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The Huron Expositor, 1870-05-27, Page 6(7 THE HURON. EXPOSITOR. MAY 271 1870. The Death of Blucher. No Frenchman will ever forget the name of Blucher, the Prussian field-marshal who helped the. English to gain the battle of Waterloo. - Blucher, discontent with everything and . everybody, left Franoe during the autumn of the same year he had entered, Park An- gered by having been reduced to inactivity, he retired to one of his numerous -Country seats, where he 'soon became a prey to a, pro- found melancholy, the.cause of, which no one aeemed to know. He was also *subject to attacks of -dropsy, and afflicted with in- fla,mation of the lu.ngs, the danger of which , he considered more imminent than it really was. He .could not bear to remain sin ob- scurity, and solitude he regarded as bodily torment; and so great was the inquietude which his health gave rise to, that the King of Prussia departed for Krieblowitz imme- diately after hearing that the old general had often expressed a desire to lee his soy - reign before his death. At the dead of the alight the King arriv- ed at the castle, and was at once conducted to the apartments -occupied by Blucher, who was then seventy-four years old. The roy-- alaviSitOr found himself in- a large, daik room, the old-fashioned furniture of which added greatItato the melancholy aspect of the place. Divers arms and trophies of the chase were hanging upon the 'walls. The 91d general, enveloped in a large bearskin, was sitting in antique oaken armchair, and the only light by which his wan features could be discerned was that ofhe fire which burned on the hearth. Ou pereeiviag the King, he made an fort to receive hum, but the monarcs4o1dl _him to remain seated, and, taking hi hand in his own, be sat -down b bis side.., Blu- cher made a sign to his attendants that. he desired to beatIone with the King, and every one retired. Theu, raising himselfup, with evident pain, from his half -reclining posture, he broke the silence by saying, "Sire, I besought you to undertakethe journey you have made :to Krielalowitz, knowing that you were near, assisting at annual review of the troops; but had you been at Berlin, or even at the farthest ex- tremity of Europe, rather than not see you —dying and :all as I-am—I would have set out to find you, for I have a terrible secret to reveal. Bit before I tell it, look at me .well. , Scrutinize the expression of my countenance, the features of -my face—lis- ten to the tone of my voice, and pay atten- tion toathe order of My ideas! •Assure yourself that I have become not mad. For, at times, I ask tnyself if 1 am not iLnh idiot, who mistakes the dreams of a night for events of years gone by. "Bat no," continueu he; as he drew from his breast a gold braclet ; "no, alIis trim, all is real, and I can doubt nothing, Listen to me, Sire. When the seven years' war broke out, in 1756, my father, who • dwelt in his rcia,nsion at Grose-Renzow, sent Me and one of my brothers to a relation of ours the Princess Kraswisk, who lived in the land of Rugen. I was then fourteen years old, and, after hating.passed some time in the old fortress without hearing any news from my family, as Gross-Renzow and its neighboring countries.had become the seat of the war, I joined a regiment of hussars in the Sweedish serviee. I was taken prisoner at the battle of Luc:know, and the Prussian Government urged me to enter its army.. During a whole year I resisted all • persaa- sion to that -effect, ended last I obtained my liberty by enlisting as bugler in the Black Hussars. I, however, managed to procure a few months' furlough, for sixteen years had passed away since I last heard from ray family, but my mind was constantly harms - sed with fearful thoughts as to what had become of my mother and sisters. I at last started for Gross-Renzow, and on my way found all the country near Meckleiaburg in a dreadfully ravaged state. As the carriage I was in moved but slowly and with grea':, difficulty over the rocay road leading to my ancestors' domains, -I abandoned it, and con- tinued' ray route on horseback, accompanied by a servant man. This happened fifty-nine years agi) to -clay, on the tivelfth of ilugut, and just ;about the same hour as the hand of that clock you see there is now marking-- half:pad &evens A -tremendous storni had commenced -a -the thunder rolled and crash- ed with reports like theifiring Of a park-. of artillery, the lightning flashed, a,nd the rain fell in torrents. After having wan- dered for a lona dine in. the forest, I arriv- ed at the doer a the castle : and it was only the -n that I perceived that 1 wiYs alone, and that my servant had not followed me; the _tempest and the darkness had probably caus- ed him to stray away. " Without dismounting, I knocked Nvitll the handle of my whip at the ironbound door, bristling with large rivets. No one answered my call ; I -knocked- again three different times, Ivith the same success: Atl last, becatiting impatient, I dismoanted. The door opened of its own accord1 saw no one who could have been the means of giving me admittance. Without paying any attention. to this singular incident, left my horse standing at the door, and, ef- ter having crossed the yard, If ascended -the stairs, and entered into the interior of the mansion. There NT,41S not a particle of ligitt in the whole place, not a sound fell .on ears. I must COD.f0S8 my heart seemed to cease its beating, and a cold chill ran over my whole body. What folly?' thought I to myself. 