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a the febpte whom $ Em ofiéd the work® wiry "don 1 the lf [rostymights is what koall a. shigthing {4h regimenihoadquaziansy and fonad , the | day; replied to ans application fog: farlongiy
Per J RET He toy “ %0' fo give. Ik proofs of their, a and. Prussian Arig ‘was Gestroged. Like an in« Standing before huge fice whose glimmer very man, was in scareh of in the: “qolonel's at cmv iGaaUE Ferti - Seon nppivals .
if not paid withi WE 200 | eovrage.’ vissuh andasion the fugitives rashed from the ficlds. i nig rays shaot into, the , densa, -pineforest| tent, with; dray chting paper op. astable before leave of absence fop the next three, weeks. as «
ploughed by the batteries of Nanoleon, and
trampled beneatn the tread of his resigtless
cavalry.
While this scene was, transpiring on the
plains of sena, another division of the Prus-
him and sketches of the city and 1%. sure
roundings seattered everywhere. 1 handed.
him the note, which: he read and hastily tore
up, asking me if T could wait until he could
borrow a horse: I told hiny I:coald, but had
pd a many
0. pap er nf ck, subserip-
tions Dupe RL to notify a discontin-
usnes atthe end of the time Subscr ed for will
be considered 2 now engagement.
4 TERMS oF. ADVERTISING.
© 1 insertion. “2 do. eid
ns himselfat the diond of hidgarmy,
by a series of skillful .maneuvers, he ‘threw
his ‘whole force “into the rear of the Prus
| siang, citing ‘them off from their supplies,’
and from all ‘possibility of "retreat, Being
which surrounds you as if they. ,t00,- had,
partaken of the spirit of vigilancey;and wera
searching for some hidden foe, one’s, mind
naturally is affected, and every shadow and
tree has an association which awakens! the
ithe campaign would then be ovens’ wie oy
‘+ The, Washington’ correspondent of - the...
World als) refers to this early ingvement: obs
the. troops in the following garagraphs of his
letter, dated the 19th inst :
Foudinos orilom}s aio. 1478 2 $ oe igh i thus sure of victory, he . wrote as follows to | sian army was encountering a’similar disas- | go1gier to a full appreciation of his. sentinel { 20! fong to wait, for hé came back in a few | ¢ Disclaiming at the outset &n “oficiakiu
One square—1 . 80 he Ki Prussid © peeath ter on the field of Auerstadt, twelve miles : + . . 8 8 y:
Two squares—24 lines 1.00 1.90, 2 ® the King of re di Ashe f z duties, . But such a night as last night— [moments and carefully wrapping up his sur- | knowledge of, the mater, and revealing no
Three squares— Rr (150 200,250}. «Ske, uy BrOTHAR. —T am in the heart of istant. As the funtives of both armies | gen dreary, wet, and disagreeable in the yeys he placed them in a long tin ease, and. | facts obtained through; special’ facilities, it
gi i a os es Toe a Saxony. » . My strength i ig 50, that, your forces | were driven: together in their flight; iu ‘eon: Jextreme—has an entirely different effeet and | mounting, prepared to follow me. , On. the | may not be . improper for me | to state that
One square - L400 “7 gp | cannot balance the victory. But why shed fasion ind dismay unparalleled horsemen, |" © cluster aronnd the five, piled high: with | Way: he, conversed with so mchtegrnestriess there are many indications of an impedita,.
Two's apt) Ca 18 s 4 50 mach blood? Why muke our’ subjects footmen, wagons and artillery in densest and | g, cosh ral; which at times seemed to. exert:| and in sucha mild interesting manner, . that march to Bull Run, | Ty ;
For vanaf rine aid 1601 udp ty ado slay eachother 2° Tdo not prize victory | wildest entanglement, there was rained down | i; pag light 1 and modt genial rays to spread | I felt encouraged to talk aud chat. gontrary | . « I; appears very, certain dnt, the BE .
