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Show FKKEMONT'S GOOD I.ICK. He tieti as 1,000 From the Vorernuient and Faints. Washington, May 10. When Johu C. Fremont was a lieutenant in 1848 in iu California his accounts with tho government were left In such a state that he has always been regarded' as an official debtor to the government to the amount of $19,000 and it has been ono of tho chief sorrows of Fremont's later years that he was unable to square this balance against him. Tho other day Fremont called at the office of the second comptroller of tho treasury aud said that his financial circumstances circumstan-ces are such that if his salary as retired major-general were retained to meet this alleged shortage he would le for some time in actual want. At his request re-quest the comptroller investigated his accounts and discovered that instead of Fremont being a debtor, the government govern-ment had actually owed him for over forty years twenty-one thousand dollars. dol-lars. Tho records are perfectly clear aud it was proven beyond dispute that through a mistake iu bookkeping. Lieutenant Fremout had beeu charged with a voucher which was on file. When Fremont called again to ask whether some arrangements might be mado to nay his supposed indebtedness by installment ho was so unprepared for the glad news awaiting him that ho fainted. Yesterday a warrant for the amount due him was made out duly approved and signed. |