Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-13
WHAT GEN. MCCLELLAN HAS
DONE.
Great Efficiency OF the Army.
Correspondence of the n. y. Postl

Great Efficiency OF the Army.
Correspondence of the n. .Post.I
GENERAL MCCLELLAN.
Few persons in Washington know this
man by eye sight, but he is the stronghold
in which all hearts assemble. He never
reviews regiments on parade-he goes
through their quarters thrice in forty-eight
hours-aHd at the expiration of that time
they are grumbliug because he has never
| given them sight of him. Perhaps he
dances badly. He is not a brilliant object in
saloons. He might be likely 10 break fans
on large scale if asked to hold them du-
ring the walizes. BE does not blossom in
stars and shoulder straps.
But if you happen to be stopping to per-
ssire under the shadow of broad white
oak on the road between the Potomac tete-
du- pont and Arlington House, you may see
r man about the size of our gallant color
rescuer Stedman, with Significant high
bridged nose, keen blue gray eyes, mouth
not unlike that of a generous lnastiff, who
bites on no small provocution. but when
he does, bites Immediately, and leaves a
souUenir. Clad in blue blouse-like that
of Parisian carpenter-aud pantaloons
which might have been any color before
the sacred soil it pulverized form was half
an inch deep on them; you may see this
man, say, rushing his horse through n
cloud of dust, and an aide de-camp pulling
| twenty rods behind him, in the vain en-
deavor to keep up with n rider who, to
quote his acquaintances, ''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 be will see you, at any rate,
| for there is nothing he does not sec-and
you will have glimpse at George B. Nc
CleIlan.
WHAT MCCLELLAN HAS DONE FOR WASHING
ToE.
In the first place, be the fact morally de-
fensihle or not, the effect of n HsJD name is
wonderful in this world. Still more so,
new name which is synonymous with inva-
rinble success. Then, again, men like the
| incognito under which Mcclellan travels
all the more as it is not assumed, but in
| cvitable from the necessities oil his charGc-
ter 1t is impossible to imagine McClel-
Ian done in pipe clay. He cannot, in na-
ture, sit for his statne, to any other artist
than worker in granite.
He knows very well what we boys used
I to know at boarding school, when the priu-
cipal on examination day gotup Inagniti-
cent dinner and put tile youngsters into
| their best clothes, addressing tue younger
classes with un invarinble suave"my dear,
and paternally pressing the astonished lads
| to a second instalment of semi-RnEuni
pIum-pudding-thN examination days are
the exception TO dreary rule of daily life.
| He will have nobody "gotten up TO re-
ceive him. He wants the habitual coudi-
| ton of tue bOys-nOt their holiday sham
appearance. Hence that blouse, that I'M
heralded approach to camps who have no
idea of his personnel, who suppose they see
a sapper and miner eccentricHily on horse
back, or at the furthest one of the SturgIs
Rifles, who are McClellan's body guard,
and so devoted to him that they would go
this day TO Manassas behind him, an uG-
supported corps.
The fact of McCleIIan's having brigaded
the army has now become an old tale to
the public. He 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 the work enjoined
upon him by the necessities of this method
as applied 10 the vast outpouring.
1t is only possible to say that nothing on
so gigantic scale in the shape of military
disposition has ever been demanded of n
mHu on this continent-scarcely on the
European. And though the fact of this
new a arrangement be now we'll known, its
results are to be imineasurable. For the
knowledge of their field officers, by sight,
aud still more by personal confdence-the
lpositiou of the right field officer over any
given body-the discipline of the brigade
as distinguished from that of the Isolated
regiment-these desiderata are of the ut
most Importance in oxr future advance.
We may add, that it is the conviction of
some of the ahlest commanders with whom
our editorial delegation consulted in Wash
IinCton, that these would have Bull Run q
victory after as well as before three o'clock
P. ". of July 2lst.
Washington, since Mcclellan, is no longer
a field for target-shooting, with an after
picnic under the marquee of Wizards
and Browns. It is now possible to reach
the door from the clerks desk or bar of
| either without elbowing epaulettes or get
4 ting tangled in dress-swords. Let not
these words he thought to indicate ademor-
aIization 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 appli-
We said: "The panic happened equally
to the French after SolferiuOi it was only
a chance; it may never happen again.
So we took our cobblers at Wizards wseh
we should have been in our camps on the
hills, moralizing over the straw Mt mid
night about remarkable Providences," :"
forgetting that our soldiers needed an eye
to their comfort and discipline, if that eye
4 would be their talisman and inspirer of