North Carolina Newspapers

THOMAS LORLNP'EtiTOR. W. STRINGER, Associate Editor. ' ' THE COMMERCIAL In published every Taudeflj, TWujf, nml Saturday, at 5 per aafiam, pylble, In all cnaes, in advance, By LORINO fc STRINGER, Corner qf Front arid Market Streets, t, WIIMINOTON. If. C. " (" ' SATt OP ADVERTISING. 1 square, 1 InaerttonVW 60 I t sowre, 2 months I 00 1 do. 2 do. 75 1 do. S do. 6 00 1 do. 3 do. 1 00 I 1 do. 6 do. 8 00 1 do. 1 month, 2 50 j 1 do. 1 year, 12 00 Twelve Unci or Icbs inuke a square. If an adver tisement exceds twelve lines, the price will be in pro portion. All advertiaementf are payable at the time of their insertion. Contracts with yearly advertisers, will be made on the most liberal terms. GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, AND HARDWARE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY C. W. BRADLEY. April i. . . t , . 9 JOHN GAMMELL, COMMISSION MERCHANT, WILMINGTON, N. C. July 10. W) NAUTILUS (MUTUAL LIFE) INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW-YORK. Will lake Itisk on the Lives of Slaves. W. C. LORD, Agent. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY. W. C. LOUD, Aent. E. J. LUTTERLOH, COMMISSION MERCI I A NT, WILMINGTON, S. C. March 26, 5 THOMAS SANDFORD, 'NOTARY PUBLIC, WILMINGTON, N. C. SAM'L. I'. GAUSE, CO MM ISSION M I IRC 1 1 A NT, WILMINUTON, N. ('. April 21. 10 ROUT. G. RANKIN, Auctioneer itml Commission Mfrclimil, WILMINGTON, N. C. 1 IHKUALACVANLEB HADEON SHIPMENTS to HIS FH1K.ND6 I.N NEW YUUK. March 17. 1 NEFF & WARNER, WHOLESALE AND RLTAII. IEALFIta IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. SHIP CIIA V DLElt Y, SHIP STORES, uV. April 11. Cf (J. W. DAVIS, COMMISSION MERCHANT, WILMINGTON, N. C. 1 March 17. BAHRY & BRYANT, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, WILMINGTON, N. C. March 16. 1 if. N. R HUGHES, C O MM IS MO N MERCHANT, AND GENERAL AGENT For the Mule of all kind of Goods, Country Produce and Real Kstaic, RALEIGH, N. C. UiiNincf s entrusted to him thull be promptly and fnlthfiilly attended to. Juno 18. M. cT N . IJ E L L , GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, nut the sale or Trvnr.u, t.i jiuek, na val STUItEH. AND ALL KINUH Of COt'NTRY PltontlE, Tico d-jirs NorOi of It. W. Ilruirn. WILMINUTON, N. C. An- 8, !;. (i2 E . A. GUSHING, DEALKII IN ROOK'S, STATIONERY, &e. April 4. MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON, N. C. RROWN &, DEROSSET, IIENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, WILMINGTON, N. V. DFJIOSSET & RROWN, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 159 FBQNT ST. NEW YORK. THOMAS ALLJBON'E &. CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 8 South Wharves PIULADELPHIA. am ti maJc on conalgnment of COTTON, RICE, AVAL STORES, and produce generally. Refer to Mmri Drovn if- DtHotttt, Wiuiinuton, N. C. Aug. 29. 71-6m. ALEXANDER HERRON, Jr. GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, Wilmington, (N. C.) Packet Offtet, WO. 36 HOSTH WMAIVIS, Refer to PHILADELPHIA. JStE.,. iw.n,g,on,N.C. Aug. II. 03 ' feANDFoni) c SMITH, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, WILMINGTON, N. C. mt: AttroaD, Match a J. W. L. SMITH. J. & W. L. McGARY, GROCERS AND SHIP CHANDLERS, WILMINGTON. IS. C. VOL. 1. R. H. STANTON & CO. WIIOLESALI AND RETAIL G II OCBUS, And dealers in DBV GOODS, CLOTHINO, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, ri'RMTl'BB, IIABDWAIIE, CUTLEBY, TIN WABE, CBOtKEBV, Ac. R. H. Ktnnton, L.S.l Dft0U,N.C. L. CONSTANTLY on hand, a general assortment of OR I) AGE and PROVISIONS. Also, For eign Fruit, Wines, Liquors, Teas, Porter, Ale, 4c. T-Ship Stobes put up with despatch Oct. 31, 184G. - 90 J. HATHAWAY & SON, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, fyd