Year: 1861




ere buried in obscurity at present. After hs
had been gone two days from Jefferson City,
Fremont gave orders for nothing to be pub


ished respecting his movements. This order
was hardly necessary, as the General never
lets out" anything himself, and the members
OF his staff are all, or nearly all, too boorlsh
to treat a member of the press with any de-
gree of civility AS have never asked la
vors of them, however, | cannot complain on
my own account, but my brethren OF the quill
all grumble, and swear eternal vengeance on
these new hedged warriors if they ever re-
turn to the ranks of civil life. From what
can gather from newspaper reporters, who
have been subjected TO staff incvilities, | CON
clude that Fremont is a very nice, clever gen
| tleman, who treats everybody cvilly when
approached personally. But to get into his
presence--aye there's the rub You might
as well think of button-holing the Pope, or
| Of hob -nobbing over a glass of ale with the
ruler of the Celestial Empire. also con-
clude that several of the members of his staff
are set OF graceless scamps, who care for
nothing but to advance their own interests.
! 1t is to them that Fremont is indebted for be-
ing called exclusive" ;" for they have driven
away persons who came to bring him impor-
| tant information, or give him valuable ad-
vice. To these peLsons, more than to any
thing Fremont has done or neglected to do, is
he also indebted for the hot water into which
! he finds himself plunged. For the salvation
of himself, as well as for the good of the SER
vice. he will be obliged to discharge some Of
his staff officers.


All ! here we have the key to much of the
frothy stuff with which the newspapers are
| 1,l -, 0.,;,, ha
military department of the West The
Unions correspondent has not joined in the
general hue and cry, and makes no complaint
of boorish treatment received by himself at
the hands of members Cf Fremont's staff
But this, he explains by saying that he has
never asked any favors of them. BY re


framing from boring them he has shown his
usual good sense; The dapper little quill
dsyers are of great consequence in some
places; but in army head quarters seeking
for information which ought not to be pub
lished, they are sadly Out of place. Hotspur


is sreportcd 10y Shakespeare to have treated
young rosewater gentleman very boorishly,
once, but many have excused him for bis want
of courtesy on that occasion. The Unions
correspondent says his "brethren of the quill
all grumble, and swear eternal vengeance on
these new hedged warriors" Charming
historians. Each snub they receive is to be
repaid by a stroke of the pen. Fremont is a
very nice gentleman we are told, but then
"to get into his presence-age, there's the
rub" What q shame that all the special cor
respondents of the sensation papers are not
allowed to do their writing in his apart
ments 1t would be.convenient if he would
let them run over his letters, too, and give
forth to the world full particulars of all that
transpires of whatsoever nature. But the
staff officers the "graceless scamps"-do it
all. Fremont would keep an open house,
and tell all, but for them. They drive away
the "brethren of the quill" who come to give
important information" and valuable ad-
vice" "He will be obliged to discharge
some of his staff" Let US remember, when
we read newspaper attacks upon officers of
the army, that the "brethren of the quill all
grumble and swear eternal vengeance on
these new -hedged warriors" so shall we be
| inclined to reject much Of the chatf


GENERAL FREMONT Tribune's Wash
ingtOn dispatch of the 22d demurely states
that the Cabinet officer had each reluctantly
decided that Fremont must be removed, and
the Western Department placed under the
command of en-. Hunter The Tribune man
says the Cabinet were very sorry to have
this to do On the other hand, the Times
Washington dispatch of the same date, says
that at the Cabinet meeting it was decided
not to interfere with General Fremont and
his command 1t is probable that the Tri-
bune dispatch is deliberate falsehood, made
from whole cloth, partly to oLlige the Blair
family, and partly to make the Tribune in
teresting to its numerous patrons. Such
recklessness may do thousand times more
mischief in our army of the West, than all
the peace twaddle ever published by Ben
Wood. The rebels are flying like hares be-
fore Fremont in Missouri. If they leave the
State, is it not as well as though their dead
bodies strewed the field? The newspaper
Generals are becoming too popular again.
Did not Bull Run satisfy the people that
Greeley might be wrong?


Foul MEANS RECoMMENDED.-The traitors
of the South are sometimes pretty free in
confessing to ther crimes At the commence
ment of the rebellion we were told that those
States whose people desired to secede must
not be coerced. Coercion would lead to
bloodshed. They only asked to be let alone.
But they expected to unite all the slave
States in the rebellion. Failing in this, we
see them waging war upon the Union States
of Kentucky and Missouri. They confess
that those States can only be made a portion
of their bogus Confederacy by coercion-and
therefore they are for war. Their present
desire is to cut the throats of the Kentucki-
ans in order that they may steal the State.
The Richmond Dispatch of September q
says:


All further proceedings in Kentucky must
he revolutionary, violent and convusive-
There is no legal patti 10y which it is possible
now to extricate her from her constitutional
association wih tile NorM That association
Is calling to the better class of her people.
but there is no process by which they can
effect their deliverance except 10y revolution.
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