~C D9LL AS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOAVANDA :
flurry Morning, November 14, 1861.
fcVipnl I'Octnr.
(F"r tli" Brmtl'iiril Reporter)
LINES ON THE SUDD EN DEATH OF A FRIEND.
BT MAllien. FtlWI.gR.
Tlince happy , P lrit cl " tl,ed in HcaTen ' s own ,i(jh '
' why lit-'. th"ti left ni, why thy sadden flight ?
Todr -ip but Tor a moment, then to rise
A „d soar away in triumph to the ikies.
0,1 little didst thou know that day was given.
To lie thy last n ear. h—thy first in Heaven ;
little dulst thou ku iw that morning ray,
' o'a thee would brighten to eternal day.
Who taw tl.ee struggle to forsake thy cell ?
Who saw the weep, or heard thee say farewell
Who elan the closest bands of Nature br-ke.
Suw thy heart quiver at that bleeding stroke ?
Ah n' 'twas peace-a sweet triumphant peace.
A cal m that lulls when angry tempos* ce.se-
Vo more life's ragged path thy bet shall roam.
'Twas Jesus' welcome voice that bade thee come.
Thy work is done, thy mission here is o'er- [shore ;
Thy Ileaven-bound birk hath reached itt destined
The breeze hath ceased that spread its flowing sails,
At home at U-t, bright ones thy spirit hails.
Mo.vKoaro.v. I'A
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Escape from Perote Castle.
A PRISON KK* STATEMENT.
I was one o! the unfortunate B*xar prison
er confined in the castle ot Pcrote, >y ord-r
!■ treacherous Santa Anna, in lie yeor
•j:|. Tits fortified prison, the strongest in
ftrx :<*>, il not in the world, is u grand, gloomy
ft of masonry, situate in a valley between
I > mountains, about a wile north of the town
I IVrute, through which tin? stage-, carrying
I. until, puss between tlie cities of V ra Cruz
tJM-Xico. The Castle, as it is called, is
of volcanic scoriae, which has It-en >o
iirdet.ed b) fusion to be almost impervious
steel. The walls are eight feet, thick, and
mi sixtv feet in hie hi from the bottom of
i cur-at moat to the ramparts Tins mo it,
siiich extern.s entirely around the great struc
ire, with its angular bastions, is some twenty
let 111 (1 cjith by two hundred in width, and.
I nugli or<!n anly kept dry, as it was while I
IT is there, is so connected with subterranean
liter worKs thai K can III* flooded in a few
- O i the ouferside of the mmit is a
... ve stone wull, and beyond this again are
t in liable c/iec <ux f rise and a dry ditch.—
, Mmg this ditcti, the entire woiks cover
ki v >ix acres. Upon the ramparts, wh'ch
I?<svfiity feel in widili and extend the entire
■niufereucc of the building, are mounted
igiily pieces ot artillery, and here sentinels
re constant ly pacing to and fro day and night.
r • H it root upon which these cannon rest, is
i| masonry, tiltecn ted thick, which is sup
rted liv successive arches, seventy feet long
- twenty wide. The interior ot these arches
stitute the workshops, storerooms and cell*
i' ,e prisoners They are entered only fr.uu
, i inside, through imis-ive doors which hive
narrow grating over (lie top. Wlien the d wr
if a c>ll is closed, the only light and nir winch
{at reach t, must either couio in through the
irning mentioned, or through a loop hole at
fir etal, which, from being some two feet
Lure on the inner side of the wnli, gradually
leruas (f.r.vn to an aparture of sonu- four inch-
B ytir he on the outside, directly over the
ieat lU'Jst Fronting these CD Is or arches, at
• - l ei-ot sixty feet, is an interior range
• ,ire buildings, two stories high, in which
i(u, rt, red the ollie rs und soldiers of the
B-':>ni, with, in iiiai v esses, their wives and
■c and in-ide again of this inner range in
B'riviiTe court or potzi, five tiundr* d feet
H |.<r military drilland parade. In
m he Castle of Ft role, is almost a city in
ai.if o'lginally cost many years of labor
mi.lions of dollars.
