Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS READING.

ANOTHER Cast" YOUNG MAS.-Last
week, Mr. Olney Walker. of Foster, (R. ~
had occasion to attend court in Providence,
leaving bis son Edward Walker. On Tues
day, Edward went to Providence, and told
his father that the house bad been broken
into the night previous, and robbed of $500.
Mr.. Walker sought the advice of officer Bill
lngs, who listened to his story and then did
not hesitate TO shock the old gentleman's
feelings by telling him that his son was pro-
badly the thief On Thursday an account of
the robbery was published, with On intima-
ton that one of the family was suspected.
On Saturday. Edward came to Providence,
put on airs, and demanded of Billings the
author of the imputations. upon the family,
that he might sue him for slander. Billings
took the buster of the youth easy, told him
he would find out if he could, and asked
him to call again in the afternoon. In the
mean time he had Walkers movements
watched from place to place. and it appear
ed that he went in for a fast time; and when
he called again in the afternoon, Billings ar
rested him, after some resistance, and search
ed him. On his person he found Colrs
revolver. loaded dirk knife, 4 gold
watch. and Sl25 in money. He then con-
fessed the robbery and was committed for ex-
animation.
MILITARY ILLUSTRATION OF FAITH.-A
we'll known divine in the course Of his SER
mon illustrated the necessity of faith with
the following historical passages:
"The soldier seldom sees the general. Wei
lington's soldiers did not see him once where
they fought twenty battles. And often
times when everything seems to the soldiers
to be fast verging toward triumphant sue
cess, the word comes from the General, Gre
treat" and they, not seeing the reason for
their withdrawal, think it folly and feel
humbled by it. Just as Sir John Moore
was apparently about to take Madrid, Napo
leon came upon him like a raging lion ; and
the moment he saw the French army in re.
verse action, he began to retreat. When
they had almost achieved glorious victory.
the soldiers were ordered, as it seemed to
them, to make an ignominious retreat: and
they were marched back, day and night, dis.
couraged and half demoralized, just in time
to escape into their ships before Napoleon
came up with an overwhelming force
Moore saw the danger, but they did not. 1t
was consumnlate stroke, and it saved
Spain. But not one in hundred of the
soldiers knew what it was The General
and the superior officers did, though"
At the last sitting of the French Academy
of Sciences, DR.. Jobert De Lamballe gave an
account ofa most singular operation perform
ed by him in the case of a soldier, named
Gustir, aged twenty-one, who had been
wounded in the Crimea. A ball had pene-
trated through his forehead. making a clear
circular opening of the size about "a one-franc
piece. The man thus struck fell down from
the parapet, a height Of seven feet, and was
taken to the nearest ambulance in state Of
insensbility, which lasted twentyfour hours.
Fight days after, he was shipped off to Con-
stantinople, where he stayed four months in
military hospital. However, he obtained
permission to return to the Crimea, although
his wound was in full suppuration. He SUBJ
sequantly fought at Traktir, and afterwards
returned to France, where he continued in
the army, but without being employed on
any active service, on account of the
state of his health, his wound still suppura-
ting as before At tlength, in February, 1857,
he entered the Hotel Dieu, and placed him.
self under the care of DR.. Jobert, who, upon
examination, found that a ball was still lodg-
ed inside his skull. This, with q variety of
precautions, was successfully extracted, and
the man is now perfectly recovered. The
ball had remained in for space Of twenty
two months.