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Service Reform The I tlloa inl poiuf, are extracted frl/111 an article by the ex-Secretary ante Interior in the forthcoming n u mber of l'he North Alto ricon it u•: Nnnu• forty years ago a President of the United:3tates first avowed and acted upon the determination to inal:e the use of governmental..patronage a means Of partisan control in public ninths and of party success in political strife. From that day to this the corrupting influ ence of such il, one Of the appointing power tuts been constantly widening, reaching out into new circles, until there is no back woods hamlet so ob scure that its moral atinosphete has es cap 41 the contagion of the degrading. hunt for place, ' ' 'rile mischiefs and abu.vev lu 1110 present system have gradually become known, until at length It seems to la. lineal universall V recog nized that ,air civil service, its IL exists, 1,, little better than a nulsance, that must be thormighly refortm,l, unless we are to admit that republiean govern ment Is a failure In the ordinary busi ness administration of public tartars. It seems desirable that those who have had nolilt , i , via . rlolli . t . 111 'WWII . liii, W 11.110111.. 1.411 g In the ill'il , 11( . 111.1111) . of It ,)f the civil mlioilltl lie heard ; and perhaps they could do more valuable work than to give, without reserve, the results of their 01..i.vatioi, a the preaciit system and their views of the uu•nns by w inch a better an be reached. El=l the dispensation of patronage—with the President of the United States—and in quire 110 W lie SlallllA related to the offi cials of the country, and lime Ills efflc leney as the Executive Is alli.cted by this relation. On the advent .0 - a new ad minist ration, we kin iW 111:1( the caphUtl swarms With crowds 01 011 kt-seekers applying for every Imaginable place, from a diplomatic position at a foreign court to a memsengersidp in a depart ment at home. They come armed with recommendations and credentials which experience has proven to be worthless as evidencel of character or capaeitiy but which certify on their face that the bearer Is one of the most capable and deserving of men, whose labors In the election of the ineoming President were of the mans H1g119.1 anti decisive value. The facility with which writ ten recommendations are procured leads ta duplicity on the part of the persons giving them ; and it is no uncommon thing for one who has written a high dulogium upon the character and ac quirements of a place-hunter, to write a private note begging that his formal indorsement may not be regarded of any weight. So few of those who apply - can possibly be personally known to the President or hie advisers that it must remain in choice among total strangers, in which every effort to gain an insight into the worth and fitness of the applicant is neutral ized by the consciousness that the sys tem Itself has destroyed the value of tes timony in such cases. No sooner Is a man in place than his rivals or enemies are on his track, ready to prove that he was the the most unfit person that could be chosen, and that the party will be utterly demoralized if he is not Instantly removed and his place given to another. If a mouth or two were all that is wasted In this employment, It would be bad enough ; but the truth Is, that by far the larger part of the time of the President and all the members of his Cabinet is occupied by this worse than useless drudgery, during the whole term of his office, and It forms literally and abso lutely the staple of their work. But this is by no means the whole of it. The members of Congress do not escape from similar burdens. Instead of studying the subjects of legislation, their tables are piled with letters from constituents seeking their influence to obtain place and ranging the whole gamut from ob equlous petition to Insolent and imper .6 tx 'Xatt/ti7Otet ... littettiOndt. VOLUME 72 ative demand. Leaving Washington, we do not leave behind us the applica tion nuisance. Every Collector of Cus toms or of Internal Revenue, every As sessor or Postmaster, and every United States Marshal, finds himself in a great er or less degree the object of the same kind of pressure. A political difference between the Ex ecutive and Congress only increases the corrupting elements. During Mr. John son's administration, it was notorious that duplicity of the most shameless de scription was used in obtaining an ap pointment from one end of the Avenue and a confirmation from the other. To one who was at all acquainted with the intrigues then rife at Washington, IL is no wonder that peculation had invaded every department of the administration, and that a maximum of taxation was producing a minimum of revenue. The condition of things was oce in which honesty was a chimera and fraud was reaping its harvest. It was a game of " diamond cut diamond," in which the two parties were using all their resources and refinements of intrigue to get the start of each other In the control of the offices, while dishonest incumbents were plundering the people under the shelter of a Tenure-of-Office act which seemed to be skillfully adapted to re move every truce of responsibility from both the appointing and confirming powers. But why dwell upon a period which we all try to believe was exceptional in our history? Because the fact that such a state of things was possible is the strongest proof that the system under which it existed was an utterly wrong \Viten a President determines to use the patronage at his disposal for a per sonal or party purpose, it results practi cally in tanning it out to Members of Congress. The influences most usefttl and most formidable to the Executive are In Congress. Assuming a purpose to maintain what is known as a party rule, through the usual subordination of rank and importance In the organiza lion, the Congressmen becomes almost Inevitably the most active and power• ful of the dispensers of patronage, MOICI! 111,001 a., Or ihr several dI.IIIIIIIIIVOCS or the (lover,' meld, Is In Immediate con tact with the people, and has a district to look after not too large to permit a general personal acquaintance with all I the MON' prOIIIIIIHILIOId active Ullizens I and politivians lu it. 'rite practice ()I using the gift of offices for selfish or merely partlslan purposes could not and did not stop with tile. President. The Congressman who received his quota of the patronage had his own ends lo ac complisit with R. Running down the scale of honor and importance of places, we find everywhere among self seeking men the same eagerness to use the power they have to perpetuate their tenure of official life. Sycophancy, I adultation, bribery, and all the rest of the louthesunne catalogue of political vices, thirteen as we descend, (11l we reach the " rough " doing the ballot stuffilng or the curbstone lighting for his party. Front top to hottom the whole class of politicians who avow the purpose of keeping up "the party " by the appeal to the sel fi sh desires for place and profit are bound together by the common Interest of the " Ins to keep themselves in and all others out. Out of this kind of education comes the willingness to pay assessments on salaries without rebellion. Men of good character in subordinate places learn to say with passive submission, "My fam ily's bread depends upon my retaining toy place, and we had better have the half-loaf than no bread ; asking no ques tions fur consciences' suite as to what is done with the rest." This is What has made it possi blel that a vulgar ruffian, clothed with the rank of a l'n ited States Marshal, multi stand at the pay-table of a Custom I louse, and see to it that the party tax was inexoribly deducted then anti there by the (lovernment oiled from the monthly salary of each clerk anti inspector, as he stepped up for his money and receipted for more than came into It is hands. This, too, is what has made it possible, tinder another and bet ter party administration, for the pay officer in the Capitol to inform clerks, doorkeepers, pages, and folding-boys that they were "docked" so much of their salaries by order of a party com mittee. Finally, a long course of this education that benumbs the moral sense has made it possible for committees of the party of purity and reform to throw away even the thin disguise which had before testified to a respect for pit bite opinion, and to address circulars to gov ernment employees, levying in form an income tax not known to the statute book. The departments have been made the asylum for the worthless and incompe tent dependants of persons " influence," who have often received their pay with out giving any return for it, because the head of the division or bureau could not Instruct them in the simplest clerical duty. This has often extended to cases In which the grossest and most offensive Immoralities have been shielded and protected by that personage, so potential In Washington, " the member from this district." An instance may be taken from the experience of the chief of an important bureau as given by him self. lie had a division of clerks of general fair character among whom were heads of families of high and even religious morality. Into this division, by the Influence of a prominent lum ber of Cong ress, was in trod tided a young man who proved to be not only of little use as to clerk, but so wantonly and offensiyely obscene in his conver sation as to outrage the feelings of every decent man, and to provoke from his fellow-clerks a general remonstrance against his being allowed to remaln. The head of the bureau recommended his dismissal on the double ground ()I' general Incompetency and gross innuor- Laity. The Congressman, with full knowledge of the fitets, opposed and for some time succeeded In preventing the removal; and wricn at