The Arkansas banner., 1850-03-26
lFrom tsS Cleveland PlsiodsaIsr.l !
.. C. FREArOET.

The history of this young man ln highly Inter estng John Charles Fremont is young iM years. kat has see0 and studied much. for hin pre- set more briliiaat career than has ever attended say man in the Senate Chamber, notwithstanding tlls dstiagais.ed pososs that have beea asisiacd by the cend, us weiI as some Of tie liviaG He was bssn in senth Carolina ia lSl4 aud graduated at | te ChaFieston College. tn 1858 he was appolhted kJ MF. tsa Barea Lieutenant In the sF,ny, and sa alsachs to .l.e Cops of Typographical Engineers His business called him to Washington. where he became acquainted with tbe sseosa dsuEhtsr of the Hon Tbesnss II. Bsn,on in lsll. iousg. viva etens and an,bitious. this siFng in epaueites hsd the tsmsrity 10 ask the young @dy's hssd ia mar riage- e-notwlthstaRdag he kBew those much higher iu aathorl; dad solicited the same in yain. Miss Bsnloa most readily eonsented, 60 far ss she was concerned, bat intimated that she had Father who lad manifested some degree ofinlerest ia her welfare, aud might want to be consulted in the matter She laid the propossl before the old gentle. nlaa He objected 10 the proposiIien In toto. lis daughter. educated for triaee, was not going to marry CoypOrsI:' Fremont Mas forbidden ts Sster his domiciI. and Miss Benton was put under guard Old Tom had ovcrac,sd the matter IIe cid not then know the young Lieutenant. His daaghteF too. took that occasion show her Ben. tos, and as '0ld Tom had sluck to ths Expunging Resoiutions, she boUnd to stick 10 her you ng lover against all ths world. The acxi tls anxious father kucw uf Iis once devoted daaghser, site had escaped her keeper and iT private arlor at G ads ey's Hotel, was inIerchankiRg VOWS before ma gtstfale with the banished Lieutenant.
 At frst the old maa rug-d, but soon was made acquainted with the metat of his sou-in law, a reconcilistion took place, and in Old Tom Fre- mont has act ouIy had friend. bnt aa admrer ever since
 He travels, researches, scientific explorations, and feats of yalor and snffering in the far West, sse events known to tho world, aad we may say without parallel. a
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 Tyler he was breseied. la oae day, both b iieu- tsDantcy and captancy. In lS4s, when the re giment of meuRted men raised, hs was ap. pointed by the late Presdeu Polk to the lieutenant ccioaelcy; bai never joined his regiment. from his seryics ia California; from whenee he vas sent home prisoner by Gen. kearney.
 His collision wi h Ksarney iu California brought him before the country iR light lie was accused of disobeyiug the o his supp rior snd technically WAS convicted on trial by u Court Martial, demanded by himself But the country acquitted him. aud although repriinanded hy the President, he was Epplsuded by the people We were prcsent at his trial ia Washington, and him confront Inc witnesses for the Fovrrufnent in ths most frank and gallant style. Old Tom sat ny him AS coansel, and solitary and aone,' he encountered the craft of kesrney aud the cou- turnely of Naval and Military Court preiudiced against the aspiring young Lieatenant, then luxu. riaing with the rank of Coloaai Dismissed from the army. he scorned 10 be fe-nstatcd, but he rs- commenced his exp Oraiions in Csiifornia by new rouis. with 'kit Carson, his famous old guide d, their head. Ten of hi. men he lost in the mouu- tsins by being nbedded in the snow and literally starving and freezing to death. With the remnant hs reached San Fnhcisce, and has been sue ,dnv the summer the mines. In the meantime com. mission reaches him approaching Col. Weller as boundary commissioner under the late treaty with Mexico. This he declines and the next NC hear of him he Is elected uniled States Ssuaior from tae new State of California
 MT. Fremont Is hardly of medium size, spare and tight, with dark hair and eyes. His temperament is nervous, his couBteBance highly intellectual and pheasant, and his niaaRers agreeable. He will be the youngest member of the Senate. his age being thirty six. With the exception of San Houston no Senator in that body beast eventful a life.