The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-24
watcrloo-Before and After.

Auuh oLiRhhoH dttS Ucaubtut Gilihes wateTloo-Before and After.
 We were forcibly struck lately, (says the Knick- erbOcker) in reading Dumas Shores of the Rhine,' by this contrased picture of NapOIcon going to and YefGrniag from Waterloo The two scenes are worthy the pencil of betaroche:
 "We saw two carriages approaching, galiUpiug each with six horses. They disappeared for au instant in valley, then rose again al quarter of leagues distance from Then we set of rum ming toward the town, crying 'L'Empereur. T. Em- pereur" We arrived breathless. and only preeed- ing the Emperor by some five hundred paces. l thought he would not stop4 whatever might be the crowd awaiting him, and made for the post house, when I sunk down half-dead with the run ming; but al any rate was there. In moment appeared, turning the corner of a street, the foam ing horses then the positions all covered with ribbons; then the carriages themselves; then the people following the carriages. The carriages stopped at the post. I saw Napoleon! He was dressed in a green coat, with little epauets, and wore tine officers cross of the legion of honor. only his bust framed in the square of the caE- riage window. His head fell upon his chest-that famous metallic head Of the old Roman Emperors. His forehead feli forward; his features, immovabe. were of the yellowsh color of wax only his eyes appeared to be alive. Next him, on his left, was Prince Jerome, King without kingdom. but faithful brother. He ewas at that period fine young man of six-and-twenty thirty years of age his features regular and weilforned, his beard black, his hair elegantly arranged. He saluied in place of his brother, whose vague glance seemed lost in the future--perhaps in the past. Opposite the Empe- TOT Letort his aid ddecamp and ardent soldiers, who seemed already to snuff the air of battle; he smiling too, the poor fellow, us if he had long days to live! All this lasted for about minute. Then the whip cracked, the horses neighed, and it all disappeared like vision.
  "Three days afterward. toward evening, some people arrived from St. Quentin they said that as they away they heard cannon. The morn ing of the seventeenth courier arrived who scat tered along the road the of the victory. The | eighteenth nothing. The nineteenth nothing; only vague rumors were abroad, coming no one knew whence. It was said that the Emperor was at Brussels. The twentieth, three men in rags, two wounded, and riding jaded horses all covered with | foam, entered the town, and were instantly sur rounded by the whole population. and pushed into the courtyard of the town-house. These men hardly spoke French. They were, believe, Vest | phalians, belonging somehow to army. To all our questions they only shook their heads sadly. and ended by eoafessiag that they had quilted the field of battle of Waterloo a, eight o'clock, and that the battle was lost when they came away. IL was the advanced guard of the fugitves. We would not believe them. We said these men were Psussian spies. Napoleon could not be beaten! That fine army which we had seen pass could not be destroyed. We wanted to put the poor fefieSs into Prisoni so quickly had We forgotten 'l3 and "A. to remember the years which had gone before! My mother to the fort, where she passed the whole day, knowing it was there the must arrive, whatever it were. During this time Hook cd out in the maps for Waterloo, tho name of which even could not find, and began to think the place was imaginary. vas the mems accounts of tho battle. At four o'clock, more fugitives arrived who confirmed the of the first corners. These were French, and could give all the details which we asked for. They repeated what the others had said, only adding that Napoleon and his brother were killed This we would not believe Napoleon might not be invineible-invalaerable he certainly vas. Fresh news terrible and dis asirous continued to come in until ten o'clock at night.
 At ten o'clock at night we heard the noise of l Carriage IL stopped, and the postmaster went out with light. We followed him. as he ran to the l door to ask for news. Then he started step back, and cried, It's the Emperor 1 got on stone bench, and looked over my mothers shoulder It | was indeed NaPoleon; seated in the same corner, Tn the same uniform, his head his breast be- | fore Perhaps it was bent little lower; but there was not hne in his eounienance, not an altered | feature, 10 mark what were the feelings of the i great gambler, who had just staked and loSt the | world. Jerome and Letort were mol with him 10 | bow and smile in hts place. Jerome was gathering been cut la two by a cannon ball. Napoleon lifted his head slowly, looked round AS If rousing from dream, and then, with his brief, slrideRt voice, | What place is this1' he said, 'ViiIers-Coteret, | Sire How many leagusa from Sossons.' Six. | Sire From Pansl' Nineteen' Tell the post | hoys to go quick, and he once more flung himself back into the of the carriage, his head fell oa his chest. The horses carried him away as if | they had wings
 Tho world knows what had tAkeu place between | taese two appaFiiiOas oi Hapoleon'