The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-17

sis wine chest and other furniture besides the necessary
en- mails and wagons to transport tho material The
saAID headquarters at General Grant quarters City
Point under the charge OF Mr. s. Cadwallader was ian
institution, famous both sides Of tho military linsa
sort of neutral ground where rebel peace
and flag OF truce individuals generally and officers
could meet as gentlemen Invested Of all ocal
to FREQ and and discuss with the same
good huor tho evils OF warfare and tho good things OF
the HyR ANS harder and wine chest Similar headquar
tors were in other departments and
cities of military occupation, at Now Orleans Port
ROYAL and Richmond, and at Roy West and Fortress
Monroe Our headquarters at Richmond wero estab
shed in the elegant mansion formerly occupied by
Alexander H. stephens Vice President OF the extinct
confedeacy Tho headquarters at Port Royal were sab
sequenty purchased by our correspondents TO secure
occupation undsurbcd by the complaints oil the former
secesh proprietor, who had been depossd. At Now
Orleans Key West and Fortress Monroe in addition to
tho headquarters TO speak in the language oil peace
the HssALp Rooms correspondents wsre furnished
with boats for tho purpose Of communicating with tho
vessels in tho harbor These were regularly visited day
BY our reporters and the furnished from these
points as regularly the local items OF city are FUR
nishcd to 1.-Two newspaper Although find that every
correspondents had his heels conraband, for whose
maintenance we find ourselves charged at the rate OF
VIC have engaged in tho negro trade Sonio OF the
horses which those negroes groomcd have Sold but
the contrabands themselves Indignantly refused to
submit to tho same operation. We find determination
OF our counts that have purchasedfor these corres
pondents hundred and twenty horses OF whih
only about forty five survived tho war in ut condition
to be sold We lost eleven horses each Of which cost a.
least one hundred and twenty Ave doars during McCle
lans Peninsular campa gn alone. We havc Mosbys re-
ceipt for others captured at time while Stone
wall Jacksons autograph graces another receipt for
another HERALD horse. or course all these things
cost money and 1nd the aggregate Of the accounts
footing up fraction avs hundred thousand d,IIars
CURIOUS ITEMS OF ExrENsE.
Some Of the items Of expenses curious Oneo our
correspondents returns item OF ''SlOopaid to mill
tary conductor, on rai!r ad in Tennessee, to gain
twenty minutes lost timo in order make connection
with Louisville train at Nashville" The consequences
was that our account OF the battles Of Chattanooga was
published day earlier than It would have boen If the
500 had not been expended. Our special account
Of the capture Of New Orleans, although filling but
a few columns of o single issue OF our paper
cost US in the expenses alones Of the cores
pondent who accompanied Admiral Farragut, over
eleven hundred dollars Another correspondent re-
turns items Of "$5 paid for wild turkey, caught by
soldier and by tho correspondon: during tho bas
Ito Of Stone river" One hundred and fifty dollars 10 an
item for horse starved to death during tho sc3c
Of Chattanooga The ride Of our correspondent from tho
battle field of Chickamauga cost us q spcndd animal
purchased from tho widow Of Col W. p Campbell killed
while riding him at Perryvile Several others return
items for subscription Richmond papers at the rate OF
fifty conts per copy delivered in Libby prison There
arc toms presents to energetic scouts who's mouths
were opened thereby Every modo direct and indirect
that ingenuity could devise appears to have been en-
oyed to obtain news each correspondent appears
" his generous expenditure OF otr money, To be pos
sossod Of libora.y Of soul truly admirable.
OUR WAR MAPS.
Those have not been all tho curious and expensive
items. When the first began we made arrangements
to illustrate tho operations marches and battles Of
armies and tho naval engagements OF our navy, and
long before tho close Of the had reduced the
system to perfection We made . special agreement
with Mossrs Wat and Son. cngravers Of this city, to
ongravc all maps by the terms Of which they werc
at az times to hdr, at hand 10 d. tsors al a
momep's notice. They failed u.s. and conse-
qucnty tho Herald failed To furnish its illustra
ton OF ovcry important battle ground Our cores
pondcnts furnished rough diagrams OF tho field, tho
position of troops aud locality Of houses and streams
which RAPIDLY might almost say instantaneousIy
transferred the wood and engraved by engravcrs
Our messengers the Army of tho Potomac usually
reached the Office with correspondence and maps at nine
oct tho night after starting Our diagrams
were placed that in the hands Of the engrayers
add finished by the hour Of closing tho forms about ono
O'Clock at night Our correspondent with General Grant,
Mr. Shsns onco reached the Office at cloren o'clock at
night with six column map tho battle field OF Chatta
nooga I, put into tho hands OF Mcsrs Waters and
son at that late hour and finished the proper time
nj
it, We have publlshod u series of maps which will
be invaluable the historian while have at tho
sam, time col,c from all tho departments OF th,
army series Of ohcal maps published VIII CHI Is
only second the collection a: tho War Department: in
Washington, and which il growing invaluable as time
progresses THIS item OF expense FOR drawing and en-
craving has amounted to nearly twenty-five thousand
dollars mich we have paid to Mcssrs Waters and son
alone having employed no other engravcrx
MAPS by TELg0RArH.
II may be interesting here TO that importan,
and interesting did this feature Of our paper become,
that made arrangements with correspondents 10
forward their nnps they often did their correspond
once by telegraph Tho invention by which this could
DO done was made by Mr.. Thomas W. Knox, and was
as curious as usoful clvs1. was died at Washington
and a patent for the invention secured BY tho OF
this simple invention correspond nts tho field
could telegraph u.s. and Mcssrs Waters and Son could
produce for next days paper full diagram Of the field
showing roads streams, houses, fields, woods the posi-
ton troops by regiments and the entire lines Of battle
OF tho contending armies We have renewed the patent
aud arranged our collection OF maps preparatory the
next war with Mixmilian or John Bull, when wo shall
arrange to furnish illustrative diagrams as well AZ
graphite pen pictures Of every battle by telegraph
THE ADVENTURES OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS
"by food and noi' would make volume Of intense in
terest They have VITA ssed every phas Of the struggle
for the Union, from the secession Of South Carolina
its late restoration from the fall OF Sumter to the fail Of
Fort Griffin Sabine Pass, from tn, murder of fsdd and
Whitney 10 tho assassination OF Mr. Lincoln. While
some looking after the work Of reconstruction
and restoration in Virginia and the Northeastern States
others watching the closing in Texas while
others are on the ground awaiting the opening OF the
grand ball in Mexico. Many have been captured, and
several have been wounded. Mr.. Finley Anderson was
captured and confined for fourteen months ten days
which was in inreo INTO which not one ray Of light