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PRESIDENT PoLK.-We are informed from ex- cellent authority, that the present President of the United States of America is the heir and descendant of our late worthy and respected Provost Pollock Polk, or Poke. of our ancient burgh Provost Polk discharged the onerous duIes of chiei magistrate of this burgh during the years of Rebellion 1745 and l7i6, with great credil and received for his loyal and patriotic conduct the thanks of the Kings Gov ernmeni. The Provos, per son of considera- ble property. and had the influence 10 become chief magistrate in opposition to the powerful family of Faa, Fall. who, for period oF nearly one hundred years swayed the politics of the town Mir. Polk died in the year l752, and his property and effects came into the possession of his brother Andrew, who settlrd in the State of Tennessee, or the southern part of North Caroina. Although this star of the Western Hemisphere may never have heard 0f the Provost of Dunbar being chased among those who added to his family influence, still, when he sways the sceptre of ihe most powerful nation of ihe New World, trust he will endeavor ,o render more du rable the good understanding between the States and the mother country, and mind Provost Polk z toast, ''May ne'er war be among us," one familiar 10 many old inhabitants to ihis day, as Provost Poke's toast, and the effects of his experience of "the '45"-lKelso (ScOIland) Chronicle.