The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-04-01

aad wAieAsd ths hAsale - i swept up
ifom he distances wksss TIE eanp q
the sAfss allied hAsions lay 10 that
htsis village to tss nEbt the Freseb
made their ssabt,OrB stand ,hrough s
long hours 81 STEADY storm sboss lhsas
RiEhi over lhls place swsps ne tide 81
retreat when Nap0lsoBs army. Tired
wiA oORtiauoas aEbunE against great
odds fell bach 10 rensw The Struggle
ifom The walls a Leipsie. AFosud thai
point where sibee then the city has
tvili her 6nsst structures jast betwecE
- and The loomiag tower d S. Thomas
church as ws lock westward toto the
smoke Of LEIPZIG. was concentrated The
beat add fury Of the Prussiap attack 90
The Gnmma gate on The disastrous
niBclsenth Of October the fourth day Of
The battle. From the 6eld jast in irost
of us. where now they are tAking away
gravel, they took away on The days
after il was all over s 600 Of Nspoleou's
dead soldiers. What did il oil amount
tel The marks Of battle are no longer
sesn on The landscape The plowed
ields lie bare 10 the sun aud the young
rye .hoS broad slipss u green across
the 90 battle ground has the battle
left deeper marks on the people aud
their condition aud iii.i The one who
stands Al The Napoleon stenc and has a
serious thought for history will turn
away from these fields. mingled through
aud through with the dust Of thous-
auds Of Napoleons victims, and will
look northward where below the near
horizon lies Wittenberg, the home Of
Luther, the nursery Of the reformation,
There is a contrast Leipsic and Wit
tenberg, Napoleon and Luther.
The difference between an American
aud German landscape, or to be less
general aud to confne myself more 10
that which comes directly under my
observation, between landscape in the
vicinity Of Leipsic and New England
one is as great as can be between things
which have the same component parts,
as fields, trees. houses and roads. In
the FIRST place New Highlander 10 en-
lirely lost without fences. He 10 con-
stautly going across lots, or getting
out certain restraint is gone and he
feels as il there were no law or authori'
~. Then be is surprised TO see the
great felds, that lie go without any
separating fences or barriers. broken
up into such little strips in cultivation
A little patch Of rye. then one OF wheat
Of grass. or Of potatoes, and SO on ID
endless succession of little pieces 3,
far as the eye can reach. But corn
the real New England Indian maize il
wanting | am tod it is grown fol
fodder but it seldom ripens. Another
feature that is wanting is the grazing
land--the pastures. Almost every
available inch 10 cultivated. The roaj'
are built up little higher than th,
fields beside them, and have broad
ditch at each side. They run for long
distances straight as an arrow and be
cause OF their narrowness and lack o
fences look like well patronIzed foot
paths. Even though within two mile
OF Leip.ic there was very little traffic o
travel on the roads, and good shar'
OF the travellers were peasant womel
With heavy buckets on their backs per
forming the function OF common beast
OF burden. The trees Of this landscsp,
are small and for the most part scrubb!
specimens, Of what sort do not know
! know only that the maple aud elm
we're not among them and that the.
were very much missed. The house,
look unprepossessing and dirty
wooden house is as good as unknown
the most Of them are OF brick plastere'
over with kind OF mortar which III th
more pretending buildings is trimme,
to represent atone They are quite low
and email, the largest house in the Vi
entity OF the battle field bears the con
I spicuous sign: Restaurant at Napo
leon stone. Best Bavariau Beer. Tn
windmils looking so quaint and ant
quated and yet 40 German withal
lesurely and laxiIy turning in th
wind as il they had all Of eternity 70
their grinding, are a unique and at
, trsctive part OF the scene To ell thi
must be added the general features c
the country probably not . difierenc
Of seventy -hve feet in the whole land
scApe for miles.
Well. so much for Napoleon atom
and it's environ aud associations. Wit
the peasants that have this histor
scene as the field OF their every de-
lAbors il is the old story Of the battle {
F'lenbeim in Southey's little poem. II
follows his pillow aud turns up out Of il
long rest and rust cannon ball, Au
his mind Ellis with the tradition OF ID
, battle aud be says: 1T was glorioo
victory" As TO the real meaning {
these old rusty cannon balls be is |
. the same fix with old Caspsr, "Wb