The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-02-01
TEE NEW YORK SUN.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBY 1 1862.
The New York City Press.

The WORLD argues against the policy OF ma
king the new Treasury notes . legal tender,
and says that Il would advertise in sffest to
foreign nations that our government needs to
be ptopped by something stronger than its own
ct.di. Washington correspondent ays -
1h, results attained by the nomination OF Mr.. |
stanton to the war bufeau are already 40 ap. |
psr-tt aid beneficial that this eHponmontA
char 90 will decide and hasten various equally |
-, icAi, and almost equally important, reforms
,he SUI sidisiy departments Of army CSani-
q ttN.
some Of our Oldest and hitherto, most omni-
wv ,ut "lleads' stand in imminent dArg ger OF
dccapitatop, and have whispered together with
white lpa, tince the exit Cameron, enter Stan
ten Monday. The entente cordidle existing he.
tween Con. Mcclellan docs not retard the inn
pending fate since tho ssgacious little c)m-
mau udcr. in-chief Is we'll known to have long az,
made up hs mind that his youthful irtoyeronce
for the established department dlyuro-heads was
a feeling healthy as natural.
The HERALD, In illustration Of the peculiar
fitness Of Mr.. Gurloy to criticize Con. M,Clol-
lans military strategy, relates that ION TO
Richmond" orators experience at Bull Ruu:
lie followed Gen. Mcdowell in hs own
| CONVEYANCE ard when the battle commenced,
| fastened his horse TO a troe while he witnessoi
| the fight from safe aud commanding position.
| W nHn tnO fNduli boCbil1 Hlhi HNdNt uAis Nhhhog
| sought his carriage, but found II had boen ap'
| proprlatod Ivy some individual equally anxious
| for his aEety. No time was 10 be lost and Mr.
| Guiloy immeditt ttoly divestod himseh ot hat,
coat and boots, and struck for Washington,
whore he arrived 6tty.dyo minutes in advance
ot his own gig.
The JouRSAL oP CoMNKRcE conrAtulates
the nation that the standardization has settled
and ayow,d policy. 1t says
We have not spoken without authority in
assuring our readers that MIR. Lincoln Is deter =
mined TO adhere TO his conservative plan OF
administering the war. Whonoyor storloa that
he has accented to or approved any plan, lOokit Z
to proClamatons Of freedom 10 slaves or put
TIM, Hms in their hands, arc rotated, they may
be ut ouce rejected a. false.
arho Radical gentlemen, who have encouraged
, WIAnc's Expedition" havo talked Of It all
alsng as If General Mcclellan had nothing 10
do with it
. IL now appears that General Line, in the ro-
) sular order u things, is tho inferior officer o
several distinguished and trustworthy Generh4,
and that Lanes Expedition Is myth OF the
\ | newspapers.
! ! More than all, Ssc,e,ary Stanton. G,noral
= Mcclellan, and tho President, arc IN perfect
= concord Ia their views oi thi, m,t'or, and no
, one Of them has approved Of tbs pa III ihod plar
4 of tho "LAne Expedition, Or OF the elive-arm-
y ing principles which II was Attempted to coniol
Z on II by Act of Congress few days ago.
i Our contemporary, slluding 10 the complete
success OF the Pacific Telegraph says;
|. The line continues 10 be crowded. with busi
v n,ts dispatches; and the financial success of tn
y enter prise has beon placed bey oud cOubt AL
'e h,ugh tho cot Of maintalnilg the connection
At this ssuon oi the year, is nee sstrily ver!
high. The vast tract Of Wild country trayersc'
= by the line, IA ecc ,sionally subject 70 his
.turms aud iroshets which sweep away a mul
- titude { poles and make breaks in the line, no
easily found OF mended. by these interruption
Z, tho drstams which would otherwise CON
~ 'h.ough ig teW hours, may be DELAYED sewers
a. days, a Circumstance which doo' not, however
a. seriously diminish tho com ncrcisl mporttnc
Of the Pacific Telegraph. Tho company hav
- increased the number OF their stations, and htv
% now eighty-three, in California, Nebraska 10,
"a rtory, Utah and Nevada.
., p The experiment Of tolegraphing directly 'ror
~ this city TO San Francisco, has never been tris
- no occasion having arisen which would just
f. fy the suspension Of business at the same tim
or along the whole length OF the line. Telegram
Of have often been sent hetw wcen ST. Louis ami = 4
o. Frarc,sco, ami it is beloved that the uir,
lS could De successfully worked lion New York {
= lllliitN to the Pacific.