last, upon the earnest and energetic Instance or the chief of bureau, the fellow was finally disposed of, It was only to room., tom to another bureau, and the officer who had pricured It to be done was abused and persecuted by the " member," whose patronage had been interfered with. Wind, t h en, is the remedy? It is to lipid) , to the civil service,. completely and thoroughly, the plain principles of common business administration ; to separate the public offices, absolutely and forever, from all favoritism, nepot ism, and " Influence," to declare patron age In all its forms to beanti-republican and dangerous to the Slate; to flint a n d practice upon a principle of selection for (nee which shall give every citizen if the country n perfectly equal chance to prove Ills capacity and fitness for the In service; and to obtain a position In It when lie has made the proof, with thorough Independence of President, Secretary, or Congressmen, and simply solely because of his citizenship and his fitness. It is further, to adopt in the permanent civil service a tenure of of fice during good behavior, with the hope of rising to the highest grades of the routine service by Industry and strict devotion to duty. In brief, the principle to be adopted Is admission to the civil servive only upon the results of a com petitive examination open to all, 1111(1 dismission only upon ascertioned fail ure of capacity or character. Apart from the weight of so decisive an authority, our own experience proves the necessity of making examinations competitive, because, in spite of the law requiring a general examination, our practice has notoriously and undeniably become no better than if no examina tion whatever were required. A spas modic effort to make the examination mean something may be made when public sentiment is for the moment aroused ; but he must be dull indeed who does not see that when the mere scratch of a pen of the head of a depart ment or a bureau may decide in favor of an applicant influentially supported, and nobody be at all the wiser for it, there is no security at all against a re turn at any moment to the most undis guised forms of office-jobbing. The ob jection is often made by those who have given the subject a. very superficial con sideration that the successful competi tors in these examinations will usually be boys fresh from school or college, and that older and better men who have be come "rusty" in their school knowledge will fall. The exam i nations in every well • regulated system are so ordered that the I specific knowledge most used in the bureau itself is that which counts for most in the competition. The general education of the applicant is tested, and the only conceivable method of doing I that must be, as Mill has remarked, to examide.him upon the topics of a gen eral education. But this is so conducted • as to call out hie special fitness for the place he seeks, If he has It. We may assert, with the most complete confi dence, that competitive examinations are not only theoretically the best method of determining the qualifica tions of applicants for routine offices, but are proven by the experience of our own departments, as well as by that of other civilized nations, to be also the best practical means of securing a good civil service, and the only refuge from evils that become more intolerable the more closely they are viewed. But how is it as to:the freedom of com petition? Should the examinations be open to all 7 Undbubtedly they should. By our hypothesis we have discarded' the corrupt system based upon patron age and influence ; and the only way is to make thorough work of it. We have declared that we are seeking by means of competition the best men that can be ! procured for the places we have to fill. Tn say that will have to stop at political lines is to discard our principle, and lug in by the shoulders the very enemy we have been trying to expel—namely, favoritism and partiality in the selec tion. There are political places which must be distinctly and permanently re cognized us such ; but they do not come within the list of routine offices ; and in the departments, at the seat of govern ment, they would not necessarily in elude any one below the rank of Cabinet , officer. The practice of selecting from ! the adherents to a party always and ne cessarily leads to abuse. The English tiovernment has already far outstripped us in reform, making an accomplished fact of that which we, who boast of our practicality, are still hesitating about. It will be a proud day for the American people, also, when one of its statesmen can truthfully take up these words and declare "We, too, have withdrawn patronage from the domin ion of party and given it the people."— Prussia had long since led the way, un der the guidance of her Stein and her Scharraborst, and showed the world what could lie done in making an intel ligent people by general education, and a model civil and military service by applying to them the rigid principle of selection, without favoritbmi In the one or exemption In the other. There should be no controversy among the friends of civil-service reform Its to the statutory means by which the result Is to be reached. Anythingt, which ills• thwtively and unmistakably enonnees the true principles of open competition and permanent tenure will serve as a rallying-point, and can he perfected as experience may demonstrate the prac ticable improvements. Mr. J encks in the House, and Mr, fichurz lu the Sen ate, have ably conceived and advocated the principles contended for In these pages, and the bills prepared by either, would, If passed, be efficient to destroy the abuse we are lighting. The Exeeu tire would be charged with carrying Into effect t h e measure that might be enact ed, and the heads of departments, un der the observation of the friends of the measure and stimulated by a public sentiment manifestly growing rapidly stronger In support he reform. would ....undoubtedly seek with earnestness for the'tviest and most satisfactory iuode of carrying the principle Into practice. hesitation or obstruction should be , come apparent, the correetion by legis lation in detail eould then be easily supplied. With great hesitation, another and final advantage or of such a change is submitted, which we may not be per mitted wholly to overlook. As the Cabinet would be before the country, where their acts, opinions, and views could not lie concealeffiCabinet changes, like ministerial crisis in other constitu tional I lovernments, would carry with them their own explanation, and be freed front the degrading gossip concern lug personal motives and character, and the compromising and contradictory stories of newspaper " interviews," which are now the bane and the shame of American polities. The Missing Earl of Aberdeen rise Tette Story or the N01.1.111/111eN 1.1 re nod Adventores. llosTos, Jan. _.—A writer in Mr ~;ant hug Times —Charles F. Payne—gives what purports to be a true and author ized statement, of all the circumstances in connection with the remarkable career and early death of the late Earl of Aberdeen. The writer assisted in taking evidence in regard to the Earl in this country, and inasmuch as the ac counts heretofore published are in a large degree purely sensational and false, and calculated to wound the feel ings of the Earl's surviving relatives, he deems it his duty to give to the public the "true account of the wonderful case." He denies that a commission was sent to this country, which employed detec tives to discover the young Earl's whereabouts. The Earl, he says, give minute and interesting accounts, under an assumed name, to his mother, of al most every voyage he made, and it was entirely from the clue Which the letters gave that an intimate private friend of the family followed him step by step in America. 'the Earl was of age when, with the full knowledge and consent of his funnily, he left home, after all efliurts to dissuade him failed. It was also well known to his mother and his dearest friends that he meant to assume a strict incognito, and it was only when an Un usual silence of several months alarmed his mother, that the intimate friend came by her request to America and traced him step by step by the light of his own letters alone. The very silence was but too well explained. lie was no longer alive, having been wash ed overboard from a Boston vessel three days out of port, on the _Est of January last. Mr. Payne states that the Earl was fond of children, but there is no evidence that he hail shown particular attention to any young American lady, and hence could not have been '•Jitted" by to capricious " fair one." The Earl left bonne without an attendant In MO, and shipped us landsman on board a vessel bound to America, assuming the name of ;corgi , H. Osborne. In the Spring of that year he visited his uncle at. Fredericton, N. 11., but was quite restless miring tie visit, apparently dis liking company and the deference paid U, his rank. Ills uncle, the lion. Ar thur Hamilton ;onion, C. M. It., was Lieutenant-Governor of New liruus wiclt at the time. Ile next canto to I his city and shipped before the 'mot in a New-Brunswick hark bound for Cardenas. It Is not known whether he really performed the voyage, but It Is known that he sailed several voyages in the coasting and West, India trade, and thus acquired an intimate knowledge of working schoon- His career has been traced along the coast from Maine to Pensacola. Be coming Intimate with a shipmate, Se well Small, he accompanied him to his home in Richmond, Me., ant forseveral hears, when on shore, made Sewell's ome his abiding place. While living In Richmond, he, in company with Small, purchased a boat, and supported himself by fishing. His excellent char acter, great strength, and well-knoWn ability as a seaman and navigator, soon