Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-08-30
FREMONT AT uOME--DEsCR RIP
TION OF A CALL UPON HIM
AT HIS HOUSE.
lCoHesPoadense of the Boston Christian Freeman.
NEw YoRK, July % 1856.

NEw loRK, July 90 1856.
DEAR FREEMAS This forenoon started
out under hot sun, to fulfill an engagement
which made yesterday. AT just i2 o'clock.
NJ, ! rang the hell at the door Of No. So Ninth
street. As siond there waiting for an an
swer to my summons insiineiyely cast my eyes
up 10 see where the balcony had been broken.
for not many evenings since there was a crash
there eonaewhere WINE quite precious l,'~.l
was upon it. Bot ! could see nolhing, the
hands Of the arti6cer having made all right
had just seen that there was nothing to be
seen, when the door was opened. handed
my card TO the attendant, and was conducted to
the front parlor on the second floor, where
was left alone some len or fifteen minutes. -
The apartment was furnished in a style of sim
pie and luxuriousness, everything there being
made either for comfort or use. Upon the w--llt.
were some valuable paintings, and among Them
fne porlrait OF "Old Bullion" Also, char
acieTislie likeness of the iron statesman OF South
Carolina, Calhoun. Many books were there,
some Of them much read and could not but
notice that these latter were works Of noble
merit-mostly scientific or historical. aud re-
cords Of Important travels. The best poets
were there, and had certainly been oiien thumb
ed.
At length the attendant called upon me, and
desired me 10 follow him. In quiet, simply
furnished apartment, upon the rear OF The first
floor, found my host. was not prepared to
meet such man. None Of the Published prints
Of him which had seen did him justice. Yet
knew that held Col. John Charles Fremont
by the hand
/ had expected to see a slouibnili full feat
ured. dark sharp-eyed man, with the air of
'roueh-and-iumbe' life fresh upon him. |
was looking for an eye that should pierce me
through, and make me feel anywhere but at
home. 10 short, | was all prepared TO keep
cool, and wear an outward show Of ease. But
mark
] met man rather below the medium size,
as far as mere bulk is concerned, with a mild,
modest expression of counienance; deep mean
ing eye, bot beamng with intellectual light I;
brow nobly formed, though half-hidden by the
dark, curling hair which parts in the centre and
floats away on either side; bold, aquilne nose
with those finely curved .nosirils which mark
The fearless, frm-sonled man lips rather thin
and not at all hidden by the graceful moustache;
prominent chin for character, though in per-
feet keeping with the rest of the features.
never saw a masculine face with so much bold
ness Of outline, and less of the animal. There
is hardly an animal feature discernible. 1t is
all NAS,-irue, pure and noble. His feelings
speak out plainly in his face. especially in his
eyes and lips and the varying shades ~of his
eountenance hetray at once the man who is not
used to coneealment or prevarcation.
Al first the visitor is hardly willing Ia be-
lieye that the lghl-buill man before him is the
Alexander Of Caliiornis-,he Vespucius OF the
Rocky Mountains but when we note that firm
ness Of muscle-lhai fine knitting Of frame
that super-abundance of nerve and neatly ar
ranged muscle-we are no longer at fault.
had moi spoken with him full minute be-
fore felt as perfectly at home as though had
been with member of my own family. His
salulalion was frank and manly, free from all
study, and bore upon its tone genial welcome.
| wondered ere | was introduced, ifmy costume
was 0li fat, or oonmae il Jauf, for | knew that
some of our plain (l) Republican gentry, when
called upon 10 serve the public, were very pune
tilious in this respect, and it is not to be won
dered at that ere | let the drawing-room gave
one last look into the mirror, to be assured that
/ all was right. But when found the Colonel !
thanked my stars that | had studied my own
comfort in my costume. His own dress con-
sisted of a pair Of thin pants without suspenders
no vest, and common, loose brown-linen sack
] And SO he received his guests