| Show retributive tome sodir SOME of the tile prominent friends of the mormon anion people appear to have come to grief like of the same lik ilk in times previous colfax has lias manifested anything but friendship for utah and lie he has fa fallen I 1 into a predicament in no wise enviable and now nou comes general J C F remont fremont the springfield papu republican says Th the french eFrench government will vill bring john C fremont and all his agents amenta to trial next june for having swindled the french public out of some six or seven millions ol 01 dollars by the memphis and el ui paso raso fraud fremont fromont irwill it will bo be remembered having outlined on paper papera a railroad through Texas and arizona to san diego cal 9 placed a loan on the french market markets ostensibly for its construction st and was enabled by oy the connivance of 0 french officials and the power ot of napoleon to palm it off upon the ansu unsuspecting pec publio public alic as a Talu valuable able abie security guaranteed eu 07 the united states government the swin swindle dr c ran on until it became bankrupt when a few old locomotives bought ot of schroeder the president ot of the french senate at a price that proved them to be a bribe were all that the creditors could lind thia case caso has always had a piti pitifully tuli full hars hard look for tor Fr emonts share in it F four or tive five other persons persona are indicted with him ina lna in a criminal process and in the french manner will vill be proceeded against whether t hey they are caught or not itis it is said eaid that mrs mus jessie jessle benton denton fremont has gone pone thither with offers of a compromise the washington lobby are deeply int interested rested pas as th ereis a chance for tor some revelations that paradoxical as it may seem might blacken the charac characters tera ot of some ot of that virtuous body our jessie has long had the reputation we believe amply deserf ed of being the far better half of th etwo not in sentiment ponti penti ment alone but in actual fact and for hor her sake though not for lier her husband husbands one might wl wish sli her a successful mission the tile denver tribune though a somewhat pious paper is rather rough on the general judging by the following follow ng john C fremont fre mont seems to have fal fai fallen ien len I 1 n bad odor of late I 1 fess lets now under indictment for fraud in france when in california the pathfinder Path tinder linder was pronounced nonn noun eed ced bya byr by a prominent californian ns as a statesman who heer heser made a speech a general who never fought a battle a path linder under who always lost his way and a millionaire lio not wortha continental d 91 As to tile tilo WaR was washington hington lobby being di drawn awn into ugly revelations it might do good to tb the country county if the mills of the gods grind slowly the they y grind surely purely and very enn ively now although the springfield pr ingfield republican reports that the general has lias fallen into trouble in pranee prance and the denver tribune says mys a similar thing the report must not be made too sure of for the washington star of or feb says general fremont writes from tarry towan Y to say that ciflie if he i is under arrest in paris for fraud or lim has cheated sonie somebody body he lie did not know it so we must suspend our congratulations congratulation toward the general for the present but we tro shall not in regard to jessie the lady ilas lias our best wishes all the tile time the general is rather tough whether he has swindled tilo the frenchmen or not 1 |