■ la;, iii.Mieru Bastih alike serves the amhi-
B*tyrant an I c <mm >u justice, an I beco ges
B'- the ataxic ot n p ilitical rival, u Stale eon
■p'-thr, u troublesome prisoner of war, and
Mon unhung. Every gr ide of so
|i*ii the Very h gliest to the very lowest
hotn th • hi in of rank lothe filthy vagabond
*; (tiff-rent tunes its representative here ;
Jcoulil tin* stones of this gloomy structure
"k. the <1 irk uud cruel deeds and tales of
iiin suffi-riug which they might reveal would
ike coiutuna humanity shrink aghast,
it *as my tuislorltine, wit.i many other Tex
comr-des, to IK- captured or kidnapped by
■•I .Venn general, ami, after being marched
".gnis of miles, uud receiving treatment
J ' c:i k 'led several of my triends, to be un
'HXi'd 111 one of the cold, dismal cells of this
j! a tyrant. And not only imorisoned,
J 'led wiih irons and degraded to the low
■ Rtrnial employment A chain, weighing
■ p'J'inu-, and only some four or five feet
'-' !l hnked me tiy the am In to one ot
-'!'i| anion* in misery ; ami thus secured,
*<•'l*cijiilleil, along with others, to remove
i and off,l from the eastle every uiorn
• hiiinibu niw >, and after that to puck in
' 4il Kami, to repnr the fortification,from
' ice of sou, thing like a mile, being all
' f clos, |y guarded by a tile of soldiers
l; "r mile t,| us often treaied Willi tu
:ni abuse. Ai six o'clock in the even
*e were binned and counted and locked
"tr cell, there to remain till six in the
|"'ssig the night as beat we might.
a ° 'sol but i lie i old flags, aud no cover
s' our worn, filthy and ragged clothes and
i * "' Table blunkets.which we had aruotn;
} 'en, completely tired do* u with the U
i 1 "'e liny, 1 have passed a restless night
( "\ v . sometimescaused t• v cold, sometimes
"flatiKtn, sometimes by cramps and colic
uiireil uiliuent*, not lo meuliou constant
i_ a! "Eiities, and soiactuncs by the like
'o" of the companioo to I was
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
Thus passed days, weeks and rticvTlis, with
scarcely a ray of hope, and the only mitigation
of onr sufferings Being in the removal of our
heavy chains at night, whi h we hud effected
in various ways, hut principally hy bribing t u e
smith to out in leaden rivets blackened with
charcoal, so that we conld remove them at
pleasure. Our food during this time was scant
and poor ; and this, together wi'h hard work,
loss of res', exposure, anxiety of mind, and
improper tieatmeiit, carried some to the hos
pital, some to the grave, und reduced the rest
of us, if not to skeletons, at least to several
pounds below our ordinary weight.
At length the news reached us of the cap
ture of some two or three hundred more of our
countrymen at Mier, and not long after this,
fifteen of them, among whom were General
Green, Colonel Fisher, and some other officers
were brought into the castle and confined in a
cell adjoining ours. The farce of three days'
freedom was allowed them for looking about
the castle, and then they were chained toget h
r in pairs like ourselves, and put to the same
menial and degrading employment.
Time pa sed ou and brought us to much mis
ery and HO little hope, thai at last a few of us
took the bold resolve of making our escape if
it were possible to be accomplished. Some of
our party being carpenters, and occasionally
employed in one ol the shops, a few chisels
were thus secured, and with these it was our
first idea to enlarge the loophole of our celi,
and lower ourselves into the moat by means
< I a rope with which we expected to provide
ourselves by getting a small piece at a time,
and splicing the parts together. But on m ik
ing a trial at the loop-hole, we found it so well
guarded "y iron fastenings let into the hard
stones, that with our inferior tools we eotild
do nothing with it, and so we ahau oned it
altogether, and commenced perforating the so
lid wail a little to the left.
Tncre was a wooden shutter to the loop
hole, and when tins was open, as it generally
was for the admission of light ami air, it com
p.'eteiy concealed our secret work ; but as an
additional precaution against discovery, we
hung our blankets up along the wtd, a d al
ways kept one of our number listening near
the door, who never fail d to give warning, by
a careless tap or otuer signal, of the sudden
and uin xpefieti vi-it of some inspecting offieer
The dirt and rubbish thai we took from th
aparture, we managed to dispose ot by fir-t
concealing it under some loose stories in onr
cell, and subsequently carrying it out iu our
blankets.
