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ADVENTURES OF A FRENCH RUB. SIAN. There dwelt at Orleans., some forty or fifty years ago, a worthy young couple named Jean and Marie Lejeune. They were poor in worldly goods, but tich in die insouciance of youthful life. As the time went on, they became wealthy in sons al so ; but these were not destined to be the stay of their parents ih advancing life, for as each of them grew up to manhood, he found himself, either from choice or neces sity, enrolled in the service of Napoleon the Great. One only boy remained to I cheer the parental home ; he was still a child, and the darling of his mother, who I fondly hoped to keep hint always by her side, and with this view she labored hard to instil into his mind a love of pence and va hatred of war. Vain, however, were poor Mr rie's endeavors, for Francois, even in his early boyhood, listened with avidity to tales of war and glory ; and when the note of preparation sounded throughout France for the great Russian campaign, his imagination became so inflarned by a love of military adventure, that lie flung himself into the vortex of that gigantic en terprise, and soon found himself in the midst of the Grand Artnee, serving as drummer in a distinguished regiment. The position of Francois was not, truly, a very distinguished one, but he already regard ed himself as a hero ; for did he not serve 'd'Empereur," and was he not one of the Grand Armee, by whom Russia was to be overrun and conquered ? Now and then a thought or a sigh'would be given to his good mother, who had wept so bitterly at his departure ; but he was a gay hearted boy, and soon became favorite of his com rades. en that ear h graver thought vanished " • ' - • - " ' "'"" • • " I SEE NO STAR ABOVE THE HORIZON, PROMISING LIGHT TO GUIDE US, BUT THE INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES.". from his mind, and he dreamt only of the glories that lay before him. On the entry of the French into Moscow no one held his head higher than Francois Lejeune, and he beat his drum with an air of as much importance as if the success of the whole expedition depended on the flourish of his drumsticks. But now a new leaf in the pages of his life was abbot to be opened. Moscow was burnt, and the French army began its disastrous re treat amid all the inclemencies of a 8119- ~ian winter. Francois was obliged, like his comrades, to set out on his homeward way amid the combined miseries of war, famine and ice. Ills fingers soon lost their power ; his drum became silent ; and before he reached Smolensk, this favorite companion of his march had dropped from his fingers, and sank into the wintry snow. At Smolensk, our hero's strength failed him ; and pinched alike with cold and hun ger, he fell out of the ranks, and was made prisoner by some Russian serfs, who shut him up in a dreary mill, where he lay more dead than alive during a night of intense cold. Re was aroused from this state of stupor on the following morning, by finding himself once more in the clutch es of his barbarous captors, who dragged him along a causeway, one side of which was bordered by a frozen river. Some of the party began to dig a hole in the ice, while others gave him to understand, by very intelligible signs, that it was intended for his accommodation. The terrified youth besought them to spare him, and. asked their pity fur his mother's sake—'so tender a mother, that she would break her heart it he did not return to her.'--- This piteous appeal had no effect npon the pasants, who, of course, did not un derstand a word he was saying. Some laughed at the strangeness of his language; some mimicked his impassioned gestures ; and one of theta had just collared the un happy Francois, with the intention of plun ging him into the river, when suddenly he heard the merry tinkling of bells, and there came dashing along the causeway a large and Lsk edgers": .:I,3; g h, drawn 6y tl.tro., beautiful little , Viatkan horses, Seated in the sleigh, wrapt up in costly furs, was a stout, hale lookinggentleman. 'What. are you about there, my children inquired he of the serfs. 'We are only drowning a Frenchman.' 'Oh ! is that all?' rejoined ho. 