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the request of these parties, who BY
the by represent that they have q
capital of 100000 to trade on. In the
present state of the fisheries question and
the Cuba 'lquestion, in our Judgment
these gentlemen will be assured of the
very best wishes of the government of
the United States, before being informed
that their request involves points of so
great International importance and deli
cacy, as to render it prudent to take due
time for its consideration. Or, in other
words, that the administration will not
promise to get into muss right off with
BAIL, for their especial accommodation.
A. DUDLEY MANN, Esq.-It affords us
pleasure to state that we rarely converse
with gentlemen preparing to 60 abroad
in the diplomatic service of the Govern
ment, without hearing from their lips
praises of the manner in which the As
sistant Secretary dispatehe PES the details of
the business of the State Department.
Up to the appointment of this accomplish
cd gentleman, the duties of his office
were devolved for the most part on the
minister himself. They are precisely
similar to those of the British under Sec
rotary of Foreign Affairs, and leave the
Secretary of State to occupy himself for
the most part wholly with the manage
ment of the most delicate and important
questions in issue between this and other
governments; consulting in person with
resident Foreign ministers, only when the
question or case in point absolutely re-
quires that he should assume its manage
ment. -<' sf-
Thus, what was the drudgery of the
American Secretary of State, no longer
exists. The law creating the Assistant
Secretaryship having afforded an opportu-
nifty for such a division of the labors of
the chief as to make them pleasant for
both; while at the same time it has insured
due attention to many things which,
though in the aggregate of vast national
Importance, were formerly necessarily
much neglected. MIR. Mann proves to
have so profited by his long sojourn and
varied travels and studies abroad, as to
render his acceptance of his present posi-
ton fortunate indeed for the government
of the United States.
The OFFICE SEEKERS have vanished from
Pennsylvania avenue for the time being,
as though by magic. This is owing to
the absence of the President and the two
Secretaries-Messrs Guthrie and McClel-
Handwriting most in their gift. We beg
the Washington hotel-keepers and hack
drivers not to be disconsolate In their
tour the patronage dispensing parties will
be approached by not less than one hun
dred thousand gentlemen wanting office.
Ten to one, at least one twentieth of the
latter will draw the inference from some
thing falling from thelips of the President
or some one of his suite, satisfying them
that they have but to come to Washing
ton shortly, to drive home the entire
wedge of the '.'good impression" each one
of them has made. Changes of admins
tration every four years are good things
for Washington in at least one respect.
From five to fifty persons visit our city in
order to affect the disposition of each con-
| siderable office in new administration S
gift, each one of whom spends, say from
ten to five hundred dollars among us.
| LIST OF PATENTS issued from the Unit
ed States Patent Office, for the week end
ing July -, 1858.
Edward H. Ashcroft, of Boston, Mass,
for improvement in pressure guages
Chauncy W. Camp, of Hartford, Con-
necticut, for improvement in shot charg-
ers.
E. j. Dickey, of Hopewell Cotton
Works, Pennsylvania, for improvement
in butter workers.
G. W. Dimmock, of Springfield, Mass,
for improved apparatus for illustrating
the motion of a pendulum, upon the
earth's surface.
S: F. Fulton, of Allegheny City, Penn,
for improvement in tanning.
Smith Groom, of Troy. N. Y, for inn
provement in hose coupling.
Richard Montgomery, of New York, n.
T., assignor to Elizabeth Montgomery,
of same place, for Improvement in sheet
metal tubes, patented in England, Octo-
Der Ii, 1852.
r lMyer Phineas, of New York. n. Y. for