The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-18
The Niagara Wing CclsbratAon-ls General
Scott t. be There.

The wings OF Western New York, in cooperation
with the railroad, steamboat and canal boat COM
panss, hotel keepers and other enterprsing men OF
business in that section Of the country, have de-
termined upon grand celebration Of the anniver-
sary Of the battle Of Lundys Lane, at Niagara
Falls from the 25th to the 9th instant, inclusive
Whether the jubilee is to come of on the American
side, or on the plateau just over the hill from the
falls in Canada We not advised but we sup
pose that the scene Of the celebration it is be
at Niagara, will be in Canada, on the field of the
battle itself
Well, it is beautiful place for grand gathering.
The ground is mostly an open plain. Here, on the
18th Of July, lsl4 the British troops, under General
Drummond, and the Americans, under General
Brown, met in deadly combat. The battle lasted
from four in the afternoon till midnight. The loss
Of the British in killed and wounded was 726, ex-
elusive OF 200 regulars, and 20 officers, taken pri-
soners; the loss Of tho Americans was 743. The
total force each SIDE was about 1000. General
Scott, in this battle, behaved with distng uished
bravery and received several severe wounds from the
British infantry in the course of the engagement
1t was here, also, that the intrepid Colonel Miller
on being asked 10y General Brown, Can you take
that battery Z? replied modesty 81 will try, SIR
And ascending the little hill, amidst tie most ter
rible slaughter both sides, be took it, That act
was like the movement of Braggs battery at Buena
| Vista. cit saved the day" The British General
| Rial was wounded anu taken prisoner. The Ameri-
cans obtained possession Of the battle ground, but
retired from it about midnight TO their encampmcnt.
| Such was the battle OF Lundy's Lane, Niagara,
| or Bgidgewater, it is variously called. The
ground stretches away for miles, undulating
plain on both sides The field Of Chippewa is bat
three miles above. On the field Of Lundy's Lane
is small church: and few years ago, old British
sergeant occupied the portico, and kept register
there, and acted guide for travellers. A grave
yard close by, where many Of the officers slain in
the battle buried, with tonbstones designating
rome particular graves. And the brow of the little
ALL, where the ground is strewn with charcoal
under the grass, the old sergeant used to relate to
the astonished traveller how the dead bodies of the
rank ane file, on both sides, were piled up there
between layers of fence rails and brushwood, and
all consumed together. That, presume, is the
place-over the ashes of those slaughtered mentor
this grand rolliekug whg jollicaton Of three days,
in honor Of General Scott. TO be sure, il will be
electioneeriDg Tor the Presidency in the dominions
Of Queen Nictora but the railroad, canal and
steamboat CON panies, the hotel keepers, and ali
others directly interested in the spos of this ju-
bilee, will have gained their object just in proper
ton 10 the crowd assembled.
Better than ALL 1t is given out that Gen. Scott
has consented to be there notwithstanding the Off
cial edict Of the old National HteNigeaco, that re
will attend political gatherings whatever, pend
ing the campaign. We suspect the report that he
is TO be there, is e, for the purpose Of gathering
a multitude But, if he has consented, it is from
the imperative necessity of the case. The wing
mination hangs fret won't 20 otf-they can't get
up the flTorc of 40 AZ. Something must be
done something lespcrate-to get up the excite
Aent and il it is really indispensable to trot out
the old General himself, to be exhibited at Lundy's
| Lane, why, he must come out-that's all. 1t won't
do to stand oa ceremony, when the whole fifty mil
lions year are at stake. Gen. jackson was not
paraded out on the battlefield Of New Orleans
Gen Hauson was not taken over TO Canada to
| glorify the battle of The Thames; and rs for
Old lack, he stuck to his cotton plantation, and
took care Of his postage Baton Rouge, during 'be
| whole canvass. But, we must recoliect that where
the emergency demands it. must make our Gnu
| didate come out and 90 to work
/ We hope, therefore, that Cen Scott win go to
| tits celebration. We shall DO all in our power to
give i the greatest possible 6sat. We did get up
considerable military hurrah for Gen. Scott in 1899
40, before his principles were developed and when
lie would have run like fire in the pr4ries but
now it is an uphill work Still, we shall d. the very
| best we can to give him lit, and another general
overwhelming gorfeation Of gunpowder, in the
celebration at Lundy's Lane; though We repeat, il
4 is uphill work, with Seward and his gang occupying
viii be there to define his poston-on the fugitive
slave law, exactly as be stands; on the Catholic