The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-31

ary, 1862, he was appointed colonel and assigned
to duty with General Fremont, by whom he was
placed in command of the advance
guard, and in June following took
part in the battles of Strasburg,
Harrisonburg, and Cross Keys. For his conduct
in the last engagement he was made brlgadier-
general of volunteers, to date from October ID,
1862, but no commission was ever issued to him.
He subsequently served under Generals Sgel
and Miroy, but withdrew from the service be-
fore the close of sthe war, his withdrawal being
based on alleged excesses authorized by Milroy.
By this time, however, his unreliability was
quite apparent and he was followed into his re-
tirement by no regrets by those who knew and
understood him.
Cluseret then turned his attention to journal
ism, and became editor of the Neu Nation,
weekly paper published in New York, to advo-
cate the claims of General Fremont to the Pre-
sidency, in opposition to Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is
said that Cluseret proved treacherous to
his employers, and being detected,
was summarily elected. He also wrote
for this paper a series of military criticisms
which showed him to be in active sympathy
with, If not in the pay of, the Confederates. He
subsequently entered into various other jour
nalistc enterprises, none of which were success
full in getting before the public.
Disgusted finally with the United States. he
returned to France in 1868, and there advertised
himself extensively as General" Chuseret, in
series of newspaper communications on the re-
organization of the French army. To escape
the prosecutions which ensued, he was obliged
to leave France.
At the time of the fall of the Second Empire
he was engaged in New York in purchasing hay
for shipment to France, but at once
started for his native country, where
he soon came prominently before the public
Early in September last he published in the
MdrSeilldiSe.a fierce assault upon the members
of the Provisional Government, for which he
barely escaped q mobbing the vengeance of the
people being vented upon the paper in default of
his presence. He was obliged to leave
Paris finally, and in the latter
part of the month found himself
in Lyons, where he headed Red Republican
demonstration, which was for some time quite
serious. Prompt arrests, however, suppressed
the movement, and Cluseret proceeded to Mar
seilles, where in October and November he was
the occasion of considerable trouble.
He next appeared before the public after the
outbreak of the Communist revolt in Paris, and
on March % installed himself at the Ministry
of War as chief director of the revolution. A
bombastic pronunciamento heralded his acces-
sion to power, which terminated with the close
of April, when he was suspended by General
Rossel, and taken into custody on the charge of
treason to the Commune. An examination of
his case was commenced, but the collapse of the
Commune occurred before it was concluded
Clauseret was one of those restless, volatile,
treacherous creatures whose sole redeeming
trait is q tinetufe of personal courage. He
proved false, in turn, to every cause that he es
poused. Just previous to his flight from France
before the recent war, it is even said that he
was saved from the guillotine by the interces
sion of Minister Washburne on his pretense OF
a claim to American citizenship.