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FRIDA Y MORNING, MAY 2.
an of Tuesday morn-
c learned by the Electro-Magnetic |
Telegraph yesterday, at ha|l'past one o’clock,
that (be Cabit i.et was then bol ling a special
F ' session <n the,subject ol our relations with
OfrjifeX ——*-
' Ut-u. t . .. v .
Rtat officer. It is said he will
Great Western hart the larges!
letter mail She lias overtaken. The postage
: will probably reach 33. KW. T his steamer had
probably not less than 2'5 people on board.—
We understand (says iheN. Y. Tribune) from
a gentleman who has recently returned from
England that it is doubtlisl il the Great Britain
comes out to this country. Her owners, it is
believi?J, are endeavoring to sell her to some
; European power as a war steamer. She iscon
|ij, sideredfaUie too expensive a ship lor this trade.
~lJf iKoiwrA.—The recent election in this State
has resulted 'very unfavorably for the Whigs.
The Richmond Enquirer says :
»■, “We have already heard of the election of
nine Republican members of Congress—and ol
theglectitms income in. four are certain for us,
and'most | rbl-ahly a filth fin the Kanawha Dis
trict.) It is highly probable, that the Virginia
E delegation,in rhenext Congress, will stand lour
teen Deinvcinfs and one' Whig, and that one,
* perhaps McCarty of Loudoun, the inrlepen
?, dent Whig, who opposed Pendleton, the Whig
; caucos .nominee.”
I The ten members mentioned above as cer
f-" tainly elected are A. Atkinson, Geo. G. Drum,
goole. - Hubbard, Shelton F. Leake, J. A.
Setldon, Judge Batlev. R. M. T. Hunter, H.
Bedir.g.-r, William Taylor, Locos, and Mc-
Carty, V. big.
' So far as heard from the Locofoco gains in
•■-Hie Legislature are ten, and their losses three.
...Nel Loeofoeo gain 7 or 14 members. There
can be uo .doubt of their having a majority on
... joint ballot.
* Lead Minks.—We published yesterday, says
’P' the Cincinnati RoxctZe, a notice of a new lead
j. mine discovered on the Ohio. We must look
’! out. Reports (if this character ate on the in-
crease; we have lead every where in b>wa and
; Wisconsin;, and when right hard pushed', iflead
cannot be found, copper is said to be near by.
■*. “The ruining fever,”says the St. Louis Repub
lican, “if not a laauia, appfoachcs it very
Closely.” And whatever may be the mineral
gwi?. resources “out West,” patties will, under these
// ’ circupistanees, he increased so as to tempt pur
chasers, and to induce speculation. It is well
- enough, therefore, to be cautious laUtulieving
.stories. The Republican, referring to
sK’thene t lews and giving another “discovery,”
• ™nt tfll Hi -e.'anti alTtliat mhvliSTflSde, fyr
'*i years to e< ■Hi do-not believe will begin to
|j|y'unfold the rich treasures which lay etnbewelled
“in thU State, lowa and Wisconsin. Lead ore,
: bec.t use it is mere easily dug prepared
for market, has enlisted the greatest share of at
gj ' tenttoe, vet it is but one of many ores which this
.. Cwiintry offers. We know that much lias been
said of ilia mineral wealth of the West, and we
know also that many regard these reports as
IVliineb.;;useu tales, but the lime will come when
- f . it will be sure the half has not been told.
‘Tlteiast di-coveiy which we have heard of,
. in a section where lend ore was n <t retore known
or hclv-ved to exist, is n recent discovery made
in Keokuk, lowa, at the loot of the lower rapids,
on tile Mississippi, about 220 miles above this
city. A person who was engaged in digging a
cellar, struck a lead, which so lar as it has been
developed, prnpiiffßs n grind return.
mS”’. I . Fium the N. O. Picayune.
» Texas.
5 Walia ye little to add to theytimmary already
given of the news from Texas, brought by the
S. McKhn. The announcement cf the
Hon. Ashbel Smith as
Cha r gcto Eng!^^ -
observaii us we made last week respecting that
gentle an’s appearance in ibis city at so criti
cal a juncture. He has thrown up his seat in
the Cabinet. Before leaving New Orleans he
wr.s heard tosav tt.at he had written letters to
■ Texii- which he thought would procure bis re
call. Ashbel has a sagacious look, but he is a
leaky vessel.
PuHic meetings have been held in Richmond
mid Brazoria, and the people in each ol these
com,tie<, almost to a man, have declared fur
Annexation,
In Fort Hem! the Telegraph, the
American fi .g was ratsy<n>y an immense crowd
of “old settlers,” Who had gathered from all
parts of the cdunty to plant the glorious symbol
■to American lnd<*)>e»dence up >n the spot where
the “old time hundred” first planted American
iDstfimions Old Fort Bend rung with the loud
-sh-rtHsoi. the gray-haired pilgrims cf Austin,
who rejoiced that they were permitted tn see the
standard of their «--frrce /«>vZ planted on the soil
that rhey had won from .Mexican tyranny.
Gen. Houston was expected to address a
anewing.ee Houston in favor of Annexation on
the Clr last.,—the anniversary of the'battle ol
San Jacrnio.
Tire following extract from a letter, written
-. the day'befi-re President Jones issued his pro
•clamaiion convening Congress og the Itlili of
June, embraces whatever else of interest tve
- . Aavclwet. able to diyiover in our files :
Be-psTy''" ' C'l-rfspourteiKe of lie Picayune.
WkSHiNuros, Texas, April 15, 1845.
“A word or two tu reiaiiou to Annexation.
-■ It 4<t nrrtv-sa id-thai Prrsirtvnrjrww—tore*--: nr
1 - " '"l tw-en-1 u.otur.r< 'lteronlbe_
Ulin of Jui.e next, and ir is also sain that "hui
more (bin/two or three of the members are op
posed to the measure. The fact is, mat nttte
wt.lhs ot the people in this and the adjoining
M^» : «si»xiii»ii--ond-Trxan tells me that eZ-oe»-lehths
■k ’ are In iytr/' of immediate Annexation. Toe
litdeopfh/Sllfc*. S.frtH is seen, or rather heard,
R c<;r»e- irom’ettberfrie ofiice holders or else from
-ibe largeX>was, and in -|te.fatter its foreign ori-
is enougir tlisfrnguitshed.
• “Tia 4 President lias been uiiwe.lt jer a week
past. Zoiifined to iris house by a bilious attack.
He >■ now Convalescing, however. The only
medibW's of tne Cabinet now here are Mr. Ai-
Ipl, the Attorney General, and Col. Wm G.
Zovke, IheS wreta-y of War and Marine. The
/tatter, aftliongh said to be opposed to Annexa
/ lion, is one of the best oilier rs Texas has ever
/ had—effici. ut in every way and closely atfen
/ live m the duties of his station.
/ “Gen. Houston has not as yet openly ex
pressed his views in relation toArtnexaiion, al
though it is confidently asserted that he will not
rorpose the measure. He does not appear to be
.nltoteiher in favor ol the terms, thinking the
.Tesolntior.s do not concede as much to Texas
they shouU yet il is thbnuht by those who
' Know hit.i tiesl/tliat l.is feelings will not in-
him to throw his immense influence in the
sscale of opposition.
“I. issurmis-.'d by some, that beliwe Congress
gomes to any definite action upon thetheques
tion that now excites the community, that pro
pos,’ions for the digestion of that body will be
.received from England, and ;>eihaps from
J’ranee as well. It is certainly very singular
xhai the extraordinary philanthropy of Great
t Eritain should have broken out so suddenly in
■ - favor of Texas, and that it should now burn so
fiercely. 11 that power can induce Mexico to
acknowledge the independence ol Texas now.
could have done it three ■> ears ago. What
a pitv she r'id not think ol ilsooner!
“ Maj. Donelson, tbe U. S. Charge, Unow
here—so, too, is Guv. Yell. Ihe latter, on ae
■contit i f business, has b. -’n obliged to give up
. jjis contemplated excursion to the buffalo
ts You shall hear from r.ta again at
San Antoaio -perhaps before." G. W.K.
O’ Re sow half a bushel of corn (cost 33
, cents)on two nrres pbntep’ wilii corn—t.n th ■
■surf et'. WrUitss Coax the birds to come an.’
■ee c.s.jtndwe in ike it their interest to meddle
s’idi nothing dint is planted. It costs us less
Jtan iitine, or .ar, or leathers on a pole.— Plow.
Fioiii i/te Democratic Revicic.
Marsbal Ney.
Nothing- is mere unlortunate for a great man,
than to be born beside a greater and walk du
ring life lime in his shadow, bis equally un
fortunate to be great only in one department
that isstill better tilled by another. Had Sbaks
peare not 'iv<-d Massinger might have stood at
ihe head of English diamatists, and had Alfieri
kept silent a host of writers now almost un
known would have occupied the Italian stage.
Had il not been for Caesar, Brutus might have
rilled the world; and were it not for Bonaparte
many n French general would occupy a sepa
rate place in that history of which they are now
only transient figures. Great men like birds
seem to come in flocks, and yet but one stands
as the representative of bis age. The peak
which first catches the sunlight is crowned mon
arch ot the hills, and the test, however lofty,
are but his body-guard. Much injuslice has
been tfone to Bonaparte's generals by not al
lowing tor the influence of this principle.—
There-is scarcely a historian that will allow to
such men as Lannes, Davoust, Murat and Ney,
any dominant quality except bravery. Under
'ltf guiding intellect of Napoleon limy, fought
bravely, but if they had been left to their own
resources would have miserably failed. Yet
the simple truth is, being compelled by theirre
lative position to let another plan ibr them, they
equid do little else Jiuto exec ute orders. A de
ed .ini confined, and < r.n
exhibit iujpower only by the force and vigor
Bonaparte gatwrect round him.
A revolution by its upturning* brings to the sur
face materials, of the cxislt-nee of which no
man dreamed before. Circumstances make
men, who tnen usually return the compliment
and make circumstaoces.
