her mouth open to pour stimulants be very down before he recognized her. encouraging to the men, and end of five months was 88,387. This [AOKILLED. One THE WILDERNESS I hope they will be sent as fast as is a startling fact. More than two- doctor is reported as saying possible that he preferred any and in as great numbers. I thirds of the army that crossed the battle field he am satisfied the enemy are very shaky Rapidan in May had YlrglnU ever saw to this affair, so far as Inside Grant’s been ... on »W«»t the Facts About Richmond and are only up Tr«l" horrow of it was concerned. kept to the mark by struck down or was report- Through a Bara- Campaign—Dispatches Sent the greatest exertions on the part of ed missing. Where were the miss- **£,(W* their officers, by keeping them ing? IM Bridge. to Halleck. and This is not explained. In a dis- Aeronauts Killed. intrenched in every position they take. patch to Secretary Stanton from There were two fatal acci- Up to this time t here is no indication “near Spottsylvania," May 10, As- balloon Charles B. Dana’s Messages to of any portion Lee’s army urtaaur dents in Ohio towns on Secre- of being sistant Secretary Dana stated that We#fTl,e,rkuw»J the fourth of tary of detached for the defense of Rich- at the end of days’ fighting July. At New Lisbon, War Stanton—The “Man four the *sL»So®» Charles J. From Galena” Had His Own mond." total killed, wounded, stragglers and Injuries. Jones, of was Heavy rains missing in the Cleveland making an as- Plan. impeded operations for army of the Potomac cent. William Hennessy, an assistant, several days at Spottsylvania, and was 27,521, exclusive of the cavalry. a Lady, Killed Grant telegraphed to Halleck May 16: “Of course,” he said, “great numbers Ooe was caught in the ropes and carried un»»»ts. Interesting Reminiscences of the Time “You can assure the president and of men who are lying around the iJk|lo Xakiad Asrensioas one hundred feet into the air. Both secretary of war that the woods will That a Nation Was Held in elements soon return to their com- in Ohio. men then fell, Hennessy being instant- alone have suspended hostilities, and mands, but many of these are worth- lykilled aDd Jones fatally injured. Awful Suspense. is in r that it no manner due to weak- less for fighting purposes." As the At Elyria Mile. Zoetca Bently of ness or our part." ever known in West exhaustion on For Confederates captured comparatively .nrat wreck Cleveland attempted to make an as- several days Grant’s dispatches referr- few prisoners the 24,000 men missing of Advance sheets of a new volume in on the Fourth cent while a strong wind was blowing. ed to matters of detail and to the co- from the army of the Potomac in * o««rr«l Michigan She was dragged through the extensive series devoted the tbe Kauawha k several trees,' to operative movements of other armies November largely remain to be other- west of Charles- and fell when sixty feet from the official dispatches and reports are in the field. When Leetookjpositionon wise accounted for. height miles ground. She was killed instantly. just out relating to the army opera- the North Anna, Grant had reached About 100 pages ot this volume are When the body was picked up it the important given was tions of 1861-05, says the conclusion that Lee to Confederate dispatches and train for Columbus found that every rib had been broken. New York must thenceforward necessarily act reports during in inoMeogei Sun. the struggle the wil- two car loads of ex- on the defensive. He telegraphed to derness. After leaving Spottsylvania iouTwith Order of This volume is occupied with the Halleck May 2b: “Lee’s army isreally court house Lee dated his dispatches its, among them the Crashed Into a Street Car. were first month of Grant’s campaign whipped. The prisoners we now take simply “Headquarters Army of j Mechanics, who American On the morning of the 4th inst., a against Richmond, show it, and the action of his army Northern Virginia," which withheld beginning May 4, shows it unmistakably. the public to Pocas. Northwestern freight train struck a A battle with from the fact that he was on a high trestle. 1864. Grant’s dispatches from the them outside intrenchments cannot be gradually retreating upon Richmond. 5 wreck occurred street car on the Rockwell street cross- caught fire.duringthe front to Halleck from day to day are had. Our men feel that they have gain- In the willdernesß battles the Con- Lershad ing in Chicago, and injured five of the here made ed the morale over the enemy and at- federates lost about as many general the rails spread under public for the first time. wd so passengers. The train struck the car tack with confidence. I may be mis- officers as the Union What engine, baggage and They are not voluminous, numbering army. win. The on the side and knocked it several taken, but I feel that our success ov- Lee’s casualties were m falling back safely, but the in all but 27, and covering the first er jars passed over feet. Lee’s army is already insured." from the Rapidan to Richmond is yet The following were injured: Un- month of operations. They prove were thrown from the known man who died, Thus 22 days after crossing the Rapi- to be