The Hartford herald., 1879-06-25

Reuters dispatch nom Cape Town,
lated June 3, via Madeira, states that
Prince Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial
If France. accompanied by other officers,
left Col. Woods camp to reconnoiter.
The party dismounted i'm mealie field,
when the enemy crept upon them, and
assegaied the Prince, killing him. His
body was recovered.
SEVENTEEN AssEGAI THRUsTs.
LONDON, June l9.
A Times correspondent, writing from
Italy Hill ON the 2nd instant, says: The
BODY of the Prince Imperial was dis
covered in field of long grass. There
were no bullet wounds i'm il, but there
were seventeen wounds made by assegai
thriists The body was found stripped.
The clothes had been taken away.
THE NEWS AT CAPE TOWN.
A dispatch from Cape Town, June 3,
saws: "News of the death of the Prince
Imperial cast gloom over the city. All
the flags were flying at half mast"
THE NEW NAPOLEON.
The death of Prince Louis Napoleon
affords an opportunity 10 what used 10
be the Palais Royal Bonapartists, TO
start a new pretender. The fresh claim
ant for Imperial power is youth of
seventeen; and were the Republic to
break down he might be susceptible of
pSsig ip ihnlad fqad iaa iEaIer and
sents Democratic and Csesaristic- ira
dition, and by his mothers blood and
his resemblance to her family he would
ne associated with a constitutional one
as well. He il the eldest son of Prince
Napoleon and of the Princess Clotilde,
Of Savoy, and is called after her father
and the Great Uncle, who attempted 10
revive the Carlovingian Empire and
make Paris its administrative seat.
Victor Napoleon is the double name he
bears. The first Of the two names is
one Of happy augury. In Italy ii was
emblazoned on the national flag, and ac-
cepted as a rallying cry by Cavour, Gar
Ibaldi, Ricasoli and Mazzini. Victoria,
i'm England, has been for forty years the
incarnation of constitutional freedom,
and venerated at home and abroad as a
true-hearted Queen and woman, faithful
to every public and domestic trust re-
posed in her. Prince Victor Napoleon
mas little in his physiognomy to prove
his Bonapartean lineage. He is a mas
culine edition, very much revised and
corrected, of the Princess Clotilde, and
Enthusiastically the grandson of III Re
Galantuomo. Prince Napoleon gives
him and his brother, Louis Victor, an
excellent and manly education. The
eldest boards with professor of the In
stitution Ste. Barbe, and follows the
classes there. Next year he will enter
the Military School at st. Cyr, which
will not absorb so much of the time
which should be spent in looking about
MIN and gathering "A fund of general
knowledge as would the Polytechnique.
The youngest boy is the image of the
Great Uncle, but up for fun, and mirth-
ful, which the first Emperor was not in
his youth. He is at the country branch
Of the Ste. Barrie school. The two lads
spend their Thursday half-holidays with
.eir aunt, the Princess MathIlde, and
when sine In at her rural home at ST.
Gratien, they ride there, followed by u
groom, To dine with her. On Sundays
tiIey 20 10 their fathers chambers IN
Tie Avenue Montalgne. Princess Ma
thilde collects 10 the mouse on Thursdays
young officers Of promise, literary and
artistic men of ability, dIplomatists and
the most liberal BOnapartists that she
can lind. The nucleus Of a brilliant
court Is being formed by her for her
nephew. She Resides in a small and ar
tislIcally furnished mansion in the Rue de
Berri. With her the boys are less re-
served than with their father, in whose
presence they are not allowed To speak
until addressed by him. The modest
of their address Is charming
IN Lads of their years and rank. In the
autumn holidays they go TO Savoy,
where their mother has u chateau i'm
the mountains. There they are sent to
amuse themselves with an equerry, who
used to accompany Victor Emmanuel
IN his hunting EXCURSIONS, and with u
couple of gamekeepers. On Sunday
evenings the younger boy when in Paris
Is sent back early 10 school. The oldest
remains all night at the Avenue Mon
taigne, and is present at intimate recep-
tions which are held weekly there. The
is led, of course, by Prince
Napoleon, who il man of rare capaci-
ty, and il Is intended to open and exer-
cise the mind of the young Prince who
listens Prince Napoleon can not be
with intriguing against the Re
public. He merely prepares to take
Of its break up should it fall,
which does not appear likely. There is
one thing greatly IN favor of the PalAis
Royal branch OF the Napoleons, is striv-
ing for an imperial crown against the
one, which is only Bona
parte in name. 1t is the repugnance
Prince Napoleon ever showed for street
massacre and the slower death to which
to Cayenne were virtually
"Histoired'U Uun Crime"
Victor Hugo shows that Prince Napol-
con sought to mitigate the ferocity of
the Elysian gang, and that he sheltered
the poet and other Republicans on
whose heads a price was set by de
Maupas and de Morny. Neither he nor
his son would have insult or injury to
avenge, and if they had, would prefer
oblivion to rancor.