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The Sparta (Tennessee) Review, of the 8th inst. contains a letter from Judge Isacks, one of the Tennessee delegation in Congress, in answer to a call from a number of his constituents, "to communicate any facts of which he might have knowledge, in regard to the overture made to Gen. Jackson, previous to the last Presidential election, touching the Secretaryship in the State Department." The reply shows that Mr. Markley, the friend of Mr. Clay, applied to Judge Isacks, (who at that time preferred Mr. Clay next to Gen. Jackson) to ascertain if possible, whether Gen. Jackson would appoint Mr. Clay Secretary of State;—this same Mr. Markley having previously "urged" Mr. Buchanan to call on Gen. Jackson, and if possible, obtain a promise that Mr. Adams should not be continued Secretary of State;—thus endeavoring by "intrigue, bargain and management," to secure the second office for Mr. Clay. We have only room to-day for the subjoined extract from this important document. It will be published at full length in our next paper. In the mean time, we repeat our former observation, that the record is not yet made up.

"I met with Mr. Markley, of Pennsylvania, in the lobby of the House of Representatives, in the morning, a little before the meeting of the House; we were sitting on a sofa, on the right wing from the door. Mr. Markley introduced the subject of the approaching Presidential election, and spoke encouragingly of Gen. Jackson's prospects of success, to which I very readily assented. Mr. Markley, however, proceeded further, and with more than ordinary interest and earnestness (as I thought) insisted that Gen. Jackson, if elected ought to appoint MR. CLAY SECRETARY OF STATE, and urged to me the necessity of having the thing SO UNDERSTOOD; and said that he wished to see Mr. Eaton about it."