Bonaparte—himself sprung from the midule
class ol Society—“'fleeted men to lead his armies
from their persona, qualities alone. Dukesand
princes headed the’allied armies, while men
headed the battalions ol France. Bonaparte
judged men by what they could <lo, and not by
their genealogy. He looked not at the decora
tions that adorned the breast, but the deeds that
slumped the warrior-—not at Ihe learning that
made the perlecl tactician, but the real practical
force, that wrought out great achievements.—
Victorious battle fields were to him the birth
place of titles and the commencement ol gene?
alogies; and stars were hung on scarred and
war-battered, rather than noble bteasts. Napo
leon had learned the truth taught in every phy
sical or moral revolution,that the great effective
moulding characters of our race always spring
from the middle and lower classes. All reform
ers also start thereat! I they always must, for
not only is their sight clearer and their judg
ment more just, but their earnest language is
adapted to the thoughtsand sympathies ot the
many Those men also who rise to power
through themselves alone, leel ills by them
selves alone they must stand, hence the impell
ing motive is not so irtfich greatness to be won,
as the choice between it and their original noth
ingness. Bon iparte was aware of this, and ot
all his generals who have gone down to immor
tality with him, how few were taken from the
upper classes. Auger,eau was the son of a gro
cer. Bernadotte of an a forney, and both com
menced their career as private soldiers. Ber
thier, Bossieres, St. Cyr, Jourdan, and the fiery
Junot, all entered the at my as privates. Kleber
was an architect, the impetuous Lannes tbeson
of a poor mechanic; Letevre, Loisdn and tire
bold Scotchman Macdonald were ail ot humble
parentage. The victorious Massena was an
orphan sailor.boy, and the reckless, chivalric
Murat Ihe son of a country landlord.
Victor, Suchet, Oudinot, and the stern and
steady Soult, were each and all of humble ori
gin, and commenced Cheir ascent from the low
est step of lame’s ladder. And last of all Nhy,
the “ Bravpst Brave,” was the son of a
poor tradesman ot Sarre Louis. He was born
in 1770, and fit the age < t thirteen became a no
tary of the village. The stirring events pass
ing around him inflamed his youthful imagina
tion, and at the age ot seventeen he entered the
army as a hussar, and commenced his military
career, Wedo notdesigntofollow himttirough
all his history, but toselectouttfioseacts which
illustrate the great and striking qualifies he
possessed. His air and bearing stamped him
as a soldier, and made him from the first a great
favorite in his corps. Being selected by them
to challenge the fencing master of another rhgi
pointed to setile ihe diffi- ul’y, but just as the
combatants liad crossed their sabres, they.were
arrested by their officers and thrown into prison.
As soon, however, as young Ney was released,
he renewed the quarrel, and having met his an
tagonist in a secret place, fought and wounded
him in the hand, so that he was unable to prac
tise his prnfesjion, and was consequently redu
ced to poverty. Ney did not forget him in ihe
dav <>f his greatness, and settled on the poor
fencing master a pension for life. In 1793, he
was promoted for his bravery and skill, and the
next year, being then twenty-four years ot age,
lie was presented with a company; General
Kleber having noticed bis admirable qualities
placed him at the head of a corps eompi sed ol
fipe hundred partisans, who received no pay
apd lived on plunder. It was their duty tore
connoitre-the enemy’s position and cut off' their
convoys, which exposed them to many hair
breadth escapes, and adventures exceedingeven
those of romance. Young Ney being resolved
on promotion, brought to this perilous set vice
all his mental and physical powers. His iron
will seemed to compensate for the loss of sleep
and fonef and rest. Daunted by no danger, ex
hausted by no toil, caught by no stratagem, he
—c.[Hlted at the head of this bo d band of warri
ors’the reZirfeuCr pl tkejflndefatigable." Three
years after be found occasiotr-tu-aiisyinguish
himself in the engagements ot Dic-rdorl,’Altetf-
Irirchen, Montabour. With one hundred cav
alry he took t.vo thousand prisoners and obtain
ed poassssiun ol Wunzberg. He led two col
umns straight into the rivet, and f.rctng the op
posite banks, though lined with cannon, made
himselt master ol Forsheim. For these ex
ploits he was appointed general of a brigade.—
At the battle.of Neuwjed he had charge ot the
cavalry, and in a desperate charge passed en
tirely through the Austrian lines; but being
surrounded bv a superior force be was com
nelled to retreat, and his horse having fallen
under him, he was taken prisoner Having
been liberated bg exchange, be was raised to the
rank of-general ot division. For awhile after
the peace of Leoben, he remained In Paris, and
having joined the Cliehian party became en
tangled in politics. But the eom'neneernent of
hostilities in 1799, found again in the field
ol hattie, struggling with the allied forces on
'the banks of the Rhine. Here occurred one if
those adventures that belong rather to the period
ot romance: than to the practical history ol our
times. Ti e Rhine flowed between him and the
city of Manheim, which wasstrongly garrison
ed and filled with s ores ot every kind. It was
a matter <>t much di-blission bow this key of
Germany should betaken. The general? ot the
army tire: in frequent consultation, on the best
mode of attacking it, Ney, in the mean time,
thinking il could be better takes by surpri-e.
resowed to visit it, in disguise, and ascertain its
weak point*.' -Ho,-one evening assuming the
garb ol A peasant, he entered the city, and, alter
’ satisfying hmiseif as to the best mutte of attack,
returned. Selecting a hundred and fittv brave
men, fie re-crossed the river at eight in the eve
ning, and al eleven made a I'uribps assault on
the outposts. A portion ol' the garrison having
made a sally he repulstfd them, and following
hard after the lughives enteted the town with
them, and alter a short but desperate engage
ment captured it. This fixed hts rising fame.
At Worms, and Frankenthal, and Frankfort,
and SiUltgard, and Zurich, he maintained the
character he had gained. In 1802,. we find him
again in Paris, holding the office of inspector
general of cavalry. Hetbece married MaDnioi
•seije Augne, ap intimate friend of Llortensia
Beauhaihois. Ronapiute preseuled him at the
nuptials with a magniJeent 1 Egysfrurx. sabre,
which eventually cost the bold marshaj I;,S-Uli_.
In 1803, he was sent as Minister Plenipotentia
ry into Switzerland, where he exhibited those
higher qualities ot justice and kindness so uni
formly, that the Swiss Cantons presented him
with a medal on hts departure! The next year
Bonaparte made him a Marshal. The year
following this, he was created Duke of Elchin
gen, in hoflorat tbe battle he there longht. In
the campaigns ot 1800-7, he reached the height
of his fame and power, and over after Bona
parte regarded him as one of tbe-SH«»gect pil
lar-of his power.
The fhrea great distinguishing characteristics
cf Ney were great personal bravery, almost un
paralleled coolness in the hour of peril, and an
excellent judgment. In the first two, ali writers
are agreed. whife liie last is not generally con
ceded to hini. No man can deny be was braie,
for there can be no appeal from the decision ol
an army of heroes, who named him *■ bra'-'est of
the brave.” Such a distinction among the men,
and in the times Ire lived, was not won by or
dinary actions. In an army where Davousl,
Jiimt, Macdonald, Murat and Lannes, com
manded, to be crowned “bravest of the brave,"
was the highest honor a military chieftain could
desire. But hi: courage was not the rashness of
iieadtccgexcits ment, likethat ot Junot and Mu
rat. The emiittsiasm born in the hour of battle
atr.M the tossing of piuqt«s, the tramping of the
host, the shout ol trumpets and locrof cannon,
has always been found sufficient to hurl men
into atiy scene of horror or peril. Junot could
coolly sit and write to Bonaparte’s dictation,,
while the shot whistled around him, and laugh
ingly shake the paper aw a cannon hail ploughing
past him th rev,’the dirt over it; with the excla
mation “This is lucky, I shall have no need of
-and." Murat could ride on his magnificent
-teed up io a whole company of Cossacks, and
disperse them by a single wave pt the hand.
Davoust could forage like the lion mid the foe
at Montibello, while the cannon shut wasted so
awfully around him, that he himself said after
ward, “I could hear the bones crash in my di
vision like hail-stones against a window.” Yel
each ol these was but one among a thousand
heroic acts, and gained tor their authors no such
title as that given to Ney. There was a reason
for this. It was a heroism called forth by sud
den emergencies, such as ihe commonest soldier
often exhibits in the heat of battle., Ney’s
courage was something more than all ibis, it
dared just as much without the least apparent
excitement. His thoughts were just as clear,
, and his eye as quiet amid the falling ranks, as
it he were standing on some far observatory and
looking over the scene of slaughter. He would
stand almost within the blaze of two hundred
cannon, and while his horses were sinking under
him, his guard falling’around him. ahd whole
companies melting like frost-work before his
eves, give orders as calmly as though manreu
vering at a grand review. It washis wonderful,
almost marble cabrtncss in the most sudden and
extrernest danger, that: truck even heroes with
astonishment. He would stand within musket
shot of a most terrific and hotly worked battery,
and while the storm ot bullets swep! where he
stood, eye all its operations, and scan its assail
able points with imperturbable quietness. The
fierce shock of cavalry, and the terrific charge
‘Tritons of A-fhd/ Tlfe-Slnr.nfng W
through his own ranks; “ Sauve quipeut," or the
full belief that all was lost, could nor shake his
ruck last.steadiness. One would have thought
him a marble-man, strung with no ordinary
nerves, had they not seen him in a desperate
charge. Then his eye glanced like an eagle’s,
and with his form lowering amid the smoke ot
battle and flash ot sabres, he seemed an em
bodied hurricane sweeping over Ihe field. Much
ot this doubtless was constitutional, atid much
was owing to the wonderful power ot mental
concentration. He could literally shut up hts
mind to the one subject he had in view. The
overthrow ol the enemy absorbed every thought
within him, and he had none to give to danger
or death. Where ire placed bis mind he held
it, and not all the uproar and confusion of battle
could divert it. He would not allow himselt to
see anything else, and hence he was almost as
insensible to the danger around him, as a deal
dumb and blind man would have been. He
himself once expressed the true secret ol his
calmness, when after one of these exhibitions ol
composure, amid the most awful carnage, one
of his officers asked him if lie Mcoerleif fear, he
replied, “1 never had time." This was another
way ol saying that fear and danger bad nothing
to do with the object bef<re him, and therefore
he would nut suffer hrs thoughts to rest on them
for a single moment. It would not require much
"lime," we should think, to sej the danger, cf
marching straight-info the fl<sh ot a hundred
cannon, or to feel a thrill ol terror, as the last
discharge left him almost atone, amid his dead
and dying guard. But he had trained his mind
not tv see these things for the time being. Tt.is
devotion and concentration of ail his powers,
gave him great advaniage in moments of peril,
and when the late of a ba life was turning on a
single thought. Where other men would be
come confused in the confusion around them, he
was as clear as ever, and hence was able fre
quently lo redeem everything, when everything
seemed lost. He wquU not be beat, and in the
last extremity, rallied like a dying man fur a
final blow, then planted it where the clearest
practical wisdom would have done. His tena
city of resolution was eqti’l to his bravery. He
disputed every inch be yielded, as it it were his
last hope, and fought on the threshold of the next
as if that were but the comtnen'ement of the
slruggle. So in encountering obstacles in the
execution of any plan he had lortned, he would
scarcely admit their existence, and seemeif to
think he could wring the decree against him out
of life iron hand ot fate itself. These qualities
tendered him an invaluable ally lo Bonaparte
in his great battles. Standing in his observatory,
and looking over the conflict, Napoleon often
saw where the whole issue turned on a single
point. Such a column must, be shaken—such a
place in the lines broken ore a. certain battery
carried, or tfie day was lost. Qn such missions
z he always sent Ney, knowing if human gkdl
and valor could avail, it would be done. When
he saw him start with his column and move
——soot where thejate of llie bat
a eomolacent look. Again and again, diti he
fling his cro.t n and France into Ney’s keeping,
and that of his legion; and almost without fear,
see them borne on into the smoke of battle.
