Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-03-03

! marble. As the wind swept across the batbles
field it waved the hair, and gave the bodies
such an appearance of life that spectator
could hardly heip thinking they were about
to rise to consinue the fight.
Another surgeon, describing the appearance
of the corpses on the field of Magenta, says
that they furnish indubtable proof that man
may cease to exist without suffering the least
pain. Those struck on the head generally lie
with their faces on the ground, their limbs
retaining the position they were in at the in
stant they were struck, and most of these still
held their rifles; showing that when ball
entered the brain it causes such sudden con-
traction of the muscles that there is not time
for the hand to loose it's hold of the weapon
before death. Another pcculiarity observed
in the case of those who were wounded in the
brain, was the suddenness with which they
died even when suspected to be out Of danger.
During the battle of Solferno, riAelnan was
wounded in tire head by ball which passed
through the skull and buried itself in the
brain. lais wound was dressed, and he was
stretched ON straw, with his head resting on
his knapsack, like his wounded comrades. He
retained the full use of his faculties, and chat
ted about his wound almost with Indifference,
as he filled his pipe and lay smoking it, New
crthcless, before he had finished it death came
upon him, and he was found lyingin the same
attitude, with his pipe still between sis teeth.
lie had never uttered cry, or given any sign
that he was Suffering pain.
In cases where the balls had entened the
heart, nearly the same appearance was pre-
scntcd as in the case of those who had been
struck in the brain; death was what we term
instantaneous, but it was not quite as swift as
in the former case there was generally time
for a movement in the acs of dying. There
was Xouave who had been struck full in the
breast; he was lying on his rifle, the bayonct
was fixed, and pointing in such a way as
showed that he was in the act Of charging
when struck His head was lifted, and his
countenance still bore a threatening appear
ancc, as if he had merely stumbled and fallen,
and was in the act of rising again. Close by
him Jay an Austrian soldier with claspcd
hands and upturned eyes, who had died. in the
act of praying. Another foot soldier had fall
en- dead as he was in the act of fighting; his
fists were closed, and his arm was in the act
of warding off a blow, and the other was drawn
back in the act Of striking.
| On another battlefield, several French sold
iers lay in line, with thei, bayoncts peinting,
in the directioa of the foe they were advancing
against, when storm of grape moved them
down. On the left bank of the river Tessin,
several Austrian officers lay dead. Some of
them; were rcn,ssrkablc for the noble express.
sion of their faces, the extreme ncatness of
their dress, and the cleanliness of their per-
sons. Most of them had fair hair, and their
countenances bore the stamp of calm resigna-
ton. The best opportunity of seeing the as-
poet of the masses who died on the field, was
when they lay stretched beside the trenches
which were destined to be their final resting
place So far were their faces from present.
ing the livid appearance and the expression
Of despair which painters are in the habit of
producing in pictures of battlefclds, that a
spectator could hardly help calling to the bu-
rying parties to wait lSstle before covering
them up. They were so Gke life.
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THE LAST MAN.-Thc "Portage Regis
ter" (Wisconsin) chronicles the death at
Caledonia, Wise, on the 9th ult., of Joseph
Crele, born near Detroit, Mich, in 1925, and
who had attained, therefore, the amazing age
of One Mundrca and Forty Years.. LIE was
born seven years before George Washington,
aud was fifty years old at the outbreak of the
American Revolution; so that he might, even
then, have claimed exemption from military
service. He was Id years old at she birth OF
Napoleon |. lie was 62 years old whom the
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