The Nashville Daily Union

A Strange Report.

The following letter from the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, promises extraordinary developments shortly: Although not one of Gen. McClellan's worshippers, we must regard the report as a sensation story, at present. The correspondent asserts that Gen. Scott advised the court-martialing of McCLELLAN.

How General McClellan Disobeyed General Scott.

WASHINGTON, February 18.

Readers will scarcely have forgotten that significant remark in one of Thad. Stevens', late speeches, that he only lost faith in McClellan when he learned that that general had persistently disobeyed and treated with contempt the orders of Lieutenant-General Scott.

The statement was a new one, and its basis was not known. People who remembered the rose-colored sketches of McClellan's parting with Scott, when the old veteran retired from the service, or the more rose-colored stories about Scott's solicitude at West Point for the personal safety of the "gallant young commander," during the Peninsular battles, were at a loss to reconcile Mr. Stevens' declaration with the stories of the more than paternal affection for McClellan which certain newspapers had constantly attributed to Gen. Scott.

Before this can get into print I trust that overwhelming documentary evidence will have been given to the telegraph, that as early as October, 1861, Gen. McClellan systematically and insolently slighted Gen. Scott personally, and disobeyed his most positive orders! Yet more!—That in the fall of that same year, matters had gone to such a pitch that Gen. Scott suggested the court-martialing McClellan for flagrant disobedience of orders!

These facts have been known for a long time but have never hitherto been put in a shape that would silence the contradiction of the swarms of liars who throng the approaches to every McClellan newspaper in the land. I remember very well, in the winter 1861-62, the repeated declarations of this sort, made by Gen. Lander, while lying ill on the bed, from which, as it afterward proved, he was never to rise. The same facts have also been mentioned by others, of their own personal knowledge, but the documentary evidence has always been wanting; and Lieut. Gen. Scott himself would of course never supply it.

In a few days, at farthest, however, it is trusted that it will now be laid before the country in an official form: and there will no longer be left a possibility to doubt that Gen. McClellan, almost from the very date of his entrance on service at Washington, systematically disobeyed the orders of Lieut. Gen. Scott, and from that progressed into an equally systematic disobedience of the orders of the President himself.

With that light before them, the country will no longer lack facts for understanding how the disgraced and disfranchised Fitz John Porter was a chief favorite of the "Young Napoleon," or how treachery to the flag came to taint the higher officers of the army so deeply as to produce Burnside's defeat and retreat.

Nor will the facts be wanting for that further estimate of Gen. McClellan's claims to consideration as a military man—whose conduct is asserted to have been constantly marked by the most scrupulous regard for military law and propriety, and whose constant misfortune has been to have been compelled to change his "plans" at the direction of superiors whose orders he never presumed to question.

AGATE.