Connecticut western news., 1873-11-21
The Benton Family.
The Daughters of 6Old Bullion" Ro- duced to Poverty--stnguIar RTiafor- tunes of Mrs. Fremont, Nils. RotlIeau and Mrs. Jones.

The Daughters of "Old Bullion" Re-
 duced to Poverty--stngular RTiafor- | tunes of Mrs. Fremont, Mfs. RoilIeau l and Mrs. Jones.
 ' "Aaron Boilleau, who was sentenced to imprisonment by French Court for his connection with the Memphis and Fl Paso Railroad affair, is confined in the Conciegerie. Before his trial M. Beilleau had abandoned all his fortune and that of his wife in favor of the stockholders of the Memphis and Ell Paso Railroad. Mime. beilleau is at Boulogne. She and her six children live through the generosity of their friends"
 To many people of Missouri, says the St. Louis Dispatch, this brief paragraph will convey more than $ passing inter- est. Nine or ten years ago Baron Boil leau was the French Consul at New York city, trusted and respected by his government and popular and accom- plished in his intercourse with the peo- pie of America. He married, while Consul at New York, Susan, daughter of Colonel Thomas H. Benton, having met this lady in Washington city few months previous. The movement was a most happy one, and between the two there existed only the utmost confidence and perfect affection.
 Baron Boilleau was afterwards ap- pointed Minister to Ecuador, South America, and it was while performing the functions of his office in this locali- l ty that he was recalled and disgraced stay in New York he had become in. | hoI been induced in an evil hour to recom- mend, in his capacity as an official agent of the government, the negotiation of bonds. In this he violated the plain law of his country. Rigid in all such matters, and forcibly in contrast with the United States, the French govern and imprisoned him whom it before ho1ored in the Conciergerie or debtors prison, thus making the example all the more suggestive. It will also be remem- bered that Fremont is @ brother-in-law of the Baron, and that the same Court which tried and found his connection guilty, also sentenced the General to serve term of years in the same insti- tuition. He made good his escape from France, however, and, in the absence of anything like an extradition treaty, will probably keep it good.
 Time brings about strange events, There was once period in the affairs of Missouri when Colonel Benton was it's political autocrat Thirty years in the Senate gave him something of the intense individual imperialism of the Roman. He tolerated no opposition, compromised with no resistance, and died as he had lived, with the war har- ness on. Troubles not few have come to those whom he nurtured and loved. Mrs. Fremont is the wife of man who has been declared felon, because of a speculation which has ruined his broth er-in-law, bankrupted his family and consigned his wife and children to charity. . Another daughter, Mrs. Will liam Cary Jones, now & widow residing in San Francisco, Gal, has felt also al- most terribly the misfortunes of life, and, though enduring all the privations of extreme poverty, is supporting her self and children on the small wages paid to her as teacher in the public schools. The many friends in the State of these estimable yet unfortunate ladies will read of their late af1ictions with feelings of the most sincere regret.