The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-02-23

gwen. She had been compelled TO fly
from the palace by the approach of the
enemy after the fatal day of Jena. and
Though hundred difficulties had taken
refuge ut Lubec, from which she was about
to run into Denmark within the next five
minutes.
Stienforth had then his story to tell.
which closed in his bringing General Won
Roller from his chamber, placing him in
the care of his lovely and terrified dauch
tire, and seeing them through the gates Oh
their way to place of safety. The look
which Julina gave him at parting would
have been worth his dying at her feet
But this was no time for such induIgences.
The sound of French drums advancing to
the attack, and the roar of the Prussian
artillery III the return, tore him from the
spot where he would willingly have
fingered for month, or for ever; and after
one long gaze in the direction of the fyinr
equpagc, he returned sadly to do his duty
and be shot. lie never felt his warlike
enthusiasm at so low an cbb in his life, nor
the dream of love and cottage so temp.-
mS. But the storm now ragged anew;
blood, fire and bayonets were all that met
his eye for the next six hours, and the
evening foud him with two sabre wounds
and Il prisoner; Toy the general capitu'atiou
ot the army. Thcpursuit of n mistress is
out OF the question when man has
marched three hundred miles in the op-
poslte longitude; and by the time that the
tar Jallana might be supposed TO have
reached llolstcin, Steinforh was Oh his
melancholy way to the general depot of
German prisoners, Maycncc. In three
months after, the forced submission of his
unhappy country was pronounced to be
"lcacc with Pru sa,' AID lie, with tw,nty
thousand other sons of i'll luck, was let
loose to return, and strive, if he liked it.
\ French officer, to whom he had once
rendered some civilitics at the Prussian
court, invited him to accompany him to
Paris, and see so much of the "Grande
Homdc," before throwing himself into the
Nrckcr Or the Rhine. He accepted the
offer, and on the first evening of his set
ting foot IN that emporium of all the plea
sur"S, was gazing at the crowd of equip
ages which carried all the fair and fash.
ionabIe of Paris to the grand opera; when
hIS eye GLANCED upon one vision faircr to
his ideas than that could he furnished bv
lalis or the world beside. In stately
with han officer covered with orders face to
face. lie instantly vowed the death Of
his rival or of himself, but his bcligcrent
rropcnsitics were cooled, on discovering
by the blaze of the opera portico, as they
alightcd, that his rival was no other than
then General Stcinforth too, had been
recognized. Won Kollcr had forgotten
every thing, but his thanks for the affair
at Lubcc; and the lovely Juliana, after u
few attempts to say something congratula-
tory, and IA total failure, began to post
Ponc the delight of hearing CataIant for
that evening, and return at once to their
hotel for the simple purpose of hearing
the last news from Prussia.
But were they married, as Voltaire us
cd to ask when he heard of any of his ac-
quantances complaining of their peculiar
i'll luck. That question cannot answer.
| leave it among the secrets of the world
romance. As the Pclsians close their
eplstlcS; "lf am mistaken, am mistak-
en- and the sun is not golden, not the
moon siIvcry-What can say more? 2"