The bold .Marshal never disappointed him, and
il was Ibr this reason Bonaparte placed his
throne and empire into his hands, and saw them
both go down in the last charge of the Old
Guard, at Waterloo. Even here Ney would
have saved bis master, if bravery and devotion
could have done it.
During the whole campaign of 1806-7, Ney
tfioves before usassome hero of foimsr ages
We see him at Jena, when borne on b}’ his im
petuous courage, he charged and took a battery,
and the next instant found himself surrounded
by an army that no other man would havethqught
oi' resisting. But though heurined in, and appa
rently overwhelmed, instead of yielding, as pru
dence itself seetned to dtCKlte, he immediately
forced his men into squares and kept up such a
rolling, devouring fire, on every side, that the
headlong masses fell \jty hundreds al every dis
charge. Bonaparte, Seeing lite imminent peril ot
his brave marshal, detached Bertrand witbseve
ral re, iments ot Ifoi'se to his relief. No sooner
was he exiricatgil than he unrolled Iris men
again into column, and' with a firm and rapid
step ascendedrhe hill on which Vieizehn Heili
gen stood, ayfd after a fierce conflict, took it.
"TJris'was’fhe centre ot Hie enemy’s position,
and Napoleon saw from a distance with delight
his tavorite marshall in the heart ol the Prussian
lines. Repulsing lor awhile with prodigious
slaughter every attempt of the enemy to regain
it, he again unrolled hts column anil marched
through a most devouring fire, straight on the
Prussian’s right. The tem|nistof musketry and
grape through which hs advanced, drove like a
storm ot sleet intnetaceot bis men, but nothing
could resist his impetuous charge, and tbe right
line ol the allies was swept away. Around .he
walls of Erlort and Magdeburg—crossing the
Vistula—at the terrible battle of Soldau—anni
hilating;! Russian corps at Deppen, at Gustaiii
an I Amskerdorff—he is the saifie calm, deter
mined and terrible man. In the picture our
imagination draws, oi the battle ot Friedland
Ney always occupies the foreground. There,
as usual he was appointed to conimence tne
action. The engagements with detached corps
had ceasedzxnd both armies were drawn up tn
battle array; For several hoqrs there had been
no firing, and it being now lour o’clock, the
Russian general supposed there wtiuld be no
engagement frli morning. But at five o’clock,
the sudden dischatge of twenty cannon from the
French centre, tbe signal of attack, announced
to Hie Russian army that the day was to end in
blood. They were ordered to stand toiheirarms,
and the n< xa moment the head ol Ney’s mighty
column was seen to emerge from the wood be
hind Poslhenen and stretch itselt like a hn-e
anaeoada out into tbe open field. In close atray
and quick time il moved straight upon Friedland.
The sun was stooping io the western horizon as
if halting from the scene ot carnage about to
open—yet iris departing light gave new splendor
to tfie magnificent array. A lorest of glittering
steel seemed moving cer the field. From the
steeples and towers of Friedland the couatless
thousands ol those that still remained in the
woo! wete visible. Bat all eyes were directed
qn Ney and his magnificent column, that, cross
ing the field at a rapid step, scattered like a
whirlwind everything lhat opposed tbeir pro
gress. Whole regiments of cavalry and Cos
sacks, I i;e ebasJSura ofthe guard, militia and
all went down, or.Hwert driven before the tjde
like movement of dial column. On every side
were seen flying horsemen and scattered infan
try. The other to the
attack, but the victory seCotyu about to be won
' ■ by Ney alone, for he was close upon Friedland,
7n.d a shorn roiling along the who e column and
hem-d above the roar of battle, aanounepd that
the biwn was about to be carried by assault
Bulju§i_ai this crisis the Russian Imperial
Guard was ordered to advance. Willi fixed
bayonets, this mass of living valor hurled itseft
on its adversary. The head of Ney’s colmtin
went down before the terrific charge ana the
whole hxdy was rolled back over the field. But
falling;on Victor’s corps rapidly advancing to
, sustain him he rallied his broken ranksand
1 again pressed to the assault. Friedland was
M^rienafter an obstinate resistance and immense
-liughter, and soot: the bridges in the rear over
the Alle were in flames. The smoke rolled
over the IfoW ot battle like that ot a burning
J forest—thesurL'v-««4 ( »wp i n ‘he dead
were piled overtjl'e ground, and Ney had made
Bonaparte agaitlf onque’ror by hts 'indomitable
valor. ' L
Napoleon's colfi’lence in him was almost un
bounded. Diniifc the battle ot Bantyen, he lay
on the ground, sheltered by a height in front of
hetown, at his jreakfast, when-suddenly he
heard the sound (J Ney’s guns thundering on
he left Al the same instant a bomb burst over
his head. With Jut n dicing the bursting shell
ne satdown and Jvrote to Marie Louise that the
victory was gained. He waited only lo learn
that Ney was wiwre the crisis turned, to be sure
fvictory. •
Yet Hey has often been accused of wanting
generalship. .\ff. Aiisor, makes him a brave
nan and no more. This decision is based on
i single declaration <>t Bonaparte,—speaking
once of Ney, he saW " lie was ihe bravest ot
men; there terminated ail his faculties." Now
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY CORNING, MAY 8, 1845.
we do not place the least confidence tn ibis as
sertion ot Napoleon. Hts opinions of hisgene
rals changed with their success. A brilliant
achievement brought down on them the most
extravagant encomiums from the Emperor: a
defeat, on the contrary, his bitterest invectives.
This disparagement of Ney was doubtless made,
after contemplating some failure in which the
marshal was implicated. Besides, Bonaparte
was the last man we should choose to estimate
the character of his own officers. Ha rated all
military leaders low but himself. Accustomed
to plan for his generals, he came to think they
could not plan for themselves. So also their
achievements, when pur in comparison with ins
own, he invariably depreciated, Bonaparte
made the pass ol Bt. Bernard, and he wished it
to stand alone beside thatol Hannibal’s: so that
McDonald’s passage of the Splugen, to which
his own was mere child’s piay, he declared re
peated!}’ to have been no great affair, and so re
netted it to the Freneh Government at home.
The whole history ol Bonaparte’s career—the
confidence he everywhere reposed in Ney’s skill
as well as bravery, pronounce this declaration
false, while the manner in which he managed
the rear guard in that awful and disastrous re
treat oftlie grand army from Russia, shows the
injustice ot the charge in every way. Some
thing more than bravery was needed to coverthe
retreat ol the French there, and Bonaparte knew
it. He never placed Ney at the head oftlie
army in invading Russia, and in the rear when
retreating from it, simply teeause lie was a
he’honest than the latter. The two *
ereal an;\,ruinous errors ol Bonaparte’s atnbi
tibtfS career would have been preventeq had he
listened lX Ney’s council. The conquest of
Spain hrouXbt nothing bur disaster, and the in
vasion of RuMa overturned bislhroite. Against
both these Nrty urged his strenuous renron
-trancesas long as it seemed ol any avail, and
then did bis utmost to prevent the ruin that he
saw must follow. One day at Madrid Napo
leon entered the room where Ney and several
other officers were standing, and said in great
glee, "Everything goes on well; Romana will
be reduced in a fortnight; the English are de
feated and will be unable lo advance; in three
months the war will be finished.” The officers
to whom this was addressed, made no reply; but
Ney, shaking his head, said with his character- |
istic bltintoess, "Sir. this war has lasted
Jong already, and our affairs are not improved.
These people, ate obstinate, even their wo
men and children fight; thet massacre onr men
tn detail. To-day we cut the enemy in pieces,
to-morrow we have tq oppose another twice as
numerous. It is not an army we have lo fight,
it is a whole nation, I see no endrto this busi
ness." Bonaparte followed his owfi inclina
tions, and was eventually defeated. Ney saw
the difference between conqueringan army and
a peo| fe. Though engaged in no general bat
tle while in Spain, he exhibited his wonted skill
and bravely in Astnria.
