Winyah Observer

              n, \V.\TRIIMAN. J,,.,     )     „
.1. W. TAUBOX, i     Inoi-RiRToiti
Devoted to News, General Intelligence, Mlfteilany, &c.
B. II. WILSON, EmroH.
Vol. XL
Georgetown, S. C.j Wednesday, September 3, 1851.
No. 29
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EYAM   OSSHVIiaoiim^i. I'C almost raised l.im n-om   his   leot
I and so lacerated and tore open hi^ abdo- |
Napoleon's DepaiiUrC for Elba.      [ "^ it'about to   ro-emer (lie palace me- f skin, wliicli at a distance looked liko a
Ar lenglh this morning dawned.    The
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f tlic around.
channically. varnish ofpure^fold on his countenance.
He allied.   Ifwovcr,   and  recovering    His   lips   still   preserved  iheir Grecian
Unable any longer to sus- j, formances of their duty, rctiuestcd   llie \ '"¦"''^'^ desccnd.'d ihe slair.s to approach | ouUiiie and sleady grace,  p.-issing ensily
I'niMTKn AND PUtlLISIIEIl VVEKlCt.V UY I   „,„„    (ll-if   Ills   hrnvclq    ITIlcillPlI     Olil    UllOh   I • • .r   l •      .1 11 *^>-    "'">-
men, 111,11 nis Dovvcis  gu-siieii   oui  upon    co„.,n,|ssa,.,es, respectful even in thc per- J , .       ,^ ,
,<,. ] r . r .,   .     , ....      I   .,,„ ' lii.'nselt des
hissolJiois.    Tiie dniiiLs beat the stilute. | from a smile Io menace.    His solid bony
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lipoid in.Hdvanco.and 7'iircV/>w/u«at thcendoi.! .'"'" '"""^'r"' "'^ P'/'al^le'I'-mal fell down    Empei'or to name the hour for his de-    "'f,;" '^"^
the ye^,r
gpsliire   he   imposed  silence, | chin roriiied an nnprnpriale ba.se for (lis and ndvanciiiij; in  front of the batallions j fealures.    His nose was but a line, ihin
A Spanish Ijiill-Fisht.
WfE iltiy Don Philippe insisted upon laking us to witness a bull-fighl, vvliich vvas about to lake place, antl which it Was reported Ihe queen herself wns ex¬ pected lo atlend. This was a speclacle j vve had never yet beheld, and our ciiii- ;| osily was iherefore aroused lo llie high- i esi possible pilch of excilement. Visions j ¦of blood floated befoie our fancy, and jj flashing sleel gleamed across our siglil. 1] Anxiely stood on tip-Ioe, and ilie mo- 'j ments flew slowly by, unlil llie wished- | lor hour arrived. Wc left llie business •ofsecuring seats in the arena to Philippe,
in ll-.e awful ngunies oftieatli, and   in  a . parlure.    Ho had fi.\ed midday.
few momenis expired.    Two other hor-|      All that remained lo him of a court      .,  ,
scs shorllv shared llu- s-.me miserable ' t-iat is to say the generals of his body t '"^ "'¦'"'° "^ ^'S''' "''^' ''o ^^"''^^^ '" ^P'^''''' I ''"'^ transparent. The paleness of his lalc, and tii«ir man-led bodies wero ly-[ guud, a few'officers of his household, r^''""'"""'"'^''^'''•¦^' '''^ arms were still; | cheeks gave greater brilliancy to the ing covered wilh blood, in llie cenler of:: Bjllia'd Gaurgaud Petit Alhalin, La ' *""' "'e almost breathless silence allowed | blew of hiseyes. His look was search- llie arena. Tho bull himself was now Place, Fouler, and a'few servants,assem- i ''^^ ''"'""'' '''-cchowed by the high ualls ;, ing, unsleady as a wavering flamc-aii becoming percepiilily exhausted, and .'! Oled at len o'clock in the saloon before °'^'''° P^''''^''''°''"'''•'^'"''''''''°'"'^'""''^''^ !'''"^'''-''" o^ inquietude. Ilis forehead ' ' '       t    --^:-i-     iT'.-.i... ' , .        ,. , ..,    .,     r     :..! ranks. !! seemed to have widened, from die scanl-
.¦piibly li his o.vii end was drawing nigli.    For llio j his  cabinet,  togelher with  the foreign]
who, by ear'y application, succeeded in obtaining for us as eligible positions for vvilnessing the speclacle as we could reasonabi)' desire. The critical mo¬ ment was now at hand, our hearis almost leaped from our mouths, so deeply were vve excited in contemfilaiion ofthe  san
purpose of slimulaling and arousing inlo | commissioners—a poor and sorry  train
monienlaiy  action   his   rapitlly-waiiiiig j of alteiidants  in   a palace formerly loo
