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S. M. BALLY,
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mail between the above pointa, he has placed upon the
yenta two new and commodious Hacks for the ad
ejanimodation of the travnllng community, One wit
Wive the Adam's HouYe, Waynesburg, every morn
ing. Rundays except...l, at 71 o'clock, and will arrive
At Muse' Landing in time for the float to Pittsburgh,
the other will leave Rice.' Landing at theatame time
and arrive in Waynesburg at noon. No is will b e
spared for the accommodation of passengers,
TIMOTHY DOUG HER. Proprietor.
ugnst 7th, 1861. no. 6.
WAYNESBURG STEAM MILL.
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ming, 1100ERil respectfully inform his friends and
the public that he has leased the NEW STRAW
111 ILL at Waynesburg, Fa., where , ewiUalwaysbe
lows& ready to accommodate all who may call en the
artniFe. Glihding dean nn -the gibtU to ldet as
steht, MAUR laid FEND %1300coilisaill
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The End of Our Great Men.
The four great personages occupying
the worst conspiciou9 places in the
world's history were Alexander, Han
nibal, Cesar, and Bonaparte.
ALEXANDER,—after having climbed
the dizzy heights of his ambition, and
with his temples bound with chaplets
dipped in the blood of countless mil
lions, looked down upon a conquered
world, and wept that there was not an
other world for him to conquer--set a city
on fire and died in a scene of debauch.
Thaixiii.‘i.,—after having, to the as
tonishment and consternation of Rome,
passed the Alps, and having put to
flight the armies of the mistress of the
world, and stripped three bushels of
golden rings from the fingers of her
slaughtered knights, and made her
foundations quake, fled from his country,
being hated by those who once exult
ingly united his name to that of their
god, and called him Hanoi Baal, and
died at last, by poison administered by
his own hand, unlamented and unwept,
in a foreign land.
CiESAR,--after having conquered eight
hundred cities, and dYing his garments
in the blood of one million of his foes—
after having pursued to death the only
rtval he had on earthy was miserably
assassinated by those whom he consid
ered his nearest Men& ; and in that
very place, the attainment of which had
been his greatest ambitioa. ••
BONAPARTE,—whose mandates kings
and popes obeyed, after having filled
the earth with terror of his name—after
having deluged Europe with tears of
blood, and the world with sackcloth,
closes his days in lonely banishment,
almost literally exiled from the world,
yet where he could sometimes see his
country's banner waving over the deep,
but which could not bring him aid.
3. a. RITCH/li.
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When we speak of a man of princi
ple, we do not mean a mati who does
right for tear, of penalty, or one whose
virtue is ostentatious. We do not mean
a man who keeps true to morality as
the world goes,. but who . violates the
great spirit of morality by numerous
evasions. We do not .speak of the
man who is clothed with respectability,
while he is secretly mean and fraudu
lent. No . ! We mean the man whose
heart is the seat of honor, whose hand
is the agent of conscience, whose lips
are anointed with integrity—the tau•
escutcheon of whose character is not
tarn'shed with the least blur of shame,
whose fingers never itch for unjust gain.
The man to whom we would trust a
lawful secret with all confidence that it
would be locked in his bosom as in a
chest of iron. Whose midnight action
is as honorable as his noon-day bargain.
Whose clasped hand is as a sealed bond.
Whose promise is comparable to ster
ling gold. In whose soul justice is so
equally balnced that no passion can
swerve it. Whose honesty is so sturdy
that it will not bend to any expedient
Whose dear eye of purity and truth
fairly shames temptation. Such a man,
though clothed in home-spun apparel,
has something great in him. Rich men
touch their hats to him. Kings feel
less regal in his presence. He asks not
our respect—he commands it. He has
au unconditional surrender of our confi
dence, for he is a man of principle.—
Chapin.
