New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-21
NAPOLEON REGRETTED.
HIS TRAGIC FATE DEPLORED.


BONAPARTIsT COUNCIL CALLED.
Both in Paris and London the Press lament
the tragic fate of Prince Louis Napoleon,
which, however, they regard generally as a
death-blow to Imperialism in France. Two
troopers were found dead with the Prince,
who was unable to mount his horse
when surprised by the Zulus, and thus fell
into their hands. 1t is reported that the En-
press Eugene has called a council of her adj
herents to assemble at Chiselhurst.
FURTHER DETAILS OFTHE PRINCES DEATH.
THE PARTY SURPRISED TEN MILEg FROM CAMP
TWO TROOPERS KILLED WITH THE PRINCE.
LONDON Friday, June 20, 1870.
Official and news kilograms give full details Of
the death Of Prince Louis Napoleon. 1t appears
that in accordance with orders from the Quarter
masterGeneral, Prince Napoleon, Lieutenant Carey,
six men and one friendly Zulu left the camp
at KeletZ Mountain, seven miles beyond the Blood
River, to make military observations and sketch a
site for the next encampment. The party halted
and unsaddled in a field ten miles from
the camp. Here, just as the Prince gave
the order to remOunt, volley was fired
by Zulus who lay in ambush amid the long grass.
The Prince tried to mount his horse hut, accord
ing TO one account. tho girth broke, while another
says that the animal rcstive st all events, tho
Prince ran along a pathway and was there over
taken and speared by the pursuing Zulus. Two
troopers lay dead near the body, both having also
been speared.
Lieutenant Carey and four troopers succeeded in
returning TO the camp toward night. The Princes
horse had followed them, and joined them on the
road. They felt sure the Prince was killed.
At daybreak. cavalry patrol under General Mar
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toward the kraals, or Zulu stoekades, which ten
miles from the camp, and found the Princes body
in long grass 800 yards from kraal. The
body lay on its back There were eighteen as
segai OF spear wounds in IT, two of them piercing
the body from the chest to the back, two IN the
side, and one destroying the right eye. There was
10 bullet wound. The Prince had been stripped Of
his clothes but on his neck was chain holding
locket with hair medallions and reliquary. The
face wore placid expression. The body was placed
on q stTetcher formed of lances, and was borne by
General Marshall aud Officers Drury, LOur and
Stewart lancers, until they met the ambulance, on
which it was brought into camp accompanied by a
military escort in the afternoon there WIS mill
tary parade. Deep sorrow prevailed throughout
the column. The corpse was to be sent with an es-
cort for transportation to England.
The news of the death of the Prince reached Lon
don at late hour last night. At about 1 o'clock
this morning il was circulated In the l0bbes Of the
House of Commons. when, in reply to inquiries,
Colonel Stanley, Secretary Of State for War, read
an official telegram. Lord Sydney, an old and tried
friend of the Imperial family. has left for Chsle-
hurst to break the TO the ex Empress Eugene.
London journals, while deeply deploring the
Princes death, regard it as the end of Imperialism
in France. Prince Napoleon. who has become the
head of the line is Democrat In politics and Is dis
tasteful to the entire Bonapartist following He
has two sons aged seventeen and fifteen years, re-
spectively. Party loyalty may tasten around the
name of one of these sons, but for long time I'M
perial counsels must be distracted. aud the posi-
bility of a return of the Empire appears more
shadowy than ever
The Gazette de France says that before starting for
Zululand the Prince Imperial made a will appoint
ing Prince Victor eldest son of Prince Napoleon. his
heir.
MESSAGE OF COINCIDENCE.
NEWPORT Juno 2O.-COlonel jerome Bonaparte,
who is here, sent telegram Of coincidence to the
ex-Empress Eugene to-day.
A BONAPARTIsT COUNCIL TO BE HELD.
LONDON. Saturday June 81, 1870.
The nRdrdS Paris correspondent hears that the
Empress Eugene has summoned all the Bonapartist
leaders to Chlseihurst.