Weekly Reveille, Volume 1, Number 25, Vevay, Switzerland County, 8 December 1853 — Page 1

THE WEEKLY REVEILLE.

VOLUME I.

THE WEEKLY REVEILLE, la published every Thursday morning, a 1 Si 60 in advance.. It is conducted by OTIS S. WALDO and FRED'K J. WALDO, and u independent in all things. For terms of advertising, and club subscrip' lions, see fourth page.

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[Prom the Home Journal.

THE BURIAL OF LOVE.

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Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day, Sat where a river rolled away.

With calm sad brow* and raven bair. And one was pale and both were fait!

Bring floWis, they sang, bring fiow'ritinblown Bring forest blooms of name unknown; Bring budding sprays from wood and wild, To strew the bier of Lave, the child.

Close softly, fondly, while ye weep, His eyes, that death may seem like sleep. And fold his hands In sign of rest, His waxen hands, across his breast.

And make his grate where violets bide, Where star-flowers strew the rivuWs side, And blue-birds in the.mtsty spring Of cloudless skies and sutmner sing.

PlTce near him, as ye lay him low. Ills idle shafts, his loosened bow, The aUken fillet that around • His waggish eyes In sport be bound.

Bui we shall mourn him long-and miss His ready smile, his ready kiss, The prattle of his little feel, ' Sweet frowns and stammered phrases sweet;

And graver looks, serene and high, A light of heaven in that young eye, AU these shall haunt us till the heart Shall ache and ache—and tears will start.

The bow, the hand shaft fall to dust, The shining arrows waste with rust, And aft of Love that earth can claim. Do but a memory and a name.

Not thus his nobler part shaft dwell A prisoner in this narrow cell; . But he whom now. we bide from men. In the dark ground, shall live again.

Shaft break there clods, t form of light, With Eobler mien and purer sight, And in the eternal glory sUnd, Highest and nearest God's right band.

miscellaneous.

THE ItIILITABT OF BVSsIA.

The immense military , resources of Russia are well known, and the chance, of victory by any European army that can be brought into the field is very small. In ease ol necessity, the Russian army could ba made—flora the organization conferred upon it by the Emperor Nicholas, who fur twenty-five yean has toiled at it with great energy—to furnish one fittV/i on of combatants, with eighteen hundred guns ready to make soldiers of children, soldiers by birth. All the corps have their fixed stations, and even furniture for the married. In barracks alone the beds of married couples are simply marked by green curtains. In the military colonies they have their private habitations. The children are brought up by subsidies given to the parents, or, if the latter wish it. by government. The subjection of the Russian soldier is so perfect that it is impossible to contemplate anything more uniform than Russian troops. Their dress, their march, (heir manner, nay, their very physiognomies, bear the aame impression eveiy where. This is almost ridiculously prominent in the Guard, where they put the men with light hair and blue eyes into one company, and the men with dark hair and dark eyes m another.

The excessive discipline enforced in Uie Russian army has no paralel since the lima of the Romans. The Russian soldier U not allowed to think for himself, aliU less to criticise. The passive obedience hat given rise to many atones of the spirit of an order being sometimes confounded with (he latter. One day, a ship, hiving many officers and soldiers on board, went down in the Neva. The order was passed to the soldiers to save, in the first place, the officers of the Guard. So, of each parson, they succeeded in getting bold, they anxiously inquired if he was in officer of the Guardi The water fitting the mouth of these unfortunates, they could not answer; so they were allowed to drown. Anmher lime; it being very dusty the soldiers were ordered to water the field of exercise.. While engaged on Ibis doty, it came on to rain heavily, but the soldiers continued their labor notwith*

standing. It was sufficient that it was ordered!

At the lime of the destruction of lbs winter place by fire, a priest succeeded, with great difficulty, in getteng into the chapel to rescue the sacramental plate. As he was returning, he saw a soldier in the corroidor enveloped in smoke.

‘•Como with me,” he shouted out, "or you will perish in the flames.”

“No,” answered the soldier, “but give me your blessing.” Another, caught in an inundation, al* lowed himself to be drowned rather than leave his post.

The militiry purposes of this wonder, ful subordination—probably in great part the result of frequent application of the stick, a weapon which plays a most imporlant part in the formation of the Russiun soldier—wiil be best understood fiom anotheranecdote.

At the seige of Warsaw, a young grenadier, addressing himself to an old soldier, pointed towsrd the Polish entrenchments, and said—

“What do you think, comrade—shall we take those entrenchments?”

