American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-25

McMahOn. The Frenchman's train
ed eye ran down the swarthy ranks,
and lie called an orderly, "Send
that officer to me who has seat like
an English Guartlsman." The Off
Ger came, salated, drew himself up
it was Grenfel. Wandering OH leave
of absence to any country where
pennOn floated or sabre flashed, he
had taken service with this superb,
yet mercilesS branch Of ChaSseurs
dAfriqup, and won commission by
extraordinary daring.
Clothed in the turban and trows-
ers, he was found by some English
tourists i'll the army of the Sultan a
lion-hunter in South Africa a sol
dier who was shipwrecked on the
coast of Spain; speaking dozen
languages perfectly Scared by fff-
teen wounds from bail and blade;
having beautiful blue eyes long
white hair sixty five, and as straight
as TecumSeh II peerless swordsman;
capable of hitting his own ball at
twenty PAGES with revolver; tenn
perate; matchIess in horsemanship ;
generous to fault; loving war as
gallant men love beautiful mistress
es; soldier tit for the Grand
Army; handsome as Lannes:
the experiences of forty perilous
years yet in mind unwritten; untam:
able as an Arab; reckless to toner
ity tender to wOman-a hero in ev
cry walk of Iife-why should such "a
man be driven down to the sea when
the wind and the night had made of
that sea n vast eXpanSe of pOpulouS
graves, and no star anywhere i'll all
the heavens to light the plunge into
eternity?
All it was but the old struggle
which had been going on for three
thousand years between Patrician
and Prlletarian. Guarding that
Presidential island in ambush in mid
ocean, were men wearing tho uni
form of the United States army
plebians born and bred-who hated
the royal old soldier for his scars,
for the orders lie wore, for the
strange tongues he spoke, for that
Imperishable dignity and bearing
which cling to a gentleman when all
else has deserted. For the honor OF
our army be it spoken there were no
regulars at Dry Tortugas. Popinjay
lieutenants, creatures with souls of
shoddy and manners of Esquimaux,--
kept watch and ward over the man
acled lion; drove him to work when
the battered frame was weak; tor
tuIed him when the dauntlrss spirit
was on its knees from physical Ian
guUr; and at last, when Storm
came out of the East more terrible
than siege or battles, he who had
tossed death away from his path
way as a child losses aside toy,
| fed to the sea for succor, and the
sea received him and gave for the
tired frame one of her immemorlal
graves, TO be vacated nevermore
until the great God Judges alike
those who prosecuted and those who
endured.
Such as we have sketched rapidly
was the life of st. Leger Grenfel.
Coming to America at the com
mPncement of our late civil war, he
espOused the side of the Confeder-
aleS, and took service with General
John Ii. Morgan, RAPIDLY rising to
The rank of u Colonel. He was spo.
ken of by those who knew him as
the " braveSt of the brave" Fore
most in pursuit and hindmost ever
in retreat, no man i'll either army
won greener or more perilous laurels.
And then, had there been soldiers
among his jailors, it would have de
lighted them to talk to such a Pa a
din. To talk of the Light Brigade
Of grim old Pelissier; of Inkerman
OF the 92d Highlanders forming only
two deep to resist the cavalry of an
army Of fair-haired Nolan applying
Il torch to the magazine which blew
himself and a brigade into eternity
OF poor old Strangways, who cried
out in a voice as sweet as Il young
girls, " Will some of you be kind
enough to help me down-my dis
mounting days are over" of Solfer
no and the VolligeuIs who gave tC
the grapes a pUrpler hue than wine
of hivouacS under African skies O
how the stormy tri-color rose ant
fel! about the slippery parapets o
| the Malak0tf; Of all the wonderful
b things lie had seen to delight a sol
dier'S heart and fire soldiers ardor
But why mOraliZe The more
august the victim the mere savage
the delight in goadlng him to death
Envy and ignorance in the hearts o
towards become the most merciles:
cruelty. Refinement and elegance
to the eyes of the Stolid officers at
! Key West became as red flag
waved by the picador before the
eyes of some fierce Cordovan bull in
an arena, and they sprang upon theil
helpless victim, gored his Sc ,sitivt
heart, laCcrated his chivalrOus feel
ingS, Sneered at his honorable scars
tainted his gray hairs, and drove
him at last 10 his death amid thu
waves of that ocean which girdle(
his own loved native isle, but woult
bring nevermore TO his dauntlcs!
eyes the white cliffs Of his home anC
England. Born in a Land woocC
and won by Che sea, it was fitting
perhaps, that the sea should 1int
him scpulchrc. Let him rest till tn,
waters give up their dead. and untI
a spirit as brave and soaring as his
can 10 II with all the peerless oueE
wi o have gone away from eartl
since Roland died and MaximiliaT
yielded up his young life in a tropic.
al land upon the Southern Gulf
RE- g.. i. Dancy has on hand Z