GEN. HARRISON.
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The following description of Gen Hari-
son is from the VOL. o. N .CHEvALIER., a
French gentleman who visited this country
shor. time since, and has since published
the observations of men and things made
on his tour


| had observed at the hotel table man
of about the medium height, stout and mus
cular and of about the age of sixty years,
yet with the active step and lively air of
youth. had been struck with his open
and cheerful expression, the amenity of his
manners, and a certain air of command,
which appeared through his plain Dress
''That is, said my friend, General Har-
rson, clerk of the Cincinnati Court Of
Common Pleas" "What! General Har-
rison of the Tippecanoe and the Thames 7"
The same; the eX-general the conqueror
of Tecumseh and Proctor; the avenger of
our disasters on the raisIn and at Detroit; the
ex-governor of the Territory of Indiana the
ex-senator in Congress, the ex-mlni ster of
the United States TO one of ihe South A
merioan republics He has grown old in
the service of his country, he has passed
twenty years of his life in those fierce wars
with the Indians, in which there was less
glory to be won but more dangers to be en-.
couutered, than at Rvoli and AusterIitz
He is now poor, with a numerous family,
neglected by the Federal government, altho'
yet vigorous because he has the indepen-
dence to think for himself As the opposition
is in the majority here his friends have be-
thought themselves of coming to his relief
by removing the clerk of the Court of Com
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giving him the place, which is lucrative
one as sort ofretlrng pension. His friends
in the Fast talk Of making hun President
of the United States. Meanwhile we have
made him clerk of an inferior court"