led to promotion, and he finally became captain of the schooner Walton, owned in Richmond. He joined a Masonic Lodge while there, and also became a Good Templar. He was regular in his attendance at church, and strictly tem perate. lie was a very skillful marks man, and wonderful stories aro told by his Maine friends of his perform ances with gun and pistol. He played the piano-forte well, and spoke several languages fluently. His knowledge of navigation was something quite won derful in one so young, and he was al ways willing to impart it to others when desired; and, indeed, for some time taught the science in both New York and Boston. He was very fond of the writings of Artemus Ward, and could repeat whole chapters from the great showman. All his shipmates testify that his disposition was gentle and gen erous, his character irreproachable, and his abilities, mental and physical, extra ordinary. At one time he applied to Mr. Alpheus Hardy of this city for the position of first officer on the missionary vessel MorningStar,andMr. Hardy was so impressed with his manners and ap pearance that he would have employed him but that the underwriters demand ed a man who was personally known to them as an experienced navigator. He was provident as well as industrious, and had accounts with a savings bank in Philadelphia, another in this city, and still another in Richmond, Me. After a variety of adventures, in sev eral of which he nearly lost his life from the perils of the sea, and was only saved by his great personal strength and :dar ing the youngman came to Boston,'and taking a fancy to the new three-masted schooner Hera, commanded by Capt. James H. Kent, of Chatham, Cape Cod, LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY 18 1871 owned by Nickerson & Co., of this city, and chartered for a voyage to China, via , Melbourne, by Messrs enry W. Pea body & Co., he secure the position of first mate, and sailed from Boston in her, as has been stated, in January last. A few days out from this port, in a heavy sea, he was caught by the downhaul, thrown overboard, and drowned. A let ter from Capt. Kent, received here, gave the first intimation of his death, of which there seems to be no doubt. Of the manner in which the identity of the missing Earl with George H. Os borne was discovered, Mr. Payne says nothing, with the exception of the men tion of the identification of his hand writing and photographs by a large number of witnesses, and the wonderful coincidence of the various testimony with the letters which his family re ceived from loin at various times. Mr. Payne offers no theory as to the causes which led the young Earl to take so anomalous a course, but says he is authorized to deny the various state ments which have been made in this matter by various journals and report ers. The commission with and for whom the writer acted are going to China to take the deputations of the officers and crew of the Hera„ which, from what is already known, can only put a thing beyond a doubt which is already morally certain. A Distillery on the Sea Ca pi aOa Ell as ard llopperN Floating eltriote Anyluni. An Abortive Experiment In the Wen o bur of Old 'ropers---No Liquor in the Pihip. yet tile Crew Crazy Drunk in a Mtorm-•The I mottinble for Gin. Captain Edward Hopper may be nun-' sidered a practical temperance man. He has paid a visit to the inebriate asylum on Ward's Island, and speaks favorably of the Institution. He entertains, how ever, serious doubts concerning any sys tem of reformation, and thinks that every thing depends upon the man. A novel experiment tried by him before he left the sea to reform a few forlorn drunkards Is full of romance. In June, 18(1-1, he sailed from this port with per haps one of the most extraordinary crews that ever shipped on board any vessel. lie had fitted his craft out at l's'‘'ew Bed ford, Mass., for at W 111111 Ilg voyage, and had manned her with only a sullicient number to work the ship to New York. Here he Intended to Increase his crew to the complement of thirty-five men. The captain was rigid in his total ab stinence principles. He was a SOTI of Temperance, and has been the president of a flourishing society for the preven tion of the sale of alcoholic stimulan ts in Ills native town. He had spent many years at sea, and had always sailed under the temperance banner; consequently he had eonceived the notion that runt drinking was but It temptation, and that men were not so much the creatures of vitiated tastes as the victims of habit; that It was only necessary to remove temptation to destroy tip.' taste fur liquor. Practically to demonstrate this theory, he determined to make his last whaling voyage a double undertaking. Ile hoped to fill his chip with many barrels of oil, and bring back a crew of reformed inebriates. The Captain knew very well that at sailor boarding houses the men were made drunk before they were shipped. It was not that kind of people he wanted to experiment upon. Neith er was it the eontrapn bar-room sot, nor the ordinary saloon bummer that he de sired to deal with. What he hoped for was the reformation of gentlemen. I-I is plan was to engage as a portion of his crew a number of intelligent men who haul brains enough to know the error of t tieir ways, but who could not withstand temptation sufficiently to break them selves of their bad habits unaided.— W ith these men he proposed to rea son, persuading them to ship with him as a matter of self-preservation and profit to themselves, and finally, on their return, to entire reformation. Although the captain's plans were well maturbd, he found some difficulty in obtaining the right kind of material for his experiment. He knew that, under the most favorable circumstances, it would not do for him to take a crew of entirely green men. He therefore wise ly shipped a sufficient number of train ed seamen to work his vessel in an emergency. To others he managed to call around him by means of several in geniously worded advertisements. He announced through the papers that gen tlemen who, in consequence of free liv ing, had become embarrassed could hear of an opportunity of making favor able arrangements fora whaling voyage for profit and health, provided they were willing to work about the ship. There were many applicants, but few of the class he wanted. It was not until after the expiration of two months that he secured twenty-three gentlemen, sev eral of whom represented profession— all educated and refined—but known among their acquaintances as hard drinkers. With these he entered into an agreement, the substance of which was that they were to "touch not, taste • not, handle not" any kind of intoxicat ing liquors during the voyage, and they were to take none on board the ship.— (If course the first few days out were spent very miserably by those of the crew who hail been been accustomed to stimulants. The Captain says that no pen can describe their misery. Some of the poor fellows raved like madmen, and accused him of a conspiracy to take their lives. A few sank into sullen tits ()I' . . despair. Others demanded liquor, and swore that there was plenty to lie had, but that it was withheld to torture them. Irony had to be resorted to In extreme cases, and it few were restrained with diftlealty from jumping overboard. The working of the ship developed upon the old sailors. Fortunately the weather was tine and but little was re quired to be done to manage the vessel. (;radttlly, however, the whole party begun to recover, and In less than three weeks a happier set of men never trod a ship's deck. 'Pile duties of molt indi vidual were soon determined upon, and as rapidly as the crew were reported well they were assigned to such work as they were best able to perform. The Captain had provisioned his ship with a view of keeping out lei long us possible, anti he hoped to be able to remain at sea at least three months before finding it necessary to enter port for supplies. There was some difficulty experienced at first in apportioning the work to the men. The Captain's subjects for refor mation were not used Many thing very laborious. ;ionic had never seen a ship tinder sail, and many had no cape. Hence except in the counting-room.— But the voyage had not heen dertaken for instruction in navi- gation, nor fur profit to the owner.— Captain Hopper's paramount objevt was to reform his men and return them to lives of sobriety and industry. To this end he had determined to bend all his energies, making every thing else a mat ter of secondary Importanve. He had promised not to divulge the names of those who sailed with him ; In fact, It was mutually understood that the ves sel was a sort of bethel ship, and that all had embarked with a view to lasting Improvement and permanent reforma tion. The minor details of the voyage are uninteresting. The work aloft was done by the old sailors, and that below by the experienced portion 6f the crew. It was not until after they had reached the Gulf of Mexico that any thing of importance occurred. The weather hail been mild, and the ship had been lying nearly becalmed for several days, Nvlieu one morning the captain went on deck, and found a majority of his crew drunk. His astonishment may be imagined.— How such a thing could occur was be yond his comprehension. There was not a drop of liquor in the ship to his knowledge, and yet his crew were un mistakably intoxicated. Some of them, known only to the captain as mild and inoffensive men, had suddenly become demons. The few who were sober gathered around their commander and obeyed his orders cheerfully, but the drunken ones of the crew would not. A desperate light ensued. Reason did not enter Into the contest on the part of the mutineers. The battle was for the mastery of the ship. The experimental portion of the crew had drunk until they became madmen.