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4 WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1852.

HENRY CLAY, the great Patriot, Statesman, and
Orator, has departed from among us He breathed
bis last at his apartments, at the National Hotel
"A this city, yesterday at about eleven o'clock A. M
AS soon as the event was known, the bells of the
lefty told to all Of its inhabitants the mournful
|nevs. Being announced at the Capitol about the
|hour Of the daily assembling Of Congress both
4oQees, without proceeding to business, instsatly
acpfned On thsir z6aeaobE Ehliag to-day the ho-
|ugtdpe - ths maSlq 6f ~ pd lili ibt-
iss bs rendered WisH 81 ssIssnnty ~ as xs'sla-.
tive Bodies of one or the other Of which, during the
greater part Of his life, Mr.. CLAY had been con.
spicuous, influential, and honored Member.
For several weeks it had been apparent that the
lingering and painful illness of Mr.. CLAY was ap.
preaching fatal termination, and that the great
light which had adorned the public councils, and
been the pride of his country for near half cen
tury, was soon to 60 down. Fully aware Of his con-
dition, to the last his mind was clear, and he met
the coming Of death with the calm courage which
belonged to his great SOUL strengthened and cheered,
it is believed, by Christian faith and hope.
1t cannot be necessary for us to enter into the
VI OLAi ioHS dnu llic
great services Every reader Of ours knows them all,
from his first appearance in the Senate in 1906
down to the present day, and cherishes in his
hearts core the memory of them.
Nor shall we forestal the glowing tributes to the
public and personal merits of this great man which
are anticipated to be delivered to-day in the Halls
of the Capitol the theatre of his fame and the wit
nesses Of his glory. These we shall promptly spread
before our readers reserving for the future what
ever may occur to us being necessary proper to
add to the eulogies pronounced upon him by his
friends and associates in public life
| A city friend wrote us yesterday: "No formal
annunciation of the sad event was necessary. A
short walk along our main avenue sufhced to show
the least observant that a great national sorrow
hung over us. On approaching the late residence
Of revered friend the very sounds of busy life
were hushed, and a solemnity oyerspread the faces
of the most callous. The common words of bust
ness were uttered at squares distance in bated
BREATH and all, demeanor, and word, and look,
showed that the last moment of our citys pride and
the cherished friend of our common country had
5pme. Our hsafts are clothed in lnounias, ,sna ~
sepi too deeply tie loss Of the friend a rG year
they've sxRsS6sion to that grief which might NEE
adsympsthizing eyes. He win be regretted by tn
world at arge; we aceep for him.
/ Mults febs lille occdit
/ Null febilior guam nobis"
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DAN'L WEBSTER


Anthow @ Hastings, postmaster at Millsborougb Della
ware was arrested Friday last and imprisoned at
georgetown Delaware charged with robbing the United
states mail at various times for six months past Of letters
containing money to considerable amounts Several
packages for Baltimore and various parts of Virginia and
also Tor washington, Georgetown Philadelphia and else
where nave been robbed by him. Considerable missing
money and letters were found in his possession when ar
rested The discovery and made by the indie
fatgable exertous Of James L. Mcguire, Of Baltimore
special agent OF the Post Office Department The proc
against hastngs is positive He pretended to be grea
Methodist and temperance man. but has confessed tina
the cause OF his robbery and ruin drinking
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Mr. GRAHAM, we regret to announce, has ten
dered the resignation of his place as SECRETARY Oh
THE NAVY. He has been prompted to this course
by delicate, perhaps over-delicate, sense Of pro
priety, and an apprehension that, by remaining in
the Cabinet while in the field as a candidate for
Office, be may cause embarrassment to the Admins
tration While we cannot but respect the sentiment
which induces Mr.. GRAHAM to pursue this course,
we sincerely regret that he has deemed Unnecessary
and the more so, because we have reason to know
that his intercourse with the PRESIDENT and his
Administration has been uniformly amicabe, conf
dential and satisfactory. We understand that, at
the urgent request of the PRESIDENT, Mr.. GRAHAM
will remain for some days in the Department, with
the view of completing some important business
that remains unfinished, and of arranging such
matters as require immediate attention. He will
then retire to North Carolina, and, in the midst Of
his old friends and constituents await the result of
the election Republic.
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A State Convention Of the Union party" Of
Georgia has been called to meet at Milledgeville on
the 18th Of next month, for the purpose Of con-
sidering the nominations which have been made for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency by the Wing
and Democratic parties and Of taking such action
in regard to the Presidential election as shall be
deemed proper" This Convention is called in pur-
suance Of resolution adopted at State Convention
of the same party held on the 23d Of April, which
declared it, inexpcdient to take any action on the
Presidential question at that time and directed the
converting Of another Convention after the two par
ties should have nominated their candidates and
laid down their platforms
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LOUISIANA AVENUE,