At first our work of cutting horizontally
j through the wall WHS comp iritiVely easy, but
the further we progressed the more d ffi *ult it
1 became. Oily one person ut a time could be
employed at it, and this moody in the night
i When we had penetrated the wall a few feet,
! the person laboring in the hole had to crawl
in flat, rest on his elnows, and then work with
the chisel as best he could, generally by drill
ittg little boles, and prying off pieces of the
rock and cement. I was a vviy fatiguing
1 process, and often the rubbish of a whole day's
labor could he carried off in two or thrie or
dinary s:zed pockets. Still it was something,
and hope cheered us with the belief that at
: least we vv-re so much n urer libertv, and so
1 we toiled on with an unwavering purpose.
One thing, for a while, put a comolete stop
lo our operations Intelligence was brought
! us that on the 13tit of June, Siuta Ana's
birth day, we were all to be set free, ' ut when
! that dav htd come and gone, leaving us stdl
prisoners, we deeply regretted we had lost any
1 tiuic (it relying upon the false promises of a
treacherous government and torthwi'h renew
ed our I thors with a bitter z-al.
Br the fir<t of July our excavation was com
pleted, anil only a thin shell remained on th<-
1 outside, which we could roinove in a few min
utes. Meantime we had secured our rope, fix
ed our knapsacks tor a journey, and by great
ccom my in our rations, saved up food enough
fo last a couple of w -i-ks. Sixteen of us, among
whom was General Green, had resolved to te
gam our li'H t iy on the uight of the Fourth ol
July, the others, after due consideration, pre
ferring to remain, rather than run the risk of
re-capture and death, which they believed wo'd
be our ultimate fate ; but the afternoon of the
second being u stormy one, and promising a
dark night favorable to r purpose, we re
solved to make the attempt at once.
As those who wished to escape were confin
ed in three different evils, our first anxiety was
to get ali these together in the One apartment.
Tms we successfully managed, by inducing the
same nuiuuer of those who were to remain to
cliHtig- places with those who were to leave ;
und the officer of the guard finding the numbers
of each party correct, locked the doors on us
without discovering or suspecting our ruse.
S<> tar well ; Out we Mill had u delicate,
difficult and dangerous undertaking to manage.
We could not escape from our apart incut tlio'
the aparture without more or less noise ; arid
as a seiilnr l was sUiioiul at the door, who
would he lib'-ly to hear any uuusnal sound, and
who could even look in through the grate by
standing on tip toe, our first proceeding was
to properly manage huu We had some spir
its, which we had smuggled, and we invited
huu 10 drink with us, passing his liquor to hi in
in an eggshell through the grate—an act ot
kindness on our part winch he more highly ap
predated that uight prohaolv than he did the
day following. Next We got some of our par
tv to trembling tear the door, and others to
dancing, all of which created sufficient no se
to cover our own, and allow us to proceed with
the work on which our liberty depended.
We soon succeeded in knocking off the out
er shell of our breach; and tneu to our dismay,
I might a.most sav horror, discovered that the
fur'her end of the aparture was too small to
permit the larger of our party to pass through
1 do not know that 1 ever felt worse in my hie
than 1 did at the moment of hearing this tact
announced. For weeks 1 had almost lived u|e
on the hope ol liberty, and now, when all oar
working and plotting had brought it witluu
my very grasp us it were, the bare thought
that it innrlit prove a failure made my brain
reel and ull my limbs tremble, if we stioahl
uot escape that uigbt, we could not hope to
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erfcape at all, for it was almost a certainty that
our excavation would be discovered the next
day from the outside, and a closer watch be
kept upon us ever after.
