The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

» ) , V. "* **«• \ JPirf, r-*^. - la*. ' V fttfe*V r >|5 ' 'j"1'^ 'V; ' ->V ' ; •&•> * , £*7v ?f '^^f5 i *>" ' * Y *;' 1 vtf., . • ... fttcSnirn flainfailtt I. VAN 8LYKE, COtor and Puilaher. MOHENBY, teu Lrss ILLINOIS. •5® ' ' "«! ' t |J", ^ 'W V£-r petitors: Harriman. Traoey. Krohne WEEKLY lEffS REVIEW. TOE EAST. - Itai practical dissolution of (IM fcun- [ 0m Shaker settlement at Enfield, N. H., is an- --nni il Elder Henry Cnmminge, the bead •f the family, will marry one of the sister* and go out into the world L. J. B. Lincoln, a tioto in ctnncd meats in New York, has failed With about $000,000 liabilities. The assets are •aid to be meager. A FBDERAI. Grand Jury at Philadel­ phia has found three billa of indictment against Joeeph R. Black, William R# Canon, Joseph Frank and Henry Arbnckle, for conspiring to j 4«frand tbe Government on star-route eon- tntcta. Four railroad repairmen crossing a trcatle on a track-ear, near Sunlmry, Pa., were > own taken by a freight-train and killed. WATKRTOWN. N. ¥., is suffering from the dreaded army-worm, which is destroying all kinds of vegetation and ravaging the whole aorthern part of the Btate. IN the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Hew York, a nolle prosequi was entered in the «aee of Kenward Philp, C. A. Byrne, Louis P. Post and Joseph Hart, charged with libel, in having written and published an article on the famous Morey letter, entitled "Lying and •ticking to It* CONGRESSMAN O'BRIEH, of New York£ has obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground that she was an habitual drunkard. TOE WEST. LNRRT. CHERRY, of the Eighth cavalry, ifaQe pursuing some deserters who were rob- fctnr ranches near Niobrara, Neb., was delibco- stefy shot dead by one of his own soldiers. THE O'Leary six-days' walking tour­ nament at the Exposition building, in Chicago, ended with Harriman ae the winner. His rec­ ord of 680 miles is the beet ever made. The following to the aoore of the highest six oom- 890 | StruskeL ...458 628 Fiber 4S0 Krohne S9C | Campana .325 I In the Choctaw nation, on tbe ground that I nearly all the white residents have settled with- 1 out proper authority, Gov. McCnrtia has in­ structed the Sheriffs to immediately organise and arm militia, and drive out the invaders. <3ov. Overton, of the Chickasaw nation, has raised an army of 300 Indians, and ordered all white men to leave the territory before June Charles Given, a hotel waiter, who had so bra- , tally abused his wife that she had to leave bim i and go to work as a waiter at an Atchison (Kan. ) restaurant, oalkd the poor woman away from her work and shot at her several times, inflicting mortal wounds. The brutal ruffian then shot kimwlf dead The iee-honsep of Hilt & Mallet, at LaPorte, Ind., were struck by lightning and destroyed by fire. Loss §50,000 Jndf:e F. E. Cornell, of the Minnesota Supreme bench, died in Minneapolis recently, aged SO years The liquor house of Lawrence t Martin, Chicago, has been closed ftp. Their liabilities are about $200,000, and their assets uncertain. Two MASKED men halted a stage near San Marcial, New Mexioo, and shot at the _ iriver. Two passengers riding on tep ]L. drew Winchesters and killed the robbers, whose bodies were left in the road for a day.... ••••'< Tbe boiler inWhithee's mill, near Tomah, Wis., exploded, completely demolishing the struc­ ture, and killing Luke Lowry. of Sparta, and another employe, and severely scalding fa* j Btchard Wbitiagcr Crop prospects in Ne­ braska are reported to be the best known for years, except that the wheat acreage is aomo- *e what reduced. So RAPID is the progreew of the North- Ptoific road that it is expected that by tbe «nd of the year the track-layers will reach • ; PomP«y'8 Pillar, on the Yellowstone. Fourteen Jill? surveying parties are in the field on the Rockv Aoontaii* division A Springfield (Mo.) tele* %iF gram says: " Reports reoeived from this and various counties in Southwest Missouri are to . «- ^ the effect that the fly has already rained thou- (f ainds of seres of wheat, and fears are enter- ^ taiaed that the crops iu this section of the . State will be more than half destroyed.".... . Eddy Poet a ged 18 ; Alice, his sister, eged I'i ; and Hi* Col ton, aged 13. wero boating ou tbe ^_ Coon river, near Dea Moines, Iowa, recently. ^ The rowlock got caught in a snag, and the cur­ rent, running heavy, upset the boat, and all > were drowned A Portland (Ore.) dispatch says that three fishing boats capsized at the mouth of the Columbia river, and all the occu­ pants were drowned. A MONUMENT to the memory of George . .B. Armstrong, founder of the railway mail United States, was unveiled at \ •«. Chicago in the presence of 5.000 citizens. Schuyler Colfax delivered an oration Seven "nan rangers and a band of thirtv outlaws &ade*per&«e battle near Fort Ewell. One ** W«B killed, bnt two of the cattle-thieves S^aptured. \ 4 « «toBBiBix tragedy was enacted on a m near Terre Haute, lnd. A well-to-do | «g farmer, named McPheeters, had been ,>' | Ifated from his wife, whom he married in ' . W. 1MD. In the meantime the wife, f d • ' «.Was living with her mother, Mrs. Block- U . "i,4ad given birth to a child. McPheeters ' '* -TK the houee to see it. He walked into 1 v 'l! which were sitting his wife, ner , * * l&lle Blocksom, and her mother. -A1 > «ut of tbe house, and said he :l Maon as he had seen his baby. #cqu»t to the cradle to show him the £: J:»"°f the terrible fate in store "... while in the act of taking the lit- *i "'•"w'HWllp, McPheeiera drew a revolver and entered tbe right eye of his inrtant death. She fell in*o "••wlih the child in her arms and com- .