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12 more dead, but each impression became less terrible!

"You see that I have literally been within a few inches of death, —upon the very verge of eternity! With you, when two or three of your acquaintance die, you say, “These are awful times, death has been very busy!" Here he was busy indeed !! Of three officers with whom I dined that day, one was killed and another severely wounded, yet not a hair of my head has been hurt! I am indeed in better health than ever I was in my life.

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

A few extracts from a Circumstantial narrative of the Campaign in Russia, by EUGENE LABAUME, captain of the Royal Geographical Engineers, and attached to the fourth corps of the French army, commanded by, in that ill-fated and destructive enterprise.

“In every direction we marched over scattered ruins and dead bodies. Palaces, still burning, offered to our sight only walls half destroyed by the flames, and thick among the fragments, were the blackened carcases of the wretched inhabitants whom the fire had consumed. The few houses that remained were