The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Death of a Hessian.

--Francis J. Grund, formerly "X," the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, and since the war a rampant leader of the subjugation Abolitionists, was scared to death by a procession of Democrats in Philadelphia on the night of the 29th ult. The night before he had made a fierce speech denouncing the "Copperheads. " A letter from Philadelphia says:

‘ Last evening, as the procession went out to serenade Gen. McClellan, they passed the house of Francis J. Grund, recently editor of the Philadelphia Age, when some persons in the assemblage began to express their disaffection at his recent Union speech in this city by groaning and hooting. Mr. Grand, apprehending mob violence, started for the police station, for the purpose of obtaining a force to protect his house. On arriving there he appeared exhausted, and requested that a physician might be sent for immediately. He was evidently laboring under severe illness. The physician, on examining the symptoms' of the case, pronounced the case hopeless. Mr. Grand expired a few moments afterward.

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