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

beiorc being taken to the cemetry, the
body was Theoretically soldered within a
copper coffin
from the house the funeral cortcpc,
which was very large, all places of busi
ness being closed by order of our Mayor.
proceeded to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, whore, after services performed
by the Rev, Mr., M'Fcrren, it was CON
veyed to the cemetry, followed by vast
concourSc of citizens. The body was de-
posted in the Grundy vault, temporarily:
but 1t will soon be removed 10 a vault on
the lawn of the eN-Prcsidential mansion,
wherc willow now stands, and over it
VIII be erected stately marble cenotaph
thus the body of the President from Ten
nessec will lie entombcd in the heart of
Its capital Mr.. Polk, by will, the even
ing before his death, gave the lawn to
inc State, IN crpetuity, for this purpose.
Mr. Polk sent for the Rev, DIR. Edgar,
OF the Presbyterian Church, seven days
before his death, desiring to be baptized
BY hm' He said to him impressivcly:
"'Slr, if | had suspected twenty years
ago that should come to my death bed
unpepore1, it would have made me
wretched man yet am about to die, and
have not made preparation. / have not
even been baptized Tell me, sin, can
there be any ground for man thus stu
atcd to hope 2"
The Rev. Doctor made known to him
the assurances and promises of the gos-
pelthat mcrcifully run parallel with mans
life.
Mr., Polk 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 of pub
lie life hardly gave him time for the SOL
cmn preparation requisite, and so procras-
tination had ripened into inaction, when
it 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 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 argu-
ments with the Rev. Mr.. McFeyrcn, the
talented and popular Methodist minis, Y
of the place, his warm personal and po-
llllcal friend, and that he had promised
him that when he did embrace christiani-
ty, that he, the Rev. Mr.. McFercn,
should baptizc him. He, 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 President, a
very piou,s 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 ex-Presidcnt
taking her affectionatcly by the hand, "I
have never in my life disobeyed you, but
you must yield to your son now and graf
ify my wishes must be baptized by the
Rev, Mr.. McFeyrin."
His mother, wise rs she is pious, did
not hesitate to give her consent; and in
the presence of the Rev. Dr. Edgar, and
the Rev, Mr.. Mack, of Columbia, the ex-
President received the right of baptism,
at the hands of the Rev. Mr.. McBerrin.
Mr.. Polk has died worth about one
hundred thousand dollars, the bulk of
which is settled upon his amiable lady;
who, it is hoped, will long make this city
her abode-an ornament to it's society,
for call 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 4 We feel assured
that no certain information of that fact
was known at Washington on the 9th
inst the date of the despatch.
nj RRIED,
On lth inst hv w 9 Grishon, Fer