'Monsieur, monsieur !' cried the unhap py drummer, as he struggled to free him self from the hands of the serfs. $1 25 150 'Very fine, indeed !' muttered the fur clad gentlemen, in an angry and supercili ous tone. Very fine, indeed ! Hero is a fellow who comes among ns to 1 all the mischief ho can—sets fire to Aloscow ; tears down the cross from the cupola of [eau the Great ; and now, forsooth it is Mossie ! Mbssie ! (Monsieur ! monsieur !) Ah ! ha! we are crest fallen now ; but death and destruction to the scoundrels ! Come, let us get.on, Filka,' continued he, addressing his coachman, and throwing himself hack in his comfortable.seat. A touch of the whip is given, and the fiery little steeds are darting forward when suddenly some new thought seems to have occurred to the nobleman, who calls out : 'Step, Tray, sir, do you understand music 1' inquired he, in Russian, of the trembling drummer. 'Sauvez moi, mon bon monsieur, sauvez moi !' 'Save me, my good monsieur, save me!' cried out Lejeune in an agony of terror, as ho felt that his existence was hanging as by a slender thread upon the good offices of the stranger. 'Good heavens ! what a strange people these French are !' observed the nobleman. 'Half a million of them conic into Russia and not one of them can, I believe, speak a word of our language—the barbarians !' And then turning with an air of self complacency and conscious superiority to Lejeune, said in barbarous French, 'Me. ousique, meousique, save meousique vans? Eh bienn, repondonn vous, France ! sur forte piano, joue save!' [Monsieur, mon sieur, save monsieur, you ? Very well, reply you, Frenchman ! on piano forte, play, save ?'] At any other time, Francois would have smiled at this jargon, but at the present moment it sounded like the sweetest music to his ears, for it gave him hope. I-le quickly perceived the drill of the inquiry, and immediately replied. 'Yes, sir, lam musician, and if you only save my life, I will play all day and all night too for you, if you please. 'Well, you may thank your stars for it!' said the gentleman, laughing. Come, children, let him go. There ! I give you twenty kopecks to drink.' Thn Mt you, sir, there he is for you HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1855. So saying, they loosed their hold upon poor Lejeune, who, on finding himself safe in the sleigh was so bewildered with joy, that he laughed and cried, and bowed to all around him. Ills gratitude was so ex pansive, that he not only thanked the no bleman, but also the coachmen, and the very moujicks, too, who had been on the point of drowning hint five minutes before. A moment more, and lie found himself whirling along by the side of his preserv er, who, observing that he was quite blue and shrivelled with cold, kindly wrapped a fur mantle around hits. Ina short time they drew up before a large house, and were received at the door by several se r cants, to whose care Francois was con signed. They conducted hits into a warm apartment, chafed his half-frozen limbs, and clothed him in a suit of comfortable garments. Then they sat food before Mtn of which the poor boy gladly partook, as he •vas quite exhausted with hunger. Ills benefactor now appeared, and addressing hint in his own peculiar dialect of French, "Mosaic, mosaic, beckoning the youth at the same timo to follow him. Lejeune obeyed and soon found himself in the presence of two young ladies, who were seated at work,. in a large drawing-room. "Here my children," said their father, "is a gentleman who trill instruct you in music and French Ele will teach you the true Parisian accent.— You have long been tracing me for a mas • ter, and I hnve just been so lucky as to pick one up for you at Smolensk." Then ad- vancing towards an old spinet, that stood at one end of the apartment, he turned to Ideune: "Allonn, oilcan, free vows n nous I voir votre talent; jour, joue ; save pas honteer" [Go, go, make us to see your talent; ploy, play ; be not ashamed.] Poor Francois was nearly at his wits' end on receiving this command ; for the drum was his only aistrument and never in his life had he even touched a pino-forte. However ha felt that his life was prob ably hanging on the result of this moment and so, assuming an air of confidence, and bowing low to the ladies, ho seated him sclf before the instrument. At first be placed his hands gently upon it, and mo ving his fingers like drum midis in time with some favorite regimental air, he he gas to hum the tune while he swayed his head and small body from right to left, with all the importance of a first-rate pro fessor. lie was wont in after life, to des cribe the whole scene very humorously.