Fremont Is Dead

New York, July 14. - General John Charles Fremont, the first candidato of the Republican party for President, died at the home of hls adopted daughter in this city at 3:80 o'clock ypsterday afternoon. Ueath was due to inflammation of the bowels. He had been ill less than a week. A dispatch was sent to Mrs Fremont and Elizabeth Kremont (adaughter,) who are at Los Angeles, Cal., of the death of the husband and father. [General John Charles Fremont was bom at Savannah. Ga., Januaïy 81, 1813. and was graduated at Charleston College in 1N30. In Ootober, 1848, he flued out at his own expense a large expedition with the object of tlnding a practicable route over the mountains to California. Afier innumerable hardships he reached Sacramento in the spring of 1849. Here he bought a large estáte containing rich gold mines. He was one of the flrst United States Senators from California, serving frorn 1849 to 1851. In 1855 he took up his residence in New York and in the ensuinj year was the ürst candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. The Democrats nomimited Mr. Buchanan and the "American" party Mr. Fillmore. Fremont received 114 electoral votes, Pillmore 8 and Buchanan, receiving the remaining 174 votes, was elected. Soon after the oivil war broke out Fremont was made a Major-General and placed in command of the Western department, his headQuarters being at St. Louis. He issued a proclamaron freeing the slaves in hls district, a measure which the President thought unwise at the time. and Fremont was recalled and placed in command in Western Virginia. From 1878 to 1881 he was Governor of the Territory ol Arizona. Subsequently he practiced law in New York.] Los Anoelks, Cal., July 15. - Mrs. Fremont has received the following message of condolence from President Harrison: "I beg to extend to you my profound sympathy in your great sorrow. The death of General Fremont has revived the memory of his great and unique public service, and will excite regret that the nation did not give an earlier and more constant expression of its greatful appreciation of them."