The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-07-04

ence of his superior officer, proved him. to be
worthy of the sword he wore, and that bis cour-
age and loyalty had nothing to fear from the men,
aces by which he was assailed
! The line of policy thus resolved on was OPEN
| ly pursued ashis apparent consciousness that he
was "the State grew moro and more vigorous.
| He created a large number of offices and filled
them with friends and favorites, to whom he assign
| ell full salaries, a power which he had no moro
| right to exercise than had any soldier in his
ranks. About two hundred of these appoint
ments were made, and of which some forty
two were allotted to body of but three hum
| dred men, which he had recruited and organized
under the somewhat regal designation of s'the
| Fremont Body Guard" Initiating yet further
| imperial rule, he sought to bestow upon many
possibly all his appointees-whatever their
| duties, military prestige. Thus Castle, his
| superintendent of railroad transportation was
| honored, by his letter of appointment, with
''the pay of colonel'--and the title, Of
course, follows. while the office of ssnusical di-
| rector" creation of his own, was filled by
musician from one Of the theatres, to whom
was given the rank and payof a captain Of en-
gineers in the regular army.
When the Secretary of War visited this de-
partment in person and inspected the forts
(which Gen. Fremont was then building for the
defence of st. Lonis, under the auspices of
Beard, he at once decided that they were USE
less, and ordered that they should be discontin-
ued, end ordered that the funds of the govern
ment in the hands of the paymasters here should
be applied exclusively TO meet the current ex-
penses of the army. Yet, in defiance of the
h.
went on to their completion, while $4,000 Of
the funds thus sought to be protected by the
Secretary was paid to Beard on the 10th Of
October; and ON the 10th of the same month
an imperative order was given by the general
for the payment of 100000 more, In his ad-
ninistration he virtually ignored the existence
of quartermaster'sand the commissarysR de-
partments, and of the Ordnance bureau, and
necessarily that of the government at WASH
ington The most stapendous contracts, in-
volving an almost unprecedented waste public
money, were given out by him in person TO. ia
vorites, over the heads of the competent and
honest officers appointed by law 1t seemed to
be his purpose to present himself as the enbodi-
ment of political and military power,. and to
show alike by his words and his conduct how
little he depended upon the government of his
country, and how utterly he disregarded its
laws its regulations and its policy. OF course,
such an example could not be otherwise than
contagious. Tho whole framework of the pol
itical and military systems, as organized by
law was unbraced, and disorder and criminal
insubordination every where prevailed. There
could be no obedience when the general of the
department openly taught and practieed resis-
tance to the laws US right, if not q duty.
There could be no economy where the general
labored in his great Office to feed the greed of
his followers for gain. He occupied with his
family and several members of his staff mar
BILE palace, and lived amid its luxurious fsrni-
ture and glittering wares at stipulated expense
of $4,000 per annum to the government, at a
time when the homes Of millions of our people
were darkcned by the horrors of civil war;
Could it be expected that the subordinates would
display any special sympathy with our national
sufferings, or any marked solicitude to guard the
public treasury from plunderl Instead of go-
ing to CAIRO, as he could have done for few
dollars, on one of the vessels Transporting lis
troops which accompanied him, he chartered
magnificent steamer at cost OF 81 600 to tho
government to convey himself and cortege a.
lone The Steamer was anchored out in tho
stream, instead of lying at the wharf, as all
others did do, and when the general drove in
his carriage and four to the waters edge, yet
another steamer, at still further cost to the gov
ernment, as we learn from claim presented for
it, was employed to put himself and suite on
board A foreign prince OF potentate, ina sea-
son of national mourning, might thus live, and
thus enter his pleasure yacht or his barge in
state of inscnsibility amid the caiamties of civil
Il. sE.f 81. IoI
is being increased at the rate of from one to two
millions daily, when exhibited by o. general of
the American army, isa spectacle from which
the patriot may well turn away in grief and hu-
initiation.
AS was to have been expected, the influence
of such an exhibition was everywhere felt r
High officers did not, it was true, dare to
charter steamers for their own convenience, but
they did, it was true, dare charter steamers for
their trains for the convenience of themselves
and attendants, while yet humber officers,
drawing their pseudo pomp to tho narrower
sphere OF their authority, hired at the livery
stables for months buggies and horses at the
cost of the Government, and this although, tho
law only recognized them on foot or as mount
ed at their own expense. Thus, in every way,
and almost everywhere, under the malign inhu-
ence of the declaration that neither laws nor
regulations longer prevailed, there was n,anifes'
ted disposition TO convert the national trage-
dy through which we were passing into sat-
urnaia Of personal and official self-indalgenee
and extravagance. R @8
LETTER AND PRESENT FROM THE PRNcE OF
WALEs.-We learn that the Prince of Wales
has recently presented to Ex- President Buchan-
an a splendid full length portrait of himself a.
o slight mark Che says) of bis grateful recollec-
ton of the hospitabe reception and his agreeable
visit at the White House on the occasion OF bis
tour in the United States. He adds that the