Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
ter in the World, who gives the follow

ing "reminiscences:
.sFacts regarding the antecedents Of
persons who are for the time holding
conspicuous positions before the eyes of
the world are usually not devoid of in
terest, and few words about General
Cluseret, with whom the writer was
personally acquainted, may not be out
Of place here. In February or March,
1864, and for some time afterwards,
while Ciuseret was engaged in etiiting
j. G. Fremont'S organ the New Nation
he occupied small but comfortable
lodgings over the paint shop at the
northwest corner of Mercer and Fourth
streets, a concern which is still carried
on under the same names as then.
Here the General" used to write in
French his detonating leaders, for, al
though speaking English with tOler-
able ffiuency, he could not write that
language in anything like journalistic
style. His attendant and sole domestic
was 4 quadroon girl, whom he brought
with him from the South-a very pret-
ty and well hammered girl, who might
be seen of mornings with a bright BAN
danna round her head, dusting the VIM
dow sills and blinds of the future dlcta-
tors room. .,... .+..: ..t-.-re b..
'tThe office of the New Nation was on
the top floor of the building on the
southwest corner of Broadway and
Chambers street. The Generals leaders
were translated blythe Late w. Leander
Starr, with the assistance of the writer,
and occasionally one or two others. A
more grabbed manuscript than .Cluse-
ret's it would not be easy to find. His.
signature was hieroglyph that might
have meant anything or nothing. In
his Iorth o,rapliy and gram mar alike h he
was SOfteii atisusll y at fault, notwithJ
standing that, having been in the reg
ular French army and educated at a
military college, it might have been
assumed that his French, as a matter of
course must have been correct. There
was nothing in the style or matter of
his articles to compensate for these de-
ficiencies. The literary dep rtment of
his paper was for while attended to
by the late Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, who
soon retired from the concern, how
ever, as did the present writer, the
com pensation being very inadequate
to the amount of work exacted. The
New Nation died very young-in what
NAV be called the bob veal period Of
existence; in fact, Cluseret continued to-
be backward and forward in the city
until the Fenian invasion of Ireland, in
which he took hand, was captured on
British soil, and either released or man.
aged to effect his escape. Then, as a
matter oficourse, he again turned up in
New, York, and lived Obscurely in the
neighborhood of st. Marks place and
Third avenue. The last time the wri-
ter saw him just at the outbreak of the
Franco-Prussian war. 1t was early in
the morning, and the General was bar
gaining for a portmanteau in the shop
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
Clinton place. He was off for the war;
and the next heard IF him was that he
was in hot water in his native country.
In appearance Cluseret is rather above
the middle height, of erect, muscular
build, and, very ssoidierly appearance.
His complexion is .swarthy, with knit
eyebrows, and a squareness Of the low
er jaw that imparts to his features an
of stern determination. ~
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