The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-04
BARON BOILLEAUAND HIS WIFI.
The Daughter OfCoi. Thos. II. Rem
ton surrenders All or Her PivRte

The Daughter OF Col. Thos. II. Rem
ton surrenders All OF Her PIivRie
Fortune.
From the st. Louis Dispatch.
The dispatches OF yesterday, among
other items OF foreign news, contained
the following;
Baron Boillesu, who was sentenced
to i'm prisonment by q French court for
his connection with the Memphis and
Ell Paso railroad affair, is confined in
the Conciergerie. Before his trial NJ.
Bollleau had abandoned all his fortune,
and that OF his wife, in favor OF the
stockholders Of the Memphis aud 3:
Paso railroad. Madame Boillesu is at
Boulogne. She and her six children
live through the generosity of their
friends"
To many people in St. Louis this
briet paragraph will convey more than
passing interest. Nine or ten years
ago Baron Boillesu was the French
consul at New York city, trusted and
respected by bis government and popu
lar and accomplished in his intercourse
with the people OF America. He mar
ried. while consul at New York, Susan.
daughter OF Col. Thomas II. Benton,
having met this lady in Washington
City lew months previous. The mar
riage was most happy one, and be-
tween the two there existed only the
utmost confidence and the most perfect
affection.
Baron Boilleau was afterward ap-
pointed minister TO .Ecquidor, South
America, and it was while performing
the functions OF his Office in this locali-
ty that he was recalled and disgraced
by the French authorities. During his
stay in New York he had become in
volved in the meshes OF Fremont's net.
and had been induced, in an evil hour,
10 recommend, in his capacity as an
official agent OF the government the
negotiation Of the Memphis aud El
Paso railroad bonds. in this he viola
ted the plain law OF his country. Rigid
in all such matters, and forcibly in
contrast with the known indifference
or collusion OF the United States, the
French government carried out the law
10 its utmost and imprisoned him whom
it had before honored, in the COncier-
gerie, or debtors prison, thus making
the example all the more suggestive.
1t will also be remembered that Ere.
mont ls a brother.in-law OF the Bsron's,
and that the same court which tried
and found his connection guilty, also
sentenced the General TO serve term
OF years in the same institution. He
had made good his escape from France,
however, and, in the absence of any
thing like an extradition treaty, will
probably keep it good,
Time brings about strange events.
There was once period in the affairs
Of Missouri, when Col. Benton was its
political autocrat. Thirty years in the
Senate gave him something Of the in
tense individual Imperialism Of the Ro-
man. He tolerated no opposition, COM
promised with no resistance, and died
as be had lived, with the war harness
on. Troubles not q few have come to
those whom he nurtured and loved
Mrs Fremont is the wife Of a man who
has been declared telon, because Of q
speculation which ruined his brother
in-law, bankrupted his family and con-
signed bis wife and children to charity.
Another daughter, Mrs. William Carey
Jones, now widow residing in San
Francisco, California, has felt also most
terribly the misfortunes of lite, and,
though enduring all the privatious OF
extreme poverty, is supporting herself
and children on the small wages paid
to her as a teacher in the public
schools. The many friends in this city
of these estimabie yet unfortunate ladies
will read Of their atfl ctions with feel.
ings oi the most siLcere regret.