Half sodumn, gn} 500. 40.00 purchased by the lives of so many of my, Fk that the most terrible storm of balls: | yuor ind 1 smorig those who stood sok to my usual practice. when on horse back.— | conclude {0 maialain their positionof Wes, 4
Ober threo wooks an ERENT Ea tar dear IFT were just, ‘commencing my | bullets a shells. : ing around it... Then as if exasperated at the | He informed me that he was a graduate ‘of lace and defence within twenty five miles of
: Night came at length. But it brotight n no. ‘West Point, and that he had there fallen. so,
failure 1t on splutter and crack, contend-
ing furiously with every drop of “rain, and
military career. and if [had any reason to
fear the chances of war, t! this tanguage would
be wholly misplaced. * Sire, your majesty
the, .Capital. . The Richmond, . Ezaminer
boasts to the effect, and _ defies us to force .
25 cents for each insertion.
Advertisements not marked with tho number of
relief to the vanquished. - The pitiless pur-)
insertiofis desired, wiil De continued till forbid- *
Re mueh in love with the sdience of geometry
suit was uninterrupted. In whatever direc
that he had made it. an. almost. constant
den and cha g to these terms. hiss out a strong. reproof at the element them to do otherwise, They are, really set- »
Fie tical ier lanes notices charg. will be vanquished. At present you are’ an: | tion the shattered. ‘columns fled, they ‘were | yao making the sentinels so uncom study and that.now he found it. very inter- tling down into winter,quarters, Opposing. a...
met by: the troops which Napoleon had sent
anticipating the movement. The king him-
gelf narrowly escaped capture ‘during the
toute of that terrible night. Accompanied
by a few companions on horseback, he leap
ed hedges and fences, and’ plunged through
forests and fields, until he reached a place
of safety. ~The Prussian lost mn this one
disastrons fight twenty thousand killed and’
wounded, while twenty thousand more were
taken prisoners.
No military chieftain has ever manifested:
so much skill in following up a victory as
Napoleon: in less than fourteen days every |"
remnant of the Prassian 4rmy was taken,
and all the {ortresses of Prussia were in the
lands of the French. The king, a woe
8 ricken fugitive, driven from is realms,
ed for refuge to the army of Alexander.—
Never before in {he ‘history of the wor 1d, was
esting. in the interval, of. duty, to make
sketches and surveys of, the city.
When we arrived at the General's quarts
ers again the lientenant was introduced, and
at his colonels request produced his charts.
The party wasastonished at their flinish and
fine execution, and when, after examination
the ware found to be perfectly covrect, Gen
eral Scott came forward and grasping. the
‘young lieutenant by the hand personly com.
plimented. him: on his skill; and thanked him
for his effiziency., The chief engineer, some-
{what chagrimed. at this desplay of earning.on,
the pact of his. young rival, sneeringly: gold,
«t General. perhaps, this young man hag some
plan by whigh this pant of the defencesimay
be attacked.” - Upon inquiry .it was found
that he had a plan. which: was produced
with soma degree of reluctance and laid bes
fore the assembly. +-1t was read: and; criti
injured, and may retreat with me in a man:
ner conformable with your rank. Before a
month is passed, you will treat in a different
position. ['am aware that in thus writing,
T may irritate that sensibility which natu:
rally belongs to every sovereign. Bat cir-
t demand ‘that I should use no
concealment, T implore “your majesty to
view in this letter, nothing but the desire. I
, have to spare the clusion of human blood. —
“| Sire, my brother, J pray God that He wy
have you in His worthy and holy’ keeping.”
To this letter no reply was returned. In
two days. from | this time, the advance ‘guard
of the French met the Prussians, strongly
entrenched upon the plains of Jena and Au
| erstadt. It was the evering of the 13th of
1{October. The sun was just sinking with
unusual brilliancy behind the western hills,
when the prond anay of the Prussians, more
Busines
insertion.
No ts, yosahiViond or proceedings of any
ration, society or association, and no com-
munication designed to call attention to any mat-
ter of limited or ndividual interest, can be insert-
«d unless paid for as an advertisement
Obituary notices esodeding six’ lines. fifty cents
a square. -
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cents a ne ; and .the
a edmunication. : Paz:
crescent shaped line of natural and artificial
defences against our advance—an area of
which the Potomac river forms. the. chord,
‘and within whose area the federal army has
so lung halted for education and enlarge-
ment, For the better. maintenance of the.
rebel positien, it ig ruawored that Beauregard
‘has retunred from Charleston.
