The Irish Brigade in Our Own Times. BY J. r. L. DILLON’S REGIMENT. 1st Batallion, Martinico ; 2d, at Lille. Uniform. Coat, dark red ; facings, light yellow ; buttons, yellow. Colonel Commander, Count dc Dillon." Second Colonel, 21!. Taafe. Lieutenant Colonel, M. de Mahony. Major, M. Browne. Treasurer, M. Harvey. CAPTAINS. -" lst Capzaz'ns.——Gerard Moore, Hurly, Purdon, Barthele- my, Bauchs, Charles de Nugewzt, 0‘Moran, Paul Swiny, , Machinay. 2.1 C'aptaz'ns.—Baro'n O'Neil, .0~'Berin. Peter Power. Laurence Taafe, Walter Browne, Mandeo-ille. C’/iarles The- obald Dillon, Maguire, .lIacDermott, sen._. O’Reilly. I.IEL"l‘ENAN'l‘S. lst Lieutenams.-—Kelly, M'Dermott, jun., Nowlan, O‘Doyer. Lynchagan, Greenlaw, Charles Theobald Dillon, 0’Fa7*rell, 0’£'eefe. - 2d Lz‘eutenants.—Bernard M‘Dermott, Welsh, Evin, D'Arcy, Joseph Comerford, Fitzharris, John Brown, Thomas Brawne, Christopher Taafe, Duggan. SFB-LIEUTENANTS. George Taafe, Fenell, Hussey, Denis O’Farrcll, Charles de Whyte, Marc Swiney, Fitzgerald, William Shee, Ro- per, Moore de Maurgan, O'Donnell. James O'Farrell, Hyacinth 0‘Farrell, Peter Browne, MacEntyre, Khuopb, Denis Mahony, William Dillon, William Sheldon. Before mentioning the Dillons of 1780, it will, perhaps,’ be interesting to give the list of the brave olficcrs of that name now in the French service. -The fact of. their Christian names being the same will suffice to show that they are the descendants of the heroes of the Brigade. In a subsequent notice on the oliicers of Irish origin in the French army at present, they will be traced regularly to their glorious ancestors :— rRoM- THE FRENCH ARMY LIs'r or 1860. 9th Regiment Cavalry, Colonel Charles Dillon; 66th Regiment Line. Chief of Battalion, F. E. C. Dillon ; 71st Regiment Line, Captain Arthur Theobald Dillon ; 71st Regiment Line, Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Dillon. n1LLox‘s REGIMENT, 1780. Colonel, Count dc Dillon.——'I_‘l1is was the celebrated Count Arthur Dillon. Whether he was a relative of Theobald Dillon or not, I have not been able to ascertain; some make him his brother, others only a cousin. In the army list of 1789, he is set down as colonel proprietaire of the regiment, with the rank of field-marshal. Arthur Dillon was born, it is said, in Ireland, in 1750, and was consequently only 30 in 1780. He was appoint- ed Governor of the island of Tobago, where he remained three years. On his return to France, he was elected deputy of the States General, and, in 1792, to the com- mand of an army of 25,000 men. He fought bravely in the plains of Champagne and in the forest of Argon. He also took possession of the town of Verdun, when the Pruvssians were about entering into it. ' In 1793 he came to Paris, unfortunately, and was ar- rested by an order from the Committee of Public Safety. In spite of the efforts made by his friend, Canible Des- morelins, he was tried and condemned to death on an absurd charge of‘a conspiracy to overthrow the Repub- lic. * ' He was executed on the 14th of April, 1794. Two females were among the victims to be sacrificed on the same day. One, it is said, was the lovely wife. of Camille delioulins, the other the wife of one of the sanguinary monsters of that time, Herbert. When the fatal moment came, one of the women, no doubt the former, turned to General Dillon, and requested him to precede her on the scafibld. He answered with a. low, bow, and with as little emotion as if he were in slsaloong“ J c n’ai rien a refuser aux‘ Dames.” On reaching the fatal elevation, he cried out in a voice that was heard at a considerable distance, “ Vive.le roi !” He was then about 45 years of age. Cblonel Taafe.--This brave oficer, who had distinguished himself in the Martinico and in several important affairs, retired from the army a few years after. His name does not appear on the muster roll of 1789. Lieutenant-oblonol de Mahony.-—This olficer was a_ relative of the brave.Count 0’Mahony, of Berwick’s. The name is not written the same in all the lists. He retired in 1784. ' Barthelemy Dillon (captain).—In 1789, Mr. Billy de Dillon was major of this re iment, and it is probable that some mistake occurred in t e attempt to make all the names French. Billy was probably made into Bartholo- my. - There was 8. Count Dillon, field-marshal, gazetted on the 22d November, who greatly distinguished himself under Napoleon ; and I-am inclined to think he was the Dillon given under the names of Barthelemy and Billy ; but I have not been able, to discover if it is the case. Charles de Nugent (captain).