The first terrible shock over, however, we
went to work as men will work for their lives;
and at the end of two hours we had succeed
ed in enlarging the aparture sufficient, as it
was believed, for all to get through ; but for
fear the largest might get wedged, it was de
cided that all the others, beginning with the
smallest should have the precedence in the or
der of size. The rope by which we were to
lower ourselves into the dry moat, a distance
of some thirty feet, having been firmly secured
inside, the smallest man entered the breach,
feet foremost, and to our almost unbounded
joy, passed out in safety. Then one by one we
followed ami succeeded in rejoining him—tbo'
so difficult was the undertaking that some of
us reached the ground naked with our flesh
torn and bleeding, and so slow the process that
three hours were consumed in the effort. Two
of our number stuck fast, and for a while it
was believed they would not get thiough at
ull ; and one actually had to be drawn back
by a rope fastened to his arms by those inside
but he thought of his dear wife and children
in Texas, made a second attempt, and was the
last but one to rejoin us in the great tn at
outside of our prison walls. As the sixteenth
man touched tlie earth, the Castle bell tolled
the hour of midnight, and the cry of " Centi
nela ale/la," from the watchers on the ram
parts, warned us to move silently and with
caution. We crossed the moat, ascended its
outer wall by narrow stone stairs, climbed over
the chrvauz de frise, passed through the outer
ditch and up the outer bank, and at half-past
twelve, on the nio niug of the third of July,
we slood eleir ot all that belouged.to the gloo
my Castle of Pcrote.
Bit though free from onr prison, we were
noi from the country, and many were the pri
vations. suffering and perils yet in store for
us. We paired off and separated, each couple
taking a different couse to the mountains,
among which we intended to secrete ourselves
till the first pursuit and search for us should
lie over, after which we hoped to be able to
make our way out ol the country. Eight of
u sm-c.-eded in our design, and eight were re
cap'nred and returned to our late gloomy
abode, witli all its attendant misery and deg
redution, I, alas! was one of the unfortun
ate latter ; and here I remained debilitated in
body and crushed in spirit, till lhe order of
Santa Anna, procured through the intercession
of the American Minister, General Waddy
Thompson, came lor our final release.
How to Walk in Comfort—Something
About Boots and their Evils.
The bootmaker, ignorant of the relative use
and importance of ctie different parts of tlie
loot, has steadily persisted for centuries, and at
this day usually persists in so shaping the shoe
that the great toe is forced upon the other
toes more or less out of its right I ne with the
heel. Nine civilized people in ten perhaps,
have their great toes thus by a course of sub
mission to uais shapen boots and shoes so far
turned inwards, that a line run down in the
tnddle of llieiu from point to ball, if continued,
would not fall anywhere in the heel at. all, but
several inches away outside the body. The
necessary consequence raising the body is des
stroyed : the effort has to he made at a disad
vantage, and with pressure ; tiie act of walk
ing loses some of its case ; so that although
the boot may be so wi-ll adjusted to the spoilt
shape of the foot as to cause no pain, an hon
est twenty or t.ir'.y tude walk is more than
the hampered loot machinery has power to sus
tain.
F >r this reason, says Dr. Meyer, it is wrong
t) cUjipose that because it is easy it is right,or
that a east of the loot, unless it be a healthy
one, would make the best last for the shoe it is
to wear. Allowance should be made for the
irraduil return ol I lie great toe lo its place, by
leaving its place (to some extent at least)vacant
for it, and permitting gealle pressure where the
joint iias been forced iuto undue projection.—
When the shoemaker now tells a customer that
he treads very much ou one side, he in fact
eoiiiplon Mits hiiu hy the information that he
bus a healthy and tinsuljugated foot, deter
mined to tread straight. It is precisely be
come children's feet are only in the first stage
of injury, and *re more nearly as God made
them than as they are destined to be made by
the shoemakers, that children especially come
into trouble with the shoemakers, or with the
parents and guardians who believe rather iu
shoes than in .eet, for "treading on one side."
A strong and healthy foot tramples a foolish
shoe out as far as possible into the form tt
ought at first to have had. Even the distorted
foot, after the shoemaker has done his work,
will often tread over the leather of the iutier
side ol the booMieel, because of a natural ef
fort of the foot heel to bring itself into some ap
proach to the right line with the great toe.