“I scarcely think we shall,” answered the other; “they are too strong "But*” added the young aoldies, "suppose we are ordered to lake them?” • 0. then it wilt be another thing; if we are ordered to lake them, we shill take them.”

Life of Hie West Point Cndct.

He sleeps in the barracks, in a room with one oilier; at fire in the morning in summer, and at half.past five in the winter, the rereille awakens him: he immediately arises, doubles up his blankets and tnattraas, and places them on (he head of hts Iron beadelead; he slndies until seren o’clock; at that hour the drum beats for breakfast and the cadets fall into rank and proceed to the mess hall. Twenty minutes is the usual lime spent at breakfast. Guard-mounting takes place at half past seven, and twenty four are pUced on guard every day. At eight o’clock the bugle' sounds, and the recitations commence. At one o’clock (he bugle sounds, the professors diamiaa their respective stations, the cadets form ranks opposite (he barracks and march to dinner. Between eleven and one a part of the cadets ire occupied in riding, and others in fencing daily. After dinner they have until two o’clock for recreation* At four the bugle sounds and they go either to batallion or light infantry drill. This exercise lasts an hour and a half. After that they dovoie the time in recreation until parade they form into rank in from of the barracks, and the names of delinquents are read by ajt officer of the c,« dels, (supper comes next, and after supper recreation until eight o’clock, when the bugle Bounds to call to quarters and every cadet must be found in his room within a few minutes at study, and roust remain there thus employed until half past nine. At half past nine the bugle again sounds, this is called talma; and as the drum taps, every cadet must be in bed, having his Eight extinguished, and must remain there until morning.

K during the night the cadet is found to be absent from his room more than thirty minutes, and does not give a satisfactory account of himself, charges are preferred againsthim and he is court mirlialed.

The use of inloxicatihg drink and of tobacco ia atrictly repudiated; and so are ptay'mg at chess, wearing whiskers, and a great many other thing-. The punish' merit to which cadets are liable are priration, «^c. t extra hoara of duty, reprimands, arrests, or confinement tn his room or tent; confinement in dark prison, confinement in light prison, dimrual with the privilege of resigning, ami public dismissal. .

Through the months of July and August, the cadets are encamped, and during the encampment the instruction is exclusively military.

The only furlough allowed to cideta is two months, when they are in the third cliis.

The pay of the cadet is twenty five dollars per month, and bis board costs him ten of this. From the balance he is required to dress and defray his other expenses, and he is prohibited from contracting debts without. As the reward for his labor and deprivation, the cadet acquires an excellent education; in mathematics better probably, than be can get at my other inaiitmion in the country, The training of both body and mind ia very thorough tod complete; .

VEVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1853.

(From the N. 0. Delta, Nov. 16. Love and Mnrdei.

Fiction, in her wildest flights, never pictured a more strange and slanting reality than that which was yesterday enacted at No. 60 Bourbon street; and the scene, by those who witnessed it, will not be readily forgotten.

A young and beautiful artiste, attached to the corps of the French Opera in this city, some lime since, formed the acquaintance of a gentleman in one of the cities of the West. The man, as was natural, seemed to feet a great interest in the rising fortunes of hta fair countrywoman, and visited her frequently. Eventually he became over ardent Iu his attentions, and the lady cheeked him with a gentle, yet skillful hand. Time passed on. TSs lady and her husband—for she was married—started for thU city and arrived here about ten days igo. They took lodgings at Mrs. Smith's, No. 60 Bourbon street. A few days afterwaads the Englishman also arrived, and took rooms in the same neighborhood. He soon sought meant of renewing bis acquaintance, and on several occasions visited her at her lodgings. Indeed, he appeared to be perfectly infatuated with her—begged her to ling for him, and praised her music and her charms in the highest terms of extravigam laudation. Yesterday at noon he paid his last visit to her. With whai burning words of melting madness he told bis tale of unbri* dated lore, none now alive now can say, but that be did so tell bis (ale, and receive in answer a disappointing negative, can scarcely admit of a doubt. Or, haply, both loved—well—but yet "not wisely," and as they could not live together, they determined to plunge together into the deep abyss of death! Bnl it were in vain to speculate: one is already an unhonored tenant of the Potter's Field, and the other is unconciously yet rapidly passing into that steep which knows no waking. No cry was heard; no indicatios of a quarrel; bit he reports of two pistol shots discharged in quick succession, brought the inmates of the house to the artiste's room, and (here, such a sight was beheht as made the beholders shrink back aghast. Near each other, on the door, the artiste and her tragic visitor were lying, and their blood, which flowed seperately for a short distance, mingled at length in one common stream. The roan, with a hoarse groan, was gasping out his life, and a portion ol his brains nestled, like a terrible seal of death, on the snow white breast of his companion.