But it is in the Russian campaign that he
displayed his greatest qualities as a command
er. The history of the Grand Ar ny. in its in
vasion of Russia and retreat from it, co übtnes
more of g'ory and of gloom than anything ot
its kind in the annals of inau?s<(he contrast
between that army ot near three hundred thou
sand men, crossing the Niemen in presence ot
Napoleon, as he sat in his tower and saw those
glorions legions move in beautiful order and
high spirits before him; and the remnant of that
scattered army ih rags, wan and ghastly, lot
lowing their iron-hearted leader as he strode on
foot over the same river, always fills one with
the profbttndesl melancholy. Al Smolcnsko,
Ney made a last effort to dissuade the Emperor
from pressing info Russia so late in the season.
But neither he nor the other generals that form
ed his council could divert his purpose. The
battles of Valentini and Krasnotsoon followed,
and last of all came Borodino, in which Ney
“outdid hiffiself,” and earned the title Napoleon
gave him on the spot of " Prince of Mvskwa.”
At the commencement of that action Bonaparte
kept Ney close beside him, and would not for a
long time allow him to take any part in the con
flict,' There they stood within hailing distance
ot each other, and gazed on the battle that rag
edon the right. At length Napoleon called Ney
to him and gave Ws last orders. The drums
beat their wild and hurried charge, and Ney
with his three divisions hutled themselves on
the loe. The enemy’s artijlgfy.swept within a
certain limit every inch of ground, and it Seem
ed impossible that a body of men could stand
.there a single moment. Bonaparte watched the
the storm of grape shot, when the bead ot it
sunk down and disappeared like snow when it
meets tbgjrver. Yet Ney still towefed unhurt
amid hss falling column, and without faltering
a moment, led the remnant of his division
straight through the destructive fire, up to the
very retrenchments, and carried them. Then
commenced that terrific struggle for Ihe heights
of Deraenowskie. Davoust and Ney strove to
geFSswitb more than human valorto gain the
etnJJ.Sce. After four hours of steady, unpar
alleled effort against superior force, and in the
midst of incessant discharges of artillery, Ney
sent to Bonaparte for help. The Young Guard
and the reserved cavalry were ordered down,
while Napoleon wheeled f nr hundred cannon
.on the redoubt. Under cover of this terrible
fire, the mighty columns of cavalry and infan
try moved to the assault. The Russian artillery
from the batteries stretched whole battalions on
the field at every discharge. But it was all in
vain. The rent columns closed again as be
fore, “each treading where his comrade stood,”
and pressed on like the in-rolling wave ot the
sea. Finding the French were gaining ground,
the Russian commander ordered his whole left
wing to leave the retrenchments and meet the
French in the plain below. The shock was aw
ful. Eighty thousand men were crowded into a
small space, and lor more than an hour raged
against each other in all the ferocity of war,
while seven hundred pieces of cannon played
incessantly upon the dense masses ol living
flesh, Ney moved amid this wild storm the
same calm and determined man as ever. His
uniform riddled with balls, ard his lace be
grimeu with powder and smoke, he still, with
bis clear c'arion voice, cheered on his troops,
and with his cool bravery held his exhausted
men to the encounter with a tenacity that could
not be overco ne, and which saved Bonaparte
that day from a ruinous defeat.
'Napoleon often gazed with astonishment on
the movements of his favorite marshal. Jhe
q-iiet determination with which he set oib\to
execute the niStt hopeless order—the
he would make against the most desperate oi? '&''i
and the victory lie would wring from deteali > '
self, brought even from Napoleon bursts oi'e g 1
miration.
The blazing towera.of Moscow, the tqrnir, «
point ol Napoleon’s invasion and Iris fortun-I
have scarcely crumbled to ashes before the fate— ~
army turn their faces homeward. VVe slioqla e
like to be made a quainted with the conversa-..
lion of Napoleon and Ney as they sat together
in the Kremlin and talked oyer the disastrous
issqetfiey bad met and the only way of escape
trom total annihilation, she fiery and impetu
ous harangues ofthe former, and tlie blunt
characteristic replies ot the latter, while the
cracking ot the flimesand the tailing ol col
umns and walls without were borne lo their
eats, must have been in rhe highest degree dra
matic. From the heap of ruins and from tbe
solitude which w?s mote prophetic than the up
roar ot the storm, Ney was appointed t; c. ver
the retreat; and this act of Napoleon otters
more distinctly his opinion ot that Marshal’s
generalship than language can do. The whole
history of Ney’s conduct during that memorable
retreat seems to belong rather to some her > ot
romafice lhan an actual man. The marvellous
details appear incredible, and would not be b(ja
lieved it the evidence was not incontestable.—
With a mere handful of men he placed himself
between the French and Russian armies, and
by his incredible exertions, desperate valor, and
exhaustless ingenuity, saved a portion of that
host which would c.berwise have been totally
annihilated. Thjc retreat alone would make
him immortal. With all the fault found with
his generals! tp, there was not a commander
among either the French or allied forces during
the whole war, lhat ever did or ever could ac
complis.'! what Ney performed in lhat memora
ble q.'ght. fjad he lallen we believe Bonaparte
would have lallen also, and the former really
saved the army, which the latter never could
have done. Without provisions, almost with
out arms, he battled the well-tried and countless
legions of Russia back from his beloved Empe
ror —and over the wintry fields of snow and
amid the driving storm, with a heart Untamed
and a will unsubdued., be hovered like a pro
tecting spirit around the divided and flying ranks
of his countrymen. The soldiers, exhausted
and despairing, threw their tnusketsfrom them
into the snow-drifts, and laydown by thousands
to die. Cold, benumbed, and famine-struck,
this ghost of an army straggled on through the
deep snow, with nothing butthe tall pines sway
ing and roaring mournfully in the blast for land
marks to the glazing eye, while an enraged and
well disciplined army was pressing in the rear.
Clouds ot ravens, whose dusky forms glanced
like spirits through the snow-filled air, croaked
over the falling columns, while troops of dogs,
lhat had followed the army from Moscow, fell
on the prostrate forms before lite was wholly
extinct. The storm howled by as the soldiers
suhk at night in the snow to rest, many to rise
no more, while the morning sun, il it shone at
all, looked cul l and dimly do,wn through the
flying clouds of a northern sky. There were
long interval- when not a drum or trumpet note
broke the mufti ?d tread of the staggering legions.
On the rear of such an army, and in signt of
stich horrors, d; 1 Ney combat. Nothing but a
spirit unconquerable as late jtse’rt conld have
sustained him, or kept alive the flagging cour-
tn m i
age ot his troops. H'uni®n|j <vefy moment
over the dead bodies of the& eomrades who had
marched but a few hours .iff. mlvance of them,
thousands threw away lltefr at ins in despair,
and wandered off info the wderhess to die with
cold, or be slain by the -Igßacks. Yet Ney
kepi a firm ba.nd around.bW th at all the power
of Russia could nut Conquer. Now ordering
his march with the skill g’-neral, and now
with musket in hand fightSfaf iike a common
soldier, the moral torce of temple accomplish
ed what authority alone could have done.
At length the brave commander
seemed to have reached tlie ’xrisis ol bis late,
and there Was no ‘Escape tram j-he doom that
hung over him. The Rw'firttis _had finally
placed themselves l>et«eea«he French army
and that rear guard, nowjtwindled to a few
thousand. Ignorant of Ney was
leading hi* column* lbrqu.g|g&.jfgrise log to the
hanks of the Lossroina, ou.Sjqfi were strewn
the dead bodies ol his when a
battery of .forty cannon ..fcd'enly poured a
destractive storm rd' grapeAal into the very
he.-irt of his ranks. TneKF-xt, -moment the
heigh: before him.and.cn e®ar.,side appeared
lined with dense eolurniis cif:.-’rrianity and ar
tillery. Ney bad dune all could do,
ami here his careersecmed>»mj4 tj.close. He
was ordered to capitalaie.®,ofe replied, -A
VrirM of F’r«s«m'a:.' .s»rZKifem!’audclosing
I. is columns marched stra.igjApiijit’qe. batteries.
. - ■ 1:-■ mol'- s o-iiov.
proved ti.eiqselv.es i
' ty extending itseli oij every sitjs to lien: him in,
he returned back towards Smolensko tor an
hour, then lunning a body o! 400(1 men, turned
north towards the Dnieper. Haying reached
the stream in safety, tie arranged bis fragment
ot an army so as to march over theice at a mo
ment’s warning, and then waited tirce hour!, be
fore crossing to allow the weak 9ud wounded
stragglers to ci me in. Pressed by the most ap
palling dangers ne still yielded lb lie dictates of
rnercj. 'There on the banks oftlb frozen river,
and during Ibis time ot intense anxiety, did this
strange, ind-'tititabte man lie dfwn with his
martial cloak arotrfid him, and sleep. Bona
parte, far in advance, straggling.f;rwaid on loot
with a birch slick in his hand to leep from tail
ing on the ice, surrounded by his (ew exhausted
| followers, was pressed withanxiefy for the fat*
ol Ney—his now last remaining lope. Bui the
marshal, will; only three thousand men, had
still a wilderness between him anil the Emperor,
and that wilderness was filled wild Cossacks.
For sixty miles be struggled on With his weary
columns amitj six thousand of tlipse wild war
riors. Atone time they got in advance of him
and fell unexpectedly upon hisaiivanced posts,
which were immediately driven k>, and all was
given up as lost. But Ney ordered the trum
pets to sound the charge, and with the cheering
words, “ Comrades, now is the moment; for
ward, they are ours,” rallied tfieircourage tothe
assault, and the Cossacks fled. Thinking their
general saw what they did not set, and that Uie
enemy were cut off, the soldiers pressed forwar d
where otherwise they would hare yielded and
fled. Al Ungih with only fifteen hundred, men
out of the forty thousand with which fie had
started, he arrived near Orcha and near the
French army. When Bonaparte heard of it, he
exclaimed, " I have Lhree hundred millions in
my coffers ip the Tuileries—l wauld willingly
have given them to save Marsha; Ney." Well
he might, and half his empire wiih it, for
without him he had been a throtjeless Emperor.
The meeting ol Bonaparte and his brave Mar
shall shows the profound impression the conduct
ol the latter had made on him. As bis eye fell
on the worn but still unconquerable veteran, h»
excl Auied, "What a man, wkat a soWiei! ”
Bin words failed lo express his admiration, and
he clasped the stern warrior to jds bosom and .
embraced him with all the raptuie one hero em
braces another.
