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PRINCIPAL VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.-CONTINUED.

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In addition to the principal vessels above described, the United States Navy comprises 24 torpedo-boats building, and 9 in service, and 16 torpedoboat destroyers under construction; four cruisers, the "Detroit,” “ Marblehead," "Montgomery" and "Chesapeake;" 15 gunboats, 13 single-turret monitors, I dynamite cruiser, I ram, I second-class battleship, the "Texas," and nearly one hundred special and old naval vessels, a greater part of which, however, are hardly serviceable, except as training ships.

THE WAR'S COST AND ITS RESULTS.

UR casualties in the war with Spain were astonishingly small, and if we disregard the claim that Providence protected our armies in their battles for humanity, the laws of chance seem to have been placed at defiance, and we marvel past all understanding.

When Dewey won his memorable victory on May Day, not one of his men was killed, and only six were wounded; in the destruction of Cervera's fleet only one life was lost; but in the desperate charge of the Rough Riders and Tenth and First Cavalry, 16 were killed and 53 wounded; and in the three days of battle about Santiago no fewer than 226 officers and men died on the field and 1,274 were wounded.

In all, according to nearly complete lists in possession of the Army and Navy Departments on August 15, our casualties were :

Secondary Battery.

Navy-Killed, I officer and 18 men (including Cadet Boardman, accidentally shot at Cape San Juan, August 10); wounded, 3 officers and 40 men.

Army-Killed, 23 officers and 231 men; wounded, 87 officers and 1,316 men.

Total American loss, 24 officers and 249 men killed; 90 officers and 1,356 men wounded.

It will be remembered that at the battle of Gettysburg alone the losses on the Union side were 3,070 killed and 14,497 wounded, while in the twelve great battles of the Civil War no fewer than 23,468 Union soldiers were killed and 120,849 wounded. Although complete reports may somewhat increase the number of casualties, it may be safely asserted that never were results such as those of our war with Spain obtained with so small a loss of life. As to the enemy, their losses, even on the faith of their own statement, were several times (fully six times) greater than ours.

It is gratifying to know that hostilities terminated with the Treasury in excellent condition, and that we could have embarked on another war without having any fear of running short of money to meet expenses.

The sale of the war bonds was then increasing the Treasury balance every day; the proceeds of the War Revenue law had exceeded the most sanguine expectations, and the average receipts of the government for each business day were more than $1,500,000. In return for this outlay, our One Hundred Days' War may claim to have done more for the advancement of liberty and civilization than hundreds of years had accomplished before it.

The Results.

It has ridden the West Indies and the Chinese seas of the incubus of Spanish mediævalism; for the second time in our history monarchies have been taught a lesson in the treatment of their colonies, which it is of vital importance to them to take to heart; and the Republic of the West now holds in the councils of the civilized world a place of eminence which the even tenor of her homerestricted policy had alone debarred her from occupying hitherto. It has freed Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and while winning for those countries the blessings of a free and enlightened form of government, it has secured valuable additions to our territory and to our commercial resources. But the war has not only widened our horizon, geographically and politically; its effects at home are such as probably no other cause could have produced so swiftly or so thoroughly. One grand, unbroken wave of patriotism has swept over the land; dormant seeds of national energy have received a new life; the last lingering waifs of a disunited past have been buried forever; the hey-day of the harvest will prove well worthy the labors and the cost of the ordeal that preceded its dawn.

COMPLETE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF OUR WAR WITH SPΑΙΝ.

And of the Last Insurrection of the Cubans in Their Brave Fight for Independence.

1895.

February 24.-Insurgents rose against Spanish tyranny in Santiago, Santa Clara and Matanzas provinces.

March 4.-Governor-General proclaimed martial law in Santiago and Matanzas. Julio Sanguily, J. Aguirre and other suspected Cuban sympathizers arrested and incarcerated in Cabanas prison at Havana.

March 8.-American mail steamship " Allianca" fired upon by Spanish gunboat.

March 10. First battle of the war at Los Negros between 1,000 Spanish, under General Garrich, and 700 Cubans, under Colonel Goulet. Spaniards defeated. Spanish reinforcements arrive from Porto Rico and 7,000 men from Spain. Field Marshal Martinez Campos appointed Captain-General to succeed Colleja, and sent to Cuba with 20,000 troops. Martial law proclaimed over whole island.

