The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-10
0ALVIENSlS.

WARRINGTON, Nov o, Is47.
Trial Of Fremont, With some O6servatious on Colonel
Benton.
Colonel Benton Is pleased as when bis hands
full Of business and the heavier the task the more
to his liking In this Of Fremont he il positively
in clover He got tired out waiting for Congrsss and
must have something to do lie is ever ready to take
up the gtterng spear and the shield" when his ooun-
try or his friends his family, demand It, IFS motto d.
Dulcs amor patsla, dulce videre suos p
And If you touch his friends you bring the old war
horse down upon you.
General Kesrny has srraigned Fremont on undrv
heavy specifications Fremont Is favorite with his ia
Their inaw. Kit Carson, Preuss, Fitzpatrick, Cooley
and all Fremont's young men that explored the Rocky
Mountains the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada,
with Fremont are as children to Col Benton. They
part the witnesses for the defence; and in the
intervals OF Of the Court they will gather
around the old Colonel on the walks Of the arsenal
grounds and he will talk to them OF the hardships Of
desert life Of the qualities Of dog soup, hides mule
ribs and shoe soes which accounted good eating In
that bowling blank wilderness Of the Great Basin and
he will lecture them Spanish and tell them Of the
Aztecs and Of Humboldt and Of the volcanic formation
Of the country west OF the Rocky Mountains and II
stranger up and introduced the distingushed
senator will branch OF as follows .A~...~.--
That Is Fremont cir, yes sir and these his young
men They can tell you how in the Great Basin, hs
studied out travelled round 1t and through It. and
made 1t known to the world wild desert that In
dian living roots bad crossed with salt plains
boiling springs. He crossed through It, sir and these
the young that crossed with him. or AFTER him
Fremont led the way He Away busy, sir studyine
the earth by and studying the heavens by night All
they wanted grass and water for their mules With
out grass their mules died; but the starved animsjs
made food for the starving men. when tho Romsps
took Syracuse they found Archimedes at work upon a
mathematical probem and when they were about to
kill him he raised up his head and asked only little
time to work out that problem Soft is with fremont
SIR He has been compelled to give up his work; and
had not Mr. Hubbard, Of the Observatory been de.
tailed by Mr. Mason for the work, II would have
stopped, sir for no other man could be found here
TO do It But the work goes on, while the trial
goes n-they both go on together mathematics and
a. court martial and Fremont the subject Of both
These are the young men, sir. They have done
good service They have crossed barren mountains
they have weathered mountains covered with snow as
deep and as high AZ the SHOWS Of ST. BERNARD They
have cross u desert FIVE hundred miles wide-they
nave sversed deserts for three Thousand miles These
are the young men, sir -
lti.a prime good festure in a man. that he will thus
identify part OF bis family the humblest follower
one OF them In scenes Of hardship and danger No
can have truer friend than be found in Benton;
and with all his apparent hauteu and self importance
the Senate and his seeming GOODNESS
social conversation he breaks out upon you as
as a summers day DOLORES.