Said Daniel Webster : once de
fended a man charged with the awful
crime of murder. At the conclusion of
the trial I asked him what could induce
him to stain his hands the blood of
a fellow-being. Turning his blood-shot
eyes fully upon me, he answered in a
voice of despair, "Mr. Webster, in my
youth I spent the holy Sabbath in evil
amusement, instead of frequenting the
house of prayer and praise." Could we
go back to the early years of all harden 7
ed criminals, I firmly believe, that their
first departure from the path of morality
was, when they abandoned the Sabbath
school, and their subsequent crimes
might thus be traced back to the neglect
of youthful religious instruction.
see- Some years before the death of the
Duke of Wellington, he was sitting at his li
brary table, when his room door opened, and
without any announcement, in stalked a sin
gular figure.
'Who are you?' asked the Duke, in his
short, dry manner, looking upon the intru
der without the least change of connte
uance.
'I am Apollyon.'
'What do you want ?'
am sent to kill yon.'
'Kill me ? Very odd.'
am Apollyon and must put you to death.'
'Obliged to do it to-day?'
am not. told the day or the hour, but
mast perform my mission.'
'Very inconvenient--very busy—great
many 'atom to write—call again or write me
word--I'll be ready for you.'
The Duke went on with his correspon
deuce. The maniac, appalled by the stern,
immovable old man, backed out of the room,
and in half an hour was safe in custody.
*A wag lent a clergyman a horse
which ran away- and threw him, and
then dahnederedit for ahEng in tread
ing the gespal,
The Man of Principle.
Sabbath Bells.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1864.
To the reflecting mind Nature's
Works are filled with instruction. The
sun and moon, the raging tempest, the
murmuring brook, the succession of
the seasons, all, with eloquent voice,
speak to man. The Christian reads
not Nature's book in vain. - While in
contemplation he roams through the
forest or climbs the mountain, he be
holds
Autumn an Emblem of Life.
"Books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every
thing
Autumn may appropriately be styled
emblem of human life. It is the
season of change. The bright sunny
day and the chilling storm follow alter
nately in rapid succession. Now the
warm, cheering smiles of summer play
around us, while the heavens are calm
and serene ; but anon the gathering va
pors darken the sky with clouds, while
the approach of winter is heralded in
the angry tempest. Thus with human
life. "We know not what a day shall
bring forth." Sunshine and storm,
hope and fear, joy and grief, alternatq
ly mark our path-way through life.—
To-day our skies are clear, our pros
pects bright, hope beats high in our
breasts, while the star of promise beams
brilliant by in the horizon of the future.
But now the clouds of disappointment
gather thick around us, darkness over
shadows the future, and all oar schemes
which imagination wrought with de
light, unaccomplished, fall around us
like withered leaves of autumn. And
as the tall oak, shorn of its green foli
age by the winter storm, stands alone
and unadorned, so the inconsistency of
friends, disappointments and afflictions,
rerder us desolate, while our minds re
tire in solitude to brood over calaini
ties.
To-day prosperity may lavish its
blessings around us in rich . profusion ;
! to-morrow, adversity's frown may dry
up the resources of life. To-day we
may he surrounded by all the fascina
tions of wealth, and riot in luxurious
ease; to-morrow, we may walk in pov
erty's humble vale. To4lay may sit on
honor's throne, while a thousand syco
phants loow at our feet and court our
favor; to-morrow, beside the beggar
we may walk unheeded and unknown.
What reverses of fortune I What can
stant mutation ! How indelibly stamp
ed upon all human things!
Autumn is the season of decay.—
,Lite forsakes the vegetable world. The
.groves are arrayed in sere and sombre
hues, the withered leaves are driven
before the blast. Even so with man!
"We all do fade as a leaf." 'Tis but
a step from the cradle to the grave ; and
though life.'s journey be thus brief, 'tis
not one calm, unclouded day ; for
"Midway so many toils appear
That he who lingers longest here
Knows most of care."
All around us leaves are rustling to
the ground. So with our friends. One
by one they fall around us. Before
the touch of the chilling frost the deli
cate leaf withers and falls from its stem.
Death, with his icy finger, touches the
silver cord of life and we ade away.
