The Arkansas Banner

The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier thus speaks of Col. Taliaferro, of Virginia, now eighty years of age, and for forty years a member of Congress:

His health and faculties have never for a moment given way, and he is the same man now that he was when he was the confidential adviser of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe—the same man that he was when he opposed the administration of the elder Adams. Col. Taliaferro has always lived liberally, and has enjoyed, as much as any man that ever lived, social pleasures, in all their approved forms. At a supper party, the other night, he was asked what his secret was. He replied that he had never known disease—that he had never made but one meal a day—that if he took supper, he did not dine—that he had risen early—had always used exercise, and never on horseback when he could go on foot; and that, under all circumstances, he had preserved an equality of temper. His rule was never to suffer that which was past to prey upon his mind—to enjoy what Providence sent him, and to trust to the future.