— "I expected every moment," said ho, 'that my preserver would have called in a coup le of lackeys, and ordered them to pitch me out into the snow; but on casting a furtive glance towards him, I perceived that he was nodding significantly towards his daughters, as if to make them remark what n treasure he had procured for them; so 1 touk courage, struck the instrument more boldly, sang more emphatically, and took still greater airs upon myself, where upon the worthy gentleman clapped his hands with delight, cried out bravo, and in a few minutes came over and clapped me amicably on the shoulder saying : bienn, tre bienn, je vois quo vows save ; vows alle couche, (IN.' , [Very well, very well, I see that you know; go to bed, go.] Never was an order more rapidly obey ed; for poor Francois was worn out with fatigue and excitement so that ho needed not to "woo soft slumbers to his drooping limbs." About a fortnight afterwards, Lejeune's patron received a visit from a nobleman of higher rank than himself, a man of tal ent and education, who took so great a fancy to the young drummer, that he no ked his host if he would consent to yield to his protection. This was granted ; and Lejeune now found himself placed under very favorable circumstances, for his new friend not only treated him kindly, but gave hint a good education. Some years latter, he married him to a young lady, a portego of his wife, and the marriage pro ved prosperous and happy one. Lejoune in accordance with the desire of his patron entered the Russian service, and through the influence of this nobleman lie acqui red personal, and subsequently hereditary nobility. In after life, he became allied by the marriage of his only daughter with a distinguished nobleman named Lebysa nief, who was high in power of the gov ernment of Orel ; and for the sake of be ing near his child, whom lie tenderly lov ed, Francois Lejeune—or as ho was now called, Frantz Invanovitche Lejeune— came to reside its that pert of the country. lt was here we first met him and made his acquaintance. We remember him well—a lively, courteous little man, with dark eyes and gray hair. His usual attire was a black velvet cutout. Must probnble the et &yaw druinniur still dwells in the far east of Russia, among his adopted countrymen ; but when he Colonel Crochet surrounded and closely I have subdued ti hears of the gallant deeds of his true cost t pursued by a number of the enemy, re- --is there no other patripfs upon the heights of Sevastopol, who knows but that the spirit may be treated into a church, and stationed him- quer ? 31e, I self in a niche in the corner, felling them changed beneath the bondage of Russian ! as I have fought a g, theyapproached. When some eight despotism, and that lie may long to find or ten of them were laid before him, n feel- ed my course, I I himself once more serving under a mime ing of awe seemed to seize hold of the henceforth there is 1 he once ravened and idolized—L'Empe assailants. One of them would speak a lit- I of righteousness. re u r Napoleon ! tie broken English, probably prefering the My li r e i s iii the sect - single honor of capturing so noble a speci- The fruits sod flowe The Soldier to his wife on the Eve of men of American valor to present to his i -The wens, the can.. Battle. dear master, said to Crochet, "surrender! The fire that en lay senor." A flash of the most sovereign Is lone to seine vole We accustom ourselves to consider the • courage darted from the fiery eye, and as for lurch is lighted A 'haul horror of war in groups, in masses. "Five it pierced that of the enemy, he seemed to thousand killed and ten thousand wounded be transfixed, In a voice of thunder, I Wi it was a glorious victory !" We read the Crochet answered, "surrender ! No ! I am Aitnougn announcement, we watch the advance and an American," and ns he spoke he sent retreat, we see the pomp of "glorious war,' I a ball through the paralized foe. • Ile ap- neither shall the fig t fruit bt bar of the olive she we hear shouts of victory and forget those peered for a moment like a wounded tiger, who fall crushed and mangled, and listeo 1 strengthened and buoyed by every addi- shall yield no meat, off frotn the fold, ant to the united groans of those who strew timid wound ; now hewing then; down i„ testas ye, vs the field. Let imagination run over the with his well-tried sword—next dealing Lord, I w ill joy in history of each one of those weak nod death with his fire-arms. His person now l i on. bleeding ten thousand men, who at their literally drenched ; must soon yield to its countrys call have marched forth to slaugh- losses. Yt t such physical power wrought I ant taking a lent ter ; let it go to the weary couch where to the highest degree of excitement can no hand is present to feel the