New York Daily Tribune

The Herald of Friday returns to its statement of a fortnight ago as to the removal of Fremont, boasting of the first falsehood as special intelligence, reiterating that its news was true, and adds:

"We publish in another column extracts from The Tribune and Independent, which bear out all that we originally stated."

To show the impudence of this assertion, we quote what The Herald originally stated:

"Upon charges made by Col. Blair, Maj. Gen. Fremont has been ordered to report himself for trial by court martial. Gen. Wool, of Fortress Monroe, has been ordered to supersede Gen. Fremont in command of the Department of the West, and Gen. Mansfield left for Fortress Monroe this afternoon to supersede Gen. Wool."

These are the statements in The Herald of Oct. 3, which it now reasserts and professes to support by the testimony of The Tribune and The Independent. And here is the evidence:

Tribune & Washington Dispatch of Oct. 11

"Official advices have been received here to the effect that the Secretary of War returned to St. Louis last night from his visit to Gen. Fremont. Rumors followed him that while at Tipton, he delivered to Gen. Fremont an order from Gen. Scott directing him to surrender his command to the officer next to him in authority, namely, to Maj. Gen. Hunter, and to report by letter to Washington. But the rumor is not well founded. When the Cabinet is fully advised of the facts of Gen. Fremont's military administration final action upon his case will promptly be taken."

And the testimony of The Independent is that Fremont's removal

"was planned in high circles, and would have been carried into execution but for the voice of the people. The enemies of General Fremont openly boasted of his fall. They were certain of it, and were informed by very distinguished persons connected with the Government that it was sure to present that he will be deprived of an opportunity to show his capacity as a general, but the opposition to him is only sleeping—it is not dead."

The reader will observe that both these extracts prove exactly the reverse of what The Herald asserts. That mendacious print nearly three weeks ago said Fremont has been ordered to trial, Gen. Wool has been ordered to supersede Fremont, and Gen. Mansfield left this afternoon to supersede Wool. There was no future or even present tense to qualify the falsehood. It was a positive statement that such events had taken place, the whole being a deliberate, unqualified invention, as then denounced, and subsequently proved. The effrontery of quoting the exact opposite to sustain it is cool, even for The New York Herald.