river between midnight aud
daybreak. However, 1t rarely happens that he is
not to be seen In less than a day by any one
having real important public business with him
some how or other nearly all who propose to
Introduce patent ginger-po fof sale In the
camps, bring letters to Gen. Mcclellan from dis.
tnguished persons and Insist on clubbing their
atair "imPortant public business Indeed, the
business Of nearly all who would claim portion
Of his time Is such as members of his staff can
properly dispose of without his personal inter,
vsntion; or, II not, can bring II to his notice in
few brief sentences; when hs aisposes of +. in
even . briefer reply or order. Now, If any
person bearing letters from Cen Wool and the
President to Gen. Mcclellan, failed TO bee him
after waiting three days to that end, the pubI,r
may rely on 1t his business was simply TO get
once for some one-tO sell the army patent
suckers (flterers,) 20 direct the General how TO
conduct the campagn-d Ia Ellett-Or something
tnat could be quite ss well settled by a member
OF tne stan, as by the General in person We
have repeatedly seen staff officers ACCOMPANY
Perssns really having important public business.
Tor hours, around the city, to bring them face to
race with the Commander-in-chief and know
thar that duty Is most assiduously attended to-