The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1843-11-30
From ,hs shorss q the Rhine BY Dumas
TO WATERLOO.

AfOLEON-GOlNG To WATERLOO.
We saw two carriages approaching, gaIlop-
mg each with SIX horses. They disappeared
ior an instant IN a valley, then lose again al a
quarter OF \ league distance from rs. Then
We set OF running towards me town, crying
L'LmPeTeur, LLmpereur. We arrived
bfeaihicss, and only preceding the Emperor
BY some i've hundred PAGES. ! thought be
would not stop, ~hateser might be the crowd
awaiting him, aud 80 made iorlhe post house
when ! SUNK down halt dead with the run
ning; bot al any rate was there. In mo-
alent appeared, turning the corner Of the
sueei, the ioaning horses; then the p0siil-
ions al covered with ribbon; then the car
nages themselves; then the people following
NE cauiages. The carriages stopped at Tie
post. Il saw Napoleonl lie vas dressed
ma green coat with hue epauieifs, s1Nl
woTe the officers cross Of the legion OF hon-
Or. | only saw us bust framed in he square
Of the Carriage window. Ills head zen upon
his ehesi--iliat famous medallic hesd ofihe|
old Roman Emperors. Ills l0sehead fell.
ioFward; ms features, imPovablc we're of
The yellowish color Of wax, only his eyes APP
poaEed 10 be alive. Next 10 bun, ON his leii
vas Prince Jerome, king without king
dom, bat faithful brother. lie was at thai
period a fine young man OF SIX and twenty OF
thiIty ycars Of age, his features regular and
well formed, his beard black, his hair elegant
y auanged. lie saluied in the place ofhis
brother whose vague glance seemed lost in
The iuiure-peThaps in the past. Opposite
the emperor was Lei0u, his abide camp, an
ardent soldier who seemed slreadp to snuff
the ar Of battle: be was smiling too, the
poor fellow, as il he had long days 10 live. -
All this lasted about a minute. Then the
whip cracked, the horses neighed, and Il all
disappeared like a vision.
REruRSINe RON WATERLOO.
Three days afterwards, towards evening,
some people arrived from ST. Quentin; they
said a. they came away they bad heard can
non. The morning of the seventeenth, a
courier anived, who scattered all along the
news of the victory. The eighteenth, moth
ing. The nineteenth nolhing-only vague
rumon were abroad, coming no one knew
whence. II was said that the Emperor waz
a Brussels. The Goth, three men in rags,
TWO wounded, and riding faded horses ail.
covered with ioam, entered the Town, and
were Instantly surrounded by the whole pop
ulatIon, and pushed into the courtyard ofthe
iown-houses. These men hardly spoke
French. They were. believe, Wesphalf
ans a, ,.l 6eloQglae somehow 70 oar amy, re
y. ard ended by coufessing that they bad
quilted the field ofbaitlc Of WaierIoo at eight
O'Clock, and that the battle was lost when
they came away. ID was the advanced guard
Of the fugitives. We would not believe
them. We said those men are Prussian spies.
NapoleOn could not be beaten. The 6ne
army which We had seen pass could not be
destroyed. We wanted 10 put the poor fell
lows into prison; soquickly had we forgotten
'l3 and IA, to remember only the years
which had gone before! Ny mother ran 10
the foTi, where she passed the whole day,
knowIngii was there the news must arrive,
whaiever i we're. During this time look
cd out IN The maps for, Waterloo. the name
Of which even could not find, aud began to
think the place was imaginary, as was the
meas account ofthe baille. Al four o'clock,
more luginves arrived, vino confirmed The
news OF the first Corners These We're French
and could give all the details which VIC ask
ed for. They repeated what the others bad
said, only adding that Napoleon aud his broth
er were Killed. Tbs We would not believe;
Napoleon might not be invincible, invulnen-
bic he certainly was. Fresh news more isf-
rible and disastrous continued 10 come in un-
III ten O'Clock al night. AT ten o'clock at
night We heard the noise Of carriage. IL
stopped. and the postmaster went out with a
light. We followed him, as be ran 10 the
door 70 ask lor news. Then he starred a step
back and cried, 1T IS the Emperor GOT
on Stone bench and looked over my moth
eI's shoulder. II was indeed Napoleon;
seated in the same corner ia the same uni
form, BIS head upon his breast as before
Perhaps IA was bent little lower; but there
was not line in his counienancc, not an
altered feature, TO marx what were the feel
ings Of the great gambler, who had Just
siaked and lost the world. jerome and
Lelort were not with him now to bow and
smile IN his pace. Jerome was gathering
together the remnants Of tho amy--Leiorl
bad been cut in two by a cannon ball. Ma
poleon hiied his head slowly, looked round
a. il rousing from dream, and then, with
his brief siudcnt voice, '.Whai place is this =
be said. VilleFs-Coierci, sire sIIou many
leagues from Soisonsir Six. sire.n aFrom
Paris.r ~Nineiecn.n "Tell the post-boys
70 20 quick !" and he once more flung him
self back into the corner Of his carriage his
head falling on his chest. The horses car
ried him away as il they had wings. The
world knows what had taken place between
these two ASPIRATIONS ofNapoleon.
O1rSomo imPudent fellow--we don't
know wHo-,hus discourscs about the