The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-03-16
BLooMsBURG. COLUMBIA. COUNTY, PA. WEDNESDAY

Mountain aud Antietam 10 report at Tren-
ton The order was decisive. General
Mcclellan commands that portion OF the
Army of the Potomac that has not been sent
forward TO Gen Pope's Command How
they must have chuckled at the War De-
partment over the keen wi, of this order
Ii was issued on the afternoon of August
30lh, and after the receipt from Mcclellan
OF his dispatch OF 10 p. m, saying
81 have no sharp-shooiers except The
guard around my camp. have now sent
off every man but those, and will now send
them with the train as you direct. | will
also send my onlv remaing squadron Of
cavalry with Gen. Sumner. | can do no
more. You noaO haze eue,y nan Of The Army
Of The Potomac tCho is within my reach"
Certainly il was sharp satire, very keen
and biting wit, which dictated, after that
last sentence, the words of The order =
"Gen. NJ 'Cle.lan commands that portion OF
the Army OF the Potomac that has not been
sen, forward!'
But The morning of The 3lst brought to
Washington some startling intelligence
Halleck had been for four days busy re-
duclng M'Ciellan's position, finding fault,
nealecing and even insulting him. The
President and Secretary OF War had ysild-
ed to the radical politicians who were
bounding The young general. and on the
evening OF the Both, when the War
Department issued its order, Washington
radicalsm was jubilant, and all believed
that there was truth in Pope's dispatches,
and thai he was sweeping the rebel army
with the bosom OF des ruction Mcclellan
was down, aud great victory was won by
Pope. Men who were in Washington thai
night will remember the triumph of the
radical faction. Bot the next day change
came over the spirit OF The radical dream.-
Halleck lelegraphs Mcclellan that be had
not seen the order, and he eviden,ly begins
10 thiuk that possibly they have been a lit
tie too iasl in Washington. The new from
Pope is nol rose eolored to-day. Mcclellan
begins 10 loom up again in the minds o.
the managers.
sYou will retain The command OF eUe~y.
tang IN this Uicisity not TEN poraIiy belong
ing 10 Pope's army in The field. | beg o
You to ASSIST me in this crisis with You
ability and experience. am entirely IireC
oui."
So says Halleck at 10 p M on the 30ih
Well he might be tired. The experimen
had failed The whole plan OF abandoning
the penlDsular campaign and disgracins
Mcclellan was proving disastrous failure
The liability ana experience" of M'Clellar
was now worth thinking of once more. A
half past eleven hat night Mcclellan tele
craps Halleck that Pope is defeated, lh'
road filed with stragglers coming toward
Alexandra, that Pope's right is entirely
exposed, and he fears the gravest conse-
quences. He adds: "To speak .frenky-
and a.e occasion requires h-THERE APPEAR
TO BE TOTAL ABSENCE OF BRAINS
AND FEAR tke total destruction u The ar
my"
81 shall be up all night" says M'Clellal
from Alexandria. 81 shall be up all night
says Haieck from Washington. II was
fearful night. The morning brought truu
from Pope's army and wisdom 10 the head
10 " Washington. Mcclellan is sent for. Al
day disastrous intelligence comes in
NJ Cielian is ordered to take command Q
the deiences OF Washington, bu; his order
are limited. They do not yet dare 10 fac
the Indignation OF The radical politicians
who would have seen Washington destroy
ed rather than NJ Clellan restored. But tn
morning Of the I'd leaves them in doubt n
longer The hope of the nation hangs o
the man they had disgraced and ridicule
on the 30th. The President and Halec
seek Mcclellan at his house, and ''comm
everything" TO his hands, directing him /
go out and meet The returning army.
The crossing of the Potomac that day b
Mcclellan is a scene Tor long remembrance
The shouts that wen, rolling over the hills
, the exullaton of men who had regarde
themselves as doomed, but who now we
, coined order, wisdom, genius, stability an
exeprence," ali which they had prove
and known-this has been described and
recorded. How the General took the sha
tered army, restored lis morale, led it inl
Maryland, and in fourteen days won u
: victories eli South Mountain and Antietam
how HaIleck com mplained Of his slow marc
TO South Mountain, and radicals every
where gtowled sullenly over the salVals
of the capital by M'Clellan-ihis is alread
hisiory.-Jour. Of Commerce
Charlottesville Albany Salesman ABB
li:ion) says "every branch of eovernmel
seems TO be reeking with corrulion, an