'The castle is uninhabited. My family left when T. did, and have not returned. No matter, as I am .here, in • this cle8eited place, I will try to pass the night as comfortably as possible ' . "Thus soeaking ta myself, I patsed through several apartments, and arhved at my father's, bedrooni. A nearly extinguitht ed fire was slumbering amid the ashes on the hearth. With the assistance of its flick- ering light'I recognized my father, my mo- ther, and my four sisters seated in a half - circle before it. They all stood up on see- ing me.' I was on the point of throwing mysoplf into my father's arms, when. I was stopped by a solemn gesture he made to prevent me from coming near him. I held out my arms to my mother, but she receded from. me with a melancholy look. I called each of my. sisters by their name,and the only answer that I received was that , they took hold Of each other's hands without pro- nouncing a word, and then all sat down. 'Do you not know me VI exclaimed. 'Is that the way a family should receive a son and a brother, after so many Years of separation 3 Have you then, alreadydlearnt that I haVe entered the PrUssian service ! But I could not do otherwise; my liberty, the happi- ness of seeing you were its reward. Just think, that in sixteen years - I have heard nothing of you. Separated from you by interminable wars, in. the Swedish service --prisoner of war—no news ever reached me to calm my anxiety and my doubts You see yourself that the first use I made of my liberty was to come and see you here —here where I feared I might not find you alive, bat where, at least, I thought I should learn something to.set me on the right road to find you. What, father !you do not answer me ? Mother, you are 81 - lent' , Have you, sisters, forgotten the ten- derness and the plays of our childhood— those plays of which .this room has been oft- en the spectator r " These last words seerned to move my sisters. They began to speak in lower tones to each other, made me a sign to ap- proach, and one of them knelt down before my mother, hiding her head in her lap as if desirous of playing a game called ‘ hot - hands.' Now it came my turn to kneel down. before my mother,- and hide my head in her lap. Ohs, horror! I felt under the silk 'garmentscold and hard sitbstances— I heard a dry noise, like the jumbling of bones together—and when a hand was plac- ed in mine, that hand remained there. It was a skeleton's. I arose, breaking forth into a cry of terror. All vanished and nothing remained of that terrible vision but a few human bones, Wild With terror, and half crazy, I rushed out of the abominable habitation; found my horse, and throwing Myself into the saddle,• departed at a break- neck- gallop,. unconscious of where I was going, letting the horse take his own route. "About daylight,,my horse fell dead un- der me, and my follower, anxious and troubled about my disappearance, after a long earch, found me with a large wound in my head, lying, insensible beside my horse at the foot of a tree. I was for a long time on the poiat of death ; a,rall it was only after three weeks of a raging fever, of agony and delirium, \hat I was again in possession of my reason I then heard from the people of the town that ray whole family had per- ished, victims of the cruel war that had de- vastated Luxembourg, and thst the castle a of Gros-Renzow had been pillaged and rav- aged several times. "Scarcely convalescent, I went a second time to the castle to have the remains of my family placed in the family vault, when, to my great surprise, and notwithstanding the scrupulous search I made not particle of those sacred remains could be found. A hand alone—a woman's hand—round which was this gold bracelet, lay on the floor of the room wherein the fatal vision had appeared to me. I took the bracelet, it was the one I now- hold in -my hand, and the human bones were placed in the oratory of the eas- tle. . -Since that time, many, many a year has rolled past About two months ago, as 1 was sleeping in the very- chair I am now seated iii, I was awakened by a slight noise. On opening my eyes, 1. beheld my father, my mother, and my four sisters before me, and, as they had done in the castle of Gross- Renzow, my sisters joined their bands- to- gether, -as if to play' hot hands,' and beckon- ed me to approach. --'No,' I exclaimed ; 'nit _never.' Then all the phantoms, taking each • ether by the hand, began to turn a circle 'round my chair.—' fusNce,' said my father, while passing before me.--' Penance,' mur- mured my mother, as she bent her head to- wards me.--‘ Prayer,' said nav youngest sis- ter.--' Sword,' sighed the other. skfter- wards I- heart] the other one saY.---' The twelfth of August.'—And the last one re- peated, c The twelfth of August, attlnight.' —Again, they commenced to _walk around my ehair, repeating the same words. Af- ter acting thus for some time, they joined their sepulchral -voices in saying, 'Till we meet*again—till we meet ataina!' I under- stood, then, that lily destiny was about to be accomplished, and that I had nothing more to do than to recommend my soul to heaven, anct my family to your Majesty." . "My dear Marshall," said the King "what you have related is certainly very atrange. Do you not think that your fever and deli- rium have had something to do with those` two visions ?