«lhrdnUd it with her blood. The villain I ion Miss Belle, and, uttering an | ler. The bull entered the right penetrated the t rain. caw»ing death after. To complete the trag&iy, { --. - tbe revolver again»t his own «ftid killed himself One of the Stock- Jgang, called "Tommy, the. Kid," waB killed I • «u-ow» °«t of a hack by Eskridge, another • of ike band, while on a spcee at Ant- J -ai^ Hew Mexico. ^ i *.*> ' ^ ™E MOTS. /v',l f RiAHEe destroyed half a million dol- ' x.rf- • ***"' W0I*h °' business property on Church and ^ ^HiCoUa*e streeU' Nash^e, Tenn... .John t,; . t « reoeived twenty lashes for petty ^ v j? larceny at Richmond, Va., suicided on aocouirt . t,;«l tbe 4mnm». r ' ' WASHlJfOTOJI. , Y ̂ J W R W I B BADLET has been relieved t-M : dt^ }* "»« W*th circuit and Justice * jfi' > ®t#n'ey Matthews is assigned in his stead. GEN. ADAM BADEATJ, formerly of Gen. / I; < Grant's staff, and his biographer, who has been Consul General at London for twelve years % declined the appointment of Minister toDen- r' f'-y niark, tendered by President Garfield, and his p " Hoaunation has been withdrawn from the Sen- k ,J • * ate. , A* overhauling of the Mississippi rtver mail service by the Postmaster General's ' fvv' social commlBsion "diBclegea some aHtonishine facts. One «mtrastor took a $34 COG series of •%p mail rentes and re-let half of them to a packet IiriH fw AonnAA ai .% &s*' f r-.- : K0ntr of fgrieStare, vice Le Du"' resig^d. i' •' t • Lorm« w a professional farmer. ' . 6ENEIIAU •!£** Umr as the result of the Postal Co«nliB'<ios »ent to Memphis to investigate the ; ?,n rtTBT mai'6' PoBtm"ter General James has al- tt ': ready cut off annual expenditures of $412 034. > I ' <^1r^ «ffi«ency of V ^ 0f ^ 1Iint «rti- K ?T 14^} JJ ? E d 0010 and bullion in the UiUted Rtot**, amounts to $820,000,000, about half oi which is in circnlshon... L. A. Gobnght oue of the oldest journals,>ts in the comitry. having been connected with the press of Washington more than forty-five vears is dead. For nearly thirty years he represent «d the New York Associated Press in Washing- Tn Chief at the Bureau of Statistics, whom BeareUry Blaine aeat to Chicago and OocfaMAitoliivertlgatothe qwitioa ot hog. raising and pork-packing, reports that the pro­ portion of Americann hogs infected with tnoh- HUR is probably lees than that of hoes of any other country. In Chicago, for a series of years, in which 40.00ft deaths wore reported, only two cases of tricbiniaaa were found, ana in Cincinnati, during the same time, not one. The report also atatea that America is the only country where hogs are fattened fof the mar­ ket on corn, that they are of the best and finest breeds, and that the process of killing and car­ ing, as earned on here, is not equaled in any other country for care and cleanliness. It also states that American lard is the pureat lard to be fonnd in any market. THE Census Burean has published a curious bulletin showing the position of the center of population since 1790. In 1880 it was eight miles west by south of Cincinnati, having moved west fifty-eight miles during the preceding deoade. The following is the ap­ proximate location of important points from 1790: r 1790. Ilwenty-ftiree miles east of Baltimore. 1800. Fourteen mile* west of Baltimore, 1810. Forty miles northwest by west of Washington. 1820. Sixteen miles north of Woodsteck. Va. 1830. Nineteen miles west by southwest of Moore field, l£a. 1344). Sixtaen miles south of Clarksbnrg, Va. 1850. Twenty miles southeast of Parkers burg, Va. 1860. Twenty miles south of GhiUioothe, Ohio. 1870. Forty-eight miles east by north of Cin­ cinnati. 1830. Eight miles west by soath of Cincin­ nati. THE steamer Arizona has again made the quickest recorded passage across the At­ lantic, her time being seven days fivo hours and thirty-five minutes. THE sale of the revised edition of the New Testament began in New York on the 30th of May. There was a gro.it rush to obtain copies, and the sales were enormous. The Chi­ cago Times and Inter Ocean printed in their editions of the following morning the' greater portion of the revised work. POLITICAL. SKWATOB LOOAK states that Gen. Grant recently remarked to him, in the most emphatic manner, that he would never again appear before the American people as a candi­ date for office. At a meeting of the Anti- Mono poly League, of New York, at which L. E. Chittenden presided, resolutions wero adopted declaring Stanley Matthews Mis Pacific railroad candidate for the Supreme bench, and denouncing his confirmation as an effort to pack the court to reverse its decision in the granger cases. THE reporter of the Western Associ­ ated Press telegraphs from Washington under date of May 17 : "The sensation created by the resignations of Messrs. Coukling and Piatt is still talked of, but the exciting interest is over. The possibility of Conkling's failure to be re-elected is much discussed, and will un­ doubtedly be fought hard. Secretary Blaine has kept in constant communication with Sen­ ator Robertson, but of course the correspond- i enoe is kept a close secret. A prominent Re­ publican, who has held high positions and taken an active part in campaigns for ysaiv. Mid to-day he was going to Albdny to a«i»t in defeating Conkling, and that if the Democrats wonld agree to vote for a Repub­ lican against Conkling he favored the anti- Conkling members of the Legislature uniting, with them. Tammany is bitterly opposed to Conkling tince he and John Kelly split. Lead­ ing Democrats say that the Kellya will fight Conkling and carry New York city Democrats against him, m case the election should be­ come a free light, and that the country Demo­ crats ui the Legislature will certainly go against him. Conkling's plan is to have tbe