Tlte.Vnloa an It pas; The - Calaslltatlan as It lin la- See First and ThirdPlT for Com. mere-tat Daily Market/mud ver-Neurs WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 13 ANOTHER RAW UPON GEN McCLELLAN. . For some cause or other the radicals have again opened their batteries upon the inwnimate body of poor McClellan ; his !' imbecility " and suspected "treason" tendered him £0 obnoxious, that, for six months, we have ' been reassured, by his persecutors, that he is gone beyond any possibility of resurrection. We are very well convinced, in our own mind, that he is indeed gone, so far as the command of the army in Virginia is concerned; ; because we cannot imagine any possible contin gency which can arise, sufficient to induce those who have been slandering him so long, to acknowledge their baseness by his restoration, There has been too much time spent in making out a case against McClellan for us to Lope for his being re stored to the position from which he was removed. Bat, notwithstanding the certainty of McClellan's prostration, his enemies still have apprehensions of him. They find after two battles at Fredericksburg by Burnde and. Hooker, that marching on to Richmond is not so easy a task as tfie latter imagined, and hence Alt) new raid upon poor McClellan. The radicals think it probable, that his generalship at South Mountain and afterwards at An tie tam, in both of which he whipped the dashing Lee, will compare favorably with that of his two successors at Fredericks burg where Lee whipped them. And' when we reflect upon the condition of the forces under McClellan, after their being BO exhausted and dispirited by the brag gart Pope, and compare it with that of the army under either of his successors, we incline to the conviction that his general• ship and achievement& will, in all time to come, pass for as ranch as those of either of his rivals. Hooker, indeed,pronounced his army the "finest on the planet," and yet with his guidance he found, what he considered an easy undertaking, with a wasted army and another leader, quite an impossibility for himself. Bat our busi ness now is not to imitate the enemies of McClellan by uncharitable criticism of Gen. Hooker; we merely desire to direct attention to this continued warfare upon an unarmed man. The New York Times the metropolitan court journal of the Administration just as Forney's Chronicle Is its scavenger -1134,1 off in the recent renewal of the as ._ ,-,ttitilt upon McClellan, -under the pretex#,' that there is a pressurelStt'frW7TorilLii, macieirafi--paziliri4iglirli,4l4tmg not only our.:.ln res,4• W m i3hl 4tit:".d.billfil- 'll Ikea. Pkoc kiAliAr - fol iensdig;lstratitt —, l44 " We norAortiriterteitandihS same foktielintp "Vito' tee,4l,. diall haveluistidaitrogiA sit -Is-,•.44 Unlit• , whether long. or^eho 3G tBA malty. We asktliiilio 4 - - tics to him. but-as; su ccessvithectunpaistit e lfit Wishave and we Alias the fairest way to treat'hittr ie, nOt btati4 standard cit ieherafehilip' or that:of: the New York Thus ht 4 by,his tified very confidently ; before War Committee that he'could have dpnp L cer - rain things on the Peninsula, had - he balm in command; he could:have marched right into Richmond without:firing a gun; and the failure to do so in his estimation, was owing to the want of generalship in Mc- Clellan, together with his having "three old women," Sumner, lieintzelmait and Franklin in principal commands. This was the standard of generalship laid down by Genk:lfooker, and in consequence of it tig-rid-elved his present command: The Vines, therefore, in asking as much time to make his mark in as McClellan con- surned in floundering and blundering through the swamps of Virginia, with spade in hand, trembling at threatening demonstrations, of "imaginary guns," does not appreciate the temper nor the expectations of Gen. Hooker. Had he not, like Napoleon at Solfereno and Ma genta, told the country what they might confidently expect whenever he moved upon the enemy, the Times leniency - , would be proper enough. Our having I moved McClellan, however, for being so culpably slow, we do not admire the idea of similar procrastination upon the part of one whose presumed fault was being too fast. For the sake of the Union as well as for Hooker's we trust that he will be in Richmond, without consuming so needlessly so much precious time, as was, according to radical clamor, squandered by McClellan. se- Whether the Dispatch's frequent efforts in behalf of the Administration, are acceptat le to the different departments from which it receives occasional favors, or not; we ; of course, have no ltpowledge; its zeal, however, ought to make up for its blunders. Its attempt to ,relieve _ the Secretary of State from the statement of the British Minister is about as lame and impotent as its floundering when called upon to prove its statement of there being an oath•bannd