New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-12
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PASS January %, 1850
Many stately old saiitu;s'e Is to be seen IN the
streets Of Paris, with white m0ustache and the
small rcd r0s1ce on his breast hut there ii ON
s amongst those war-wDrn aneients whom / wish
could bring wildly before the eyes Of your read
@xs !pr II reason which Will presently appear,
walking On some Of these bright winter DAYS along
No hvenue Of the Champs Elysees, you may SEQ d
MI Ggure, the splendid ruin Of soldier d'elHe
hearing himself still erect under the weight III
eighty winters. Aged as no il, the impression
WHICH ms aspect gives you is not that Of feeble
yenetab leness- 1he grey eye is keen and proud ;
the thin face hr0nzed and worn BY war and wealth.
Phi and the Whale bearing Of that antique Roman
head, give The ideAs not Of decrepitude, but Of q
certsin dasting galiantry The features are yery
me and deiicafcly cut, with the undefnable tho
r0tg bred look, mobile and plastic to every i'm
nnlse At feeiing, at merriment, resentment being
& nsut kndliEess, as they could have been even ID
hs hnsh of his golden youth. For in truth he is of
fhoge rare beings who never grow old and though
AZ shnuld hii up his century Of years. he will not
PC venerable. You perceive that he has the cross
Df W. officer Of the Legion Of Honor and twined
With the rosette OF that order is the chocolate
C0lOfed RIB bon OF the st Helena Medal decora-
ton which our Anglo Saxon brethern do not ad-
nil
An old officer, then, Of Napoleoule Grand. His
rink Is that Of chef de battalion, equivalent to that
0f Colonial iii the British services and for all ures-
en purposes Il will do well enough to call him Col
= * He has marched over half Europe and
ataod fnll often At the head Of his regiment on the
rough edge Of battle ~ served In SPAIN ii Ger
nany, in Italy III Greece, and at Flushing against
tie Walcflcren expedition; SO that suppose he
~ ~ dis IS nothing extraordinary Five hun
Sred French cefs, now living have done all this:
and walk when 20 inclined, in the Champs Elysees
tue old heroes TOO with fire still glowing under
ae gIeJ aslaa that ssxew their heads, and spirit
1l NJ light W u any stirring cause such as the
S&gs8 ron and mot Of * - s- 49, -.'
srthsless e you knew all, you would gaze
8ajkl mere earnestly on the face of Col K than
en Of my of bis conpeers: for in trutf IL IL
4Ae anst Link that connects our enlightened Tint L
shabb generation with yet older and more
aerEzble scenes than those in which lie won his
csossas. Other and earlier memories cloud at
times by clear greF eyes and through and beyond
INC battte Ara1ke and thunder of all Napoieouise
hslds, he has vision Of the pikemen Of New Ross.
asla Aeazs ~ derce hlFrah Of OuIart Hill.
That il to say, this Col. k before he served /
nrsler Napoleon tho First. served under Father
John MufpAy. He Was but youngster of eighteen.
when Two pf bis uncles, gentlemen OF Wexford ,
sosnfy we're sAot down IN gold blood at their own
doors BY detachment Of the Ancient Britons
ieHt they might have perhaps been implicated in 1 1
the pnIted Irish Society," or would could or should
hs thereafter implicated. Bands of the peasantry.
Ma9Se h9nses had neen burned down, were rang
NY the hills md at length, III desperation, under
Father Murphy and the tall youngster, now Col. .
- they went to meet the Wexford militia cav =
aiET pn their march; barricaded the road before =
Iorls and one Of the captains, one observer and 4
enc sergeant escaped alive to tell the tale that the =
rebels were up. Shortly after, on Oalart Hill the i;
insurgents stood ranged with common nearing n
mnntS advancing to attack them. The regiment of 3
North Cork militia led the assault and arrived first
on The brow Of the hill, when the lightlimbed !,
pkemens WIN US same Young x in their front,
keaped INC Glitch and swept down On the North I
Cork IN tempest Of steel. The men we're fresh. .
The pikaa we're thirsty. The soldiers would have
TN # thsy could; but those agile mopntaineers, t
long Of wind and unembarrassed by knansack !
WBfe fdaa. and NJ /