“(ur Government. is fully aware of the .
immense moral strength which the Rebels.
would gain at home and abroad if successful
in holding, their present lines until another
Spring. Tt has been decrecd that they shall
‘not hold it undisturbed. General McClellan
appreeriates the grave nature of the Job. to be
done ; , but he. knows that it ‘must be done,
and, that the, patient - North at length ci calls
upon, him to da it. He sees | that the con-
quest of the enemy fronting him must prev.
cede. the fate of Secession, The conqnest
Sotioes feo oonis ir life for every fortable. = But the guard must be vigilantly
maintained through the night, and we dare
not sleep; for you must know, Mr. Editor,
that sleep courts the soldier's eyelids as
sweetly under the dropping rain as it does
in his tent. if, perchance, he has a gum
blanket for a bed, nj his kuapick for. a
pillow, ei
1 proposed a song, wit the only music that
could be raised was made by a little cor=
poral who doled outin a most. masiuncholy
style,’
“Some days mest be dark and dreary.”
This seemed to be the only song that. the
‘corporal, knew, and the only one of that kind.
which we wanted ‘ to ‘hear. Under these
auspices; | proposed a story, andthe ser-
geant of t the goard, an old' Mexican soldier.
«up and told” the, following story, which
di
fice, Be A
must accompany
lt Boum,
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A HINDOO FABLE,
BY JOAN yo SAXE.
© Tt was six men of Indoostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to sce the Elephant,
(Though all of them were blind.)
That each by observation than one hundred thousand strong, appeared 80 formid able a power 50 speedily aud utter- | 1 Fioke, Se nearly ag il oan recolieot, | io his cised. and corrected, and: finally, to make a involves a brave, stra hor ard, old fash-
. Might satisfy his mind, vec in sight. Three hundred pieces of artillery Ly painted by ' oy Cait wk long story shoxt, adopted with some amends | joneq atiack, in which-whether it. be crowd-
Xe First approschied the Elsfhant, | were concentrated. into ; batteries, anda} « Iut-one month hail now; elapstd sinoe Nasi; 1, Seated in iny tent one evening. ust ore { ments hy the counaily + This displeased. the’ eq into one fearful day, or prolonged through a
the battle of the city of Mexico. ‘the captain
cams to me with. < corporal, I have been
requested:to send a trusty non~commission-
ed officer to the general council to night as
a messenger. Will you go?" [I replied {yi ch of the Service. i.
in the affirmative, thanking. the captain for | oj peed notitell yan continued the: cons
his confidenge., Our company was st that | pordl; © that inuthe taking of Mexico few
time. detached from its regiment, and was day até, tHe. pla: \ offered by th 3S liehten-
doingspecial duty ab General Scott's head. ye org of signal Service, and that be, was
garters. Tn the discharge of that duty, | brevettedsion afterwards,”
this wonflerful achievement passed over Eu. had made a point of being specially atlens |. Flore the story endeds and the Sargeant
rope lild the wonders of the Arabian tale, [tive and had theraby gained. the confidence: anced into his 1+ pipe” and silence. We
«Tn asdail | of pur captain, and noe or fiptcerwas| dott all looked for a while into the fire when one
mg this man,” said the Emperor Alexan. 5s the sentinels asked him what the name of |
weeks of changefal adyantages —whole bat.
tallions of . patriot soldiers ‘must pour out
their life blood for the victory. A
3 The. fact of his determining to advance
18 a sure symptom of the progress we have
made —not in _nambers, since 50,000 more
men would be joyfully received at this june-
ture, Lut in discipline, training, confidence,
and the important adjuncts of artillery and .
equipment, and sustenance resources.
