The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-10-23
WATERLOO THE DAY AFTER THE


On surface of two square miles, it was ascer-
| tanned that fifty thousand and horses were
lying! The luxurious crop Of ripe grain which
had covered the field of battle, was reduced to
litter, and beaten into the earth; and the surface
trodden by the cavalry and furrowed deeply by
the cannon wheels, strewcd with many reict of
the fight. Helmets and cuirasses shattered fire
and broken swords al. the variety Of military
ornaments, lancer caps and Highland bonnets; uni
forms of every color, plume and pennon; musical
Instruments; the apparatus of artillery, drums,
buge; but, good God! why dwell on the harrow
ing picture of foughten field? each and every
ruinous display bore mute testimony to the misery
of such battle Could the melancholy
appearance of this scene of death be heightened, it
would be by witnessing the researches Of the liv-
ing, amid its desolaton, for the objects Of their
love. Mothers, and wives, and children, for days
were occupied in that mournful duty; and the con-
fusion of the corpse-frends and foes intermn-
ged as they were--oftcn rendered the attempt at
recognizing individuals difficult, and in some cases
impossible. In many places the dead
lay four deep upon each other, marking the spot
some British square had occupied, exposed for
hours to the murderous fire Of French battery
Outside lancer and cuirasser were scattered thick
ly on the earth Madly attempting to force the
serried bayonets of the British they had fallen in
the bootless essay by the musketry of the inner
files. Farther on, you trace the spot where the
cavalry of France and England had encountered;
chasseur and hussar were intermingled; and the
heavy Norman horse of the Imperial Guard were
interspersed with the gray chargers which had
carried Albyn's chivalry Here the Highlander
and traileur lay, side by side, together; and the
heavy dragoon, with green Erin's badge upon his
helmet, graphing in death with the Polish
lancer On the summit of the ridge, where
the ground was numbered with the dead, and trod-
den fetlock deep in mud aud gore by the frequent
rush of rival cavalry the thick -strewn corpses of
the Imperial Guard, pointed out the spot where
Napoleon had been defeated. Here in column,
that favored corps, whom his last chances
rested, had been annihilated; and the advance and
repulse of the Guard was traceable by a mass of
fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow below, the last
struggle of France had been vainly made for there
the Old Guard attempted to meet the British and
afford time to their disorganized companies to rally.
YANKEE JEwELRY.-"I came through Lynn,
Boston, etc, to the little manufacturing village
called n. E. Village, and learned something about
making the bogus jewelry with which the country
is flooded either by pedlers or gift book enterprise
One company is making ear-drops of compost
ton called orede, which will sell for gold but is
not worth as much as brass. The other company
is manufacturing gold chains out of German silver,
brass, or oreide. The process of making was in
terestng Inc, and may be to others. I'll give il:
The links are cut from wire or plate, according to
the kind of chain; sometimes soldered before put
ting into a CHAIN and sometimes afterward. After
it is linked, it is drawn through machine to even
it-boiled in vitriol water to take off the scales
caused by heating-drawn through limbering
machine, and dipped in acid, to clean it, after
which it is dipped in solution of pure silver, and
finally dipped in gold coloring-maklng chain
which they sell at the rate of S12 to SlS per do
zen. This is gift enterprise jeweiry, which is
marked "Lady s splendid gold chain, sl2," ''Gent's
guard chain, s8," or t'sl9," etc. The ear drops
cost less, and are often marked higher"
These items come from the pen of correspon-
dent to the New Hampshire Journal of Agricul-
ture, and may be regarded as truthful statement