"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, Etc., Etc._ "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 upon 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 Arrowsmith 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 we related in our last, the main features of which are correct, but lacking in details which have since come to hand. "We will begin at the breakfast-table of the Big Shanty Hotel at Camp McDonald, 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, J. Cain,--both of this city,--and the passengers were at the table, when the 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 amazement, and dumbfounded at the strange, startling, and daring act.