New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-01

were between them and Berlin. He implored
the Hulans to let him ride back with this con.
firnation of his intelligence; but those honest
fellows would not have ventured the strappade
for three armies; they shook their heads, and
pulled ut his bride, pistol in hand. There was
nothing now to be done for it, but to 90 on
They reached another rising ground, and from
| it they saw the whole spectacle-the town o.
Naumdorf, with all the magazines of the Prus.
sian army, in flames I; the French cavalry gam.
boiling from fire to fire, perfectly at their ease
tossing sacks Of corn and piles of straw into the
blaae, bulging in the heads Of brandy barrel.
and beer casks with their eaYbines, and anus.
ing themselves with throwing lighted matches
| among the piles Of fagOts that were intended to
warm the bivouacs of the Prussian grenaders
Steinforth would have charged among thom will
oil his heart;' but as his force consisted but Of
Two liulans, while the enemy displayed twenty
regiments OF lancers and hussars, prudence told
him that there was no chance of his making any
very effective diversion in honor of his country
The business Of his escort was now as much to
save themselves as to keep their prisoner in safe
custody. They accordingly struck out of the
high road, wound their way through the thickets
which extend in the rear of jena, and watched
for the sound of the French bugles, as the fox
may be supposed to watch for the cry of the
hounds. But this devious route brought them
into direct contact with the very thing which
they wished to avoid. The rumbling of carriage
wheels, coming at full speed along the rough
causeway of the forest, first caught their ears
then the firing of pistols, and the tramplinq Of
cavalry in pursuit. The Hulans Z were s Der. r.
picked and as in the moment Of perplexity
every man is most flexible, Steinforth took the
command, posted his two heroes on opposite
sides of the path, and waited for fortune Just
as the carriage reached their .,,s buscade it was
overtaken by the pursuers, and brought to a
dead halt. Brandenburg Positions may be
brave i. but o dozen OF hussars are not to be
encountered without consideration. The pos
tlhon dropped the reins, next dropped on his
knees. and the capture was complete. The
French instantly threw open the doors, and
began to make themselves masters Of the Prus-
sian property within. But part Of this property
was an old female domestic; with young lady.
mantled so deeply in veil, that whether she
were Venus or a Witch of Endor, was wholly
undiscoverable. The French corporal set about
ascertaining the point in the style of his country
that is to say, with the greatest possible activity
and the least possible respect-tore off the veil,
and developed the fair trayeAr at the instant.
Steinforth had seen the seizure Of the equipage
with no small inclination to interrupt the opera
ton; but the sight of the old domestic had
cooled his ardor. The Vrow Ursula was Ger
tainly never made to create the spirit Of chyalry
in the human bosom in her best days, and now
DuIi oclIldHlS VI 0Teece himself WOutu nave
shrunk from the re-capture. But the veil
which was plucked from the countenance of the
younger member Of the party, flashed on his
mind crowd Of ideas which he felt to be per.
fectlN new. He Thought that, till that moment
he had never seen beauty in his life. OF course
an officer of the Tiger Regiment-dancing a
hundred quadrilles a week at the court balls
welcomed as one Of the supreme bon ton in every
saloon of Berlin, and looked upon by all the
hnlas vn,,nr old 49,. Il .
being almost Of another sphere, dancing demi
god-lnust have seen all that was lovely in
Prussia, and been in love with it thousand
times. This was, all true, and yet, his impress
sion at that instant was, that he had never seen
real loveliness, nor ever been in real love before
The corporal proceeded to take off the lady's
necklace; she gave sudden scream, and fixed
her eye at that moment upon the spot where
Steinforth was eagerly gazing from among the
bushes. That glance alone was a call, if he had
wanted one; but he wanted nothing, but to
make a single bound on the French corporal. It
was done, with a roar like a reused wolf; he
gave his horse the spur, made a single spring,
and rode over the unlucky Gaul. His two HUI
lans rushed out after him. The day had scarcely
dawned, the wood was dark, the attack was a
surprise; and the enemy, after few sabre
thrusts, were glad to choose the better part of
yal0r, and turned their horses heads as far
them. A couple of heroes wounded on the
ground, and three horses, two Of them loaded
with the plunder of some other foray, were the
trophies. The Hulans were indignant at the
escape of the marauders, and swearing by their
sabrcs, that they would ask no better service
than lighting such miscreants for year toge-
ther. proceeded to sack the carriage as one of
the legitimate spoils Of the field. This applica-
tion of their principle, however, found check in
the fiat Of Steinforth's sword; the Hulans were
forced to be content with the horses, and hand
some packet Of rix-dollars which the routed ene-
my had slowed away craftily in the stuffing of
one of the saddles The lady, all thanks and
terror, was re-seated in her vehicle; the postil-
lion remounted, and the whole party moved for
ward, at the pace natural to those who ex-
pected, or saw, in every bush an officer" and
of a pursuing park Of artillery.
Before they had emerged from the forest, or
the sun had shown his cheering face above the
horizon, the young adjutant and the re-captured
lady had made still more rapid advance in
that confidence, which, determined to conceal
every thing, proceeds to reveal all. Steinforth
was handsome fellow, and in Berlin had a
hundred times boon inclined to pronounce him
self irresistible; but the prestige had vanished
on the present occasion, in degree inconcieya-
BILE by any hussar brigade in the service; his
tuency of tongue deserted him with his good
opinion of his charms he talked, and dropped
into sudden silence; he felt his face glow, and
was ashamed of his rusticity; all topics seemed
to fail him; every subject seemed to slip from
him like snake. In fact, he felt that he had
become in q moment the most tiresome, COM
mon-place, and ridiculous parsonage in the
world
This lady might be of the same Judgment
but, as he rode occasionally ahead Of the car
riage, or spurred to the rear, looking out for
the return of the Frenchmen, her bright eyes GER
tainly never indulged themselves in the re-
sources of slumber; and when at intervals he
galloped up to the side at which she sat, and
made another abortive attempt at beguiling the
way by the topics of the court or camp, there
can be no question that her color deepened, her
bright eyes glanced more brightly, and she
waited with the most extraordinary complacency
for the completion Of his tardy periods
There are in this world, notoriously, two
kinds of the tender passion: one of them which
exhibits q remarkable tenderness for oneself il
all the shapes Of comfort, appetite and indul
gence. This is the love Of the magnitiou,
French beau; who would not be a supper tn,
less for all the Helens that ever set the world a
war; who, in the utmost rapture of the bell
passion, thinks of his dinner, and who make
the quality Of the champagne criterion of til,
constancy of his glowing soul And this is tn,
love which carries the question Of the heart b,
a majority Of nine hundred and ninety-nine ii
every thousand But there is another Kind n