Wisconsin Herald, The (Newspaper) - April 24, 1847, Lancaster, Wisconsin VOL V LANCASTER SATURDAY APRIL NO 7 We have been favored with an Ex- tra from office of I he Galena zetto containing the following Unt The U 8 Princeton ed below New Orleans on the 2d in 82 from Vera Cruz Messrs Gideon snd of the ton brought up the following news Can Scott baring completed hit entrenchments on the ulU line nine miles in length completely rounding the city opened his batteries consisting of nine four 24 pounders and two 10 inch howitzers at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of that day The City and Castle delivered and wert to retire into the rior OB condition of a- gainst us during the Toe was fixed as the day which army take possession and on the morning of tbat day Gen Scott Pretty with Gen Worth and hia will the gentl companied by the chief officers of tbe i please pass the salt army snd a large representation from one of our city taking the squadron entered snd took or title in office members of in the sad of present the House of were for a moment the gloomy history of seated at the dining table the past er dignified we one them said Will the gentleman from please pass the butter soon another man from Worcester sion the enemy at time distinctly will tbe from out As the American flag was j Africa please to the bread Ibis hoisted at the plaza and over San an salutes were fired from tbe castle the batteries was very fond of walking in the streets of Paris incognita in s arch of adf On then occasions he generally turning round to the black waiter said Wore a round hat and a long blue great firing shot and shell from the ion that of Fort Jago at the southern moment our troops were discovered taking the firing ced between both parties from the time our batteries opened until the night of the and was heavy and uninterrupted On the in the damage done to the city was immense A battery of two 32 pounders and four 68 pounders from the Squadron manned by commanded by officers from the Squadron wao placed directly in the rear of the city on the morning of the This battery told with such powerful eff ct that of the twelve of the enemy surrounding the city five were directed to it without having the effect in dampening the ardor of those who worked it It was manned by 150 seamen and com- manded by five or six officers the of the city and the squadron Gen Scott immediately took up his bead quarters in the palace and ted Gen Worth with the command of the city as he gave at the same time the command of the Castle to Col extremity of the city to Major Wright and that of Fort Conception at the in appearance was not prepossessing lit of this he was occasionally re- with a coolness and indifference Foreign packet ship to he was Columbia has arrived at New having left Liverpool on Ctb of One morning shortly before March he rose as early as sewn aud She brings large orders for by Duroc grand marshal can produce and still further orders of the who wort the same are expected to be sent The price of corn has risen of disguise ns left the in just as day was breaking France and Belgium There is great j ter n walk through the Vendome L distress there in consequence northern extremity to Major Scott j and Normandy have The loss during the and a great honorary siege is wonderful including CapL has been given thereupon had recently been erected there lo the Rue de Napoleon now Kite Ju where he much admired the splendid mansons ty relieved every squadron and it guns in our whole with better effect 24 hours from the is admitted that no This however is The diplomatic relations between famili-.irly with Duroc be Greece and Turkey have The envoy of been the latter government has been insulted by Otho He demanded liis and sailed for Turkey is dead Wheat has per for the they were criticising the decorations Flour has advanced nal 42 shillings and 41 shillings hurlig and of the Army and Midshipman of the sippi the latter of whom killed while employed in the naval battery in the rear of the entire loss in killed is only 17 and wounded 28 That of onr enemy's garrison oar in- formant did not karn but understood that Gen Valdez was among the ed The loss among the ants has unfortunately been very The number of women and children killed is variously estimated at from 500 to 2000 The enemy assigns as reason for the early capitulation a desire to spare the blood of and be- cause they were out of previsions both i lings In of T inhabitants of the city staled alter the j Mexican surrender that there was a month's extract of a letter from in officer provisions there but however this may in the army tho evening be after the terms of capitulation had of tin 5th of January I attended the been agreed upon Gen Scott on funeral of a very pretty young girl ing informed of the scarcity of j the Sunday ions in the city sent in seen with a blooming cheek and plies for their relief at tne church The H teems to me that the in this quarter are very to their shut at this time of day Discoursing thus they arrived at the j Chinese Bath Rooms which had been dj very troubled seeing the inquirer wore livery of drawing from bis pocket n fold watch enriched with brilliants said to vow have acted keep this watch till I return to Well those pense were the Emperor and the grand waiter no shal of f see the wUb to take ii I fed convinced you j ter who security tor The mis rang the bell she of leu going to the palace to implore tbe forgi Of the When the appeared the footman gate a roll of fifty Napoleons nnd said to Mo addition to this the grand shal of the palace has charged me to that if you any fa or to sail fur yourself or he will be most happy to grant it The name of the