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.M,. Preston Of South Caroliaa. The Washington correspondent of the Portland Advertiser, under date of 18th March, writes This new South Carolinian, whom the Nuifiers have sent among Us, IS be- witching all the good ladies and gentlemen of Washington, with his eloquence. h. deed, must confess I never met with just such a man. He talks poetry as rapidly as one can read prose, and he talks Ii, too, of hand, in most magnificent style. The middle ages may boast oftheir troubadours, and the Italians of their improvisators; but here we have man who gives out poetry as rapidly as words can escape his lips, in elegant and highly polished sentences never committing an error in English, and neger n!ispronouncing word; and deliver ing all this poetry with an action ndescrl- bably graceful, and in attitudes that the best representations of the old Grecian statues do not surpass. This Mir. Preston is man who equally enraptures grey headed Sena- tors, and Misses in their teens --taultless ii action, in illustration, and metaphor; and yet able, though discursive ill argument. Hts eioquence IS that ol me niasn''ceh' waterfall, oyer arched with the rich colored rainbow-or perhaps 1 might say more Tn truth, that t IS inc :" jet q eau' Itseli, Tn spirited motion, speaking with the reflected radiance of thousand tights tights sher'danss eloauence, as decribed, not as 1t reads, may give you an idea of it's captivating powers. know not how Preston may appear in print but know that if were he, would not venture there-bidding defiance, as he can. to all the Reporters, who cannot write one word while he speaks ten.