Senatorial candidates chosen by party caucus. It can be stated that the administration is sat­ isfied with the ntate of affairs, and does not be­ lieve the Rspubkcan party of New York will be weakened at all. Republican Senators express the same opinion, that the party. iu New Y<?ik cannot be hurt by the appointment of a good man to office. The frequent response of lie- publican Senators, when spoken to on the sub­ ject, is that the Republican party does not de­ pend on any era man for suocess; that this claim has ° been set up be­ fore, but passed away without impairing the success of the party in the least. Gen. Grant did write a letter to the President urging him to withdraw Robertson. The letter was in­ closed to Senator Jones, of Nevada, who de­ livered it to tho President. It is claimed by Conkling's friends that Gen. Grant will stand by him in all he does." Tii^i Republican General Committee of New YorkSfet&te held a meeting and passed resolutions unanimously indorsing the action of Senators Conkling and Piatt. They also ordered a copy sent to Presi- 1 dent Garfieli THE confirmation of Judge Robertson was oelebrated by salvos of artillery at Albany, Utica, Rochester, and other places in the inte­ rior of New York. Judge Robnrtaon was sere­ naded by the Republican Genera iCommittce of New York. He made a speech, in which he said he regarded his confirmation not as a per­ sonal triumph, but as a victory over one-man power and the right of individual liberty in political action.--A New York telegram says: "A friend of ex-Senator Conkling utates that he will immediately enter into the practice of law in this city, and will take no further part iu politics until he has made sufficient money to in­ sure himself a comfortable living. It is further said the Senator will advise his friends to elect ex-President Grant as liis suacesfor in the Senate."--An Associated Press dispatch from Washington says: "There is no longer any doubt that a strong fight will be made against Conkling and Piatt, will have the sympathy of the administration. This is justi­ fied on the ground that Conkling declared Mon­ day that be would regard his re-election as a rebuke to tbe administration and a commission to make war against it to the end of Garfield's term. The policy of the administration will be to elect Htraigfct Republican Senators who will be in entire harmony with the party on "all questions. If thin cannot be accomplished ia this Legislature, tiien the policy will be to pre­ vent the electiou of Conkling and Piatt, even if the Seaatorial election has to be thrown over to the next Legislature." AM Albany dispatch says the anti- Conkling members of the New York Legisla­ ture profess to be willing to proceed at'once to the electiou of Senator*, but will have nothing to do with a caucus.--Mr. Conkling said to a friend in Washington that 540,000 was the extent of his fortune; that he could make 1100,000 per annum in the practice of law, and would not turn his hand over for a re-election. THE German Republican (Central Committee of New York passed resolutions congratulating the people on the emphatio victory won by the President over Conkling and Piatt, and asking the Legislature not to re-clsct the Senatorial suicides The Demo­ cratic State Convention of Ohi > has been called to meet at Oolnmbus on July 13. rOBEIGN. AT the sitting of the Monetary Con­ ference, in Paris, on Saturday, May 14, Senator De Normandie, a French delegate, urged the dangers of the present monetary system. He claimed to show, from the position of England since 1837, that gold monometallism did not afford a remedy. Unless wise measures are adopted, lie said, a crisis would in the end vio­ lently force itself on the money markets. MORE anti-Jewish disturbances are ire- ported from Russia and Russian Poland. At Ekatcrinoslat the plundering of Jewish shops was finally stopped by the military. At Odessa the Jews have been disarmed because A Chris­ tian was killed by an Israelite The French- Tunisian coup has produced a profound MftnfUL. tion in Italy. The Roman newspaper*, while aceepting the inevitable, express tne disgust and annoyance feit by the nation at the sharp practice of the perfidious French. The Bey's Moslem subjects are discontented with the terms of the new treaty, and will com-ein to,th*^8|dtan Queen Victoria is said to quite dextrous of oonferring a peerage on OomngMby DIsraeli, a youth of 14, the nephew and heir of the late Lord Beaeonsfield, but Mr. Gladstone and his colleaguos oblect An im­ perial decree has b»-eu published in Russia which restores civil rights to persons exiled on account of the Polish insurrection, provided their behavior since then has been satisfactory. THE Monetary Conference was ad­ dressed, on the 17th inst., by Hon. Timothy O. Howe in favor of bimetallism Louis Mallett. representing India, offered to support any measure to increase tlie value of silver.... ! The murder at the French surveying party led by Col. Flatters, which was engaged in map­ ping out tbe trans-Sahara railway route, is to be avenged. A French rogiment, 700 strong, mounted on camels, will pursue the butchers. .. . .Czar Alexander III. recoived formal invi­ tation to his own (niwnl other day. Tha following morning one of the palace scullions salted tho imperial bowl of salad with arsenic, but, fortunately for the Cur, he did not pnrtako of the deadly dish Tho persi cut:on of the Jews in Southern Rus­ sia continues. Among other atrocities it is r«- portad tbe popn^nce of Tartovo threw a Jew into tbs datnc.s of a burning house. Placards havs beon posted at all tho street corner* of Warsaw invi-iug Christians to attack Jewish residents. England wonld have protested against tho Tunisian