The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-11
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
THE IRISH PACHA.

chief commander of the Turkish forces in
Asia. The Irish are great and wonderful
people. They are scattered all over the
world and fill the highest offices and perform
the heaviest drudgery in almost every land
They are the servants in almost every North
ern Hotel-they are the laborers on every
line of canal or railroad in the Union-they
are among the highest ornaments of the pro-
fessional classes, and Irish eloquence and
Irish craftsmanship have shed lustre upon
our deliberative assemblages. Leaving their
native land, they turn their foot steps towards
every cline until the searching character of
their exploration after that support and indie
pendence which is denied them in their own
Ireland, excites our special wonder. The
Yankee finds out every bit of territory on
the planet we inhabit, where it is possible to
drive the smallest trade, and that trade is his
object but the Irishman's emigration has
penetrating, permeating power, that leaves
him without a parallel The Yankee is in
every city or town, where commerce is
known but the Irishman is not only there,
side by side with him-he is in every mine,
every tunnel, every deep cut on the globe
aiding by his invaluable skill in every i'm
provement and every enterprize. He literal
ly digs his way through the earth, while the
Yankee pushes his course onwards by swop-
Ping. The Irishman sets the tendency of
human enterprise and power at Defiance
He runs counter to the great current which
sets westward no ! and follows his fortune
ON the continent, digs in the mines of Austria
liza, or seeks the bubble reputation at the
cannon's mouth in Asia. We had one day
most entertaining illustration of this all per-
vading presence of the Irish race throughout
the world in an amusing argument by an in
telligent Irishman, to establish the prObabili
ty that the great Napoleon was of Irish
extraction,and that he was descendent from
family which emigrated to Corsica The
same idea was expressed by blunt Hiber-
MAN once, who declared his solemn convic-
ton that Bonaparte was descendant of the
Irish family of Bona, and that the politicians
had stuck on the ''parte" for pu,ty purposes.
But we did not take up the pen for the pur
pose ofthis sketch of the Irish which might
be spun out to an enormous length - the
theme itself being one of great magnitude !;
so we return to the Irish Pacha.
The history of the Irish Pacha, is one of
the most striking instances of this UNIVERSAL
ty of the Irish race ON record. His name is
Guyon, and he is said to have been born in
Limerick. His father was Post Captain in
the British Navy; but he preferred to seek
occupation under the iron government of
Austria, to soliciting it under the British
flag. At the age of fifteen, he went to Hun
gary, and was in 1880, attached to Hunga-
rian Regiment, where he rose steadily until
he became a Major, when he married
daughter of Field Marshal of the Life
Guards, and retired to the vocation of a far
mer, in which he continued until September
184e, when he joined the Hungarian Liberals.
He was one of the most distinguished com
manders throughout the Hungarian struggle.
He commanded battalion at the defeat of
Jellachich at Sukaro, At the battle of
Swachat, in which the Hungarians were de-
feated, by the treacherous conduct of Gen.
NIGGA, Guyon commanded the left wing of
the Hungarians, and three times repulsed
the Serezars of Jellachich. His horse being
shot under him, he led the charge ON
foot, and carried the village of Mannsworth,
by storm. For his gallantry, he was promo
ted to the field rank of Colonel.
After the battle of Swachat, Kossuth mt
Gorgey in chief command, and that traitor
disliked Guyon, and sought to sacrifice him.
He sent him with vanguard of only 1900
men to attack Tyrnau himself OBTAINING the
main body, leaving Guyon to be surrounded
by the whole army of Simonich, in the night
kme but he was preserved by cutting his
way out at a heavy loss He saved the army
afterwards. by carrying the Branisko pass,
after one of the most desperate and bloody
struggles on record. He commanded divi-
sion of 10000 men, Gorgey another of 5 600.
For this the Diet passed him vote ofthanks
and ordered a monument to be erected to
commemorate the action
When Guyon saw Kossuth he denounced
Gorgey as traitor. Although Kossuth had
become aware ofsome of the treaehery going
on, he endeavored to quiet the rage ofGuyon
by appointing him Governor of Comorn, then
invested blythe Austrians. Guyon attended
by only one squadron of Hussars, broke his
way through the beseiging army and entered
Comorn. On the approach of the Hungarian
army to relieve Comorn, he sailed out into
the Schutt, an island in the Danube, defeated
the Austrians and cleared the left bank of the
river. AT Panscova, within sight of Semlin
and Belgrade, he attacked and put to fight
the recruited forces of Jellachich, and final
iy forced him beyond the Drave to the Turk
ish frontier. AT Temeswar, he saved the
honor of the day, by charging the Austriaps
and Russians with seven thousand Hussars
and driving them into disorder.
Soon after Kossuth transferred the Diets.
torship to Gorgey and the sequel of the min
of the cause of the Liberalists in Hunoarv
speedily followed. Guyon attended Kossuth