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Europe and America and the Indies: Despatch

The adventurous life and heroic death of Captain Fry, and his farewell letter, made a deep and lasting impression upon the American people and Cuban patriots, and his pathetic history is written in song and story. Major Moses P. Handy witnessed the surrender of the Virginius, going out from Key West as a stowaway on the Despatch, the vessel appointed to receive the surrender. The Major gives the following account of the newspaper men. Every New York journal sent correspondents to the front. The New York Herald was represented at first at Key West by W. B. Stephens and Karl Case, who were reinforced by James A. Cowardin and "Modoc" Fox, and finally by J.A. McGahan, one of the most famous of war correspondents, who came from the European station on one of our men-of-war, and Julius Chambers. The Tribune bureau was in my charge, and we also had Ralph Keeler at Santiago de Cuba and W.P. Sullivan, now a New York broker, at Havana; McGahan, Stephens, Cowardin, Case and Fox are now dead.