treaty, but aha was not B*re of the other great powers...;. Spain is short in her balance for the curretit fiscal year just $3,000,000 A Russian Ensign found a mine of thirty-seven pounds of gun­ powder under a stone bridge at 81. Petersburg. Two naval Lieutenants have beon arrested at Cronstadt for abstracting dynamite front the imperial mining department. IN a circular to the Governors of prov­ inces, Gen. Ignatieff attributes the desperate condition of Russia to the irreligious education of youth, the inactivity of the authorities, and the indifforenoe and avarioe of offieholders. Ho claims that none but an autocrat can remove the clouds from the empire. « IN the Monetary Conference, at Paris, on Hay 19, Hon. Timothy O. Howe. United States Commissioner, outlined the American position on the question of bimetallism. ••Tbe United States," be said "are not here on be­ half of mine-owners to buS th* market for silver. Agriculture is our chief interest. Our annual cotton crop is worth seven times, our wheat crop twelve times, and corn crop coghteen times the average annual produc­ tion of our silver mines. America is seekuig tor herseif and the world a broad and stable money basis, upon which #30,000.000,000 of tho world's indebtedness can rest." Modt of the delegates who had already spoken replied to the arguments adduced by subsequent speeches against the views propounded by them. Mr. Ev&rts and Sig. Doda recapitula'ed their argu­ ments iu favor of bimetallism, and with their speeches tbe general discussion closcd. The conference then decided to adjourn its sittings until the 30th of June. , A TERKIBLE disaster has occurred to H. M. sloop-of-war Doterel, in the Straits of Magellan. An explosion of the salt-water con­ denser was followed by that of the magazine, which wrecked and mink the vessel. One handred and forty-three lives were lost St. Petersburg has been partiallv undermined by the indefatigable NihilwfK. Officers in the navy have been discovered to be leaders in tho various plots, and the Imperial Government thinks the head of tho conspiracy is at last 4ikco vered A feat tie between the French con­ tingent and tho native tribe* of Tunis is report- od to have been stubbornly fought, with severe losses on both sides in killed and wounded. IN the British House of Lords Gran­ ville said Russia, with the support of Germany, recently proposed a conference of the powers with a vi^w' to joint action against assassina­ tion. From no sympathy with Nihilism, be said, her Majesty's Government declined to psrticipate in tho conference, believing it would have no practical result. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Gen. Burnside, from the Senate Committee on Foreign Halations, on the morning of Monday, May 16, mbmitted a report recommending Uia passage of Senator Morgan's resolution referring to the Darien aanal. Tbe Vice President laid befonth* Senate the following communication: WISREMTO*, D. May 1«, 1881.--8m: Will you please announce to tbe Senate that my resignation as Senator of the United states from the State of New York t^ateen forwarded to tbe Governor of the State. 1 have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, ROSOOE OONKLXNO. To the Hon. C. A. Arfewr. Vice President. This eonmnniicutiim was received with a great sensation, wliiuli was heightened wlion the VioeVlea- ident laid the following* before the Honate: SKNATE CHAMUKB, May 16, 1881.- To the Ron, C. A. Arthur, I'tm frexidtiil--Sim I have forwarded to the ciovtrnor of the Slate of New York my resig­ nation as Senator of the United States for the State of New York. Will you please announce tho fact to tbe Senate? With great respect, your obedient servant, X. A JPULTT. A bam ef astonishment* followed tbe reading of the communication, and Senator Hill, of Georgia, suggested, eotto voce, that this would be a good time to eleet officers of the Senate. Mr. Dawes moved that the Senate go into executive session. Mr, Cotkrel]--"I thought you wanted to consider the other resolution." Mr. i)awes--" I had no idea but that the Senator would like to go on witb it. It ia in accordance with the disposition he has shown from the beginninR." Mr. Hill--"The Sen­ ator said the republic wou.d be subverted if the reiKV lution was not acted upon." Mr. Dawes--" But the Senator would never be convinced until ha hap­ pened to have a majority." Mr. Hill--"Oh, we won't insist upon having it considered." Mr. Dawes-- "An accident is an eye-opener to the Senator," Mr. Hill turned around and suggested to Mr. Davis (ID.) that there was nothing to prevent the Senate from adjourning this w» £ sine die. The Senate then went into executive session, and confirmed a large number of nominations. A Republican cau­ cus was held, at which the Republican Senators, with only lonr dissentient votes, decidcd to* faring the Robertwi nomination bpfore the Beaste for ac­ tion forthwith, and to procure an early adjourn­ ment sine die of the Senate. Mr. Saunders, af Nebraska, introduced a series of resolutions in tbe Senate on Tuesday, May 17, In reference to the evasion by the Central Pacific road of the Sinking-Fund law of 1878, which pro­ vides that 25 per cent, of the net earnings of tho road be applied to paying off its indebtedness to the National Government, and calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to report at the next regular session of the Senate what is necessary to pro­ tect the Interest of the United States in reference to the Central Pacific and other roads. In executive session tho Senate confirmed Fred Douglass as Re­ corder of Deeds of thp District of Columbia. The Judiciary Committee reported in favor of the con­ firmation of J udge Robertson. The aame commit­ tee