Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-03
THE LAST BURLEsQUE.
O'NeiII and Trout River = what
People Think of son 10 Can

O'NeiII and Trout River - What
People Think Of ION 10 can'
Y Knickerbocker, in his history of New
: York, gives this description OF Peter
Stuyvesant, the great New Amsterdam
D hero: He was man easily taken in,
it is true, as all great-hearted men are
. apt to be; but if he once found it out, his
o wrath was terrible. He then threw
Q diplomacy to the dogs determined to
appear no more by ambassadors, but to
repair in person to the great council OF
the Amphyctions, bearing the sword in
one hand and the olive branch in the
other, and giving them their choice of
sincere and honest peace or open and
iron war. His privy councillors were
sstonished and dismayed when he an
nounced his determination. For once
they. ventured to demonstrate, setting
forth the rashness of yenturing his sacred
person in the midst of strange aud
barbarous people. They might as we'll
have tried to turn a rusty weathercock |
with broken-winded bellows. In the
fiery heart of the iron-headed Peter sat
enthroned the FIVE kinds of courage de-
scribed by Aristotle and had the
philosopher enumerated five hundred
more, | verify believe he would have
possessed them all As TO that better
part Of valor called discretion, it was
too cold-blooded virtue for his tropical
temperament There can be but little
doubt that
oNElLL THE FENIAN LEADER, |.
like Peter Stuyvesant, was easily taken
in; and it may be reasonably supposed /
that his wrath thereat was terrible in
deed. Like Peter, too, he threw diplo- |
macy to the dogs, and disdained to treat (
with the royal Britisher Unlike Peter, |
however, he went into the land of the v
Canueks brandishing the sword. but was {
SO unfortunate as to leave the olive h
branch behind him. OF course the Head =
Centers of the Cause whatever it may il
be) demonstrated with him upon his O
rashness, but all their words were as use
less in checking his ardor as buckets of :,
water thrown into Vesuvius would be to ;.
quench its fire. He determined to be =
THE HUDIBRAs OF 1870, :,
and in many features resembled the old q
hero
Who never bow d his stubborn knee
To anything but chiyalry. 81
His tawny beard was the equal grace II
Both of his wisdom and his face; n
In cut and dye SO like a tile, A
A sudden view it would beguile;
The upper part thereof was whey, A
The neither orange mix,d with grey.
This hairy meteor did denounce
The fall of scepters and of crowns;
With grisly type did represent
Declining age of government;
And tell with hiereoglyphic spade,
Its own grave and the State's were made.
He was in logic u great critic,
Profoundly skill in analytic;
He could distinguish. and divide
A hair 'twixt south and southwest side; A
On either which he would dispute, n
COnfute. change hands, and still confute; To
He'd undertake to prove by force
OF argument a mans no horse;
He'd prove buzzard is no fowl, w
And that lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, goose justice; Al
And rocks committee men and trustees. 7.
But when we look at him
IN PLAIN PROSE,
e becomes a very common man of about
hirty-fve years old He was born in w
he town of Dungannon, Tyrone county, nh
reland in 1895, and came to America di,
hen quite boy. He received good in,
ducation, bit his military instincts led no
i'm into the American army long before CHI
he war He served for eight years in a {
he old Second Dragons, under Colonel sci
,obert H. Lee. At the breaking out of CHI
0stilities he took the Union side, and, do
1 command of mounted infantry COM bv
any, fought with Mcclellan from York The
OWN to Malvern. He had also served nm,
nder Hunter at the first Bull Run. ab,
fter the retreat ON Harrison's Landing, mn,
e was transferred to the West, and OBJ olo
lined command Of company of cav Fri
ry, distinguishing himself by several mol
airing acts, for which he received high 9th
from his commanding ter
Ulcers. He was detailed to drive John sw,
organ, the brave cavalier, from Ken the
cky. This he accomplished in the ratl
ring of 1864, receiving the sword of gre
organ upon his surrender in May of SIN,
at year. The remainder of the war he
rived under General Thomas, partici-
ting in the battles of Franklin and
ashville. At the latter place he was II
'unded severely, and remained in sti
e hospital at Nashville for several The,
)nths. After this he was not ther
ard of until one sultry day in nuri
? beginning of June, 1866, when the s -,
VS. came over the wires that he had in So,
ded Canada at Fort Erie Then came sua,
news Of the 6ght at Ridgeway, in der
ich he whipped superior number Of "a cay, /,
madam volunteers. After accomplish eIas,
. this feat he retired on Fort Erie, in
ere he was again attacked BY the as
iisb from Port Colborne. This force rene
also thTsshed, capturing nearly two wan
ldred and compelling the remainder ness
axe fight On the same night, finding corr'
I be was not sustained by General SOM