The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-11-03
Orlsiu OF The MarSrilleS HYMN.

roM"'"s, just published in Paris gives tn
'"''ow'ngaccount the origin of,he Frcncl
national air The Marscllcs:'
inthe garrison of Strasburg was quarter
c" young artillery officer, Rouget dc Lislc
native OF Louis lc Snulnicr in the Juro
lie had great taste for music and no.,rv
anu often entertained his Comrades durin,
.he'r long and tedious hours in garrison
sought alter Tor his musical and poctical ia
| eh',hc was lequ"nt aud familiar gues, n
inc house ot one Dietrich, an Alsatian pa
tlIo1, Mayor OF Strasburg. The winter o.
l|92 was period Of great scarcity at S,ras
ourS. The house of Dietrich was poor. his
table was frugal, but seat was ALWAYS on.
en- to Ronget dc Lisle. One dav when
there was nothing but bread on the table
Dietrich regarding the young officer said
|" nm: with ii sad serenity, "Abuntiance fail
at our boards but what matters that if on.
'n"Sasm fail not 1T our civil tcfcs nor cour-
age Ill the hearts of our soIdicrs7 ] have
S,'ii last bottle of wine in my CELLAR
iorlng IT. said he to one Of his daughters
"'nd let us drink for France and liberty
Strasbnrg should soon have its patriotic so.
iemnIty. De Lis!e must draw from these
last drops one of these hymns which raise
the soul OF the people," The wine was
brought and drank, after which the officer
departed. The night was cold. De L,sle
was thoughtful. His heart was moved. his
head was heated. Hc returned Staggering
to his room and slowly sought inspiration,
sometimes in the fcrvcr of his citizen soul.
and anon on the keys Of his instrument
composing now the air before the words and
and then the words before the air
f1e sang all and wrote nothing, and at last
exhausted, feii asleep with his head resting
on MS instrument, and awoxe not until day-
oreak. The music of the. night returned to
ms mind like the impression of drcc
re wrote i ard a & my,yif' winter e ietuces
lhe wife and daughters of the old man were
not yet up. Dietrich awoke them and cal.
led IN some friends, all as passionate as him
self for music and able TO execute the com.
position Of De Lisle At the first verse
cheeks grow pale; at the second tears flow
ed f.; and at the last delrium burst forth
The wife OF Dietrich, his daughters, himself
and the young officer threw themselves in
TO each others arms and crying. The hymn
81 the country was found. Executed some
lew days afterwards in Strasburg, the new
song flew from city to city and was played
by all the popular orchcstras. Marseilles
adopted 1t to be sung at the commencement
ot sIttings oflts clubs; and the MarseIlai-
'es spread it through France, singing it
,l'.ng the public roads From this came
he name Of MarseiIIase.' :.
THE CHoLERA.-Wc regret to announce
hat this dreadful scourge is making its ap
'earance in different parts Of Europe and
ASIA. Its course is creating alarm with |
hose who have watched its progress from |
he plains Of Scinde toward Western Eu-
ope About Eighteen months since it ra-
aged the banks Of the Indus with frightful |
severity, inhiciing serious loss upon the !
British troops at Kurrachee and Hydcradad. |
About the same time it ragged in AGghani-
tan spread thence into Persia, which it
raversed from east to west, spreading to
he northwa-d into Tartary and south
vardly in;o Turkish Kurdistan and the
'achalic of Bagdad. Early in the present
'ear 1t made lis appearance to the west of
ne Caucasian mountains, and committed
,rea. ravagcs in the Russian army acting
gainst the Clrcassians; and we Just now
earn OF lis re.appea'ance in Europe, ha-
ing broken out at Taganrog, Indianapolis,
md other ports on the westernly shores Of
he Sea Of Azof, Kief SmoIensk, Riga,
IifRis, Kars, Kon,ias. and Trebizond-
Great alarm is felt at Warsaw, where the
were preparing hospitals. On
board the Peninsula and Oriental Compa.
iy's steamer Sultan, Captain Brooks, on her
ate voyage from Consla n,lnople, several
'ases had broken out, in consequence of
which she had been ordered by the health
authorities at the latter port to Princes Is
and to ride out her quarantine of ten days.
The Tiger will therefore be despatched to
Malta in her stead, to carry home the India
bulky mails and passengers. AS in its
ormer progresss towards Europe, in the
1ears 1880 and 1881. the general course of
he pestilence has been nearly due North.
west and it seems, so far, tc have travelled
1t about the same rate as on that occasion.
In 1881 1t made its appearance on the