reported in favor of the confirmation of Gen. Badean M Minister to Denmark, and at Gen. Merritt aa Consul General to London. On the meeting of tbe Senate on Wednesday, May ,18, Messrs. Bayard and Cameron, of Pennsyl­ vania, were appointed to wait on the President and inquire whether he had any further business to communicate to the Senate. They reported that the President will have more than 300 more nomi­ nations and will send them in as fast ss PessJble. In executive session Judge Bobert- son was confirmed as Collector of the Port of New York without objection. Other confirmations were: Gen. Merritt, Consul General at London, vice Gen. Badeau; Aleck Boreman, United States District Judge for the Western dis­ trict of Louisiana; and Edward T. Nichols, to b« Chief of the Bureau of ¥»R!H and Docks of tbe Navy Depai-tment The nomination of Gen. Badeau for Minister to Denmark was withdrawn. The following nominations were made b* the President: Albert C. Wedge, Collector of Inter­ nal Revenue for the First district of Minnesota: Henry C. Ripley, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth district of Michigan; Madison Davis, Sur­ veyor of Customs at Atlanta, Ga.: H.B.Taliaferro, United States Attorney for the Western district of Louisiana ; James C. Weeks, United States Marshal Western district Louisianâ Horace H. Taylor, ot Wisoousin, Consul at Marseilles. Nothing was done in the open session of the Senate on Thursday, May 19, but in executive see. si on a large number of .confirmations were made, among which were the following: Ex-Senator Bruee, of Mississippi, for Register of the Treasury; ex-Con- gressman George B. Loring, for Commissioner of Agriculture; Gen. Richard Rowett, Collector of In­ ternal Revenue for tbe Fourth district ot Illinois; Byron H. Langoton, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth district of Missouri, and Henry C. Ripley, Collector for the Sixth district of Michigan. The President did not i-tnd back all the " New York nomii'StiouH" recently withdrawn. He did, however, renominate Gen. Stewart L. Woodford fer District Attorney of the Sonthem district of New York, A. W. Tcnney to l>e District Attorney »f the Eastern district, and C. McDougall Marshal of the Northern distr ct of New York. Iukteud of the name of Payne lie »ent in that of Henry E. Knox for Marshal of the Southern district, and rulwUtutOd Charles A. Gould for Tyler as Collector at Buffalo. Tho Senate on Friday, May 20, confirmed the Ne|r York nominations sent in the day before; also G!enni W, Schofield for Judge of the Court of Claims, and all tbe other nominations made by President Garfle:d and not already ac'ed on, save that of William E. Chandler for Solicitor General and four others. After having adopted resolutions oompll- mentary to the Vice President, and having ascer­ tained that the President h'td no other nominations to make this se»sion, th»* Senate then adjourued sine die. The vote on tbe confirmation of Mr. Chandler is understood to havs been substantially a party vote, Don Cameron belug the only Republican Sen­ ator who voted with the Democrats sgatnst the con­ firmation. COXKUIRE AND PLATT. •<«l|na«tsa«l4he r(ew York Se*»- tsw HwtiaisBt of the Rsasons Thai •mpeHei flMai to »uch a tonne. The controversy between tho President and Senator Conkling over the nomination of Judge Robertson to be Collector of the port ef New York culminated, on tho 16th in»t, in the resig­ nation, by Senators Conkling and Piatt, of their seats in the United States Senate. The action o* the New York Senators in tendering their resignations, K is need loss to say, created a profound sensation at the national capital, and was a sharp surprise to the ceuntrv at large. Messrs. Conklia^; and Piatt addressed the fol­ lowing letter *m ths Governor af New York, defining their pssitioa, and axplalning their reasons far resigning: W "VTASHIWOTOK, May 14, IM. To His Excellency A. B. Conieil, Governor: SIR : Transmitting, as we do, our resignations, ra- spectively, of the great trusts with which New Terk has honored us, it la fit that we acquaint yea, and through you the Xegislature and the people ef ths State, with the reasons which, in our Judgment, make •uch a step respectful and neceessry. Some wseks ago the President of tha United States sent to the Senate in a group the nomination of several persons for pubtio.offlces already filled. One ef these effloea is the Colisctorshlp of the Port ef New York, now held by Gen. Merritt; another Is the Con­ sul Generalship at London, now held by Sen, Badeau; another ia the Charge d' Affaires at Denmark, held by Mr. Crasser; another is the mission to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, the son of (he foiraer distinguished Seoretary ef State, Mr, Fish hsxl. In defei enos to an ancient practice, placed his position at the disposal of tha new admin­ istration, but, like ether persons named, was ready to remain at his post if permitted to da se. All these officers, save a;ily Mr. Cramer, srs citi­ zens of New York. It wan proposed to displace them all, not far any alleged faults or advantage of the public service, out in order to give the great office of Ool.'ectoe of the Port of New York to Mr. WUiiam II. Robertson as a reward for certain acts of his which are said to have aided in making the nom­ ination of Gen. Garfield possible. The chain of ranovaSs thus proposed was broken by Gen. Badeau promptly declining to acoept the new post to which he was to be sent. "Hiese noiainstloiw summoned every member of tho Senate t.) say whether lie advised such a transaction. Ttio movement was more than a surprise. We had been told.omy a law hours ho ore that no removals of New York officers were soon to be made, or even