Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-16

tlngulShed IN Europe. lords, 1T is
mainly TO the Irish catholics that we
owe all our proud pred ominance IN
our military career, and that II 4 per
sonally am indebted for the laurels
with which you have been pleased to
decorate my brow We must confess,
my lords, that with bout catholic blood
and catholic valor no victory could
have ever been obtained, and the first
n military talents might: have been ex-
zerted in vain, " And more than half q
century later this record has not been
disturbed. Charles. Lever . inimitable
characters, the dashing Charles O'Mal-
ley and the bold Mickey Free, may be
fictitious in name, but IN deed they
had many 9 prototype ia the PENN
sular war and elsew here under the
& Iron Duke. '' Such names as Bergin, !,
$Byrne, Coglan, zDonoh Doogan,
Finn, laugh nan, McG uire, o. Conner,
sO'Hea, o q ole, and Sullivan, cum
mnltis aliis, on the oil IF honor of the
Victoria cross boar ample testimony
to this. .& E <,5z3 s$
In the Service Almanack, under the
heading Victoria ross-winners since
institution, with nature of acts Of
bravery, and when and where perform.
5ed, !" he who runs may read, not only
the record of numerous brave deeds
briefly told, and befi ttingly so, but Eng
5landasWAr hist DRY for the last thirty
years. Rushing alone ia "a battery
and killing officer incharge. Few and
simple words, but one has no need of
greatly drawing on ones imagination
TO realize all that they imply. AS one
runs ones eye down: the list, the CAM
paigns in the Crimea, India, New Yea:
land, Ashantee, Zululand, and Egypt
are kept alive in the mind s eye By
acts performed before Sebastopol, at
Lucknow, at the Great Pah, at COON
assie, at Rorke's Drift and Ulundi, be-
fore Alexandria, and at Tel-el- Kebir.
Many deeds of heroism are recorded
during the Indian mutiny, principally:
the attacking Of superior numbers
bringing IN wounded under q heavy
fire. is an oft repeated mention.
So-and-so died before receiving it,.
is melancholy reading, which re-
call Lieutenants Coghill and Melville,
who died while trying to save the col.
Sors &of the Gath foot after the disaster
at bandh lana, in doing which duty"
they were both killed. IN these, as in
other cases, the well earned cross was
! sent to the families zOf the dead. Anon
one comes across a Christian clergy
nlanperchance not q muscular ona,
for muscle and spluck 10 no always 90
together but 4 pluctYz one, who has
Il rescued Ntiirio Wning la1cers ia the irn--
mediate presence % the enemy &. 3 Even
ssco6ersS at the clerical garb must adj
init that ii clergyman has his uses
sometimes. owing outside trench
~ live shell from the midst of 8 num-
ber % ammunition cases. The man.
who did that must have beaten the
live shell il q lively fashion Or not
enough would have been LEFT q him Or
this comrades 10 pin on the cross he
now wears. The familiar refrainof the
S.ilautical song and j 1ub bers
Down Below S q siirresi bly, drought
/ I'll, mind B by stllai D: limbing, under
fire, q tree, t0t1clliing tho ansle 81 the
Shah aujif. tssiiul order TO- reply to:
enemy HI. Need less 10 add that
this lest Was accomplished by
two men from che navy. Admiral
Salmon md Boa sssun, q Mate Harrison
of6cer and tai lt sne TO them as:
matter course 20 20 alof IS
Those land Tub bers could never have
demo Many asa the Instances
yIll1re ciI,ient has been elected by
Spfhcer, Or eoa in e sected by privates
Sof fs9i nle1t. Ss ll,ese are cases where
handful of men ilayo tor etherg gone