Iu a properly made shoe, then, the great toe
and the heci have their right relative places
furnished tor them. And since they are to be
in a hue together, it must follow that if a well
made pair of boots be placed side by side so
that their heels touch,their sides also will touch
through the whole space in front ol the instep
fioui the place of the ball of the great toe lo
the very end of it. They will diverge only at
the rounded ends, wheie the great toes round
off into the little toes, along whose line, and
nowhere else,any possible poiutiug of the shape
of the boot sole can be got.
Barnura has been sold ! A few days
since a countrvman appeared at the Museum,
and upon admission to the uia agera, declared
he had a great natural curio-ilj, ao less than
a " cherry-colored cat." Barnuin had seen
many cuts, but never a cherry coloied one, and
speedily paid $25 for the curiosity wliiuh was
to be delivered the next day. At the appoint
ed time came the countryman and a bag, out
of which he produced a cat of the color of a
black cherry. Barnous was sold, and relates
the joke with great gusto.
" RESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
[From Peterson's Magazine.]
THE LEGIONOF HONOR.
BY JAMES It. DANA.
" And you are willing he should go ?"
" Why not," answered the young wife en
thusiastically. " I should despise myself,
Adele,if I were not willing to give my husband
to my country. France needs nil her sous in
this extremity. I thauk God I have lieari to
offer on her altar.'
Her sister shrugged her shoulders. "You
always were romantic, my dear," she said
" For my part, if I had a handsome husband,
a splendid estate in Normandy,a hotel in Paris,
diamonds, cashmere, equipages, servants as
you have, I should not be willing to risk them
so slightly. Suppose Henri is killed. You will
be a widow, and for a time at least, can enjoy
none of these things."
"Oh ! Adele, how can you talk so ? lias
not the good father Lacoire been telling us,
ever since we were children, that the curse of
modern times was its materialistic view of life?
That to eat, drink, and be merry seemed to be
the whole purpose of existence ? The luxury
had corroded national virtue ? That the day
of heroism had passed ? llow ofteu has uiy
heart swelled agaiusl these imputations, for 1
will not believe that human nature has sunk so
low ! No, I have often told him, the diviner
parts of our race have not all died out. We
are still capable, we wi men, of making sacri
fices for our country ; and our husbands, fath
ers, brothers, sons, still capable of dying for it.
I could, myself, if the occasion called for it,be,
I hope, a second Joan of Arc. I never loved
Ht-nri half so well as since he came home, the
other day, and told me, that, in this crisis of
France's fate, he had determined to off- r her
his sword, and, if necessary, his life. We can
die but once. What more glorious than to die
in a holy cause I'' And the young wife looked
sublime as she spoke it.
Natalie had been married but ayearortwo
Her beauty, accomplishments, and amiability
hud won for ln*r, at eighteen, the heart of the
young de Tankerville, the greatest match of
the season. Passionately attached to each
other, they spent the hours continually to
gether : they reud, they did every tliiug in
company. The life they led was more like an
idyl than like a life in modern society and in
Paris. In the of this dream of bliss
c me the news of the retreat from Moscow.—
All Europe rose against France. The Empe
ror, beatau back from Dresden to Leipsic, aud
from Leipsic to the Rhine, was making a last
desperate effort to retrieve the fortune of the
nation It was in this extremity that theyoung
count stepped forward. His father had been a
conslitut onal royalist in the last days of Louis
XVI , and though the family had never emi
grated, il had never, on the other hand, at
tacbcd itself to the fortunes of Napoleon. So
long as the great Emperor pursued his career
of conquest, so long the Xankervilles held aloof
from linn. But now, when the question was
not Napoleon, but the nation, the young couut
felt that the time had come when his country
demanded his services. In view of the dismem
berment of France, w hat were lands, houses,
life itself? "Save the nation!" was the cry
that lose to every patriotic lip. Women brought
their jewels, incu brought, their lives. Fore
most among these were Henri end his wife.
" Well," said Adeie, who had one o f those
cold, seitish natures, that could not understand
how anybody could do anything noble or he
roic, " i think you and your husband mad.—
But go your own ways."