--Oonae, conae—take courage ! Combat and overcome these halluncination and hope for the best. You will soon be well, and you will live to enjoy life for years to comeis it not so ? Do you • not believe me? Come, give me your hand." As ,,Bluclier did not answer, the King of Prussia took hold of the old man's hand. That hand was cold as ice, and the old clock was just striking midnight! - - Field Marshall Gaillard Lebretch Bluch- er was dead! .,4Esop's Life arid Fables. In the days of Crcesus, King of Lydia, be- tween five and six handred years before the Christian era, lived 2Esopus, no inapt as- presentive of the great social and intellec- tual movement of his age. Born a slave, with no outward circumstances to recom- mend him to the notice of the great, he forc- ed lus way by his mother -wit into the courts of princes, and laid the foundatioaofa fame more universal and 'perhaps more lasting in. its influence, than that of all the Seven Wise Men of Greece, his worthy contemporaries. Up to this time, Whatever wisdom from without had ggided, the counsels of princes had been derived from the tra,ditio4itry lore of courts, from the verses of bards, hallow- ed by time, or inaprOmptued for the occas- SiOD. Writing was as yet only known in the inscription on the the public marble, or on the private tablet. With the sixth cen- tury before Christ commences the era of written classic literature. The great con- vulsions of the Eastern nations, and the first direct and sustained intercourse of the Oriental and the Greeian mind, tended to call forth all the latent energies of either people. Even wealthy Creesus discovered that knowledge was power, and assembled around him front every nation all, who had gained a reputation for superior wisdom. It was an age when distinctions of birth and country were less heeded, and wit was Hs: tened to, even from the lips of a foreign slave. It was even able to Emancipate it- self, not only from the bondage of custom, but from actually bodily slavery, and _Mop came to the court Of CrO3SUS, from his old master.Tadmon, a free man. Asop's fame had probably preceded him, but less as a sage than as a wit. He seems to have been a stepping -stone between the poetry which had gone before, ancl the prose that followa ed, making the politics and morals of the day his study, but clothing his lectures in the garb of imagination and fancy. There is no doubt that he quickly gleti in favor with Crcesus by the mode in which he im- parted his knowledge. While Soleil held the schoolmaster's rod over the philosophic- al monarch, /Esop conciliated alike his will and his reason by timely drollery and sub - Welt' conveyed advice. If he should hence look upon him as little •more than a court - jester, we shall be doing him great wrong. He came to amuse but he remained to in- struct; and Orcesus probably learned more home truths from his fictions than from all the serious disquisitions of his retained philosophers. Wherever he went he lifted up his voice in the same strain. At Corint,h he warned his hearers against mob -law, in a fable which Socrates afterwards turned into verse. At Athens, byi the recital of "The Frogs an I Jupiter," he iiave a lesson both to prince ands peOple. Hiit visit to Delphi seems to have had less of a politic alobect. He was sent as commissioner by Crces sus to distribute some payment due to the Delphians, and in discharge of this duty in- curred the displeasure of the citizens of that world's centre, whose characterseems to have been at all times -but little in ac- cordance with the sacred privileges they as- sumed. Probably even more ftom fear of his wit than from displeasure at his award, ancl judging from the event without any plea of justice, the Delphians iaised against him the cry of impiety- and sacrilege. For once his ready weapon failed in its effect. He is said to have appealed to their rever- ence for the laws of hospita ity, by the fable of "The Eagle and the Be tle," the germ probably of the existing st ry ; but he ap- pealed in vain. Their craf was in danger; and the enraged guardians _ of the temple hurled the unfortunate fable -maker head- long from one of the Platedrian precipices. The conscience -smitten Delphians, many years afterwards, regard.ing-their calamities as a plinishment for their evil deed, pro- claimed; again and again, their readiness to give compensation for his death)o any one who would prove a title to -the self-imposed fine. No other claimant appearing, it was awarded at length. to Tadmon, the grandson of Tadmon (son of HephtestOpolis), Asop's old master. The proverb of " YEsop's blood," in after times, gave warning to his coantrymen that murder will not 'cry out to heaven in vain. There are further au- thentic notices of iEsopis life, but there are abundant proofs of the estimation in which his words were held by the Athenians for many generations afterwards. He who had not got YEsop's fables at his fingers' end, was looked upon as an illiterate dunce. About two hundred years after his death, a statue of him, the workmanship of Lysippus, was erected at Athens, and was placed in front of the Seven Sages.—Onr Own Fire- side. -41b•••• N ATHAN RoTSCHlaa.--During the lat- ter years of his ' life, the famous London banker, Nathan Rotschild, was said to be al- ways in fear of atsassination : " You must be a very happy man, Mr. Rotschild," said a friend at one of his splendid banquets for which. his Piccadilly' house was famous. "Happy ! me happy !" he exclaimed, "what. happy! when just as you are going to dine you have a letter placed in your kind say- ing, you don't send me $5001 will blow your brains out. Me happy !" One day two strangers were admitted into his pri- v'ate room at the bank. They were tall foreigneirss with moustaches and beards, of 30 or 40 years of age, and Rothschild al- ways timid, Was frightened -from the mo- ment of their entrance. - He 'put hisown interpretation upon the excited movements when they fumbled about in their pockets, and before the expected pistols could be. produced, he had thrown a ledger in the direction of their heads and brought in a bevy of clerks by his cries of "murder" The strangei s wei • then pinioned, and then after long questionings and explanations, it appeared they were -wealthy bankers from the continent, who, nervous in the presence of a banker more wealthy, had some diffi- culty in finding the letters of introduction which they were to present. It is undeniable, says Prentice, that in .America it tEdies three to make a couple, he, she, and a hired girl. Had Adam been a modern, there would have been a hired girl in Paradise to look after little. Abel an d to "raise Grin." WATCHES. 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