Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1843-10-14

TON. 70 sATURDAY.ncT
Thc Ronfsnce 10 tI4e Pasf, n.
We have, on our tale. The address Of thS Han
ueorge aRohertson,i delivered % the 4tkAfJuly
:laA3 at Camp Biasissoa, Ky. Ii il gsif az ;nte,
.5ssslhS historical details, fhd abounGs u wise
sevef IN going hack tclie essriy aays 81 81,
ssts 10 the trstssetseinsnts, when tiSk no III
s \. every log hutsMhea, every inlay
af:nt cultivated his field, OF worshpped his God
MID arn6 in his hands; and When .wonlSs. As
wen as man, fell as isshc too, mist sustain eycn
The studief duties OF iife.s SceScs hike a.
Ners ON full Of romantic ihcident and wild ad-
.ventssf8 md sound to ,ismcre like fcuon than,
uutps 9pc following narfafon Is che among
many refnfrod to byfsfisign Robertson. nd will
lsot fal tosintesest many U hctslt our resssrs:ss
And in sthe Blue Lick dsiea;y August the
29th, l!s2, the cormorallt Of deaSb I'D s~eed(ly
On y, the hos'eRsQf the iist fptlsrient.s DhsffiSt
IaiAest of-theif gloomy days evesTs9Nier iestA
ineAQs and nearly every family ,hrap. IA on
snes eieody keld, The Coils, Todd ata fgx, no
cn &c W Capt Harlanas ard TIE tisi5 sen
g, neene' isx qndistiredishs annon 'tAs pro-.
yesyos -Aesl <aatsSss, 50 = ussaG h sSsnSirsa
ay then friends who, three days after tha baiIic,
haired the fragments. "A few of their crlnblinr
bones. since collected By their countfyrien. ROY
lie exposed toAthc tiements, in a confused apsle.
on the summit Of the bleak and rocky suiain
where The heroes fell We cannot now. Imagine
e,s gnei3md despondence with which the Mosun-
tei intelligence ofthet days catastrophe covered
the land. But the survivors, though woi,tity b s
irsaved, We're not to DO discouraged or dis,nared.
iheywere resolved never TO look back or Ealtsr
m Their hrst and last resolve To conquer The will
aerness on die in the attempt. iSyNtfx God stood
by aud: sustained the noble aud forlorn bana4fer
thei. cause MAS his. On thu Iona rall ei that
days reported slain were the gain NJ cav Mia
had az tact been captured and, after surviving
e, me erdeel The seEptist, had been permitted to-
husband and father who, With ELEVEN other sap-
tNes, had been taken BY a tribe, painted black
W. the signal of torture and tcathto All. Thgl
night after the battle, these twelye pYSseNefs
Were stripped aud placed n llne on d ,og-- M
to.vhcm we have specially Allaacd being Ill ono
extremity of the devoted row, The e,S,Sl can.
tors then beginning II the otAer end, slauxhtSrcd
only survivor. tlil;agh hey raised hia SS a t
and drew their hinois knives 10 strike Ialos
each aplnted srrn, they .panssl, ana amer Nlany
pow -ssow srsrca HIS lifsAssel,y. Ne ntvsy kSow,
For about one YEA none oflis friends, eAsesjt
ing his faithful wife, doHhtra hfs acalh. nm,
hoping against reason, still insisted that Ne heaI
and would return 10 her. Woocd hy anothsr,I
she, nom time TO Hn,e. postponed the pa,ptisls v,
deciessNg that She could not dives, hersesf u The
BELIEF that hcthnshcnd survised. Her cNnoss,,.
lating friends finally succeeding III thsir I'M I'M
to ssiae her atfecticnate instinct, she isly
yielded, and the nrrhal day wasfxSj. BGt Inst
before II dawAed tie crack az d rife Was hdksa
near her lonely cSGn--at the familiar sonptl, She
leaped cut, like liberated, fawn, eiaculains rs
she sprang- sfkasss Jesa's gait" TWAS Johh,s.
gun sure enough; and, in, m Instant, she was
once more IN her Inst husbands arms. But, nine
years afterwards, int samc husband rell III ssSt
Giants sefeas',-.-and the same disappon,ea. I'M
.perseveaing lover, renewed his snit-and, al last,
the widow became his wife. The scene OF those
Romantic incidents was within gunshot Of ny Ia.
tai ihcmesteed,s ftN with that noble w,fS aud
. n'a'rop WAS a,yse'f We ssSsssstsas.s 4 se
aoss ias ElaEshNlA 8sg>
The following. is, copied nom Alisof,s ,des.
cripton OF the rassatr OF the bridge'of kdMno.
on the Niemen, BY the remnant al TIE Trench
army, in their resreat from the Russian territory
in 1919. sgl---st anata@9 MA pt A4A M AofE7lssss
"rhe heroic Ney s,in covered the rear When
the troops werc deiiling oyer the bridge -Four
times the rear-gaard mad melted away u:sisr lis
command, and as often his example ana activity.
III
army He arrived AT Kowuo destitute az troops,
q few hundred Of the GA Guard alone retained
the use OF their arms, and they We're already de-
tling over the river. Instantly collecting seven
hundred fresh troops, whom he found in the
town, and planting twenty four pieces ofcannon
remaining there on the redoubts, he made GOOD
the post during the whole day against the efforts
OF the enemy. On the following day he still
continued the detence but finding that his troops
i'm, has \ - !
f,e,ty, rallied thirty men to defend tie cate Of
wilma. At length, when the passage az the
troops who could be persuaded 10 move was.
completed, he slowly retired through the streets
and across the rivta, still facing the enemy. ma
was the last of the grand army who left the Rus
sian territory. FWA 8N iFtzH'sN
! The first place On athe German side of The
Nelmen where any ct the persons had gone could
rest, was Gembinnen; assI General Matthew Du-
mas, who had with great difficulty reached that
place, in consequence of a malady under which.
he had lahored ever since leaving Moscow. had
Just entered the house az french physician
where he lodged when passing there before on
his entrance into Russia, when a man entered.
wrapped up in large cloak, with long beard.
his visage biackened with gonpowder, his whis-
kers half burned BY fire, but his eyes still spark
ling with undecayed iustre. sAt'ast here ams:
What General Dumas, do you not know ne?,
No Who are you?, Il nm the rear-r,,era or
the Grand Army Marshal Ney. have fred
the last musket-shot on the bridge of Kowno: /
have thrown into the Niemcn the last of our arms:
aud have walked hither, as YOU sec me across
the torests.' With respectful solicitude. Gem
erai Dumas received the hero Of the retreat; II .
benevolent host relieved his immediate neccssi.
ties; ana he soon after set out with Dumas, in
the calash Of the latter, on the road For Eenig-A
berg sSiisB r9T ffS es
Porto BREAp.-The potato makes pleas
ton OF one third, but if one-four;h, il is still
lighter aud better, Specimens Or bread made of
barley and potatoes, aud also Of oats and pota-
toes, Were submitted to the board OF agriculture,
which promised We'll. In some cases tie potatoe
IVES not boiled, but merely rrated down into a