Gen Fremont At Washington

The Wtwbiugtou city Star, the seraijfficiiul organ ot the aduiiuistrstion, has a engtby ur, iele ou Gen. Kreinoot's mili tary operatioiis in Missouri The irticle clases ui the fulluwiug not vcry eomfilinentary sljlo: " Gen. Freuiont is no soldier by cducaion or experience. Ere entering the U'iny as a Secoud Lieuteuant ot' Topojraphical Eng ut era, bewas a Bcboolma er ot very limited edreation and attainüCts. W hile in tliat corps lie never coniuianded a Corporal's guard in arms. .I's dulies there went wbollj those of a Burvejur and oxplorer, not those of a soldier in thu field. After resigtting, as i favor f rom the go verruilen t to bis t'ntlier-in-law, Colonel Ktnton, he re eutered he service as a Lieuteuant Colouel oi' mounted rifles, and reinained in it less hau a year, ín the eourse if whicli time ie was tricd fbr niutiny and genteneed to lismiissal from the anny. 'i'hat olosed lis military career, until recently made a tfajor General " Perhaps the most remarkable fact of tbc liistory of his brief career in comnand of troops Was the charactcr of he accounts for the subsistence of bis coiuniand. vvhile, accordiug to bis priïited represen tationa, they wers for the most )art living upou dead inule fare. These accounts, over wfaicb tbeguverument had su tuitch subsequent trouble, t will be rentembered, foot(.d np about au average eost of a beef per inan per ciicin. " 'lbo armj of the United States did not contsia un officer. hen he left it, wli o failed to realize that he was utterly uusuited for military ooioimurf] - wor.se than uselcss in the tielii, and as uneonro.lable by his Buperiors as unsuited to manage bis tnferiofS in thu service for the iiiblic good. '■ We bubniit that his current utter 'ailurfl as a military muu in Missouri is but the quod vrat demonitrandiu of the b tor j of lus previouá cnnuiund iu the arniy of the Uaited States. " Ï3&" Fiiiicy runs imre l'iirioul.sy when a guilty ouiisuieiici'. drives it.