them the highest
offices in his gift. I do not know what they actually did receive.

Below is the account:

THE GREAT RAILROAD CHASE!

_The Most Extraordinary and Astounding Adventure of the
War--The Most Daring Undertaking that Yankees ever Planned
or Attempted to Execute--Stealing an Engine--Tearing up the
Track--Pursued on Foot, on Hand-Cars, and
Engines--Overtaken--A Scattering--The Capture--The Wonderful
Energy of Messrs. Fuller, Murphy and Cain--Some Reflections,
&c., &c._

FULL PARTICULARS!!

Since our last issue, we have obtained full particulars of
the most thrilling railroad adventure that ever occurred on
the American continent, as well as the mightiest and most
important in its results, if successful, that has been
conceived by the Lincoln Government since the commencement
of this war. Nothing on so grand a scale has been attempted,
and nothing within the range of possibility could be
conceived, that would fall with such a tremendous, crushing
force upon us, as the accomplishment of the plans which
were concocted and dependent on the execution of the one
whose history we now proceed to narrate.

Its _reality_--_what was actually done_--excels all the
extravagant _conceptions_ of the Arrow-Smith hoax, which
fiction created such a profound sensation in Europe.

To make the matter more complete and intelligible, we will
take our readers over the same history of the case which we
related in our last, the main features of which are correct,
but are lacking in details, which have since come to hand.

We will begin at the breakfast-table of the Big Shanty Hotel
at Camp McDonald, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
where several regiments of soldiers are now encamped. The
morning mail and passenger train had left here at four A.
M., on last Saturday morning, as usual, and had stopped
there for breakfast. The conductor, William A. Fuller; the
engineer, I. Cain, both of this city; and the passengers
were at the table, when some eight men, having uncoupled the
engine and three empty box-cars next to it, from the
passenger and baggage-cars, mounted the engine, pulled open
the valve, put on all steam, and left conductor, engineer,
passengers, spectators, and the soldiers in the camp hard
by, all lost in ama