New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-17


but his absence Does he deny that he has
been a SPY on Mr.. Ewbank, and frequent
concocter Of complaints and charges against
him to his superiorsl Does be deny having
assafed the Commissioner from time TO time
in various newspapers under his controlf
Does he deny having repeatedly stigmatlzed
him in Southern journals as an Abolitionlst,
and as having converted the Patent Once 10
Abolition uses Does he deny having mstl-
gated complaints against Mr.. Ewbank because
Patent Office advertisements were not inserted
in one Of his Lees papers Does he deny
having procured Patent Office printing TO be
done in his own office, contrary TO the law
which prescrbes that said printing shall be
executed by the public contractor for such
printing In short, has he ventured to deny
one material point in all our circumstantial
expose of his meannesses II he has, our
readers will note the fact, and make due al
lowance.
Dr. Lee endeavOrs TO entrench himself be-
hind the character of the President, for whom
he volunteers certificate of excellent char
acter But DR.. Lees certificates, favorable as
they may be, are no sufficient answer to speci-
fications of laws violated and public money
wrOnsfully applied.
Dr. Lee certifes that his public services
during the last three years have been quite as
valuable as Mr.. Ewbank's. As Mr.. E. has de-
voted lis whole time and energies TO his OIL
cial duties, while DR.. Lee has been mainly en-
gagged in editing his three or four journals, aud
had hot even pretense of official duty for the
larger part Of the time, we feel very sure that
the Doctor must be in a minority of one on
this point.
DR.. Lee makes point Of our writing him in
IS49 to come to Washington and help prepare
the Agricultural Report. AS he sees fit to in
innate that be might make something by pub
fishing our letters we defy him to do it They
will prove, of course, that the baseness he has
since displayed was then unknown to and I'M
suspected by us; but he is very welcome to
all he can make out of them
Dr. L. talks of the money he has lost by ac-
cepting the appointment in the Patent Office
and giving up Southern engagement at $4,000
year. In this he is trying to deceive, as
usual. Instead of one engagement, he has
since had two or three outside of the Patent
Office, and must have had a magnificent in
come if as well paid for his other services as
for those he has rendered the Government.
As to giving up his Southern engagement, he
certainly did not in full for he continued the
responsible Editor of The Southern Caltluator
down to last year, if he does not still. Be-
side, if the public service was so i'll paid, why
did he cling to it with such barnaclc tenacity
DR.. Lee talks Of the Agricultural Fund as
if there were any such Fund apart from few
thousand dollars taken by Congress from the
Inventors hard earnings and appropriated to
the collection of new Seeds, Agricultural Sta
tistics, &c. 1t seems to us that this is very
shabby and unjust way of paying for such
Seeds and Statistics though that is neither
here nor there. But when DR.. Lee proceeds
10 compare the small sum expended (Out OF
this FUND.- for Agriculture with the larger
one discussed to Examiners and Assistant
Examiners " of Patents, as if it were dscred-
liable TO Mr.. Ewbank he eviuces his natural
addiction to trick and deception. Mr.. Ewbank
could not lawfully devote one dollar more Of
tie Patent Fund to Agriculture than Congress
had appropriated and he felt, as ne do, that
every dollar Of this could be far more usefully
expended than in paying DR.. Lee $4,000, or
even 81 ,000, per annum for the little work he
did for the Government
Mr.. Ewbank never quarreled with Mr..
Skinner.
DR.. Lee thinks no man of any business ca.
pacity would have gone to Washington for only
occasional" employment. That depends on
the kind of work and the amount Of pay We
have known far ADLER men than DR.. Lee 20
there for shorter job and less pay. Mr..
Hodges has just taken the Patent Office on
just such lay, and we hear that he is a very
good business man. JTe once took a ninety.
day jos there for less than Dr. Lees first win.
ters work came to, and never suspected that
we were martyrized by the operation, though
our successor was chosen at the same time
We were.
DR.. Lee tries TO attribute our language to
Mr.. Ewbank, though he knows better. Mr.. f.
has said nothing about Lis being a victim to his
refusal to squander public money on DR.. Lee;
but re said it, and have prOred it, DR.. Lee
may stand down.
GUANO-ITs VALUE AND COST.
The following article on Guano from TIE
U0rking Farmer embodies some interesting
facts respectinp the cost and nroft or .b ,,,,