South Branch Intelligencer

CURIOUS.--Mr. Rives, of Virginia, has been convicted of striking out of a report of one of his speeches certain passages delivered by him in the Senate! The manner of and reason for doing this are in the highest degree disgraceful to Mr. Rives.

In the course of a late discussion on Slavery, Mr. Rives said that "he regarded slavery in the abstract, and as it existed among us, a great evil, moral, social and political: and that, if he had the power, he would abolish it in Virginia immediately."

Such sentiments coming from a Southern man, were well calculated to startle the people of the South, and the Telegraph made some severe strictures on it, charging him with having deserted that institution of the South. A few days after an article appeared in the Globe, evidently by authority, accusing the Telegraph with falsely reporting Mr. Rives, and, in proof, offered a report of his speech that had appeared in the National Intelligencer, the editors remarking that they had selected that instead of publishing their own, for the avowed reason that the Intelligencer, being opposed to Mr. Rives in politics, would not willingly give an "erroneous version" of his speech, in order to favor him.

The editor of the Telegraph, thus driven to his proof, called upon the reporter of the Intelligencer, to see his original notes, when the fact came out, that the speech that appeared in the Intelligencer was revised by Mr. Rives himself, and that "the notes which the reporter had furnished Mr. Rives contained almost the identical language, imputed to him by the Telegraph, and that Mr. Rives in revising the remarks, as written out by the reporter, had stricken out the passage!"

We have never heard of a meaner subterfuge than this attempted by Mr. Rives, and, if he is not unmindful of his own character, he should at once free himself from all agency in the Globe's disclaimer. The fair inference is, that he had authorized the disclaimer in the Globe, and unless he can clear himself, he must expect to sink in the estimation of the public, to a rank with the writer of the celebrated "East room letter."-Baltimore Chron.