Show OFFICERS UNDER CHARGE A son of or Colonel John C. C Fremont of the tho arm ann army is under charges of or conduct unbecoming an officer In 1st that ho contracted debts which he had no reasonable means of pC paying He Ha recently filed med a petition in bankruptcy showing liabilities of ot over ten len thousand dollars and thirty dollars of ot assets It is 15 the second time he has had to face a court martial Courts martial are arc not new things for men of or great name Usually Usua tho the greatness of or the name has hns come in spite of the charges and the deeds which made foundation foundation foundation foun foun- dation for fOl the greatness have totally erased the tho charges from the memory of or army and navy and nation Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Gushing Cushing was under charges charses when he went to blow up the rebel ram Albemarle He was a wild and reckless fellow tellow with moro more energy than titan he knew what to do with Hh and he put pul in a part of ot the time when he was supposed to be bo looking out for tor the tho Albemarle In the rather questionable endeavor to drink all tho lie commissary I X I Ed i 2 I j I whisky In the Iho Department of or tho Ito Shenandoah an and lie Iho naval arm operating In conjunction therewith When hen summoned to appear and antI defend himself IC he asked and stud secured l permission to mal make e one tr try iry for fOl tho the capture orthe of or the ram And he lie found and destroyed her lIe He an arid and his men were forced to lo swim the river r In a I storm of ot bullets and In Iho tho swamps starving and amI struggling I alone or In little groups until ho lie and antI two or three of or his companions managed to reach the Union lines And when the they got Jot there hero they found tho the good news had hadI I preceded them Tho The court martial was never er convened I Tho Tue charges were burled buried It would be good if Ir ono one I could cOUll add that Gushing Cushing measured up afterward to the tho promise of that heroic deed But Dut ho didn't want to reform his life was shortened by dissipation Perry the hero of or Luke Lako Eric Is i said to lo have been heen under charges at the lie time he won the Iho vIctory which gave such glory glor to lo his name and such honor to lo American Amen Ameri can arms And it Is another case where here the charges wore were dropped Major Fremont's own father was not immune Heins He was ins In more or less conflict with his superiors throughout through through- out his active life and even after the breaking out of ot the rebellion his impetuous nature led him to acts which had to be he disclaimed by the iho department at atash Wash ash ashIn In ington ton However the elder Fremont made his mistakes es eson on the side of or duty Ho lie simply went farther than he was ordered to go o and farther than tho the government was then ready to lo go o. o It would be comforting to to the nation if it tho the son of ot the Pathfinder were charged with nothing moro more reprehensible I |