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.
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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."
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