—This oflicer left France after 1789, and, it appears, distinguished himself in the Austrian army. He had a brother in Walsh de Lerent’s‘ regiment. James 0’1l{o1-an (captain)-This brave oflicer became general, and took an important part in many battles. He was born in the year 1760, at Elphin, in the county of Roscommon. Previous to entering into Dillon’s regi- ment, he had been with Lafayette in America, and was conspicuous for his bravery. When entrusted with the chief command of the fortress of Conde, he defended it with great energy. He had as aide-de-camp, at the bat- tle of Bonne Secours, the celebrated “ academician” De J ouy, author of the well known work, “ L’Hermite de la Chaussié d’Auten,” whom he made chief of battalion on the field. Denounced by one of those wretches sent to act as spig in the army, the general and his aide-de-camp were thrown into prison ; the latter was fortunateenough to escape, but the brave general died on the scaffold a few weeks before General Dillon, his,former colonel. He was a man of undaunted bravery and high moral char- acter, and possessed military talents of a high order. Baron 0’.N'e£l (captain).—-There is great confusion in consequence of the number of O’Neils in the French army. The present captain was a near relative of Colonel 0’Neil, son of General O'Neil, who commanded the Regi- ment Walsb de Lerent. Lieutenant-Colonel O’Neil was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Salamanca, and was made full colonel of the 27th Regiment of the Line, by Napoleon, in 1813, when an exchange of prison- ers was made, which allowed him to return to France, and continue his career. After the peace, be occupied a high position in the War Office. A nephew of the late colonel’s isa distinguished professor of mathematics in Paris. Colonel O'Neil was engaged in writing a work on the Irish Brigade. when he died. Captain Baron O’Neil does not appear on the muster roll of 1798. Manclevillc (captain)_.—The career of this Officer W85 a brief one, and was, like that of his colonel, cut short by the horrible guillotine. The following despatch from the “Correspondence du Corneté de Saint l'ubllque,” signed ‘by Duquesnoy, contains the sad fate of our poor countrymen :— ‘- I send you four scoundrels." The first the general of brigade. Grateen; the second, the commandant of the 25th Regiment ; the third, the commandant of Aresnos; the fourth, an Irishman named Mandeville, whom I heard styled ‘marquis’ this morning. As I do not like mar- quises, I send him to you, to be shortened (pour etre rac- coum‘)_“—And for a title which he had not taken, and which was given to him probably to ruin him, this brave officer was murdered by the savage worshippers of the goddess of reason! Charles Theobald Dillon (captain).—There are two 5 officers, both captains, of this name on the muster roll ; but this is the celebrated General Dillon. He figures on the list of 1789 as colonel ; his relation, Count dc Dillon, being colonel proprietaire. His life is too well known to give more than a brief sketch of it. He was under Du- mourcz in 1792, and ordered to occupy Touruay. He left Lille at the head of his brigade, but such was the disorganized state of the army, owing to the presence of emissaries l'rom the revolutionists, that the fact of an Austrian division appearing in view. caused the soldiers to imagine they were betrayed. Dillon’s orders were to avoid combat, and be operated a retrograde movement, which excited or rather increased suspicion, and the troops retreated in disorder. On entering Lille, the mob, infuriated by the wily partisans of the extreme party, murdered several officers, and Dillon was shot by one of his own soldiers. He was then taken out of his carriage, and trodden to death by the people. His body was torn open, and the most frightful scene of savage cannibalism was perpetrated.- General Arthur Dillon, his relative, who died on the scaffold soon after, brought the affair before the conven- tion, and the children of the innocent victim were,adopt- ed by the country. Two of the officers bearing his name, now in the service of France, are, I believe, his grand- sons. - . MacDcrmo/,€ (c-aptain.)