slrenglli, the assailanls on foot  aliaeked'; sniall lo contain his  courtly letinue.—
him willl barbed darts, called boiulcrillos | General Bertrand, grand marshal of llie
which Ihoy thrust wilh skill mto each ' palace,   proud  of his  consciousness   of
side of his   brawny  neck.    Someiimes j fidelity above ihe other exiles, announc-
I lliese liltle javalinesare charged   wiih  a :; cd iho Emjieror.    He came forth with a
I prepared (lOwder, which explodes the in- ^ counlenance  calm and composed.    He
*¦'stanl that the .sharp steel  sinks into llie, passed down the lino ofhis  last friends,
bowing to right and left, and extending
\ flesh.    The torture thus produced drives | ,1 the wretched animal to  the  extreme of
i'' madness, who bellows and bounds in his jj vvilh tears. Nol a word broke liiat si- agony, as if endued wiili the energy of a j lence; the impressioiv was too deep for new life. j words to attempt  Io express.    All ihe
On Ihe present occasion, the arrows    eloquence   of that  "adieu,"   gvatiuidc, .   , u.sed were not ofan explosive characler,    gnef—all was expressed by that aclion. quinary cvenl.   "At length llie tnimpels ! yet they served scarcely less eflbctually        1'^'^' of ''^e Emperor was worlliy of .sounded, and forlhwiih enlered, in  mar-    to  enrage    the   lurious  monster.    Butil''"'  I>l''Jce. of his rank, and of the  ocea- tinl array, the   eniire  body  of combat- ? hark ! the last Irumpet is sounding  the .ants, gayly dressed, and   preseniing   to- | awful death-knell   of ihe warrior-beast, gelher a most slriking and bri'liant eficcl. | The ring becomes instantly cleared, and
Marching to Ihcopposilo side ofthe ring I tho   foaming  animal   stands motionless    iHiis departure from  the palace closed Ihey respeclfully bowed to the appointed | and alone, sole  monarch of the  arena.    "" ^P"'^'' o*'fifteen years of glory andof aulhorilies, and Ihen  took   their p'ace-,    But the fiat has gone forth, and the doom    '''^  misfortune for France; it  was noi ill complete readiness for aclion.    Al a ' ofdealh is impending   over   liim.    The \ '""Ser the man bul the empire departed, given signal, a small iron sate was   sud- f matador enters ihe ring bv a secret door, \ ^^^ ^^'®"' ^°^^^ with the majesty of a greal
I "OiTicers, suballerns, and soldiers of | iness of his ihin black h iir, which wns ' old guard," he said, " I bid you farewell, j falling fioin the moi'slure of continual For five-and-twenty years have I ever ;• thoughi. Jt inighl be said ihnt his head, found you walking in the pn ill of honor J naturally small, had increased in .size to and glory. In these laller times, as in ' give nm|ila scope between his temjiles lliose ofour prosperity, you have never ,j for ihe machinery and combinaiions of ceased tobe models of fidelity and of j a mind every thought of which was un bravery. | empire.    The map of llie vvorld seemed
" Wilh men  such  as you our cause | lo have been encrusted on the orb ofthat vvould not ha'e boen  losl; but the war" reflective head.    But it was beginning
, .   ,      ,       ,  , . ,1 vvas interminable; it might have been a i to vield ; and he inclmed it often on Ins
his hand, which he vvithdro'.v moistened |   .  , ,   .       ., ,,, r    ' i   '    .     i_i ¦      ¦• ii    t^   ¦
" civl war, and then it would be worse lov ,; breast while crossing his arms like red- France. I havo therefore sacrificed our j' erick II.—an nliitude or gesture vvhich inleresl to those of the counlry. I leave j he a|ij>eared to eflect. Unable any lon- you.... Do you, my friends, conlinue |j ger lo seduce his courliers .ind his sol- to serve France ; her honor was my on- jj diers by llic charm of youlh, it vvas evi¬ iy thought; it shall ever bo the object ofj: donl that he wished to fascinate ihem my most fervant prayers. | by  the  rough,   pensive, and disdainful
'•Grieve not for  my   lot.    Ifl  have | character of himself—of his model in his consented lo outlive myself it is vvith the \ latter days.    He moddled himself, as it
denly opened, and in an instanl a furious | and afier bowing lo   the   presidenl,   and