association in our midst , , bent upon the "destruction of our Goir eminent." Let ne enlighten our impulsive and en rbasiaatio.neighb or in relation-to the whir* seems to be too much complicated forks understanding. - Mr t 3 anderson, of Lancaiter, - 'in State; ; lately , delivered: an address; in which, among other good things, be quoted from a letter written by Lord Lyon, in whickfila , Lordship said that in a converaation with. Mr. 141%4 , the latter said that "he could2.treach a ball," 4c. A political opponent - of Mr. Sanderson's, addressed Secretary Seward, *drips whether the state illelltja_ip;gl;" was— Ulm or 114.' Did the astute Secretary answer this In• quiry ? not a bit of it. Did his Eon, his privets Secretary? not he ; but a Mr. Somebody did, and what did he say? Rim • ply that he could not find it in Mr. Seward's published correspondence ; but had that ingenious individual extended-his investi gation he might have,' found kin- the cor respondence of the English'-Minister.— Lord Lyon is responsible for the state ment, and it stands un6ontradieted. Were it"gotirue, our politic &oretary of Soto is not the man to allow it to go uncontra dieted. One so fond of Indicting epistles as he is would not permit so fine an oppor tunity to pass without giving us a column and a half at least of his peculiar and fas - . - emoting rhetoric. Oar Premier is ready with the pen, and never fails to use it, whether in reply to an announcement of some pious persons praying for the success of our cause, or to Home Leagues through which he expects to reach the next Pres dency. _ THE 139TH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT. We have seen letters from privates and officers in the Army of the Potomac, speaking in the highest teems of praise of the gallantry and steadiness of the 13901 regiment, Col. Collier. At one time whilst occupying the heights of Freder• icksbnrg and under a terrific fire the regi ment stood alone, and in retiring formed the rear guard, fighting in line to the pon toons. We feel proud of the officers and men of this gallant corps, Co _ r respondectee of the Post OL. CLA.RKE'S REGIMENT tIARRISIIIITR6, Ma llth, The 123 d regiment of Pennsylva n i a 1863. vol unteers, commanded by Col., Clarke, ar rived in this city yesterday afternoon, and are nowlying at Camp Curtin, waiting to be paid off and mustered out of service. The readers of ties Post are of course aware that this regiment is comnosed almost f wholly of Allegheny men, though it con tains a few from Greene, Washington and other counties of Western Pennsylvania. The men were swore into the service of the United States at Plash urgh on the 9th of August, 1862, and on the 21st of the same month they arrived in Harrisburg, where they were uniformed and equipped. A day or two later they reached Washing ton city and were immediately transferred to the Virginia side of the Potomac. The regiment was then attached to Humph rey's division. It performed camp and picket duty near Fairfax Seminary in the neighborhood of Alexandria till General McClellan started up through Maryland in pursuit of Gen. Lee ; it was then transfer red to Washington, and with other troops sent to the support of McClellan, reaching the famous battle field of Antietam the day after the fight. Here it performed arduous picket duty till McClellan marched into Virginia along the base of the Blue Ridge. It followed him to Warrenton, where it witnessed that event eo calami tous to the country—General McClellan taking leave of the Army of the Potomac. In the changes that took place at War renton, this regiment fell into the corps of Gen. Hooker, and under him it follow ed Gen. Burnside to Falmouth, when that commander made the celebrated move ment by which "Lee's army was iLrik-ed and the road to Richmond opened," as the Philadelphia Inquirer and other leatherhead newspapers announced in blazing "boldface.' It participated in Bartuucle's battle ot Fredericksbu lost about one - hundred and forty mrg ena n ind killed, wounded and missing. After the b attle, it lay with the rest of the Army of e Potomac on the North side of the ItiPpalutinittelv.till Hooker crosed over and gatt r e..baft+ the enem. In this second battle o Fredericksbu y, rg, the regi ment was not very hotly engaged, its less amonntiqg to only eight or nine wounded ' and ooe tnissingi..:- A few days after Hook er's defeat and return to .Falmouth, this regiment waceordered to Harrisburg, the „Omit and patriotic spirits composing it vin* honorably served out their period ' enhetuteate , -lti a day or; two they will ,be h- • Vityoultemertt in this city, growing lias .:tit.of the late battle at Fredericksbu,e eery nearly subsided, although the 4HarriflbUrg Telegraph has exerted itself 'to excite and perplierthe public mind by Prlutijig untrethful'dispatches. Secretary Statiton's "official" dispatch to Governor Card°which , was Conspicuously