But Ney’sexhaustingefforts were not yet over.
Bonaparte dared not relieve hint from his dan
gerous and important post. Though the rear
guard had melted away again ar,d again under
iris command, he still renewed its ranks, and
presented the same detefminedJrsnt to the ene
my. At the awful passage ofthe Beresina, he
stood again,between the aruly atd destruction.
At length the scattered remnaßW iit the French
Legions reached the Niemen, the boundary of
the Russian territory. Ney arrived destitute of
masssj'Warssi xs
be f >und in the town ( planted twen
ty-four cannon on the n diyT l is, -red kept back
but the soidlers, behding
their Icolsteps towards Fianxkjmd away from
the bullets oi the Russians, beganfo follow alter
till he was left almost Avne. Still true to his
duty hecondnued to coverthe retreatoi the army
he had so often saved. All had not yet passed
the Niemen, and by dint ol persuasion, and
threats, and promises, he collected thirty men
around him, and with musket in hand defended
with this handful the gate ol Wilna. At length,
when th“ last soldier was over, he slowly retired
through the streets with his face to the enemy,
and crossing the river, "wa he last, of the Grand
Army that left the Russian territory
Guinbinnen was the first place in Germany,
after crossing the river, at which rest could b •
obtained. General Dumas, who was sick, had
just entered the house of a French physician in
this town, when a man accosted him whom he
took to be a perfect stranger. His powerful
form was wrapped in a large military eloak—
his beard was long and untrimmed—tris counte
nance begrimed with powder, and his whiskers
half burnt off, while his emaciated lace spoke of
toilsand privations of no common magnitude.
But his eye slit; bu-rntd with that lustre no one
everfmgot who once saw it in battle. " What,”
naid the stvanser, wDitmas, do you not know
m’.’l” "No,” replied Dunas, •'who are you?"
“lam the rear guard ot the Grand Army—
Marshal Ney. I have fired the last musket-shot
on the bridge ofKownu;. I have thrown into the
Niemen the last ot our arms and I have walked
hither as you see me across-the forests." He
had doneall that man could do—fought.till his
army was annihilated, then formed another—
created means whereiheydtd|nolexist—sustained
the'sinking courage of his followers when all
before him was blank and hopeless—strugglsd
at last with a few hundred and then thirty, and
then alone, as rear guard ol the army, and then
finally on foot and almost unattended, crossed
the forests to the remnant of that army,
We cannot follow him throiigh.the campaign
of 1813. He fought beside ihe Emperor, though
his fortunes were evidently declining. At
wjiafiizeh, Lutzen, Dresden Denonewitz, Leipsic
gxnd many other places, he exhibited his accus-
skill and bravery. Alter the abdication
? g gNapoleon, he lived in Paris in almost entire
I c n-usion. Too rough for the polished society
2"T7/e French capital, and toosiern and grave to
o tsipaied, he dwelt by himself. His palace
3—o jeganily furnislied ; and his wife, fond of
S O ri/'and luxury, entertained her friends there,
'"while he would be dining by bimsell, inusing
over the stormy and adventurous life he had led.
Sick of the inactive monotonous life of Paris,
he retired to his country-seat, where, in the sports
of the field,, he could find some relief to his rest
lessness. It was here he received his unexpected
order to join the Sixth Military Division. On
arriving at Paris he learned to his astonishment
that Bonaparte had left Elba, and was on his
way to the eapiloi. Here we approach the only
dark spot in his history. The defence his own
friends makelbr hkn ßKljitife r'lrulpotc -biin.--
Bonaparte’s star had apparently set forever at.
his exile, and Ney did perfectly right tosustain
th? government of France; but he had no right
to betray the trust his Monarch reposed in him,
aufigo over with his army to the side of the in-
He, by this act, became a traitor; bnt
hts treason had more excuses than the like crime
ever had before. Al first he regarded the descent
of Napoleon on the shores of France, as the
most extravagant rashness, and designed, as he
declared, to bring him a prisoner to Paris. But
he h<d hardly set out on his expeuition before
Bonaparte began to ply him with those arts he
knew so well how lo use. He had made Ney
what he was, and he appealed to the gratitude ol
tli'- noble-hearted veteran. He bad stood by his
side in the smoke and thunder of baftle. z an Ihe
recalled these scenes to bis imagination. They
had been warriors togrther in danger, and Bona
parte excit:d him with those recollections, so
calculated lo move a heart like his. He kept
Iris emissaries constantly about him, represent
ing to him the utter feebleness and imbecility ot
the Bourbon throne—he called him again the
“ Bravest of the Brave,” and entreated him not
to fight against his old companion and King.
At the same time he promised peace to France,
and all that Ney could desire. A plain blunt
soldier—with a' limit full of great affections lor
heroes like bimsell, what wonder is it that his
constancy shook! Added to all this, the emissa
ries o! Bonaparte had at length affected the fidel
ity of the army, and while Ney was wavering,
his soldiers had already determined for Napo
leon. He felt he could nut resist the tide it he
would, while he evidently had lost al! desire to
•lo so. His actol treason has many palliations;
still il was unworthy ot him. If hisold affec
tions and his gratitude were too strong to allow
him lo fight against his former Monarch, his
honor should have prevented him from fighting
against his new one. He should have returned
and resigned his command, and retired from the
contest He bimsell afterwards felt so. T in*
excitement and enthusiasm under which he had
acted had passed away, and he saw the transac
tion in a clear and just light. It weighed on Iris
heart, and he grew melancholy and spiritless.
He had lost his self-respect; and his honor,
which be heretofore had kept bright.is his sword,
•t as tsrnisheJ. Kindly feelings bad conquered
biui whom no enemy could subdue, and now the
eye no danger could daunt or hardship dim, be-
came ilull and lustreless. That glorious lore
head, that had been Qie terror of so many hun
dred battles, had a spot upon it, and Ney left fee
bler than in the hour of extretnest peril. Re
morse gnawed at his heart, and the feeling of
personal dignity was gone for ever. He be
came morose and restless, and not until ordered
bv Bonaparte to Lille, “if he would see the first
battle,” did he evince any of his old fire. This
single fact is the greatest apology we could offer
for him. It shows that, whatever his act. may
be, his heart was not that of a traitor. It was
not the deliberate treason ot a villain, but the
sudden impulse oi a man 100 frequently go
verned by tris feelings. He afterwards doubtless
hoped, in the excitement of battle, to rid himself
ot his remorse, and perhaps by his valor to wipe
out the disgrace he had brought on his name.
His last charge at Waterloo showed that the
firmness and bravery ol the man was undimin
isbed. It is true the Old Guard was not what it
had been. It required the experience and train
ing of the veterans th-at fell in the snow drifts of
Russia.'-But still it was “the Old Guard,”
which had ever regarded itself the prop and
pride of Bonaparte. It was the same that had
pained him so many battles—the same that at
Krasnoi, in the retreat from Russia, when re
duced to a little band, closed round theiremperor
and marched past the Russian batteries; playing
in the hottest ofthe fire the popular air, Oupeul
on. elre mieuz qu'nv, sein. de so, fiimilk !" It was
ti># •• uncosqtietable guani.’’
• v. 1.1 . b.'u;h.- u?..'!i-i' «-,>ivain
Jerome Bonaparte had left 1400 mtn around
Hoogoumont. The centre ot the English lines
had not yielded an inch, yet, exhausted and
wore, they stood less firmly in their places. The
had remained passive spectators of
the swne during the whole day, being reserved
for the last moment to complete the victory. At
this juncture, the head of the Prussian columns
appeared on the field. Fifty thousand fresh
troops added to the English army would make
the odds too great. Instead of retiring till
Grouchy would come up and restore the balance,
Bonaparte took the rash and de-perate resolution
of bringing his entire reserve into the field, and
with one awlul charge break the centre, and pre
vent the threatened junction of the two armies.
For this purpose he called up the Old Guard,
and placing himself at their head marched down
the slope, and baiting in a hollow, addressed
them in his fiery, vehement manner. He told
them every thing rested on their valor. They
answered with the shout, “ Vive VEnpercur, ’
that was heard all along the British lines. He
then placed them under Ney, who ordered the
cha'ge. Bonaparte has beCTi blamed tor not
heading this charge himselt; but he knew he
could not carry that guard so far, nor hold them
so long before the artillery, as Ney. The mere
power NCy carried with him, from the reputa
tion he had gained ol being the “bravest ofthe
brave,’-’was worthawhole battalion. When
ever a column saw him at their head,-they knew
that it was to be victory or annihilation. With
the exception of Macdonald, we do not know a
general in the two afmies who could hold his
soldiers so long in the very face of destruction
as he. The whole continental struggle exhibi
ted no sublimer spectacle than this last effort of
Napoleon to save his sinking empire. Europe
bad been put upon the plains of Waterloo to be
battled for. The greatest military energy and
skill the. world possessed had been tasked to the
utmost during Ihe day. Thrones were tottering
on the ensanguined field, and the shadows of fu
gitive kings flitted through the smoke of battle.
Bonaparte’s star trembled in the zenith, now
blazing out in its ancient splendor, now - sud
denly paling before his anxious eye. At length,
when the Prussians appeared on the field, he re
, solved to pul Europe on one bold throw. He
committed himselt and France to Ney, and saw
his empire rest on a single charge. We almost
forget Napoleon’s ambition and guiltinoursym
pathy with him in this critical . oment of his
life. The intense anxiety with which be watched
tbe advance of that column, and the teirfble sus
pense he suffered when the smoke ol battle
wrapped it from sight, and the utter despair ot
his great heart when the curtain lifted over a fu
gftive atmy, and the despairing shriek mng on
every side, “la garde recule,” “la garde recule,”
makes us for the moment almost wish he had
gained the day. Ney felt the immense respon
sibility resting upon bim. He felt the pressure
of an empire on his brave heart, and resolved
not to prove unworthv of the great trust com
mitted to his care. .Nothing coul Ibe more im
vt thst era id colnnin
raftrmrTssnuir." 1 ttwt au.ira ban never rynt re
coiled before a human foe. and the allied forces
I beheld with awe its firm and terrible advance to
tbe final cfiajge. For a moment the batteries
stopped playing, und the firing ceased along the
British lines Without the beating of a drum
or the blast of a bugle, to cheer their steady
courage, they moved in dead silence over the
plain. Tbe next moment the artillery opened,
and the head of that gallant column seemed to
sink into the earth. Rank after rank went down,
yet they neither stopped nor faltered. Dissolv
ing squadrons, and whole columns disappearing
one after another in the destructive fire, affected
not their steady courage. The column- closed
up as before, and each treading over bis fallen
comrade, pressed firmly rn. The horse which
Ney rode fell under him, and he had scarcely
mounted another before it also sunk to the earth.
