It was heralded abroad.

The _Clarion_ devoted columns to the success of the "Great Gun Mine" and Wickersham.
Wickersham naturally showed his triumph.

He celebrated it in a great banquet at the New Windsor, at which speeches were made which likened him to Napoleon and several other generals.

Mr.Plume declared him "greater than Themistocles, for he could play the lute and make a small city a great one." Wickersham himself made a speech, in which he professed his joy that he had silenced the tongue of slander and wrested from detraction a victory not for himself, but for New Leeds.

His enemies and the enemies of New Leeds were, he declared, the same.