Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1857-11-27
DEATH or GENERAL CAVAIGNAC

The foreign news published Ia another COL
umn briugs the announcement uf the death of
this distinguished individual He died, it
seems, OF broken heart. Geu CAyAIGNAC
must have passed middle age. He served in
Algeria with distinction as early as 1885,
II we mistake not, he performed magnificent
service al tue trying aud terrible siege Of
Constaniiua, in that year. lie continued TO
serve under the Orleans REGIME until that dy
nasty fell in 1913. lie had risen by hard
splendid qualities for command from the mere
rank Of lieutenant, to be a general OF division.
When the Republic was inaugurated in the
Spring of AS, LAMARTlNE, who was placed at
the head Of the Provisional Government, raised
him To the rank of commaudant of the military
province of Algeria. This tribute was paid to
hlin BY the poet-statesnan, not only because
hc knew his eminent fitness rs solder for the
post, but because of his web known attachment
to the constitutional republican government.
10 this position he reulaIued until he was
elected, by a moss appreciatiye constituency, to
the Legislative Assembly. He continued in
that body until the Lamartno Provisional Cos
crnmcus failed, when he became President
In The Assembly, his consistent affection for
conservative republicansn was most thoroughly
tried. lie opposed with equal frmness the
restoration Of Legitimacy, US represented in the
person of HENRY, Prince of Chanibord, the
return of the Orleanists to power, in the person
OF the Count of Paris, and the spread of Red
Repubiieansm and anarchy, as personified by
LEDRU RoLLIN, LOUIS BLANC and RAspAIL
1t was mainly owing to his unshaken and
iron frniuess that the revolution was put down
in June, 1913. 1t was true Iie received pnw-
erful aid from hAMoRIcIERE, and other gaflaut
spirits who loved liberty regulated and con-
trolled By law. But he never hesitated or
faltered; and where none hut BoNAPARTE bad
ever succeeded, he too was suecessfuT,-- we
mean in the quclliug Of Persian mob, when
it had been thoroughly organized and had
raised harricades. There is no other instance
If success upon the part of those who had tried
this experiment, but the suppression of the
''lnsurrectiou Of Sections BY NapoIean the
Great.
lie remained in the Office of Provisional
President until he cieciGp under the eonSti
tuition pat forth by the Legislative Assem- ~
Ali remember how hG was beaten by LOUIS
NAPOLEON tor the office of President. Al
though he received 600 900, yet his rival
was elected by an almost unsurpassed majority.
When the result was announced, however much
he might have regretted 1T, notwithstanding he
was in possession of the government, aud not
withstIuding the army was devoted TO him, he
quietly. like true Republican, submitted AMI
wcnt into retirement,
THE TI1Es 1S New YoaK.-The unemployed
and hungry are holding opcn-air meetings, de-
N nding whit they cali their rights Think God,
No native born Americans ars yet Of the same
opinion rs to tben rights, because TO be of tn It
opinion, argues TO h9lI to the doctrines OF
Danton, RobcSpierrc, and the quite as dangerous
socialists Of later times They talk N their ierce
appeals of governing classes in this country
which proves that they are persons wholly incapa-
bic OF appreciatng the theory and practice Of our
Govelnment-thli they are among US, but not Of
us - Washington Ersaing Sfa'.
IMPUDENT TaIEF.--'fhe Beiks County Press
tells story of market man in Reading, who,
while sleeping in his wagon, with his legs stick
ing out ''a feet' beyond the tail board, was
robbed of a new par Of boots BY an enterpris-
ing thief, who aeroltly removed those from his
feet, while he was snoring in perfect uDcon-
seiousness of the theft The victim was vast
ly astonished and indignant, as may be sup
posed, At this sort Of sharp practice.