«t The North need not fear the result.— a
This {ume we are gong to whip. them. We. e
are going to fight, and conquer them, at or,
feat the line from wunch they have once
. And happening to fall ,
Agains* his broad and sturdy sido,
At orice Bogan to bawl:
‘God blesgme '—but the Elephant
"Is very like a wall!”
alt on left Paris. ARfafy’of two hundred
thousand men, in thorough disciphne and
drill, had, fin. that time, been either killed,
taken prisoners; or dispersed. « Not a hostile
reginjent ‘remained. ‘A large pumber of
{artresses strengthened by the labor of ages,
and which nad+been: deemed impregnable,
had fallen into'the hands'of ‘the victor, ‘and
he was reposi y security in Berlin, in the
palace ol Eredericiethie Groat. The story. of,
engineer, who seemed o think that the lien-
tenant, thongh but a very few years his june
ior, had no right to display so much know
edge of a science which did. not belong to his
shvuadron of eighteen: thousand cavalry:
splendidly caparisened and with bar.ished
armor, were drawn up-in line of battle upon
the plain.
Napoleon immediately tok possession of
the Landgrafenbery, a hitl!
which the Prussians had Supposed inacces:
sible to artillery. aud
the long lines of the
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, Hod—what hive we here
8o very round, and smooth and sharp?
Td me 'tismighty clear,
This wonder of an: Elephant
Is very | like aspear!’’.
Steep, ‘craguy
trom. whose, Summit
Prussians extending
many leagues, could be elearly ‘discerned.
As the gloom of night settled down, the
{blaze of the Prussian camp fires, extending
over a space of eighteen wiles, ilumined the
scene with almost an unearthly glow.
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to.take
The squirming trank within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake
¢ 1 seo,” quoth hey, the Elephant
Is very like a, snake! no
~The Fourth yotoned ont a8 ea
exciling universal amazement.
ar hand,
And felt about the knbe’ len {golf '[ brashed up my old thes, “
« What moat this ki cis: like, (ouriers were dispatted to hasten on the | der, yl are but "children atta ckiug a, gt | df ray Pio adil i mx { this young liengenant was. - Ho slowly pufl- | griven us back. T here will be no Bull’ Run
Isyory;plain.” quoth he; « battalicas of the French army. , To ‘encour. | ant.” : 2 0 3 PIES IG the smoke «from his, mouth, and ans< retreats and_ panics, because this time the
i|,the neatest: manner posssble, that. evening:
presented myself to the Adjutant General for t
instructlons. I found that the coungil about | {
to meet for the consideration of General |
Seott’s plans for taking the eity, was to be
composed of ali the Colonels in the devision,
and that my duty wonld be to go errands,
and attend to bringing charts, paper or
whatever might be required. { 4
“Tis clear enough the Eien
Eu very like a treo age the men, Napoleon, with his own hands,
labored Rlffost the ‘might in. blasting ‘the
rocks, and clearing the “way that’ he might
plant 8 batiery upon the brow of the Land-
grafenberg. As brigade uficr brigade arriv-
ed, they took the positions assigned them by
their experienced chieftain. © ‘Soult ‘and Ney
were ordered to march all night to a distant
point, to cut off the retreat of the foe. To
ered:
+ [ believe if, was + Grorgo—Gronas B.
McCrLrLLAN.)
« And who was the engineer
« I helieve his name was (George,
George T. BuAUREGARD.”
And we all sinokeéd and looked into the fire
unt il the sentinel called out—
++ Grand rounds | Turn out the gard!
battle will be preceded by .no July disor-
ganization, and fought by no Centreville
mob,
«As indicated, this great review is with-
out doubt Srecliminary to a general striking
of tents. Gen. McClehan has told the Pay
Master General that he must get through
with the bi=monthly payment, as the regis
ments are to leave . the neighborhood. Ex
McClellan 2nd Beauregard.
