Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 1862.


Everything Is quiet along the Potomac" "
at which announcement your readers will
no doubt be delighted. Gen. Mcclellan has
proven himself competent to "preserve the
peace" in the neighbOrheod Of Washington,
if he has proven nothing else whether he
will ever prove himself competent to lead
our armies successfully age inst the enemy is
a question not yet decided. BE is still the
subject of the devout attentions of the
aunkeys who infest Washington, from N. P.
Willis down to the most uncomfortable of the
crew; they have harped upon the Generals
piety, his pose, his horse and his "fgger,"
until they are almost "plsyed out," and to
crown the whole, the poets have got after
him Maudlin verses addressed to sour no.
bic young General" with the inevitable allu-
sion to the "Eagle," greetus in almost every
issue of the Republican and the Star; and
worse than all, the latter paper assumes to
be the Generals ''orgsn, and devotes col
umn last evening to the defence of his ''pol-
icyW If Gen. Mcclellan had ever given
any evidence of haOiag policy we might for
give the Star man; bat alas be has not.
There is feeling Of strong impatience de-
veloping itself here, at the continued pro-
crastination which distinguishes army ope-
rations; doubt and perple1ity as to what to
expect and believe. Presidential aspirations
trouble some of our Generals; it blinds
them to everything but the means by which
they are to attain that splendid eminence;
and the Conservative" line is that into
which most of them have fallen. And this
"Conservatism" is what affects Generals, two
or three Cabinet Ministers, and several SEN
ators to be prominent in a prosecution OF
the war is to deprive themselves Of the
aSouihern interest" when it shall be needed;
to treat the rebels with tenderness, so as TO
shirk an unpleasant responsibility, and
stand eOnssrVatiVs on the record, is profound
study among politicians just now. Thank
heaven that Ohio has a Cabinet Minister
and one Senator and a number of Represen-
tatives who believe in the preservation Of
the Union as the paramount object to be at
tained; that no temporary interests are to
stand in the way of that grand consumms-
ton.
It has transpired that the rebels recently
had large quantity of winter clothing stor-
ed at Fairfax Court House for the use Of
their troops. One of our forsging parties
coming into sight, the enemy believed it to
be but an advance guard of the Federal ar
my, and setting fire to their clothing, re-
treated in precipitste hasteI Their loss is
estimated at $25O,oOO.
A scouting party Of ours day before yes
terdsy captured two hundred and fifty
wagon loads Of rebel forage.
The following extract from Baltimore
paper will be interesting to your readers:
HTurning from scenes of strife, it is
pleasing to note the progress of any peace
full enterprise. Mr.. P. Med. Collins, who is
now here, makes a very favorable report
concerning the progress Of the trans-mun-
dane electric telegraphic project which be
has done 30 much to promote. By adEices
from the Russian government he learns that
the Kszone-AmOor telegraphie line is in
progress of rapid completion. It viii be
completed to 0msk, $500 miles east of st.
Petersburg, early next spring. The next
section will be completed to Inkastsh, 1900
| further, in the course Of the year. Next
spring Col. Romanof will commence, under
the direction of the Governor OF East
Liberia, line of telegraph from the mouth
of the Amoor TO InkhoWth, by way of the
river bank. Thus from both extremes of
the line the work is to be prosecuted.
On the American continent the line of
telegraph now in operation between the At
lantic and the Pacific will be extended to
Portland, In Oregon, by the next summer
Thence it viii be prosecuted along the coast
to Sitka, and, BY way Of Behring's Straits, to
the mouth Of the Amoor. Upon the whole
route there are but forty miles of submarine
telegraph. Upon its completion all the tele-
graph lines in the world will be united
Branches of the Kazon-Amoor line will be
extended to Japan, India and China.
The tenth annual meeting of the 0. s. Ag.
ricultural Society met in the Smithsonian
Institute yesterday. Hubbard, of Ohio, pre-
sided:
No news aaOat. KY