Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-30

estimates Of Lees losses, except that in thu wilderness he was as much exposed a Grant attacking and being repelled; a Gold Harbor, Grant attacked, but without success. It is, therefore, fair to suppose that Lees losses were equal to those o Grant At any rate, Lee suffered so mucl that he never assaulted Grant in force dur ing the nine months longer that the wal continued.
 It has been repeatedly asserted that Lees army was not recruited to any ex-
 tent during the last six months of the wal
 and that he had but handful of men op. posed to Grant in the final campaign from Petersburg to the Appomattux. But Lee s own field returns show that on the 28th of February, 1865, he had 83, 349 men pres ent, 59, ,094 present. for duty. This was ex- elusive of the local militia of Ric hmond, always put into the trenches in fight, and several thousand strong, as well as the gun boat crews in the James, who were also put into land fights. Out of these, 27,416 were surrendered and paroled at Appomat- tux Court House, and 19,079 captured ip battle, beside about 3, 900 more in the as- sault on Fort Sedgwick. At least 10000 fnore deserted on the road from Richmond to Appomattux. These two last numbers,
 
 was ever made of the final movements by Lee. sz---
 Thus it will be seen that Grant began the campaign with 98,O19 effective men, and Lee with 72,278, and that consequent ly Lee, having all the advantages of posi- tion, breastworks, friendly country, and short and constantly shortening line of supplies in his favor, was virtually the stronger of the two. The losses during the Wilderness campaign were about equal, mot more than 2O,O0O on each side. And final ly, when Lee reached Petersburg, he had more men than were with him at the be- ginning of the campaign, showing that he had been heavily re-enforced. It seems to us this settles the question of Grants gen. eralship. Tribune.
 Ba5T The bill which passed the Senate on Saturday for the protection of natural ized citizens abroad, was so amended as to be an entirely different measure from what it was on it's original intoduction by Sena- tor Conness; and we are not surprised at the angry declaration of the Calafornia Senator, that, after it's amendment, he cared nothing about it's passage The sec- tion authorizing the President to make re- prisals, and the section authorizing him to suspend commercial intercourse with any offending Power, were stricken out. The bill, as passed, merely declares, that natu- rallzed American citizens, while in Foreign States, shall receive the same protection from this State as native-born citizens; and provides that in case of any citizen being unjustly imprisoned by foreign Govern ment, the President shall demand an ex- planation; if this be unsatisfactory, the President shall forthwith demand his re- lease; If this be refused, the President shall "use means, not amounting to acts of war, as he may think necessary and proper to obtain and effect such release" communicating :, promptly to Congress the facts and proceedings. If Congress means to legislate on the subject at all, it could hardly pass more dangerous or foolish bill than that which was originally introduced by Mr. Conness. r. Times.
 BOSTON AND ERIE RAIL RoAD.-The Wa terbury American of to-day makes the fol- lowing announcement:
 Ground will positively be broken on the Boston, Hartford aud Erie Railroad next two miles west of this city. The work is in charge of Messrs Rice and Black, who have advertised for one thous- and workmen to add to the force already They commence on land of MT. Thomas Upson. The Erie war has delayed operations for the past few months, and now that this trouble is settled, the work will be prosecuted with vigor.