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ASEcpoTE OF MR. LEGARE.-The American Review for October contains an interesting biosra. phcal sketch of Hugh 5. Lesare of South Carolina, in which occurs the following anecdOle, illustrating his powers as an advocate:--

 It was the case sf Pell and wife versus the exc. cutors of Ball The circumstances of the case were these: A Miss Chsnning, daughter of Mr. Walter Charming, Ga merchant Of Boston ) had married Mr. Rall of South Carolina, and carried hm large fortune, without any settlement. Mir. Ball, by his last will and testament, btquehed to his wife all his fortune. Embarkmg at Charleston fu, a visi, 10 the Norlh on board the i'll lated sieamb al Pulaski, winch blew up al sea the caas; of Nor Carroll na, in lS35-they both pershed in that awful calas uophe.

 The question m the was, which survived The other? II Mrs. Ball, then lhr legacy vested in her and was lransnssable her sister; if her husband then the legacy had lapsed fell into the residue u the estate, and weut lu hiS family

 MT. Legare was eng ,ged on behalf of Mrs. Balls sister On the side, it was nlenied thai lhr husband, being the stronger, must have survived; ; and the dncilne of civll law he subject of sur vivorsh,p were relied on. Here, however, Legare was master, and showed that all these presump tons must yield To positive testimony. Alter the catastrophe, Mrs. Bail was f,iug wildly about the wreck, her voice heard above others, calling for her husband. Avalng himself of this single but ai- lectIng hcl-all tha, in the wild terror of such could be known-LegaIe converted it by the tragic powers of his eloquence, into irresistible proof that the tender husband. whose name the wife shreked forth so disIractedy, must have already perished. Upon the theatre of that shattered deck, there was enacted, he said. scene, 10 paint which, all that the mag gnatIon of poetry could of the most pathetic must fail. "She called upon the husband upon whom she had called in van. upon whose arm she had ever leaned in danger-her stay, her rescue! She called but he never auswer- ed; no, sir. he was dead! he was dead!"

 Mrs. Balls sIser gained the suit, also another point in the case winch he argued--that the legacy was general and no, specific.