hay come and gone and the country is richer in information regarding the Eastern situation and richer, too, in" the respect and admiration which this Englishman has won in his short three weeks! stay. Ame rious have quickly learned to like hin, and the praise accorded him that he is more like representative American than anything else is the highest praise which people of this country can give. When he junded in Sin Francisco on the 11th of February, " prominent editor of that city, in assigning a reporter to interview him, said:—** He will he very hard to manage 5 tight as a clam, but stick to him and get something." Here is what the reporter taid when he returned from his call 'Phe genial admiral won the heart of every newspaper man by his frank, easy speech 5 in fact, he appears to have' captured the entire city as few visitors have ever done. One can readily believe that, if he had been an American, he would have become one of our famous fighting Sea-Captains, Ambassadors, or Secretaries of the Navy." He stopped in San Francisco bat two or three days, receiving the hospitality of the leading business men, and journeyed thence to Chicago, where he was given a dinner by the Commercial Club. Then he went to Washington, was presented to the President and met leading men in Congress. His last stopping-place was New York, where he embarked the day before yesterday for England. Boston sent him a pr sing invitation to visit that city and he ex pressed his regret at being unable to do so. {u New York the American Asiatic Association and the Chamber of Commerce made him their guest on successive days,
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