— They had determined among them selves to run the ship to land no matter where. The Captain and the few who had rallied around him were .driven be tween decks, and the hatches were bat tened down over them. In this situa tion they remained with but little food and no water for live days. During that time a storm sprang up, and the ship became unmanageable in the hands of her drunken masters. For a time the lives of all on board were in peril.— When the Captain and his fellow- prisoners escaped from the hold they found the deck strewn with men nearly dead from exhaustion or sick of brain fever. It was not until after the sober portion of the crew had regained pos session of the vessel that the facts were ascertained. It then leaked out that! among the number of the Captain's ex perimental crew were two practical brewers. These men had learned by some means that there were several casks of prunes on board, and totally I regardless of their pledge-, they had connived with the cook, and through hint managed to start a distillery in the forecastle. Here they manufactured nearly a barrel of raw spirits. For a few days they kept their secret to themselves, but it soon got out and terminated. as described, in a wretched and perilous debauch. This extraordinary occurrence did not dis , courage the Captain. There had been really no serious damage done. Conse quently all that seemed necessary to do was to threw the prunes overboard, get the men well as soon as possible, and provide against accidents in the future The Captain's plans Mr reform work ed admirably, and in a short time order reigned. Once a week, when the weath er Would permit, the crew were called aft to receive a lecture on discipline and temperance, delivered by the Captain. I The first port touched at during the voy age was Hawaii, in the Sandwich Isl ands. Here the strictest guard was kept over the ship to prevent the smuggling of liquor on board, and none or the men except a few of the old sailors, who ac companied the Captain, were permitted I togo on shore. But on the first day of the arrival some of the men were found drunk. Whence they obtained their liquor could not he ascertained, but it was pre sumed that it must have ben brought to them by some of the natives who had been swimming around the ship. The captain, seeing that it would not do to remain long In port, soon sailed, shaping his course for the South Pacific. His men behaved unusually well, and he be gan to entertain strong hopes of the final success of his temperance enter prise. He reached the whaling grounds in good season, and was fortunate In taking several hundred barrels of oil. Every thing went along smoothly until the captain went to this Navigator's Is lands to make some repairs on his ship. While lying at Apia his crew were clan destinely furnished with liquor, and nearly one-third of them got drunk and deserted Idin. This was O. NOvere blow ; but It was nut until some months after ward, when lie entered the port of Tal cahuano, Chili, that he net with his greatest mishap. Here he wasprostrated by sickness, his men, taking advantage of the circumstances, openly mutinied and went ashore. V. hen he recovered, of his original experimental crew but six could be found. Sonic had died of drunkenness In the town, and others had strayed inland beyond his control. With a heavy heart lie strengthened his force with such seafaring natives as could be persuaded to ship, and stilled for home. On his return voyage, he buried two men at sea, and when he reached New York, after an absence of eighteen months, he had but four of his original crew. Of this small number the Captain does not speak encourag ingly. He says they fell into their old habits soon after reaching shore, separ ated, and finally all died. The last one, John Freneher, was buried recently at Prince's Bay, Staten Island, victim of the bottle. Ind} Johnson at Home We make the following extracts front an account of an Interview held with I ex-President Johnson, by a correspond-! ent of the Cincinnati Comittf.reial : This morning, in a stroll about town I passed Johnson's modest residence, a small two-story brick, very plain inside and out, and hardly what we might ex pect an ex-Presidentof the United States' to live in, considering the chances that class have, if they k now how to man age a gilt enterprise. to provide them selves witlt much better. But A. .I. did not carry on the gift enterprise and lot tery business while he occupied the , Presidential chair, refusing all presents and " testimonials of regard" that were offered to hint. The late General Thous-' as also did the same way while occupy ing:a public station, loud], to the won derment of politicians in harness, who j are in the habit of taking everything they can get their hands on. How many thousand dollars' worth of presents An- , dy Johnson, plain Andy Johnson flora the mountains of Tennessee, refused while in public life, I do not know, but it was a good many—so many that had he gobbled them as fast as offered, as some men do, he would not now be living in a home no better than thous-'. sands of well-to do mechanics occupy. Passing along the main street of the vil lage, past the few stores and business houses, down a slight declivity one comes to the home of the only living ex-President of the rnited States, with the exception of ex-President Fillmore. The house, as I said before-, is a modest two-story brick. It stands right upon the street, there being no front yard whatever. From the pavement to the parlor, 'tis but a step. In front there is a door and two windows in the lower story and three windows above. These are covered with white blinds or shut ters, There are not a pair of green blinds in Greenville, for some unac countable reason. The name may have I something to do with it. r runt this un pretending front an I, runs back about I thirty feet, and that is all there Is of Johnson's house. Greenville is nothing but a village or a thousand or twelve hundred Inlitibitants, not wealthy by any means, yet there are half a dozen or 'nitre finer houses than the one occupied by this world-renowned man. Ringing the door bell, a servant ap peared and ushered me Into the parlor, It small room to the left of this hall. It was plainly furnished, Its chief attrac tions being the books and portraits on the shelves and wails, There was lin coin, Washington, Jackson and John non, the latter looking us natural mitre. She went away and returned In a :no , went, saying Mr. Johnson wits out pUrilaph I would find him at Mr. Brown's store, as he usually walked up there every morning. Coining up the street to the store, I entered anti found the ex-President seated alone by the stove. In a few moments some country women, sur rounded by several little ragged boys, came in to hurter butter and eggs for sugar and calico. Mr. Brown and his clerk, young Johnson, appeared to wait upon them, count the eggs and weigh the hotter. Here was a picture, which If truly represented on canvas, would astonish the good people of England, who draw such line distinctions In blood. It aptly illustrated manners and customs in our free :toil independent Repttblic—manners and customs some what different from those In other parts of the world. Here was the "son and son-in-law of a President of the hailed States with their sleeVeS rolled up, count ing eggs, weighing butter, and s lving in exchange coffee and calico. erlly, our country is good and peculiar, with out being in the least gloomy. " 71st come," said the President, ris ing, " let's walk down to the house; the heat front this stove has a tendency to give me a headache. — As we walked out into the street, I asked him how long he had been a resi dent of Greenville. " I came here iu 1826," he replied ; "let me see, that has been forty-four years ago. " Yes, I have been here forty-four years." " Greenville is quite an old town then ?" "Yes, it is ,me of the oldest in the State. It improves but slowly." " You came over those mountains there from North Carolina when you first came here,did you not," I inquired, pointing in the direction of the road which led toward the scow capped sum mits of the smoky mountains. " No," said he, pointing to the north east, " I came into Greenville from that direction." I was about to say something further concerning his first appearance in Greenville when he stopped in front of a small wood-colored building on the street above his house, saying that it was his office, and inviting me in. It was more a store-room than an office. The building was divided into two apart ments, both literally filled with books, newspaper files,pamphlets,manuscripts, scrap-books, maps, and almost every sort of document that could be imagined. These were about half a dozen large vol umes of telegrams alone. The files of letters wereabsolutely prodigious. Long rows of ledger-looked books were mark ed " Executive Department." In addi tion to the piles of books and documents on the tables, shelves, and on the ' floor, there were about a dozen large boxes that had never been opened. One of these boxes, about five feet high, - he said contained the files of four leading dailies during the time he was Presi dent. Upon one shelf, and standing in a row, were about half a dozen " Lives" of the ex-President, some of them quite handsome and imposing looking vol umes. Sonfe of the books were scatter- ed about in confusion, and others had been carefully sorted and shelved. Pointing to those on the shelves. he said : " My son Bob arranged those be fore he died. It was his intention to i straighten and assort all these books and documents, but he died just after commencing the work." To My expression of surprise at the I number and variety of his books and collections, he replied that he would have had a great many more, but dur ng "the late immortal war," as he call ' ed it, the rebels destroyed all early col lections. He had left his office lull of valuable .books and documents, and when he returned after the war very few remained. Even hisold tailor shears that he prized highly for having used them so long, were taken with the rest. Some few of his books have been re turned to him by mail and express from various quarters, where they had been taken by the soldiers. But his tailor , shears and sign, "A. Johnson, Tailor," I have never turned up. I The adjoining building is also his, and filled like the first one with Con gressional Globes, and almost every sort of political books thata Inuit could think of. Here were huge boxes of documents that have never yet been opened. Every book, paper, pamphlet, letter and docu ment that conies into Mr. Johnson's hands, he preserves. If old documents are dangerous he has a nitro-glycerine mine at hand, well charged, These collections are of ines timable value, composing the completest history of the last eventful ten years in any one man's possession on the conti nent. In looking over the list of the country's great, Is there any who have been more prominent In public atlitirs for the past twelve years than Andrew Johnson? Not one, and none have had the opportunity to make collections of current history that he has. I was sur prised to notice that lie did not even keep the doors locked to these massive piles of lore, though perhaps he does at night. (Ireenville Is a place of "steady hab its," however, and the collections are probably lu no danger. After all, what is there In those that would benefit a thief? lie might slip In and gather up an armful and when daylight come find that he had half a hu mired coplem of the resolutions of 'Us and Johnson's farewell address to the people of the United States. Such stealing would not pay; the more a man stole the worse he would I be oft Passing down to the house we enter ed the sitting room, which, like the parlor, wits plainly but tastefully fur• n kited. Portraits upon the walls, books and papers upon the shelves and tables, were evidences that Mr. Johnson is a man of cultivated tastes, even though he may have " sold out the Republican party," us it is claimed that he did. But he sold It 8, I its recourae, which speans well for his business ability. In speaking of the present political condition of the country, Mr. Johnson said that both parties were in a state of disintegration, and that sooner or later new parties would form. "The young men of the country," said lie, " will soon take things in hand; the old set have about played out." A few months ago a report was flying around among the papers that Mr. John son had started a batik iu Greenville, and would give the evening of his days to notes, drafts, and accou n ts, and hard and soft money. I asked hint if lie really intended to hecome banker. "Nothing Is further from my mind," he replied. " I never thought of it un til I saw it in the papers. f have been economical all my life, and my habits are not such as to require much money now. I am getting along very well with what I have got. The story of my be ing about to go into the banking busi ness is something on a par with the one in last Saturday's New York //tr(t/d, that I was preparing to support Grant, and in return fur my aid he was to give me a Cabinet position in 1572, if he is re-elected—which he won't be. Before I would go into Grant's Cabinet, either in 187'2, or any other time, I would get me a situation as assistant hog-drover, or, as an old man in the country used to say, I would tie a rope around my neck, and then around a tree, and walk ME" The ex-President converses quite free ly, and has a way of saying about what he pleases. Ile cares very little for abuse, having, as he says, got used to it all. Even now in his retirement at Greeneville, the Radical and Bourbon papers (extremes meet( freq uently bu rst forth in a volley of abuse without any provocation whatever. If they knew how little he cares fur it, they would save what little ink and lees brains they have got for other subjects. A. J. is callous to crimination ; his hide impen etrable by newspaper vituperation, and as impervious to squibs as an alligator is to flea bites. A Ilcallhl Indhldual 'file following is the last thing writ ten by the late '•Artentus Ward :" " Ontil quite recent I've bin a healthy individoital. I'm nearly sixty, and yit I've got a muskle into my lists resem ble the tread of a canary bird when they fly out and hit a man. Only a few weeks ago I was exhibitin in East tihowliegan Inn b'blin which had formerly been oc kepied by a pugylist—one of them fell ers scliielt hits from the shoulder and teaches the manly art of self defens.— And lie cum and sed he was goln' In free, in consekence prevrsly oekepyin' sed bldin with n large yellow dog. He sed, 'Oh, yes.' I nett, 'Oh, mt.'. He sed, 'Ott you want to be ground to pow - der?' I sed, 'Yes, I do, If there Is It powder grimiest handy,' when he struck me a disgustln' blow in my left eye, which caused that concern to at once close for repairs; but he did'ut hurt me any more. I went for him en erget'eally. Ills parents lived near by and I will simply slate that fifteen min utes alter I'd gone for him his mother, seein' the prostrate form of her son 81)- 1 proachin' the house onto a shutter ear rrd by four men, run out doors, keer- E fully look'd him over, and sed, :lly son, you've been foolin' round a thramhin' =sheen. Vito went lit at the end where they put the grain in, come out with the straw, and then got up in the thingumajig and let the horses trod on you, ditrnt you my son?' You can Int -1 agine by this what a disagreeable per- I son I am when I'm angry." A Woman's Defense of Dress lor myself I should be thankful to return to the habits of our grandmother; buy a bonnet which would do to wear tell years; have three dresses, two for every day and one for "nice," and wear them year after year till they wear out, without alteration, and also twist up my hair in a plain wad at the back of my head. I should then have more time for reading and study, and more money to spend for books, pictures and trav elling, to say nothing of the unlimited time and money for doing good. And I know of very many women who would be only too happy to throw aside the wearisome shackles of fashion. But what would either result ? With the maiden no more beaux ; with a wife—a cessation of devotion on the part of her husband. Results too dire to be con templated for a moment. I speak what I know, and testify what I have seen. I have myself been to parties sensibly and economically clad, and I was despised and rejected of men; again I have been more fashionably and expensively at tired, and had more beaux than I knew what to do with. By the way, why don't some of these wise and sensible bachelors court and marry among the vast army of working girls? They are dressed very simple, and are accustomed to habits of economy. They would be glad of good homes,:and would make excellent wives. They are per sonally attractive, and, doubt not, are quite as relined and intelligent as the average of fashionable women. Why is there not a _greater demand for them as wives, and why are not the Flora Mc- Flimseys a drug in the market? Let the facts speak for themselves. Be not deceived, 0, my brethren! With you lies fhe fault; from you must come the remedy—refuse to pay court to silks,. panniers, frills and chignons, and we shall go over to calico in battallions. The Wesleyan Union Church, in Har risburg, "is being decorated for the live bird oyster pie festival and eastern an cient wedding," whatever that may mean. The M[otlej•Flsh LeHere. Tho President yesterday sent to the Sen ate a report from Secretary Fish, In answer to the resolution of the Son ate asking for copies of the last correspond ence between Mr. Motley, minister to Pug land, and the Department of State. The re port embraces a large mass of matter. but the most inter est lies in the closing letter of Mr. Motley, and the review of it by M r. Fish. .• . . Mr. Motley, in his letter to Secretary Fish, dated December 7th, which was the last official letter he wrote while minister, acknowledges the receipt of State Depart ment dispatch No. 255, accompanying a let ter addressed by the President to her Ma jesty the Queen, announcing Mr. Motley's recall, and states that he took leave of her Majesty on December 6th last, and retired front the mission on the day following, leaving the archives of the mission In the hands of Mr. Moran on the 7th. He states that on the ':.sth of June last he learnt] that in the telegraphic intelligence, from the United States, Lo a Landon journal, the announcement, unofficial but verified by subsequent events, that the President of the United States had signified his in tention of removing me front my post — It would be impossible for any diplomatic agent to believe himself as more thorough ly possessing the contidenve of the govern ment which he had the honor to serve, than I supposed myself to enjoy at that moment. No Intimation of a contemplated .Lange had been made to nie. No shadow of a dif ference of opinion existed between the President and his government and myself as to our relations with Great Britain or any other power, or as to the general poli cy of his administration ; and I was at that very period engaged in as delicate and con tidenttal a diplomatic correspondence with yourself and the British government upon several important 'natters as could he well I confided by a government to its foreign agent. The report in the newspapers I dismissed, therefore, as an idle minor, the President of tile United Slates being inca pable, as I believed, of thus dealing with a I public servant whom he had himself so re cently appointed. Had a change been contemplated I felt 'while that I should have been privately informed o f first and the public after ward. Had any charges against too of der eliction of duty been possible I was sure that they would have Imenpreferred to my fuse, thin, I might have the opportunity anssa ~ring them. I lad the public ser vice, or even the exigency or polities, made a change In the mission novessary in the opinion of the President, I could not doubt that a courteous despatch would have ap prised me of the Is... Land the 1 . 