Duor Nurtli Water Strret, WILMINGTON, N. C. J. Hatha w.w. J. L. Hathaway. Oct. 27, 13 1G. 01. SANDFORD 4, SMITH, AUCTIONEERS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND AGENTS OF HENRIETTA STEAM BOAT COMPANY," WILMINGTON, N. C. TIIOP. PA NOFORD, Oct. 17, lR-lti. WM. L. SMITH. !0 JOHN C. LATTA, COMMISSION ME II CI I A NT, AND GENERAL AGENT, WILMINGTON, N. C. Oct. 10, 1S4G. 67 MYERS & BARNUM, MANUFACTUIEHW AND DEALERS IN HATS, C.irs, UMBRELLAS, AND WALKING CANES, WIIor.KSALIJ AND RETAIL, MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON, N. C. C. Mverp. J. M. Barncm. Oct. G, IS'lG. 85 ELIJAlfDICKINSON! COMMISSION MERCHANT, (Senior partner of the late firm of Dickinson &, Morris,) WILMINUTON, N. C. Refer to Messrs. 11. DeForest & Co., ) . E. I). 1'eteisiSt Co., i n , Means & Clark, BosluD- Walters A. Soiuler, ) j i i, A . Benson & Co, ' Philadelphia. Oct. 3.18IG. ai A. MART I N , GENERAL AGENT AND C oin miss ion Merchant North Water, 2 Doors above Princess Street, (Murj)lnj's HuUdiiif,',) WILMINGTON. N. C. Oct. 3. 81 L. S. YO RKE, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, NORTH CAROLINA PACKET OFFICE. -1-5 12 NORTH WIIAVES, PHILADELPHIA. June ), 1SIG. ly37 JOHN HAIX, COMMISSION MERCHANT, Turn (Juorn iw. iff the Cuttom Home, WILMINGTON, N. C. Miirch 17 H. S. KELLY, MERCHANT TAILOR, MAIIKET STREET, WILMINGTON, N. C. March 17. GILLESPIE & ROBESON, AGENTS FOR THE SALS OF TIM HER, LI :M 12 Ell, NAVAL STORES, .f-c Will make liberal cash advances on all consignments of produce. March 17. 1 CHARLES BLAKESLEE, (Successor to James Punderford.) MAM'FACTUIER AND DEALER IN Boots and Shoes, Market St., Wilmington, K. C. BLANKS PRINTED TO ORDEtt,fAT THE COMMERCIAL OFFICE. CHAS. D. ELLIS, COMMISSION MERCHANT, WILMINGTON, N. C. March 17. 1 SAM'L. P. GAUSE, AGENT FOR THE SALE OF Ll'MUE R, TIMBER, TURPENTINE, C. April 21. 16 COPARTNERSHIP. THE subscriber have formed a Copartnership, under the Arm of McMillan A Co.. for the trana etlon of a ganeral retail bualoeaa at HkiU ll.ill, ilia- den County. DrOALD McMILLATI, THOS. II LANK, WM. 11. ROUESOX, Jr. Aug. 25 1846. i SHAD. T RARRRT.S of Ocean Shad a superior ar fi XF jlcle for family uv, for sale by J. Ml' LOCK. Aug. Sth, 1810. j PUBLISHED TRI WEEKLY, WILMINGTON, SATURDAY AFTERNOOft, NOVEMBER 7, SADDLE, HARNESS, AND TRUNK MANUFACTORY, Front Street. W'ilminrlon. N. C. THE subscriber takes tin's method of iiifnriiiln his friends and the public general ly, that hn hits taken the store f.irmnrlvoocunl- el by Purler mid Blakeslee, and iuniie.limely opputiite the Chronicle Otliee, where he is now opening u com plete assortment of Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trunks, JIartinsales, Valises, Curpct ami Saddle Bags, Collars, Whips, Spurs, Bits, ic. it. ic. it. All of wlii. Ii will be warranted of pixmI rnnnufucture and materials, and will be sold low for CASH. Having lonu experience In lh alove busincra, he flatters himself that he will be uble to rendernW sal hfartion to those who may be disposed to patronize him. It is his iniention to keep no Books, but lo adopt the CASH .SVSTEM, by which means he will be uble to furnish articles much cheaper than they have heretofore been bought in this mnrket. IVREPAIRING of all kinds done nl the shortest notice. JOHN J. CONOLF.V. Aug. 6, 18-16. lyCl Al B15L. t) YEARS OLD NASH IJRVNDY. GILLESPIE & ROHESON. March 21. G CORN. BL'SH ELS, a prime article, afloat and in Store, for U J. ML'LOCK. 77 3000 Sep. l'. FLOUIt. BEST Canal Flour. For sale, by Sept. (;. HI E. PETERSON. OHEETINO. Four-Fourth's, from the UocKi it-H OFactory, for sale by BROWN A DeROSSET. July 7. 