strings: UCH is the turn which things have lately taken, that when Gen. Adams writes a book, I am expected to write a commentary on it. In the {'Republican" of this morning he has presented the world with a new work of six columns in length: in consequence of which I must beg the room of one column in the  Journal." It is obvious that a minute reply cannot be made in one column to everything that can be said in six; and consequently, I hope that expectation will be answered, if I reply to such parts of the General's publication as are worth replying to.