Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-10-09
From the Washington Union.
COL. FREMONT'S FINANCIAL OPERA
TIONS.

a cursorv examination of the facts and CO.
pies from the records therein contained
Justify us in announcing that their publ-
cation will develop some transactions con-
nected with Col Fremont's financial and
military operations in California of the
most astounding character. Heretofore
charm, thrown around these transactions,
whereby We have evaded public scrutiny;
and while we have been of opinion that,
under the glare of magnificent achieve
ments and adventures, there were covered
up speculations and peculatiens OF large
and small degree, yet we confess We had
no adequate conception of what seems now
likely to be unveiled in the full light of
day.
Heretofore we may have been compelled
to grope in the dark, having only isolated
facts from which we might draw inferenc-
es Or presumplions, and, therefore, how
ever well grounded they might have been,
still there was room for doubt. But i'll
these reports the connecting circumstances
and facts all appear, like the links in a
chain. They follow each other, and bring
the mind irresstably to a conclusion fatal
to Fremont.
1t has been matter of wonder how
Young army officer, with no known visible
means Of resources, should suddenly be en-
abled TO establish large "ronche," filed
with herds of cattle, DC, and enter into
supplying Indians with BEEF i'll unheard-o of
quantities, and thus be enabled, in a short
time, to prefer claim against the govern
mcnt amounting to several hundred thous-
ands of dollars. Equally surprising was
it that he should have money with which
to purchase a Spanish claim to sixty-odd
leagues of land, of fabulous value, the very
rocks and stones of which, we are told, are
glittcring with gold SO, also, was it mex
plicablc to the uninitiatcd, who are ignor-
ant of the manner in which claims against
the government are sometimes gotten up.
how, in a service of five or six months, a
small battalion of men, numbering, per-
haps, three or four hundred, should incur
liabilities on account of "subsistent sup
plies, DC, amounting to more shan mil
lion of dollars.
But these reports and accompanying
documents explain all They unravel the
mystery. Horses by the thousand, cattle
at the rate Of Il beef Il day for each soldier,
and "other things in proportion such
are these claims, nearly all, it seems, GER
tilted TO as correct and just" and cap
piled to the public service" by the immac
ulate Black Republican candidate for Pres
ident, John G. Fremont! But notwith-
standing the skill with which these claims
were gotten up, backed up by the certif-
cate Of Lieut.. Col. Fremont, and the great
influence brought to bear in their favor, it
appears that only about $40 900, or about
one serenh part Of tie srhoic amount, were
recommended for allowance and payment,
leaving some EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS STILL OUTSTANDING and unpaid,
and which we are quite sure will never be
paid un,a John g. Fremont Is elected Pres
ide,a
We might refer to various other matters
developed in these reports, but space for
bids. We shall recur to the subject again,
and make copious extracts from the reports
and documents Below we insert por-
ton of the report Of the Third Auditor of
the Treasury, and some of the papers ac-
companying the same. We shall follow
these up with others of similar character
Our readers should carefully preserve the
series Of articles and documents on this
subject which we have already given, and
shall continue to give from time to time.-
They viii go to make up a record such as
no man who values integrity and capacity
in the administration of the financial affairs
of this great country, involving seventy
millions of dollars per annum, can look at,
and then think of such a man being invest
ed with the power therein concentrated
over the Treasury of the United States,
without shuddering at the thought of the
consequence which would inevitably en-
sue
The United States Dr.
To Mariana G.. Vallejo.
For the following property taken from
the ranches of General Mariana G.. Vallejo.
for the use of the United States troops un-
der the command of Captain John c. FIRE.
mont in the month of August, A. ID. one
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
To eight hundred head Of cows
and large cattle, at fifteen dol
To six hundred head of second