48 TO RENT. SEVERAL well finished offices, in the fine proof building on Water Street, over the stores of Smith. Mitchell & Giuks. That large and convenient Wharf on Eaplc's Island, opposite Town and known as the site of the I'hcrnh Dixliltmj, 'i'.'O feet front, and running back 1600 feel with convenient dock, Waiehouse -10 by HO feet, neru (darters, ilc. nil in good repair. Apply to II N'utt Sept 25. IB 16. 81 if. YARN AM) SHEETIN(JS. A CONSTANT Biipily on hand, for sale exclusive ly upon Manufacturer's account. Ily SANDFORD & SMITH. July 1R. 5; FOR RENT. A FINE roomv gtore. in Mr. Parsley's building, ! -ii. one uoor norm ol tlieCusioin House. For lurnis apply to E. J. LUTTERLOH. July 23. NEFF & WARNER HAVEjiist received per Schrs E. S.Powell and R. W. Brown, At their General Ship Chandlery and Family Grocery Store, The following supply of GOODS, which they offer for sale on most accommodating terms, viz : QnBBLS Mess Beef. 20 Rio do. CJ 20i " Family do. 2P St. Dominpo do. 20 J ' Packet do. 6 chests Y. Hyson Tea, 1000 lbs. Smoked Beef, 10 Black do. 20 bbls. Heef Tongues, 12 boxes Lemon Syrup, 20 " Mess Pork, 6 " Lemons 20 " Prime do. 10 boxes Sperm Candles 20 boxes Cheese, 20 J '' " 40 bbla. Canal Flour, 20 " Tallow ' 20 I " " " 30 kgs Cut Nails, as. sizes. 30 " Pilot Bread, 20 do. Ship Spikes, 20 J " " ' BOO lbs. co. Sheath. Nails, 20 " Navy " 100 lbs. Copper Tacks, 20 J " Soda Biscuit, f,0 keijsN'o. 1 White Lead, 3 hhds. Porto Rico Suear,40 " Extra " " 6 bbls. Crushed Supir, 21) " Black Paint, 10" Powdered '' 50 Cans Imperial Green, 1000 lbs. Loaf " 30 " Paris 10 bags Laguira Coffee, A general assortment ef Summer Clothing. A general assortment of Wood and Willow Ware. Also, per Schr. Wilmington, and Bri Dutlill : 30 boxes Tobacco ; 10,000 Spanish Segurs, assorted Brands; 30,000 American do. 3 casks first rate French Brandy, wilh Custom House Certificates, And 5 cask London and Philadelphia Porter. All of which we offer for sale oh accommodating terms. N i W Aug. 13, 1846. 64 MESS AND PRIME PORK for Sale by OILLESPIE A ROBESON. Sept. I 7fl FOR SALE. FIRST RATE nenhern built Bup?y. For sale vlow, by Sep 24. BROWN 4 DkKOSSKT. FOR RENT. A DWELLING on Second between Market and Dock Street, at present occupied by Mr. Augus tine, well adapted for the accommodstion of a small family. Apply to J. ML'LOCK. Sep. l .'. 77 JUST RECEIVED, and for sale at the Literary Dqx "THE OLD SANCTUARY." A new Novel, by A. J. Reuiur. Sep. 9 7C LIME 300 Casks fresh Thomaston Lime.jusi land ed, for sale by SANDFORD & SMITH. April 23. 17 nORN 2,500 bushels, a prime article just received VVand fnr sale by J. M CLOCK. 37 June 8. BttlCK25,000 hard Brick, for snk', by E. J. LUTTERLOH. J dy ti. 65 Pork and Corn. T A BBLS. City Mess Pork, and 5,000 basnets Com, A7n prime artlcks. For sak, by J. MULOCK. Sep. 2Z 79 LARD. QFZ Kegs Lard, prime article for family use. for sale -CiJlow.by J. MULOCK. Aug. 27. 70 BUTTER. 6 KEGS Ooshan Butter, ttricllu frimt, landing thlf day. BROWN A DaRO&SET. Sept. 9, 1846. 76. SADDLES. BRIDLES, HARNESS, TRUNKS, &c. &c. &c. TIIE Subactibet baa on hand a general aa y - aoTtmeni of Oiwdt In hla line, together tT with Rockatcayt Huggift, Trotting H'etegtni, UKJ SuU-iej, all of which ha will sell low. Purchasers are reappctfully Inviuxl to call at the Old Stand, Worth GUY C. II0TCUKI88 81. Wilmington, Sepu ?C. BY LORLKG & STRINGER. Aoencv oi' Cape Fsar Steam Boat Company, ) ! March II, 1916. j I THE C7ie Fear Steam Doal Com pany, having thoroughly phicrd in 1 orrlur the favorite Slramer. Cotlwi Plant, and ure tulldiii(r Lihler of the most approved , styfe, and peculiarly idupfrd tu the kiw stnijes of the River, are prepared tu (jive despatch to Goods for Fay etteville, ami ihe inti rkir, on the mont fasarahh trrmi. 