The bullet it would seem, entered the month of the artiste, and passing along the base of the brain, lodged in the neck. She lay speechless on the floor, but her bosom heaved with tumultuous swellings, and she moved at limes asil she fell a sudden twinge of pain. Of hei recovery physicians enlerlaiti not the slightest hope.

in an hour after the fatal shot was fired the ielf-destroyed was a corpse. The

appeared to be about forty years old.

For some time after the tragic occurrence, already described, look plate, Mr, Sage, the artiste's husband, was absent and knew nothing ofahe matter. When he returned and waa informed of it. he at first became frantic, after which he fainted away, and was with difficulty restored.

The Trux Posmo.v.—At the meeting of the North Western Indiana Methodist Conferance, the following resolution was passed, which, as it seems to us points to the only consistent coarse which the (rue friends of the Maine Law can adopt.— This course mmret success;—any other is liable to fail. The resolution is as follows;

Retohedt That we will not vote for any roan for the State Legislature who buys, sells, manufactures, drinks or advocates the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage (we knowing him to be anch;J and who is not pledged to the temperance cause; and we will recommend our people to do the same.

(£j- The whole cost of pauperism to the Slate caused by intemperance cannot be lets than two millions of dollars.

(Prom the Huntingdon (Pa.) Banner. Conviction of EHzabetlk Harkcr lor Killing her own Slater.

Seldom are we called open to record a more .fearfully horrible murder than the one which we now are compelled to oar* rale*, Mulder, commuted in whatever form it may be, is lo oi sickening; bat, when death ia caused by the.means,eo* ployed in the presentinstance* it Is beyond the human strength to contemplate it calmly. The piiaoner, Elisabeth Barker, is 65 years of age, and Is connected with thfe most respectable' relations In this county. She has heretofore Used near the tillage of McConnsllstown, in ibis county. After the death of her husband, which occurred about a year ago, she removed lo the residence of one of her relatives, until the sickness of-her victim, Mrs* Samuel Harris. She repeatedly tod earnestly requested Mr. Harris to allow her lo go and attend to his sick wife, bat he would not consent for a long time, until at length wearied by her Importunity, be gave a reluctant assent.

It appears by the evidence, thst she twice purchased poison, and when first charged with it, she stoutly denied, but afterwards admitted that she had bought it, but bad used it for the purpose of poisoning rats. But it appears that arsenic wst found in s cup of tea which she had prepared for the victim, in the paper which she hid endeavored to hide in an obscure place, after the giving of the tea, and in the stomach of her victim.

All thesecircumstaneescombtned,make it certain that the is the murderer.

Her trial commenced on Thursday. November 1 abend was closed on Wednesday the 33d. After the charge of the Judge, the jury retired to (heir room, and after .an absence of about an hour returned with s verdict of quilt*!. in the first degree. *

The conduct of the prisoner duiing the early part of the trial, was very imprudent; she appeared to be utterly unconscious of her perilous situation, indulging in lacffhter. tod inkinc in a merry mood during the, examination of the, witnesses. On Saturday, however, her countenance took a more irrious cast, and from thence to the end of the trial, she wept almost unceasingly while in the Court Room.

The motive which actuated her to com* mil this inhuman murder, was the desire of filling the place occupied by her vie* tim. Murdering a sister who lived be* loved and respected by all who knew her, merely for the purpose of gratifying her unholy desires, and m so doing, forever barring herself from the pleasures and privileges oft glorious hereafter, where “the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest,*' i