1211,10115, coup led with the acknowledgment, to which I felt myself entitled, that I Mel been zeal ous and faithful in the discharge of the high office with which the President and Senate hail honored me. No tuna has the right to doubt that in such cso I would have at once offered my resignation. Nineteen days later than the appearanee of the original nnnouneement frequently repeated and COMIIIetHNI upon afterwards by the journals of the United States and this country —I had the honor to receive, on the 13th of July , lL letter from yourself to the following effect : tent VAT E.I DEPA !UM ENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON!, ISt July, 1•70. .1. /.0//irup Motto, /:Irq.. London.. R:--1 out lust:ln:toil by the l'resithint. tho United States to say that he finds it desirable to it Chang,' in the mission' to ISngluud, uud that he wishes to allow you the opportunity of resigning in ease you feel inclined to du so. With great:respect, yours Very truly. HAMILTON Its 11. Complying with the request contained In your brief telegram, received a few hours earlier than your letter, midnight, the Ilith of July, which was to the effect: " Ain directed to say the President would like an answer by telegraph to my letter of the hit Instant," I sent you on the 1 Ith of July, a telegram in cipher, as follows; " respectfully request you to inform the President that I feel compelled to de cline the offer which he makes, In giving me an opportunity of resigning my post, for considerations which are set, torch in full in my letter of to-day." The telegraph soon informed the world that a gentleman was nominated to the Senate as my suc cessor on that same day t 41th of J uly), and that he was continued on the 15th. Thus my reception of the Vresitlent's first and only notification to Me and of my refusal by telegraph to resign. TIM nomination et successor anti his confirmation by the Senate were events all comprised within about f o rty-eight hours. My letter of even date with m y telegram was sent in the dispatch bag o f that day, but or course, could not arrive until many days later. It was in these words: Lt.:4 iITION 01. - 1111.: UNITEDSTATES, loNnos, July 14, ltiTo. ) Slit: I have had the honor to receive your private letters, from which i learned that you are instructed by the President to say that he finds it desirable to make a change in the mission to England, and that lie wishes to allow ine the opportunity of resigning in case I feel inclined to do so.— In compliance with the request contained in your telegram of the 12th inst., I have replied this day to the above mentioned letter by a telegram in these words. (The text of the above cited telegram was then given.) I have now to observe, iu further explan ation (,t Imv e„11 roe that—as no reasons are given me why I should resign the post to which I was appointed by the President lateen months ago, with, I believe, the unanimous consent of the Senate, as I my self know nt none, and as I mu not con- scions of having ever omitted to carry out, to the best of my ability, the piney and in structions of the President during the pe riod of my mission—l fail to perceive why I should oiler my resignation. Certainly IL is not my wish to embarrass an administration which I have always aithfully supported. But I owe something o myself. \% ere Ito now mako use of the iermission accorded me to resign, it would cent that I did so in order to avoid a re nova! which I knew to be just, and to ex tant, a stigma which 1 felt to be deserved. As I know the record of toy mission, as it stands on the archives of the Department and of this Legation, to be free from in tentional fault, and as I have, therefore, no reason to shun the strictest scrutiny in 01114 regard, I do not !Ike to have even the ap pearance of making a contrary admission. A man is sometimes permitted, as a favor, to resign a post of honor and responsibility In order to escape examination, censure and removal, hut resignation under such cir cumstances is not u voluntary act, and does not seem to me to differ essentially front removal. Such a proceeding on my part would, perhaps, he misunderstood by many, both at home and abroad, whose opinions I value. With great respect, Yours, very truly, Jolla lAOTIIROP MO11,1.:1. I olliip,SP, of course, that this letter duly reached you, although Its receipt has never liven acknowledged, nor, indeed, hipi a min gle line, ranee your ahoy° quoted letter, been revolved by me In regard to toy re moval or to the appointment I,r one or an other gentleman to thin iimitonitil the ar rival of your before mentioned dispatch of the loth of November hist. It would be dffileult to treat an envoy of the Lulled Status averedited to the sovereign of apow erful government with a wore marked dis respect for his official position, or fur his feelings as a loyal citlzen of the Itepubliv, than haw been done in my 11010. Si) rar uu I ate aware, no regularly coo llrtded minis ter at this Court has ever been removed by the President who appointed It Is tho lea.steonceivnble con4cquonvo to the American people whether they are,or are not, reprmented in this country , by my self. It le of very grave consequence that a representative of the United States abroad may be suddenly visited at any moment, by the severest penalty that the Executive can deal to delinquent Ministers, and yet that there should be no default. The posl- lion of United StAtos :SI hinders at this Court Is a laborious one, and my whole time has been devoted to Its duties. The Naturalization 'l'reaty, the proposed consular convention, the attainment of the release, by her Majesty's government, of American citizens confined in British pris ons for complicity with Fenian matters, among others especially entrusted to me, have been either concluded or are upon the point of fultillnient, as appears by my latest correspondence. As to the so-called "Ala bama " negotiations, I never received a power in regard to them, the government having hitherto thought it best to keep them suspended and to conduct them when re sumed at Washington. And now, in the profound silence of the government in re gard to this sudden change, I am obliged to seek enlightenment at a source whence a diplomatic agent does not usually expect his original and only information as in him self and his mission. From rumor alone I derived all the facts connected with my dis missal, and rumor alone has vaguely at tempted to indicate its cause. It is not for me to say whether reasons are legally necessary, but neither govern ments nor individuals, however arbitrary, can escape the tribunal of the public con science. It has been said that I volunteered to prepare my own instruction; that when prepared they were submitted to and dis approved by you Et .9 not being in accord ance with the views of the administration; ! that I was subsequently furnished by you with the instructions of the President; that on my first interview with the late Lord Clerendon I suppressed those instructions and submitted to the English Secretary of State my own private views contained in the paper, which had been disapproved, and which were in direct opposition to those of the President ; and, moreover that I formally presented those views in writing to the English government as the policy of the President. Certainly if this tale were true it would have been the duty of the President, as soon as the facts became known to him, to recall me withont a mo ment's delay. Diplomatic intercourse between nations NUMBER 3 would be Impossible If an agent should be retained in office who deliberately and in tentionally violates instructions of his goy• eminent. But the tale is false, and in order to disprove it, I shall take the liberty of re calling certain important facts to your recollection. After the President had hon ored me with the appointment of 'Minister to this Court, I employed myself in the in terval of waiting for my instructions at Washington, in examining the archives and revising my recollections of previous im portant negotiations and discussions be tween the governments of the United States and iireat Britain. In so doing, I drew tip an historical memoir, concerning which there occurred some entirely intormal con versation between yourself and one or two other friends of mine, and it was suggested that that it might be worth your while to read the 'taper. if you could find leisure to do so. It wits accordingly sent to you and sub sequently returned to the with no expres sion of dissent as to any of its views, but with an intimation kw your part, in ate wisdom of which i entirely acquiesced, that it was thought best by the President, iu LioustiqUence of tire ex... Minim existing in beat countries by reason of the rejection 01 the Convention of the itch of.lanuitrv, to suspend for a limited time the discus sion of the differences between the two countries. From that day to this there has been no question in regard to (Iris Memoir. It has lain undisturbed among nly papers. It has nover been seen or heard of by any member of the British government or by any person whatever in this country. So tar as I sin infiirined no One but your self and two other American friends ever saw it, and nut ono line Of it has ever la no used by me officially or privately 'rho instructions in your NO. livered to me in the morning of iny depar ture from New York t''or Liverpool. Call