Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-02-13
wellington and Gen. Lee

view there ls paper lnsnluilng remark
able comparison between achievements Of
the Duke Of Wellington and Gen. Lee,
which hiss an interest peculiarly at'rac-
tive at this time. The Review. speaking
of The achievements Of Wellington, says
"As compared with those oi Gen. Lee,
they seem, including even Waterloo, ob-
soutey Insignificant. Gen. Lee, with
force not so large as the Anglo-Porlu-
cese regular army, which Wellington had
under him when he encountered Mssseua
in lS09-not half so large as his whole
force if the Portuguese mlI tia be taken into
counl-in the space OF tSen'y- eight days.
in three battles. killed and wounded more
men than Wellington ever killed and
wounded during his whole career. from
Assaye TO Waterloo, both inclusive. lO
one Of these battles Lee killed and wound.
ed more men by 5000 than the French
army lost, including prisoners, in the
whole campaign Of Waterloo and the
pursuits 10 the esIes Of Paris. In the
same battle he killed and wounded more
men than Wellington, BIucher and Nspo'
leon, al three together lost in killed and
wounded in The battle Of WateTloo, by
5000 men. ln the second OF these bat
ties he killed and wounded The same num-
ber that both tho opposing armies los in
the battle of Waterloo /; and in the third
he killed and wounded more by 1000
men than the French alone lost in the
bauIe OF Waterloo. In the three battles
together, Lee killed and wounded more
men by al least 80, 900 than the allies and
French lost in the whole campaign, lnclu-
ding prisoners. The force with which
Lee operated never amounted, at one
time, TO $4,000 men the force with
which Wellington and BIucher acted was,
even according TO English estimates, l90,.
600 strong. The force 10 which Lee
was opposed, was from fret TO lest. 24O,-
600 strong the force TO which yelling
ton and Bucher were opposed was bat
1872 600 strong. When Massena invaded
Portugal in 1910, Wellington had 30.-
coo British troops and 25, 900 Portuguese
regulars. who, al rhe baule Of Busaco, &C.
cording 10 Weilinglon's own account,
proved themselves ~orlhy TO fight side
By side with the British veterans besides
10000 admirable Por'Ugese militia. lie
had Lisbon for his base, with British
fleet riding al anchor. and innumetstle
vessels OF other descriptions plying be.
tween the ports Of EngaDd and bringing
the most abundant supply Of arms, Provs-
ions. and munitions Of war. lie had sur
rounded the port with the most Temend-
Gus stem Of fortrticalinns known in mod
ern times. and his task was 10 defend the
strongest country in Europe, In Lees
case, his enemy had possession Of the ses, 4,
and could and did land powerlul army
10 attack tie very basis of hs operations. &.
while be was fighting another Of sui
greater strenglt IN iroR'. It's robsbly
not aliogeIher justto Wellington 10 lnsli.
iulc tbs comparison. II hrs deeds look
but commonplace beside The achi ys.
menls Of DIS campaign, so do I'll oibers.
The IL tory Of The world cannot exhibit
such cam paign as Ihstol Lee in 1864"
THE SHALL-Pox IN CALIFORNIA -
Zrrible R0U0ges.-A lener fron San
Francisco, January IL, speaking Of the
ravsges Of tie smallpox IN various see
lions OF California, says:
Nearly tie whole Stale is infected, and
some towns have been declmaitd by lhe
ppslllence. Thus far Sacramento. Msrys-
vile and Stocktnh have escaped tie ma.
Ignant type Of the disorjer,bul II hs- run
through tie lower counties Ol lbe Sisle like
a mprrain. In Grlroy and Los Angeles
She disease has been fatal beyond prece.
derl. and San Francisco ran be called res-
fonsbly healthy when IT'S death rate is
corpsied with those Of the former lOWns.
Some ofIbose affected appear 10 rot by
inches,in sPile OF every available prsscrip.
tor. The Physirisns stand aghast. In
some rsses VscrinailOn seems 20 have en-
ureIy lusI it pOWer-snd 0ien. women
snt children with vaccine scars nn lheir
arms as large as iweniy-shliling pieces
Eavef III n victims TO the epidemic. Hos
pilsls have been hastily furnished. snd
every tGori IA. been made in lbese losns
10 srsy the progress Of tie dises,e. but
thus far with bur Iitle eject Whole
families have died. 10 one in,'snre,
father and four children died within tuen.
Iy.iour hours. and in hotel al LIS An
geles nine per.on. were buried within
week.
Bot tie pIsgoe-sPOI Of he Stale ihUs far
has been the ;owu OF San Juan, IN Mont
srey county some one hundred miles frt N
San Francisco. The iOsn contains about
thousand persons. The alarming &C.
counts Ct the mortsiity in Ssn Frsrc.co
and GiIfoy exei'ed some apprehension,
and an effort vas Dsde 10 preveul the sp-
pearsuce ofthe epidemic IN San Juan.
man came down from the erspe-growiug
district OF Snnoms county. and registered
his name in me hotel When questioned