waiter was pens he hastened to accept the kind are men of honor Good my said the grand shall never repent tour confidence in us He then rejoined the Emperor On way to the palace Duroc recounted the particulars of the ture to Napoleon laughed ly and was pleased with the ty of the poor ho had become security or them without knowing who they On their way to the palace they came to the Passage Panoramas which wart then one of the most passages or covered ways in There u shop attracted the tion of Napoleon It contained a fine footmen He soon pruned he of porcelain vises Twoj the Josephine and is of the grand marshal who stantly made him of superb vases were exposed to view nnd appearing to the Emperor very tasteful he entered the thop and de- manded the price The of the shop with n on her countenance cooly asked if he wished to purchase them madame I should not have asked the price unless I had thought of two shillings recently painted and embellished As i J on irritated at the cool impudence of the woman Four thousand francs not a Western of the exterior the cafe which New Orleans to the establishment opened we enter and breakfast farthing less Corn and corn meal are in active j said Napoleon to Duroc what demand for Ireland No quotations given Rates improving Bacon 64 Hams 74 shillings Beef active Lard in kegs 56 Four thousand that is Com Perry during the siege was ny to me was quite singular The not the only participation of our lant fleet in the siege On the evening of the what is termed the Mosquito fleet consisting of the steamers Spitfire and Vixen schooners pico and Falcon each vessel having 1 heavy gun moved up from the age at Sacrifices on the afternoon of the 22 J and took position on the ex- treme right of oar line close in shore and commenced firing shot and shell into the city They retained this t sition until morning of the city when they found the fire becoming j nety of artificial roses and white hen they got under way and stood j a little too warm for their safety as j pery gracefully hung in festoons She about one quarter of a mile of they refused to avail themselves of the jhy upon this without a coffin her foreign dress being white and with her long extremely strict in preventing any corps wan calm and beautiful and between the foreign vessels j was borne on a litter cohered of war and the enemy and Gen Scott j pure white having at its head a to afford the British and French j py decorated in the gayest and most consuls an opportunity for leaving the j beautiful manner with a wilhin the Castle at A point to the north of first notification for all the Washerwoman shoal so that both i dents to leave the city hair smoothed back from do you say has not your walk given ribly dear much too dear lor you an Sire it loo early it is only eight And touching his hat Vie was about to leave the shop when the liTRer pockets added too as for me I am quite gry Afterwards we can return They cost me fire thousand but it WM ts A lid without wailing fur an answer Napoleon entered the Cafe took his seat at a table called the waiter and requested -some mutton chops and a bottle of wine And ing breakfasted heartily and taker a cup of coffee which he protested was hr than he was supplied with at the he called the waiter and de- manded the saying to pay and let us return Then rising and going to the door he began lo whistle an Italian endeavoring to appear at ease The grami marshal rose at the same lime but after fruitlessly searching his found that having dressed in haste he had forgotten his purse and Castle and City were reach of j The destruction of the city is very her brow and floating loosely on either j ho well knew that Napoleon never their guns They remained in this great Fully one-third of it is tn rains side sition during two or three hours firing During the siege Col Harney with alternately into the City snd Castle dragoons and two pieces of money about him In this manner she was borne to the less the waiter and presented the Church proceeded by a band of music to the grand mute J J and notwithstanding its close i lery bad a brush with 1500 of the snd followed by a mixed i rowd of all wuth surprise at not being able to dis- ty to the Castle and the continued fire j my's cavalry and two pieces of sizes nations and In it although tbe amount was of shell and shot from that point of the j lery at Maddellin a small town about Church she was placed in front of the only twelve francs enemy's defences and from Fort six or eight miles tooth of Vera Cruz j altar with lights burning on Napoleon not knowing what de- tiago at the southern extremity of the city not a life was lost a wound re- or one of the vessels injured At the expiration of two or three hours the fleet was recalled but during the period it was engaged it did much destruction to the city and the Castle considerably by throwing shells into it During the an extremely lent norther blew and tbe fire on both was suspended during tbe whole day and from our batteries on tbe being so the people with and repulsed tbe enemy The j side and the services of the Church Duroc and not accustomed to bad command of a bridge over a took place mingled with the swelling i be watting saying it nl small river which runs through tbe town but were driven from it with a organ She was then j borne to the her coffin loss much greater than was suffered by I which was handsomely decorated with Come make haste it is late The grand marshal now Harney This is supposed to stripes of ribbon of different colors bending the unpleasant situation io have been the advance of of being carried behind while in from he the which in the rear of line by a circuitous and creating a diversion in favor