Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-11-07

English lines had melted like frost work.
They took the last fre Of the artillery full
on their bosoms, ard then walked over the
cannon, artillery men aud all On, on, Ike
resislless wave they swept. carrying ev-
erything down ia their passage, I'LL iAey
approached within a few rods OF where
Wellington stood. An seemed lost, whea
a rank Of naen who had lxin Hat on theie
faces behind low ridge OF earth, suddenly
heard the order, /" Up Guards, and nj 'eE,"
They started up as from the bowels Of the
earth, and poured in ilseir destructive Gre
in the very faces OF that msnglcd guard.
They recoiled from the discharge as il
sInitten with sadden blow. A second and
third ftlsowed. They resied aad staggered
monseat ard then turned and hed. Tha
battle was over. The thunder OF first can
non came ut intervals on the night mir tell
ing where Blucher trod down the foe.
Wellington had left to him the pursuit, and
was leading back his weary and kleediag
army over the battle, field. The fall round
moon was riding the quiet heavens, light
ing up the mangled masses Of human flesh
that weighed down the battlefield. Groans
loaded the SIR, while death shrek came at
intervals on the ear. Wellington wept.--
The excitement aad rage was ever, and his
heart sickened at the a~ful scene be4ncs
him.
On the surface of two square miles i
was aseertsined that fifty thousand men aud
horses we're lying. The luxurisut crop Of
ripe grain which had covered the field Of
battle, was reduced to litter, and beaten
into the EARTH and the surface trodden
down by the cavalry, and furrowed deeply
by the cannon wheels, strewed with many
a relic Of the fight Helmets and cairasses,
shattered firearms and broken swords, all
the variety of military ornaments, lancer
caps and HIGHLAND bonnets, uniforms IF ev-
cry color, plumes and penaon, musical in-
struments, the apparatus OF artillery, drums,
bugles, but good God why dwell on the
narrowing scene Of fought battles leach
and every ruinous display bore mute testi-
mony to the misery of such battle.
In many places the dead lay four feet
deep upon each other, marking the spot
which some British square had occupied
| sa1 Co. bo,r, -, tba ,,,r1., ,.of
a French battery. Outside, lancer and
cusrassier were scattered thickly on the
earth. Madly attempting to force the se-
ried bayonets of the British, they had fallen
in bootless essay by the musketry Of the in
ner files. Further on you trace the spot
where the cavalry of France and England
had encountered; chasseur and hussar were
ntermingled, and the heavy Norman horses
of the Imperial Guard were interspersed
with the gay charges which had carried
Albion's chivalry. Here the Highlander
and Tiraleur lay side by side together;
and the heavy dragon, with green Erin's
badge upon his helmet, was graphing in
death with his polished lance. On the sum-
NIT of the ridge, where the ground was
crumbled with the dead, and rodden felt-
lock deep in the mud and gore by the FREE
quent rush of rival cavalry. the thick strewn
corpses of the Imperial Guard pointed out
the spot where Napoleon had been defeated.
! Here, in column the favored corps, on
whom his last chance rested, they had been
annihilated; and the advance and repulse
Of the guard was traceable to mass of
fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow below,
the last struggle of France had been vain
ly made for there the Old Guard attempt-
to meet the British and afford time for
their disorganized companies to rally.