The Arkansas banner., 1847-01-27
LITTLE ROCK. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27 Is47

wishout the walls. The bivouan kres sissd . lHrid light over the fsld, and he cane at every step upon heaps of corpscs. while groans and lamentations issued from she gloom tn every direction; for lhorsands of wounded, uncovered aud anburrir,l. lay ex- posed to sl.a storm, dragging out she weary night in pain. Early in the morning, Ma poieon was m horseback, and rode out so the army. Taking his place beside huge fire that was blazing and crackling tn the centre Of lie Old Guard, he issaesl his orders fog the day. Victor was on the right; the reslstlese Ney on she Icfi, over the Young Guard, while St Cyr and Marmoas were in the centre, which Napoleon commanded in pcrson.
 The rain still fell in torren,s, and shc thick mist shroudcd the field as if to shat out the ghasily spectacle its bosom exhibited. The cannonading soon commenced, but with h. tie effect, as the misis coaccased the argnics from each other. 4 hundred and sixty tlsousauu of the allics. stretched ia1 a haae semicircle along the heights, while Napoleon, with hundred and thirty thoasaiHi n a plan below, was waiting the favorable mo- ment in which to commence the attack, At length the battle opened on the right. where fierce firing was heardas Victor pres sed firmly against an Austrian battery. Sud- denly, Napoleon heard shock like falling mountain. Whhe Victor was engaging the enemy in front, Mmrat, unperce5veh in the thick mist, had stolen around to the rear, and without note of warning, burs, with twelve thousand cavalry on the enemy. He rode straight through their broken lines trampll1g under foo, the dead and dying Ney was equally successful on the Jeff. and as the mist lifted, iI showed the allied wings boeh driven back. The day wore away in biootl-earts, loaded with wounded. moved m constant stream in the city; but the French were victorious at all points, and wheu nigh. again closed over the scene the allied armies had decided to reneat
 TIE BOUNDARY OF TExAs.-NiIes' Re- gister of Aug. l7, 1877, (vol. 10, ?. 402, } contains extacis from memorial, addressed 10 the Spanish 'Cortes in 1915, before Mexi- co declared her independence, in reference to Coahuila, Texas, and the adjacent coun- tries, by Don N. R dc Arispe, Spaniard, who visited these parts. He states express ly that Coahuila (which then included Chi haahua) IS separated from Texas hy the Rio GFande del Norsc, commonly called the Rio Grande- Also, that the Government. of Tex as, &e-, under Spain, was entirely distinct from the Vice Royalty of Mexico, Texas not being deemed a part of Mexico.
 This document, connected with other known facts, will serve to show: I. Thai the Rio GFande was the boundary of Texas. ?. Tha, in lS36, the date Of Texan indepen- dence, Spain not having acknowledged the independence of either Mexico or Texas, neither could trace its title to Spain, bu, both held sovereignty by the same fiue.yaat sF the successful efforts of the people. ,. That, Spain. in acknowledging tho independence of Mexico, in l839, did not give her any ti,le to Texas, because Texas was no, par, under Spain, of the Territory whose lnde- pendence was thus acknowledged. 4. Spain having subsequently acknowledged the ln,e- pcndence of Texas, that State, in lS45, held her Independence by the same rights as Mex ico, viz: the successful resolve of the people. and the acknowledgement of the power to which 1t originally beloage1.
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