Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-23

legion was heard. The sudden calm was
bu. momentary. The artillery again
opened like volcano on the foe. Whole
ranks went down before the destructive
fire, yet they faltercd not for moment. -
Over their fallen comrades, with the same
steady front they moved on, across the
valley and up the slope.
Before their cool resistless charges the
English lines melted ike frostwork. They
took the last fire Of the artillery full on
their bosoms, and then walked over the
cannon, artillery men and all On, on,
Like re.istIcss wave they swept, carrying
everything down in their passage, till they
approached within few rods Of where
Wellington stood. Al seemed lost, when
q rank of men who had lain fat on their
faces behind low ridge of earth, suddenly y
heard the ringing ogder, Cup, Guards,
and at 'eml' They started up as from
the bowels Of the earth, and poured in
their destructive fire in the very faces Of
that mangled guard, They recoiled from
the discharge as if smi.ten with a euddeu
blow, A second and third fcllcwed. -
They recled and staggered moment, and
then turned and fed. The battle was
ovec. The thunder Of the first caunon
came 1T intervals on the night air, telling
where Blucher trod down the fee. Wei
lington had left to him the pursuit, and
was leading back hi, weary aud bleeding
army over TIE battlefield. The full round
moon was riding the quiet heavens, light
ming up tho manged masses of human
Aosb that weighed down the held. Here
an cpaulette - there s. shivered sword
flashed back in It's beams. Groans loaded
the air, while death shrek came at in.
teryals on the ear, Wellington wept.--
The excitement and rage was over, and
his heart sickencI at the awful scene be.
fore him.
On the surface Of two square miles it
was asccrtained that fifty thousand men
and horses were lying. The luxurious
crop Of ripe grain which Lad covered the
field of battle, was reduced to litter, and
beaten into the earth, ana the surface
troddeE down by the cavalry and fu.lcw.
ed deeply BY the cannon wheels, rewea
with many relic of tie fight, Helmets
and currasSes, shattered firearms and
broken swords all the variety of military
ornaments, lancer caps and Hi hland bon.
net', uniforms Of every color, plumes and
pcnnon, musical instruments, the appar.
otu~ OF artillery, drum,, bugles, but good
Goo ! WHY dwell on the narrowing picture
Of foughten battles Each and every ru-
inous display bore mute testimony to the
misery OF such battle. Could the mel
ancholy appearance Of tbs scene Of the
death be heightened, it would be by wit.
Messing the researches of the living, amid
its dcsolasiou, for the o jects Of the;r lcve.
Mothers, and wives, and children, for
days were occupied in that mournful duty
and the confusion Of the corpses-friend
and foe interminglcd as they were--often
rendered the attempt Of recognizing in
dviduals difficult, and sometimes i'm
possible.
In many places the dead lay four feet
Geep upon each other, marking the spot
which some British square had occupied
exposed for hours to the murderous fire Of
u French battery. Outside, lancer and
cuirassier were scattered !hiekly on the
earth. hladiy attempting to fcrce the
serried bayonets Of the British, they had
fallen in bootess essay by the musketry Of
.he inner fles, Further on you trace the
pot where the cavalry 9f France and
England had encountered chas.eur and
lussar were intermingled, and the heavy
Norman horses Of the Imperial Guard
Fere interspersed with the gay chargers
which had carried Albions chivalry-
Here the Highlander and Tiralleur ley
idc by side together and the heavy
lragoon, with green Erin S badge upon
lis h elmes was graphing in death with his
oolished lance, On tho summit of the
idge, where the ground was numbered
With the dead and trodden fetlock deep in
he mud and gore by the frequent rush of
ival cavalry, the thick'strcwn corpscs of
he Imperial Guard pointed cut the spos
Ghere Napoleon had been defeated. Here,
u column the favored corps, on whom his
asst chances rested, they had been annihi-
atcd and the advance and refuse of the
pard was traceable to a mass Of fallen
'renchmen. In the hollow below, the last
trugnle of France had been yainlv made