considered, and had been requested to withhold the papers and-suggestions bearing en the snbjeet which had been sent to us for presentation, should occasion arise, until we hnd notice from the President of his readiness to rroeive them. Learning that the Vice President was equally surprised, and hail been equally misled, we scut to Mr. James, tho Cabinet officer from our State, aud learned that, though lis had spent some time with the President on the morning of the day the nominations were seat in, no disclosure of the in­ tention to mud them in had been made to him, and that the first he knew of the matter Was by hearsay fo lowing tin event After earnest reflection and consultation we be­ lieved the prtrtjee-Jing unwise aud wrong, whether considered who.l* in relation to the preservation and integrity of the public service end public example to be set, or in relation also to tlio integrity of the Republican ' party. No public utterance of comment or censure w*s made by either of uo, In the Sonate or ekewheif. On the contrary, we thought that the President would reconsider the action, so pudden and hasty, and would at least adopt less hurtful und ob jection­ able modes of requiting personal or individual fer- vice. In this hop., the following paper was pre­ pared. signed and presented by Mr. James to the President, who was subsequently inionned that you had authorized your name to be added a4K>: To the President: We beg leave to remonstrate sgainst the change iu the CollectorBhip or New Tork by the removal ot Mr. Merritt and the appointment of Mr. Robertson. Tho proposal was wholly a surprise. We heard of it only when several nominations involved in the plun were announced in the Senate. We had only two days before this been in­ formed from you thut a change in the customs offi­ ces at New York was not contemplated, and, quite ignorant of ttic purpose to take any act un now, we bad no opportunity until after thb' nominations to make the suggestions we now present We do not be i»-ve that the intei e^ti of the public service wil, be promoted by removing the present Co lector sud putting Mr. Robcrt-on iu his stead. Our opinion is qaite the reverse, aud we be'ieve no politicil ad­ vantage can be g lined for cither tho Republican parly or its principles. Deleting ;hat no individual has ciaims or obligation! »hich should be liquidated in such a mode, we tarntstly a >d recpei.tfn ly ask that-the nomination of Mr. Robertson bo withdrawn. CHESTEH A. AaxHua. 8. C. PLATT. THUMAH L, JAMES. ltOSCOE OOKKLINO. This paper was presented to the President by Mr. James on Monday, the 24th day of March. Knowing the frequency with which every oue of the twenty Presidents of the republic had withdrawn nomina­ tions on leBS serious repn-oatationa, and t'.ia similar and marked practice of tbe J.regent incumbent, wc did not apprehend that such a suggettior would tc an intrusion or an iuvaslon of any prerogative of tho nomiiifiting power. We were disappointed. Inime- d ataly the public press, especially in articles and dispatches written IrtUMse in close and constant association with It I'TllfilllH members of his Cabiuaf, teemwl with violent de- snd with influent.al IT is computed that, since the begin­ ning of the century, fifty-eight attempts have been made on the lives of sover­ eigns and Presidents of republics, of which nine have succeeded, the pro­ portion of Presidents killed being, aa compared to crowned heads, four to five. THERE is MANY a man in the world who never committed bnt one act of folly and who won't get to the end until he die*. nunciations of the Seiistora from New York for " the administration " and dictating to the President. Persons who visited the Executive Mansion report­ ed tho President as resentful and impatient of the hesitation of the Senate to " advise and couFeat"to what he proposed. We had made no nssauit upon any­ body. We have at all times refuted to answer questions from rep esenHtivea of the prers, or make com­ plaint nr comment or even denial of many truthless charges published against us by officious champfons of the auininislraiioii. Indeed, beyond confidential consultations with brother Senators and officials, we hrve said nothing until now upon this subject Nor have we or either of us " promoted tbe deadlock in the Senate" in order to prevent or influence action on any nomination; nor have we ever so statod. Immediately ufter the nominations were published letters und te e^ramain great numbers came from every part of the State, from tta leading citizens, protesting against the proposed changes, and con­ demning theiu oil many grounds. Severa thousands of tha leading mercantile firms o# New York, consti­ tuting, ax we sre infoinifd, a majority of every branch of trade, sent us remonstrances ; sixty of the eighty-one Republican members of ths Assembly, by letter or memorial, nmde objection. Representatives in Coupitts, State i'ffir'V«. business men. urofen. siona: men, commercial, industrial and pontic* oi- ganiEations arc sm»ng tlie remoiiktrant*, and they speak from every section of the State. Beside the nominations already referred to, there were awaiting the action of the Senate several citi­ zens of New York named for offices connected with the oourtB (District Attorneys and Marshals). Most of them had been originally commissioned by Mr. H:tsrea. They were certified by Judges of courts »nd man y other eminent persons, who attested the fsitnfillness *nd merit of their ntr\ice«, and recom­ mended their continuance. They were not presented by ua. We have not attempted to dictate, nor have we asked tlie nomination of one person to any office in the State. Indeed, with 1ho sole exception of the written request set forth above, we