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 The following racy and spirited comment on the ridiculous onslaught of lhe Clay Club the Rev. hr. SeoTT of New Orleans, Is copied from the Cour fer of that city. It will he rich those of our readers acquainted with the dramatis persOns of the farce.

 THE REV MR. ScoTT ANDS.J J PETERS AND CHRISTIAN RosELIUS.- 1t is really the nos laugh able lining that have met with for a manh of Sundays to see the pious Zeal wilh which Counsellor koseiius and $ Peters haze stepped forth den- u'ies ol the Clay Club, 10 NindIcae Mir. Henry Clay from the charge of playing cards on Suuda, II. Yes, reader, playing cards Sunday | grocer and lawyer. who have been living in New Orleans for twenty years and upwards, affect 10 think playing cards on Sunday is SD heinous affair, that they have undertaken the Sysiphean task of aequiuing Mir Henry Clay of imputation to that effect, which they pretend has been upon him. Who m the world doubts that Mir. Clay has played cards on Sunday? Who doubts that the piOuS Peters, and koselus with all his Chrisfian fly, have played cards on Sunday! What disgusting scene ofphar isa ical hypocrisy is this they exhibiting before the pub. lie, in ,fecting disbelie,e that Clay had played cards on Sunday! Did Mr. lay never visit the theatre in New-Oreans Sunday? Did the reli- ei"us grocer aud lawyer visit the theatre on Sundayi We're these whig saints never al n horse- race on Sunday? Did they ne,e~ shake the leg ai x Sunday ball! Why Clay must curse the stupidity of theee men in bringing up such loic for discussion ne iie election IS over, and he must cease to der at his deieat, backed he was by such friends as these! Clay m his priyne fife, Is good, joval lellow-lkes his bottle of wine and friend to keen him company; the whole world--at least the whole world of Washington Ciiy-knows that when he is lairly m fer genlemanIy game brag Is great

 matter In him whether ihr lime he Sunday Saiur- day Alas! alas! these degenerate days, when men will c"me fr"m he grocery shop and the law shop, and try make the public believe that they think t d sin tn play cards on Sundayi

 we suspect however, it Is not SO much regard Tor morality and respect fer religion that have prompt- ed there individuals 10 their movement to uphold the holiness nf the Sabbath. Their wish is to ilnInolate

 person who IS obnoxious t0 them because they sup-

 "se he enier.ains certain political notions different from iher own-and who meet them on equal ground because he wears d clergymin's coat. They have charged him wih ''duplicils and entire dsre. gard 0, nnih,' and they have framed tr pane statement io justify then in inc of these epithes

 In the Ballein of this morning their intended victim, the Rev w. A. Srot, peremptpriiy denics tine char ges oi which they him before the public and prononncts them "ATROCIOUS CALUMNlES," and says erphatical'y t'fhey are moi nne"

 More than this: Tn. Rev Mr. Scott called upon 1 the 0iic rs of the church of winch he is he pastor to examin. Inc subject thoroughly They mad the l matter midei consideration for several days-'hey examined all the evidence that il was possible to obtaii-ihey called upon Messrs. Rosclius and Pe- ters for all t,e documents i0 their possession which bore upon tie s, jec, and were furnished with thsm nd what il the result? The officers of ,he prssby- | terian Chuch, experiencing of the highest

 honor aud arc,est purity of life, who arrogate noth-

 ing to themselves that does not beung to them, and who would chari'aby forgive in others, what they thems'lve would not he guilty of-tese officers oi | the Presbyterian Church declare: "Thuse documents have been examined with great care-the under signed are constrained to say, in view of them, that

 Messrs. R,selus and Peters have been laboring der q mistake, and thai the charge of 'dupliciiy of character and entire disregard of flrutl' IS NOT sUs TANNED br these documents. ..l, New Orleans, January IS, 1845.

 (Sisned) Daniel r. Ruff. ! A Maybin, J. N. Len, $. Franklin,

 Geo. O. Sweet, James Beattc. '.t. David Iladden, A. Hennen.

 ...r..f. Wm. P. Campbell. ' . What is 'he offence of the Rev. Mir. Scott, that has drawn upon his head all this whg lhunder-he inquiStoria scrutiny of the Clay Ciub-the anlmad versioa of he pious Pelers-and the denuncaton of the relg,ous Roselius9 .-.,..- Taniane animis celeslibus rel Whal has given rise 10 all this wrath? Why some one mi,taking the language oi the Rev. Mir. Scott. reported him to have said that he saw Mir Clay play cards Oa Sunday! This is the whole offence with which he is charged. But he peremptorily denies that he as said SO, and after rigid examination of the test mony, by committee composed of nine res peciabe and c0nscIentious men, all whigs but two, Ca, least we know only democrats amongst them) after ai the documents of Messrs. Roseus and Pe- have heen looked into-his denial is confirmed and lis accisers have not sustained their alega tions. i We lave no acquaintance whatever with the Rev. Mir Sbr-we know not that we have him. Until the attack made on him by the whig grocer and lawyer, we were not aware that such u person existed, We have since heard most favor able account ofhim-we have been assured that be is man of unblemished life and conversation, n scholOr of profound erudition, clergyman of chaste but powerful eIoguence. The committee of officers of his church declare that he is greatly and justly

 eemed by the congregation. We know nothing about his political opinions and predilecions. h may be fairly inferred from h,s character and his learning

 that he is one of those who are not be deluded by

 tricks, intm,dated by influence. Shall such

 this be put down m hig gh-minded commnni-

 y, by whig lawyer and whg grocer. because some one, through irnistake, reported that he said Mir. Clay played cards on Sunday4