A Wise Measure.
Gen. Johnston has taken the most effectual steps to prevent communication between his army and the outside world. This is as it should be. No great military enterprise was ever or ever will be, conducted to a successful issue, in the absence of similar precautions. We know not what design the General may have formed, nor have we the remotest idea of what his objects may be, but we do know that, let them be what they may, they ought to be confided to as few as possible, and by no means allowed to reach the public ear.--Gen. Johnston is acting, in this particular, like a true General, and we trust he will not relax the system he has inaugurated. Most sincerely do we hope that the policy adopted by him will be followed by every General in the service. It will bear hard at first on those who have friends in the camp; but the people are prepared to submit to anything that will advance the great object they have in view. A more reasonable people does not exist any where. When made to understand that secrecy is a prime element in successful warfare, they will willingly forego the pleasure of receiving intelligence from the camps, in the hope that they may eventually reap the reward of their temporary anxiety.
