Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-03
News OF ater.oo-

lish publisher got out reprint OF the
London Times of June % 1915. Al
though its Iour pages are but sixteen
inches long by ten in width, their con-
tents, more than their q, form a con-
trast to those of the mammoth Tunes
of to-day. In place of being a record
OF national humiliation, they tell OF
Eugland's ''crowning mercy"-the We
tory of Waterloo.
The Iimes'S correspondent on this
occasion 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 l9, 1916. This dispatch, which
IS comparatively modest III tone, occu-
pies nearly the whole of the second
page, but the account of the battle of
Waterloo fills less than column. The
rest is devoted to actions at Ligy and
Quatre Bras, to subsequent military
movements. and to a shor: list OF the
more distinguished persons who we're
killed and wounded. In reference to
the part the Pruss;ans took in the bat
tie, the duke says:
81 should not do justice to my feel
ings or to Marshal Blucher and the
Prusslsn army if | did not attribute the
successful result of this arduous day to
the cordial and timely assistance l re-
celved from them"
In contrast to this military modesty
is the bOastful editorial on the next
page. Here is part of 1t:
such is the great and glorious re-
suit of those mastery movements by
which the hero Of Britain met and frus-
tTated the audacious attempt of the
rebel chief. Glory TO Wellington, 10
our gallant soldiers, and to our brave
allies! Bonaparte's reputation has been
wrecked, and his last grand stake has
been lest in this tremendous contil,t.
Two hundred and ten pieces of cannon
captured in a single battle put to blush
the boasting, column Of the Place de
Vendome. Long and sanguinary. in
deed, We fear, the conflict must have
been; but the bOldness of the rebel
Frenchman was the boldness of despair,
and conscience safe heavy on those
arms which were raised against their
sovereign, against their oaths aud
against the peace and happiness of
their country. We confidently all
ticipate great and immediate detection
from the rebel cause. We are aware
that great part of the French nation
looked to the opening of this campaign
with superstItiOus expectation of sue
cess to 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 himself
went forth bOasting in his strength and
still more in his talent; but
he did not take into the account that he
WAS to be opposed by abilities superior
to his own. That unpalatable truth hs
vanity would not allow him to believe
nor would 1t easily find credit with his
admirers; but the 18th of June, we
trust, will satisfy the most incredulOus.
Two hundred and ten pieces of canuoni
When, or where, or how is this loss 10
be repaired? Besides, what has become
of his Invineible guard? OF his admired
and dreaded cuirassiers? Again, We do
not deny that these were good troops,
but they were encountered by better.
We snail be curious to learn with what
degree OF coolness, of personal courage
aud self-possession Bonaparte played
his steke, on which he must have been
well aware that his pretentlOns to en-
pire hung. Ii is clear that he retreated;
nor are We prepared to hear that he
fed with cowardice; but We greatly sus-
pect that he did not court an honorable
death. We think his valOr Is of tine
calculating kind, and We do not attr
butte his surviving the abdication al
Fontainebleau entirely to magnanim-
ity."
Further on the article refers to Ney
as ''perIured wretch, and hopes that
he and his accomplices in baseness and
treason viii be left alone as marks for
the Indignation of Europe and Just
sacrifices to insulted French honor"
An official announcement OF the vic
tory by Bathurst to the lord mayor, u
list of the killed and wounded, headed
with the name of "Brunswick's faleI
chieftain" some gossip about the battle
from a gentleman who left Brussels the
day after, and a few local paragraphs
comprises about all the remainder OF
the reading matter, the first anG last
pages OF the small sheet being devoted
almost entirely TO advertisements. The
price OF the paper was sixpence.