Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08
cell, and, as before stated, I got five
years penal servitude through the
The News of Waterloo.


The News of Waterloo. ...,
"A year or two ago an enterprising
English publisher got out a reprint OF
Inc London Times of June Is, 1915.
Although its four pages are but 16 in
ches long by 10 in width, their con.
tents, more than their snail size, from a
contrast to those of the mammoth Times
of to-day. In plrce of being record
of national humiliation, they tell OF
Enggland's ''crowning mercy the VIC
tory of Waterloo.
The Times correspondent on this oc-
casion was the duke of Wellington.
Its only account of the battle is his dis
patch to Lord Bathurst, the chief of the
war department., dated Waterloo, June,
10, 1915. This dispatch, which is COM
paratively modest in tone, occupies
nearly the whole of the second page,
but the account of the battle of Water
loo fills less than column. The rest
is devoted to the actions of Ligny and
Quatre Bras, to subsequent military
movements, and to short list of the
most distinguished persons who were
killed and wounded. In reference to
the part the Prussians took in the bat
tie, the duke says:
should not do justice to my feelings
or to Martial Butcher and the Prussian
| army i'll did not attribute the success
full result of this arduous day to the
cordial and timely assistance Ireceived
from them.
In contrast to his military modesty
is the boastful editorial on the next
page. Here is part of it:
''Such is the great and glorious re-
suit of those mastery movements by
which the hero of Britain met and
frustrated the audacious attempt of thu
rebel chief. Glory to Wellington, tc
our gallant soldiers, and to our brave
allies? Bonaparte's reputation has
been wrecked and his last grand stake
has been lost in the tremendous con.
flict. Two hundred and. ten pieces OF
cannon captured by a single battle put
to the blush the boasting column, of
the Place dc Vcndome. Long and
sanguinary, indeed, we fear, the con-
tllct must have been; but the boldness
of the rebel Frenchmen was the bold
ness of despair, and concience sat heavi-
ly on those arms which were raised
against their sovereign, against their
oaths, and against tt G peace and happi-
ness of their country. We confidently
anticipate a great and immediate defec-
ton from the rebel cause. We are
aware that a great part of the French
nation looked to the opening of the
campaign with a superstitius expecta-
ton of success to a man whom, though
many Of them hated and many of them
feared, all had been taught to look on
as the first captain of the age. He him.
self went forth boasting in his strength
and still more in his talent;
buthe did not take into the account
that he was to be opposed by abilities
superior to his own. That unpalatable
truth his vanity would not allow him
to believe, nor would it easily find cred
it with his admirers; but the 18th of
June, we trust, will satisfy the most in.
crcdulous. Two hundred and ten
pieces of cannon! When, or where, or
how is this loss to be repaired? Be-
sides, what has become of the invinci-
bic guard, of his admired and dreaded
cuirassiers? Again we do not deny
that these were good troops, but they
were encountered by better. We shall
be curious to learn with what degree of
GOODNESS, of personal courage and self
possession Bonopartc played his stake,
on which he must have been we'll aware
that his pretcntions to empire hung.
It is clear that he retreated; nor are
we prepared to hear that he fled with
cowardice; but we greatly suspect that
he did not court an honorable death.
We think his valor is of the calculating
kind, and we do not attribute his sur
viving the abdication at Fountainblcau
entirely to magnanimity.
Further on the article refers to Ney
as "perjured wretch" and hopes that
he and his accomplices in baseness and
treason will be left alone as a mark for
the indignation of Europe and just sac
rifces to insulted French HONOR
An official announcement of the VIC
tory by Bathurst to the lord mayor, a
list of the dead and wounded, headed
with the name of "Brunswick's fatcd
chieftain,' some gossip about the bat
tie from gentleman who left Brussels
the day after, and few local para
graphs comprise about all the remain
der Of the reading matter. the first and
last pages of the small sheet being de-
voted almost entirely to advertisements.
The price of the paper was 6pence.