bull bounded inlo ihe  arena; and  then, | throwing down his cap in token   of res- |      Wilh measured step and slow, follow
as if petrified wilh aslonishment al the wonderful scene around him, ho stood niolinnless for a few seconds, staring wildly at the immense assembly, and psvving vchcmeiiily the ground bjnealh Ilis feet. It vvas a solemn and critical inoiirent, and I can Iruly say lliat I never biefore exjicrienced such an inlense de¬ gree af curiosily and inleresl. ]\Iy feel¬ ings were wound uplo the highest pitch of excilament, and I can scarcely be¬ lieve that even thaf terrible human tra-3 gcd}-, a bl'.ody gladilorial scene, could have nfil'Cted me more deeply. The corajiressed fury of the bull lasted but an inslant: suddenly his glaring eye caught ihe sight of a red flag, which one oflhecA«/«s, or foot combatants, had waved before him, and immedialely he rushed after his nibla adversary, who evaded his pursuit by jumping skillfully over ihe lower enclosetire of the ring. The herculean animal, thus balked in | llis rage, next plunged desperately to wavA one oi the picudores, or mounted horsemen, who calmly and fearlessly j awaited liis approach, and then lurned ofl'his attack by the masterly manage¬ ment ofliis long and steelcd-cappcd pike. Twarled once more in his purpose, he \ became still more franlic lhan before vvhile his low and sujipresscd roar, ex expressive of ihe concentrated passion jj atld rage vvhich burned within him, i sounded like distant thunder lo rny ears. ?
jicct, slowly and deliberately approaches
his lerrific'adversary, who stands as ifl passed ihrough the long gallery of Fran- enchained to the spo'l by a consciousness \ c's I. He slood for a moment on the of the fearful destiny that awaits him. Handing of ihe grand staircase, and look- The matador, undismayed by the fero- lj od around on the troops drawn up in the cious aspect oflbe bull, cautiously ad- li court of the guard of Iionor and on tho vances, with his eyes fixed firmly, mag-' innumerable miiltiludes from the sur- nelically upon him; a bright Toledo h'°""'''"S country which had assembled blade glisiens in his riglil band, while in | t" wiiness this great historical event, hia left he carries llie miilela, or crimson ii tf'^t t'ley might recount il to their child flag, with which to exasjK;rnte the decli¬ ning spirit of his foe. An intense still¬ ness reigns llu'oughdul the vast assem¬ blage and iho most critical point of ihe iragcdy is al hand, nnd every glance is \ '" s"me, the sorrow Ibr misfortune in tivited upon the person and "movciiietils \ "'''S's- a regai'd to decorum in all, pro¬ of ihe malador. A single fatal thrust jj ^uced a universal silence. Insult al such may launch him into eteiiiity, vet no ex- \ » moment would be cowardly—the cries pression of fear escapes him'; cool,   and ^ "f " "^^'ve l,Empcreur" a mockery.    The
sion—it was nalural, sorrowful, and pen-
Ssive.    Il was evident that he respected » . r    -i, ' i i i • i /-    «     ¦     t   /•
,. ,     -I ,  • I      I hope ol stiil  promoting  your  glnrv.    I i were, iiilo the slatuc of reflection before
his own banishment;  and  it seemed as        ' •.     ,     i     , , ¦ •       5 . •    . i ,.
j trust lo write tho deeds we have achicv- i nis troops,  who gave Inm the nicname
I ed  logelher Adieu,  my * Father Thotighiful.    He  assumed   the
I children !    I would    fain embrace you ;| pose of desiiny.   Soiuelliiug roug/i, rude,
lj all.    .    .    ,    Let nne at least embrace | and savage in his movements revealed
J your general and your colors !" rhis southern  and  insular origin.    Tho
At these vvords the soldiers vvere deep-I man   of thc   Mediterranean   broke out
ly aflecled ; a shudder ran through the | conslantly ihrough the Frenchman.   His
ranks and  llieir arms quivered.    Gen-1 nature, too great and   powerlul for the
c-al Petit, who commanded theold guard j part he had loplay, overflowed on all oc-
in the absence of Ihd marshals—a man | casions.    He boro no   resemblance lo
event.
