New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-20
TIE PRINCE CRUELTY MURDERED.
HE AND HIS COMPANIONS ATTACKED UNAwAREs-
GREAT GLOOM IN CAPE TOWN.

Reuters dispatch from Cape Town, dated juno
8. via Madeira to-day. states that Prince Louis
Napoleon, ex-Prince Imperial of France, ac-
companied by other officers, left Colonel
Woods camp to reconnotre. The party
dismouuted in meae field, when the enemy crept
upon them and assailed the Prince, killing him.
His body was recovered.
The Illness correspondent, writing from Itelezi
Hill on the ID inst, says The body OF the Prince
Imperial was discovered in a field of long grass.
There were no bullet wounds upon it, but there
were seventeen wounds made by assegai thruss.
The body was found stripped and the clothes had
been taken away"
The TelegrapRs dispatch from Cape Town, June
g. says the of the death Of the Prince Imperial
cast a gloom over the city. Ali the flags were fly
ing at half mast.
In March, 1856, while France was still rejoicing
over the fall of Sebastopol and the advent Of peace
the Empress Eug6nie, wife of Napoleon Ill, gave
birth to the Prince who has been so barbarously
murdered in Africa. His birth caused great glad
ness at the Imperial Court and throughout the
nation. Three years had elapsed since the mar
Tiage of the Emperor, and the prospect Of found
ing q new dynasty had been till then denied
him. 1t was felt that as his hopes were
now grati6ed, he would have stronger incentive
to promote the greatness of France, and place his
government on a strong basis by the adoption of
liberal policy. This infant hailed as the hope of
France, received in baptism the name OF Napoleon
Eugene Louis Jean Joseph lie was born very
delicate child, and had to be nursed with
the utmost care till he was ten years
old. His nurse was an English woman. and
he had Gcrfnan-Swiss valet both were enjoined
to speak to him always in their respective tongues.
while his mother addressed him in Spanish, so that
the boy grew up to be good inguist without any
effort. II is said that he could read in four lam
guages when he was seven and spent many OF the
long hours when he had 10 remain in
doors by doctors orders, perusing books
which treated of tho great Napoleon's bat
ties He preferred these studies to any other,
and became of rather becosc mood in conse-
quence struttlng about with toy sword 10y his
side, and fighting sham battles with his young
friend Conneau (son Of the Doctor in the broad
corridors of the Tuileries. His father was disposed
to be very indulgent to him, but his mother, wiser
I'm her affection, insisted upon his blind obedience.
When he was two years old he was appointed cor
poral in tho Imperial Guard, and ut five was pro-
NOTED to his sergeantship. For having disobeyed
the Empress while he held this grade her Majesty
caused his stripes to be taken away from him, and
he was reduced to the ranks for a whole year. The
disgrace very deeply affected him for he was very
fond of showing off his uniform before the children
who were invited to the palace to play with him.
The boy was placed under the tutoiship of
French professor who was clever but egregiOusly
vain. He sought TO make his pupil prematurely
wise. and proceeded to ply him with maxims which
seemed derived from prosy authors. One day at
Court dinner the Prince, having been admitted
to dessert, stupefed the whole table by saying
to an Austrian Archduke "You have the
ideas of the old regime; but they have had
their day. The people are the ocean if you
sist them, they sweep you away" The Emperor
was dispeased and requested the philosophical
tutor to 90 and preach his maxims elsewhere. The
Prince however. had become imbued with his
lessons that being asked soon afterward what dis
guise he would wear at fancy dress ball that
TO be held at the Tuileries, he elected to appear
Masanielo. The Emperor and Empress agreed to
humor his wish, because as they judciOusly OBJ
served, nothing was to be gained by making be-
lieve that his first tutor had put foolish notions
into his head. They gave him, however, as
his second tutor and governor General Frossart who
was better versed in strategy than philosophy, and
who is described as an extremely consequential,
fussy parsonage, whom the Prince never liked.
THIS new tutor accompanied the Prince in 1869
when he went with his mother political trip to
Corsica. While they stood on the platform of the
and loyal Mayors were presenting addresses, the
General kept saying audioly to his pupil: Take
your hat OIL" Put your hat on" " Bow to the
gentlemen." etc. The Prince, who knew very well
what to do, looked profoundly bored. and ended by
walking off to get nearer TO his mother, leaving
Frossart in the lurch.
For the sake of companionship. and in order to
give the Prince some emulation in his studies, the
Emperor allowed young Louis Conneau to be
educated with him. Conneau's father had been the
Emperor's closest friend during his captivity
at Ham, and chiefly instrumental in
abettiug his escape from that fortress. The
Emperor never faltered in his gratitude for
this service, and he wished his son to
make the friendship hereditary. This desire
gratified for Louis Conneau was in exile, a. well
in the Tuileries, the Princes most trusted friend
While the Prince was thus passing his bOyhood
pleasantly. lie was occasionally exposed to an al
front, fox the Emperor mad so many enemies that
chances of snubbing the heir arose frequently. In
1865 the Prince went to preside at the annual dis
trbution of prizes held in the Sorbonne. after the
Concours General of all the public schools son of
General Cavaignac happened TO be among the prize
winners, and his name was called to and re-
ceiye his books from the Princes hand but at this
moment q tall lady. dressed in black. rose among
the reserved Seats and. with an imperi-
GUS gesture ordered young Cayaignac not
TO move. This was Madame Cavsignac,
who thereby sought to pay oil the son OF
the man who had sent her husband into exile. The
affair made an immense noise, but the Prince
marked rather pthily: 1t seems, then, that young
Cavaignac wished to act comedy, for he must
have known / was coming here" On another oc-
casion the Prince Imperial, going to the Bots dc
Boulogne in carriage, saw boy tumble OIL the
hnr senf Of n cnh Lie Ordered his carringa To Hon