The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-02-29
POOR EUGENE.
A Visit to the Sorrowful Monomaniac Of
Ohiselhurst.
Paris Cor. N. 7. World.l

lIHElb JOE. N. L. WOEIu.i
A correspondent Of the Gaulois has been to
Chiselhurst to take leave OF the Empress
Eugenie before her departure for Zululand.
He tells us some few things which are inter-
esting, mingled with a good deal OF tawdry
sentiment which Is not; but this last we are
not obliged to translate. He observes that
the house at Chiselhurst is now almost de-
serted. When 1t was associated with dynastlc
hopes, there was always somebody going or
coming. Now the old soldier who guards the
gate has a perfect sinecure, and the police
man who stands outside might as well go to
sleep at his post. No one goes to Chiselhurst; !;
the Empress lives In perfect retirement. At
the moment OF the writer's visit, her Majesty
was setting out with Nine. Carette, the Due de
Bassano and M. Pletrt, the only three persons
who are now with her, to show them build
Ing which she thought might serve as a
model for the chapel to be erected on the COM
mon to the memory Of her son. The thought
OF the dead Prince has become n simple mono
mania with her. The resolve to visit Zulu
land, she says, came to her as a sort OF inspl-
ration while she was at prayer. When first
she heard OF the Princes death the Empress
wished to know nothing Of the details, bat as
soon as Capt. Carey's account OF 1t appeared
IN the papers she felt that 1t was necessary
to correct 1t In the interests OF her dead
boy. From that moment her plans
entirely changed, and she became as eager
to get every scrap OF information about the
terrible event as she had formerly been to
ignore 1t. She has passed all her time
since In plecing together the evidence on the
subject. This, In her own words, is what
she has found out down to the latest dates;
the. voyage to Zululand is to tell her the
rest: There were about thirty-tive Zulus
troops. One stole on the party; the other
placed Itself 80 as to cut of the retreat. The
first party fired just as the English were re-
mounting. and Carey and four men OF the es.
cort Immediately ran away, leaving the
Prince and two others behind. One OF those
who were left behind lad his horse killed,
and he cried to his comrades to save him.
They only turned and lifted their helmets as
sign OF last adieu. AS to the Prince, he
did not utter single cry; he never asked for
by the second party Of Zulus, he faced round
on the first who were pressing him closely
and, revolver In hand, threw himself among
them-to adopt the expression OF the Zulus
when he had emptled his revolver, he drew
his sword, and sold his life dearly. His saw
age assatlantS themselves confess that, with
out saying anything as to their own losses" !"
:, "The wounds on his arm," continued the
Empress, 'shOw the severity OF the struggle.
He had an instructive habit Of covering him
self with his arm. Often. when he was quite
a little boy and we were playing together, he
used to raise 1t like q buckler at the least sign
Of attack; When Capt: Carey returned to
tAo1ASA OSo
OF him whom he had abandoned! can un-
derstand to certain point why a murderer
should wish to see the mother OF man he has
killed. For my part could even look on the
Zulus without anger, though not without sor-
row and pain. These men killed my SOD, but
he might have killed them In his turn. 1t is
the law OF war. But as for the man who left
him to his fate, ! have never seen him and
never will see him." The Empress said this
with extraordinary agitation, and to recover
herself she took up the manuscript notes
found in the Princes pocket-bOok on the very
day OF his death, and with the aid Of q mag
ntfying glass read out the faint pencil en-
tries. "Going with Carey" is about the last
Of them. There is only one thing" resumed
her Majesty, .'in Capt. Careys narrative
he says, Just before starting asked tor. ten
minutes delay. That was habit with him.
He always asked for ten minutes, and he car
ried 1t 50 far that often said to him, You
ought to be called Monsieur Ten Minutes.
When he was quite child his first word In
the morning wnen they tried to wake him
was, ten minutes more and often when I
have watched him as he was going to sleep
and was good deal too tired to speak, he
would hold up his ten fingers still to ask for
the ten minutes grace"