Although we fade as a leaf and our
bodies commingle with earth again, yet
they are not lost. The delicate fern
leaf, which was brushed from its stem
myriads of ages ago, might have mourn
ed its consignment to oblivion. But
'tis not lost—'tis not annihilated. The
miner, in his experience, identifies it.
and traces its embroidery, as pencilled
by the hand of Nature. Autumn, with
its melancholy scenes, will soon be past.
Winter, with its howling tempests, will
come and bind nature iu its icy fetters.
But all this change is necessary for the
introduction of Spring, with its amaran
thine flowers, its balmy skies and sil
very streams. So our bodies shall fade
as the leaf; and moulder into dust, that
they may again be resuscitated in im
mortal youth and vigor. This life of
care, of toil, of disappointment and
change is preparatory to that eternal
state which awaits us beyond the win
ter of death, when all that sleep in
Christ, God shall bring with him to the
enjoyment of unending felicity ;
"Where bliss is known without alloy,
Where pleasures bloom without decay,
Where thoughts of grief in cloudless joy
Shall melt like morning mists away. '
Why Bees work in the Dark.
The movements of these active acid
intelligent little insects, as they have
been interperted by science, are full of
interest and instruction. The form of
the cell of the honeycomb was discover
ed by mathematicians to be that which
most perfectly combined capacity and
strength. Chemistry has recently dis
covered that the action of light upon
honey fresh from the comb, which is a
clear yellow syrup, with no trace of
solid sugar in it, causes it gradually to
crystallize, until it becemes a solid lump
of sugar. This is the reason why bees
work in the darkness, and why they are
so careful to obscure the glass windows
which are sometimes placed in their
hives, If the light were allowed access
to their cells, the syrup would become
more or less solid, sealing up the cells
and destroying the inmates.
Arr EFFEAZIVE "PAIN KlLLEn."—Mel
vile A. Fronson, of Fall River, Mass.,
died very suddenly on Monday even
ing. He applied some pain killer to a
defective tooth, and a few minutes af
ter raised his hand to his head and ez
olainied,."o, my -head I" fell forward
on the floor and died almost instantly.
Grand Duke Nicholas in a Sad Plight.
The heir-apparent of Russia, the fu
ture master of a realm of more than
seven million of square miles—an em
pire comprising one-seventh of the ter
ritorial part of the globe, and about
one twenty-sixth part of its entire sur
face—is in want of a wife, and cannot
find one. This astounding piece of news,
says the Lontlon Globe, is going the
round of the continential papers.—
"Grand Duke Nicholas, heir-apparent
of all the Russia; twenty-one years old,
tall, good-looking, in splendid uniform,
speaking five languages; and with all
the accomplishments, is willing to wed,
yet cannot get a wife. It is said that
Grand Duke Nicholas has only five my
, al princesses offered for his selection ;
and that, unfortunately, of these five
high-born ladies, he does not like three,
and his imperial father does not like
the other two. So that, in point of
fact, the heir-expectant of one-seventh
of the earth can get no wife . at all.—
Poor Nicholas. There was - a time when
the Czar and his tinnily were allowed
to pick their partners from among a
whole flora of fair princesses. It is said
of Peter the Great, that when he want
ed a spouse for his son Alexis, he cir
culated a round robin among the five
score of reigning families in Germany,
bidding them to send all their mnri
ageable daughters, deducting the plain
ones, to Moscow for inspection. The
invitation was responded to by a crowd
of fair and illustrious damsels, and the
fairest flower from among them was
picked for the drunken and dissolute
heir-apparent.
