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The following copy of Letter from Col. JOHN SON to Mir BERRIEN, has been forwarded to us for publication by Col. JOHNSON :-Nationat Int.

 Oahiand, (ky.) July 2Uth 1881.

 DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 7th instant has been receved. find tbat you understood me to say, that the President would at least expect the invitation of Mrs Eaton when you gave large and general parties. The President never did directly or indirectly ex- press or intimate such an expectation. He informed me that he had been induced to believe that a part of his cabinet had entered into q combination to drive Major eaton from it, by excluding him and his family from society; that he had been also informed that the successive parties to which you alluded was link in the chain: that attempts had been made even upon foreign Ministers to exclude Major Eaton and his family from their parties; that such state of things gave him great distress that he deter mined at all hazards to have harmony in his cabinet He then read paper containing the principles upon which he intended to act. In my conversation with you referred to this paper. No doubt it is in existence. It disclaimed all intention the part of the President to regulate in any manner whatever, the private or social intercourse of the members of his cabinet. As mutual friend called upon you and as peace maker my object was to make the above communication in the most delicate manner possible. During our conversation in the anxiety my heart to serve my friend and my country, it was alone upon my own responsibility, who made the suggestion or proposition, rather inquiry, whether you could not

 

 Eaton and his family. From the total social non-in- tercourse of the members of the cabinet the want of harmony was inferred, more than from any other circumstances and my desire to remedy that evil by suggestion inquiry, which I made. It would have been an absolute, unqualified, and total misrepresentation of his views, if had represented the President as making any such demand. You will therefore perceive that you have fallen into the mistake of supposng that attributed to him what the spontaneous, sole, and independent sugges- ton of my own mind. I have had no agency in bringing any part of our conversation before the public. am happy in the recollection that my vo- luntary exertons to restore harmony to ancient friendship, for the time being, not unavaling, by conversations and mutual explanations, between some of the parties, and that have had no agency in producing the recent separation. Having now corrected your misapprebension of what did say in my endeavors to prevent the disunion of my bosom friends, feel as if had performed another sacred duty. have done it promptly and in the same spi- rit of peace and friendship. have confined my re- marks to an explanation of what said myself This is done to avoid any unpleasant collision which too frequently arises among the best of friends and most honorable men, when efforts made to detail pri- vate conversations. l am. dear sir, yours respect fully, R. M. JOHNSON. Hon. J. MACPHERSON BERRIEN.