--I have not been able to’ trace this ofi‘icer’s life further than 1784; but there are at pres- ent two oll”1cers,descendants«'of his,——one in the French army. Captain MacDermott, 7th Regiment; and Lieuten- ant MacDermott, of the navy, both relatives of his or of his brother’s, two of whom were in Dillon’s regiment. as may be seen by the list———one captain, and the other lieu- tenant. 0’Farrell (lieutenant).—There are several C)’Farrells also. The present officer is said to be the grandfather of the brave General O’Farrell, who distinguished himself at Magenta and Solferino, and who now commands a brigade at the camp of Chalons, under Marshal Mac- Mahon. There is also at present a Captain 0’Farrel1 in the artillery—a relative, no doubt, of the general. O’Kee_fi"e (lieutenaut).—Lieutenant 0‘Keefi'e retired as chief of battalion. His son became General O'Keeffe, and distinguished himself‘ greatly in Africa. ,He died a little before the Crimean war. He was an officer of great promise ; and had he lived a few years longer, would, no doubt, have gained high honors in the campaigns of the Crimea and Italy. - -0- Weymouth Landing, Sept. 18, 1860. J onx O'MAnoxv, Esq. : Dear Sir,—The members of the Weymouth and Braintree Circle, who attended the late picnic of thé Fenian Brotherhood of Boston atflingbam, would take this method of returning their sincere thanks to Mr. James‘ White and ‘the gentlemen composing the Committee of Arrangements, for the courteous and gen- tlemanly manner in which they were treated by them on that occasion. Per order. - JAKILS CRONIN, Chairman. MICHAEL A. Foannsr, Secretary. ._—--—.-.-g...——‘——— The Great Invention. The poor woman’s riches, The rich woman’s bliss. 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She has, with a view or tho- roughly testing the merits of the different sewing ma- chines, given the most of them a fair trial, and the result. is as above stated. The Grover is Baker. Company, from being one of the oldest and most successful of the originators and direc- tors of the business, and having associated with it men of the greatest artistic skill, possesses facilities above that of others in making such improvements as are calculated to bring the sewing machine to perfection. In their magnificent establishment on Broadway, they have in the finest taste fitted up a large drawing-room, where a great number of ladies may be found-every day, either learn- ing or perfecting themselves in the art of sewing; and we would say to our lady friends who have hitherto re- mained skeptical in regard to this great invention of the age, an hour could not be more profitably spent than at this establishment. MR. PARAN Srnvnxs, who keeps the Fifth Avenue Ho- telin this city, keeps also the Continental Hotel of Phila- delphia, the Revere House and the ‘Tremont House of Boston, the Battle House, Mobile, and the_ Point Clear House, Point Clear, Alabama, and in all six first_ class hotel,-, igvo1vmg a capital and current expenses of seve- ral millicns. _ _ IT is understood that Baron Renfrew will be received at the University of Cambridge with no ostentatious dis- play. - and fmitlx-.=t remeulbrauce. . P 1 Necessity of Public Virtue. TO THE IRISH NATION. I once met with an idea in aFrench book. which struck me as singularly moral. It was this: " To enjoy the pleasure of thinking." To my young and superficial mind, l‘QllifCll0il was then quite a task, and I naturally doubted the existence of such pleasure. Having since often discovered that the pleasure of thinking does exist, that it is not the exclu.-ive luxury of a Pascal, or a con- t+>1'iipl:iii-rc lama. of 'l‘il:»et, but that even the dullest mind is sroxrmiina-s vi.-itrd by a llC~0(l of vivid and protracted ilmuglir. l lmve at intervals courted this intellectual en- Vuyzr:-uz. \Vamle1'ing froiu image to image, my mind uSl:;xll}' li.\'~.=s upon the most pl-.-a.~in,«;r object. On a late occasion, my thoughts, suddenly departing from all _-.1:-ouuil in»: in this Wcst.e1'n world, flew towards “that !:c.iu:il'nl island, famous in story and in song, which lies 1190:; the ()l.i.l‘.‘l‘ side of the wid: All-autic.'°’ The)’ alight- eu‘ aiuong the green hills of Erin. the land of my love They were soon ascending to the rrrrunt-..