dem ) , brow I perform incredible . progidies. This was hough I wale or administer comfort and relief by its the lost concentrated energy of a power- aa T daw or death touch ; let it follow the surgeon through I fol wan aroused, animated and guided by his terrible duties ; let it behold the man- orie of the noblest attributes of tnan—love - _ ly form shrunk to the bone and huddled of liberty. lie knew for what his life 0 ! God, if there into the earth;. let it go to the unhappy I was about to be sacrificed ; that. devasta• lon me. Tom . fireside of the widow and fatherless in one I tion and butchery would follow the foot- "Merry England" or sunny France, and steps of his heartless foes, that he would For I Antes that' note, if it can, the bitter drops that gush be sacrificed to satiate the desires of the and that lie shall su from their lonely and broken hearts, ultd conqueror; and, feeling the 'holy in,pir„• i upon the earth, and its material will be at hand for making up tion of a dving patriot, he fought manful- . worms destroy this l a just view of the ..,glories of war." It is shall I see God. - ly till the loss of blood and the approach by merging the indvidual identity of the of death stayed Isis up raised arm. Ills J. thousands that form the “fi er y m „,, of rifle was broken to pieces, his pistol fell to ian living valor'' into one common totalii y " 1 the floor, an Egypt d nought but his faithful sword H are v ,„„ ever i . e , humanity, and thus considering it, that we , was left. In the agony of death, with a the beautiful lighth forget individual suffering, and forgetting terrible grasp, he brought his last weal, the noble die or suffer more than death, 1 t that stood many eel on upon the head of he nearest assailant, i „ Egyi „ ? It was shut with the victors and crown the con- and fell victoriously across his body in pens e, and on the , quo roe with the wreath o f g l or y. Let us , the arms of death. In this corner of the which was several I bring the matter home %I. hen a dear 1 church there wore twenty•six dead Mem- ground, was a great friend, led by the hand of o;,,..ittse, is des- cans, and no other American hoeing fought I cry night. So as , cehtlin the.' ILumanitY 'last travel. ,or f' , ,hpn nt that point, it i 3 considered he- the Meditcrancan Sc with what assiduity does affection watch yondyll reasonable doubt that all of them city of Alexandria, around the pillow of suffering! How fell by the hand of Tennessee's favorite the distance the Lea hushed the chamber of distress, how suit son ! the thread, how gentle the voice, how kiod • steer their course. ly the sympathy ! How Now the Bible is love delights to 1 A Little Too Ripe. lihthouse is to the visit the'grave when all is over, and plant . As many of our readers are doubtless g unto your feet, a lig upon it the flowers of remembrance !••-• . aware, it is the custom for planters at the How earnestly dc Bu b t in that g great field 9f death----red since South to purchase clothing for their slaves catch a glimpse, if p Ael lay in ood—worth and nobleness by the wholesale ; and as, of course, they beacon light that sh and beauty go dawn in multitudes to their have nut the opportunity to examine close- , over the dark sea. last home, torn and shattered by deadly ly every article they are sometimes swind• 1 So should you n missiles, their memories lost in the recol- ledby a few badones being thrown in among your guiding star, g 'cotton of the visitors success, their names the good. An acquaintance of ours tells light that shined) in forgotten save at the once happy fireside us that, on one occasion, he had laid in a 1 "It sweetly cheer, of home. Borne faint and bleeding front box of shoes, and distributed them among 1 l i ; l ri ! , T i t l . , t , t tt i i ,i, rktt i t i t_e the spot where they fell, some hard couch the nep,roes. A few days afterwards, Te ' gu , ide ,na. son the best at hand, recieves them, where geld Bob,' a favorite servant, found that : ... Aside) through feverish hours they toss away the shoes that had fallen to his lot, were The Egyptian At their little remaining life, and welcome bursting out. So going to his master, he ' horn with three or death comes to close the scone. Such is said ~ "Massa, where you buy dose shoes? I , - -or ,10 I 1 the contlit. lbr the - - New Orb • Bob." --- their harp sought them in a. _mans, , res- , ;,; . .. lyre h Th ese reflections, trite but true, (says the pondecl our friend. .'Well, where did the . ''''', "` cl" small, Pittsburg Commertial Journal,) were a. New Orleans people bay 'cm 1" s-TI, ev '''''' '.,.'';': r3 ' • wakened by reading a letter of Colonel bought theta from the people up Nord,: ! ti ' e " ew ' s " trum P eli SRADVORIII, of the English army, writ they bought them from the Yankces."