The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-15

There are not many papers now printed wes
OF Buffalo, from files of which can be read
the cotemporaneous announcements of the
falls of the two Napoleons. But the Canton
/ tO.l Repository is one of these. That Jour
nal of the 9th, in giving i,s first news Of the
defeat and capture of the Emperor at Sedan
on the Cd September. also reauhlishes from,
its issue Of August Oath. 1915. the following
announcement of the battle of Waterloo:
FROM FRANCE-nEFEAT OF ROMA
| PA2TE-GREtT BATTLE IN REIGL
! UM--L0RD WELLINGTON WITHIN
TWO DAYS MARCH OF PARlS-AB.
DICATION OF BoNAPARTE.
BosToS, August 5th lSl5.-The brig Ajel
ias. Captain Wyer. has Just arrived from
France, and brings Paris papers to June 23d
They contain
OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT
OVERTHROW OF TIE WHOLE FRENCH
ARMY.
On the 18th of June, with the loss of all it
cannon. baggage. and stores.
The rand fight Of Bonaparte:
/ His ahdica.ion Of the throne
TIE choice of Provisional Government o.
| five persons:
The declaration Of the Emperor, to wit:
FRENcuNEN In commencing the war Ia
support the independence of the French ma.
ton. calculated upon the cooperation Of
all. had reason to hope for success, and
have braved all the denunciations of the pow
ers against me-. Circumstances are changed.
| offer myself sacrifice to the hatred of the
enemies of France.
MY POLITICAL LIFE IS ENDED,
| And proelaiu, my son. under the title of
NnpoIeon H., Emperor of the French.
nore at the Palace of the Elysium, the 22d
Of June,
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
BosroN, August s. 1915.
II appears by WelliEgton's account of the
hattie fought Mt Waterloo, in Belgium. tina.
Bonaparte was defeated with loss Of &c, 900
killed and wounded, 200 cannon and two ca
giles. The loss on the part of the allies is
also severe.
Intuitivelv. on reading tie statement. the
mind turns to the comparative dates of the
two items of news, and is again almost star
tied by renewed sense of the wonder-wark-
ing age which has interviewed, since il took
over tmo months. hv the most rapid known
MEANS for the hriefest news of an event like
the hattie ct Waterloo, to get from Belgium
to the people of Canton; since now, between
like event are communicated in the same
weekly journal in only screen days. which
time would have been reduced to rs many
DAYS az the other was months. had the paper
appeared on the first receipt of the intelli-
gence. As matter of fact, it NAV be stated
that the news in the latter case appeared in
the Ohio papers before it was known in Pa
ris. 1t would have been q nice speculation
bad any one been permitted to sell the Com
raercidl of September 5th on the streets of
Paris on the day of its appearance here, the
war news having been suppressed there for
several days.
Another Interesting feature Of this case, is
the fact that John Saxton. the editorial chron-
icler of the fall Of Napoleon at Waterloo.
lives to chronicle the fall of Napoleon IL. ct
Sedan. The Repository asks, as there in
the world another editor who in the active
exercise of his profession has had the good
fortune to dispatch ty his own raper the
first and the last of the Napn'eons ?" There
are nrohalv others living who were editors
in 1915. hut we doubt if another can he fopnd
who has been continuously in the business to
this time.