The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-15

Son. ON the four drafts under the act passed March
ls5s-Statutes at large vol 10, PIP 1859 and TO- Under
said act and order Of the Secretary there was paid 10 III
plaintiffs the sum of FoRTY-EGHr THOUSAND EIGHT HUN
DKED aud FoRrrrHRBE DOLLARS and TIRTr-ruRkE oENTs
To this large amount the drafts had swelled in reaching
Judgment in the ENGLISH courts After the
made the Secretary directed that the fifteen thousand
dollars should be charged Fremont with interest from he
date Of his settlement In s4s aud that be should be call,
on to settle this and other balances against him. The bal
ances however stood against the Governor until July 20
1854 when his celebrated bill for furnished to the Ii
dians in California tnot pound of which the en-
trails horns hides, and boots ever issued to the In
dams be proven by thousands of miners who pur-
chased 1t at from twenty-five fifty pound and
also by the affdavs forwarded TO the Indian Department
by Lieut. Beae Of Brooks and others who bchered aud
sold the beef passed.
The Statutes at Large vol TO- page so4) appropri
ated $2i2 O36 u.s. from which deducted by the Secre
tary of the Treasury the following overdrawu
and due by Col Fremont most Of which had been stand
ing against him for several years:
Balance due Second Auditors office S77l Sc
Balance due Third Auditors Office (Huttman's
draft and interest lb945 30
Balance dne Fourth Auditors once received
from Gillespie IN lo47,..................'' 1886 90
81 1868 10
The ACT OF March g. s53, provided for the payment OF
the debt due by Fremont and aso for such necessary
pen8es he Fremont may hare incurred in defending The
smf-his Under that proviso Governor" Fremont
presented claim for expenses incurred for the OF
So 49, which allowed and placed TO the credit OF
"talance' against him the books of the Third Audi
tor and there still remains balance against him of 81
986 81.
By all the rules of equity and justice, Governor" Ere
is indebted to the government on account OF the
Huffman drafts as follows:
Amount paid in England ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ,s43 80
Amount paid for e&peu SEES ALSO 40
oO9s3 o.
BY amount stopped out Of beef account.... lbs45 8s
Balance DUE with from date of payment 35o47 "a
Shades of Galphin and Gardiner where art thou gone
Come back and take lessons
While some Of the papers discussing the religion Of
the Governor" if to be Catholic is crime, we hear
word in denial of the charges made against him for
corruption and dealcaton. The pous Tribune in late
number says at be quite time to notice them distinctly
when somebody who is not ashamed to be known or
whom the publishers of these ISLANDERS not ashamed to
have known be found to endorse them" No state
ments in relation the operations of Governor Fremont
in California have been published in the Union by your
correspondent unless they substanated and sustained
by the journals of Congress the records of the depart
ments, which open the inspection OF all Perha
the and ruhlOUtng Tribune will question the
of the public records but confde in the
honesty and candor of the masses is for their nor
nation we make these transactions public, and not fol
hircng and venal newspapers We challenge contradic-
ton in any particular to single charge made by us
against the Governor" and the time dare the
Trbune's party call, through a resolution of either
house for the documents and papers in the War Quar-
ermasers Commissary, Indian, and other departments
relating to the Governors" operations in California
A CALIFORNIAN.