Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-14

, ' ilc was haDltcd IN PLAN suit of
PACK, and copy of the Constitution of
inc United States was placed at his feet.
Before being taken to the cemet.v. the
body was Theoretically soldercd within a
copper coffin
From the house the funeral cortcpc.
whlci vas very large, all places of bust
ness being closed by order of our Mayor.
proceeded to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, where, after services performed
by the Rev. Mr. M'Fcrren, it was con
Veyed to the cemety, followed by vast
concoursc of citizens. The body was de-
posted IN the Grundy vault, temporarily;
but 1t will soon be removed to vault on
the lawn of the ex-Prcsidential mansion,
where willow now stands, and over it
VIII DC erected stately marble cenotaph:
thus the body of the President from Ten
nesSec will lie cntombed in the heart of
Its capital. Mr.. Polk, by will, the even
ing before his death, gave the lawn to
The State, in lerpetuity, for this purpose.
Mr. Folk sent for the Rev DIR. Edgar,
OF the Presbyterian Church, seven days
before his death, desiring to be baptized
BY him. lie said to him impressivclv:
FSr II | had suspected twenty years
ago that should come to my death bed
unr7epared, it would have made me a
wretched man yet am about to die, and
have not made preparation. | have not
even been baptized Tell me, sir, can
atcd to hope %
The Rev. Doctor made known to him
the assurances and promises of the pos-
pei that mcrcifully run parallel with mans
life.
MI, Folk then remarked, that he had
been prevented from baptism in infancy
by some accidental occurrence. that he
had been several times strongly inclined
to be baptized during his administration,
but that the cares and perplexities ofpub-
lie life hardly gave him time for the sol
cmn preparation requisite, and so procras-
tlnation had ripened into inaction, when
1T was now almost too late to act. In his
conversation with the Rev. Clergyman,
MIR. Polk cvinced great knowledge of the
scriptures, which he had read a great
deal, and deeply revercnced, as Divine
truth; ina word, he was theoretically, a
Christian
The conversation fatiguing Mr.. Polk
too much for him to be baptized, it was
postponed to take place the next evening;
but In the interval, the ex,President re-
collected that when he was Governor and
lived here, he used TO hold many arpu-
ments with the Rev. Mr.. McFerrcn, the
talented and popular Methodist minister
OF the place, his warm personal and po-
lltlcal friend, and that he had promised
him that when he did embrace christiani-
ty, that he, the Rev. Mr.. McFerrcn,
should baptize him. Hc, therefore, sent
for the Rev DR.. Edgar, made known this
obligation, and expressed his intention to
be baptized by his friend the Methodist
minister The same day the venerable
Mrs. Polk, mother of the cx-Prcsidcnt, a
very ,pious Presbyterian lady, arrived
from her residence, forty miles distant,
accompanied by her own pastor, hoping
that her distinguished son would consent
to be baptiscd by him.
"Mother," said the dying x-Presidcnt,
taking her affectionatcly by the hand, 81
have never in my life disobeyed you, but
you must yield to your son now and graf
lily my wishes must be baptized by the
Reu. Mr.. 4HcFeyyin."
His mother, wise as she is pious, did
not hesitate to give her consent; and in
the presence of the Rev Dr. Edgar, and
tho Rev. Mr. Mack, of Columbia, the ex-
President received the right of baptism,
at the hands of the Rev. Mr.. McFerrin.
Mr.. Polk has died worth about one
hundred thousand dollars, the bulk of
which is settled upon his amiahle lady;
who, it is hoped, will long make this city
her abode--an ornament to it's society,
for "all lips do praise her"
Hon Henry CLAY-The Charleston
Courier of yesterday says: A telegraphic
despatch announced that this distinguish
ed citizen had been attacked by Cholera
on Tuesday last The Baltimore Clip
per states that private despatch, re-
ceived at Washington, leads to the be-
lief that he is dead. :, We feel assured
that no certain information of that fact
was known at WASHINGTON ON the 9th