New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-28
FLAGS AND FEMALES - BEAUTY,
BRAVERY AND BUNTING.

BRAVERY AND BtCIA7%'
Young women with passion for war have not
heretofore been uncommon in the field or on
shipboard. There is historical girl who entered,
in disguise of ducks, ii. b. Ms service, and OF
whose conduct we are told, in the forecastle
lyric:
Which when the captain com'd for to hearit
lie was wens much a.toHishd at whs, che had done
Then thore il the petticOated regiment OF
Dahomcy's gentle King-tbcrc is Zenobia, there
il Boadcea, there is joan of Arc, there Is The
Maid of SaragosSo, and there is Miss Armstrong
Of Port Sullivan, Texas &C. 5. Az, who does
not make onsots but orations; and who made
very beautiful one tho other day upon presenting
a banner 10 1.-THE Port Sullivan Greys." From
the fact that Miss Armstrong began her address
thus: "Port Sullivan Greys, Capt. Barton, and
az your gallan. oTeic," We infer that these troops
belong to that mixed service usually styled 1.-The
Horse Marines" The young woman aPPears-
as the Quakcrs, who are too sensible to fight,
sometimes say-"to have experienced great
stnte Of inwardness,' though she had pretty
open time " OF it before she got through. She
4" found language inadequate to express the emo
{" tons that swelled her bosom at least, she
commenced by saying so but as her speech oc-
cupies nearly newspaper column in fine type,
and contains a great deal Of fine language, we
may infer that some god maryelousy assisted
her. Her "heart," too, tumuliuously throbbed"
but as we have seen no notice OF her
death, We take it for granted that she escaped
the perils Of pericardti,. There was positively
no postponem, I on account of the weather."
which was not fair; for Miss Armstrong said:
I" II is fearful night. the pale Lightning quiyers
" Ut intervals through the clouds, the wind
" rusbes through the neighboring woods uttering
" strange, dscordant sounds, which, followed by
mysterious Stiffness, augments the terrors of the
" hour" Very inclcmeut, indeed But pray what
did the excellent young lady mean by the terrors
of the hour Not certainly that Capt. Barton,
Z. S. c., and his gallant crew were terrified
Belona forbid She meant that it was an I'm.
commonly bad night, that was all But military
girls uH be metnphorical! A mere figure of
speech, too, when she said I" Soldiers for | am
" fearful you will too soon be called on to as.
"sume that position' Fearful Pray what
was Miss Armstrong afraid of Here is :" a
gallant crew" actually spelling for want of
fight, and Miss Armstrong is " fearful" that they
may have an opportunity. Very odd, indeed Pray
what, dear Miss Armstrong, are the gallant
" crew" banded for And what is the use OF a
banner if there is to be no fight
The following is Miss Armstrong; way of stating
that this banner is q secondhand article:
years have been numbered with the dead since
ih. banner ied by the gentle Eephyrs bedo~ed With the
fragrance OF many flowers first unured tie mystic fclds and
foa,ed umphan,y the broad aud beautiful prsie, that
ether but or State can boasi."
These little specimens Of Miss ArmstroDs's
impassionsd style must suffice; but We must do
her the justice TO declare that from beginning to
end she is very accipitrine. Her excuse for
many rhetorical and moral solecisms must BE- that
she is probably pretty young parrot and will
be repeating what foolish men say to her. Bat
Gen. Waul does not wear petticoats-Cen. Waul
has not that sacred apology for nonsense, q
pretty lace-Gen. Wanl is man, we suppose,
yet upon comparing his speech Mt Montgomery
with Miss Armstrong; at Fort Sullivan, we find
the latter much the more manly of the two.
Lord Byron wrote of Thurow's poetry:
When Thgrlow th, d non,ense sent,
Nor gods nor men knew wha he meant"
But what does Waul mean BY this bit of
lunacy!
Th revolution like the torrent. down the mountain SIDE
gathered flowed until mighty stresm swept irs,ti5y
all before t. The voice " the people Ike the Of
many wsie drowning the iglns brook, and babblirg r
tina, attempted their notes In opposition"
This Waul is the most metaph0rical creature
out of the lunatic asylum. In this speech he
compares Texas to 90 n STAR" 10 " u well.trnned,
" bigh.mettled war-steed," to "a young Samp.
" son." TO "the Children of Israel" to nn able
bodied seaman, to an armed knight to q ship
to what not He, too, discourses madly of ban.
nsrs in general, and the Confederate banner in
particular lIark to him.
ave psy dsvotions TO the banner spread before and
Wheeler IL dcs in the sunbeam wsntons the breeze
plays with It's bright reflections tho waters, Tcrss will oes
love- and Sir should oa, the crash armies and the tide
Of bs bahed ia the red that bspte. nations while
shred remains ao fight for IT, there by his side sill
you find Texan seeking glory or = grave"
Now, with all the gallantry OF our nature,
We submit that Miss Armstrong beats Gen.
Waul into something very like one of his own
cooked hats. Her bathos is better bathos-her
magnioqaence is more magnloqucnt masnllo'