General Mcclellan

The Baltiniore Arneriran puts ts heel upon the last two falsehooda which the radical journals have been circulating against Geu. MoOlellin. First: " Now we happeu to know that General McClellan, six davs after he reaeli ed Harrison'st Landing, placed in the War Department full reporta of the battles. It is, therefore, no fault of lus thal these reports have not been publislied.-' We ourselves have caused applicatiou to bo made at die War Department for roports conneeted with General McClellau's campaigiis, but have been repeatedly refu.-ied documenta which could uot possibly give brformstion to the enemy, but which would as certaiuly have re vcaled facts thut the whole country has the right and the desire to know. Seo oud, in rcply to au nssault by a writer in the l'imcs the American ss : ' We know here, and it ought to bo knowu ïu New York, that the post at Hurper's Ferry was under the oomma&d of Gen. Wool and not of Gen. McClellan. We know, also, that before starting f rom Washington Gen. McClellan urged the evacuation of Harpcr's I'erry and the occupation of Maryland Heights, on the grouud tuut hu did not believo it cou'd be held if thoroughly besieged, the further ground that to ussist it would greatly interiere with bis plau of campaign. In reply to this recommendation assurances were given that the post was ' impregnable,' and the re commeudation of Gen. ÁlcClollan was unheeded." This places the respousibility of the Harper's Ferry disaster directly on the War Department. It shows ngaio, conclusively, that only because Úeu. McClellan's plans have been overruled and his advice unheeded, we have again lost the chance of inflieting a most dcstructive blow upon tho accursod rebellion. Had Geueral MoClellan's urgent request been heuded and obeyed, hud Maryland Heights been occupied, the rebel army never could have crossed the Poto mac We should have cut them up root and branch and bagaod tho remainder. - As it is, we lost several thousand men, nn important pos'tion, and opened the door of retreat to their army. Yet to day - does it not mako earnest men almost despuir oí the Republie ? - to-day the radical press nre denounoing Gen. McClellan for not doing this which he did all in his power to d. and which ho vainly urged the doing of wheu it was possible. He pointed out what all now admit to have been the only way of ruining the rebel army, and did his share of the work. He could not pass beyond his sphere of command The administration kept a traitor, or fooi, in a most important post, who bacrificed it and cheated that work of its proper fruits. It refused to sanction Guu. McCleHan's desp'sed " etrategy,1' now roaps again the bitter result of a shameful surrender, an attenuated victory, and the sinking heart of the nation, which looks on in amazemcnt. and almost stupefaetion to seo the radi cala again moving heavcu and earth to degrade the Genaral who h'is led the Potomac army to its only violones. 1 1 1 ■■ 1 1 JV-y They are telling a droll story in ïroy as follows: It is rumored that a ourtain gentlemen hnd a 6occssion flag flying from his house. Of course tliera was a tremendous hue and cry raited, and au exoited party started for the preinises. On reaehing the house it was fouud to be a lady's balmoral, that had been washed and hung from a back indow to dry. Tho husband avowed his determination to stand by that flag as long as ho lived, and ttie offerveauont crowd exploded and disappeared.