posted around townby George Bergner, the Ad ministration Postmaster and - billeiticker here, has elicited much eon:Neill. - its statement that not over one-fitidocHooki er'S -army was - actually engarid- irrthe; late battle is not "granaz i allY,Credited. It was remarked Voile - Of cad Mgelit'respent able and Moatquiet citizen he read the dispatch, that "it well to have at lefeit one department orffe gov ernment -- efficiently organized, and he thought ilk- Wog department was perfect and complete in all its appointments." Opinions differ as to who is respobsible for the falsehood, if such it be, but the Majority appear to think that Stanton has been humbugged by Hooker. If the ma jority are right in this opinion, then Gen. Hooker has not shown much shrewdness in hie attempt to account to the War de partment for his failure; for if he carried say 150,000 troops over the river, and yet put only 50,000 of them into action, leav ing 100,000 as idle spectators to look on and see the fifty thousand defeated, the conclusion is inevitable that he lacks the skill to command more than fifty thousand troops, or else that he criminally neglect ed to exert more than one-third of his force against the enemy. The plea that the nature of the country did not enable him to put more 'Of his troops in action will not avail, since it does not appear that Lee and Jackson were at all embarrassed by the nature of the ground. Surely Hooker could ma nceuvre as large a force as Lee's on the same ground, if Hooker had Lee's genius for command. Gen. McClellan has been censured and accused of wishing to loose ,the battle of Antietam, and called a trai tor beCause he held a mere handful in re serve. I presume General Hooker is sound enough on the nigger question to save him from such an injurious and unjust impu tation. Brig. Gen. Campbell, of Chambersburg, who is well known in your city, is among the military notabilities now at the State Capital. He is as full of patriotism and Democracy as ever. His right aria is still in bandages, and I regret to say that it I will probably be permanently stiffened at !the elbiew, owing to contraction of thel flexor muscles. Hon. S. L. Russell, of. Bedford, is also here, having come some days ago to attend the funeral of the wife; of his brother, Adjutant General nussell. Preparations on an extensive scale are being made for the reception of the 12'7th regiment Pa, volunteers, which is expect ed to arrive in a few days. A collation will lie served up to the gallant fellows, and they will receive a welcome which they will be likely to remember with pleasure for many years. It appears that Simon Cameron has not yet gone out and hanged himself- as it was supposed he would do, after Dr. Bover's exposure of his villainy. lam told there was a sthall congregation of political saints at his ratidenee, below this city' on Sat ,urday night. It was made up, of Stich orthodox patriots as Ben. Brewster and Morton McMichael, of Philadelphia, and Tai iteynolds of:Lancaster. -Of coursel Patterson wid , Brobat - were there. I don't know who they decided on for nbreination for -124t',GovernOr-;iproliiiblyi•Patlerson, MOT op inns to . "swear it tbrough:!!" srsqintmumt, FROM TEE ARIII OF FBI POTOIAO, Rumors and Speenlattons—The Route to Rieh mond--Losses of the Union and ',Confederate Forces• The Washington:eh ronicle, Of yester day, has the followirig item: "It is stated that -the President yester-, day received a dispatch from the army of the Potomae, announcing that Gen. Lee had sent a flag of trace to Gen. Hooker, requestingfthat he send medical stares to the wounded at Chancellorsville, as hie (Gen. Lee's) corammunicatiOn with Rich mond was cut off. It is also said that the request, was - complied with:" The Washington correspondent of the New York COntuterria/ writes : It is now evident that General McClel lan was correct in preferring the low lands of the tide -water regions of Virginia, where the rivers furnish means of trans porting supplies to the hilly, broken, wooded country which, after heavy rains, form impassable barriers to an advance or to a retreat, and it is the general opinion here that the next movement of General Hooker, (which may ere this have been commenced,) will •he wade lower down than was his last advance. A few, how ever, think he will recrose at United Staes Ford, and rendezvous at Gordonsville, which would etreztually guard this city, about which there is always more or less alarm. Which ever route General Hooker may take, it may be regarded as certain that he will lose no time in starting on the war path again. The Falmouth correspondent of the New York Times writes : The losses of Sickle's corps during the four days of battle, viz : Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, average fully thirtll • three per cent, of the force he brought into the field. The official returns of casual ties in his corps foot