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TIE CLAY DINNER.-A dinner was given yesterday at the Apollo Saloon in this city, by the friends of Henry Clay, in honor of that geuiltman's seventieth oirth-day. There was much euology of the Kentucky states man in the various speeches which were de- livered on the occasion. Joseph L. White, late of Indiana, clever speaker, made the principal address, which was interrupted with applauses and terminated r a storm of them A considerable part of his speech referred to the subject of the next trial for the Presi- dency of the United States. We give one or two passages:

 ..Whom are we to have ior our leader in 1918 but him who led ITS in lS44i Ire mendous applause.l l know that there are those in the whig party who, for the purpose of satisfying their regard for the military achievements of distinguished general in the fields of Mexico, have already placed him in nomination for the presidency in 1918, upan the ground of expediency. Now propose, as d whig--as whig having some regard for the constitution of my country, not only in it's letter, but It's spirit, aud pro lessing also to have some regard for consis- iency as a whig-lhat entertain the same vIews now which were cherished in 1928, and agaln in 1892. when that same whig party of ours, standing upon the high ground of principle, and discardlng all preferences for men, looking far into the future, with an eye not only to the interests of that genera ton, but posieffy which was to come after them, and to whom they desired to transmit unimpaired that rich inheritance of subsian- tial glory which their revolutionary fathers had bequeathed to them; warned their fel- low countrymen against the elevation of a military chleilain 10 the presidency of the United States"

 Again:

 II protested against the policy. of '32. l protest against II now; and while there IS no man in this Union that would go farther and do more than the humble individual that ad- dresses you for the purpose of tesiilying a proper regard and admiration for that dis tlngushed man who has shed such lustre on lhe military character of his country in the tented field, yet ain the last, so help me God! and whilst breathe shall ever be the last, to invite man fresh from the ba;tle- field, to the chair of the presidency; and to reward military achievements with the high est ciyil office i'll the gift of a free people "- .E |. Ecen. Post