, 1840-02-01
From Fliufs .Recollscfious.a-,

from ms" hecoftecffoaS.2-e~s-s
@Myduties and my travels occupied me
Ia suchfa manner, as to allow me few oppor.
%tunities for taking individual estimate of char.
acter. Chance brought me in contact, and
afterwards into considerable intimacy, with
a gentleman, of whom very different Dor.
traits have been drawn-General Harrison.
Ot his urbaniiy, and general hospitality and
kindness, | entertain The most grateful rec.
collections. could desire NO attentions, no
facilities for dscharsing my duty, which ne
did not constantly profer me. His house
was opened for public worship. He kept
an open table. - which every visitor was
welcomed. The table was loaded with a.
bundance, and with substantial good cheer,
especially with the different kinds Of game.
In these respects his house strongly remind
ed me Of the pictures, which my reading had
presented me, Of old English hospitality
He is a small and rather sallow looking man,
who Goes not exactly meet the associations
that connect themselves with the name Of
General. But he grows upon the eye, and
upon more intimate acquaintance. There is
something imposing in the dignifed simpli
city of his manners. In the utter want of
all show. and insignia, and ~trappings, there
is something which finely COMFORTS with the
rsevere PGnnsss Of republicanism. On "a fne
farm, in the midst of the woods, his house
was open to all the neighbors, who entered
without ceremony, and were admitted to as
sumo footing Of entire equality. His eye is
brilliant. There is a great deal Of ardor AID
vivacity in his manner. He has a copious
fund OF that eloquence which is fitted for the
camp and for gaining partizans. As n CON-
mander, you know in what different lights
he has been viewed. Having no capacity
10 form an adequate judgment upon this poin,
| can only say, that my impression was, that
his merits 10 this respect had hot been sufi-
GENTLY appreciated.
CHEvALlER, also, in his Justly celebrated
letters, lately published, while commentioo
on the ill-requital Of distinguished public men
in America, who spend and are spen. in our
our service, makes the following mention Of
General Harrison, whom he encountered in
Cincinlaii:-
81 had observed at the hotel table a man
OF about tine medium height, stout and nus.
cular. aud oi a5ou. the age OF sixty wears.
ye:wlih the active step, AMI lively air Of
youth. / lad teen struck with his open .rd
chser.ul expression, the amsnity CT his nan.
ners, aud a certain air Of command. which
appeared through his PLAIN dress. That is.
sad my friend, General Harrison. Clerk OF
the Cincinnati Court of Common Pleas
what! General Harrison. Of the Tiopecsnos
and the ThamesF The same; the ex-gener.
al, the conquerer Of Tecumssh and Proctor.
the ayenger OF Our disasters on the Raisin,
and at Detroit; the eH governor of the Terri.
tory Of lndis3a. the ex-senator in CONGRESS.
the eS-minister Of the United States TO ona
Of the South American republics. He has
grown old iq the service of his country. bo
-has Psssst twenty years of his fife in thoss
wars rsith the Indians, IN which there
was less glory TO be won, but more dangers
hp b. encountered, than at Rivoli and An.
He is now poor, with a numeron,
milyreglected by the Federal Govern.
ment, Sthough yet vigorous, because 10 bad
the independence TO think for himself. as
the opposition is in the majority here hi
have bethought themselves of com;rD
10 his relief by removing the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, who was a JacLson
man, andgiying him the place. which is ,
lucrative one, as a sort Of retiring I. os;on
His friend in the East talk of MAKING 49,
President pf the United States. MeanwbiIs
we have mals him clerk OF al inferior
The ten conmaEaments.-The decapcue
has Deen thus terseiy and ousinilv rapJaa5