March 24.-Pitched battle at Jaraguana between 1,000 Spanish troops, under Colonel Araoz, and 900 Cubans, under Amador Guerra.

March 31.-Antonio Maceo, with Flor Crombet, Dr. Frank Agramonte, Jose Maceo and other officers, landed at Baracoa with expedition from Costa Rico in British schooner "Honor." Schooner wrecked and captain killed by Spaniards. Latter attacked Maceo at Duaba, but were repulsed. Agramonte captured. Provisional government proclaimed by Maceo; Dr. Tomas Estrada Palma, president; Jose Marti, secretary-general, and General Maximo Gomez, military director and commander-in-chief.

April 13.-General Maximo Gomez, Jose Marti and eighty companions arrived from Hayti and landed on the coast southwest of Cape Maysi.

April 16.-Captain-General Campos landed with reinforcements at Guantanamo and issued proclamation pledging reforms. Spanish Cortes authorized government to raise 600,000,000 pesetas ($120,000,000) for war and decided to send 40,000 reinforcements.

April 16-18.-Battles at and near Sabana de Jaibo. Cuban cavalry under Gomez defeated Colonel Bosch.

April 21.-Battle of Ramon de las Jaguas; 100 Spaniards killed.

April 29.-Jose Maceo ambuscaded 700 Spaniards at Arroyo Hondo; 150 Spaniards killed and heavy Cuban losses.

May 6-14.-Raids and fights at Jobito and Cristo by Maceo; Spanish Lieutenant-Colonel Bosch killed.

May 18.-Insurgent Convention elected Bartolome Masso president, Maximo Gomez generalin-chief, and Antonio Maceo commander-in-chief of the Oriental Division.

May 19.-Jose Marti and party of 50 annihilated by Colonel Sandoval and 800 troops in a narrow pass; Gomez with reinforcements attempted to rescue Marti's body and was wounded; Cuban loss, 50 killed and 100 wounded. Dr. Tomas Estrada Palma elected to succeed Marti as delegate to the United States.

May 20.-Colonel Lacret and Colonel Torres landed with filibustering expedition of 220 men from Jamaica.

June 2.-Gomez crossed trocha and entered province of Puerto Principe.

June 5.-General Carlos Roloff's filibustering expedition, with 353 men, 1,000 rifles and 500 pounds of dynamite, landed by tugboat "George W. Childs" near Sagua Lachico, in Santa Clara.

June 12.-President Cleveland issued proclamation warning citizens against joining or aiding filibustering expeditions.

June 18.-Province of Puerto Principe declared in a state of siege.
June 27.-Captain-General Campos asked Cabinet for 14,000 fresh troops.

July 1.-Campos established Moron-Jucara trocha to keep Gomez out of Santa Clara Province.
July 13.-Captain-General Campos, at head of 1,500 troops, attacked but defeated by Cubans
under Maceo near Valenzuela and compelled to retreat to Bayamo; Spanish General
Santocildes and 119 men killed; Cuban loss, 100 men.

July 15.-Provisional Government formally constituted and a declaration of independence proclaimed.

August 7.-Cuban Convention at Puerto Principe elected the following officers: Provisional President of the Republic of Cuba, General Bartolome Masso; Minister of the Interior, Marquis of Santa Lucia; Vice-President and Minister of War, General Maximo Gomez; Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Gonzalo de Quesada; General-in-Chief, General Antonio

Maceo.

August 31.-Spaniards defeated by 1,200 men under Jose Maceo, near Ramon de la Jaguas.
September 23.-Constitution of Cuban Republic proclaimed by Congress of Delegates at Anton
de Puerto Principe, and the following elected permanent officers of the government:
President, Salvador Cisneros; Vice-President, Bartolome Masso; Secretary of War, Carlos
Roloff; Commander-in-Chief, Maximo Gomez; Lieutenant-General, Antonio Maceo.

October 2.-Maceo defeated superior force of 2,000 Spaniards at Mount Mogote.
October 9.-Cuban loan of 15,000,000 pesos ($3,000,000) placed in Paris.
October 10-Barracoa captured by Cubans.

October 27-General Carlos M. de Cespedes landed near Barracoa with filibustering expedition of sixty men, 100 rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, fitted out in Canada. "Laurada" seized at Charleston, S. C., as a filibuster.

November 18-19.-Spanish forces under Generals Valdes, Luque and Aldave defeated at Taguasco; Spanish loss, 500.