~.':n top, visiting the glen, passing through the vs..lle_y, following the rivers course, delighting in the green fields, lovely lakes, spacious harbors and pictur- esque scenery, that form the sweet home of the warm- hearted Celt. The round tower, the ruined monastery, the old grave-yard, the rath, the cave, and the warbling of the birds of Erin’s sky, filled my whole being with a_ torrent of delight. What thoughts and sensations of by- gone days, what pride in my ancestry, renowned for learning, for virtue and valor, what true love for the land of my nativity, and the noble people that inhabit it, what aspirations for the welfare and freedom of that dearest of all countries, filled my,soul at that moment, must have been felt to be appreciated. Then turning, as it were, to another great mirror, I viewed the Irish in the various foreign lands where fortune had led them, in Canada and the United States, in Buenos Ayres, and at the Cape of Good Hope, in New Zealand, and in Austra- lia. 1 could well understand that many of them had found good homes in each of these countries, and lived there happy and contented : such are to be considered the instruments chosen by Providence to spread the news of the Gospel to the ends of the earth, and carry the light of civilization into the wild haunts of the savage. But very many I knew had been forced into exile by the pro- scriptive legislation of the cruel Saxon. The amount of poverty, of suffering, and even of degradation which this forced exile has brought upon the great body of the Irish who have emigrated to America (for of Amer- ica I speak in particular), makes it another cause of na- tional revenge. But have the Irish in no way been ac- complices in their own misfortunes? This is a question of delicacy and importance. No truthful writer will as- sert that the Irish have borne the persecutions of England tamely and quietly ; nor will he accuse with justice the Irish of having been unfaithful to themselves. But it must be candidly stated, that, owing to individual per- versity, the Irish national character stands blackened by two great stains. The rust of corruption ate away till it snapped. the chain which bound Ireland to the rock of nationality ; and treachery brands the Irish forehead, since the days of Mchiurrough. Moreover, and be it not forgotten, the Irish of the 19th century are accused of being inactive in the redress of national wrong, and of bearing with a submission almost amounting to coward- ice, the denial of some of the most sacred rights of a peo- ple. I do not intend to enter into any discussion, but have simply stated the truth about certain evils, which we must be prepared to put down with the utmost vigor and inflexibility, when again we take up arms to reinstate our country in her former position among the nations of the world. We must be prepared to show no mercy to the fiend who will traffic in our blood. Corruption, treach- ery, aud the absence of patriotism come generally to- gether : they announce a nation’s ruin. It is the interest and the duty of all Irishmen in America, who do not in- tend to give up all connection with their race and coun- try,\to keep alive in their bosoms the holy flame of pa- tiiotism, and to take pains to instil it into the hearts of their children. The nation whose liberty has been cloven down by a foreign foe, needs but public virtue in her sons to recover it. Public virtue is to be found in honest men, and their combined exertions shall coin back lost liberty. To make honest men, train to honesty in child- hood and youth. Teach a youth to be honest, and when he grows to manhood he will consider it more beauli ul to follow that rightful path, than to excel in those clever tricks which are the delight of the smart Yankee and the Chinese mandarin. But the honesty which is chiefly spoken of here, is faithfulness to one’s native land. This virtue .is very often neglected, even by those who are honest in private life. Yet, public honesty is one of the most binding duties of man, and one the neglect of which must involve serious responsibility in the life of hereafter. For, if it be sinful to injure only a few, to strike a fatal blow at the lives, the liberty, and the happiness of mil- lions of human beings, must certainly be a-great crime. The youth of Ireland and the children of Irishman in North America ought to be made acquainted with history, particularly that of our dearly beloved Erin. This ad- mirable record of the wisdom and virtue of the past. is scarcely ever opened to Irish children at home: they have never read of the virtues and heroic deeds of their ancestors, and is it wonderful that they should lack to some extent that