Russell! “Our Ow,’ > correspondent of the
London Times, gives the following compari-
son between McClellan and Beauregard in his
last letters
To my mind there is otlothiiy of resem-
blance between themen. Both are below
the middle height. They are both squarely
The Fifth whe ehanesll 1 to south fhe ear,
Said, ‘ Elen the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most—
Deny the fat. who. oe -
“""Thie marve) ephia
Ta very vel uf 3p Klopla
The Sizth no sooner had began
About the boast tn grops,
Than, seizing on the swinging tailic
too—
nr
That fell within his scope, ; : : Well the ecuncil met, and T wr
«1 #08 'quoth h6, “ the" Elephant } wards morning Napoleon threw himself up- built, and famed for their muscular power el] the ‘ccuncil met." an as at my Wash i
! i ; on re -— ington «Republican. activity prevails in the transpor-
Is very like a ope” «2 on the ‘groand on’ the blésk «hill side. to | since their, college days. , Beapregard, in- post] Xe gay Vie Jah, bly SI Een rem eae Tr 4 stores. There Be :
men T had ever seen together, and when they
aseembled around that table, ‘and the Gen-
eral stond towering high above the rest, T
deed, is lean and thin ribbed ; McClellan is
full and round, with a Napoleonic tendency,
to embonpoint, subdued to incessant exer:
s'are for an hour the frig id bivouac of the
ods CTS.
* At four o'clock, he: wes again: on horse-
"And 80 thes men of Indnostan
. Disputed loud and long,’
Bach in his own opinion
A xaedin stiff and strong,
Tmines Trar I Have SeeN.~1 have seen
a farmer build a house so large and fine that
the Sheriff turned him ont of doors.
other causes for expecting an immediate :
movement, some of which I canto state,
and others of ‘which must be seen by, expe- 4
Thou was partly in he right, fete A dense fog i cise. Beauregard sleeps little ; McClellan's | could not help Bag admire him mde ‘than | ©
An all Se a wrong! Hg Nn ea r a a ie D rer > BERL customary sninzation and | | T have £30 » oo Rina Eig rienced eyes to i a 0:
+ So, oft in theologic wars @arknoss,- Napoleon ranged hus troops in | both are spare and Spartan in diet, studions- organization, they sat down in. regard to oe 1 ant He af past that, if Fi 0; 2 Civ’ . i: Fa ic
+... The disputants, I ween, it battl : ly quiet. Beare ard is’ rather saturnine rank, beginning with General Wanl and [LRoSPHR ’ may haye Soi; ence that it will be, to Jecis
"Rail on, in utter ignorance tile.array.. Enthusiastic shouts greeted) ly 4 5 ’ T ‘have seen & favisor travel about so much | give victor
what each other mean, ‘Him as he rodealong the lines: At 6 o’clock, | and if not melancholic, 8 ‘of a grim gaity ; anceéerting dae); othe in seats, a3’ penotity that there was nothing at home worth looking x : Toye F20! sy un ane
An pote short a Bphnde ¢he fog Still nbroken, the order was given | MeClellan is genial even in his reserve. The of rank gave them privilege. Tt was no time bitter THE ey ora rr the quiet:
*y for delay, and the General spoke rapidly and
wiih earnegrness, ‘oceasionlv referring to
sone one on ‘the ‘right or lefr for information
or corroboration. Thus carefully and ex.
plicitly were the movements and marches,
fireside of home, the true mother, in the
midst of her children, is sowing, as in vases.
of earth, the seeds of plants that sometimes
give to heaven the fragrance of their! blog.
soms, “whose fruit shall be a ‘rosary’ of ans ©
density of the hair, the squareness of. the
jaw, the firmness - and regularity of the
teeth, and the outlines of the features are
points of similarity in both, which would be
more striking if Beauregard were not of the
te pierce the Prussian lines in every direcs
tion. For eight hours the battle raged with
fury never before or since’ surpassed. The
| ground was covered (with « the dead ; 3... the
‘shrieks of the wounded, trampled ‘beneath
T have seen a rich vs son begin where:
his father left oft —wealthy; and end where
his father began—penniless. ne x
I have seen a worthy farmers som idle
Sods.