"Subsequently the business was con- ,
ducted mainly by advertisement, A
hint given in one of
.the - Hamburg pa
pers, then considered the organs of the
Russian government, generally brought
a lot of portraits to the Imperial Court,
from the inspection of which resulted
further negotiations. Princess Clara, of
Hohenhausen Ohnebrod, being held
the most eligible of the matrimonial
candidates, was then invited, together
with some,old Ohuebrod aunt, to spend
a couple of weeks at the Imperial Court,
where she was kept if finally approved
of, or if not, returned to her loving pa
rents at the grim of castle of Hoben
hattsen. The Congress of Vienna,
when by sweeping away of nearly a
hundred crowned heads from the field
of royalty, had the effect of greatly .les
sening the charmed circle within which
the Czars were wont to rove, and Czar
Nicholas when not yet heir-apparent,
had to pay assiduous courtship to win
the hand of the King of Prussia's daugh
ter, and his three younger sons experi
enced actual difficulty to get a bride.—
The younger ladies of 'good family,'
finding that they were eagerly souobt
atter, and that, in fact, the demandlris
far greater than the supply, refused to
go to Russia. They objected to the
country as too cold, and to the rulers
as being given to the ugly habit otbeat
ing their wives royalty notwithstand
ing. Thus the circle narrowed more
and more around the Czar's proud fam
ily, until it has now become the humil
iating necessity to declare that the heir
apparent of Russia cannot find a wife.
at all. It is the greatest victory the la
dies have achieved in the nineteeth cen
tury."
An Enterprising Woman.
About six years ago; says the Wheel
ing (Virginia) Intelligencer, an active
little German woman, a widow, was
seen every day in our streets, alleys and
by-ways, gathering up old rags in her
arms, which she washed and sold to the
dealers. She was very industrious, and
consequettly very prosperous, and about
six months later she got a little hand
wagon in which to convey her rags to
market. A year or so later the same
woman was sees driving a shabby old
horse attached to a shabby old wagon,
and she appeared to be dealing in articles
other than rags, and appeared to be im
proving rapidly in wealth and goods.—
Now she drives two good horses, hitch
ed to a substantial wagon, besides which
she has accumulated a handsome little
fortune. Although she works as indus
trionsly as ever, she dresses on the Sab
bath, not exactly in "purple and fine
linen," but well and neatly, and is semi.;
ing.her daughter to boarding school in
a distant town. She says she intends to
work until her two children are well ed
ucated and well provided against the
probability of such adversities as she has
had to encounter.
Those who Run may Read.
Some years ago an effort was made to
collect all the chimney sweepers in the
city of Dublin, for the purpose of edu
cation. Among others came a little fel
low, who was asked if he knew his let
ters. "0, yes," was the reply. "Do
you spell?" "0, yes." "Do you read?"
"0, yes." "And what book do you
learn from?" "0, I never had a book
in my life, sir." "And who was your
schoolmaster!" "0, I never was at
school." Here was a singalar case, a
boy who could read and spell without a
book or master. But what was the
fact! Why, anoth4r little sweep, a little
older than himself, had taught him to
read by showing him the letters-over the
shop doors which they passed as they
went through the city. His teacher,
then, was a little sweep like hitnseif, and
his ypoks the sign-boards on the haws.
What.eannot be done by trying!
A Happy Home.
The first year of married life is a most
important era in the history of man and
wife. Generally, as it is spent, so is al-
most all subsequent existence. The From the Washington Union.
wife and the husband then assimilate Who is George B. McClellan?
their views and their desires, or else George Brinton Mcdtellan was born in
P
conjuring upon their dislikes, they add Philadelphia on the 3d day of December,
fuel to their animosities forever after-
1826. His rather by skill and ability gained
wards.
high position in the medical profession,
Mr.
have somewhere read," says Rev. a
Europe, and al.
Mr. Wise, in his bridal greetings, "of a both in this country and in Eu
bridegroom who gloried in his excen-
though we do not wish to forget the man in
tricities. He requested his bride to ac
gazing at his ancestry, still Democrats may
company him into the garden, a day or
be assured that the nominee of the Chicago
two after their wedding. He then drew Convention for the highest office in the gift
a line over the roof of their cottage.— of the people came from a respectable source.
Giving his wire one end of it, he return- The sturdy Scottish • stock from whom our
ed to the other side, and exclaimed: candidate inherits many of the great qualities
"Pull the line." of heart and brain so honorable to him, none
She pulled it at his request, so far as
need be ashamed of. Irishmen, as well as
she could. He cried:
Scotchmen, have reason to claim our "gal
" Pull it over." •
"I ca't she replied. bun, Little Mac" as a child of that brave old
n .
