The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-10

who do not appear to have been very nu-
merous, will come back tomorrow to find
that we visited the place, not to bury our
dead, but to remove a batch of wagons.
~MEMENToEs OF A DISASTER.
Wandering about the desolate camp,
amid the sour Odor of stale death, was sick
ening. | CHANGED on many sad relics-let-
tiers, from home, photographs, journals,
blood stained books, packs of cards. Lord
Chelmford's copying book, containing an
impression of his correspondence with the
Horse Guards, was found in one of his port
manteaus end identified in a kraal two miles
Oft. Colonel Harness was busily engaged
collecting his own belongings. Colonel
Glyn found a letter from himself to Lieu
tenant Melvill, dated the day before the
fight. The ground was strewn with brushes,
toilet bags, pickle bottles and unbroken
tins of preserved meats and milk. FORCES
and bellows remained standing ready for
the recOmmcncement of work. The wagons
in every case had been emptied and the con-
tents rifed. Bran lay split in heaps.
Scarcely any arms were found and no am
munitlon. There were a few stray bayOnets
and assegais, rusted with blood. No fire
arms. | shall offer few comments on the
lsandu'a position. Had the world been
searched for a position offering the easiest
facilities for being surprised none could
have been well found to surpass it. The
position seems to offer a premium on disas-
ter, and asks to be attacked. In the rear
laagered wagons would have discounted its
defects; but the camp was more defenceless
than ar English village. Systematic scout
ing could alone have justified such a posts
ton, and this too clearly cannot have been
carried out.
THE MAMIE OF THE Primers MEATH
The cable has given us the facts connected
with the death of the Paince, but some
very interesting details are contained in the
dispatches from South Africa. The Prince,
who was DESTROYS to be actively employed,
was anxious to join Lieutenant Carey, of
the Ninety Eighth, who was starting with
six men of Bettington's Horse on a recon
noitering expedition. TIL staff objected
to his going, but he laughingly overruled
their wishes and started. Lieutenant Carey,
the leader of the accommodating party, gave
the following account of the expedition
1--WE left Koppie Allen at half past
seven, rode to Itelezi and waited for the
Basutos. The Prince being impatient at
their non~arrival, we rode OF without them
to a hill seven miles this side of Ishlawani
Hill; r 1i4 sa% eD dn with ae tsa:sen5eaSaRGfst TOR a 0apaee
serted kraal in the valley below, o~tf-saddled
and arrested one hour. l reminded the Prince
Of the time. He said, Wait ten minutes
At length, as we were about to resaddle our
horses | saw the black faces of Zulus peer
ing out between the maize stalks all round.
The Prince, looking aside, said, i see
them too We leaped upon our horses and
rode off amid a sudden volley Of musketry
from the Zulus, who, as soon as they saw US
mounting, rushed forth on all sides from
the maize. All rode off. On crossing the
donga, 900 yards away, we noticed the
Princes horse following riderless. 1expect
the Prince has been killed in the kraal.
Two of the escort were killed
From all accounts it appears that Lieuten-
ant Carey and the troopers who saved
themselves ran away at the first sight of
of the Zulus and left the young Prince, who
had some difficulty in mounting from the
tearing of the saddle flaps, to his fate.
Later accounts say that Lieutenant Carey
galloped five miles without stopping after
the scare.
NGLIsH PUBLIC OPINION.
The subject of the Princes death was
referred to in the discussion of the English
Parliament. Sir r. Peel made an inquiry
which seemed to reflect on Lord Chelms-
ford's care of his charge. To this Colonel
Stanley said that he knew nothing Of the
precise position held by Prince Louis Ma
poleon, and could only repeat that Lord
Chelmsford was in complete ignorance of
the fact that the young voluntee. had been
sent on the mysterious mission which proved
SO sadly fatal. "Otficials,' says a Londen
correspondent, mo less than Independent
members, condemn in fierce terms the fool
hardness of sending young men from the
camp. and their fatal folly of smoking ciga-
rettes in Il mealie field in an enemy's coun-
trv. Lord Beaconsfield attributes it to the
same mistaken self-confidence that lost us
Isandula." Another correspondent says
part of the sympathy turns to indignation
at the manner in which a war is beng con
Quoted which from Isandula to the death of
Prince Louis has been a series of surprises
for our side. The same message winch re-
cords the death of the heir of the Napole-
ons tells also Of another surprise IN B'suto-
land leading to the maSsacrlng or our n en-
=. 1T. 4o,+o II would seem as If every