1 The keel of a now Sieamcr has been laid, which will soon be compi-t,.,L of such IikIiI draft of water, as to suit all mIukcx nf the Hirer; rnul tihUJi, in liglitnei of dnift, wiu. kkvrr re SCRPAHHEI). Good will b) received and forwarded iiromptly thro' 1 Wilmington,. fro; ( all charge for Storage, U ravage, i Wharfage, and Cummi.iioiisjJud will be attendetfto at Kavettevlllc," We nf ( nmminions. Goods can b stored then-, up town or at the rivor, as shipper! may desire. ) 'ITie Cape Fear Strnm Tloal Company arrdrlermin- I ert In carry (lootls m o faroralile trrm at any other Commny; and from Ihe lonj; experience of their n- ' Cents at Wilmington nnd Faycttculle, have no doubt of (jiving Ihcir friends entire aatinfarlian. i E. W. WILLK1NGS'. , Ai'ent at Fam ttctillc. ROU T. G. RANKIN, Ai'ent ul Wiliniiwton. , March 17. 1 j i:!lTY SI'IRITS TfRI'KN TINK liRl.S. ' A CONSTANT supplv of the above barrels for sale bv SANDFORD & SMITH. Am.'. I. MG. 6U r ( VV HLSHEI.S TIRES' ISLAND SALT LUUUlor Sale by O. G. PARSLEY. 2 if. Wilmin(.'ton, March 10. BILLS OF KXCHWGE-Price ill pcniiilre, for ' sale at the CO.M.MERCIAL OFFICE ' March 21. l Luisccd Oil. P. BARRELS Linseed Oil, In .Vtore, for Sale low, by 'J J. i W. L. McGARY. Oct. 1. R3 Copartnership. THE subscribers have entered into a copartnership, ! under the name and firm of Howabd & Peden. i Wm. C. HOWARD. W. N. PEDEN. Oet.P, IP46, P6 WHO WISH THEIR ROOKS HOUND ! I REELING the inconvenience of the closing nf the Book Bindery in Wilmington, wn have , made arrangements with a Ciiari.ekto.v Bimer to execute work from this place at Charleston prirm! Those having Books to bind, in fact, any work, that is executed at u Bindery, can have it done veil and rx imlitiouJy, and at 2a per cent lower than they have Wn In the habit of paying, by leavinu It at the Of fice of the Commercial. June 6, 18)6. LORING t STRINGER. CIOTTON TWINE- 10 Bales Cotton Seine Twine, J assorted and numbered. Just received and for sale by April 21. NEFF cV WARNER. 16 SADDLES AND BRIDLES. rPHE ubovc articles are sold at the lowest prices, by i are sold at the lowest 81 E. PETE L Sept. -'0. HAY ofs,'ood quality, for sale in loin to mil, by BROWN DeROSSET. Oct. fl. 1346. i PROVISIONS. ri URLS. Baltimore and N. Y. Inspection DU Mess Reef, 60 " " " " Piime Pork, M " i- half do. Supfine Flour, Nnr Whmt, rj Bbls. Sounds and 1 'onues, ro Bbls, No. I Mackerel, .'1 Bbls. New Salmon, 10 Q.tls. Codfish, '20 Half Bbls. F. M. Beef, and Reel Tongues, 'Jf Roxes Cheese, 25 Boxes Smoked LIci riny, lj Fiikin:- Orange County Butler, 'j Pierces W hile Beans, 10 Bbls. Kill Dii ed Meal, 2.5 Kes Lard, 60 Bbls. Salina Salt, Ac Ac. For sale, r- rt loir, by NEFF A WARNER. Oct. 3. hi Mess Pork. 25 BARRELS Mess Pork. For sale, bv ' JOHN GAMMELL. Sep. 22. 79 50 BARRELS N. O. Whiskey, 30 do. Annie Brandv. 30 do. Snanish Brandy, 10 do. Mnlntra Wine, 3 Hhds. .S'tiesr, -'.UUU lbs. N. t:. Bacon, for sale by Oct 3, 18-40. MARTIN 84. To the honorable Uu next General Assembly of North t Carolina. APPLICATION will be ma le at vournext Session, for a Charter of lnroriiratum fora Mutvai. Ma- ' rime ash Fire In.crame (.'uHPA.ny, to be located In the town of Wilmln n Aug. 24. C9 3m LIME. ' Ir'RESH ThouiaHun Lime, in primp order, for sale by JOHN GAMMLT.L Oct. 20, IP Id Hay. Odd P H.ES Portland Hsv, In Store, for Slr by ZJJ J. 4 W. I. McGARY. Oct NOTICE. API'I.R 'ATION will he mndo to the pnuing leg islature for ihe pasauBit of an act authorisins the projicr nuthorilioato re-organire the Fire Department, , and requiring all Free persons of color in the town ot , Wilmington, to enrol themselves for Fire Duty. Oct. 1W6. 91. 1 Pork. 1 pi II VRRELS Meaa Pork, 11 710 do. Prime do. Landing to-day from Bri ArrW u0r,for8V by J. St W. L. McGARY. Oct. 1. 