The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-11-24
MORNING EDITION--FRIDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1915

and publication Of work entitled or the Regency
sensation and proved him to be not only practical
man. but . good theoretical reasoncr deep thinker
and profound observer Of events and things passing
1t is not at all unlikely that CavagnAs after his
long services and successes In Africa, had now per-
haps, conceived the idea of fixing his residence per-
manently in France, his beloved mother and the
friends Of Lis youth, and Of renouncng hsnceforth
for ever the military career In which his life hitherto
had been passed, and in which he had We have
seen crowned himself with we'll earned laurels aud
merited renown. But when he heard that the faith
and recomms need the he immediately dropped all
his fond projects Of peaceful life and of social re-
tremen and strongly urged upon the war department
to rend him again upon active service into Africa.
This was in the year 1880 He was accordingly APP
pointed to the command Of the I'd Battalion of Light
Infantry of Africa His first exploit In arms after his
arriv in Africa the defence of Cherche against
the Arabs, whose attacks upon him were incessaut
Here believe it was somewhere about this time
that he had in his regiment brave and gallant SOL
der, the Chevalier Revolt now distinguished lite
rary character in the city Of New York and attached
10 the Neg York Herald who served with our hero
Africa whose able nd talented mut ica and theatres
critques have contributed to delight the public
of New York in the columns of the New York Herald,
Of which he now constitutes one Of the literary sol
diers, well as being star Of one of the pieces In
Buttons Theatre. While Cavaguac was engaged In
this perilous SERVICE day he rushed forth from
of the theatres of the city sword In hand ct the head
Of few soldiers, and calamity repulsed the ndefai
gable Arabs, who had attacked the gate in immense
masses. On another day. in similar encounter, he
was wounded In the thigh by musket-ball from one
Of the enemy; and such was his modesty, when ais
1t over . matter Of no consequence, not
tioDipg the circumstances in the bulletin Ia whch he
faithfully recorded in all other respects the events of
the day, and the gallant doihgs his compa mons in
arms. On the 21st June, 1910, Cavaiguac ap.
pointed lieutenant colonel Of Zoanss q body OF
African troops-succeeaing in the 90 amand OF
this troop to Lamoriciere, who had been appointed
general. Three years before, he had entered this
regiment chief Of battalion. Thus, by o sim
gular coincidence, he was lieutenant to the very
general who, when he afterwards came to be the
head Of the republic was his minister at war La.
moriciere not blind to the superior merit Of his
then subordinate, and, at the time he confidently
predicted in brief and concise note the military
nown which futurity seemed to promise to his leuten
ant On the following year, brilliant deed of arms
performed by Cavaignac was the means Of procuring
menth Of May, is4l General Chaugarnier had under.
taken to convey wagons carrying provisions to
Mlanah solitary fortress held by the French troops
warlike tribes ali Of them hostile to the French and
yet, for this dangerous service he at the head
Of only small handful of men. Cavaignao as
usual, was placed in command of the rear guard ;
and 1t was his business to defend the march Of
the little army and keep of the hostile masses
which lowered around them In the midst of incredible
difficulties, though wounded in the foot and losing his
horse, which was killed from under him. he accom-
pthed the arduous service with such skill and success
and covered the retreat Of the main body In an
effective and mastery manner that every felt the
lives Of all were due to him. Again, in 1874, very i'm
periors to whom the ability skill and bravery Of such
man In the hour of need was always unappreciable
and therefore to be called into requision This
neither less than the military cooniza-
ton Of settlement in the heart Of country and in
the midst of people bitterly hostile to the
1he new town he was commissioned to establish, to
build up and to organize, called Oresnvlle after
the OF the eldest son of Louis Philippe, and was
destined to be the chief and principal of the French
settlements in Algeria He there with only 500
men under his command, and accompanied by the
families and civilians who to form with the army
the members Of the new metropolis and the new Set
tiement. He went there. He found, among
rude barbarous and hostile people, some scattered
ruins of Roman ediices indicating the acti
witty and power Of that great people in the
countries they conquered; showing how they took
possession Of and built and inhabited the countries
they conquered; how they did not, like the Amer.
cans In Mexico fight, conquer, die, triumph, bleed
spend money lose millions, and then afterwards go
apdpay five millions besides what they had already
avirhed for little barren stsip es they had
dominion, scattered the dssoate fields, told
different tale. But now, alas, the tale they told
only that Of bygone greatness and present ruin
There also he found only here and In the midst
Of land capable Of yielding rich products, few little
strips ON which grew few date trees and few
changed the dreary prospect before them all into one
Of pleasing life fertility, and animation Among the
now shapeess masses Of the vestiges of Roman ediA
and constructions, as by the touch Of Aladdns
wonderful lamp were seen soon rising around them,
all tides, houses, farms cultivated fields, military
that we believe Csv.is nae much Of oSarchms anu,
ducts school houses villages, and all the lively
and animated exhibitions Of European life and civilza
ton. Query-Whether Fourier, or any Of the social
lists who talk much and grsndiloquently,
would have done. in treble the time, even
quarter much done on the in
dividual system of individual enterprise and emu
lation! The efforts they have made in the West.
ern States. with everything in their favor to aid
them tell different tale and the knock down Of the
eherif's hammer has hitherto been the concluding
fnoie to the dream Of their golden schemes and
have attempted in vain even to begin. Cavsignac,
however, socialist; and hence he did not fail
miserably and pitifully in this most difficult under
taking but triumphed and prospered, in wonderful
manner, in this new enterprise OF founding colony
and society in the midst of the desert. By his pre-
nce with his troops he kept in the neighboring
hostile tribes at length he subdued them thorou yhly
and at the conclusion of the year 1874 peace
all around the settlement Of Oreanvlle and Csvsig
received, he well deserved the reward for his
skill and services, fresh promotion to higher grade
In the army.
Suchtwas the order and peace to which Cavsgnac had
now brought the country, which hitherto had been
field of rapine, disorder and danger that II was
marked BY an Arab, in commenting upon the new
through the country with gold crown upon her
head; thus strongly expressing In the fgurative Ian
gusge of the Arabians the high degree Of peace and
security which Cavagnac had, by his administrative
tale nts, produced in that wild region. We might
count thousand traits Of his courage, energy, and
broke out but the columns of the He raid would hardly
be sufficient to contain them. Suffice 1t to say he dis
tnRuished himself at every moment, In every place
alone, sword In hand upon the fanatic who had ed
himsef to be proclaimed sultan, whom he killed in the
midst of his numberess adherents and lastly, he 1t
was who was the chef cauee of the and cap
ture Of Alb delKsder who was delivered up to General
Lamorciere.
In the Month Of February, 1913, that month SO fa.
henceforth in the councils Of people, General
Cavaignac at Dram, where he had succeeded in
command to General Lamoriciere Algeria wa, now
at peace in all its borders; the enemy subdued at
every point; peace prevailed in all the French colo
MES; Alb RAIDER prisonerat Touon; the lam
bers Paris debating what they should do with
bim our hero was pursuing, with all his energy aud
skill the arduous work of colonization, and bringing
the country into happy order when sudde My, on
the I'd Of March, lsiS foreign ship from Europe ar
ing incredible the proclamation of democratic
republic at Paris and throughout France Of the flight
Of Louis Philippe alias John Smith, English gentle
man, with interpreter with all the other wonder
fal particulars Of that wonderful event. Instantly
General Cavagnac took his par he hesitated not for
an instant. He Immediately published general pro-
camaton to the army and to the country, announc-
ing that France had changed her government, and