The Port Gibson Correspondent

By the way, did you read Mr. Clay's letter to the Chambersburg committee? It's about as shrewd as any thing I have seen lately. He says, in speaking of his being a candidate for the Presidency, "The time has not yet arrived. I think, when I ought to decide whether I shall give my consent or not, to the use of my name as a candidate for the office of President of the U. States." What on earth has come over the "mill boy," that he should thus show signs of faltering? Have the recent elections frightened him? or does he deem it impolitic to "make declarations for the public eye," at this early stage of the game? In '39, he declared his intentions too early--the fire of his forces was exhausted before there was any sign of an enemy, and when the old General came up with his Ohio sections, the "mill boy of the slashes" lost all his recruits. Rhode Island will bring him up--she has just gone for the whigs--her "law and order" affection is as strong for him as it is for the relics of aristocracy and the beauties of monarchy, as evinced in her attachment to the charter of Charles 2d.