83 COAL AND HAY. 40 TON3 Coal, 25 Bnlea Hay. Dally rxpeetod per Schr. Joaeph Lvbram, from Philadrinhia. fotaaleby J. MULOCK. Sep. 8- REMOVAL. THE aoWrlber hu pernor rd to tha nw Store In North Waltr Btrttt, two doors abora Prmert rjJretl, whr b tSen lot sale, to addltioa to Goods before advertistd, . 150 Bain pjj Eniu-rn Hay. 5.000 Iba. Superior North Carolina Baeon. 300 Bushels Cow Peas. Oct. 22. .) A. MARTIN 1810. NO. 09. II O R R O R S O F W A K. AJ HOSPITAL SCENE 1.1 PORTTGit Tlie French army hnd long JtifTLred terri ble privations We all knew that Masscna could not mtich longer retain his position, and the 1 Great IiOrd' (io the Spaniards call Wellington) allowed famine lo do the work of bayonets. Our army was weary o.' the lines, it felt as if cooped up by an enemy it yet despised,. and would hae'gtadty march' ed out to storm the lortniduble French en campment; nm! such was the fust idea that struck inuny of us when oojlhe oih of March the army was put in motion nnj tho anima ting music oi tho regimental bands rang through the rocky lidges of Torres Vcdrns Hut it was soon universally understood that the French were in lull retreat ; that there was now no hope of a great pitched baud: and all that I could expect was that as our regiment formed a pnrt of the advance, wr. might now and then have a brush with the reatguard of the Fnnch, which was, you know, composed of the (lower of the army, and commanded by Ncy, the 'bravest of the brave.' I will give you in another letter an ac count ol the most .striking scenes I witnessed during the pursuit alter our ferocious cnemv. They had been cheated out of a victory oyer us (so they sa id, and so, in Gallic presump tion, they probably lelt) when some months before Massena beheld that army which he had threatened to drive into the sea, frown ing on him from impregnable heights, all bristling with cannon. Instead of battle and conquest, and triumph they had IcAig remain ed in hopeless inactivity, and at lnt ibeir convoys being intercepted by tho Guerillas, they had endured all the intense miseries of famine. Accordinely, when they broke up, the soul of the French army was in a burn ing fever of savage wrath. The consum mate skill of their leaders, and the unmitiga ted severity oi their discipline, kept their troops in regular order, and certainly, on all occasions when 1 had an opportunity of see ing their rear guard, its movements were most beautiful; I could not help admiring the mass moving slowly away, like a multi tude of demons, all obeying the signs of one master spirit. Call me not illiberal in thus speaking of our (be. Wait till you have heard from me a detailed account of their merciless butche ries, and then you will admit that a true knight violates not the laws ol chivalry in uttering his abhorrence of blood-thirsty barbarians The ditches were often litcralv filled with clotted and coagulated blood; the bodies of peasants, put to death like dogs, were lying there, horribly mitngled ; little naked infants, of a year old or less, were found besmeared in the mud of the rad, transfixed with bayo net wounds ; nnd in one instance, a child of about a month old I myself saw with the bayonet lelt sticking in its neck. Young women and matrons were found lying dead, with cruel and shameful wounds; and as if some general law to that effect had been pro mulgated to tht army, the priests were hang ed upon the trees by the road side. But no more of this at present. I wish now to give you some idea of a scene I witnessed at Mirando do Oervo, on the ninth day of our pursuit. Vet I fear that a sight so terrible cannot be shadowed nut, except in the memory ol him who be held iL I entered the town about dusk ; it had been a black, grim and