of the was placed and thinking of it to dis- charge the debt approached the ftr At the recent meeting tn New tress of the caff who sat silent and in Orleans for the relief of the Irish different at tbe nod said enemy which are at and the band playing not as with that the best way to get out a kh tt is designed coating but lively airs to frankly inability Seott it was would Hon S S made on the speech from which we take the folio and Madame my friend and myself left wred for a Morales the brigade when the home this morning a little Governor having declared his left was under prepared to lies upon the other side of ly forgot to bring oor purse was march to aad Gen Quitman's the wide a island I give my word that in an w a II in story Its area h hour I tbat of tbe State of tion never to white it possible to fire a gvn Landero elected in his nod brigade was preparing to march nod on I which h would you amount of the momide of the a flag of truce be taken not so great as is better to sell at a loss times than starve There are fine doing nil the world Business ii at a now and the shopkeepers are but we do not pay less During this address Napoleon's countenance highly expressive eyes flashed his were flushed with at length he inter her by Madame you a Where is Can I do not be angry I have a husband thank but he is gone to seek for money But what can you want with him when I am Enough madame became her special attendant After her divorce he accompanied her to singular destiny men of this eventually entered the service of Wellington in 1814 his visit to the the imperial loot man reached the sage dt Panoramas when he entered the shop of the voluble Sir said he addressing the master you are requested to go to the ace this instant with two which the Emperor inquired the price of a- bout six in your His imperial majesty is now waiting fot you he cried I shall be shot Then his wife who fti he hate no doubt that madame hare been the Emperor speaking ill of the you do and this to the Emperor himself When will you learn to cense your cursed mon I am a man I shall be fright overpowered the poor mnn who seemed shocked his wife should have taken the Em- for a police spy However t e mustered all his courage and arrived with the vases at the Tuileries where he ushered into pre- genre of Napoleon who thus addressed mr I yoti st I sm glad to ice you here Then taking from a drawer in hi desk eight banknotes for a I francs each he them lo I 1 t f cd to trll your I should for these He then left the shop disgusted with the whose cool new and had so exasperated him said he when had ed Duroc 1 have had a sound lecture from a foolish woman who to attend more to politics than her I will have her husband's head abated it is his fault The Emperor and the grand ihal now returned to the having both met with the one with a shopkeeper and tbe to her domestic affairs instead dealer who MUS trembling with fear snd with great difficulty advanced t receive them And now with peculiar sarcastic brevity with he invariably spoke when he wished to reproach he 1 went the er day to your shop I harg lined for two vases your wife asked four telling me that her five thousand Well although WM falsehood now gire you f thousand take them There are onr for the and four for But tell jour that if politics 1 will her where she will be taken of you too to teach you both to be GO sir is all I hate white its with a waiter A bout six weeks after these Napoleon one evening to Duroc I have nothing to do now suppose j say to we go snd see how shops of Napoleon how did you settle that affair at the Chinese Indeed sire I am glad you mentioned the subject tor I had quite i all about iL That wrong Duroc very wrong reader will the interest which Fanny Forrester excited in this country as a writer with Her Dr her d picture with him to enter t r be to coldly replied the I was sent with an offer to surrender the preparation bad made for a land most half tbat of the Union It has 1 either of yon and may be allowed to the Baptist in Thor to worM iU share we are every in in j but tt J 1 in plied tbat be coeld take both the City j The Princeton IMS gone to genius and It has been Do you think I immediately make to with the and that he weald where will remain prolific io warriors and no- interrupted grand amende Honorable that letter had only the surrender of both The flag tine and then proceed to Its brave and tons have reddened with rage it this an- do let it be in a way from from which probably we of trace returned bat during tbe day phia repairs She bas on board all but their hobor of- which will mt understand an extract The It tier is negotiations were opened by tbe Conner and chief own Jn wjt utf famm it bas no e- fie of the At time let female dated 5 1846 which in the nf of the Engineer who while its luro Vl of honor be her BOTH THE CITY AMD THE Without the of the terms it will for the present be sufficient to say tbe ing in all about men prisoners of war and aty castle were to on iW to it from Seatt Daring the needy thirty vessels driven at and it by its sweet bat pathos Into far region had overheard he toroed round and taws ker o the ft to send the most of all those fearful ministers who in want aatO the The A rather a few days ago in of showing the by e treaty of peace The seew men have te Toice which had heroes to iMt all tKw But at a sign from forget her where he Tbe all f fnv here with tbe two which I ed at when I paid visit 1 I my very somewhat io her debt very odd looking which I ny turn now aed we thall for time on having given precise I aw delighted with the one of the footmen of here The him to the the club r wben he addressed the of j weather tr did two six their billr snd