have never eveu expressed an opinion to the President, in any case, unless questioned in rega'd to it» Some days ago, the President abrnp'iy withdrew, In one and the same act, the names of Gen. Wood­ ford and Mr. Teuney, and of two Marshals. This unprecedented proceeding, whether permissible by law or not, was gravely significant The President had nominated these officers after they had been weighed in the balance. Their cfiicial recor ds were before him, i nd had been fully f-crutiriiz^d and ap­ proved. It iiiuht be presumed that he thought the nominations fit to be made, and tli^t it was his duty to make then* There is no alio*- «tion that he f -... covered any unfitness in them afterward. It could hardly be that he had discovered unfitness in all of them alike. What, then, was the meaning anil purpose of thisfierempt ry step. It was immediately stated, as if by suthority, and it seems to be sdmitte-l, thi>t the purpo-e was to oerce the Senate or Senators, to vote a* they would not vote if left free from Bxecu- sive interference. The design was to control the sctieii of (he senators touching matters commit!ed by the constitution to the Senate and to ths Senate exclusively. It has been suggested in addition th«t,by recalling the nomination* and holding thtTD In hia own hand*, the President might, in the event ef the failure of another uominatlou, ub# ih6BS to compsuiits that failure. If it ean be supposed that ail tlie^e public truata are to be® or would iu any want be, mad# pertona! perfaisltei t@ b* handled and diapomd of, uot only to puniah inde­ pendence ef Senatorial votes and action, but Hquid- &te personal obUgattona of any individual, however i j *n "tation, the conditions are utterly vicious aud degrading, and their acceptance would conipr-1 rcprcnentattvea of States Sing down their cft*.h i*M reprvenntat!v© dn«v at the footatool of executive power. FoUowiag thin ©weeping and startling ex- ecntive act, came tbe ominous avowals that dissent °L # 1? *° and consentn would be held an act of offense, exposing ail Senators from, whatsoever State to executive diiplcatiurea Thus we find ourselves confronted by the question, whether we sh»n surrender the plain right and sworn duty ef Senators by consenting to what ve betieve to be vicious and hurtful, or be assigned to a position if disloyalty to the administration which we helped orina in, and the success af which we earnest y de- 'l^e<'or every reason and motive which can eutrr mto tpe case. We know no theory avowed by any party which re­ quires such submission as la now exacted. A1 hough party servlr •. may be fairly considered in making se­ lections of pnb'ic ofllixTS, it can hardfy be maitit lined «i j i 18 b >un<J to remove, without cause, official incumbents merely to make piacea for tbos>- •vboro any individual, even the President, or a mem- ber of his Cabinet, wishes to repay for being recreant to others or serviceable to him. Only about two y. ar* ago the Senate advised Oen. Merritt to be appoiuted Collector of H®w York. It is unuerotood that among the Beoston who so ad­ vised was lir. Windom, now haul of the department wh<*e subordinate Gen. Merritt is. Another Sena­ tor Known to have given this advios was Mr. Kirk- wood, now Seoretary of the Intertor. said that, like the Postmaster General from , ' own State, there Cabinet officers were not taken into cmsultation touching the removal of Oen. Merritt, but their sworn and offlc'.ai action aa Senators ia not the lees instructive. That the late Secretary of the Treasury and the ate administration, up to its expiration, lov* than ton weeks ago, approved of «en. Merritt as an oftcer b well knewu, and it is uowhe e auggested that any ciuz«n had petitioned f<>»' his or that of&oia deSinquMscy ori his part is the reason of it. In the place of an experienced officer, in the midst of his term fixed by law, it is proposed euolileiily to put a mau m who has had no trawiag fer tfaa portion, aaid be said to have any spirts! ftiaaas ferbe official dutUa. In the inaugural of President Garfield, delivered on tbe 4th of March, stand these words: "Ths ctvil service can never bo placed on a satisfactory basis until tt is regulated by law Per the good of the service itself, for the pro­ tection of these who are intrusted with the appro­ priation power, against waste m time and obstruo- tloaef public business, caused by inordinate pswt. sure for plaee, and for the protection c.f ineumlxmts afaiust intrigue and wrong. I shall at the proper time ask Congress to fix tbe tenure of the minor oOees in the several executive departments, and prescribe grounds upon which removals shall be msde during tho terms for which ths incumbents hsvw been appointed." How good that distinction is which would make major offices a prey to intrigne and wrong, snd shield minor offices from like havoc, and whether the electorships of the country should beiong to the exposed or to the protected class, need not be decided here. Assuming Oen. Merritt to be au officer of average fitness Mid honesty, it might be reasonably argued that all Sena­ tors should with alacrity. advise hie dis­ placement for a man of obvious superiority; possibly it might be said that ail should adviss the eelaction in Oen. Merritt'a p:ace of a man who, with­ out superior fitness, had nndered his country, or even his party, conseieuons and exa t«d service. The ease in hand does not belong to either theee olaases. The vocation of Mr. Robertson, and his Legislative and professional experience and sur­ roundings, do not dan ate superiority in the qualities, the knowledge, business haute, and familiarity with revenue, the laws and system ef the United States which might aiake Mas mere competent thaa Gen. Merritt to collect the vast revenues, and administer the vast business ] per­ taining to the port of New York. Cer­ tainly he cannot in this respect he held an exception to the rule of right and consistency, on which the constitution and the laws have placed the public service. We know of m© personal or political service rendered by Mr. Robertson so transoendant that the OeQeetarship of New York ahould be taken U the midst ef w* tors* and given him a; to. . Robertson is reported by the New York 7"nt>- ime to declare that his nomination was a " leward.;" « " reward " for bis action as delegate to the National Convention. 