Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-15
oLIEH lin DIS. sep BIZ. & Is. 1876:


aha5Atahef battle of Fleurus. General Mar
ceau commanding the right wing under
Leteyre, was rfouted and forced to fail
: back. In his agony he sentslfo. Soult for
) four battallions, that be might regain his
Host position; s34as :.
3 Sou.trcfused. asss s
fl Give the IA to me, exclaimed the indig.
nant and mortified aiarceau, sor i will
blow any brains out. 4s
Soult cody replied, that to do itwould
4 endangerthe wholcdivisien. Being then.
4 mere aid-de-eamp, and unknown, his
refusahastonished Marceau, " lo as.;edIin
a rage: hs s
e'Who are gou1' m @
Whoever am, replied the ff15ertura.
bic soldier, am CAIN, which YOU are not:
do not kill yourself. and lead on your men
to the charges aud you sha Il have the
four -baitalIions as soon as we can spare
4 them. h
His advance had scarcely been given.
before the. enemy wetc upon them and
side by side, these two men ragged through
the battle like lions. After the battle
was over, Mafceau held his handto Soult,
saying s
.Colonel, forgive the past you have
thisday given me "a lesson which shall
never forget: You have, in fact gained
the battle. 'sf ia ssii asotT
This is fine illustration of Soult's char.
acter. Cool, collected, and selfreliant
the tumult battle, and the chaos of de-
teat never disturbed his perceptions or
confused his Judgment. AT Austerlitz, be
did the same thing TO Napoleon. AS b..
napaH egaye him Tie command ofthe cen
ire that day, he simply said
As for yoh, Son.t, Eihave only to say,
act as You always do. 'ssa q s.as H@
In the heat and terror, of battle, an aid.
de-eamp burst in headlongg allop into the
presence of Sault; bearing orders that he
should immediately carry the heighthi Of
Pratzen- s4 - ssss
4 will obey the Emperor's orders as
soon as Lean, replied chieftain, but this
is not proper time
+ Bona2arie was in a perfect furyfat his
answer and sent another aid .descamp
with preemptory orders, but before he had
delivered them, the proper time' had ar.
rived, and the awful column of SouIt was
/ in. motion, and the next moment his
head was. enYeloped in the smoke of can
non, and in a few minutes after, torn and
nlang.ed, appeared upon the crest of the
1 hill; where it struggled two hours for VIC
tory, and won it. Soult had delayed his
/ charge because the enemy were, extending
the lines, and thus weakening their CEN
tire. aBonaparte saw al once The reason of
his delay, aad struck with admiration
at his bshayior. soon after rode up to him
and in the presence of the whole staff ex--
Marshal, Iaccoun you the ablest tae-
tician in the empire s
1t was Soult'ss cannon that Numbered
over the grave of Sir John Moore, who
fell at Corrunna, and the noble hearted
Marshalinscribed memorial to his brave
opponent on the spot. He was in the car
mage of Waterloo, and there, on that
wild field saw the star of Bonapar;ea set
forever. ~ h
As he slowly limped to his seat, could
not gaze upon him without feelings ofthe
deepest interest On what wild scenes
that dark eye. had looked and in what
fierce fights that now aged form had NOV
led. The memories Of such man must
be terrible, and what fearful scenes lie
between him and his youth! 4 word. an
l!allusion to the victorious Bonapart. the
standards taken from the enemy; and now
dropping over the Presidents head-the
pictuee on the walls, must frequently re.
call to him those fierce battlefeids; and,
! tofgetfal of the business that is passing
round him-on his aged ear will come
the roar Of battle, on his flashing eye the
shock of armies-the wild retreat-thc
rout and victory. Among the last remain
ing props of'Napoleon's empire, he too is
fast crumbling away. He has escaped
/ the sword Of battle, but he cannot escape
the hand of Time. HeGdiy. s5--asf'
ANTIQUITIES OF WIscoEsfN-I trav-
cling over the prairies, and vieging1their
/ graceful slopes. and variegated surface.
the Imaginative mind goes back to the time
i when the primitive tribes inhabited ntbe
1 fairy region, andlis busy in peopling each
i hill and dale with the sdasky forEnssof the
lsavages who once inhabited them. 1t is
no idle fancy The impressive silence
4 ofthe prafries has ages before us, been
Z broken. by the sound ofhunana voices.
a Abundant traces are not lacking of these.
r departed nations whose existence seems
!. to US like fleeing shadows. Onsthe tops
Of these sunny hills, which excite SO much.
admiration, the observer will notice traces
of ancient tunult--degraded, perhaps, by
3 the action Of thousand storms, nearly
to the common surface. Beneath the
: sod, an intensely black soil is found--the
dust ofdeath-and here repose the ma
. tionsl 6ss ssaA