ing upon Lord Clarendon UN an old iinaintan re, at his private residents , to the day alter illy arrival, I trmk pains to state, as appears by histlispateh to r. Thornton, lOth of .l ono, pUblished in Parliamen tary papers nearly a year ago, that "I per (erred not [center upon matters of laisioess that day, 11.4 my instructions had only been delivered to mu to hen on the paint barkation, and I hail not 3 et had time nut% Ilelently to eonsider them." I isilemny as sort that, 1 wan sivlUaled at that inottivnt of my arrival, and 11l every 111,,1110111 5illlY, by the earnest desire end . determination to carry out the President's instructions with loyalty and to the best id' my ability, and never intentionidly 11l propound tity own Indlvidnal opinions IN tho, of lhrgocvru uuutl. SI, far us nn• humble set . % ivo. I . ollltl ruin tibiae to the r,tllt, it %yam illy %Skil Mitt °thing Kilolll,l 110 11.11 llllll‘lllo . loi my piLrt to niitke hln elyll admitted ration tie eitocc:+s rill as Ids military career had twill glOrioiN. It won, 115 I 5i11p114.1,1, 1111110041111 ti my ilititarttire lor I:m.o.lnd, although not publicly atinotinced, hull the NlO-1.11111.11 '' A htleunit" negutild long, whenever re newed, mhonld he conducted at I'velting ton, in ease or Hal consent or the Uri tihll government. I had been iiiidructed, how ever, to miggemt hi, Owl g,,ortilllvnt. that there should be It MIIAIII.I.HiOII o ill iiit..ll4- 51011 11l 111S111Uted 111 l aMllulln for a ntiort lit order to allow flue subsidence or cxeito- Mont or Irritation groveliii4 MIL of thy nogn tiationN or rejeeliott or the Pith January, 'SIM. Thin suggestion 1 made at the outset of un• first official Interview with laird Clar edon, which lurk p,lO 10(1, J llll Or 1,41 U1 and WO had their a full conver. signal on the general relatiolls betWOl`ll till twit countries. I wits not authorized to read him these your first general instrue thrum, still less to furnish him with a copy of thorn. Such a course would huvc boon opposed to 111111011111 ti t. 11 , 11tgO. I WILY nllmw ad in tiny discretion to communicate cer- Lihn views, and 1 proceeded iu the OXervinti Or that diSeretioll to render the s.ilistance of your paper (IT loon folio pages, Wilk RS 11111011 aceuracy as to the order or topics, tone .r th.ll l4 llt and general pliraseologv us it was possible for me to do in a fanii)lar emit ro-sation. The full record of that conversation is made in my No. 8. 11 reveals throughout an ORM- Oot diSpOSitioll on tnv part to reprodrieri your instrnetions with telelity. hi receiving that communication you addressed rue a courteous, candid and friendly despatch, in which there were some eritleisimi main certain portions of my narrative. I take leave to quote in this place the whole of that despatch, be cause it contains the only exceptions taken by you to any expressions of mine during the whole course of my mission: Ni. 23, DEPA lam ENT nr STATE. .111111', Sat:--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. ti, dated July 12, and have read with much interest its narrative of your very important interview with Lord Clarendon. Your general presentation and treatment of the several subjects discussed in that interview meet the approval 444' this department. In the course of the emivorsation, how ever, it seems that the President's view of the right of every power, when a civil COI, Ilia has arisen within ;mailer State, to ile• fine its own relations and those of its ~'iti zens, was not conveyed in',reviseconform ity to that view as I desired to present it to you, and as it would doubtless have been conveyed by you had your eommunication been made to writing. 'rite subject may not again a topic of official eiiniu.nnica tion betwe the Minister of Foreign Affairs, lint I venture to cnll your attention to it, beeause of the statement in your dispatch that Lord t larenton I.l.erved at that part of your remarks, that if there was to be any diseussion of principles it hail better he done 0;0.11;1,4111Y and to the bot tom, The l'resident recognizes the importance of a thorough discussion whenever the sub- I Ject is resumed upon all the points of ,iit terance. lie wishes that, whenever nego tiation or discussion on the subject of till. "Alabanni" claims, so-ealled, shall be re newed, they Io conducted in the United States, and he desires that at the proper time yell should convey this wish to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is impossi ble to say at present when that time small arrive, but it will certainly have arrived whenever the British government shall propose a discussion, or Shall lie sire to report lire negotiation. in the meantime you may be well eontent to rest the question on the very Ferri hie presenta tion you 'MVO 1111140 of lhe .kinericati side of the question. It was strongly home, and if there wore expressions used stronger than were re quired by youriustructuns,tilo OXPOSM WILK 111 1.110 right direction, and, stopping whore they do, anti uttered SIN they were, it may well be hoped that they may tend to Impress the minister with the seriousness of 11.11 ap preciation of the grievances )111V0 411, 6 1. 1 um sir, your obedient. servant, Ilamti.aoN John 1,1/11,01, ‘l.O. • Uuring thirteen months succeeding the Incidents at .1 une, Isr,U, the government has employed me in the unost serious matters that can occupy an envoy In 1.110 negotin tietl at treaties and other Important and confidential business up to moment when, in three you informed our that the l'reslilont, I . INISIOII Nviiittever, would permit ilie to resign. Since that, hour t have heard through the public press, from time to time, arid through that source only, that the Itilssfrin had beer. offered to and refused by 0110 gentleman alter an otimr. Having, for well considered rea sons, refused to resign, I have been obliged to await, anti with Ire trenie Inn pat iI•TIVP, my recall and the notification of the appoint went of my successor. No successor having been appointed, the President has thought proper at least to order me peremptorily, without one word of explanation, to place the conduct of tn,! mksinn In the hands of the Seeretary of Legation and to retire from my post, an in dignity, I believe, to which no public min ister of the United States has ever been before subjected. History will decide upon whom the discredit of the transivition rests. I have heard of no other pretext deserving anything but disdain, in nn offivial docu ment like this, to justify the action of the government, save ono, which I reserve for the last. It MIS been rumored in every way by which public thought can unofficially express itself that I have been removed from the post of Minister to England, be cause of the opposition made by an emi• 'dent Senator, Who 110110, Inn With his friendship, to the ratification of the San Do mingo treaty. Upon this I shall only observe that my own opinion in regard to the annexation at that Island has never been asked for by any person whatever; that I have never expressed an opinion on the subject, pub licly or privately, for the simple reasons that the material for forming an opinion have never been within my reach, and I have had enough to do in attending to the duties of my mission without meddling with matters which did not concern me. I know not whether the rejection of that tre aty by the Senate was the cause of my ro moval, but this I do know, that the Senate rejected the treaty on the 30th of Juno of this year, and the letter requesting my re signation was written the next day, name- ly, 'on the Ist day of July which I here place on record as a historical fact. I have thus recorded in my last official act a solemn protest against the outrage, as I believe, entirely without precedent, of my peremptory removal. I shall only add that while maintaining, during my brief mission, the honor and rights of the country which I had the privi lege to represent, I have always reported faithfully the earnest, and, as I believe, the sincere desire of the British government and people to revive cordial and kindly re lations between the two countries, to make fresh efforts for the settlement of past grievances and to provide against their fu ture recurrence. There can be no. nobler ambition than to strive for such a result, and the statesman who may accomplish it will deserve well of two great nations, JoUR LOTHROP MOTLEY. 'FISH REPLIES. Secretary Flab, under date of Dec. 30th, RATEEOF ADVRTIfUNO Brratmeas ADVIIII7IIIIiMENTII, $l2 a year per equre of ten lines; 6$ per year. .fur :eaeli addl• Clonal 'quern.,' RRA APVERTNO ID rents llne for he first,and 6 cents (reachh subseque a nt In- I tnsertion. CA nrst, and 4 NERL ADVE . c'ents for eac RTSING. 7 °o mnulainquentto • Ilno for the h tton. SPECIAL. NOTTCE.4 Inserted to Locnl COIIIIIIII6 1n nentn per 11110. SPICIAI.Ttcv-0 preceding inrirrlages and deaths, 10 cents per 1100 for first Insertle•n , ' and 6 cents for every subaequent Insertion._ LEGA L AND MILER NOTICILI9 ' Executors' notices 2 Atitninistratoni . notice t. 2 FA Assignees' notices 2 i 0 A Milton.' nett rem .. 201 Ot her" Notices," ten lines, or less, three times.