Washington telegraph., 1850-01-30

Mr.. CLAY.-The following handsome
tribute to the great American statesman,
we take from the Georgia Telegraph-a
leading Democratic paper in Georgia,
conducted by one who has an able head
and heart to match. The extract is
from the Telegraph's Washington cores
pondent:
During the whole of the exciting scene
of Thursday, in the House, MIR. Clay sat
beneath my desk, almost within my reach,
and l assure you his bearing throughout
the exciting proceedings was to me a
subject of as much interest as the furious
Storm progressing Hardly muscle of
his expressive countenance moved during
the most furious hour. There he sat with
eyes intently fixed upon the combatants,
the speakers on either side. They gave
out ever and anon such expressions Of
heartfelt sorrow, mingled with approba-
ton here, dissent there, with sympathy
for his country as whole, and with anx-
ious and gloomy forebodings as the eyes
alone, of no other living American can
express. Though. as radically opposed
to his views of public policy any other
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Mr.. Clay as true patriot, every inch of
him. Though writing within the last
six years perhaps more for the Democratic
press than any other individual-vastly
more, / have never taken occasion to
charge upon him or even remotely to i'm
ply want OF confidence in the earnest
ness actuatng that great man. In this,
| differ from many OF my political friends
who believing him to be as selfish and
politically licentious as the common herd
of federalistS, have lost no opportunity to
brand him as such. I have been reasoned
with and scolded more than once for fully
expressing my favorable impressions of
the man, not of his politics. l wished
yesterday for those to have been at my
side who can see no merit III that tre-
mendous opponent of Democratic prin-
ciples aud measures [ wished for them
that they might read IN his speaking coun-
tenance far more convincing reffuation
of all assertions upon the integrity of his
mistaken political labors, than pen can
trace, than lips though moving with elo-
quence equal to his own, can pronounce.
SHIP BURNr-The New York papers
contain letter from Captain Hoxie, OF
the packet ship Caleb Grimshaw, detail
ing the loss or that ship by fire on her
voyage from Liverpool to New York, hav-
ing on board 400 passengers, all of whom
were saved by the British bark Sarah,
Capt. Cook, of Yarmouth, n S. The
fire was first discovered on the 18th No
vember, and all exeriions to subdue it
were unavailing, though by means of an
engine and buckets, water was thrown
into the vessel until it was nine feet in
the hold. The matches were KEEP: closed
and the fire thus restrained for five days
before they fell in with the Sarah. The
wind then was blowing so heavy that it
was not until the third day afterwards
that the passengers and crew We're all
finally removed, and not until the main
mast had settled down more than foot,
and the upper deck worked each way
more than six inches. The great quanti-
ty Of water thrown into the ship, and
keeping the matches close, Captain Hoxie
states were the means of preserving the
vessel so long; and after al. hands had
been removed, so soon as the matches had
been lifted, she was in light blaze. The
letter Of Captain Ii. is dated at Fayal,
where the Sarah proceeded for the purpose
of landing the rescued passengers, the
accident having occurred near the island
of Flores.
Captain Hoxie states that sixty of the
passengers left on a raft the I'd day of the
fire, but does not further allude to them,
nor state if they were among those that
were received on board the Sarah.
The New York papers state that the
ship was valued at $4,000, and the cargo
at 100000 -
SINGULAR FACT-it is stated that
while the subscription in New York, in
aid of the Hungarian Refugees had near
ly reached $4,000 proposition to raise
funds for the relief of the disabled New
York volunteers has entirely failed.
On the above paragraph, the N. York
Tribune makes the following very just re-
marks:
This is not by any manner of means
SO singular as it purports to be. The
same sort of propensity runs through a
hundred other different things. For ex-
ample, do we not send missionaries 70 the
Pacific, yea even TO Paris, 10 teach the
heathen, yet lying every where in our
great cities and parts not far from the cities
are thousands of heathen-regular pagan
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