ao JENA AND. AU AVERSTADE {he hoofs of charging squad: ons, rose above | true Louisianian Creole tint, while McUlel- the sallies. and sortees. the whole plan de- Ea we igh y ih pi gelie deeds, the noblest offering that she can
‘BY JOHN 5 1&6 Anson. ¥ | the thunder of the battle. About 1 o’¢lock. | lan is fair complexioned. Beauregard has a veloped. So that all seemed to understand — house: me make through the ever ascending and ex-~
But presently a plan was discovered, somes
thing wag wrong, and I saw. by the per-
plexed look of those around the table that a
very serious mistake had been made. but
from what cause, my knowledge of military
‘affairs did not enable, meto judge. A dis-
gasaing souls of her children, to ‘her Mak-
Every word that she utters goes from
ne to heart with a power of ‘which she «
little dreams. ‘Philosophers tell us in their
speculations, that we cannot ‘ft a ‘finger
without moving the distant spheres. Sol
P. M., the Prussian, General sent the follow-
ing frantic dispatch to his reserve :
++. Loose not a moment in -adyancing your
yet unbroken & {roops. Arrange your columns
‘80 that, ‘through their openings there may
p 8S. the still, unbroken bands of the battle.
dark, dull, student's eye, the dullnsss of
‘which arises, however, from ‘its formation,
for 1t is full of firey and its glances: are’ quick
and searching. = McClellan has a deep, clear
eye, into which. you can look: far and deep,
while you Tel 1t searches Jar and deep into
Goon
n the year 1806, England, tt avi
Prussia formed avopew coalition against’
France. Prussia commenced the campaign;
by invading Saxony with an army of 200,~
000 men, under the - command of - Frederick’
1 have seen the disobeience of 4 so bring
down the'gray hairs of his father to his | ©
grave
| ——
. GBN. Boss. —Gen. Don. Carlos Buel, who
has been assigned to the command of the De.
William, the Prussian King. Alexander of
Russia, with.an equal army, was pressing
down through the wilds of. Poland. to unite
in the. march upon Paris. England ieo-oper::
ated with her invincible fleet, and with pro<
fuse expenditures from her mexbuustible ;
Be ready to receive the charges of the cne-
my’s cavalry, which, in the most furious
manner, rides on, overwhelms and sabres
the fugitives, and has driven into one con
fused mass the fat . axils and caval:
you.
say, “Don’t disturb me ;
* Beauregard has something of pretension
in his manner ; not hauteur, but a folding
armed, meditative sprt of air which seems to
I’m thinking oj
pute arose between some Colonel and the
engineer-in-chief, in ‘regard to the position
and strength of some battery,-and the “topo-
graphy of tha surrounding country. The
colonel said that frequent reconnoissance of |
| the ground, from the fact of his being en-
partment of Kentucky, entered the service
on the lst of July, 1841, as second lieutenant
in the third Infantry. He greatly disting-
| nished himself in various engagements during
{ the Mexican war, and was twice brevetted,
first, captain and then major, for gallant and
emn is the though:, but not more solemn . to:
the christian mother than the ‘thought that
every word that falls. from her lips—every
expression of her couu epance, even in the
sheltered walk and retirement of home, may
leave an indelible impression on youug souls.
ry.
4 The Prussian reserve; twenty thousand
strong, with unbrokun front, now entered the
‘field, and for a moment seeemed to arrest
‘the tide of victory. ‘Napoleon stood at the
head of the Imperial Guurd, which he had
held in reserve as hour after’ hour’ he had
watched and guided the terrible fight,
young soldier; impatient of this delay, 2
last, in the excess-of his excitement, shout-
ed, “Forward | ‘Forward 1” * Napoleof turn-
ed sternly to him and said : hy
I « How now ! What heardless boy ia this,
who ventures to counsel hig Emperor. «Let
him: wait till he has commanded 1n thirty
pitched battles before he proffers his ad-
Wjeglr rut
It was now 4 o'clock. . The decisive mo-
ment had arrived. Murat, at the, head of
twelve . thousand horsemen, fresh, and in
nerfect array, swept down’ upon’ the plain; as
military movements.” McClellan seems 0
be always at leisure ; but you ‘feel at the
same time you ought not to intrude too much
upon him, even when you seek 1 vain. for
the grounds of ' that impression in anything
that he is dong or aying. . Beauregard is
more subtle, crafty; and astute. McClellan
‘A | i8 more comprehensive, more learned, more
impressionable. Beauregard is a thorough
soldier ; McClellan may prove he is a great
general. The foriner only looks to wilitary
consequences, and i popular mani-
festations ; the latter respects the opinions
of the outer world, and sees political as well
as military results in what he orders. They
around her; and form as it were, #n under-
lying strain of She ‘education whiel peoples:
heaven, 1 Ll :
A CHESHIRE anctioneer, hie engaged in
his vocation the other day, thus exalted’ the
merits of acarpet: ‘ Gentlemen and ladies,
some folks sell carpets for Brussels which
are not Brussels ; but I can most positively
assure you that this elegant Sha was
made by Mr. Brusstls himself.” pe?