"But pull with all your might," still Celtic race that has given to the world so
shouted the whimsical husband, many heroes, statesmen, and pure-hearted
But in vain were all the efforts of the patriots. Some one learned in pedigrees has
slide to pull over the line, so long as conclusively proved that Gen. McClellan is
her husband held the opposite end.— a kinsman of that brave old soldier Sir Colin
Campbell, who wrung from the purse proud
But when he came round, and they pull-
British Government a tardy ed at the same end, it came over with !
acknowledge
great ease.
"There!" as
went of his great services, after a long life
the line fell from the roof,
"you see how hard and ineffectual was time of arduous toil and severe service in the
our labor To Americans it is ot little interest
when we both pulled in oppo
and whether our chieftain was related to the
sition to each other: but how easy
pleasant it was when we both pulled to- Scotch peer or not; we are satisfied with the
°Tiller: It will be so with us through man, and care but little how he may be con-'
nected by the ties of relationship.
At an early age Gen. McClellan discovered
In this illustration, homely as it may
that penchant fur the life of an engineer and
be, there is sound philosophy. Hus
band and wife must mutually bear and '
soldier,
and his ft:jet - ids
gratified his desires
concede, it' they wish to make home a b , . a . .
ing for him a cadet's appointment in
retreat of joy and bliss. One alone can- ! Y
the West Point Military Academy-. This
not make home happy. There needs
unison of action, sweetness of spirit and happened in 1842.
great forbearance and love in both hus- He graduated with high honors in the class
bared and wife, to secure the great end of 1845, was assigned to duty with a compa
of happiness in the domestic circle. ny of the engineers, and ordered, before the
Home is no unmixed paradise of close of the year, into active service ou the
sweets; the elements of peace and true i line of the Rio Grande River. The war with
Mexico was then fairly begun, and Lenten
happiness are there, and so, too, are the
elements of discord and miserr: and it
cut aj.evlellen reached his post just after the
needs only the bitter spirit of the world
without to make it a pandemonium, or Battle of Monterey.
the loving genius of harmony to make After some time spent in active service on
it the prompter of every affectionate im- the Rio Grande, Lieut. McClellan was order
pulse. . ed to Tampico in January, 1847, to take part
in the grand movement on the Mexican capi
tal. We next hear bin> mentioned as distin
guishing himself in the hard fought action of
Molli) del Rey, where he was specially com
plimented by the gallant Worth for "merito
rious and gallant conduct." The brevet rank
o f Captain was offered bun for his services in
this victory; but McClellan, with that modest
depreciation of his own great worth which is
one of the most pleasing traits of his charac
ter, "declined to receive it, on the ground
that he was not fully entitled to it, having
been concerned in the preliminary operations
alone, and not in the actual assault and cap
ture of the enemy's works.
The part he took, bovvever, in that mag
nificent achievement, "the storming of
Chapultepec," brought him promotion in a
way which he could not refuse. Ile was
therefore breveted "Captain," September
4th, 1848.
The End of the Carcassian Slave
Trade.
It has already been announced that
the Sultan of Turkey has prohibited the
Circassian slave trade. The Levant
Herald of Constantinople gives the fol
lowing particulars :
"We feel lively satisfaction in report
ing that the Porte has at length put
his definite veto on the traffic in Cir
cassian slaves. Last week firmaus
were dispatched to Samionn and Tre
bizond, absolutely abolishing the trade,
and forbiding the further purchase or
sale of slaves of either sex. This excel
lent decree conies, it may be said, rath
er late ; but it has been accompanied
by action on the part of the Immigra
tion Commission, which goes for to
atone for the tradiness. Very many of
the sales which have been hitherto ef
fected took place under pressure of the
captains
.of tl,e various transports, who,
though chartered by the Porte, drove,
it now appears, a regular and most
profitable trade by exacting passage
money from wretched mountaineers in
every case in which it could be forced
out of them in either money or 'kind.'
