New-York daily tribune., 1861-11-04
YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER A. 1861.

-, Two largo armies cannot ssan1 iacs
20 face continually with raging bhtlon Tqana
,Dom Bat where is Beanregard army ihe.e
80 ,roces of the enemy along tne feue,ai Hon'
re sboopes Of sentries and sinall sknhisnes
,here a, r;ckets bat as far as can learn there IA
ee'"s;i "os;,iye knowledge that the bulk OF TIE
no P' Is at apy place in particular, though 1t l.
"nile certain whenever Union force appears
Confederate force is soon III view OF
it. If Beauregard expects that ms oplonnen' n
viii march directly on Ills position in front OF Ma,
nas.as think he will be disappointed, and he VIII
probably be forced at last either 10 divert portion
Of his forces 10 tie west, with long marches ana
difficult country before lin, or 10 make the attempt
w which have always calculated, II ever he coua
obtain possession of the Potomac to cross INTO Mary
land. There would be no novelty in illustrating
tie position by reference to tie attitude OF Sr
Richard Stracian and the. Earl of Chatham, but
the position is nevertheless IKE enough. Gen.
Mcclellan is so well acquaiDted with hs army by
this time that he must be aware many OF DIS
interior officers not fit for their places vi MS
men be is sure. The rank and fle are equal 10
their work. The want of proper officers Is ley
most in the cavalry and in the artillery as wen ss
in tie Quariermaster's Department. TAI OF w, w,
system OF purchase in our army If any one WIZ
tuin to the Newiork papers, he VIII sec plehIy VI
advertisements which show that purchase oi con-
missions of such sort as should be olera'eu'
is not unknown in the United States. One gentleman
offers the sum of eco for a lieutenants commission
" IN a regiment actually in the held; Ano.leI
has q company TO dispose OF on m1derate @ ieIls s
third is anxious to geta regiment All 10 nl0, ~,
| poIi,icol intrioues and low canyassings are
also at work. for the colonelcy OF n regi'
ment is a political as we'll as military rosiIon,
aud Gives man statas in the eyes OF the peol OF
bis State Wlch is useful when the war Is oNeri u.
III tbis arises hccess tate re Here IL pToolgious
farce frapidly rising toward the number voted 10y
Co Qresf, out of the ground as it were, TO ne oi'
ceed IA best il msy under all the forms OF eecueii
and voting and canyassiug faull ar IN keru e', 'd
known out of the military world In conslllutlona,
monarchies The original regular army, which ora
not exceed 20 OO0 men, was deprived OF many OF ats
officers by the seeded States. The gentlemen III
private life who bad received military education at
West Point were divided according to ihtlr Sta'es,
aud furnished inadequate contingent 10 TIE armies
ON both sides The resnli was, that all the regular
army officers received promotion enough to tnIl
their heads; Lieutenants and Captains became Gen-
aysis Of brigade. No one would take anything less
! than a brigade, and regiments were fegafced ss
poor commands by men wbo coud scarcely, lh tne
nstnral course of events, have hoped 10 command
a eonpany for years to come. Skeleton regments
were constructed in order that "Colonels migh'
hang their slakos on tie -horses, and Coones were
made because they said they had regiments whic9
wore otly abstract creations. The bar, the railroad
hoard the bench. the church, the counting house,
the surc ery furnished leaders, while the GEEK, the
shopman's g counter and the Indulgence OF The bHr-
geosie yielded than their proportion OF oheeS
! of Inferior rank. These men are distlngusbable
at once By their cir. their mode OF address, their
! long hair and the uncouth way in which they wear
their uniforms But, after all the wonder really Is
tha, the army is so well oficered as il is, and the
number of Hen Of fne faces and fgures, with the
appearance and manner Of the soldier about theIn,
which orc ees in tie streets and in the camps shows
what a large military element there must have been
among the American people, for the class OF which
sneak is beyond all proportion TO the habits OF the
people, and yet IL has dropped easily ana naturally
into tie discharge Of military duties. IL will be
long, however, before the whole mass Is thor
oughly leavened with the spirit OF discipline and
| obedience There is no certainty abo1t the ope-
rations of troops under such circumstances, and
they will be liable TO such occurrences rs TOOK
place the other night, when in a simple movement
from contiguous camps two columns OF rederslhis
began TO blaze away at each other, and inihcted
loss on both sides before the mistake was discovered
As 10 officers and men killed ard wounded by basty
shots from alarmed sentries they are more numerous
4 than they ought TO be In careiaiiydiiied army,
and the strange reeklessness which SCENE t2 2e
character ristic OF IRE ADsIo-od4oh ,ace ~ eAi'i,o
IN the wsy in which tie men handle their arms, the
result of which has been in few months to send mp
ward Of $50 men to hospital with wounds and mutt
Iations and many others TO their graves. Gen. Nc
Clellan rides and reviews inde'aiigably. There y
scarcely day on which he does not cover 70 or 50
miles of ground about the campe ard he Il now at
tended Occasionally by the Count of Paris and the
Duke of CbaItres. What singular turn OF fortune
The sons of the Bourbon in the train Of the son OF
tie Philadelphia doctor! How strangely Il reads,
! Son AHesse ROyalc ie COmte de PdTis, Etdt MgjedT
! de Generai McClollan, DC! And face 10 face with
them on the staff Of Gen. BeauIegaId is d P0lignac
The young Princes are favories With the stat and
officers Of the army, which, accustomed 10 a strong
foreign infueion has nevertheless learnt the differ
enee between Princes Of tie blood of Bourbon aud
the foreigners Of inferior clay.