— ~ .1 Jericho fall down, ten to his wife and children nt fl o'clock on ' , Well, where do do Yankees get 'cm?" heir flute was the s the evening of June 17, just previous persisted the negro. ~,r he 1 , ,,,,kee5? ti,y had no other in; to the attack upon the defensive ivories of why, they pick them off of tic s, Bob." by percussion, of wh maJe was the p.alte;mrp or lyre with wi Sevastopol. 'l' hat such men should per- '.W w-well," responded the darkey, hot- ish thus, that such glorious lives should ding, up Isis shoes, ' , I reck'n de Yankees ' be thrown away and no good conic of it, didn't pick these soon enough, masse; 1 with an iron acedlo I is one of the most repulsive features of reck'n lie waited till—till—d a. ,y „, a 1i ,... , :ts iamething like : war. Here is the letter: lle too lip! was a tambourine ;al : horizontal harp, wi “BEFORE SEVASTOPOL, JUNE 17-0 P. :H. • sti tick with a stick li ' tNly Onyx BELOVED WIFE AND DEARLY ' Railroad Poetry. hail tio written music BELOVED CHILDREN: At I o'clock tolnor. ' A correspondent of the Broome t:oui:ty el ju their 1 ~ 2 , row morn I head the 57th to storm the He• : Republican describes Isis jaunt over ilie, ,to jam,„b„sl,luia-te„' dan. It is, as I feel. an awfully perilous I Syracuse and Birmingham Railroad from i-- - --- 1 ----I- - inotnent to ate; but I place myself ill the ; , ~ , , ; musicians playing at i Uortland, in the follosing poetical strain : ' hands of our gracious God, without whose , temple of Solomon. will a sparrow cannot fall to the ground.— , So much 1 wrote in Cortland's bounds died in such a cancel I place my whole trust in Hiss. Should. --and would have finished there. had sot ; hies , , I fall in the performance of my duty, I the down train's whistle loud resounded ' . - - -,....:. fully rely in the precious blood of our . . , . . through the air. So, shaking Fairchild , Stopping I Saviour, shed for sinners, that I may be . ' I saved through Him. Pardon and forgive by the hand, who said come up again, 1 A certain man hit . me, my beloved ones, for any thing I may ' bid farewell to every fear, and jumped up- , ble and fell headlong have said or done to cause you a moment's on the train. Rushing round the hill side, ! was vexed, and undo unhappiness. Unto God I commend my i l denim -, ' o'er the plain, over the rivers,un- i ger and active self-si body and soul, which are His; and should ; ' .; it be His will that I fall in performance i der roads,‘ , an Burgess drove his train..- { old mother earth ri,„l; of my duty, in the defence of any Queen The moon threw bright effulgent rays on , perturable gravity hi and country, I most humbly say, ''l by each small ripple's crest; the river seemed; globe dissolve, and cc will be done God bless and protect yon, a ribband stretched across the meadow's ; the earth remained, and my lust prayer will be that lle, of II is ; b reast ; the evening wind came stealing ' foot was hurt in the infinite goodness,may preserve me to you. , e I God ever bless you, my beloved Eliza • through the car with gentle sigh, and the vay of man. Am and my dearest children; and, if we meet brought a cinder from the engine, span; ; parer touches him it not again in this world, may we meet in into my eye. Few and short were this ! straightway he send, the mansion of our Heavenly Father, thro' prayers I said, and I spoke not a word of ' per. With grew! Jesus C ver hrist ! eve God bless and protect you! sorrow, but I rubbed at my eye till I made ' looks on to see a erne A nd e beli me "Your affectionate husband and lovin it red, and knew 'twould be sore on the lof his spleen shall cc g ' father, morrow. We soon got home at the rate ! lie has only hit his to . -. .. .. 'THOMAS SHADFORTILP 'we ran, at an hour just right for retiring, does not pereertibly It was his last farewell to those he so 1 and down from his post came the engine injures to no extent dearly loved. Six hours had not passed, 1 man, and the fireman ceased his firing.— • his letter was yet but a few miles on its ' And thus I too will cease with this, a mo• alltr eek doses way to his family, and the noble man bed ral to the tale—be always sure to .(iniml recommended to y passed away from earth. your eye," when riding on a rail ! u i.li dyspepsia'. ~'~ ~- rY . - ~ / t N V Crocket's Death. [Wm's! Look on this Pil