Ro
| camped near the place in question; led him,
even in direct opposition to the chart of the
engineer. to protest ‘against its truthfulness,
and he would urge upon the General to
make himself sure of the state of affairs be..
fore he fully completed his plan. But this
would not.do : it was necessary that very
important and vigorous movements should
take place, or no action could be carried on
with safety or certainty. ~It'seemed, in fact
to be amain point. at which positive success
would have to fall to the American forces. -
Finally, the colonel said that there was a
are both the creatures of accident, so’ far ‘as young ..wdténant in his regiment who had a
their present positions are concerned. Itre: conréet chart of the defences,’ and ‘the wap
mains to : gest if i 47] Jontrl oe of the demesne thereto (adjacent, The en- |
urrent of events. and i either the arti a
ferguis or cavalry officer of th old, United’ | Bineeh insehief, suceriaisly Hid, Very wall,
States army there 18 the stuff of whreh his- sir you had better send for youn ‘authority,
tory is moulded, sach as “that dt” which the | and let us see thisgreat map.” The Genor-
artitleryman of Brianne or thele adr of Life} #) ‘nodded his apptoval, and ‘the colonel gave |
Trodsides was made, “we the name apd address af 1ho, ligutencnt,
AreRBUry,. cif oi ov vil 6 i
The Emperor was greatly - annoyed by
this unprovoked attack, which - thwarted all
hus plans for developing. the industrial rev
sources of Erance.. He shut: himself up for
forty~eight hours to arrange the details of |}
the campaign, and immediately dictated two’
hundred letters, all of which still remain the’
monument of his.energy. and sagacity: In
six days, the whole imperial guard was.
transported from Paris to the Rhine: « They |
traveled by. post. sixty. miles, ‘per day. On
the 24th of September; : Napoleon, at: mid
ot inl his Siegen ‘at the Taileries,
0] e army, parting: words to the
Senate were : Hai Ye Dame ae
** In 80 just. a war, which we have not
oked by any act, by, any prétence, the
trode ause,of which it would: be impossible
to assign, and where we | only take arms to
amped WH
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meritorious conduet. In January, 1848, he |
was appointed g assistant, adjutatgeneral with
the rank of captain, and has continued in
the adjutant general's department ever since,
having been recently promoted to aidutenant
colonelcy therein, to fill a vacangy created
by a recent act of Congress. Gen. Buel is
a native of Ohio, and a graduate of West
Point. ¢
eel Ap
Coto. MULLIGAN, the hero of Tasiogton
bas accepted an invitatiou to lecture in Chi
cago. In his letier of acceptance, he says :
Permit me to ask you to devote, the. proceeds
to the widows and orphans of those who fell
at Lixing 8 —the gallant men who
iY Lay along the battery’ § side,
Below the smoking cannop—
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde
And from the Luaks'of Shannon. id
Lo leewepai
POETRY, is is said to be the Snr of. liters
tare; prose is the corn, potatoes and meat ; 4
gatire is the aqua fortis ; loye and wit is the.
spice and pepper; love letters are the: honey :
ard sugar; letters containing = remittances
| the apple dumnphngs.
»
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A COTEMPORARY Says “*a ferhale recruit
was deteeted’ trying to put He Pe on
over her head.”
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