Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-02-19
Bonaparte, Wellington and Lee.

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sions. --Pomeroy's Democrat.
/ Bonaparte, wellington and Lee.
| The Southern Quarterly, in very able
article on the Duke of WelIington's cam
paigns, has the following parallel between
the achievements of the great British com.
mander and those of Gen. Robert E. Lee
bin Virginia during the war:
I Gen. Lee, with force not so large as the
Anglo-P Portuguese regular army which We'll
lington had under him when be encountered
Massen in 18O9-not half SO large as his
whole force if the Portuguese militia be ia
ken into account in the space of twenty
Eeight 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.
In one Of these battle Lee killed and wounded
more men by 5000 than the French army lost,
including prisoners, in the whole campaign
Of Waterloo. and the pursuit to the gates of
| Paris, In the same battle he killed and
wounded more men than Wellington Blueh-
er and Napoleon, all three together, lost in
killed and wounded in the battle of Waterloo,
| by 5000 men. In the second of these bat
ties he killed and wounded the same number
that both opposing armies lost in the battle
| Of Waterloo; and in the third he killed and
wounded more by 1000 than the French a.
lone lost in the battle, of Waterloo. In the
three battles together, Gen. Lee killed and
wounded more men, by at least &c, 900, than
the, Allies and French lost in the whole cam
paign, including prisoners. The force with
which Lee operated never amounted, at one
time, to SO, 900 men the force with which
Wellington and, Butcher acted was. even ac-
cordipg to English estimates, 100000
strong. The force to which Lee was OPP
posed was from first to last, $4,000 strong;
| the force to which Wellington and Blpcher
were opposed was but $4,000 strong.
When Massena invaded Portugal in 1910,
Wellington had 10000 British troops. and
25, 900 Portuguese, regulars. who. in the
battle Of Busaco, according to Wellington's
own account, proved themselves worthy to
fight side be side with the British veterans,
besides 40, 900 admirable Portuguese militia.
He had lisbon for his base, with a British war
fleet riding at anchor, and innumerahle YES
sells Of other descriptions plying between the
port and England, and bringing the most
abundant supplies Of arms, provisions and
munitions Of war. He had surrounded the
port with the most tremendous system of for
tifcations known in modern times, and his
task was to defend the strongest country in
Europe. In Lees eaae, his enemy had pos
session of the sea, and could and did land
powerful army to attack the very basis of
his operations" ~ teul 'igia5 iiaa. .na ,a
Deliberate Murder BY boy Under Nine
i ~ u 'i' Years Of age. ..;:H -, 'tf
& NoRTHPoRT, MICny, Monday, Jan. H..
On. the afternoon Of Dec 10, George Bige-
low, not yet nine years old, deliberately shot
Thomas; Retford, his own cousin, aged nine
years. The parents Of beth boys had gone
to attend the wedding Of Mr., Retford's old
est, son, leaving at Mr. Retford's house three
of his boys and George. The young rascal
got a loaded shot gun and used it in a threat
ening manner, when the Oldest Retford boy,
Robert, about twelve years old, took the
gun away from him, telling Aim he would
shoot one Of them lie replied, Il will
shaot you if you do not let me alone" Rob-
'ert then put the gun back in its place, and
went Into the wood house. While there he
heard the report of the gun in the house,
ran in and found his brother lying on the
floor. He never spoke,. ard, expired in
about twenty minutes, George put the gun
back in its place, left at once, and went to
his parents making such statements at diff
fereht points as proved he knew what he
had done, and showing the guilt and cum
ming Of a maturer criminal, 81 ys-.t.5 a
This same George, on the 9Th inst, at
the door of the village. schoo-house, mali
'ciously kicked and beat q young Indian girl
about 10 years old, a scholar in the same
school; so badly she was scarcely able to get /
home. In the night she'was taken with
spasns, became unconscious, and continued
so till she died, lat IL o'clock in the forenoon
of the 9Th. # She had she best medical skill,
but agieould help her. A. warrant
has been issued for the .arrestsof the young
scapegracefor the murder of Thomas Ret
ford.-Chicago Eremimg Journal. IS s9;.