Hon. John G. Spcncer-A Correction.
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Mr. BENNETT: -


One of your Washington correspondents seems
to have some old grudge against me, which he
takes or makes opportunity 10 indulge in a letter
dated on Thursday last, published in the Herald 0,
the 25lh instant, in which he says -" Further in
telligence proved that the same course had been
pursued by the Surveyors of Philadelphia and Bal
tmore and that Col John 6. Watmough, while
Surveyor of the former port, had been secretly in
structtd by John G Spencer, late Secretary of tht
Treasury, to allow Brazilian Sugars under the
value of nine cents per ID, to be admitted duty
"brown." even when such Instructions had MOI
been given to the Surveyor OF the port OF New
York"


Net having access to the files Of the department.
am obliged to speak from recollection, which,
however, very distinct, that the question whether
the sugar usually imported from Brazil, was 6 ad-
vanced beyond its raw state, by claying, boiling,
clarifying, or other process was pending when
left the department, undetermined and awaiting
certain proofs which the Brazilian Minister was TO
furnish and as instructions on such subjects al
ways enlanated from the First Comptroller of thr
Treasury, am very confident that none whatever
were given by me TO the Surveyor Of the port Of
Philadelphia. And pronounce the assertion OF
your correspondent, that "secret Instructions
were given by me to Col Watmough, calumny
as false and wicked it is stupid Tor il Is impos-
sible from the very nature Of instructions for the
collection of customs, that they could be secret.
Had this been matter likely to be at all under.
8 ood by the larger portion ofyour readers. sh
not have troubled you with this note ask OF
your justice a correction of the statement OF your
correspondent. Your ob't servant.