satisfactorily determined. But coacns some torty Patrick Martin, that Grant at all times had his army dan After running hurt about the head, may die; Frank Grant felt that Lee would never we find a complete record of the casu- the forward well in hand, and pursued his original again venture upon a in the op- alties in the artillery of the army a the sleepers Becker, hurt about the head and inflexibly. battle of the left and the rear breast; Before May ended en field. This impression was correct. Nortnern Virginia from May' 4, 1864, Led to O. P. Witt, head cut and e assured t hat right. The forward car Elans Helleck Lee was sub- The result of the battles in the wilder- to Dec. 1 ofthesameyear. The number , the bruised on left shoulder; Wallace stantially beaten, and could no longer dcompletely over, landing right Boyd, left leg crushed and internally nesss was that the rest of the war in of killed was, officers, 20; men 279; other fell some twenty safe’.y venture upon the offensive. Virginia was a siege. wounded, officers 52, men 901; missing, ,n The injured. Only once did Lee have an oppor- ¦urning upside down and one set dead man June 5 Grant announced to Hal- officers 17, men 483. Total casual- crushing The has been identified tunity to stay the advance. That Us tell on top of it the as Robert Bradley. After the leck that his plan had been to beat ties in the artillery were, 1,663. The wound- was May 6, when Milroy’s brigade, on army medical ed had been attended to, the police Lee’s north of Richmond, to director of the Second (Ew- most of the our right, gave way, carrying good destroy his lines of ell’s) corps reported that fathifl place the arrested everyone who might in the with communication the killed were found. Surgeons troops them. “Had there been north of the James, and then trans- and wounded in the corps for the [bodies slightest degree be held responsible daylight,” Grant says to Halleck, were sent at once. for the accident, fer the army to the south side of the month ot May, 1804, was 4,453. Lrelieftrain[ and including Conductor “the enemy could have injuted us very James besiege figures, gcenes among the dead Whitlock and Driver Wells, in the to Lee in Richmond or These it will be observed, do rending. One much in the confusion that prevailed; follow him if he retreated. This is not include the missing. Lee’s [ were heart street car; Engineer Lockman, and however, losses was severed at the mouth they, instead of getting just what Grant finally accomplished. during May', 1884, must have been fcbead his fireman and Conductor Weger, of through the break, attacked Gen. L head was fished out from the freight train, and John Rooinson, Lee’s army was too icrippled to oper- fully 25,000 men. His army, in pro- several hours after Wright’s division of Sedgwick’s corps ate north of the James; Grant besieg- portion to its size, suffered almost as [tie wreck watchman at the street crossing. and beaten back.” |ody was found. The bodies were Nowhereelse ed him from the south side of the riv- much as the army of the Potomac, were taken to Charles- in bis private telegrams does Grant er, and when Lee retreated Grant pur- although it fought on interior lines [recovered mention any threatening The Itata Once More at San Diego. inroads up- sued and captured his army. Grant and. after the first few days, defens- on his line. When the two armies em- had hoped ively behind I persons were killed outright. The Chilian to accomplish this, or near- intrenchments. The Light persons have been counted transport Itata and the erged from the Wilderness the old feel- ly this, in one campaign. As a mat- most searching investigation will be and a number walked cruiser Charlestown ar- ing of superiority in Lee’s army had ter of fact, it occupied him a little less required to ascertain Lee’s losses, ex- Chart, left it to return no more. [betore they could be counted, rived in port at San Diego, Cal., at 9:- than eleven months, and the end was clusive of his surrender, m Virginia af- Grant’s first dispatch to Halleck af- the complete of Lee’s ter Grant assumed command against k entire number of passengers, 30 on the morning of the 4th inst., di- ter obliteration he,John ofCharlestown, crossing the Rapidan May 4 sim- army, which was more than Grant him. But enough is known to render Norvell rect from lquique. The Itata entered ply that the army was hdwithout a scratch. He was announced in could reasonably have cduuted upon. it certain that his casualties, as well the harbor and anchored in the pan- motion and safely beyond the river. as Grant’s, were unparalleled Imaiicar. Most of those injured uana’s confidential reports. almost el, while The next dispatch is two days later, in warfare. lit slightly hurt. the Charlestown remained May outside the head. Tbe Itata was at once 6. Allthat Grant says regarding Secretary Stanton’s confidential A SCENE OP HORROR, general operation is: “We have I boarded by revenue officers. The Ita- been correspondent with the army of the engaged with the enemy in full force Electric Mostqnito Net. loiters went early to the scene of ta and Charlestown came direct from Patomac when Grant started on his lquique, being out twenty three