The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-16
L1IS0IALLILANlS
MARIE, THE MURDERER.
AN INCIDENT ~ REAL LIFE.

During tha, disastrous period of Napo
leon's career, known as the Hundred days,
portion of the Province of Morban II
Brllang rose in arms, and battle tool
place near Auray, between the insurgenl'
and skirmishing parties, who were usually
designated The 'B}ues' The affair was Sc
minute spark Of civil war; that it deserted
no mention in history yet ii cost the lives
OF some hundreds OF men whose bIoOd was
poured ou, like water 10 iAe trenches ol
the deep and sunken roads which traverse
that peculiar country. |! was in those
trenches tha, mos, Of the bodies were found
and the magistrate whose duty it was tc
clear The field Of battle after the fight, ex-
claimed, with a sor. of barbdrous nalvette
.thal it looked like the end of a harvest
iroIc, where the men we're sleeping of
their Grunkeness.'
Oo the second day after The battle, Jus
at thc grey Of the morning, a young peas
ant girl with sickle on her arm, took her
way to her usual daily labor in the fiels
Al she proceeded slowly along the road
she looked curiously around upon the tree,
pierced with bullets, the hedges torn and
broken, and he ground beaten and IrampIec
by as many feet. For great distance, lhe
road was Utterly slrewn with buttons, bis
of braided worsled, the remains Of epau.
letles, carlouch boxes, fragments OF BrlIon
caps, pierced bv balls or bayoneis, pIashes
Of half CONCEALED blood, all the horrible In
dica,ions of fierce and recent conflict. But
the bodies of The slain had already dlsap"
2eared During the night the peasants had
given them christian burial, and the wo-
men had traversed the battle ground with
sacks upon their shoulders, alternately des-
po.ing dead enemy, and offering up pray
ers for lost friend. Mach rich booty had
been Obtained and to judge hy the Pre"oc-
cnped manner Of The peasant girl, as shf
scru,irized The lhickets on b1h sides Of ,ht
road, size was not without expectation o
cleaning some remnants OF the PIunder'
Blu, her hopes seemed to grow fainter as
she oroceeded. and ss she reached wldt
marsh, ovcrgrown with thick brush wooC
she quckened her pace, when she was star
tied by sudden movemen. among mt
rusbes that bordered the mOrass Amo5
a, the same inslan. the Clsshing OF lror
struck upon her ear, the point Of a bayo'
net appeared giuering in the foliage and
bIoodslaned figure leebIy and painfully
dragged itself forth from lis lurking place
in ,he marsh. The girl stopped, she utter
ed not ,he slightest sound, bu! she hell
with frmer grasp the handle of her sick
ie. The mpIoring gestures of The wonL
ded man, together with few words which
he uttered in The language Of tie country
seemed TO excite her interest, and she 0p'
proached few steps towards him. He hac
bv this time succeeded by the aid Of hi
gun, in rising to his knee and the girl dis
covered by hio bio jacket and the device Of
his buttons, ,ha, he belonged to ons o
those compahies of marines who had Tough
so vtIoDuy a, Tue battle Of Auray' ifs sh
nausej with an air of ndecsion, the woun
Ied man enuCaled her to approach, aud it
order to assure her thai he had no power
even # he possessed the will 10 modest her