Letter frcrn MIR. Clay.
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The following letter was written BY Mr. CLAY
in repyto an invitation to attend public dinner al
Dallas County in Alabama:-


ASHLAND, Oct. l2, 1912.


Gentlemen Il have received the letter which
you did me the honor to address me informing
me that the Wings of Dallas county had formed u
Club, to which they were pleased to annex my
name, aud inviting me to partake of a dinner on
the 30th proximo.


am greatly obliged by these testimonies of at
lachment and confidence, and offer to the Wings OF
Dallas an expression of my profound ackRowledg-
ments. thank them for the kind interest which
they take in me, and | should be most happy 10
meet and exchange friendly sautations with them {:
but the remote distance Of Selma from my resi-
dence, and other considerations to which need
not more particularly advert, deprive me Of the
satisfaction of accepting the invitation which you
have conveyed.


Do me the favor to assure the Wings Of Dallas
that cordially sympathize with them, in their
laudable endeavors TO disseminate and establish
political truth need not say to them that, wher.
ever the true patriot finds himself, he will perse-
we're 20 the last in struggling for those principles
ard measures, on which he is persuaded the cha
racter, the honor, the happiness of his country de-
pend.


am, gentlemen, with high respect. your friend
and ehedient servant. II. CLAY.
Messrs. VIM. Seawell, Henry Taun, and T. j.
Frow.


90 Some months since, when the dissolution of
the firm of Arthur Tappan & Co. was announced,
we said-what we then thought was true-lhat
Me- Tappan had retired with competence; and
we felt disposed to congratulate him upon the
supposed fact, and to intimate that the knowledge
Of it would probably give pleasure TO large part
OF the community. By an announcement just
made that this gentleman has gene into bankrupt,
cy, perceive with deep regret that our belief
was unfounded. On inquiry, we find thar the
mple fortune OF which be was possessed has been
wholly sunk in endorsements for other firms, and
in large, Improbable purchases OF lots in Brook
lyn; and that finding it impracticable to make 8
settlement with his creditors he has been obliged
TO avail himself of the bankrupt law. Having
heard OF rumor that, some years since, Mr.. Tap
pan settled upon his wife and children the sum Of
100000, which they are said still to enjoy, we
have made inquiries on this point also, and find
that II is wholly withou, Foundation. Mr. T. gives
up every arth'ng, reserving nothing for his faml,
or any one else. Our best wishes attend him in
any new business in which be NAV h.resf,sr sn.
= gage.
e % Philip B. Winston, Jr. citizen of Louis,
! 90 "a. was recently killed BY fall from an up
d ruiy horse -