days. since early yesterday. So far there is One of the most singular uses to Kreck in a carriage at the first re- no decisive result, but I think all wilderness campaign was Charles A. When off the Coronado hotel about which electricity has been put in this I Another lot followed on the things are progressing favorably.” Dana, assistant secretary of war. a mile the Charlestown let go her an- electric age is announced from Id relief train. They were met chors and the Itata into May 7 Grant telegraphed: “I think Mr. Dana arrived at the front May o, Paris. steamed the the loss of the must exceed A kene the horrors of which can- bay. At ten o’clock she reached the enemy ours, He telegraphed on that date: “Spirits French servant has invented an anchorage but this is only a guess based upon of men and officers are of the highest electric mosquito bar, which is, he be- le described. On every hand identical from which she the fact that attacked and eloped so sensationally some weeks they were pitch of animation." May 10 Mr. lieves, destined to replace all ¦death and destruction. Tne repulsed so often. At present we can Dana other ago with the United States marshal telegraphed from near Spott- means of defence against flyinginsects. Poi the injured and the wailing board. The claim no victory over the enemy, sylvania: “Itis true that whenever on wharves were soon neither have they gained a single ad- Making use of the principle of electric lie who had lost friends added crowded with all anxieus to we touch Lee he appears to be strong, execution, he has constructed people vantage. The enemy out a sort get a the vessel, and the bay pushed of but his lines are much shorter than cage, k horror of the scene. Eieht look at the to prevent their posi- of screen or wire-work with a in was dotted with sailing craft all fortifications ours and more concealed by woods, small light in play the sun side by side, of tion being turned, and have been soon- that he electric the center. The ¦others were brought in as fast descriptions. As soon as possible so can move from one point mosquitoes, attracted by the light, er or later driven back in every in- to another without our knowing it.” hands could Officer Churchill, in charge of the ves- 4 ’ attempt to fly through the interstices ircwful carry them. stance. Mr. Dana placed the effective force I funeral train which left the sel, came ashore and telegraphed his The Bth Grant Hal- of the cage; but it they so much as telegraphed to of the that day at tips ¦ about 1 o’clock presented a report to the department at Wash- leck: “It is not demonstrated touch the of their wings,—and wfflght. ington. yet 94,000. But on May 10 he they cannot fly through without doing In one car were nine what the enemy willdo, but the best gave P lymg on cots and The itata came in Hying the Chilian the total of effectives, exclusive so,—they are struck by the current of shrouded in of feeling prevails in this army, and I of cavalry and reinforcements, at 50.- I inen. In every car were num- flag covered with bunting in honor of apprehension electricity with which the screen is injured, the and carrying officers and feel at present no for 124. The total of casualties in the charged. ¦ and in many of them day as the results. efforts will be kept constantly forms My to army of the Potomac within the 12 This mosquito-trap, which, a Pj? shrouded in white in- crew the same men who manned her torm a junction with Gen. Butler as it under Ponly days after crossed the Rapidan he is said have innumera- to plainly the result of when she left so suddenly with the early possible, and be prepared test to Rilled of Silvd, Palma, as to placed at 30,782. May 20, Mr. Dana ble victims, can be maintained only exception command- meet any enemy interposing. The re- telegraphed: ¦saddest er Esmeralda, three “One of the most im- by the aid of a electric appara- feature was the death ot the and to or sult of the three days’ light at Old of the small ¦wr Welcher of his officers, who assisted Itata portant results campaign thus tus, so arranged as to send alterna- and his wife wno the Wilderness was decidedly in our favor. far is the entire change which has tak- Puedin the same seat, to get out. on her last visit, brought tive currents through the wire net- leaving a The enemy having a strongly intrench- en in the the her in, there is no prize crew, the place feelings of armies. work. Jwywhich was badly injured. ed position to fall back on wh*m hard Rebels have lost all confidence, and Itahn care o by friend s. What Charleston having simply put an of- train It is to be supposed that the person P the burning and the extensive we are already morally defeated. This to be protected takes refuge on the of the trestle is not ficer on board and convoyed her up, Eressed,ave to rendered it impossible has learned ¦. but it is leaving original cover, army to believe that it is interior of the netting, with the little supposed to have navigation to the to inflict the heavy blow on Lee’s sure of victory. our ? om crew under Militiary Commander Even officers electric light and the generating ap- | cinders dropped by an army I had hoped. My exact route have ceased to regard an in- ¦ hat