gloomy sort of a day at one time fierce blasts of wind, and at another perfect stillness, with far off thun der. Altogether there was a wild adaptation of the weather nnd the day to the retreat ol a great army. Huge masses ol clouds lay motionless on the sky before us ; and then they would break up suddenly as with a whirlwind and roll off in the red and bloody distance. I felt myself, at the fall of the eve ning, in a state of strange exciteme nt my imagination got. the better entirely of all my other faculties, and I was like a man in a grand but a terrific dream, who never thinks of questioning any thing he sees or hear, believes all the pbanlasmas around with a strength of belief, seemingly proportioned to their titter dissimilarity to the objects of the real world of nature. Just as I was passing the (treat Cross in the principal street, I met an old, haggard looking wretch a woman, who seemed to have in ber hollow ryes an unaccountable expression of cruelly a glance like that of madness , but her deportment was quiet nnd rational, and she was evidently of the niiJdle ranks of society, though her dress was faded and squalid. She told me f without bciDg questioned) in broken English," that I would find comforta ble accommodation in an old convent that stood at some distance among a grove of cork trees, and pointing to thm, at tho same lime with her long, shrivelled band and arm, and giving a sort of hysterica l laugh, 'You will nnd,' said she, noliody there to disturb you.' I followed ber advice with a kind of su perstitious acquiescence. Tbere wsi no reas on to anticipate any adventure or dun grr in the convent, yet the wild eyes and the wilder voice of the old crone powerfully affected me; nnd though she was only such a woman as one may soc in any place, I renlly begun to invest her with many imposing qualities, till td up a prcuy loflg flight of step, and was standing at tho entrance to Ihe clofstert of 0 the convehL 1 then saw something thai made toe speed ily (orgct the old woman, though What it was I did see, I could not in the first moments distinctly comprehend. I Above a hundred dead bodies lay and sal before my eye, all of them apparently in the very attitude or posture in which they bad died. I looked at them for at least a minuto before I knew that they were all corpses something in the mortal silence of the placs told me that t alone was alive in this dread ful company, a tlespcrate courage enabled me then to look steadfastly at the scene be fore me. The bodies were mostly clothed in mrtts, and ngs, and tattered great coats, some of them merely wrapped round about with gir dles of straw, and two or three perfectly na ked. Every face had a different expression, but all painful, horrid, agonized, bloodlrs; many glazed eyes rcrc wide open, ancf per haps this was the most shocking thing in the whole of the spectacle. So many cyrs tW saw not, all seemingly fixed upon different objects ; some cast up to heaven, some look ing straight forward, and some; with the white orbs turned roun l, and deep junk in tho socket?. It was a ott of hospital. These wretch ed beings were mostly all desperately or mortally wounded, and after having beert stripped by their comrades, they had been loft there dead or to die. Such were they, who, as the old bag said, would not trou ble me. 1 had begun to view this ghastly sight with some composure, when I saw at the re mote?! part of the hospital, a gigantic figure sitting, coveted with blood, and almost na ked, upon a rtidc bedstead, with bis back leaning against the wall and his eyes fixed diicctly on mine. I thonght he was alive, and shuddered ; but ho was dead. In his last agonies he had bitten his under lip al most entirely ofT, and