The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-16
LIIS0LaLLLlAN Nl&OU'So
MARIE, THE MURDERER.
AN INCIDENT ~ REAL LIFE.

During that disastrous period of Napo
Icons career, known as the Hundred days,
b portion Of the Province OF Morban II
Bhuang rose in arms, and a battle took
pqcc near Auray, between the insurgents
sad skirmishing parties, who were usually
de.gnaled The Blues The affair was 50
pinue a spark Of civil war, thai 1t deserted
no mention in history ye! it cos, the lives
of some hundreds OF men whose blODd was
soured out like water in Ihe trenches Of
,he deep and sunken roads which traverse
,hal peculiar country. 1t was in those
henches that mos: Of the bodies were found
md the magistrate whose duty it was to
clc'r The field Of battle after The fight, ex-
cl,imed with sort Of barblrous naiveWe.
ph4, it l1oked like the end of 4 harvest
ho'r, where the men we're sleeping of
q cir Irunkeness.'
% the second day after the battle, JUS
81 Jhe grey Of the morning, a young peas
an girl, with a sickle on her arm, took her
Way to her usual daily labor in the fields
Az she proceeded slowly along the road
she looked Curiously around upon me trees
plerced with bullets, the hedges torn and
broken. and the ground beaten and rampIeo
bs as many feet For great distance, the
road was Utterly s'rewn With buttons, bits
Of braided worsed, the remains Of epau-
leues, cartouch boxes, fragments of BrlIon
Cps, pierced bv balls or bayone's, pIashe-
oI I,lt congealed blood, all the horrible in-
diealions of a fierce and recent conflict. But
,he bodies of lhe slain had already disap-
Scared During the nigh. the peasants had
piyen them a christian burial, and the wo-
men had Irayersed the battle ground with
sacks upon their shoulders, alternately des-
polling dead enemy, and offering up pray
ers for lost friend. Mach rich booty had
been Obtained, aud to Judge by The pre"oc'
cupred manner OF he peasant girl, as she
scfuurized the Ihckets on b1'h sides ol Ne
load, she was no. without expectation O.
eeaaing some remnants of the pIOnder'
Bu, her hopes seemed to gro" 'aln'er a.
she proceeded, and as she reached a wId'
narsh, overgrown with thick brush woo'
she quickened her pace, when she was s'ar'
ied by sudden movement among M'
PUSHES that bordered the morass AImos
d, the same instant the clashing oil iro'
snuck upon her ear, the point Of bayo
net appeared gliuerng in the foliage and
bIoodslaned figure (cebly and painfully
Gagged itself forth from its lurking place
IN ,he marsh, The girl stopped she utter
sG not he slightest sound, but she heI'
with a 6rmef grasp the handle of her SICK
Sc. The mporng gestures Of the wont
bed man, together with few words whlcl
BE uttered in the language of he country
Seemed to excite her interest, and she sp
proaehed few steps towards him. He hat
hv This lime succeeded by the aid OF hi
gun, in rising to his knee and the girl dis
covered by his 5lu JACKIE, and 'he device o
IBIS buttons, lhal he belonged TO one
those comparies Of marines who had tough
so vthsnty a. ,he battle Of Auray. ifs sn
paused Wlih an air of indeCislon, the wour
ded man euwea,ed her to approach, and
order to assure her taaI he had no powe
even If he possessed 'he will to moIos' he