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, FOtd Ion DShAon ANEW ehVusn VI AUG w =
igrse of inis man lFremOnt.) not to like him.
and E~bid him the hOspitallies Of his house"
We will Just turn to The fles Of the Plain
Dealer for February. 1850. Gray had recent
ly returned from Washington, where be had
met with Fremont. Of whom be then thus I
wrote in his Plain Dsoler and thus told Tom
Benton's opinion of bis sOn.in-laW;
Hon. J. c. Fremcnt.-The history Of this
young man is highly interesting. Afsw years
ago be vas Lieutenant u she army, and an
attache to the corpse Of Typographical Engi-
neers. His business called him much to Wash
IingtOn, where he became acquainted with the
second daughter Of Hon. Thomas h. Benton.
|, Young, vivacious and ambitious, this STRIPPING
} in epaulets had the temerity 10 ask the young
' laiy's hand in maRiage-notWithstanding he
. knew those much higher in authority had So
q lcied the ssme in vain. Miss Benton most
readily consented, so far as she was concerned
but intmated that she had Father who had
= manifested sons degree of interest in her
welfare, and might want to be consulted in the
Is matter She laid the proposal" before the
!, old gentleman. He objected 10 the proposition.
His daughter, educated for Prince, was not
:. going to marry Corporal, Fremont was for
" hidden 10 enter his demcil. and Miss Benton
al was put under guard. "0ld Tom" had over
i acted the matter. He did not then know the
, Young Lieutenant. His daughter, too took
THAT occasion TO show her Benton, and as sold
a a Tom" had stuck to the "Expunging Resolu-
r ltions" she was bound to stick 10 her young
cir lover against all the world. The next the anx'
iOus father knew Of his once devoted dsugh-
pc ter she had escaped her inkeepers, and in a
and private psrlor at Gadsby's Hotel was nterchan
Oiug vows before magistrate with the ban
the Iished Lieutenant.
AT first the old man ragged. but soon wa
hem hem made acquainted with the E'ettle of hi" new
aud. son-in,law reconciliation took place, and il
'%s, ,iro Old Tom Fremont has not only had friend
or but an admirer ever since,
HIS travels. researches, scientific expiora
tiops and feats of valor and suffering in th
Far West, are events known to the world, AM
we may say without a parallel.
His collision With Kearney in Californi
e brought him before The country IN new light
He was accused of dsobeying the command
Of his superior and technically was SO convict
ed on trial by a Court Martial, demanded b
~ himself But the country acquitted him an
although reprimsnded by the President wa
applauded by the 9eople.We were at his tri
in Washington, and saw him confront the wi
nesses Of the Gevernmen! in the most franl
gallant style. "0d Tom" sat by him
counsel, and SOLITARY and alone" he ehcouK
tered the craft Of Kearney and the cOntume
Of a Naval and Military Court. prejudlced
gainst the aspiring young Lieutenant, then lu
rating with the rank Of Colonel. Dismiss
from the army, he scorned to be rens'ate
but he recommended his explorations on
anty own account He raised company OF m'
aid and started for California by a new route wi
Kan "Kit Carson" his famous old guide al the
psaS sA head Ten of bis men he lost in the mopl
ym. tains by being imbeded in snow and literal
jtate starving and freezing to death. With the ren
d to nant he reached San Francisco, and has bee
to amending the summer in the mines. 10 Il
meantime Commission reaches him superc
:" ding Col. Weller as Boundary Commission
under the late treaty with Mexico. This
ttee, declines. and the next we hear from him, he
&c oi elected United States Senator from the nj
~ ~ sta,e Of California, and probably set sail
gust, the January steamers for Panama, on his W
Sc of to Washington.
'un'y Mr., Fremont is hardly Of medium size, sp
and light, with dark hair and eyes his to
permanent is nervous, his countenance hig|
intellectual and pleasant and his manner agr
eF OF able. He will be the youngest memberof
hS thS Senate, bis age being less than forty, W
iinia the exception OF Sam Houston, no Senator
. 9th that body can boast Of SO eventual life"
Now, upon which horn Of this will our Vii
mont mont yard Lane neighbO. choose to hang--a tarl
! on for universal contempt t.--LeGder. f.
hort. w.v-