[From the London Times. The Last Hope Gone I

Commander McClure can send us no news of Sir John Franklins expedition. S/he opinion of the most distinguished and /olar worthies now it that Sir John franklin, after leaving the winter quarters here his trices were found, proceeded carry out the Admiralty instructions, eering first westerly for Melville Island, id then shaping a course—as far as the of the .scene of action perilled—southerly and westerly for Bchrg's Siraits. It is supposed that, in en-

coring to carry this purpose into effect,

Ate Erebus snd Terror were hopelessly frozen up or destroyed yesrs ago in *omo of the multitudinous channels -which are known or supposed (o exist there. This we find to be the opinion of the principal Arctic navigators, and it comes before u# recommended by its extreme probability. Certainly, Sir John Franklin was not an officer to leave unattempted any duty which he had been ordered in perform, and therefore it is probable that he would not have deviated from the letter of his instructions without excellent cause; had he ao deviated, it ia alt bat certain that he would have left behind him at Beechy Island, or elsewhere, some record of his changed intention.

|f.| (hen. Comroshder McClure has been unable to find any trace of the lost expedition between Behring's Straits and the point from which he-wrote hie dispatches it would appear that opr beat chance has been exhausted. The public have a right to expect that we hare now seen the last of Arctic expectations. Even Sir John Barrow, hart he yet been alive, would now have entreated the Admiralty to hold their binds,

Wine for the Fashionable, and

the Biter Bitten.

A large Champaigne manufacturer, residing in New York, bet having his counterfeiting wine establishment in New Jersey, wishing to entertain his friends with the real article from France, purchased some of the hontit importer. A* the corks began to fly, one dropped before him, on examining which he found it was Are own. The French bouse, unbeknown to him, had purchased some of his Fabrications. and by the ose of imitation French baskets and counterfeit labels, bad sold him back bis own vile dragged trash.— The biter is bitten. Sugar of lead enters largely into the manufacture of Cham* paigne.

An Episcopal clergyman, relumed from Europe, visited an immense manufactory for fabricating wine; he was assured that the establishment kept a vessel employed to import Log Wood, that being one of the ingredients to.make good Port, Claret, Purgundy, 3*c., 4*c>

Fellow Citizens; These are facts, no romancing; and if for no other reason than the horrid frauds and adulterations now so rife in the traffic, should it not be pnt down by the strong arm of the law! We do not make onr appeal lb professed friends of Temperance alone, but to all honest men in the State, Should we not all units io one mighty effort to put down a traffic so awful, so detestable; afraod so enormous ia its, eSects upon the lives of our citizens! - We speak to the hearts, the consciences, the justice, ihe'good sense of the Law makers of this State and the whole world, With you rests the mighty responsibility.;

A fljrsterlsns Land.

A late California steamer brings sc* counts of the discovery of the ruins of certain cities embosomed in the Rocky Mountains, in the vicinity of the Mormon settle meats of Utah. These cities were passed through by Gapt. Walker in 1650, who, with the exception of Lieot. Beal, is the only person who has accomplished so great an exploit. CapL Walker has ,v„.ivj particulars in regard to the locality, which cannot fail to elicit great attention, and awaken profound interest. He found there the ruins ins state of great perfection; (he streets were well defined, and many of the buildings were in a remarkable elate of preservation; (he stone and brick having the appearance of being glazed, as though they had been passed over by a raging eonflsgration. Captain “Walker also asserts that be has discovered in that section a race of Albinoet, who are probably the descendants of those who erected the buildings.

Unusual overflow of the I^ilb.— The Nile hat this year risen higher than it has during the last twenty years. Almost the entire valley of Egypt is one sheet of water, and travelers proceeded to the pyramids in boats, an excn/slon which in ordinary times occupies a three hours ride from flehtzeh: thejnearest pnim on the river. The damage done to the crops by this excess of water is very great, and very extensive tracts of land sown in Indisn corn tre covered with from three to flve feel of water, and the plants are consequently destroyed. The villages and towns are reduced to islands, and are only saved by the inhabitants raising embankments all round; which- they watch day and night with the greatest anxiety. The Fellahs will severely feel the loss of their crops of Indian corn, as it forms their principle article of food during the winter; so that, owing to this deficiency and the demands for. grain from Turkey, the Viceroy is not acting unwisely in limiting the exportation of corn. ■

o^-All coverings of the neck ought to be;worn loose. Necklaces and ribands are frequently tied so tight as to threaten strangulation inthe least extraordinary exertion. The neck and throat being alternately expanded contracted in speaking, chewing, and swUowing.U is the .highest degree of imprudence, not to say ignorance, to obstruct the free motion of these vital channels. Tight stocks are no less injurious. By the use of the'se, people have induced apoplectic symptoms; for, on turning the neck when the body stands fixed, diminishes (lie diameter of the jugulir vein so much, that a proportionate quantity of blood cannot be returned from the vessels of the head and brain.

