Fremont-phobia

Tho Detroit Adiertiser is one of the many papers in tliis section wbich havo caught the disease known as tbc Fremonfcphobia. Waking or sleeping the horrible visión of Fkkmont persecutcü and slaughtcred, and that, too, by his political frionda, is ever present with it, and pen and scissors revel in leaders and paragrapha eulogistic of the " path finder " and damaatory of tho President and 11 other uufortunato individuals who doubt the immaculaoy of the late coinmander of the Department of Missouri. In a recent defensive leader, in which all tho charges against Fkëmont are dcuounced as " abbolutuly falso " or " mean and frivolous," it resorts to a novel ínethod of proving his abüity, integrity, and patriotisni, the latter of whiel) we have never acen questioned. The Adccrthcr says : '' Hu gjld mines in California would yield hiiu moro more iu six mouths, had he givon .tlum his personal attention, thao all the money expended in his departinent. Ho has abaudoned all that and left his vast interests to the management of strangers, to give his services to bid country. Ho ia uow paying four timos the amouut to his agent in Cali fornia that ho xj, receiving frora the govcnmeiit Tlio income from liis mines, with his own personal supervisiou, would not be lesa tluiu $l'2,000,Ü00 a year Do his malignaiH assailanta hope to make an intelligent public, believo that he would abandon these vast interests, and hazard his own fair fame for the baco purpose of swiudling the government of the boggarly sum of a few thousand dollars?" Before even a gulliblo public will accept tho abovo as proof of Feïmont's capacity, it will requiro some assuranee that the gold mines of General Fremont would yield aunually a tithe of the sum named, or even pay working expenses i and also some assurance that Fremoxt is capablc of maoaging this vast estáte, and would not pay tho same agent the same euormous salary ; and wheu these assurances have been given, nothing in point lias been proved. Fkemont may well ex. claim aftsr rcading all such cxculpatory at temp tg, "Lord, save me from injiriendo." - Would it not bc as woll for Fuemont that his c;;ae bc left for the determination of tho court of inquiry which jt is announced he has deuianded ?