The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-09
THE DAILY DISPATCH
11. s.,.rS.y c.srssns, February ., 1880.

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Persssai Appearance Of washinsso .,,..r.
The following description Of the pefsoa ~ found
auce Of the "Fasher Of his Country Ma
interesting II is from the ''Recoie''v ',,.aed Tr
moirs Of G. w. p Curtis" recently p" 49,, .,.,nre
In giving graphic dess s give NO. only the re,
,s 70 s,,s ,,ersonal observation ana 81 az M.
,ssasyears hit information DERIVE" ''',-
eat Authority favorite nephewh II. rnc,a what was
vs. .....ance Lewis asked az uns,o wAas " 90
MAJOR Law .' IT, nrime Of life. He replied, IN my
-. Ssys Lawrence, stood SIX eyt Aau W.
s;nchas In ordinary shoes Aoo~ .HHs ~ LA
Anonss 10 s,sndsrd precisely six feet when iaid
sufec y go OF his weight we are an evidence.
0W az 80 - "A him say TO Crawford Governor OF
nssns IN I7.a. my weight In nay best days SIR,
80 exeeeded from two hundred ana Ten 70
,wentyr His form was unique, unlike mos So, AZ
w. sssmes that expand at the shoulders and then
sa,ber In at the hips The form OF /" asnnssSS
seyiated from the general rule SINCE a,,t,;o,.r
from the shoulders to the hips IN P e'penu'."".
lines the breadth Of the trunk Deing He@'9 "e
.reat at the one as the other :, ~,
His limbs were long large, and sine"y' 10 DIS
lower limbs he was what Is usnAhy SAneu ei@'ent
iimbed His Joints, feet, ana hsnos were tAige.
and eould a cast have been made from ms right
go g 50 ? Aid its dimensions exceed natures
roossI .bst II would have been preserved in muse
INNS for ages as the anafomicsi wonder OF the 18th
oan,rrv LAFAYETTE remembered this remarkable
hand when during his triumph in America, he said
70 ne in the portieo at Mount Vernon. 1t was here
IN ga was first introduced to you by the good
General; it Is long while ago. You were den
very little gentleman, rugged out in cap and
feather and held by one finger of the Generals
mighty hand TWAS all you could do at dat Time
The eyes of the Chief were light grayish blue
deep sunken in their sockets giving the expression
of gravity and thought. Stuart painted those
eyes Of deeper blue. saying in hundred years
they viii have faded to the right color. His hair
was of q hazel brown, and very thin in his latter
days In his movements he preserved in re-
markabie degree and to advantage, the elastic
step that he had acquired in his service on the
frontier.
Being ordered one morning very early into the
library at Mount Vernon, a spot that none entered
without orders, the weather being warm, we found
the Chief very much undressed, and, while looking
on his manly frame, we discovered that the centre
of his chest was indented This is an exception to
the general rule laid down by anatomists that
where the human frame pos sesses great muscular
power the chest should rather be rounded out and
protuberant than indented We were equally sur
priSed to find how thin he in person. being,
with the absence of flesh, literally man of 'thews
and sinews." He wore around his neck the NINA
Iure portrait of his wife. This he had worn
through all the veissitudes of his eventful career
from the period of his marriage to the last days at
Mount Vernon"
= In the appearance of Washington there was no
thing of bulkiness, but there was united all that
was dignified and graceful. while his air and man
ner were at once noble and commanding. No one
approached him that did not feel for him, as Lord
Erskine observed, "a degree of awful reverence"
He wore sword with peculiar grace. The Wis
comte de Nouilles said it was because the man
was made for the sword, and not the sword for the
man" --- g.
Lafayette, not long after the war ofthe Revolu-
tion, wrote letter TO Col. Trumbun urging him to
paint an equestrian portrait of the Chief he APP
peared ON the field of the Monmouth. The illus
trious Frenchman, Americas great benefactor,
said to us: 81 was q very young Major General
on that memorable day, and had great deal to do,
but took time, amid tho heat and fury of the fight,
TO gaze upon and admire Washington as mounted
on a splendid charger covered with foam, he raj
lied our line with words never to be forgotten =
Stand fast my boys, and receive your enemy; the
Southern troops are advancing to support you!'
l thought then as do now" continued the good
Lafayette, that never have SEEN SO superb u
man" " r