ed by  the guard and by  his friends, he
[ of martial bearing but of sensitive feel¬ ings—at a second signal from Napoleon advanced between the ranks of the sol¬ diers and their Emperor. Napoleon em¬ braced him for a long lime, and the two chieftains sobbed aloud.    At this specta- \
ren. What contending feelings agita¬ ted the breasts of that vast crowd, in which there were more accusers then defenders!   Bul Ihe  greatest of the fall
I any of the men around liim. Superior I and altr^geiher different, he vvas an off. spring of the sun, of fhe sea, and of tha battleficdd—oul ofhis element even liis ovvn palace, and a stranger even in his own empire. Such vvas this period the profile, thejbust, and the external physi-
soldiers themselves experienced a feell-
ing too solemn, of loo religious an awe,
to think of acclamation ; they felt a deep
1 " "ense of honor in their consciousness of It is this wonderful .lisplav of .skill and ,; f^^j^,.,^ ^^,^^^ j,^ ^^^,^^.^^ ^^^^,j^^,^^_ ^,^,j ^^^^
self-possessed, he siands beforo   his   vie-'' lim, sUidious ofevery motion, and ready to take advantage ofany chance.
bravery that fascinates the attenlion ol a Spanish audience, and nol tlia  shediling ji of blood or ihc suflerings oi   ihc  animal, jl
i wllich are as much lost sii^iit of in the f exciment of the moment as the gasping | ofa fish or ihe ([uiveringof a worm upon | the hook is disregariied by the hatnane S discijilc olT'zaac Walton. The bull and S malador, as motionless  as   if carved in
!| marble, presenl a fearful  artistic eflecl- .\l lenglh, like an electric flash, the pol-
that now the sun oftheir glory was about to set, and wilh  iheir chief to  sink for ever  behind tho trees of the forest and ji thc waters of ihe JMediterranean.
They envied the lot of those of their comrades whom fate or clioice had fa¬ vored by allowing them lo be the com¬ panions of llieir exiled Emperor.    Their
cle one stifled   sob  was   heard   through
all the ranks.    Grenadiers brushed away i! ognomy of Napoleon.—/i/c/.
the tears from their eyes wilh their  left ' —_. _J—
hands. London at M'liimghi,
" Bring me iho eagles," resumed the; Lom^ion is given to late hours. At 0 Emperor, who desired to imprint upon j ^- ^^- though the sun has long been up, his heart and on these standards iho there are few siirring in the principal memory  of Casar.    Somo   grenadiers ";. streets ; occasionally you see a cab hur-
i advnnced, bearing before him the eagles '; '">''"g with some passenger to take an ofihe regiment. Ho grasped these Iro- ;: early train; but few shutters are do'tn pliios so dear to tho soldier; he pressed '| ^^'^'7> snt^scarcely an omuibus"is to be them lo his breast, and, placing his lips I' ^e«n until after 8. The aristocralic dih- lo them, exclaimed, in a manly and bro- | "er hour is 8 P. M. ihough I (rust feiv ken accent, "Dear eagle, may this last | ^''e so unmerciful to Ihemselves as to embrace vibrato for ever ill the hearis of postpone their chief meal to that lata all my faithful soldiers!" (hour when   they    havo   no   company.
"Farewell agnin, my old companions, "j The morning fo sleep, the afternoon to farewell!" The whole army burst inlo ' business, and the evening to enjoyment, tears, and thu only reply vvas one long-t seems to bo the usual routine vvilh tho continued grtinn. f favored classes.
An open cai riage, in which General'! Walking home from a soiree at the Bertrand awaited his masler and friend, l West End through Regent-st., Hay- received tho Emperor, who hurried in ' niarket ahd the Strand once at midnight,
'¦ and covered !iis eyes wilh both his hands. :', I vvas struck, though   accustomed to  all heads were bowed low, theirlooks moun-j The carriage  rolled awav  to  the first ' manner of lalc hours in New-York with
..... ..„.  ,...      f"'' ='"^' '''"^ '¦'^"^'' '^°"" "^'^ furrowed | stage of  Nai.oleons's   exile.—[La/««y- ; the relative activity, and wide-awake as-
ishetl steel ofthe matador flies in the air, \ f''°'''''-' ""^ ''"'. "•^"/'e's.    Had the drums J Hn^',  History of the   Restoration  of • pect of London'at that hour.    It seemed
:; fhe High 'Change of revelry and  pleas-
Nnnnlcfln    i "''^-^^^'^'^S- I'ho taverns, the clubs and ' , drinking-shops betrayed no symptoms of
Hall closing his eyes, and  lowcrin<;  his '\ ""T" ¦"'"'^' "'. "'" "¦""¦¦'"'¦ "•""" ~ "'¦' |j i.„„f, covei-pd wiih cr-ine it would  hnv« 5 ir i     •   '/¦ "
i!^'i':^"^".'°':f^"^":,-','¦ ¦:!-"• 1 Ci;;:',:"¦.It,;!:'™:,;;:,';;'\ f^¦".".°'- '^"¦';"-f-'; ..^;»4.™' I '^""'" ""if"'""' ^'
hilt.    The blow is vvell made, and from ';
ji after  casting  a mnrlial and penclraiing
the spectators filled ihe arena :    " Bravo ij toro!"    Viva  toro!" antl olhcr  excla¬ mations of encouragement for   the bull, broke from every mouih.    The picadore lost no lime in springing to his feet   and re-mounting his liorse, which,   ho-.vcver, ij could scarcely stand, so weak .was   the ¦[ poor creature from the  stream of blood
in 1813.
