The New York herald., 1864-02-22

GENERAL MoCLsILAN AHB THE ADxIrIsrRA-
rpN.-General McClellan's report has now
been in the hands Of the public Tor some days,
and has been very extensively read BY the
more intelligent portion Of the people. 1t has
fully established that soldier before the coun-
try as the only person who at the outset OF the
war fully appreciated the vastness Of the rebel
lion and had clear comprehension Of the
means by which ii could be put down; and in
this way that report amply justi6es the eclat
with which General Mcclellan is received
wherever he makes bis appearance. especially
by the soldiers, and gives the lie to all the
malign statements made against him by the ad-
ministrotion and its supporters. Since the ua-
lust and cruel removal of General Mcclellan
from the command Of the Army of the POto-
mac not single movement has been made on
this side the Allegheny Mountains that could
in any way tend to shorten the war or put
down the rcbcllion When tho administration
threw away this single soldier II seens to asvc
thrown away its whole power to injure the
enemy in the East Sustained alone By the
military advice of the Washington Directory,
the President has carried on o contemptibie
struggle. whose result has been to impoverish
the country, but not to injure the enemy
The administration interfered with the penin-
sular campaign, and, by its withdrawal Of sixty
thousand men from the number that had been
assigned as necessary to carry that campaign to
a successful issue, caused its failure The ad-
ministration, by It's suspension of General Nc
Clclan in August, 1852, caused the successive
disasters of Pope's campaign. And the ad-
ministration, by the removal Of General Nc
Cellan in the fall of 1862, caused directly the
massacre at Fredericksburg the greater mas
sacre at Charlottesville, the advance of Lee
into Pennsylvania. where the country was
saved by the stubborn qualities Of our soldiers
and Lees eventual escape across the Potomac,
which gave another year of existence to the re-
bellion All this the administration has done;
but it has not given an effective blow in the
East towards the destruction of the confederacy
since General Mcclellan was sacrificed to the
clamer Of the radicals
Tue NAVAL ADVISORY BoARD-The]proceed
ings OF this irresponsible tribunal, under whi ch
80 many officers of good standing were de-
graded without being allowed an opportunity
of defending themselves, are about to undergo
thorough overbauling Under resolutions
introduced by Mr.. Schenck, the whole Of the
evidence, il any, taken before the Board is to
be laid before the House of Representatives.
When we state that this commission sat with
closed doors, kept no record Of their proceed
ings. and passed Judgment on more than seven
hundred officers, without allowing those whose
cases they decided adversely to be present or
to be heard by counsel. the justice of revi-
sion Of their decisions will be apparent. Ia
some instances We know for . fact that the re.
cords Of the Navy Department are entirely at
variance with the judgments Of the Board,
there not being o single scratch of the pen
against the officers overslaughed. On an ap-
peal TO him, Mr.. Lincoln referred back these
cases to the Navy Department, with . recon-
mcndation that fresh Investigation should be
instituted. The Secretary Of the Navy, whilst
admitting tue hardships, stated that he was
powerless to apply remedy, as the act under
which the board was appointed left him no dis
cretion in the matter.
An appeal was then made to Congress, and q
bill was introduced providing for the relief bf
those officers who could make out their claims
to redress. II passed both houses unanimously;
but when it went to Mr.. Lincoln for signature
he quietly pocketed it, assigning as a reason
/" that it would in effect be the establishing q
board to condemn the proceedings Of a previous
board"
In country like this such a motive for
quashing an appeal for redress for alleged in
juries is not for a moment to be admitted. Ac-
cordingly the friends Of the oyerslaughed off,
GERS have taken steps to have the evidence on
which the Board has acted produced before
Congress- in order that the country may decide
how far justice has been consulted in their re-
spective cases.
MoxE or THE FRUTs or TREAsos.-Another
evidence of the eKteat to which secession has
debauched it's followers is to be found in the
statements recently made by Lieut.. M. +.
Maury in the London press relative to what be
alleges to be forgeries by Northern journals.
Mr. Maury was heretofore reported to be
gentleman, and consequently man Of honor