New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-13

except one bis seniors in years. nearly all he Su9'
riors in service aud military experience.
The army and TIE country will be ss'onssea
earo, that a. ibis bis fret and only war eoo''''
has been held, Gen. Mcclellan was not l,;at
bnt IRA, represented, by HE fatber-ln-n"' '"'
of his Staff. a;,.
The conversation gravitated naturally INTO ~"
cuss;on nnon the necessity Of organizing 'oe NJ
into separa,e COTS The sentiment Id 't'o' y,
o,.,;,a,.,v neglected measure was coon ioun" 70
,on;,,,ons Not one of the ten Generals oPposeu IL
D.. a.. fa,bor.;n.law OF Gen. Mcclellan no" ihei-
'1,o1 Nth The remark that the subject wss not III
Discussion. Its paramount Importance Do"e'e',
;D,roduced il. The simple TACT thA' "sne'", "a,
a,,,,snd ~ Division across the Potomac, attacked
in overwhelming numbers by the enemy, had no au'
,hori,v 70 order up achievements from brieades
living within mile Of him on his right and leit ba'
that lawfully. he would he obliged to 80 10 a ele-
graph Office and send intelligence Of HE danger say
twenty miles of to Washington, TO Gen. McClellau'
and mplore aid, and would be obliged to MAINTAIN an
uneonal and perhaps ruinous combat I'll ORDERS were
sent back from Washington to some Bigsd'er 10
march to his support-this fact stated with variety
of illustration, and repeated with the different quail
fcations given to it by locality and military sur
roundings, go impressed the Council with the neces'
sity Of an immediate reorganization Of the army IN
this regard that the Generals insisted upon having
their views presented TO Gen. Mcclellan. The
father law left the house to communicate WIN the
General and returned after brief absehce with the
message that that question was not TO De oroush'
under discussion.
The earnestness. as well az the disinterestedDes'
of the ten genera g. in their unanimous opihion CAL
be appreciated from fact that at least ok oi then
none coud tell vbo-were thus voluntarily in'er
posing four or three of their number with superior
rank between themselves and the Commander-in
Chief
The Council. without head, and without writer
propositions submitted to it in the absence OF heao
seemed ready to dissolve, when Gen. Mcclellan
father-in.law proceeded to communicate TO the com
manders. his instructions to them upon points no
,utable for me to mention. In the course OF bis re
marks he said that the General would hold then
personally responsible for the efficiency OF their sew
eral commands in those regards. The justice OF thu
was protested against III the discussions which en-
sued, the fact was developed that, with single ex
canton. that of the command Of Fitz John Porter
there was not Division Qnartermfster in the Army
of the Potomac The business OF supplying the DIV
sions had been concentrated at Washington, and " a
in the hands of member Of Gen. McCleilans stat
The ten Gsneralc--nine Of them, more strctiy-en
larged upon the impocy of this arrangement, and 1t
unmilitary character, judged by the best Europea'
standards. They protested against responsibility.
which was not accompanied with the power OF ac
ton and the control Of MEANS But, as there WAS n
one present TO hear the protest, and modify the III
struc,ions complained of, the end Of debate soo
came, and the fret and probably the last Council
6 Wur called by Gen. Mcclellan, dissolved Of inec
: berence.