" 1 wish you were mad in the same way.—
We arc mad as*Leonidas was mad. as Tell was
mad, as Bruce was mad, as every other hero
was mad that has died for liberty. It is not
now a question of the Emperor. It is a ques
tion of country. It is not whether Napoleon
shall reign, but whether France shall be dis
membered. It is whether the flag of the nation,
that glorious tricolor which waved at Marougo
and Austerlitz, shall be trailed in the dust, or
shall still bring tears lo the eyes of Frenchmen
when they see it, in foreign lauds, floating from
the mast head."
We will not dwell on the parting of husband
and wife. Natalie bore up heroically. Not
Ladv Russell, wheu leaving her lord oil that
sad morning of his execution, controlled her
self more nobly than did Natalie now. But
when the door had closed on Henri, when she
heard the clatter of his horse's leet down the
street, then she flung herself on her bed, and
Wept as if her heart was breaking.
it was an eventful winter. A battle was
fought almost daily. Like a lion in the toils,
Napoleou turned first on one aud then on an
other of his foes, and always unexpectedly
lu the brightest days of his intellect he had
uever been so terrible as now. Ilenri was fore
most in all these battles. Ouce he saved the
Emperor's life. The cross of the legion of
honor soon decked his breast. lie received the
decoration from Napoleon's own baud, ou the
very day that he heard Natalie had presented
him with a son. But the genius of the Empe
tor and the valor of his troops were of no
avail. Treachery was at work at Paris, while
Napoleon was abseut in the Campaign. The
capital was surrendered. Nupoleou was forced
to abdicate.
Every one knows what followed. The
Bourbons enme back, forgetting nothing, as
was said, and forgiving nothing.
"Ah! my bleeding country," Henri would
cry to his young wife. At o'her times it was
"Oli! for one hour with the Emperor."
At last the natioi could bear it no longer.
Napoleon landed ; the arinv rose in his favor;
the king fled; a constitution was proclaimed.
Once more the young count buckled ou his
sword.
" Again I say, go," was his witCs heroic
parting, "and again and again. I will stay at
home and pray. 1 tliii k, sometimes, it is hard
er tor women than lor men. You have the ex
citement of the campaign. But we can only
wait and wait, from one dreary day to an
other; we can only pray and pray through the
sleepless hours of night Do not suppose, be
cause I say this, I would keep you back. Go,
and may GOD crown you with victory; or if
not "
"If not," said her husband, interrupting her,
" I stay on the battle Geld."
Alas ! it was a prediction. A few days la
ter, when the old Guard, at the end of that
terrible battle of Waterloo, closed up their
ranks, and to the demand to lay down their
arms, replied, "The Guard die 9 but never sur
renders." Ilcnri de Tanfcerville, fighting with
the bravest, and fighting longest almost of all,
sank under a dozeu wounds.
Did his wife regret what she had done ?
" No, no," she cried, in answer to the cruel
reproaches of her sister, "I would send him
forth again, if I could. I would rather be the
widow, a thousand times over," she added,
with flashing eyes, " of a soldier who died for
his country, than the petted wife of one who
had failed France iu her hour of need, for
such would be either a coward or traitor."
Nor did she ever think otherwise. In after
years, rich and titled snitors solicited her
hand ; hut she lived faithful to the memory of
her lost Henri. Her chief consolation was to
take her child, as soon as he was able to un
derstand her, and showing him the cross of the
legion of honor, which his father had won in
battle point afterward to the portrait which
hung overhead, aud bid him emulate the hero
ism and patriotism of the departed.
" It is a prouder inheritance to you, dar
ling," she would say, kissing him passionately,
" than if he had left you a throne. Thiuk
how your heart will glow, in years to come,
when you see men pointing to you, aud say
ing, ' 11 is father, too, was oae of the giaud
army.' "
The Charge of Murat at Eylau.
It is at Eylau that Murat a!ways appears
in his most terrible aspect. This battle fought
in mid winter, in 1807, was the most impor
tant and bloody one that had then occurred.
