The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-03

Prince met an officer in the forest of
fontainebleau and thus addressed him !:
You read the papers, sir? They pre-.
tend that have been wanting in respect
TO my father and mother, and that the
Emperor has degraded me. That is yery
wrong, and all the more wicked because
It ls not true. love my parents above
all. Whatever they have ordered me to
DO have never disobeyed them. try
to do all that is agreeable to them: and
assure you that am greatly grieved
that the papers have spoken 80 unjustly
OF one who has never done harm to any-
body. You will tell your comrades. will
you not, that the account in the newspe-
pers IS the greatest falsehood?"
The time was at hand when the Impe.
rial youth, who had not "shunned de.
lights" albeit he had certainly "liyed
laborious days" was to be hurried away
from his pleasant, happy boy life in Paris
and st. Cloud, and to witness-indeed to
some. extent to take part in-that out.
march of Ia grdnde drD,ee which WAS to
end so disastrously. When the fateful
war broke out, and when all Paris was
screaming farewells to the troops whose
route was direct to the Kaiserstadt. the
Emperor, compelled by the rude temper
OF the tiEies to place himself at the head
OF his armies, took the little Prince with
him. Before many days Monsignor had
his 6aptcme du .feu, or, as we saw. he
"smelt POWDER" 1t was on the famous
Exercir-Platz at st. johann that tho first
bullets of the war whistled, the first shells
hurtled through the air. and the grim
murderous rattle of the mitrailleuse was
was first heard by the astonisbed prus.
san I soldiers on the heights opposite the
Exercir-Platz. The boy who behaved SO
coolly, at Saarbruck above all others, re-
famed vivid recollection of those sad
days which began at Forbach and ended
q! sedan. 1t was, happily, not given to
hlm to witness the appalling results of
inc lst OF September. He had parted
company with the Emperor at the latser's
desire, and had been taken to Mezieies,
from thence to Avesnes and SO to Maui
oeuge, where he heard for the first time
or the overthrow and rout of the flower
OF the French army, the capture by the
victorious enemy of $4,000 men and the
surrender of the Emperor to King Will
helm. II am the King of Prussia's pris-
oner; send the Prince to England. Ma
poleon." This was the curt telegram
which reached the Prince Imperial at
Maubeuge. A few hours after its receipt
the boy, who bore up maryelollsly we'll
under the heavy blow which had come
upon him, was on his way to Belgium.
at this time, too, the Emperor, prison
er, was at Verviera en- route to W:!hen.-
shoe, little thinking that only few
miles separated him from his son.
From Paris to Chiselhurstl The most
daring astrologer who ever pretended to
read the Book of Destiny would never
have ventured to predict so quick and
complete collapse Of the imperial power
rs that which followed Sedan. In q sense
the exiled family were happy enough in
their beautiful Kentish home, in the
adornment of which nature has been so
lavish, and perhaps the life of the Tuil-
cries, St. Cloud and Versailles was hardly
missed by Prince Louis Napoleon. How
stoutly and successfully he worked at
Woolwich everybody knows; his life
since he passed out Of the great military
school is not SO we'll understood. It will
not be amiss to sketch, although in the
briefest outline, the short career of the
Prince since 1876. No sooner had he
arrived at Chiselhurst with his mother
than he settled down to work with the
ardor which has, at all events of late
years, been one of his characteristics.
His tutor was NJ. Filon, who had received
his appointment some two or three years
before, when General trossall was SUI
perintending his studies. The best pro-
fessors Of mathematics and German which
London could afford were called in to as
slst the youth, who was entering upon
the second stage of his eventful life
These home studies were, however, soon
to be stopped. The Emperor came to
Chiselhurst from his captivity at Will
helmshire, and displayed those democrat
ic theories which never left him by send
ing his son to the classes at Kings Col
lege, in order, as the fallen monarch
himself said, that the boy might be
brought up as one of the people, among
the people" The Emperor's influence
over his son was almost absolute. Obe-
dient and respectful to his mother the
Prince has always been, but it is perhaps
not too much to say that her influence
upon his character has been practically
nil Intellectually, Prince Louis Napo-
leon was better endowed than most young
men of his age. He had profound
contempt for superficial knowledge, and
while among his elders he was quiet, re-
served and thoughtful, seldom speaking
except to ask for explanations or infor-
nation, there was no end to his gayety
and love OF fun when he was surrounded
by those of his own age. Like his ia
ther, the Prince was firm believer in
the Napoleonic star, and he would Us
soon think of denying his own existence
as of entertaining the slightest doubt of
the ultimate restoration Of the Imperial
dynasty.
Such up to the time of his leaving
England was the career of the young
Prince, who has just met so unexpected
and tragic an end in Africa. Since the
death of the Emperor and while the il
lustrious family were occupants of Cam
den House, in England, if they were
vain they might point with natural pride
to the attention always given them, and
the fact that while they resided at CHS
elhurst their goings and comings, their
sayings end doings, were as sedulously
iookeu after by the press OF England as
the movements of their own royal family.
They retained there the semblnnce of a
court. but although on some and certain
occasions the Empress received, and
Camden House was filled with enthusi-
astic Bonarar.ists, there was little to
recall the magnificence of the Imperial
Court, and still less to suggest the pres
ence of an Empress and the heir to the
throne of France. On the 9th of Feb
ruary of the present year he sailed from
South mpten fer Africa. Ho vas 10
commended to Lord Chelmsford as an
extra aide-de-camp. and was gazetted
with the local rank of captain. On the