The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-10-02

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OF those wild horsemen with frightful rapid /
iiy, and streWjng the earth with the bodies
Of abe EiderS and sieeds together. Again
& again did those splendid squadrons wheel
Fe>foFn ard charge With deafening shouts,
while their uplifted and managing scimetars
CLEANED like q forest Of STEEL through The
smoke Of battle; but the same wasting Ere
receiving them. Those squares seemed
bound by a girdle Of fame, 80 rapid. and
constant we're the discharges. Before their
certain and deadly aim, as they stood 6ght.
ing for existence. the charging squadrons fell
% faAtthat . rampant Of dead bodies was
soon formed around them. Behind this en-
bankment Of dead men and horses, this band
OfWarrioIs stood and fought for six dreadful
hours, and was still thinning the ranks Of
the enemy, when Napoleon debOuched with
single division on Mount Tabor, and
turned bis eyes below. What scene met
his gaze. The whole plain was filed march
ing columns and charging squadrOns Of wild
] y galloping stedds, while the thunder of cam
non and fierce rattle Of musketry, amid which
now and then was heard the blast Of thou.
sands OftFumpets, and trains Of martial music
hlled the air. The smoke Of the battle was
rolling Guriously over the host, and all was
confusion and chaos in bis sight. Amid the
twenty seven Thousand Turks that crowded
the plain aud enveloped the enemy like
clond. and amid the incessant discharge OF
artillery and musketry, Napoleon could tell
where his own brave troops were struggling
only by the steady simultaneous vollies which
showed where disciplin was contending with
the wild Valor of overpowering numbers.
The constant flashes from behind that RAM
part of dead bodies were like spots of fame
on the tumultuous and chaotic field. NapO-
leon descended from Mount Tabor with his
little band, while a single twelve FOUNDER
fred from the heights, told the weared
Kleber that he was rushing to the rescue.
Thrown into confusion and tramPled under
foot, that mighty army rolled turbulenllY
back towards the JO1dan, where Murat was
anxiOusly waiting to mingle in The fight
Dashing with his cavalry among the disor
Gered ranks, he sabred them down withou
mercy nd-raged like alion enid the prey
: The chiValric and romantic warrior declares
that emembrance Of the scenes tina
, once iranepired on Mount Tabor. and OF
these thrice consecTated spots came 10 hin
in the hote of the fight and nerVed hin
with tentOld courage.
;. As the sun went down over the plains d
Palestine, and twilight shed its dim ray OVeI
the rent and tFOdden and dead .coverd field
! a sui phurOus cloud hung around the summit
i, Of Mount Tabor. The smoke Of battle haC
~ settled down there where once the cloud O
n glory rested, while gToans and shrleks anC
= cries rent the air. Nazareth, Jordan, anC
: Mount Tabor what spots for battle field
/. Roll back twenty centuries and agair
- view that hill. The day is bright and beau
"a tiful as then, and the same rich oriental land
If scape Is smiling in the same sun. There j
Il Nazareth with its busy pOPulation-th'
!. same Nazareth from which KlebeI marches
81 his army: and there is Jordan rolling it
is bright wateIs along, same Jordan alonI
m whose banks charged tho slittcring squad
Is rOns Of Murat's cavalry: and there is Noun
"a TaboI,-the same on which BOnapart stoo
;, with his cannon: and the same beutifu
>, plain where rolled the smoke Of battle, an
n. struggled thirty thousand men in mort'
80 combat. But how different is the scene thu
.. is passing here. The son of God stands Q
that height and casts his eye over the quiz
Is. valley, through which Jordan winds its 81
ne yer current. Three friends are beside HiI
by they have walked together up the toilsOH
Nv way, and now the four stand, mere specI
on the distant summit But the gloriol
rm landscape al their feet is forgotten in a su
it'll lime scene that ID passing before theI
ar The son Of Mary-tbe carpenter of Nazate
he the wanderer with whom they have a
his and drank, and travelled on foot fol maj
w. a weary league, in all the intimacy Of col
to paniOns and friends, begins to change befo
lrt. their eyes.-over his soiled and coarse &;
the ments is spreading a strange light, stead
bic Frightening into intenseT beauty, I
eth that form gIOws with such splendOr Il
had it seems to waveF to and fro and dissolve
iers the still radiance. The three aslOnish
1 Of friends gaze on il in speechless admiratit
arr then turn 10 familiar face. But 10! e.,
cen ter change hes passed over it. The man
len put on the God, and that sad solemn &
lghl which has been % often STOPPING over
,ch. couch Of the dying, and entering Che hul