December 26.-Gomez invaded the loyal Province of Havana.

1896.

January 5.-Gomez broke through Spanish intrenchments and raided Pinar del Rio.

January 12.-Gomez defeated Spaniards at Batanobo and recrossed trocha into Havana Province. January 12-20. - Maceo raided Pinar del Rio Province.

January 17.-Captain-General Campos recalled to Madrid and General Valeriano Weyler

appointed to succeed him.

January 26.-Filibuster "J. W. Hawkins," carrying General Calixto Garcia and 120 men, sunk

off Long Island and ten men drowned.

January 30.-Maceo recrossed Habana-Batabano trocha; Spaniards severely defeated by Diaz near Artemisia.

February 10.-General Weyler arrived at Havana on the cruiser "Alfonso XIII." and was enthusiastically greeted.

February 17. - Weyler issued three proclamations establishing rigid martial law.
February 18.- Maceo attacked and captured Jaruco; the next day he joined Gomez, and together

they marched eastward.

February 22.-Eighteen non-combatants killed by Spanish troops in Punta Brava and Guatao, and two American correspondents who investigated outrage arrested.

February 24.- Filibuster "Bermuda" seized by United States marshals; General Garcia and

others arrested, tried and acquitted.

February 28.- Senate adopted belligerency resolutions and requested President to use "friendly

offices" to secure Cuban independence.

March 5.-Weyler issued proclamation offering amnesty to Cubans who surrendered with arms in hand.

March 8.-Eighteen thousand Spanish reinforcements landed at Havana.

March 12.-" Commodore" landed a filibustering expedition from Charleston.

March 13.-Maceo captured the town of Batabano.

March 15.-Maceo re-entered Pinar del Rio Province and attacked the town of Pinar del Rio. March 22.-Gomez captured the town of Santa Clara and secured a large amount of military

stores.

March 25.-" Bermuda" landed General Garcia with 125 men and arms in Cuba. "Three Friends" and "Mallory" landed a big expedition under General Collazo on the coast of Matanzas Province.

April 6.-House of Representatives concurred in Senate's Cuban resolution.

April 25.-American filibustering schooner "Competitor" captured off coast of Pinar del Rio.

Alfredo Laborde and three Americans made prisoners.

April 27.-" Bermuda" fired upon by Spanish gunboat while trying to land expedition under

Colonels Vidal and Torres and forced to abandon the attempt.

May 14.-Gomez captured a whole Spanish battalion under Colonel Segura.

May 16.-" Laurada" landed General J. F. Ruiz and expedition in Cuba.

May 29.-"Three Friends" landed large cargo of ammunition in Santa Clara.

June 3.-Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee arrived at Havana as the successor of Ramon O. Will

iams, resigned.

June 18.-Expeditions under Zarrago, Castillo and Cabrera landed by "Three Friends" and "Laurada."

July 5.-Jose Maceo killed in an engagement at Loma del Gato.

July 15.-General Inclan badly defeated by Maceo at Caracarajicara, 200 killed and nearly 300 wounded.

July 30.-President Cleveland issued another proclamation against filibustering.
August 15.-General Rabi defeated Spaniards near Bayamo, killing 200.

December 7.-General Antonio Maceo and Francisco Gomez, son of the rebel commander-inchief, were killed in an engagement with a Spanish detachment under Major Cirujeda, just after Maceo had succeeded in passing around the end of the Mariel trocha. Dr. Zertucha, the only member of the staff who escaped, was accused of treachery. He surrendered to the Spanish

December 15. -" Three Friends" tried to land a large expedition at the mouth of the San Juan River, on the south coast of Cuba, but was fired on by a Spanish gunboat and compelled to put to sea again with her party, setting them down on a desert Florida key, where they were rescued by "Dauntless."

December 20. - General Ruiz Rivera succeeded Maceo as commander-in-chief of the Cuban army of the West.

December 28.-Julio Sanguilly was tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life on a charge of

conspiring against the Spanish Government.

December 31.-Filibuster "Commodore" sailed from Jacksonville with a small expedition for Cuba and sunk sixteen miles off the Florida coast. Most of the men were saved.

1897.

January 13.-Spaniards under General Segura attacked General Calixta Garcia at Gabuquito, and were repulsed with a loss of 300 killed and 400 wounded.

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