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1852.
GENTLEMEN have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication, inviting me, on
behalf of number Of the Members of the Senate
and House of Representatives, to meet them at din
ner on some convenient day.
consider this invitation distinguished honor,
which | cheerfully accept, but am unable to fix an
early time for complying with it.
am now on the point Of setting out on short
visit to Massachusetts, which cannot well post.
pone. But there is a far more interesting and pub
lie reason, which cannot but regard that is, that
a great calamity seems to be Immediately pending
over Congress and the country, which calls our
thoughts to other contemplations, and which, when
it happens, will impose upon the two Houses the
performance OF melancholy duties.
have the honor to be- gentlemen with very great re-
gard, your obedent servant,
DAN'L WEBSTER
10 the Hon. JOHN BELL Thomas g. Pratt, J. R. Under
wood, jackson Morton, w. Brooke, r. Toombs Alex.
White, James F. Strother, g. Porter J. P. Caldwell
John Moore.
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A MERITED TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

1t is great satisfaction to us to be the medium
Of communication to the Public Of the following
correspondence:
WASHINGTON, JUNE %, 1852
To the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER
DEAR Sir: A number of Members Of the Sc
nate and House of Representatives, in testimony Of
their personal regard and high appreciation of your
distinguished public services, desire the pleasure Of
giving you Public Dinner on such day as may
suit your convenience.
The undersigned, in their behalf, respectfully re-
quest your concurrence, and that you will designate
such day as may suit you
We are, very respectfully, your friends, &c.
JOHN BELL (of Tennessee.)
THOMAS @. PRATT, (of Maryand.)
j. R. UNDERWOOD, (of Kentucky.)
JACKSON MORTON, (of Florida.
w. BROOKE (of Mississppi.)
r., TOOMBS, (of Georgia.)
ALEX. WHITE, (of Alabama
JAMES +. STROTHER, (of Virgnia.)
G.. PORTER, (of Missouri.)
j. p. CALDWELL (of North Carolina
JOHN MOORE, (of louisiana
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EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE.

One of the extraordinary adventures Of child OF
which heard occurred in this vicinity last week
On Thursday, the 10th instant of John Keenen, Of
this place. aged only three and Aoy years, disappeared
from his home, and tidngs Of him could be obtained
by his parents On the following day bills crcu
lated soliciting information respecting him. II was at
length ascertaned that child answering TO his descrp
ton had been in eastery direction from the vii
age and active search Immediately instituted for
the missing boy II appears that he by several
persons but in instance only under circumstances
that excited suspicion that he was lost and in this in
the person neglected to take charge of him imme
diately and when followed he had disappeared in the
woods and could not be found The Of the child
followed in part by the information Of those who had
him. but mainly, understand by his footprints
in ploughed fields and muddy places. He at length
found Saturday evening" at half past FIVE o'clock near
the boundary line between Seekonk and Rehobotb, fre
and half miles a straight iae from his home and fy-
four and ha hours after his disappearance, and ynns
after he ate his breakfast the previous Thursday morn
ing He left home barefooted and very hinly clad hav
ing nothing but thin calico dress and apron, and
these wet when he found. In this condition he
had wandered the place where he found through
pouQhed fields and woods and bitches and swamps
SO far known believed he had not eaten mouth
full Of food since the previous Thursday Two nights the
little fellow must have slept in the open air. the cold
damp ground and they cold nights too there being
frost each, IL memory Is correct His feet
badly acerated by stones, briers Sc. and much swollen
but he appeared to be otherwise in good condition and is
doing we'll His greatest anxiety, being found was
be taken to his mother for whom he said he had been
looking When asked il he did sleep cold the pre-
yous night, he replied that he did.
The latter part Of the strange adventure Of this child
In and through extensive swamp in which people
have been lost and where forty years ago woman
unable to find her way out perished and her body
not found until nine days afterwards In this swamp is
stream Of water five six feet wide and Of consdera
BILE DEPTH and the mud in its bed and its banks is
deep and soft that IL Is difficult to IT, But is child
did how, every who has IL IL puzzled to
conjecture From the appearance of his tracks in this
swamp it is supposed that he wandered about therein
several miles. He was found the margin Of the
swamp but supposed to be in 1t, and between
and two hundred engaged Saturday in search
ing for him.
cord in which child Of such tender years survived
much fatigue, privaton and exposure. If this little
Keenen lives and does not make tough specimen Of
man, his age will "bele the promise of his spring"
Pawfucket (R. ~ Gazette.
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DIRGE FOR HENRY CLAY.
BY o. b. W., U.s.A.

