Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-09-30
GENERAL PILLOW.


! Forever reign she rival of Tom Thumbln
The New Orleans Bulletin, by some means,
has become possessed Of the suppressed POI
ton Of the communication Of Leonidas. We
give specimen:
III eriaced On this. as he has done on other
occasions, thai Rasterty military genius and pro
found knowledge Of the science Of ,car. phich
has astonisIsed so much the mere mGrtinets Of the
i profession. HIS plan aeas rery similar 10 that
! By mhich .Napoteon effected the reduction Of the
/ Fortress of ULs, and Gen. Seott tcas so perfect
I IN ueH pleased uiih it that he could not inter
tere cih any part Off, b,d Iei il to the gallant
( protector to carry it into glorious and successful
I erectaionv
| Napoleon, whose most splendid achieve
ment, consisting in shutting up an Austrian
army of $4,000 men, and forcing it to surren-
der, by succession of petty actions, without
having fought a single pitched battle, was,
before he performed il. the most experienced
| general in Europe. He had already com
manded in five campaigns, and gained thirty
/ pitched battles, among them Mentenoite, Lo-
di, Cashglione, Arcola, La Favofita, Rivoli,
and Merango. He had destroyed seven ar
/ mics, and made two hundred thousand prls-
oners. He had twice conquered Italy, over
run Egypt, shook the Sultan on his throne,
and made England tremble for her East India
i possessions. How incomparably superior
must be the genius of Pillow, which can set
at naught all that experience alone can gain
/ Tor inferior minds, and al once rival the most
profound combinations of the mighty Corsi-
CAM But this is an age Of progress Pillow
has gotten out Of Blackstone, what Bonaparte
/ found in vauhsn. Iliustrious name! with
what ease does he leap over all such "mere
martlnets" as Scott and Worth
/ But it seems that he is not merely the rival
of Napoleon. Heputs In also claim to share
the laurel with Achilles. Only listenl
Unjust relate an interesting and exciting IN
cident that occurred during The rage Of battle
! "A .Nericn, officer being seen By one Of General
Piio,o's aids 10 leapc the eneniy's lines. and to
adraice several yards nearer our position, the
general, as soon as he heard of The unpudent
raslness Of The .Nerican, pat spurs 10 his charger
and gaitoped at full speed tofoards him. Us
soon as he got near 10 the .Mericm,, The general
called out IN Spanish, .Sague su ISABEL pura de-
tenderes-let The homo, and profess of our res
| pectire countries be determined By The issue Of
This combat. Straighi,cay the JMericaa dre,o
his s,cord WiM one hand and balanced his lance
in the other, and rushed to,cards Our General,
,cho, Nth reuoleer in one hand aud his sabre
| IN the other. ,raited The onset Of the .Neric0t.-
| The .MeTicap ,cas large, Muscular man, and
handled his arms oith grea: cisor and skill; but
orr general ,cas his superior IN derterity and
coolress. at last the .Mericaa made one terri
bic charge at ON general miu his lance, WI,ich
the latter Graded Nth great promptitudc and
aridity. using his s,cord. tossed the peapon of
the .Mericaa high into Tho air, and then quietly
biew his brains oua wih his rerolper. Both the
.4me'icaa and the .MericGn armies witnessed
This splendid effort"
Oh, rare Gideon oh, unrivalled Pillow -
worthy to be recorded by the sublime bard,
who sang
ooh rumpsey dumpsey,
Col. Johnson killed Tecumseh"
When shall the world ever behold thy like
again? The immortal Pop Emmons, being
no longer among the living, where shall we
find bard whose genius is equal TO the !us-
ire Of thy most illustrious achievement p
Achilles was most fortunate in finding Ho-
mer; but who shall be the Homer of this
greater than Achilles? The old Greek $50
runs the iable) prayed at the tomb of his hero,
that he would arise clad in ak his panoply,
and thus give him an opportunity to describe
him as he deserved The hero appeared, but
the eflulgence Of his glory was greater than
mortal eyesight could sustain, and the bard
was from that moment blind Warned by
this great example, what mortal having the
least consideration for his peppers, will ven
ture to contemplate Pillow in all his glory 3
Who could tune his harp to so lofty strain
Who hope TO give posterity even faint idea
oil his own overwhelming subject2 There has
been nothing like him since the days Of the
immortal Tom Thumb; unless, perhaps, his
tory and song could press into their service
the exploits of that renowned hero, known to
every nursery maid in Chrlstendom as "Jack
the Giant Killer" Well might the Delta
suppress such prosaic description Of such
sublime scene Well might it refuse its col
umns 10 every attempt TO describe it, not made
in the legitimate language of Heroes, the gen
uine Hexameter verse; The English Ian
guage, IT has been said, "sunk beneath Mil
ion" when he composed his immortal Epic
So must it sink beneath any man who attempts
to sing of Pillow. Yet we should like to see
the attempt. Oh! that Pop had lived to see
this day. Richmond Wing.