—, I 50 IS7O, addressed to Benjamin Moran, Acting Minister at London, a long reply to NI r. Motley's letter. This letter WILY connected after the Senate had called for the Motley correspondence, and although elaborately gotten up, is a very lame affair. Mr. Fish attempts to create the belief that Mr Mot - ley was re-called because Ito had not over year previously correctly presented the President's views on the Alabama Question to the English Foreign Minister and he aloes this in the face of his approving letter of June '27, ISCO, He Mallets what every one believes to be the fact, that Motley was re moved because of his friend Stnner's hos tility to Grant's San Domingo speculation and attempt...lot Joke away the damaging ef fect of the fact that the Domingo treaty Wit, rejected on June lot. IS7eand that on the nest day Motley's resignation was requested. He says: Mr. Motley collates um dates of (heroic, firm of the Safi Domingo treaty. the :tutu i of June, anal that of my letter requesting his resignation, the lot or Jely, which •lita "places on record" as an "historical fact." To Moine minds, jam( hoe propter hoe is OM IISI Ve of cause and direet. There is at tra dition in England, believed by many, that the tioodwin sands owed their appearance to the fall of a certain steeple in the preced ing year. The coliwialtance which Mr. Nlaaley stamps as an "historical fact" is not the Holy or the most remarkable ono which has been the subject of history. It finals its parallel in that recorded by anoth er illustrious author who tells us of two old wonien who "tracing things back r effects to ,:mars, naturally reverted to their deceased Imadaanals, respecting whose lives deaths, and burials they eaminared notes, and iii,tiru'red sundry !Silksd with wianderta exactness, salvia as: Barbara's father haying been exaetry four years and ten months older than I(it's ba ther, anal lane of them halving antsd o n a IVvainesalay and the other on a Thiarsday, and both or them haying !aeon of u c i'l'y cilia. make and remarkably good looking, with other extraordinary coincidences." nu vier 41)11 Albituy Britima 'flay Ex 1 . 1111.1 . 01111 e k non a Ammtnelta. Vr..111 lhany EN offing .11M/11111. JIM. 7. Last 4 , vitilitig the train tv1114.11 Itistrits 11144 11011 ‘ll.llOl. tit S1:11/111111 tirrlvoil nl 11,4 , stit• 1114 Is titistomitry, /11011111 , 11 1.0 111k0 istsseiltivrs Prom Tr,,y, tint, a thowt4ll, piot , iiltig 14, pass flit , 1 1 11111 . 04,1 estr, heard 1111piii1.1 ou the Intorlor, and, diukg the thew Lark, 111 , 1,1110111 11111 11111• 11141 , f In ellitri;4, Thotitits Ilt.lp trnn 14 , 41, soul Iho ‘votilitltid 1111111 11'11N 1111141'11 ti ‘vlial had higymllod. NVllls tho Avortk ..0.1110 0110 1104 141101. 011011 110001110 1110 . 0100010110. 110 \VIOI I . 0• otl 101010110 . 1 I•ar and nrovtlily 11.1, rllr mid won, drommoil. Tho ontlrt; %%or!. 1401111 01, gagod in ft.rreting mit it (quo hut thy author droadhil erlino, and nit Invos,llol.loil, %%MI Nrhat Iliformittlott voulti lio sv.,iffidu,l man, rov nalyd it. 11111,111101 i in tchirh lho desporati. The train had h•rt the depot :Tan . lar Hut. 4111 the Ilostoti and Albany Itail • rood, 10111 tout Fur ILnNtuu, Mid roll noohnl 111111 it Ott It ear ‘ir the Atnurlean cirell ants' Express Company, In eharge 4.r the 111111/11.11111ltl. 1111111. /%1 r. 1 lalpin had, before starting, eoinineiteed arranging his itel<ages In their proper position for speedy delivery, mid he,ilg, so engaged had negleet ad to elose the soul 11 door of the ear, leaving It open for the mimeo of about throe Inches. In arranging the packages 11r. 1011,111 was employed in the northlvest corner or the tstr, and with his 'utak toward tie, ellen door. The train had just started, and Wtl,l going at IL vary slow rate or 1+1 , 1 , 1 , 11, nN is usual 4111 provissllng across the which It hail seareely reached, when the messenger heard a olight grating noise, us though some one waa sliding bark the door if the ,str, and tlllllllg I,lllllli saw II 11/1111 in the net or elamber- Mg in. Halpin turned !mildly toward blot us if to intercept Ills entranee, but the man had already gained Oro interi or and pulled the door stint. The messen ger desired to know "who he was, KIM alert WM." his business there." The un known reply was that he was an old ex press messenger, stud asked If Inicould not bit allowed I, remain In the ear until the train reached the other side. The robbeilluol by this time gained the east turd of the ISM, when, suddenly drawing a revolver, he fired at Halpin, the ball passing through Iris neck, from right to hitt. Halpin tell to the floor, when the robber stepped up to him, and stooping down, with the weapon close to the prostrate WWI'S !lend, tired tine more shots, the muzzle being HI, dose that the powder burned into and blackened the nosh around the wounds.-- Hire of these shirts took elfo, t in the right. eye, but without destroying thesight. Feel ing sure that he had completed his murder ous work, the robber then got down Mint searching the body found the keys,, with whiell Ire must at once have proceeded to open the safe. Having opened it, he dis covered the 11111110 y bag, which he slit open uud took therefrom all the money It con tained, something OCILI . t;2.2. - /0. ArtOr HO. I•Oring his booty, the robber looked to Its crape. The train had by this Una, reaelied the other end of the bridge, and at that point where the train stoves very slowly, the murderer must have made his exit, leaving his victim still lying senseless on the floor. By the time the train had reached the Stalin! al Eant Albany, 111\111111 hind HO far recovered rnnsrinusnrse as to be /11/10 to •rawl to thu sido tdf thn var and rap faintly L thu fluor. The entire ;',ltair shows that everything ad horn prevonvvrtvd and arranged, net . . rime, but with the skill and forethought/4 MO who, if not a professional, evidently las all the /1:i/1,0H/in/land daring neeessary or one. Thu villain, whoever ho tinny be, 11,11 . ribl'il /is weighing between one hun lreil and forty and IWO hundred and fifty siiinds, lice Prot nine inelleS in height, lark moustache, and wax dressed In dark •lathes, with light holly coat and a blank touch/41 hat. It Is reported that one Der- I.ly, VIII played about tho &pot, saw man enter tho express ear and chat° he dnor ; but of Collalo this circuit'. erented 110 surprlne, and wit,' not gain thought of until nfter thu (Time WWI discovered. It had also been noticed that two suspicions persons had been lounging about the depot for Several 11113 , 1 past,lll that kVA evening ono of theme [nen purchased a ticket wherewith to cross the bridge 4111 the train. lint thin was proba bly only done to septum admission on the plinforin, from which the rhinos could select a point front w 11011 no .to operate. This same person Is maid Lu have been no ticed getting on board a freight train on the other side and return across the bridge, about twenty minutes lifter the departure the passenger train. If these ruportm are to be ermined, thin detectives have Is filllll - to work upon which ',resents is fair chance of Min't!,l,o4 hl the speedy arrest of he poriwtrator ullll hln nunvlrpun of Ow 'Arno. It In ellpfeeleil that ten Is nocrotinl fl unn Or the num.) , hnunth whlrh lioiirlmli n our city ? Rod 10,Ird II hiding 11111011 in .H 1.1111514 cil ovvry grado. Mr. 11a whom bettor ably to I'llll Vlll,ll. Ilan to In uL prommit, mad° Lim following' Lateinoill holt evening tom; A rgun reporLer: M y IMO Tlimnan A. ;I am 2"; yearn of age, and reside at 213 Jay street, In Albany ; have 1/1.011 In the 1001/103/10011L 01 . the Anioriean Merchants' L . lllOll EXI/1 - 0101 ( . 011111011y livarly flour years ; ruin WI 1.1111 Albany alit] 140,4011 1(101r01(11 route slurs .1111 y 11141,1,1 messenger; started out on the a;2O train to !light, being In the EX llre , ol car it the 01110 when the attack was made en rue, engaged In feeling up thin weights on the bills; lust as the train got under weigh, a man about my 1417.0, having on dark clothem but no overcoat, and who wore a heavy nuandaehe, Jumped on lila car, through thin mouth door, which WWI 01)(111 at the limo; when he obtained a aura footing he Brow It )4,401 Mid hired at Ina nutmeat the ear, the hall mtriking me in 4 the neck, arid I fell to the floor ; Lim man than canto up, bunt over me UN 1 lay on the lloor,and tired again twice, the powder burning toy lace; I hoearno unconvelAum, and do not. rumour bar anything until I was found on the il reenbush side; the affair occurred on the Albany side of the drawbridge; could re cognize the roan If I maw him again. At hall'- plod '2 o'clock this afternoon the condition oll6dpiu was rather more favor • able. Ile Is fully rational, and takes oven mlonal nourishment. Neither of the remain ing balls has lawn extracted. The bail which entered the right ear it Is now thought struck the temple bone, and glancing, it Is supposed, lodged in the muscles under the ear, without injuring a vital part. From the wounds in the eye and throat the blood passed in large quantities into his stomach. The hall which peered through the neck did not injure any of the large veins or Mlle pies. The greatest danger lies in the fact that inflammation of the brain is likely to ensue at any moment. No ono but his wife and nurses are permitted to see him, the utniost quiet being required. U n common Fatal I ty. in the 14th of last month ; lies Nan, y Dunlap, an elderly lady, died at her rest- Mim, in \Vestpennsboro' township, with some disease akin to pneumonia. Since then a strange fatality hay visited her con nections, and four more have gone to their long homes, similarly attacked, and with premonitory symptoms of short duration. M rs. Bell, sister to the above ; Mrs. Philips, of the connection, and front the West; Mrs. William Dunlap, and on Monday of this week, Mr. J no. H. M'Cley, a relative, from Lu rgan township, Franklin county, who was present to attend the funeral of :Mrs. William Dunlap. and who took sick while the Funeral was en route for the graveyard and was unable to proceed the whole dis tance. We aro sorry to say we hear furth er that Mr. William Dunlap has and is yet very ill with the strange malady. Mr. Christian Trit, of the neighborhood, who attended the funerals, is also dangerously ill. What is likely to be the termination of a disease so fatal in the outset is hard to tell. Our county, since the cold weather set in, seems to be suffering with diseases which baffle the best medical skill.--Star of the Valley;
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