The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-26
THE DEAD PRINCE.
Tie Hope of the Imperialists Falls Before
tile Asscgals of the Zulas.

LONDON, June 10.
Great excitement prevails in London
tonight in consequence of telegraphic
announcement from South Africa to the
effect that Prince Louis Napoleon, the
Prince Imperial of France, had been
killed in Zululand. The telegram bring
ing this Information is dated Cape Town,
June 8, and Madeira to-day, and reads as
follows: "Prince Louis Napoleon, Prince
Imperial of France, accompanied by 9TH
er officers, left Colonel Woods camp to
reconnoitre. The party dismounted in a
mealie field, where the enemy crept upon
them, and assegaied the Prince, killing
him. His body was recovered"
The official account of Prince Napo-
Icons death says: "The Prince, with
Lieut.. Cary, of the 9Sth Regiment, six
men and one friendly Zulu, left the camp
at Keletzs mountain, seven miles be-
yond Blood river, on the 1st instant, for
a reconnaissance. The party halted and
unsaddled when ten miles from camp.
Just as the Prince gave the order to re-
mount volley was fired from ambush in
the long grass. Lieut.. Cary and four Of
the troopers returned to camp and repor-
ted the Prince and two of the troopers
missing. From their statements there
could be doubt that the Prince was killed.
4 party of the 18th Lancers, with an am
bulance, started on the I'd instant, to re.
cover the body of the Prince, which was
found and brought in on the same day"
A special to the Daily Ne,us adds the
following particulars "The body of the
Prince when found lay on its back. There
were eighteen assegai stabs in it, two of
them piercing the body from the chest to
the back, two in the side, and one de-
stroying the right eye. A locket, with
hair medalions and a reliquary, were
found around his neck. The face wore
placid expression. He had evidently
Intellectually tried to mount, and the
leather of the flap tearing, he ran along
the path to where he was found. Two
troopers lay near the body, both having
been assegaied. The Prince was very
adventurous"
News of the death of the Prince I'm
perial reached London at late hour last
night. About one o'clock this morning
it was circulated in the lobbies of the
House of Commons, when in reply to in
quires, Col. Stanley, Secretary Of State
for War, read the official telegram. Lord
Sydney, an old tried friend of the Impe-
rial family, has left for Chiselhurst to
break the news to the Empress Eugene.
London journals while deeply deploring
the Princes death, regard it as the end of
Imperialism in France. Prince Napol-
con, who has become the head of the
line, is democrat in politics and dis
tasteful to the entire .Bonapartist party.
He has two sons aged seventeen and fif-
teen years, respectively. Party loyalty
may fasten around the name of one OF
these sons, but for the present the I'm
perial counsels must be distracted and
the possibility of return to the Empire
appears more shadowy than ever.
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph
Bonaparte was born in the Tuilleries, on
the 18th of March, 1856, and was there
fore twenty three years old at the time
of his death. He was educated with
great care, and on the outbreak of the
Franco German war accompanied his
father to Metz, and thence to Saarbruck,
where, according to Napoleon's dispatch
to Eugenie, he received his baptism OF
fire. His youth and effeminate appear
ance were much ridiculed by the Ger
mans, who, in derision, gave him the
name of Lulu. When the military situ-
alton became critical, the Prince was
sent to Belgium for safety, and subse-
quently he Joined his mother in England.
There he entered the training school at
Woolwich and made quite an impression
by his remarkable intellectual gifts and
his winning manners. He was extreme
ly popular with the English, and when
he embarked for South Africa had quite
promising future before him. His
death will cause grief in England as well
rs in France.