intelligent, conscientious Editor; an enlightened and patriotic citizen; and an humble and devoted Christian. When such a man falls, the whole com munity sympathises with his afllioled relatives in tho fact that the State, and the Church, a well as the family circle, have sustained a common loss not readily repaired. Clerkship. Hon. Jamrs H.uu. an, of Kentucky, whose name had been pretty extensively mentioned in connection with the ollice of Clerk of tho Congressional Houso of Rep rose n tali ves, has declined being a candidate for that post. In a letter to his friend the Editor of the Cincinnati Atlas, he says, " if he desired thu office and were assured he could have it, his professional obligations would not allow him to accept it." Mrportion of the parly is looking to il as the foundation for a reasonable hope for success in tho campaign of 1HI8. This is the "Sago of Kinderhook." While other men, ambitious for the higher honors of the party, have been catching at every popular breeze, only to find each a false one, he lias laid quiet, patiently waiting for Me moment to strike a blow which should, by one bold effort, replace him in the position from which his unfortunate anti-Texas letter hurled him. War has been waged battles have been fought and won principles have been broached in the ptrly, which havo shaken it from one end of the Union to the other men hive been wandering from the ancient faith of locofocoism and straying in