, 1865-01-13

alone am leauef lnftnlS war, we must e en- ny
for it. Annette" she added, TO the domestic,
"detain them below as long as possible"
With a rapid step the Duchess led the way to
the upper story flight after fight of lofty stairs
they ascended, until they reached a small cham
Der. The party looked at its narrow dimensions,
as seeing no way of escape. At sign from the
Duchess the young officer pushed aside the iron
back of the chimney, while the noise below
showed that the soldiers were already in pos
session of the mansion. The aperture thus
opened disclosed a small closet under the caves.
ENTER, said the Duchess, as all waited for
her to precede, ~ have brought you into peril,
l must see my little train safe, ere provide for
myself
AS there was no time for ceremony, they
passed beioI- her through the narrow gate Of
safety, aud as the Duchess drew back the plate
their enemies were upon them.
Their situation was uncomfortable enough;
and as workmen were sounding adjacent build
ngs, plaster and dust fell upon them continu-
ally. Although almost without hope, the Ouch
ess seemed amused at the vain attempts made to
discover her retreat. Meanwhile the search was
prosecuted with rigor; every apartment was ex-
amined, workmen sounded the walls and guards
were stationed at every door. The fact of an
open letter being found rendered it certain to
the commander that the Duchess was there, and
the diligence of his search made each moment
the danger of detection greater.
The continued jar on the walls threw the dust
in showers over the little band who impris-
oned in a nook scarcely six feet high, had hardly
room to stand.
AS day declined two sentinels were posted in
the apartment adjoining their retreat whose
marks awoke the merriment that ever slumbered
in the heaft of the Duchess and in spite of her
situation she often laughed outright. As night
came on the soldiers complained of the cold,
and to the horror of the prisoners proposed
lighting aaire. quantity of pamphlets sup
piled them with material and soon a cracking
blaze glOwed through the pannel which screened
their retreat. The situation of the Duchess
rendered intolerable. Hungry and
weary, she had borne up hitherto with a good
courage; but the smoke suffocating her and the
panel against which she stood becoming nearly
red hot, tears ofpride and anguish started down
her cheeks and were instantly dried by the in
tense heat.
Madam, this is insupportable, f." said General
Labree, ''your grace had better yield than die p
"NO, cannot" she replied while with her
hands she extinguished her burning dress In
the attempt the iron plate swung partly back
and was with difficulty closed again, but not
without arOusing the gems d Grmes.
at is in vain" she cried, as the aid=de-camp
pushed aside the panel 81 am the Duchess;
do not hurt me, said the fugitive" and they
yielded themselves to the guard.
As she stood before the soldiers, one could
hardly recognize the noble woman of few
days ago. Her dark locks singed by The fire,
dress burned and soiled, while deep traces of
sorrow on her wasted countenance showed how
great was the conflict within.
In obedience to her request she was taken in
stantly to The General, who received her with
the respect due to her birth and character.
General" said she, as she took his arm
while leaving her last place of refuge, 'you had
not overcome me, hads't thou not made war up
me after the fashion of st. Lawrences mar
tyrdom."
Crowds assembled as the royal fugitive passed
through the long line of soldiery on her way to
the dreary imprisonment which awaited her,
from which, after'months of hope deferred she
alone was liberated through the powerful inter-
cession of Austria and Prussia and years after,
in her Castle of Arnheim, she beguiled her de-
lighted audience by relating her trials when she
passed through France lonely fugitive.
FIGHTNe MATERIAL AT THE SoUTH.-The
Mobile Tribune of late date thus speaks of the
number of bellgerents the South can bring into
the field -
How many men has the Confederacy under
arms This is question that is asked almost
hourly. There can be no definite answer to it;
but if one sets them down, of all arms, at 3OO,-
000 the figures will cover the whole number
How many are indirectly engage in the public
service is equally uncertain but let US put this
down at 100000, not including negroes, and we
have sum total of 500, ,OOO
Let US now try to discover how many white
men the Confederacy ought to be able to have
for this work of saving the country and them
selves. We have before us the United States
census of 1860, and may with confidence make
that a reliable premise. The nine States that
the enemy can lay no claim to had in 1860
white population of 4,4lO, ,984. From this we
omit Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri,
and Tennessee, with an aggregate population of
1895, ,727 But we shall place Arkansas with
the South, and we give half the population Of
the four other States as the measure of our cal
culaton of the soldiers which they have yielded,
and country. With half of the population Of
these four States, added to the population which
we have to draw FROM the total is 6,252, ,O9l.
1t is this population which is to supply our ar
mics. Deducting women and children, and old
men, there must be, from these figures, 2,0OO,-
900 men fit for service-that is under stress
which demands every one. OF this number
there is not one-fourth in the field, for the 3O0-
600 that We give to our armies are men that we
probably have, and the 10000 adjuncts we on,
ly guess at. 1t is very liberal estimate, for it
supplies two adjuncts to every three men with
arms in their hands. But these proximate esti-
mates are near enough to show that one-half of
the fighting men of the South are not in the SER
vice. Where they are we do not know. Here,
in Mobile, we observe men under arms whose
heads are gray as bs9gers-men who have lost
not only sons in battle, but also grandsons.
In digging at the city of Modena, in Italy and
about four miles around, when the workmen
arrive at the depth of sxty-three feet, they come
to bed of chalk, which they bore with an au-
CUR five feet deep. They then withdraw from
the pit before the augur is removed and upon
its extraction the waters bursts up through the
aperture with great violence, and quickly fills
this new-made well, which continues full, and
is affected neither by rains and droughts. But
that which is most remarkable is, that at the
depth of fourteen feet are found the remains of
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