passed up [Tejede and Capt. Ar- Lee as paratus. It is not too much to say after midnight. Mauzeam. to the James river I haveno*t yet defi- vincible military genius. On the part ties were burned. rangements were immediately made that there are some people who would engineer nitely marked out.” On the 9th of the rebels this change is evinced not rather have the mosquitoes. ¦ saw the smoke, but to turn the vessel over to the proper Grant says in a brief dispatch that their 1 authorities. only by not attacking, even when Inasmuch as, if the electrified net- ¦> '„ hom tbe creek went United States the enemy was in motion, but he could circumstances seem to invite it, but lv*n £ in the neighbor* ting Jwill keep out the mosquitoes, a not determine whether “to interpose by the unanimous statements of pris- netting Bmoke thought it Fredericksburg made a little closer would lom hecai Dead. between us and or oners take from them. Rely upon keep them out without any electricity, E, np of some persons get the road to is well n fißhl to inside Richmond. it, the end near as as sure." it does not seem likely that this in- E 7, n? there. The wreck Ex-Vice President Hannibal Ham- My movements are terribly embarras- By May 28 Mr. Dana placed an( l the vention is destined to any great use- the full horror lin died at Bangor, Me., on the 4th sed by our immense wagon train. It number of reinforcements that had ar- e rea, iize< i by one who fulness. Kutn!«the inst. He went down town that after- could not be avoided, however.” rived since the campaign opened at It reminds one somewhat of the scene. May 10, from near 20,000 men. He said in his dispatch WrrH noon and went to the Tarratine club story of a Dutchman who went about I °DT 4 WARNING. H., Grant telegraphed: “The enemy of June 8 from Cold Harbor: “Tbe selling a preparation for poisoning a rooms where he played pedro, when hold our front in very strong force and correspondent of a Cincinnati newspa- came on so suddenly that certain kind oftroublesome insect. his head tell forward on his chest. A evince a strong determination to in- per paraded through the lines to-uay “You take de msec’ mit definger an’ had time to think, gentleman remarked: “The senator terpose between us and Richmond to on horseback by the provost marshal de dumb of von handt,” said the ped- ®y knew it found theni- seems to feel badly.” Mr. Hamlin the last. I shall take no backward guard. On his back and breast were dler, “an’ den mitde odder you at handt B. in a confused mass said: “I do.” steps. We can maintain ourselves big placards inscribed ‘Libeler of the put de pizen in his mout.” of The gathered around him and least, and, inthe end, beat Ijee’sarmy, Press.’ His offense was reporting af- ¦“v> car seats and men “But,’’said the farmer, “it you’ve windows and he was taken to a lounge. Dr. Robin- I believe. Send to Belle Plain all the ter the battle of the Wilderness Meade them We got to catch them and hold that w^en a general son, who was in the next room, at- infantry you can rake and scrape. desired to take a course that would way why can’t you smash ’em and Kkii? artilelry.” nation, out of the cars. tended him, and afterwards Doctors want no more wagons nor have destroyed the but which done with it?” Ve ’ Mason and Phillips were called. No Grant prohibited. Punishment includ- tke only passenger “FIGHT OUT ON THIS LINE.” “Veil,”said the Dutchman, “dot’s BL for an hour, and it ing from the lines, was in- had gone pulse was visible expulsion a good vay, too!” into tbe was thought they could not bring him In his dispatch to Halleck of May flicted by Gen. Meade’s order." The also l e The electric netting suggests the J? mail “gent, out. Finally he revived somewhat and 11, from the same place, Grant used following day Mr. Dana wrote: “Gen. story of Patrick’s experience with an Le says The at the B^aiar»!?? managed to articulate freely. doc- a phrase that became memorial, Meade is very much troubled ordinary mosquito canopy. He found ]olt n and then him faithfully and his report that the battle of the |the} had j 8» tors worked over find it in the news- after one in a room that he was to sleep in l m§ed the track- family was sent for. Soon Mr. Ham- though we do not Wilderness he counseled retreat. This ? oneoftK ° one night, and after studying it for a (in r l H Lung on lin, Gen. Charles Hamlin, his son and papers of the same date. Grant tele- is entirely untrue He has not shown an iletan time, made up his mind how it was ¦ bac konth«f i' tbe car was and his wife and other members were graphed to Halleck, and we give this any weakness of the sort since mov- to be used. This was the way he re- ltbe and then with at his side. All was done for him in ing from Culpepper, nor once intimat- lated his the ¦ boach u »g dispatch in full, except a fewminorde- experience next day: |C r off over the human power but failed, and he pass- ed a doubt as to the successful issue r: all tails: “We have now ended the sixth “It’s an illegapt thing I found in me Wocrg fn the windows ed away peacefully at 8:15 p. m. of the campaign. Mr. Dana left the room lasht noight. There was a ail fighting. The re- ¦»Pantßwer«, ,“ car bufc He leaves a widow and sons, Gen.