drowsiness;   tli.-;   theatre* were  barelj-
ii gushes forth in a crimson  stream; he j staggers, drops on   his   knees,  recovers
edhim.    Ihcn shouts of applaiue^^from | ^,^^ „,„,,^,, „f,,,, bull a torrent   of bloocH ^'^'^'''^^ "' ''^^  h'atUilViotis and squadrons, j     Tiif. empire had madehim old beforo '! begining to emit fheir J.ded multitudes^-
. had in his countenance an expression of j his   lime.    Graiified  ambilion, satiated    and ihe cabs and private carriages were I lender regard unusual for  him.    What |; pride, the delights of a palace, a luxuri- ;; more plentiful lhan   bv  day   aad wero I days of battle, of glory, and of power did (^ ous lable, a voluptuous couch, youlhful ] briskly wheeling hundreds from party to I not  Ihe sight of that   army  call  to  his ji wives, complaisant mistresses, long vig- ^ p^,^/. a„j even the  omnibuses rattled ] mind!    W liere now were they who had » ils, sleepless night-i^ivided between la- I j^wn the wide   streels as freshly   and composod it when it traversed Wllh him    bor and festive pleasure, the habit of.'   ij^o^t  ai,   numerously   as at  middav ihecontinentsofEurope, Asia, and Af-| constant riding, which made him corpu-^ The   policemen   vvere  alert  on nearly rica?    How   many  now  remained   of . lent-all tended to deaden, his limbs and ,„very corner; sharpers and sUSDJcious Ihese millions in the remnant before his , enervate his faculties.    An early obesi- :! characters  stepped  uimbly   about   the eyes?    And yet those few were faithful, | ty   overloaded   him   wilh   flesh,    "is i cross-streets in search of prey  and in- .... ¦ ,     , , and he vvas going lo leave Ihein forever,    cheeks, formerly streaked wilh  muscles ¦; numenhle «/i'«ot. „f Wr.^«nh'nr,A  r«,l
withdrawn by the chulos, beheld his for- ] resolved never lo allend anoiher, ihough    The army was himself. Whon he should    and hollowed by the working of genius, i ZTii       I       7   f ^Z~' mer adversary now crimsoned with gore, j  it is but fair to stale ihat this good reso-    „« longer' behold it what would he be ?    tv^te broad, full  anV oveZnging, Z ' ^s ^ a'l du^fy-^rn^ n'l^T.Z^ lie rushed at h.m wuh the most  terrific    lution, like many olhers we have  mado    He owed all lo .he sword, and wilh the ^ thoso of Otho in the Roman medals of i  !'« Iv^'   "en, ^"^ fury, and, thrusting his horns savagely | '» our lives, was eventually overcome by    sword he had lost all.    He hesitated a    the empire.    An excess of bile mingling ! uZZ nn'LT-Z    B«nZ   ,t     u ,"" into the lower part of ,h.  toUering ani- ' tempiaiions. ,.,„„en, before descending, and seemed , with .he blood gave a yellow tint to the | ol night,' Sr/^ stSr for h    fr'om S!
: himself for an instant, and llicn falls dead at the feet of his conquerer amid the tumultuous   plaudits     of   the    excited
,* throng of spectators.
Such is a slight skelch ofa Spanish issuing from llio deep wound in his i bull-fight. The imjiression made upon breast. Assoon as the enraged bull, | our minds by the first representation was whose   attenlion    had  been  purposely i so deeply tinctured wilh horror  that we
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