$3- If you doubt whether two skulls .are better than one, just undertake to row (against the tide some day.

NUMBER 25.

A Vessel Blown Up with 400

Barrels of Powder.

On the first of April, the Victoria sailed from London for Port Phittip, Australia, and on the ISthlune it was discovered on fire, within a few days 1 sail of the port; the passengers then, far the first tine, he mg advised (hat there were 400 barrels of powder included in her large and valuable cargo.. The account describes the tragedy, thus:

It was about 10 o'clock at night, tad the terror and alarm that instantly follow' ed among the crew, who were cognisant of the "magazine” beneath them, was of a chancier not easily to be described. The captain and the passengers had, tiro or three days previously, noticed a rattling noise underneath the cabin flooring, as if some of the cargo bad got adrift, and rolled .about every time the vessel lurched over; and amid this raiding noise on the evening in question, the passengers discovered smoke issuing through the cabin flooring. It appears that they were ignorant ol the existence of the. magazine till they heard some one exclaim, **My Godt the powder!” All hands instantly turned to launch the long boat, but finding this was unsafe, having by some accident beon stove, one of the quarter boats was lowered. Not a moment was to be lost.— Brief as the interval had been the fire burst forth into the cabin, and the flames were issuing out of the companion. * A ruth filled the boat, and in . another moment the men were putting; away from the vessel with every nerve. Happily the boat contained the whole of the people. They had scarcely reached Half a rode from the burning ship before the 400 barrels, of powder blew op with terrific force.: The ship appeared to be lifted bodily out'of the water, ahd then, with the remaining poriionj of the cargo, shat-, tercd lo atoms, and hurled to an immense distances The «a for miles Was covered with her fragments. Some (ell into the boat and nearly swamped ii,' and some ot the crew were roach burned by the explosion. The poor creatures were exposed inlhe boat, without provisions of any description, not even water, for £6 hours, when they were sighted by the bark Tulesina, bound to M elbourne, whicli immediately borne down, and took them on board, evidently very much exhausted.

lITr. (!lnv’« RAronl f«P Ihf! firs'.

Henry Clay was not a ..“Woman's Right** man; he did not believe in women becoming divines, doctor*, merchant, p o |. iliciant, or slump-speakers. He liked the old fashoned doctrines about woman's place and duties, and be respected them in the domestic or social circle; At his reception In the City Halt of New York in 1818, he said to the ladies ;

In the course of my short life, I must say that the larger! portion of pleasure I have enjoyed, has been in the company of' your sex. Although 1 have found persons in both sexes who were bad, 1 have found more truth, purity, generosity, politeness and virtue in your sex.ihan in mine. After a day like this, I cannot stop to kitt you all, but 1 hope 1 shall meet you all in that blessed bourne whither the righteous pass when they depart hence. 1 *

Beautiful Extract.— There is nothing more lovely in this life, more full of the divines! courage,than when a young maiden from her past life, from her happy childhood, when she rambled, over every field and moor around her home; when a mother anticipated her wants & soothed her little cares; when brothers and sisters grew from merry playmates to loving and trustful friend.-; from Christmas gaUierings and romps; front Summer fetlivaii in bower or garden; from the ntoms sanctified by the death of relatives; from the secure backgrounds of her childhood and girlhood and maidenhood, looks out into the dark sed unilluminalcd future,away from all tbit: and yet, unterrified, undaunted, leans her cheek upon her lover's breast and whiafieri ♦•Dear beau! 1 cannot ace. but 1 beiere. The, past was .beautiful, but.the future I can trust—with thee!'*

Sizic or American Territories.— Utah would mike twenty States of the mo of New HaropstugepiNabraska, fifteen; Indian twenty; North-WesjL sixty-fire, lout, one hundred''and^ljMpty-six Sutra. Should these an equal population to the square mtlqwlth New-Hampshire, they would conlainVpopulaiion of about thirty-eight million souls: What a destiny awaiu our country. _

OiT Grocer* who sell aweel peas for •<old government Java,” should lemember their latter end, and bear in mind that "Jordan is a hard road to travel"—even. without peas in th nr boots. Things ste not judged by their "labela” to the other world.-

03- We may cast into the divine treasury from our abundance, and we may east in from our want. The Lord teach** ei ut ('Mark 3. 41-44) that what la cast in, in tho latter case, is more than what it call in In the former.