France and Russia had never before opposed
such strength to each other, and a complete
victory on either side would have settled the
fate of Europe. Bonaparte remained in pos
session ot the Geld, aud that was all ; no vic
tory was ever so like a defeat. The field of
Eylau was covered with snow, and the little
ponds that lay scattered over it were frozeu
sufficiently hurd to bear the artillery. Seveu
ty oue thousand men on oue side and eighty
one thousaud ou the other, arose from the fro
zen field ou which they, had slept the
night of February, without tent or covering,
to battle for a continent. Angereau, ou the
left, was utterly routed in the moruiug. Ad
vaucing through a snow storm so thick he
could uot see the enemy, the Russian canon
mowed down his ranks, with their destructive
fire, while the Cossack cavalry, who were or
dered to charge, came thundering on, almost
hitting the French iufautry with their long
lances before they were visible through the
storm.
Hemmed in aud overthrown, the whole di
vision, composed of IG,OOO men with the ex
ception of 1,500, were captured or slain.
Just then the snow storm clearing up, re
vealed to Napoleon the peril to which he was
brought, and he immediately ordered a grand
charge by the Imperial Guard and the whole
cavalry. Nothing was farther from Bona
parte's wishes or expectations than the bring
ing of his reserve iuto the engagement at this
early stage of the buttle, but there was no
other resource left him. Murat sustained his
high reputation ou this occasioo, and proved
himself for the hundredth time, worthy of the
great confidence Napoleon placed in him.
Nothing could be more imposing than the
battlefield at this moment. Bonaparte and
the empire trembled in the balance, while Mu
rat prepared to lead dowd his cavalry to save
them. Seventy squadrons, making in all. 14,-
000 well mounted men, began to move over
the slope, with the Old Guard marching stern
ly on ' eiiind.
Bonaparte, it is said, was more agitated at
this crisis than when, a moment before, he was
so near being captured by the Russians.
But as he saw those seventy squadrons
come down ou a plunging trot pressing hard
after the white plume of Murat, that streamed
through the snow storm far iu front, a smile
passed over his counteuauce.
The earth groaned and trembled as they
passed, and t'ne sabres, above the dark and an
gry mass below, looked like the foam of a sea
wave as it crests on the deep. The ratllings of
their armor, and the muffled thunder of their
tread, drowued all the roar of battle, as with
the firm set array, and swift, steady rnotiou
they bore down with terrible front on the foe.
The snoek of that immense host was like a
failing mountain, and the front line of the Rus
siau army went down like frost work before it.
Then commenced a protracted fight of hand to
hand, and sword to sword, as iu the cavalry
action at Eckuiuhl. The clashing of steel was
like the ringing of countless hammers, and
horses and riders were bieuded in wild cou.u
sion together ; the Russian reserves were or
dered up, and ou these Murat fell with his
fierce horsemen, crushing aud trampling them
down by thousands. But the obstinate Rus
sians disdained to fly, and ralied again, 60
that it was no longer cavalry charging on in
fantry, but sqnadrons of horses galloping
through broken hosts that, gathering iuto
knots, stiil disputed with unparaleiied bravery,
the red and reut field.
It was during this strange fight that Murat
was seen to perform oue of those desperate
deeds for which he was so renowned. Excit
ed to the highest pitch of passion, byjthe ob
stacles tha* opposed him, ho seetned endowed
with tenfold strength, and looked more like a
siiperhumau being treading down helpless mor
tuls, than an ordinary man. Amid the roar
of artillery and the rattle of musketry, and
fulling of sabre strokes like lightning abont
him, that lofty white plume never once went
down, white ever and anon it was 6een glar
ing through the smoke of battle, and the star
of hope to Napoleon, and showing ihat his
" right arm" was still uplifted and striking for
victory.
He raged like an unloosed lion amid the
foe ; aud his eyes, always terrible in battle,
burued with increased lustre, while his clear
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and steady voice, heard above tbe turmoil of
strife, was worth more than a thousand trum
pets of cheer on his followers. At length see
ing a knot of Russian soldiers that for a long
time had kept a devouring fire on his men, be
wheeled his horse and drove iu full gallop up
on their leveled muskets. A few of his
guards, that never allowed that white plume
to leave their sight, charged after him. Witt
out waiting to count his foes, he seized his
bridle in his teeth, aud with his pistol in one
hand, and his drawn sword iu the other, burst
in headlong fury upon them, and scattered
them as if a burricauce had swept by. JUurat
was a thunderbolt on that day, and the deeds
that were wrought by him will furnish themes
for the poet and the painter.
