Litchfield enquirer., 1848-02-03
LFFcHFIELD, coNN,) THURSDAY FEBRUARY g, 84s.

threw me On hoard this craft. There va,
 the veritable Rough and Ready sitting
 opposite me, siPpiDg his coffee-ths mosi
 remarkable maD, in many respects. in the Western hemisphere: I had missed the gorgeous spectacle of his reception at New OEleans-the most magnificent affair which had ever shaken that city with excitement; bat vastly 'better.-I had him now, where ] could see and study the man--a man whose -aame belongs to history, and whose achieve
 men,s place him side and side with the great captains of the world. The first thing that strHck me was his simplicity- m unfalling attribute of true greatness. He ate, and talked, and carried himself rwith the unstudied ease of a little. child. You would have supposed him some plain country gentleman, who dreamed not of attracting look or calling out remark. All right in that line, thought I, but how different looking and better looking than the million oflithograph likenesses which stare you in the face at the shop windows and every where else! -- ...t !,
 There is in the living original none of that extreme breadth between the chin and and the back of the ead--very little of the protrusion of the lower lip, 10 he found in the Autographs. In a word, they are a bundle of caricatures, ene and all. He is precisely the height your correspondent; has considerable sprinkle of grey hairs; is 62 years ofage, erect and firm when no his feet, with one of the kindliest express sions of the face you ever saw. lie had on common blue frock coat, with flatbut.- tons, the covering of which was worn of. showing that it belonged to an order of things passed away some two or three years ago. Still, his dress, as whole, was suf> fciently becoming, though exhibiting no trace whatever of the military. As we rose from the breakfast table, was intro- duced to the old hero told him was from South Carolina, and rejoiced in the good fsrtuue which had allowed me to see him, and tell him how much the people of my native State honored and loved him His eyes filled with tears as he shook my hand warmly !; and ! saw that the simple assurance ofIove could affect profoundly man who faced the storm of battle with nerve thrt never moved. His conversation exhibited 6ne. clear, common sense, with out the slightest tinge of any sort of affec> tation or personal vanity. In the course of the day he gave me the details of the great battle of Buena Vista. the key to all the successes of ihe American arms in Mexico. Had that field been lost, the fate of the war would have been entirely differ en:, even though indomitable courage might in its long run have cut its way to the Mexican capital. That victery, won against odds 50 vast, gave prestige to A. merican vaior that made the subsequent battles comparatively easy affairs
 The General remained with us until af- ter breakfast the next morning, and was landed a. his owa residsace on the river, some distance above Matches. smiled to see the Republican simplicity with which a couple of his negroes, field hands, who happened to be al the landing, walked up as he got on shore, and shook hands with him without defing hat or cap, and :he ex> pression of delight with which they looked into his face as he spoke kindly and famil> iarly to them. Our engine bell rang as soon as he touched the shore, and we were off" -