Peace: Two More Scenes After Battle

Preuss Brjlau.- "During the suspension of movements," says Wilson, c:a few moments were left to contémplate the field of battle, and never did a more terrible spectacle present itself. Fift thousand brave men since sunrise killed and wounded! and a great part, being struck by cannon shot, were exposed stili on the ground without the means, without even the hope of succor. Near fifty thousand, worn out with fatigue, and exhausted with hunger, were unable to keep the field, and about to leave their mangled comrades who were hnploring tlieir assistance and protection. The Prussians fared the best. They had provisions; but the Ilussiuns had no other sustenance than the frozen snow. Tljeir wants liad induced numbers during the battle, to search for food in the adjoining viliages, and the plain was covered with foráging partios passing and repassing.The French left six liundrcd and fifty Russians, under the care oftwo surgeons, but without iustrumentsor means of dressing, without provisions, and with dead bodies intermingled in almost every room. The burgomaster of Landsberg declared. that ten thousand wounded had passed through his town. Although thesoldiers and peasants had, since the battle, been continually einployed in burying the dead, the ground was still coyered with human carcasses; and parts of the roads towards Landsberg were literally paved with frozen and encrusted bodies, which the returning caiinon wheëls had rather splintered than lacerated." Canriit. - Let us now take an ancient specimen."On the day after the battle," says Livy, "the Carthagenians began, as soon is it was light, to gather the spoils; and he sight of the carnage shocked even the enemy. Thousands of Roman horse and foot lay promiscuously, according as they ïad been killed in the battle or the flight. Some from among the slaughtered bodies rising up all over blood through the smart ïf their wounds by reason of the mornng's frost, were killed by the enemy. - Some who were found with their hams md thighs cutoff, made bare their necks& hroats, and begged them to let out the est of their blood. Others were foünd vitli tlièir heads buried in the ground, vhere it appears they had dug boles fur he purpose, into which they had thrust heir heads. and suffocated thenselves by hrowing mould over them. But what mrlicularly attracted every one's atienion, was a Numidian still alive, lyingupn a dead Roman. The nose and ears )f the former were miserably torn; for he Roman, having his hands so disabled hat he could not use his arms, had risen Vom" anger to fury, and expired tearing lis enemy with hirf teetli!"