Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-03-03

speed. Our little band, howe ver could not proceed
but we're obliged to wait a more favorable moment.
At length that moment arrived, and We proceeded
on i'm silence and reached the hills
, "Mercifal heaven, what sight" exclaimed
/ Three wide and long streams of soldiers and
baggage wagons wound their way over the fields;
tie ruins of Moscow seem almost inexhaustblc, and
yet the van Of the masses lost to the eye at the
edge of the horizon. The open field was covered
to the right and left with straggIers, both horse
and foot. Larush commanded his faithful Dragons
to halt, under hill to take last view of the city
Of the Cars Far beneath the hilock, in the middle
of the thronged wagons, we could recognize the
Emperor and his suite, by their white plumcs.-
"What will be the end Of all this?" said Larusll,
looking over the mighty train; "How viii the army
be able to move with such heaps of fbaggagel My
hope that the first attack of the Cossacks will rid
Us at least Of the half of this troublesom supernu
ty. How blindly has covetousness collected this
ruinous plumber. How miserably has avarice laden
itself with burthen under which it must eventual
ly sink.'
81 shouldnot wonder ifthc Emperor ordered the
whole baggage to be burned we reach
the open fields, replied Captain Rosen.
"T'hat he wiz not do, answered Larush, "for he
viii not deprive the soldiers, who. setting peril at
defiance, have marched over two-thirds of Europe,
of their reward in this so often promised booty. Be
leve me, however, that before night-fali they will
commence discharging their ballast themselves
See those two men yonder! To judge from their
appearance they must be ofhccrs servants, and yet
they have put themselves before hand cart. drag
ging it with great difficulty. Their strength will
not last them six hours and STILL bndedby avarice.
they forget that the distance between here and
Paris is eight hundred leagues. How long win
their axles lastl When one of them breaks, who
can procure another' The artillery is hardly able
to do it. Look there. wagon is upset. do you sect
Already-half mile only from Moscow, some one
wilrbc compelled to part with what he probably in
tended to carry with him to PARISH
The wagon pointed out by Larush was overladen-
cd with booty-an axle broke, and down it came on
the road. Immediately the hle stopped-those
pressing behind crying Indignantly, Forward -
1t impossible to raise the upset cart and there
being no room to pass by one ofthe drivers behind
cried out Z" Throw that trash out OF the way" I'm
mcdiatey an irresistible force ready to obey the
sudden command. In vain the owner growled and
cursed and sroyc to defend his booty In less than
two minutes he was surrounded ON all sides, and
not only the cart pllaged of all it contained but
the horses were unharncssed the wheels taken off.
and the body ofthe vehicle broken up and thrown
asidc so that the road was once more clear. The
bowling fury of the plundcred man was drowned in
the scornfu laugh of the bystanders; troubled
his head about the matter, dreamed of aifording
assistance TO the despoiled ndi, idual, who might
consider himself fortunate that his horses were left
him.
"Ifth happs ms on the first days march, at the
very gates of Moscow" observed Larush, "what is
to be expected when an enemy threatens these
heavy ladencd masses? Yonder msrauder has saved
nothing but his pair oflean horses The others may
think themselves lucky if they save much from
the first feint attack Of half hundred Cossacks.-
The fellow now howling and cursing is the luckicsi
ofthem all for he is first relieved from his useless
drudgery. This very day he viii have abundant
opportunity laugh and scoff in his turn, perhaps
at his despoilers themselves; and before week is
over he will bless his stars that he has been saved
the proftless toll. The dferance is that he loses
to day what other will lose tomorrow and the day
after: Of all these thousands not will ultimately
profit by his booty"
ITO be Continued in our Ncrf)