In the latter event, the custom had been
to take one slave for every thirty pass
engers, lots being drawn for the wretch
ed boys and girls who were thus sacri
tied for the transport redemption of
their fellows. This fact having come
to the knowledge of the commission, an
inquiry was instituted, and a large num
ber of free born youths and girls who
had thus passed into the possession of
the dealers and private purchasers have
been summarily set free and restored to
their parents."
A Horrible Situation
Mrs. "Win. Evans, of Mercer county,
C., W., a woman of 36, has had a dif
ficulty in her stomaeh for several years.
Lately physicians have decided that the
trouble is occasioned by a live and grow
ing snake in the stomach. It has now
grown so large that it distends the
stomach so as to produce a bunch upon
the outside as large as a quart bowl.—
Upon pressing this bunch with the
hand the reptile recoils and produces
great distress in the stomach. When
fish or meat is being cooked iu - the
roVn, if the snake is not satisfied with
food, it rises up iu the throat producing
strangulation. When desiring food,
it manifests it by rid.ng up in the throat.
Physicians see no way in which this
snake can be removed without certain
death to the woman.
ile London papers are enthusias
tic over a "most interesting marrive
ceremony" which took place a fortnight
ago in Piccadilly, the parties being Miss
Belle Boyd, the notorious rebel spy,
and a Lieut. Harding of the Union Na
vy—who figures only as as ensign on
the Navy Register. It appears that
when Miss Boyd was captured on the
Greyhound, this gallant officer was put
onboard as prize master. He tell in
love with his prisoner, was persuaded
by her to desert his allegiance and go
over to the rebellion, followed her to
"England and was married The pair pro
pose to run the blo4apie thi fall, end
titer the rebel tervice.
;Politica.
As Captain McClellan he retrained with
the army in Mexico till the signing of the
treaty of peace with that republic. The ad
ministration of a conquered city necessarily
afforded to a soldier of his character and
training many valuable opportunities of ob
servation and reflection upon the relations of
the military with the civil authority. The
impotence of mere force to maintain or re
store a solid tranquility in the social order
is never so apparent to a clear and vigorous
mind as when force is clothed with a tem
porary omnipotence; the beauty and the
majesty of law are never so apparent as
when the claim and constant operation of
the law is fin. a time suspended in favor of
the sword.
In June, 1848, Captain McClellan retnrn
ed to the U. S., and was almost immediate
ly ordered to the post at West Point, where,
for three years he remained in command
of the company of sappers and miners. In
June, 1851, he was removed to Furt' Dale
ware to superintend the construction ot the
works, and early in the next year he fulfill
ed the common destiny of the officers of the
regular army ot the Union by joining an
expedition for the exploration of the far west
tern territory of the Red river, under-cowl
mand of Colonel Marcy, whose daughter has
since become his wife.
From the Red river he passed into Texas
upon the staff of General Persiter F. Smith,
and until March, 1853, was occupied in the
survey of the Texas coast. He was trans
ferred to the neighborhood of the Rocky
mountains, going to Washington territory
in the Spring of 1853, and remaining there
until May, 1854, in charge ot the western
division of the survey fix• the northern route.
the Pacific ocean. In March 1855, he
was promoted to a full Captaincy in the
First Cavalry, and, with Major Delafield and
Major Mordecai, was ordered to proceed to
Europe, to study the operations of the great
war thou raging between the Western Allies
and the Russian Empire, When McClellan
and his companions reached the Crimea, in
the early4iart cf the summer of 1855, the
most trying period of the great allied inva
sion had already been overpassed. The bat
tle ot the Alma had been fought and won ;
Sebastopol had been invested, so far .:as its
investment was practable ; victory Lad been
i snatched by tlle tows of France and Eng
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land from the very jaws of ruin,, on the
"'eights of Inkermanu.
After the publication of his Report of the
Armies of Europe, in .January, 1857, Capt.
McClellan resigned his commission in the
army and went into civil life. He was ap
pointed chief engineer of the Illinois Central
Railroad and upon the completion of that
enterprise, was elected Vice President of the
company, which post be continued to fill,
residing at Chicago until August 1860, when,
having been chosen President of the East
ern Division of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, he removed to Cincinnati. Gov.
