Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-21

EXTRACTS FROM UPHAN's LIFE OF FIRE.
MONT. Colonel Fremont is not vet old in
! years. and looks even younger than he is. He
| is III the full Hover Of matured strength and
health He is about five feet nine inches
high but from his perfectly straight, erect,
and elastic bearing, appears taller than his
inches He is quite slender, but well made
of peculiarly graceful bearing, quick and
alert IN his movements and by his manners
and expression, concliates the good will of all
whom he meets. His success in life is partly
! OWING 10 the favorable impression he makes
by ms manner OF treating others in common
intercourse.
This uniform justice and friendliness of
manner and spirit in his treatment of others.
| combined with readiness to decide where the
decision belongs to him rapid, and as the re-
suit has always proved, correct Judgment =
cool and intrepid courage, and persevering
hrmness ofpurpose constitute that great exec
utive capacity he has invariably exhibited. bv
which perfect order and constant harmony
were preserved among his men, and his force
rendered efficient, inyincble, and successful
against all odds. This executive capacity ena
bled him to surmount all obstacles IN his e,,
plorng expeditions, and was signally shown
IN the conquest and government of California.
1t enabled him, in concluding his spirited de-
fence before the court martial, to saw. in The
bold confidence of truth:
My acts in California have all been with
high motives and a desire for the public ser.
wee. My scientific labors did something To
open California to the know ed ge of nv couh-
trymen; IFS geography had been sealed book.
My military operations We're conquests with
out boodshed my civil administration was
for the public good, l offer California. dur.
ing my administration, for comparison with
the most tranquil portions of the United
states offer 1t in contrast to the condition
OF New Mexico during the same time"
1t was said the Secretary of. War. who had
come into office during his absence, and had
never seen him before, could hardly believe
his own eyes, when modest, light and slen-
der youth reported himself as Lieutenant
Fremont, just returned from his expedition to
Oregon and North California. His appear.
ance still impressed a similar surprise upon
those who know what he has gone throneb.
The explanation is to be found in temperate
habits and a cheerful faith in success in calm
courage to undertake, and patient frmness
Inc physical frame, il preserved from all en-
teeollng lhdulgences, and animated bv we'll
regulated, contented and resolute mind. will
retain the buoyancy of its spirits, and the an
orgy OF us iorces' An active out-of- door life
III the pure mountain air, and indurated bv
loi'e usage TO the elements Of nature, will be
worry likely to harden n constitution 70 bioh
degree of lirmness. In this way we are 10
account Tor the remarkable evidence ofphys,
cal endurance recorded in these pages.
Oiten Fremont rode sixty miles day, swan
ioaming torrents, slept uncovered, save by a
blanket IN pouring rains and on beds of snow,
and walked and worked, day after day,
without food. So it was with his mon. Car
son and Cooley pursued, attacked, aud rout-
cd an Indian party, slew two warriors whose
hands were yet red with tho blood Of murder.
ed travellers, and brought in their scalps, hav-
ing ridden one hundred miles in thirty hours.
Fremont accomplished a still more exlraordi.
nary feat. Accompanied by Pico, tho Cali
fornia commandant, whose life he had spared.
aud Jacob Dodson, ho rode from Los Angeles
TO Monterey, four hundred and eighty miles
in three days and ten hours and after re,>
naming one day, made tho return distance
within the same time. This is in parl IN he