Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-06-26

8E3AH u &*aB14G0U- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
joseph. ex-prSnee Imperial oi France.
and only son Of The late Emperor. bad
some peculiar features about Il. Id the
British operations against The ZuI1s IN
which he was engaged. ne had been
sent forward with reconnoikring par
e., consisting Of lieutenant, SIX pri-
Yates, and q friendly Zulu; the small
body had inst demOunted when they
we're surprised BY volley from party
Of Zulus smbushed In the long grass;
the lieutenant and Tour ofhis men mount
ed their horses and escaped, leaving the
Prince behind. them; the Prince failed
to mount and took to his heels; but the
Zulus, who had not shot him in the
vOlley Of surprise, fell upon him with
those javeiins or spears called assegais,
which they use in war. killed him and
two Of the privates. and made sure Of
his death by thrusting their weapons
into his body seventeen or eighteen
times. His body was not recovered till
the next day. when il was found that
The Zulus had stripped of bis uniform,
but had left around his neck the lccket
and reliquaFy which his mother placed
there before his departure from Eng
land. IL will be comfort to his moth
er that his body was recovered; had the
Zulus known who their victim was,
King Cetywayo or Ketchwsyo would
have been put in position 10 obtain n
immense ransom. What would have
been the result OF the surprise if the
fugitive British lieutenant and The four
privates who accompanied him in his
fight had stood by the Prince TO the
last we cannot tell; but they would at
least have deserved honofs that cannot
now be awarded 10 them.
This sudden death virtually puts an
end to imperialism in France, and in so
far considerably simpliies French poll
tics. II comes IS an additional guaran-
tee that republican institutions in France
will be permanent. The natural head
of the house Of Bonaparte is now Prince
Nspoleon-Jerome, commonly called
Plon- Plon. cousin of the late Emperor,
and one OF the most unpopular men m
France. He is all the less likely 10
become the fgurehead of new imperi-
alist party, as he has always professed
to be Republican in his ideas and SEN
timents. True, he has q son, Prince
Napoleon Victor. II years old, who, by
his mothers side, is the grandson of
the late Victor Emanuel, and conse-
quently cousin of the present King OF
Italy. But the boy is utterly unknown
to the mass Of French people, and hIs
legal claims upon the imperial Inheri-
lance must necessarily appear slender,
even to the most devoted adopts of the
imperial regime. He is merely grand
son of the youngest brother OF the first
Napoleon; consequently. unless he has
in him the stuff ofthe Usurper who res
tored The imperial throne in 1851, he will
have very little chance to find men
willing to do for him the political fight
ing indispensable as preliminary to
similar changes in the government Of a
country.
II is generally believed that the ORR
ginal head of the house Of BOnsparte
was prematurely born on piece of Ia
pestry representing the events ofthe IL
lad, and Homeric indeed appears the
history of this family. There was un-
questIonably a great amount OF humbug
and fraud in the doings of.the individ-
ual members OF the house; but, taken
as a whole, the family has certainly
done and seen more in the one hundred
and ten years of its existence than any
other house on the face OF the globe. II
was in August, 1869, that the first Ma
poleon was born in an obscure Corsican
cottage. He. had not reached his thir-
tieth year when his name became the
terror OF all Europe, and has deeds, his
laws, and the tradition of his ideas have
ever since, one way or other, ruled the
whole of the old Continent.
The death of the heirs apparent ofthe
two Napoleons has something peculiar
ly unhappy about it. The Duke Of
Reichstadt, son of Napoleon l., died an
exile at Schonbrunn, when scarcely
twenty-one years OLD The son of Ma
poleon III. is killed by savages at the
age Of twenty-thIee, and nearly one
hall OF his life was spent under the ban
Of the nation, the destinies Of which he
was expected to mould.
While il is natural that there should
be widespread regret over the death OF
the young Prince and sympathy with
his bereaved mother, it has to be con-
coded that France is not likely to lose
much, either by the disappearance Of
the Imperialist party in the Legislature
and in journalism, or by the reduction
Of the number Of her monarchical pre-
tenders from three to two. The Comte
de Chambord aud the Cosnte de Paris
ceased to be dangerous to the republic
Eve years ago. They are not likely TO
derive much fresh strength from the
death Of their young competitor.
e1-The New York World says "A
recent volume Of decisions of the Court
OF Appeals shows that its judges have
struck sledge-hammer blow at large
class of small lawyers and at job-lot
of suits. II has appeared TO fine Court,
as nearly every lawyer knows. that il
has been q fashion among the camp
following attorneys in the army Of fight
ing lawyers TO go foraging for clients,
especially among poor people who have
been injured by accidents. They prom
Use such people TO bring actions, 10 take
all the risks of defeat, to advance AL the
moneys necessary to the prosecution,
and all this in consideration of getting
one-third or Onr-half of the sum ulti-
mately recovered. A case Involving
such usages was recently brought to
the notice of the judges, who unani-
mously held that such conduct on the
part Of an attorney not only was void in
its contract relations, but constituted an