The Jefferson Memorandum

From the Boston Poat, Aug. 16. The document which tho great gran'líliiuliter oí Jufferson recently discovered, and which the New York WorU publishes in fac-siniile, is of peculiar intrn-ht ut this time as showing the viows which thüt statcstnan held throe-quarters of a coutury ago with regard to tho proper remedy for tho defuct in our eluctorul systeui which has uow come up to plague us and to tasten fraud indolibly upon tho nation. This draft, which is in Jefferson's handwriting, was probnhly made at tho time of the discussion of the subject in 1800, when a very elabórate law was fraoied and passed by lioth lumscs, failing on amendments. This law, which we published last winter during the progresa of the electoral count, did uot coincido with Jeffurson's ideas. These, as stated in this draft, were that the certifícate of the Exeeutive of a State should be conclusivo of the tact that the votes stated to be cast for an elector woro actually so cast ; and that when the vote of an elector shall bo judged invalid, the Senators ftnd Representatives of that State shall decide to whom tho vote shall be givon. An interesting point is the munner in which Jefferson explnins tho phrase of tho Constitution - " thu votes shall then be counted" - of which so mncli was raade by tho partisans of Hayos. Joffcrson says : " It is most reasonably infeired that they are to ho counted by tho merabers composing said houses and brought there for that offico, no other being assignod them ; and the more reasonably as theroby the constitutional weight of each State in the elnction of theso high officers is exactly preserved in the tribunal which is to judgo of its valhüty, tho numbor of Sunators and Koprosuntatives froin each State composing said tribunal being exactly that of tho electora of tho same State." The cloarness and forco with which Joffurson state the right of thu representativos of tho people in Congress to control the count, and to set asido disqualifiod electors, while prosorving. to each State its 'uil power to spaak for itsolf in tho final choico, are in strong contrast with the "oggy argument in which tho subjent was wrapped when tho crisis which ho foresaw arrived. Impartial invostigation shows that tho " civil sorvice ruforin," which has been displayed in recent remováis from aud appointmonts to otKoo iu the Troasury Department is tho veriost huiubug. A correspondent of the Nuw York Journal of Cornmerce has been looking the matter up and finds that iu the Second Jomptroller's office alone ten of the most faithful and competent clerks were removed from office, although tho !omptroller absolutely refused to recommend them for romoval, and their ilaces given, for personal roasons, to non who are not ouly incompetent but wuo havo failod to pass tho vury simple examination required. The correspondent declares that ono of the men shows a letter frora Secretary of the Interior "VIcCrary, expreasing regret that there was only a $1,200 elorkship for him incohewasa "Southern supporter of he Prusidont's poliuy." As tho Socond omptroller, ex-Goxernor Ciirponter, of owa, is soon to retiro from ófrico, his viows were probably considered of no ICCOUIlt,-