Hist Daughters of Music, the mourners are nigh
The Pitcher is broken, the Fountain is dry
Tis the wall Of widow. Columbia weepsl
The LAST OF THE RosaSs in majesty sleeps
Come weave we chaplet of olive and bay,
Our harp's on the willow. Come! weave we lay!
How heavy burden the grasshopper sings:
wo! wo to the land Of o'ershadowing wings!
Ye halls that have echoed full many time
The silvery notes Of his sweetness sublime,
Be ye hung in mourning that music more
Shall wake from the Charmer-his charming is Ger.
Ye hearts that in rapture have hung on his thrill
In you its soft murmurs echoing still.
Let their euphony glide, and their choruses roll,
As waves among rushes die over the shoal.
Let them deepen, and startle, and angrily swell,
Like rock that is rushing down mountain and dell;
Let them breathe let them whisper advice your ear
When the dark hour cometh and danger is near;
Let them burn, let them when destruction is Nigh
And the war-cry Of Liberty rings in the sky
While Freedom is calling for word or for blow
Let his bravery nerve and his eloquence glow;
Let them burn in the bosom Of sire and son
While there's Error to vanquish and Truth to be won
Ye fields green with harvess now gathering in peace
Take ye up the chorus that shall cease.
His word Ger the ocean gave peace to the land;
His voice in the Senate linked frmer the band
Ye fields of long ages where glory is wrought,
Behold what harvest the Reaper has brought!
In the breach ne er was wanted freeman to stand,
While life gave its cunning to Glars fearless hand
And never was needed voice in the storm,
While his tongue with its motion and music
Shroud the plough and the anvil the compass and loom
Ye artisans gather and kneel round his tomb:
Deck the shrines Of Religion in curtains Of Grape,
And the temples Of Learning in cypress leaves drape
Hang the porches with garands that bloom in the shade
Be the scales Of blind Justice in sable arrsyed
Your altars and fresdes your domes and your DOORS
Be ALL hung in mourning on these happy shores
And hushed be the bugle, and silent the drum,
No hoarse mualed notes from the battlefield come
But Peace, gentle Mercy, and Liberty weep
Der the urn where his ashes still living but sleep
Disturb not his rest till the trumpet shall sound
That calls forth the chosen Gods throne to surround
And is there honor, high Office or name
One inch that could heighten his statue Of fameH
The twelve thrones Of Cesar no Tully could make,
One breath Of Tully their empire could shake.
The twelve thrones Of Caesar forgotten may lie,
And Ccero's fame shall resound in the sky;
The Republics White Palace shall crumble to earth,
And the leaves Of Glars chapet be green in their birth
One age and one country his deeds but record,
PosTERrrY claims him herself to reward.
Pass on with his coffin lead on to the tomb
nation Of mourners follow after in gloom
His bright eyes shall kinde thousand more;
Hrs SWEET LIPS ARE SILENT, THEIR sxLopr's o'Ea.
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p1-We invite the attention of the Clergy through
out our country to the following Appeal of the
Directors of the Washington Monument in this city.
Sunday, the Fourth Of Julyt How appropriate
for pious and patriotic hearts to remember ON that
day especially the great deeds Of Washington, and
to seize that opportunity to aid in the construction
of Monument to his boundless fame and to share
the honor Of Nations tribute and Nations
gratitude:
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THAT Calf CAsE.-A paragraph went the rounds some
time since, to the effect that lawsuit about calf in
Burlington Iowa. had gone until the amounted
to about three hundred dollars The Iowa State Gazette
says the case originated in West Point Lee county and
that IL has just been decided appeal and further
that the costs now amount to FIVE hundred dollars nde
pendent Of counsel fees On the first trial the witnesses
for one party, some twenty thirty in number swors
that the cafs tail entirely black while those the
other side swore il partly white II has been decided
that the tail partly white and the plaintiff has gained
his case. The value Of the calf is three dollars
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TUESDAY, JUNE 80, 1852.
IN SENATE.

The morning prayer delivered, and the PRESIDENT
Of the Senate had called for the reading of the journal
when
Mr.. HUNTER rose, and, with much feeling said
Mr. President rumor has just reached that HENRY
CAAr In nase His cOsagas il absent rcnaAeing the
last Offices Of fiendship 70 the iusxious dead thers
fore move that the Senate do now adjourn
The noios was unaainoust ssreed to- and the ssaats
adjourned. ~
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The House called to order at IL o'clock and
offered by the Rev. DR.. BUTLER.
The Journal of yesterday then read and approved
Mr.. VENABLE rose and said: Mr.. Speaker, IN conse-
quence of report which may be true that HENRY CLAY
the lustous Senator from Kentucky breathed his last
at his lodgings few moments since, that this
House do now adjourn.
The motion unanimously agreed to.
And the House adjourned until tomorrow, at twelve
o'clock
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The reader of the Letter of Mr.. WEBSTER, writ
ten on the evening of Monday which appears in our
columns today, can hardly fail to be struck with
the prophetic spirit of the allusion which it con-
tains to the event which has 50 soon after fol-
lowed IT.
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letter from Prague Bohemia dated June 3d. states
that the head Of the house OF the Rothschds lying
at the Maine at the point Of death The
same correspondent states that the famine in the noun
tain districts Of Southern Germany unabsted, and
that the suffering general and intense.
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TO THE REVEREND CLERGY.

