New-York tribune., 1876-06-03

THE CHARGE or IUE NLLLH1N btAhD'
Enter Mulgan Mulligan no doubt of the
Mulligan Guard. Mullisan swOoping down
upon Washington in great cloud OF dust,
and clatter of spurs, with the lioup-la" OF
a confidential clerk who has secured docu-
ments, and howl of defiance that sends
shiyer through the land Mulligan mounted
and spurrcd,- and shall we not say, oh god
dess of the balances and bandaged eyes
shall we not say also, bootedf MulliSan at
galloping charge whirling through New jersey
like Sheridan up the Valley with blood in his
eye and fourteen private letters in his carpet
bag As arrow ont of bended bow sped Null
ligan from Boston. Letters he bore: Biaine's
letters And the Maine statesman look
ing northward saw his own feathers
on the fatal dart which Mulligan was
bringing down on the Limited Express.
Ii was a great day for Mulligan-that on
which he pulled rein at Washington and
dropped into BARRIERS chair. For Mulhgan
fell out of Boston upon Washington like-if
we may be allowed the tigure-abrupt and un-
expected vegetable matter into an orchestra.
1t was his to make a sensation in fact, to be
one. Seeming to drop into the BARRIERS chair,
he actually fell into the very flare Of the
sounding trump of Fame, from which n more
than Marinc-call it ultra Marne-Band blew
him skyward. But yesterday Mulligan was
only man who had been confidential clerk of
two brOthers-in-law of a Presidential candi
date-Fame had not blown him forth upon the
universe. To-day the wires go full of him,
the types are heavy with him, the press is
hinging him abroad, and all the world says
"Mulligan." Only yesterday Mullgan was stand
ing in Boston like the immobilc Horse Guard
in the niche ut Whitehall, fixed and rigid the
confidential clerk on duty. To-day he has
pranced out and plunged into politics waving
wildly his fourteen letters, and the charge of
the Mulligan Guard is historic When Blaine
found him in the BARRIERS chair it was no con-
fidential clerk of two brothers law; it was
the Mulligan Guard panoplied with CORE
spondence of twenty-five years growth, and
with his visor down. Thrice is he armed who
sits in BARRIERS chair holding fourteen prl-
vate letters of public man. So when Blaine
demanded his surrender, what was there for
the Mulligan Guard but to make answer high
defiant answer once before made OH a his
toric feld-Cambronne's thrilling monosyllable,
which, freely translated, meant "The Mulligan
"Guard dies but never surrenders."
There was an earlier Mullgan. Not how
ever, a bolder, though he too was sublime in
a charge, and met death facing the fearful
odds of San FranciscO's whole Police Depart
ment. lie may have been the Mulligan proto-
martyr. His Christian name-remembered now
as the only Christian thing about him-was
William. They called him "Billy" With the
same feeling of friendship toward his fellow
men that the present Mulligan had and ex-
pressed for his fellow-man Blaine, Billy
locked himself into his room on one of the
most frequented streets of San Francisco and
began practicing on passing citizens with o
rifle. Not with anyh'dys confidential corre-
spondence. William was not that sort of
Mulligan. We do not now remember how
many citizens he brought down, but we know
that for time he made San Francisco about
as lively as the later Mulligan has Washing