his long black beard was drenched in clotted gore that likewise lay in large clots on his shaggy bosom. One ef his hands had convulsively grasped the wood- work of the bedstead, which had been crushed in the grasp. I recognised the corpse: he was serge ant in a grenadier regiment, anel during the retreat was distinguished for acts of savage valor. One day he killed Harry Warbur ton, the right hand man of my own compa ny, perhaps the finest made and most power ful man in the British army. My soldiers had nicknamed him with a very coarse ap pellation, und I renlly felt as if he and I were acquaintances. There he sat as if frozen td death ; I went op to tho body and raised the giant's muscular arm ; k fell down again with a hollow sound against the bloody sido of the corpse. My eyes unconsciously wandered along" the walls, they were covered with grotesque figures and caricatures of the English, abso lutely drawn in blood Horrid blasphemies and the most shocking obscenities in the shape of sono-s. wero in like manner written then and you may guess what an effect they had upon me, when the wretches who baa con ceived them lay all dead corpses around my feet. I saw two books lying on the floor ; I lift ed them up, one seemed to be full of the most hideous obscenity ; tho other was the bible ! It is impossible to tell 3-011 the horror produ ced in me by this circumstance.. " The books fell from my hand ; they fell upon the breast of one of the bodies; it was a woman's brenst. A womnn had lived and died in such a place as this! what had been iu that heart, now still, perhaps only a few hours before, 1 knew not. It is impossible, love as strong as death love, guilty, abandoned, depra veil, and linked by vice into misery, but stifl love, that perished but with the last throb, and yearned, in the last convulsion, towards some of these grim, dead bodies. I thiuk sooio such idea as this came across me at the time ; or has it now only arisen ? Near this corpse lay that of a perfect boy, certainly not more than seventeen years of age. There was a little copper figure of the irgin Mary round his neck, suspended by a chain of hair. It was of little value, else it bad not been suffered to remain there. In his bund wa a b iler ; I saw enough to know thnt it was from his mother Mon chcrfils,' cVc. It was a terrible place to think of mot fi ns 0! home or any social humanities. Have these ghastly things parents, broth ers, sisters, lovers t were they once ail hup py in peaceful homes? Did these convulsed, and bloody, and mangled limb once lie in undisturbed beds I I hdthos clutched hands once press in infancy a mother's bieastt Now all was loathsome, terrible, ghost-like. Htimnn nature itself seemed hereto be de based nml brutifted. Will such creatures, I thought, ever lwe aaiD I why should they t Robbers, ravishets, incendiaries, murderers, suicides (fora dragoon lay with a pistol in his hand, and his skull shaUored to pieces) heroes! the only 'wo powers that reigned here were agony and death. Whatever Might have been their characters when alive, all faces were now alike. 1 could not, on these fixed contortions, tell what was pain from what was anger. misery from wickedness. It was now almost dark, and the nigbt wae setting in stormier than the day, strong ftaih of lightning suddenly illuminated this bold of death, and tor a moment ihewtd too more distinctly the terrible array, A.' loud squall of wind came round about h '"build ing and the ok! window casement gave way v . and kll in with a shivering crash upon tho floor. ' - Something rose with lugr growl from amoni the dead bodice. 'I lr Was a aog, dark- colored wolf dog, vrkb a spiked collar round his neck, and seeing me he leaped fotWMvl e