The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07

Of the emperor. His reign in the island
extended from the 4th of May, 1874 to the
18th of February in the following year;
then the Man of Destiny went suddenly
away
The temporary settlement made by the
allies in Paris was carried to Vienna, in
October 1914, to be there completed and
confirmed by a congress of the powers.
Prince Metternich presided. The discus
sions were in the ancient manner, ortLo-
dox and dull-mere platitudes and prece-
dents. The winter months were consumed
in debates about technicalities. The real
issue was how the past might be set up
again in Europe and the future prevented.
This profound business so medieval and
inane, was still on at the end of February.
1915, when the startling news was borne
10 the congress that Napoleon BOnaparte,
quitting Elba, had landed at Cannes.
The intelligence flashed north, south,
east and west. The cowardly and pallid
Past enthroned at Paris smiled a ghastly
smile. The court newspaper chronicled
the landing a Cannes thus: THE informa-
ton comes to US that that miserable adj
venturer and brigand Bonaparte has left
the island of Elba and again polluted the
soil of France with his bloody feet The
next notice of news from the south was
given in the same organ thus: our intel
hgence is that the man Bonaparte has set
out from Cannes to Lyons, and that GER
tain turbulent adventures have Joined
him on the way" On the following day the
same paper said ''It is now certain that
Gen. Bonaparte at the head of great and
enthusiastic force is approaching the city,
on the Lyons road" On the next morning
ic ma %
the Emperor Napoleon entered the city
last night, and slept at the Tuileries?
This journalistic transcript of events,
absurd as it seems, was In striking con-
formity to the facts. on the LIST or Marcn
the man Bonaparte" did land at Cannes.
On the way out from Elba the ship Zephyr
on which ne sailed had been aecosted by
the bark Inconstant. whose officer called
out through his speaking trumpet, saying:
How is Gen. Bonaparte?' Napoleon, be-
Ing on deck, and hearing the cali, himself
took the trumpet of the Zephyr and an
swered, THE emperor is quite well, thank
your At the landing, when an enthus-
iastic peasant came up in salutation, Ma
poleon said to Bertrand: Here is one re-
cruit alreadyw
The spectacle that ensued has no par
allel in history The old soldiers or the
republic and the empire rose as II from
the earth to greet their commander. HIS
progress en- route to Paris became tri-
umph. At Grenoble the officers and sol
dlers of the king Joined him. AT Lyons
the forces of the Duke of Orleans went
over to the emperor. Ney, who had ae-
cepted the restoration and became n
peer of France, has promised the king TO
put Napoleon in an iron cage and bring
him to Paris. With a division of the
army he met his old commander at AUX
ere, forgot all his hateful oaths or Oh
legiance to the Bourbons, and rushed into
the enperor's arms.
For eighteen days the gathering tumult
swelled and broke into tempest OF enthu-
slasm. On March 10 Napoleon entered
Paris, and the restoration was blown like
thistle-down out of the city Louis hed
to Belgium, and his rOyalist followers re-
turned to England. The congress Of WEN
ma rose suddenly from the consideration
OF court etiquette and reSalia to hnd mat
their card board house in Paris was gone,
and that the imperial reality was there
again with the gray coat, and three-cor-
nered hat, and marble face, Just as OF
old.
From the 1st of March to Waterloo was
period of a hundred and ten days. BIS
tory calls it the Hundred Days. Inc IRON
purpose of Napoleon, his tireless energy,
and omniscient perception, were never
Seen in such prodigious eruption and glare
as in this period Of his fate The aliles
mad become desperate. The whole Woftu
perceived that the imperial republcansm
Of France, impersonated In Bohaparte and
springing in the wind of his sword, must
now triumph to the borders, of Europe
or perish miserably under the heels OF
banded kings. The two ideas which the
parties of the past and the future repre-
sented were irreconcilable; they could no
longer co-exist Either must Napoleon
and his dynasty be stamped into the earth
or the old system of political society IN
Europe disappear forever.
The French people sprang to the call. IN