Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1879 — How Prince Louis Napoleon Died. [ARTICLE]

How Prince Louis Napoleon Died.

London. June 20. The following are the additional particulars of the death of the Prince Imperial: The body of the Prince when found lay 9n its back. There were eighteen assegai stabs in it, two of them piercing l,he body from the chest to the back, two in tho side, and one destroying the right eye. A locket with hair medallions and a reliquary were found around his neck. The face wore a placid expression. He had evidently ineffectually tried to mount his horse, and the leather of the flap tearing ho ran along the path to where he was found. Two troopers lay near the body, both assegaied. The Prince was very adventurous. An oflicial account says the Prince, with Lieutenant Carey, of the Ninetyeighth Regiment, six men and one friendly Zulu, left the camp at Kelitzl Mountain, seven miles beyond Blood River, on the Ist instant, for a reconnoissance. The party halted and unsaddled when ten miles from camp. Just as the Prince gave the order to remount a volley was fired from an ambush in the long grass. Lieutenant Carey and four of the troopers re turned to the camp and reported that the Prince and two troopers were missing. From their statements there could be no doubt that the Prince was killed. A party of the Seventeenth Lancers, with an ambulance, started on the 2d instant to recover the body of the Prince, which was found and brought in on the same day. A special dispatch says: “At daybreak a cavalry patrol, under General Marshall, left to search for the Prince, and went to the kraals, ten miles further on. The was discovered among the long grass, three hundred yards from the kraal. There was no bullet wound, but seventeen assegai wounds were in front of the body. The clothes had been taken, but round his neck was the chain, with a locket. A stretcher on lances was formed, and the body borne by General Marshall and Officers Drury, Lowe and Stewart, of the Seventeenth Lancers, to meet the ambulance, by which it was brought hither with the escort. There was a funeral parade in the afternoon.” Deep sorrow prevails throughout the column. The Prince did not mount after the attack, his horse being restive, but ran afoot. The corpse will leave with an escort for transportation homeward. Another special from South Africa says the Price Imperial had been sent forward by the Quartermaster-General to sketch the 6lte fpr tWnext camp. - When the volley was fired, not a single Zulu was to be seen. The party dispersed and sought safety under cover. The Prince was never seen alive again. His horse joined Lieutenant Carey’s party on the road back to camp. The London journals, while deeply deploying the Prince’s death, regard it as the end of Imperialism in France. New York, Jane 2). The Courier Des Etuts Unis says,* speaking of the death of the Prince Imperial: “ The Bonaparte party may be considered to have gone out of existence. The Republicans, instead of rejoicing over the dramatic event whiph relieves them of the presence of a pretender of no mean caliber, will rather think of the fate of this young man, who probably would have worthily served the country if he had not been the son of Napoleon lIT. Prince Napoleon, who has become the head of the line, is a Democrat in politics, and is distasteful to jhe entire Bonaparte following. He has two sons, seventeen and fifteen respectively. Party loyalty may fasten around the name of one of theffb sons, but for a time Imperial counsels must be detracted, and the possibility of the return of the Empire now appears more shadowy than ever.