deep love and prejudice for race and country, which characterize a great people? It is not so with the youth of France, who, from the dawn of rea- son, are made familiar with all_that is great and good, lovely and interesting, in their beautiful and glorious history. Inculcating patriotism, an Irish priest speaks in these words, as sublimely as the human language can ex- press: “ An Irishman ought to love his country zealous- ly and disinterestedly, not only in this life, but he ought, when he enters the kingdom of Heaven, pray and entreat before the throne of the Almighty for the welfare, spirit- ual and temporal, of the land that gave him birth.” But oh ! my countrymen. abhor treachery ; abominate it ; do your utmost to make your children detest it. What an awful crime is treachery! It is a crime of the deepest dye, it is a deed of the most fiendish nature, it is some- thing so horrible, so monstrous, that he who knows its fearful consequences shudders at the thought. For, can anything exceed the infernal wickedness of the wretch whose perfidy counteracts all the efforts of a nation strug- gling for freedom, whose falseness consigns to slavery unborn millions, and leaves a whole people writhing in despair, under the terrible lash of the tyrant and perse- cutor? Nations, knowing the value of liberty, have in all ages feared treachery, and borne it a. deadly‘ hatred. Nothing excites [more the wrath of a great people. If caught, the traitor is promptly and nnmercifully execu- ted; for, as the offence is terrible in its enormity, so the punishment of it must be swift and terrible. France ab- hors-the memory of Moreau, while she honors the name of Dumouricz, who, in spite of persecution, never fought against‘ his country. .~Americo’s_ hatred of traitors is strongly exhibited in the case of Arnold. Arnold, at the .battle of Lake Champlain, fought like a lion in the glo- rious cause of fatherlund : there, his bravery, daring and skill shone with great lustre, and he would now be, like others, the idol of grtteful posterity, did not his famous plot of surrendering West Point aftervmds tarnish his early glory, and render his name synonymous with n- famy to every future generation of Americans. That in- xv tense hatred of traitors is the sign of a. nation's strength, the safeguard of a nation’s independence. The truth of this assertion will strike more forcibly if I refer to an- cient history, and reminds one of Demosthenes, who, when lamenting, before the citizens of Athens, the weakness and fallen state of their republic, sadly declared that its decay and enervation arose from the fact that treachery had become fashionable, and the hatred of it completely extinguished. Before I drop the pen, I have something important to tell the Irish at home and in America.—- Have you, the Irish of the nineteenth century, not lost all the energies of your fathers? They, when only one million and a hall‘, withstood all the forces and power of England: you, numbering over eight millions, have tamely borne the most galling tyranny, and preferred to die in ditches, and by the road side, rather than enter the field like men, to fight for your lives élnd sacred rights. Your fathers fought bravely in defence of their birth- right: you, without a struggle, have sneakiugly depart- ed, leaving the bastard descendants of the invaders in quiet possession of your properties, and you who remain are miserable slaves, watched over by an insignificant garrison recruited in your midst. Strong in words, you fail in action: so says the Saxon, who knows. you well. Shall our century close and bury the Irish name forever? Heaven forbid it. But such is your doom, if you awake not from your slumbers. Arise and grasp the valiant sword. Ours is still a hopet'ul‘cause: he who rules in France may soon find it his interest to aid us. Let us be ready. Our blood shed for others- proves down to the present hour, that our matchless bravery survives. If ’48 has only earned a worthy reputation for its honest lead- ers, our next attempt shall be made under the guidance of military knowledge. May those who surround O’Ma— houy be the nucleus of the legions that shall coin back Ireland’s independence. Hail I glorious day, when we shall rise and declare : “ We are a sovereign people, and henceforth swear allegiance to God alone. Perish we, our children, our all, or be free, Erin of the green hills!” RoLLo. _—:-—->»