New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-21
GIN. MCCLELLAN AND HIS LABoRs.

DIR. Russell haa the following notice Of our new
COMMANDMENTS Chief in bis letter Of Oct. 90
His quarters are in a pleasant house al the cor
rer OF a sguarenot unlike that OF Gordon OF Euston
By day, the door and windows are open; sentry
10 blus tunc, blue cap blue tTowsers, ell without
what are called facings, brass buttons, with dis
trucied EAGLE thereupUD, and wastbet with a
brass buckle inscribed " l.. s., walks up and down.
generally with pipe or cigar in Lis mouth and his
reock carried horizontally over lis shoulder, 20 az
to brug the bayonet on y level WIN any eye OF
which the unwary owner may be coming round the
corner. Several dragon horses are hitched up "
the rail and the trees along the pavement, stand
Ing ratieutly aud gooduaturedly, as American
hOrscs are won: TO do, or, NJ most, stamping ana
Ticking of the Gies which In the United States Try
uatience and good temper 70 hardly. NJ tue door
are ready orterlies, two quick, intelligent young
men, who are ivil without being seIye, and who,
In being So afford contrast 10 the various very
independent soldiers louneing or citing on the steps
reading newspapers, and waitnglor answers 10 tnor
messages. there Is sort OF "Open Sesame AIR
about the place which does not prevent the secrets
inside being well kept. In the parlors ARE seated
officers and visitors smoking or talking Inc ,aoles
are coyered with litter of papers ana Journals anu
torn envelopes and the clacking tongue 9i Tue tsc
y,npb instrument resounds through the building Inc
General j. generally upstairs and sundry gente Ger
ber bar the entrance 10 his presence nor Is ne des
tute of the ART of making himself invisible when he
pIeages lis staff are excellent men, an told, and
pereonal experience goes, nor could any commander
be served more efficiently than the General ia by
such men rs Brigadicr-General Nnnvhet, or Colonel
Hudson notwithstanding the absence OF a good deal
Of the Stiffness which marks tie approaches TO some
headausrters "a Gen. Mcclellan found when he and
biz brother Commissioners sought in vain 10 obtain
access to Marrhal Pelisser in the Crimea Toe Cen
oral, short timo ago employee on the Central IL,
linois Railway, but ttill with 80 much OF the old
shirt In him that he studied closely all the move
meuis of that short Italian campaign Of which he
is rot doomed TO give a counterpart IN this part
OF the world, is "A nocturHe, aud at the close Oh
long, ab0rious days works hard and fact late INTO
the "a Git I'LL sleep pursues aud over.akcs him,
when be surrenders readily, FOR be- has one OF those
natures which need n fair share of rest, capable
though they be OF great exeTton without 1t on occa-
rion. lie works hard too, In the saddle, and, when
the business of the morning has been dispatched, OIL
he goes attended by few officers and small ct
corf OF orderlics and troops, across the Potomac,
visiting the camps, examining positions, eiilng
where fortune spreads the board, and returul g,
generally after Iigitil, 10 hook over the reports,
to issue orders 10 bafhe little politicians, and to
stand on the defensive against those of larger dinen-
sious. Here he ia natural, but vigilan-candid but
prudeni-tobacco ruminant or iunant, full OF life,
and vet contemplatiye-of temper, indeed, which
seems To take of its color from hat OF the acci-
dents oil It's surroundings in time and place.