Again and again did that unflinching man feel
his steed sink down, till jjachad been shot under
him. Then, with his uniform riddled with bul
lets, and his face singed and blackened with
powder, he marched on foot, with drawn sabre,
ar the head ot his column. In vain did the ar
tillery hurl its storm of fire and lead into that
living mass. Up to the very muzzles they
pressed, and driving the artillerymen from their
own pieces, pushed on through the English lines.
But the sudden firing of that hitherto unseen rank
into their very faces, pouring a sheet ot flame
mto their bosoms, was too much for human
courage. They reeled, shook, turned and fled.
Ney was borne back in the refluent tide, and
hurried over the field. But lor the crowd of fu-
gitives that forced him back, he would have
stood alone and fallen in his footsteps. As it
was, disdaining to fly, though the whole army
was flying, he formed his men into two immense
squares, and endeavored to stem the terrific tide,
ami would have d me so had it not been for the
fifty thousand fresh Prussians that pressed on
his exhausted ranks. For a long time they
stood and let the artillery plough through them.
Bill the tateof Napoleon was written, an I though
we believe Ney did what no other man in Eu
rope could have done, the decree could not be
reversed. •The starthat had blazed so balefully
over the worl I went down in blood, and the
“ bravest of the brave” had fought his last bat
tle. It was worthy of his great name, and the
charge ol the Old Guard at Waterloo with him
al their head will be pointed to by the remotest
generatio is with a shudder.
We now come to the'exniation ofhis treason
by a public execution. The allies, alter they
assembled in Paris, demanded some victims to
appease their anger. Many were selected, but
better counsel prevailed, and they were saved.
Ney was a prominent example; he had routed
their armies and too nearly wrested their erowns
from them at Waterloo to be forgiven. Though
no more guilty than Marshal Soult, and many
others, it was impossible to save him. It was
intended at first to try him by martial law. but
the Marshals of France refused to try so brave,
generous and heroic a warrior. Bv a royal or
dinance, the.Qhamher of Peers was directed to
try him. Scorning to take advantage of a'ny'
technicalities of law, he was speedily found
guilty and condemned to death, by a majority
of a hundred and fifty two. Seventeen only
were found to vote in his favor. That he was
guilty of treason, in thp letter ofthe charge,
was evident, but not to lhat extent which de
manded his death. No man had done mare for
France than he, or loved her honor and glory
with a higher affection ; and his ignominious
death is a lasting disgrace to the French nation.
Justice was the excuse, not the ground ot his
condemnation. To have carried out the prin
ciple on which Iris sentence was based, w-uld
have ended in a public massacre. Ney and La
bedoyere were the only victims offered up to ap
pease an unjust haired. Wellington should
have interfered to save so gallant an enemy at
the hazard of bis own liie.
zVcy teas publicly shot by
His last moments did not disgrace his life.
He was called from Iris bed to hear hts sentence
read. As the preamble went on enumerating
his many titles, he hastily brake in—" Why
cannot you simply call tne iMichael Ney ?
now a French soldier, and soon a heap of dust.”
The last interview with his wife and children
shook his stern heart more than all the battles
he had passed through, or his approaching
death. This fiver, he resumed his wonted calm
ness. In reply to one of his sentinels, who
said “ Marshal, you should now thinkof death,”
he replied, "Do you suppose any one should
teach me todie?” But recollecting himselt; he
added in a milder tone, “Comrade, you are
right; send for the Curate ot St. Sulpice: 1 will
die as becomes a Christian I”
The place is still shown in the gardens ofthe
Luxembourg, where he was executed. Ashe
alighted from the coach, he advanced towards
theme of soldiers drawn up as executioners,
with the same calm mien he was wont to exhi
bit on the field ot battle. An officer, stepping
forward to bandage his ey es, he stopped hi n>
with Hie proud interrogation—“ Ate you igno
rant that for twenty five years I have been ac
customed io face both ball an I bullets ?’’ He
then took off his hat, and with his eagle eye
now subdued and solemn— turned towards !i»a
ven. said with the same calm and decided voice
that had turned th ■ tide of so many battles, ” I
declare bet-ire God and man, lhat 1 have never
betrayed my country; may my death render her
happy I — Vive la Franc: I” He then turned to
the soldiers, and gazing on them a moment,
struck one hand upon his heart, and said—“ My
comrades, fire on me I” Ten balls entered him,
and he fell dead. Says C I. Napier, in speak
ing of his death, “ thus, he who had
hundred battles for France—not one against her
—was shot as a traitor.”
His lather, who loved him tenderly as the son
ot his pride and the glory of Iris name, was
never told of Iris ignominious death. He was
at this time eighty-eight years of age, and lived
to be a hundred years old. He saw by the
mourning weeds on his family, that some ca
tastrophe had happened, and Iris father’s heart
told but too well where the bolt had struck ; but
he made no inquiries, and though lie lived
twelve years after, never mentioned his son’s
name, and was never fold of his fate. He knew
he was dead, but he asked not how or where he
died.
The great fault in Ney’s character was indo
lence. Unless his energies were summoned
from their repose by some pressing danger, he
was inclined tu inactivity. Yet this tendency,
which has so often been severely censured, is
almost necessarily associated with the prodi
gious power and resolution he possessed. The
Lion is not easily roused, and strength is al
ways immobile till there is a call equal to its
capacity. The heavy English squares can
never be convened into light troops without Jos
mg their invincible tenacity, dotutparsepos* |
clear and comprehensive judgment. In this
hewasunlike alrnostany other man in history.
Ney had not this combination, and we would
like to have those who criticise his character,
point to one besides Napoleon, that has.
Ney was also plain and direct even to blunt
ness, and often offended his friends by the free
dom with which he spoke of their errors. He
never lost sight of his low origin, and was never
ashamed of it. To some young officers boast
ing of their rank, titles, etc., be said—“ Gentl
emen, I was less fortunate than you. I got no
thing from'my ta nily, and I esteemed myself
rich at Melz, when I had two loaves of bread
on my table.” Simple and austere in hishabils,
lie reminds one of an old Greek
The vacillation of teeling which caused him to
commit the great error of his life, adds to our
sympathy for him, while it injures tfie perfection
of his character. It led him to be a humane
soldier, and when second in command frequent
ly to disobey orders for the execution of crimi
nals. He was a kind yet fearless commander,
an untiringyetskilful leader,and a warm-beart
ed and noble man.
We have said nothing of the work from
which we have taken some of the minor inci
dents of his life, for we have never before seen
so poor a book made from such excellent mate
rials. Next to Bonaparte, Marshal Ney fur
nishes the best character for a memoir, of any
modern general. His life is full of adventure,
and characterized throughout by great actions.
Yet his friends, in compiling these memoirs,
have followed no law, but chronological order.
AH his papers and letters, both those written by
himself and those received from others, seem to
have been arranged according to their dates,
and printed in a volume form. There is no
grouping and no unity, and the reader stumbles
on amid a mass of ill-arranged matter, wonder
ing how human ingenuity could produce so stu
pid a book, from such abundant and interest
ing materials. There is not a single battle de
scribed in it with even third rate ability, while
with all the heterogeneous mass gathered toge
tber, the work is still
',1.i.-ro'-i-■>to-"i
From the Baltimore American.
Buenos Ayres, February 20, 1845.
Gentlemen : I enclose you a translation ol an
important decree, issued by Gov. Rosas, which
will prove luinous to vessels bound to Monte
video.
There is very little business doing here; wool
is the only article ih demand, and that has risen
two cents per in., which caused the Americans
to cease purchasing. The. English continue to
buy even at the advance. The following are
the ruling rates: Wool, common washed, 25 a
28; ditto unwashed, 12; Cordova baled, 28.
Buenos Ayres, February 13, 1845.
Year 36th of the Liberty, 36th. of the Independ
ence, and 16th of the Argentine Confederation.
Department of Foreign Affairs.—The
Government of Buenos Ayres, charged with the
. Fyteign Affafra Umi Affnirs «>f Peace and War '
ofthe Argentine Confederation, has resolved
and decreed:
Ist, On and from the Ist of March all commu
nication with the port of Montevideo will be
closed.
2d. No vessel, coming direct from the port of
Montevideo, orthat may have arrived or touched
by any incident whatever at said port, shall be
allowed to come to an entry at the capiain of the
port’s office.
3d. Neither shall those vessels which, inor
der to avoid part of the decree contained in the
preceding acticle, should go from the port of
Montevideo feignedly loany other pert or place
s-iutlt ol the line, in order to alterorchangetheir
pafcrs, and return to the Argentine ports, be al
lowed to come to any entry.
4th. The English packets and vessels of war
of friendly nations are excepted.
sth. The present decree shall remain in force
meanwhile the city of Montevideo is in posses
sion of the ruthless Unitarians, anti shall cease
from the moment ofthe entry of the army of
operations, under command of Iris Excellency,
the legal President of the Oriental Republic ot
the Uruguay, Brigadier General Don Manuel
Oribe, into the said city.
6th. Communicate the foregoing to whom it
may correspond, publish it, and insert it in the
Official Register.
ROSAS.
PELIPE ARANA.
Latest from the River La Plata.
