Selections: Abel Brown, And That "Indictment!"

I urre of the indictments of this gentleman have already been pi ven up; and that ini cimenl fir Henry Clay will bc. Our Whig coüsins liave no idea of ristéthg the trial of ttznry Uatfs moral cüuiracíir btfore a jury, wlM the evidence atninst him U so ampie and e-.sily come at, with thme or fonr of the most ciuiiient counsel in the United States to pleud the defendant! It is pleasing !o see men nwfcmg proress n wisdom! Mr. Clay is too nir.cl) ut' a mnn.too like his brother Kentuckran, Dick Johnson, to deny "the soft inipenchment" of a few mulatto chi ldren, especially ;.i) coble ones as ;hat line youth of 22 in Wfchintrton, whoia the very image of him! vluelljjjg is too notorions for evaion or 'I'S g-aml)liiï is eíffiftll so. In pity t snme pious wfiigs who want to vote for Bradish as a Clayite, I will not speuk of ceriain transactions fill after elecüon! A friend of mine, a few weeks ago, was nt Louisville, Ky. In conversation with a clerpyman of tii.t city, the la'.ter asseried that Mr. Clay had "sown lus wild oais." Clergyman. "Oh he never gambles now, I assue you . It is a greut reformation." Inquirer. 'It must be grent indeed! Bat does not Mr. Clay ever attend norse races? I heard he was at the races last month ." Clergyman. "Yes! but that is only for amusoinent, as every gentleman and lady does." hiquirer. "But did he not bet at the races the other d.ay? Llergymmi. Why, y-e-s, just a few hundreds to accommodate his friends; no gentleman, you know, could well avoidthat! But be did nt go inlo it to any exlcnt! This was a reform ! It was quite different from stripping a drunken man of $135,000 ai a sitting, as Iwo eminent men, [nameless for the present,] did the former proprietor of what is now "Fuller's Hotel." in Washinír, D. C-