The Washington National Monument is now anguish
ine for the want Of carry ii The Board OF
Managers beg leave to suggest to the cegymen through
out the United States that the anniversary of
dependence will fall on Sunday they shall each and all
take up collections in their churches for this great and
patriotic object.
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for the purpose of locating and constructing railroad
from Milwaukee to Prairie la Crosse in Wisconsin, report
ed it back with recommendation that 1t be postponed
indefinitely.
Also, from the committee, the bill granting pub
lie lands to the States of Ohio Indiana and Illinois, in aid
of the construction Of railroad from Cincinnati to st.
Louis, made an adverse report on the same.
Also from the committee asking be discharged
from the further consideration Of the memorial OF Joseph
Troskoawsk and that he have leave to withdraw his
pers which was agreed to.
Also be discharged from the further consideration
Of the numerous memorials from citizens Of different
States asking grants Of land for railroads. which was
agreed to.
Mr.. SHIELDS, from the Committee on Military Affairs,
reported bill to amend act entitled act authorizing
the sale Of certain military tes approved March 1879
Mr; S4nLDs sxPsiR3d ths object e ths oil sae =
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CLOSING OF THE PUBLIC OFFIcEs-So soon as
the PRESIDENT learned yesterday the death of Mr..
CLAY, he issued an order closing all the Depart
ments of the Government for the day.
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Austin AHen, machnist in Rochester, IN ~ cut his
throat from to Saturday He had been en-
gagged upon an invention Of his own, and falling to bring
II into operation, his mind became dersnged
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howecer, That every party who shall dexre to
avail himself Of the provisions Of the said eighth section shall
notify the Secretary of the Treasury thereof within five days
from the passage of this act from the date of said award
the Commissioner to adjust the claims against Brazil
The amendment agreed to, and the bill as amended
| was read the third time and passed.
Mr. JENKINS said that the Committee Public Lands
had occupied five months in delivering itself of reports
to the exclusion Of reports from all other committees
For the purpose of allowing the other committees
portuny to make their reports he asked the unanimous
consent Of the House to offer the following resolution
Rsolced That when reports of committees shall after
to-day, be called for such call shall begin with the Committee
the Post Office and Post Roads, and that subsequent calls
for reports shall be continued specified in the 25h rule
subject to the special order of the House in relation to the
special shall continue until oil the committees
shall have been called.
Objection was made
Mr.. JENKINS moved to suspend the rules so to en-
able him to offer his resolution.
Pending which motion
PENNSYLVANIA CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
The House resumed the consideration Of the Pennsy
yania contested election case, in which H. B. WRIGHT
contests the seat of HENRY NJ FULLER Representative
from that State the pending question being upon the fol
lowing resolution reported by the Committee Of Elections
Resolred, That the election Danvile precinct county
Montour eleventh Congressional district of
illegally and rregulary conducted and the of the
Der and that the Speaker inform the Governor
that State of the decision Of the House, that election
may be ordered.
Mr.. ROSS spoke hour in favor Of the claim of th
contestant, and
Mr. BARRERE followed on the other side
Mr. FULLER Of Pennsylvania, briefly replied to th
remarks Of Mr.. Ross
Mr. ASHE then moved the previous question the adop
ton of the resolution; which was seconded.
The House then adjourned
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the State Of Alabama to aid in the construction m
Memphis and Charleston, Selma and Gunters Lafr11
and the Winchester and Tennessee river railroads; H
was read twice. ~ 8
Mr.. COBB moved that this bill be put upon II ~
sage. y e
Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee submitted remarks inepQX-
sition to the bill, and
Mr.. COBB spoke in its favor, explaining the adx1M
tages which would be derived by the construction d ~
roads proposed in the measure.
The morning hour expiring during Mr. Cb 11nnzy
for the purpose Of keeping the bill before thu Hoo ~
moved to recommit it to the Committee Public Erd1
and demanded the previous question.
CONVENTION BETwEENTHE u STATES AsD BRAN
On motion Of Mr.. BAYLY Of Virginia, byIun1lM1
conssnt the House proceeded to consider the
6>na1e 10 amend n ~ sositlad z An ct = ,C ~
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