Dennison of Ohio, in response to the first
call of the President of the United States tor
volunteers to aid in the suppression of the
rebellion, and in maintaining the supremacy
of the Constitution, appointed . George B.
McClellan Major General, to command the
contingent of the State, being thirteen reg
iments of infantry. This commission was
offered and accepted on the 23. d of April,
1861.
On the 10th of May, 1861, the General
Government assigned Gen. McOlellearteAre
Department of . 0;iio, embracing Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, with headquarters sat
Cincinnati. Four dppa- later ha w com
missioner' Major General in the regular
my, which rank he now holds.
The part bJrne by Gen. McClellan in the
great war through which we are passing, is
too well known to heed any special recital.
The persistent attempts of the Administra
tion, and Party journals, to. blacken the
tame of our hero, has made the public take
such interest is the perusal of the many
hiAtories of his campaigns, as to render it
unnecessary to renew the narrative in our
columns. We feel assured the people have
had impressed on their minds, in characters
never to be erased, that brilliant career
which began in victory among the mann
tains of West Virginia, in the summer of
18E1, to end in dignified patience under the
unparalled wrong among the hills of thie
Shenandoah in the autumn of 1862, is the
simple task of recital. At the James of
Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, lifsl
- Hill, South Mountain and Antietam,
the heart of the nation will beat out a no
bler commentary than words can frame upon
the merits and the deserts of the heroic
young commander, who gave these trumpet
names to its and to our children.
The writings and addresses, as well as the
"orders of Gen. McClellan, stamp the-author
as no ordinary man. It we commence with
his first address to the troops assuming the
command, the reflecting reader will observe
how clearly the hero and statesman stand
forth, above and superior to, the mere mil
itary commander. Notice those golden sen
tences addressed to the troops.
"Your mission is to restore peace and con
fidence, to protect the majesty of the law, and
to rescue our brethren from the grasp of arm
ed traitors." "Bear in mind that you are .
here to protect, not to destroy." "We Lave
come here to save, not to
. upturn." "You
will respect the right of private opinion."—
"You will punish no man for opinion's sake."
The celebrated "memorandum" containing
his plan of operations for the Union forces,
and addressed to the President on the 4,th of
August, 1861, proves conclusively that Mc-
Clellan alone, of all the men connected with
the army of our govet mon r, understood at the
beginning fully the vastness of the civil war
into which the nation had been plunged. It
lit.s truly been slid:
"This most remarkable paper, though
thought to be visionary then, is nos- historic,
for it foretold substantially the whole his
tory of the war from that day to this, and
stamped General McClellan as the muter
mind of the day. It is enough to say here
that where that plan has been followed out,
success has attended our efforts to crush the
rebellion, and nearly evet:? deviation from It,
has resulted in disaster."
His instructions to department command
ers are models of clearness, directness and
'brevity, and show that he never forgot the
political, as well as the military bearings of
the conflict. "You will please constantryNo
boar in mind," he writes to General Buell,
then commander of the Department of Ohio,
•`the precise Issue for which we are fighting ;
that issue is the preservation of the Union
and the restoration of the full authority of
the general Government over all portions of
our territory." And then follows this most
memorable sentence : "We shall moat read
ily suppress this rebellion, and restore the
authority of the Government, by religiously
respecting the coustiturional rights of all."
That General McClellan has a heart astreat
as his intellect, has been shown by all his
dealings with his fellow citizens and brethren
in arms. There are no more pathetic words
in the English language than those wrung
from his manly spirit by the sacrifice of his
army on the Ohickahominy. Thus be wilted
to Secretaiy Stanton from Savage Station,
Jude 28th:
have lost this battle because my force
was too small. I again repeat that I sin not
responsible for this, and I say it with the
earnestness of a general who feels in his heart
the loss of every brave man who has been
needlessly sacrificed to-day. I still hope to
retrieve our fortunes: but to do this the Gov
ernment must view the matter in the -same
earnest light that I do. *
I know that a few thousknd more men wculd
have changed this battle 'from a defeat to a
victory. As it is, the Government =Mit
hold me responsible for the result,"_
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