- We are indebted lo Hie politeness of Peter
t Strobel, Esq., Supercargo ot the bdrque Nauti
’ lus, at this port from Buenos Ayres, lor a file of
: the "Bi itish Packet,” published at that city, ana
, the following memoranda: •
■ The Nautilus left Buenos Ayres on the 4th ot
i March, at which time the decree of the Argen
tine Government, prohibiting the entry of any
vessel into Bnenos Ayres which had previously
i touched at Montevideo, was in operation, and
• there was not a single foreign vessel at the latter
! port. This decree was issued in consequence
ot the interference ol the French Admiral with
■ the blockadeof Montevideo, and its effects will
• be severely lelt.
i It is understood lhat the Hon. William Brent,
! Jr., U. S. Charge d’Affaires, had protested
against the interference of the French Admiral,
on the ground that European nations shoul-l not
control political parties among the American
Republics. He alleges further, we learn, that
1 the war in the River Li Plata has already been
continued seven by reason of the course
pursued by the English and French nations.
The provinces of the Argentine Confedera
tion were all in a state of tranquility, except
Corrientes, where Gen. Paz had organized a
forceof3o()o men. The Argentine Government
had near 5000 troops unde; Gen. Gazon, who
was a favorite officer of Bolivar, and who will,
il is thought, put an end to the civil war in lhat
quarter.
In the Uruguay Republic there had been sev- ,
eral rtnrtTFintferems,rand the k
department of Maldonado was in the hands of
the Reveira party. In other parts of the Repub
lic quietness prevailed.
The new French Charge had presented his
credentials, and had been received at Buenos
Ayres. A new Brazilian Minister Plenipoten
tiary had been received at Montevideo
There was a report in circulation, one or two
days before the Nautilus sailed, that the Argen
tine Minister at Rio de Janeiro, Gen. Gido, had
demanded his passports, which, if true, will no
doubt be given to him. 1 his was occasioned
by his demanding satisfaction from the Brazilian
Government for granting Gen. Paz leave to set
out from Rio de Janeiro and pass through their '
province to Corrientes;.
The decree prohibiting the entering of vessels i
at Buenos Ayres th it touch at Montevideo has t
had the effect of making the market there still i
worse, as it is now impossible to sell any arti
cles unless for immediate consumption. The t
Government, when short ot money, lays hands <
on whatever it may want, and small vessels i
with assorted cargoes from the BraziljAtillkeep '
the market well supplied. I
Flour was netting S 3 Jto S3} Spann®without '
freight. Beefand poik unsaleable ; ttR market I
glutted with it, as well as all kinds of American t
produce. < I
The British packet ofthe Ist of March, speak- s (
ing of the decree referred to above, and pub
lished in our paper yesterday, says:
“ We have heard an apprehension expressed
that, from the stringent terms ot the decree, in- r
jury may accrue to vessels without any inten- t
tion on the part of their commanders to violate 5
it; but we are certain, from the benevolent ‘
disposition uniformly evinced by the Argen- >
tine government towards foreign commerce, ’
that, in all cases of accident or misfortune, or j
where fraud is not actually attempted, every '
reasonable allowance will be made.”
Ear'kquakes in Africa.— A letter from Mascara ;
slates that on the 14th uft., at Calaa, the earth i
having opened in several places, 32 houses fell t
down, and several persons tost their lives. A ;
similar disaster occurred atthe village ot Mesti
rata, which was entirely destroyed, hut there nq
lives were tost. The fissures in the earth 'WJk 1
preceded by a rumbling noise like tnat 1
earthquake. L4H :
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 3.
rrT tie Whigs ol the Second Congressional
District of Alabama have nominated the Hon.
Henry W. Hili.iare, for Congress. The dis
trict is at present represented by Mr. Belser.
Manufactures in Columbus. —The Enquirer
of Wednesday says: “ We are happy to state,
that in consequence of a special invitation ex
tended to Col. Parrish Carter, of Scottsboro’,
near Milledgeville, by Maj. John H. Howard,
Col. Carter visited this city last week, and after
a thorough examination made a purchase of a
half interest tor himself and others. We are
further advised that a Dr. Beard, of Ala., has
also purchased a large interest. We hear of
others now negotiating; and that our city is to
be a manufacturing city is now beyond all dis
putation. Those in interest will push forward
their works with vigor. They have-now about
1200 spindles at work—very soon they will’fia^n,
3500. They will then proceed without delay, so |
etect additional brut lings, and tn less than
information in relation tothe prospect before ns
—at present, we shall content ourselves by say
ing, that it is every way flattering, and that we
are greatly indebted to the energy and forecast
ofMaj. John H. Howard for the favorable cir
cumstances around us.”
Terrible Hail Storm.—The Watchman ot
the Ist inst., published at Decatur, DeKalb Co.>
Geo., says: The injury done by the late hail
storm in this county has scarcely yet been-as
certained. In some portions ot the county, it
fell in lumps to the size of large goose eggs;
breaking out glass, beating the corn, cotton, &c.
literally into the earth, stripping the trees of
their fruit and leaves, and in some places the
ravines, at the base of steep hills, were covered
to the depth of four feet. In a word, DeKalb
has not witnessed in a long time so large and
destructive a hail storm. ■ .
JS'The Kanawha (Va.) Republican says
that a new stream of gas has been struck by the
the salt manufacturers there, which is very
powerful, forcing up a column ta the height ol
one hundred feet above the ground. It adds that
there is gas enough in one ot these currents lo
light all the cilies in the Union. One of them
took fire a few days since, and did considerable
damage before it could be subdued.
“ Hail Columbia,”—Mr. John Wilson,in an
address to s^T?“ydlltig^ladies assembled near
Baltimore at a May celebration, thus speaks oi
the origin, ol this popular ballad:
“ Hail Columbia” stands at the head ot our
patriotic songs, and is somewhat remarkable in
■ gtaMgigm. About fifty years ago, Mr. Fox, a
v.’Cali-t of fine talents in tfie line of Iris
was desirous to bl ing out something
I his benefit night, being then pet forming
in Philadelphia. He applied accordingly, to the
late Judge Hopkinson, to write him a song for
the occasion; but the Judge’s numerous engage
ments prevented him from entering on the, task
until the very morningot the benefit.
When Fox called and found the matter thus,
he was almost distracted. Mrs. Hopkinson,
pitying his situation, took her seat al the piano,
and beckoning to her husband, betook up his
pen, struck oft'the firsbverse, which his lady
played to its present air. Fox, almost frantic
with joy, ran for Mr. Kerngle, the comporer,
who set it to music. The song was finished off
hand—and sung from the manuscript the same
nigjit with rapturousappladse. Fox made a for
tune by it; nothing was heard that whole sea
ikon, but Hail Columbia.
Goon Fortune—Mr. Delavan, the proprie
tor ofthe Delavan House, Albany, fids made a
successful lift in boring for water. He is build
ing a magnificent hotel five stories high, which
lie supplied with pipes, in the expectation of
getting water from the city Waterworks. He
was disappointed in this source, and commenc
ed boring for water, in which operalion he was
so fortunate as to hit a stratum of coarse sand,
from which gushed a stream of pure soft waler
affording about 20 090 gallons per day, which,
by appropriate apparatus, is distributed to every
part of the house.
An Ancient Eog.— We have been present
ed, by a friend in New Bedford, with an egg, ot
which the following inscription, which is borne
upon it, gives the history • “ Present' d by Capt.
R. R. CrockerofNew Bftiford, Mass, April,
1845. This is the egg of a penguin, taken from
the island of Ichaboe, in D cernber, 1844, fifty
eight feet below the surfaceOt guano; and allow
ing the accumulation to be one eight of an inch
per annum, jfrie-island bein£_halfa mile long,
and a quarterot a ntile wide,) it must 'Ks'biOq
years old.”— Boston Atlas.
Pauperism.—l’he Secretary of State in Ne v
York, report* that according to the county re
turns which have reached him, there were in
1842, 26,114 regular paupers in ihe State: that
of these, 6,285 became paupers through intem
perance; 4 406 from sickness; 6,716 from des
titution, misfortune. See. The pauper lax of
is now $600,00'. Ofthe whole num
ber returned, 14.435 were'natives ol the United
Slates, 7,279 of Ireland, 1,572 of England, 751
of Germany, 193 ot Scotland, 275 ol France, and
510 colored persons.
Dressing Wounds and Ulcers.—Dr. Lan
gier’s new method consists in applying on the
surface ofthe wound or ulcer a solution otgum
arable, and on it a bit of goldbeater’s skin; thus
dressed, a wound an inch in diameter was re
duced in the space of eight days to one-third or
one-sixth of an inch in extent. Cicatrisation
took place so rapidly that the granulations,
covered with a thick epidermis, were atT nume
rous and visible as before, but could be touched
without causing pain. A wound produced by
a nputation ofthe breast highly inflimed about
four and a half inches io length, and one and a
half in breadth, under this treatment healed
rapidly, and purulent secretion did not take
place. He proposes applying this method to a
wound left by amputation of the thigb.—Medi
cal Times. ,
Increase of Travel to Europe —In noone
year has the prospects of travelling to Europe
opened so favorably as in the present. The
steamer Great Western, packets Liverpool, Sid
dons, Argo, Silvie de Grasse, &c., have sailed
within the last four weeks crowded to the ut
most with cabin passengers. AU the packe's
to sail in May, the splendid York'hrre, the mag
nificent Queen of the West, the fin? Stephen
Whitney, and popular Sheridan, are rapidly
up. The Stephen Whitney, we believe,
*Ts
Yorkshire, to sail on the 16th, and the stately
Queen, to leave on the 21st proximo, have more
than half their berths et gaged. Americans
will, this year, spread over Europe in great num
bers.—A’. Y. Herald.
A Thrilling Incident.—The Reverend Dr.
Beecher, in an article he recently furnished, for
the Young Reader, tells the following touching
story:
“A few years since, as the Reverend Joseph
Davis, an excellent Baptist Minister in London,
was walking along one of the crowded streets
of that city, his attention was arrestel by the
circumstance that a carriage with several horses
was just about to pass over a little girl who was
slowly crossing the road. He strongly felt the
danger of the child, and forgetting his own, he
ran, snatched her un in his arms, and hastened
with her to the side-path, when rhe thought
struck him—what would the parents of this dear
child, have felt had she been ki.led! Al this mo
ment he looked in the face of the litile girl,
which had been concealed from his view by her
bonnet—and imagine, if you can, his feelings,
when he discovered that it was his own danghtei!