up in the aggregate 4,874 killed, wounded and missing. The heaviest loss that occrrred in any one of the brigades composing the corps was in the first brigrde,firet division, commanded by Brig. Gen. Charles K. Graham, of New York. Out of 2,800 men, he lost close upon 800—not more than one eighth of whom are classified as "missing.' I sm sure that I am safe in saying, from the official and other lists of casualties of the different corps engaged that have fallen under my eye, as well as from what I saw on the field during the progress of the en gagements, that the rebel loss is at least one-third greater than ours. I estimate our lossese--and I think this will be borne, out by subsequent publications—at 18,000 men. The losses of Sedgwick's and Sink ers corps is about 10,000, - ---- Keyes and Richmond. The movement of Gen. Keyes into Rich mond, of which there were such exciting rumors all day yesterday, causing a vio lent outbreak of flags in many places, has not yet been made. Those reports were premature, and probably wholly unfound ed. It would be an extremely hazardous step fur General Keyes. with his small force, to move cut of his entrenchments on the York river. On two conditions he might he able to do something—the first that Hooker was engaging the whole of Lee's army, and the second that no rein forcements were possible from the South. Those who believe in the possibility of our forces capturing Richmond from the direction of the peninsula or Suffolk, be cause Stoneman has severed the rebel commuuications to the North and Wes., do not perceive that their communications are still open Southward. The lines to Petersburg, Newbern,,Charleston, Sayan- I nah and Mobile are still running, and thousands of men have been probably hurried forward to the Confederate capi. tal from those cities. Beauregard is said to have bad fifty thousand men in Charles ton alone; but suppose that he had only thirty thousand, ten of which were enongh to man his fortifications ; he could dispatch twenty thousand to the relief of Rich• mond. Keyes' small division of eight or ten thousand men would be repulsed at Once, or if not repulsed, soon be expelled from its conquests by the superior force of the enemy. Besides, we cannot understand the im portance which the popular mind attaches to the capture-of Richmond. If Jeff Davis and all his official crew can be taken at the same time we should have the means of silencing a few pernicious Bat the rebellion would still live. Neith er Richmond nor the present officials are essential to its continuance. There would be a good moral effect produced, both at home and abroad, by the takirg of the -temporary capital of the @the's; but in a military or political sense Richmond pos -1 /misses little consequence. In a military way, indeed, the capture of it would be an embarrassment to us, while iu the po litical way it would bring as no strength. Richmond is not, like Washington, the established and accredited seat of govern ment of a nation, where its archieves are kept, and to which the credentials of the foreign ministers are addressed. It is a temporary sojourning place only, for any other, in the event of its loss by the rebels, would answer their purpose as well— Lynchburg, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mo bile. r What we have to do now is not to go on any more Quixotic adventures after capi tals and towns, but to whip their army. Let that be crushed, and we shall have no trouble in taking the towns. With the exception of New Orleans the towns we have occupied have been like the drawing of the elephant in a lottery—much more difficult to keep than to get. Not one of them has been worth the powder it has a cost. Yorktown, Norfolk. Suffolk, and swarm of little North Carolina and Flori da villages,give employment to our troops, it is true, but they would find an infinitely better use for themselves if they, could all be within trumpet call of Hooker, who is reported to have crossed the Rappahan nock once more. .1"; Evening Post • x amusing incident transpired a few evenings since, at Manchester, in New Hampshire, in the Ranting street_ Baptist Church, on the occasion of a magic lan tern . ~ . . exhibition. The scene of the chi!. dren of Israel crossing the Red Sea was exhibited, and the small children were asked if they conld tell what it represent ed. Oae little fellow immediately sung out; "Gen. Burnside crossing the Rappahan nock!" AN unpleasant story is told of gason Jones, when he lectured in a town near , Boston. There was a very thin audience , 1 and he commenced as follows: "Ladies and gentleman, I have been accustomed, both in England and this country, and as there are very few persona here to• night, I shall abstain from my usual eloquenee and merely give yon a talk." Minertil Waters SPRING Stt.PpLY BLUE LlCii, Bedford, GDAgieiB / Empirtr -411917,t Sto A:m.44w - - SIXOJOHniO.- • 1113