FASHIONABLE DISEASE. —The flay when it
was considered interesting and lady like to be
always ailing is gone by. Good health, fortu
nately, is the fashion. A rosy cheek is no
longer considered " vulgar," and a fair, shapely
allowance of flesh on the bones is considered
the " style." Perhaps the great secret that
good looks cannot exist without good health,
may have had something to do with the care
now taken to obtain it, whether this be so or
not, future generations are the gainers, all tho
same. A langnid eye and a waxy, bloodles3
complexion may go begging now for admira
tion. The "elegant stoop" in the shoulders,
formerly considered so aristocratic, has also
miraculously disappeared. Women walk more
and ride less ; they have rainy day suits of
apparel, too, which superfluity never was known
to exist aforetime, sunshine being the OBIJ at
mosphere in which the human butterfly was
supposed to float. In short the "fragile wo
men of America" will soon exist only in the
aeid journal of some English traveler, who will
of course, stick to the bygone facts as a still
present reality, with a dogged pertinacity that
is known ouly to that amiable nation.— Fanny
Fern.
" THERE SHALL BE NO PAIS THERE." —This
promise is one of the golden cluster that grow
ou that vice planted for the healing of the
nations, the Bible ! How blessed a promise
of the life that is to come is this one, those on
ly can know who have walked long and fre
quently under the shadows of weariness and
suffering.
" No pain there," to straggle with and en
dure ; no burdens laid upon the eager spirit,
which the weak frame cannot sustain ; no work
under which heart and stre.-gtb fail, and which
i- at last laid mournfully aside; no longer hours
of fever and restlessness ; no overtasked brain
and nerves in the homestead of those whom
GOD shall number as his jewels !
So, be comforted ye that mourn ! Green
and shining rise the banks beyond the dark
valley, and sweet healing is in the winds that
wander off from the meadows, freighted with
blossoms fairer thau the roses aud the lilies of
earth.
Take through your pilgrimage this promise
—let it be a new incentive, and strength, and
comfprt to you—" There shall be no pain
there I"
A MODERN DICTIONARY. —Wedded bliss—A
term Uaed by Milton.
Water—A cleat fluid once used as a driuk.
Rural felicity—Potatoes and turuips.
Tongue—A little horse that is coutinually
running away
Dentist—A person who finds work for his
own teeth by taking out those of other people.
My dear--An expression used by a man and
his wife at the commencement of a quarrel.
Policeman—A man employed by the corpo
ration to sleep in the open air.
Bargain—A ludicrous transaction, in which
each party thinks he cheated the other.
Doctor—A man who kills you to day to
save you from dying to-morrow.
Author—A dealer in words, who often gets
paid in his own coin.
Editor—A poor wretch who empties his
brain in order to till his stomach.
Wealth—The most respectable quality of
man.
Law Proceedings—Uubrushed cobwebs in
the dark ages.
Modesty—A beautiful flower that grows on
ly iu secret places.
INTERESTING FACTS. —One half of those that
are boru, die before thc-y attain the age of 17
years.
Among 3125 who die, it appears by the
registers that there is ouly one person 100
years of age.
More old men are found iu elevated situa
tions, than in valleys and plains.
Out of every 1000 men twenty die annu
ally.
The number of inhabitants of a city or coun
try is renewed every 30 years. >
The meu able to bear arms forms a sixth of
the inhabitants of a country.
The number of old men who die in cold
weather is, to the cumber of those who die in
warm weather, 7 to 4.
Iteßr- The two most precious things now en
closed in hoops, are girls and kegs of powder
—danger of blowing up from both—keep the
sparks away.
©ay-Most books in these days are like some
kinds of trees —a great many leaves and no
fruit.
BK£T The busybody labors without thanks,
talks without credit, lives without love, and
dies without tears.
It is no more possible to bring men's
minds to think alike, than to make their faces
look alike.
We are apt to be partial to onr own
observations—probably for the observer's sake.
Becalm while your adversary fretsaad
rages, ar.d you can wara yourself at his firo.