I saw him about half an hour after the occur
rence, and I shall never forget his agitation as
he described to me herdanger, or his expression
of thankfulness to an infinitely gracious Being
.who thus delivered his beloved child from death.’
Ellsworth tub Pedestrian, yesterday after
noon at 20 minutes to 5 o’clock, commenced his
artfu ius feat ot walking 1,000 miles in 1,000
successive hours, over the Eclipse Course at
Caitaallton. He performed his first mile in 9
minutes and 30 seconds. At 5 o’clock, he com
menced his second mile, which he completed in
tO minutes and 40 seconds. Ellsworth appears
in fine health and spirits, and is perfectly san
guine of winning the match. The knowing
ones, however, are betting odds of five to four,
against him. WeshaUforlhe information of
those at home and abroad who tee! an interest in
ihe result, publish a list of each day’s perform
ance.— N. Q. Bee, April '2Bth.
“ How long did Paradise
before he sinned?”-<aTd an amiable spouse to
her loving husband. “ Till he got a wife,” an
swered tbe husband calmly.
VOL.IX.~NO. 19.
From the N. O. Bee, H)th nU.
Later from Mexico.
By the arrival yesterday ot the schooner Yu- •
calaua, from Vera Cruz, we have received lull
files of papers tu the 2i»t from that city, and to
uie I7ih from the city ot Mexico.
Gen. Aluiunte bad arrived ai Vera Croz, but
had not gone on to ihe Capital when tbe Yucatan
left.
There were at Vera Cruz four American; two
Spanish: one English and une French men-ul- .
war. ’ .
The joint committee ofthe Mexican Congreas
to which bad been reierred the subject us I’exas,
reported at length on the 7 h inst. The report is
a document marked with the usual characteris
tics of Mexican vertiosity, prolixity and bom
bast. It abuses rite Utiiieu States in choice
Castilian, and calls us many hard names, coin
paring the Government at Washington to an
cient Koine, whicn in the name of Liberty and
Republicanism, subjugated the world. Attar
many brave words about outraged rights, honor,
Mexican courage and tne like, the reports con
clude by recommending two project*: . ,
The first is preceded oy a preamble dectaring
that, whereaa, lite United States have resolved us
a sovereign nation, and menaces her indepen. '
dence and political existence, therefore, the Con.
gressufthe Mexican Repoblicsolemnlydeciare,
that the law of the United States for ine annex
ation ot Texas tothe American Union, in no
respect impairs the rights which Mexico pus
ses-.es, and will maintain to that department. > '
Furthermore, that the United States having
disregarded the principles upon which are based
treaties ot amity, commerce and navigation, and
more especially ol boundary, Congress consider*
them violated by the United Slates. “ .
And finally, that the unjust usurpation ot
which il is sought to make Mexico the victim,
makes il her duty to take up anti' in her defence,
to oppose such usurpation, and with tbe lull and
rightful determination tq use all her resources
and power to prevent the annexation decreed by
the United States.
The Sbcond consists ot four articles, which
are as follows: - •
First—The Mexican nation calls upon her
sons lodefend their national independence,threa
tened by the usurpation ot the territory ot Tex
as, which is sought to be consummated by a de
cree passed .by Congress and sanctioned by the
President ot the United States. / .I//-
Second—Therefore the Government will con
sider itself at liberty (podra poner) to call forth; ,
its entire permanent andacrive military torce,
agreeably to the authority given to.it by exist
ing laws. ,
Third—For the preservation of public order,
and the maintenance of her»insiitution», and if
necessary, as a reserve for the army, the Gov
ernment, in virtue of the power granted lo it on
the Silt of December, 1844, may levy the troops
to which said decree refers, under the name of
* defenders of independence and the laws.
'iujmrth—With a view w the efficient main
-1111 iiir?TT4taii<l i tutjjtn of the republic, the Gov
ern men is author all extraordi-.
nary resources which mayjferfafirned necessa
ry, making known to
steps to be taken, conformably to
tion.
[Signed] Flores y Teran, Ladron de Gue- .
vara. Ginui i, F. del Castillo, Solana, Espinosa,
Tomei.
The public journals are still excessively bel-
Hcoes, and from what we car. perceive, there Is
a very strong indisposition on the part <it the
Government to surrender Texas. Still, though
Mexico may bluster, and even declare war—it
wilt be mere child’s play. She is utterly- deni
tute of resources—without a dollar in her trea- /
sury—with a disaffected and discontented popu
lation ripe for another revolution-and adisor
derly soldiery ill paid, ill fed and ill clad, who
have already, wearecredibly informed, at Mon
terey and elsewhere, exhibited strong symptoms ..
of mutiny. We publish, therefore, the abqV»JX,£tji
pugnacious manifesto,rather as a pan ot the df
history of the times, than because we appre- S
hend any thing very serious from its high sound*
ing phraseology. The only way tn -which ■
Mexico can annoy us, is by crippling cur com ■
merce in the Goll, atid for this, it behuoVes OUg fl
Government to he prepare.; fl
Another Earlhquahe. —Our readers doubtlesqsß
remember the details we published a few days '*
since of a frightfully destructive eatlhqu'.ke
which was experienced at Mexico on tne 7>h
inst. We have now lo add a repetition ol this '
awfuldisaster tn the Capital on uie 10 h inst ■ :
Our examination ot the papers has tailed to
.enable Us to discover many details of the ,
amount ot ruin and desolation occasioned by
tins convulsion, but from (he (act that the j >ur- ■'
nals unite in describing its effects as terntie,
we presume the destraction must have been
great. The'Dorna ol thcllth stales that the:;’
earthquake occurred about 10 o’clock, A. M , ’
and lasted forty seconds; that it overthrew many
new buildings and many others ibat had escaped
the former visitation ; that most of the inhabi- JK?
tants, strieken with terror, left their houses and -
took refuge intheopen fieldsand public squares,
_uass.ng the night without shelter and in the ut
mosi>-qnslernatwn. The “ Veracruzano’l of r
the 14th inst., stales that private letters furnish
a gloomy picture of the desolation that bis
fallen upon >~texico. The “ Hesperia” ot the .
12th states lhat the Earthquake of the 10th cum. > i ‘
pleted the destruction of the cupola ol Santa
Teresa, and increasetHhe damage done to.llw—
churches of Santo Domingo, and sjaa Francisco.
But for the shortness ol its duration,"the entire
city would have been laid iu ruins. Mexico
did not suffer alone, The shock was felt in a
numberol towns and villages within a radius
of several hundred miles. At Puebla the .;
earthquake was experienced on the 7th, about
4 o'clock, P. M , hut its eff-cts were compara
tively slight. Several churches were injured,
and man y private ediffres were greatly damaged ;
though none were absolutely destroyed. '
At Acuartillo and Toluca the effects of the
. shock were more consid -ruble. At Guadala
r jara, Morelia and Vera Cruz, the earthquake
i was experienced both on the 7<h anti the 10 h,
but on neither occasion, was the injury very
. serious.
I We perceive that the agencv for the payment
> of the Mexican debt in Great Britain has beets
taken from the house of Liztrdi in London, and
transferred to Schneider &Co 'Vhe ffirt XIX
applauds the act, declaringthat Messrs Laz.irdi
sacrificed the interest and credit of Mexico to.
their avarice and spirit ot speculation, and
. considers their removal an act ot justice and
propriety. ,'';2
What with lhe earthquake and Texas, the ‘<i
people and the press appear to have forgotten
the very existence ol Santa Ana. We do not . j
see his name in any ot the journals before us.
On tlie 9th inst. al Mexico a most unnatural
quarrel took place between a father and a son. W
They attacked each other with knives, and ma.
tnally receiving many wounds, both fell and ' »
shortly expired.
A CofttJETTß.—The following definition of* «
coquette is given by Frederika Bremer: ''|S|
The coqnefte expresses herseif by earessck —.
and bold freedom. She isdetermined ro charm, r.'.J
cost what it will, and passing over the line of Kg
beauty, defying lhe good and the appropriate.
she passes Into the world ol lhe senses, and ein- |Bj|
ploy log only empty ornaments, she loses sue- fl
cessjvely her power, her charm, the respect of: ®
true men, and her own peace of mind; and Ma
beauty’s holy heaven closesits doors against
here.
An elevated desire to please may pass into
coquetry; do we not see everywhere In lile that
the white may become gray, and the gray con
tinually darker, until the color of innocence is
quite obscured by the black? Yet is the white
there, and may lie next the black'in stainless
purity, just as troth may beam brightly by the '
side of the darkest falsehoof. There is an in
nocence and lovely desire of pleasing: would
that every woman possessed it, and would des
pise its caricature!
Confession op a Murderer.—lt will be
remembered that we some time since announced '
the arrest of a mao named Dean, at Lancaster,
Pa., lor the murder pf Mr. Edwards, at Chilli
cothe, Ohio, and that he was subsequently con
veyed to that place. It appears from lhe Lan
caster Intelligencer, that he has made a full
confession, implicating as his associate in the
crime, a man named Maxon. The mutder of
Mr. Edwards, was- one of the most atr< ci-us
in the records of the State, and was perpetrated
while lhe offenders were engaged in the com
mission of an act ot burglary. By the laws ot
Ohio, all persona found guilty of the crime ol
murder in lhe first degree, are punished with
death. It is said that .Dean is sensible of his
fate, and perlectly resigned to It. His spirits are
lively, and he looks forward io the doom which
is inevitably before bim, with an indifference
which is truly appalling. The only thought
which appears to ruffle his fe.-Jings, is that ot
having as his associate, his fellow prisoner,
Maxon, upon whor , it is said, he heaps in
discriminate curses.
The Legislature of Rli.de Island wilt meet
at Newport on Tuesday the 6th of May next.
The question of liberating Gov. Dorr will come
up for decision. .