The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-10-11
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Gen. FremOmt-The Peril in Missouri.

The st. Louis correspondent of the New
York Tribune, deprecating the attacks upon
Fremont, SAYS -
Gen Fremont volunteered his services il,
any capacity in which he could be useful to
lie imperillcd government. He responded
/, the call Of his country az serious pecu-
a:ary sacrifice for, while receiving only the
>asry OF major general (S60O0 per annum)
.e IS paving an agent S224Oo0 to attend to
A.S private affairs. He is carrying a load OF
are which few men could stand under, and
,abecting his mental and phy sical system to
the severest ordeal of labor. Now, jus. as he
'!Ains the field. i, is peculiarly hard that he
should be made the subject Of relentless and
yindictive personal attacks, 1t is alleged
hat he has subjected the government to eX-
press charges for the transportation of guns
md munitions to the amount of 100000,
when the whole express expenses which he
has really incurred are less than 100000. 1t
: charge. that he permitted Gen LYON to be
,acriticrd while he had fifty thousand troops
At hi. command in ST Louis, when the truth
:, there was lot a single available soldier
here-not even recruit SO might 60 on,
meeting in detail charges urged against him
which are not merely unjust but so absolute
In In l.a tE
aly be inspired by personal malice"
The difficulties Of Gen Fremont> position
qrr probably not over-sated in the following
despatch from Washington to the New York
World -
Gen Fremont has force less numerous
;han that which the rebels have gathered
against him. With this he has to hold SIX
important points--St Louis Cairo. Paducah
BIRDS Point. Pilot Knob. and Jefferson City
and seventet hu4dreG miles Of railway 10
rrotect. He is Consequently able to put in
-, field not more than half as many men as
he rebels He has been unable to concen-
trate more than twenty thousand troops a,
Jefferson City, while the united forces OF
Price, Mccullough and Hardee will number
at least sixty thousand. And besides. Ger
ri,ow is within hundred miles Of st Louis
with twenty thousand men. In the agsre-
gate he rebel force III Missouri is nearly one
hundred thousand men. while FremOnt's
whole force is not more than fifty or sixty
thousand men-nearly half of whom are nee
r>>ary 70 hold the points named above, and
- protect the extended lines of railway nee
rSary to his communications, leaving bu,
c!rty thousand at most with whom to TAKE
III field. Illinois and Iowa are thoroughly
a.!rme1 at the prospect, and the withdrawal
Ot troops to the east. calls out the most ear
st protcsation. Gen Fremont is not well
provided with munitions of war; a regiment
O.. cavairy at Jefferson City is entirely without
,.ctes The 2j,0OO stand of arms which he
-J''racted for before he left Europe, have
nearly all been sent 10 the army of the Poto
n,ac. 50 that great as is the deficiency in men
..e:e IS a greater deficiency in arms Ere
mons whole force at Jefferson City fully un
'rr>tand the desperate nature of their posi-
ION. They feel that they have another
blena Vista before them, and the foe will be
Mt, in a spirit worthy Of the cause
The following extract from a private letter
0: one of the most prominent and Influential
C.zrns of Missouri to friend in Boston
.5..Shed in the Boston Journal we have nt
;-Ibt tells the simple truth -
We have had hard struggle here. The
story of this Missouri campaign, when truly
written, will make the ears of the republican
.sr,v tngle If Fremont has not done ever,
,..as, it is because he is not omnipotent.-
tie has been. and is, hampered every way
VIZ. harder work TO do than that in Nir
i:!!a he has not onetenth of the ayailabl,
Means. He has been compelled to take th'
'-,qonsibility in everything, and of the 10,
''i stand Of arns now III use in the western
apartment, lie has not had one, except by
II! Of compulslon from Washington. Blu
II vii succeed, think