Harpers Ferry Free Press

Military Heroine.--The following case came before the court of assize at Metz early in the month of August. A woman was brought up for examination, on a charge of vagrancy, and also of having used violence to wrong some of the citizens. It appeared that she had served as a soldier from the age of 12 to her 64th year, during which she had fought under the command of Luckner and d'Estaing, and had served as a trumpeter for 29 years in Italy, Egypt, Germany, Spain and Russia, where she was taken prisoner and sent into Siberia for the last three years. She had quitted Russia and returned to her native country to end her days in peace. She had claimed no remuneration for her wounds at the hands of the minister. A miserable quarrel, provoked by the hard heartedness of the landlord of a public house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two penny worth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated, would be punished by five or ten years imprisonment. The jury were much moved by the heroic simplicity of this courageous woman, who, from her infancy, had lived but to serve her country. She spoke of her wounds as of trifles which gave her no concern. She was acquitted unanimously, and a subscription commenced for her, to testify the interest she had inspired.--Jour Du Commerce.