1 f Mr. JHob^rtson, In his action, was infltienoed by e tiense of duty, if he voted and acted his houeet convictions, It is difficult to see what c'nim he has tor any reward, not to speak of such great reward. 1 ha sc'-lon ot w h;ch au estimate is thus invited is understood to be this: Mr. Uobertaon and sixty-nine other ipen accepted from the State Convention a ccrtaiu trust. Ihey sought and accepted the position of agents or dele- gntes to the National Convention to administer this trust. The State Convention declared plainly the stet. ed Judgment and policy to be observed and supported by thobe it commissioned. To this declaration all these selected as delegates cave an implied eonsent. Bnt several of them, in addition, made most specific per­ sonal p edges and engagement* to exert themselves In good faith throughout to secure the nomination of Gen. Grant. , ® They made this pledge aa a means of obtaining tlie-r own appointment sfe de>gates, and they did, as boih personally know, claim their seats in the Na­ tional Convention upon the faith of their personal statements of their earnestness and fidelity. The obligation thus assumed we understood to involve the integrity as much as the obligation of one who receives a proxy of a stockholder in a corporation upon the pledge and promise to vote as his principal wou d vote. Whether Mr. Robertson was, or was not, himself bound, not only by honor and implication, but by expressly giving his word, becomes quite immaterial in view of the reclaim made for him. It is insisted that he " organized the bolt"--this is to say that he invited, persuaded and induced others whom he knew had given their word, and had obtained their scats by d.iinrf so, to violate their word, and betray, not only the Republicans assembled in State Conven­ tion, but the Republicans of their districts as well, who had trusted in their honor. Whoever counsels and procures another to do a dishonest or dishonor­ able act must share with that other the guilt, and should share also the f *iium justly attaching to it. We are, therefore, all wholly unable, upon what­ ever ground we put it, to see any justification for onrseives should we become parties to using the public trusts which belong to the people to requite Mich service in such modes. " But the appliances employed to effect the results set new btandards of responsibility and invade, as we believe, the truths and principles on which the separate and co-ordinate branches of the Govern­ ment stand. A Senator has his own responsibility. He is amenable to his State and to tlie body of {vhich he is a member. He ia bound by his oath to " advise and consent" on his conscience and judgment be­ fore God. Whatever or whoever else may constrain him, he is to be exempt from executive menace or disfavor on the one hand and executive inducement on the other. A long-standing order of tbe House of Commons has been the declaration that a member shall sutler expulsion who eveu reports the wishes of the execu­ tive head of the Government to influenoe votes of • members. The Br.tish constitution Is not more jealous than ours in this regard. To give advice, and honect, independent advice, as to appointment* propoeed, is a.-t much the right aud duty of a Senator aa It is the right and duty of the President to pro­ pose names. Be his advice one wsy or other, it is no more an act of disrespect or treason to tho nominat­ ing power than the verdlot of a juror or the decision oi a Judge. The idea that the Senate is simply to find out wh it is wanted and then do it we cannot believe s fo or admissib e. And thus far no partv has dared or descended to set up such a le*t of party fidelity or allegiance. In this instancs such prominence has been given to the object, and auoh disgust been expressed of ike correctness of our positions that we think it right and dutiful to submit the matter to the power to' Wiich a one we are bound and ever ready to bow. Tho Legislature is in session. It Is Republican in niijjoiity, aud New York abounds in s >us quite as able ss we to bear her message and commission in the i^eua^e of the United States. With a piofouuii seme of the obligation we owe, with devotion to the Republican party and its creed of " Liberty aii.1 ltlglit;" with reverent attachment to the great State whoi*e interests and honor arc dear to us, wu hoid it respectful and becoming to make room for those who in *y correct ail error.< we have made, and interpret aright all duiles we have mis­ conceived. We therefore incliee our resignation*, but hold fast the privilege as citizeus ami Repul>- icjiiH to stand fo. the constitutional rights of all men and of all representatives,'whether of the Statea, tl.e nation or the people. Wo have tho houor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servants, ROSCOK CONKLING, TSOMAJ C. L'LATT. Tha Asaoeiated Praca reporter, telegraphing from Washington on the 16th inst., eavs of the Conkling coup detat: The surprise was so ooinplele that the Senstors had no tune to form opinions, and geneia ly ex- presced conjecture* and tmrmue . Onu Republican Henator said that Conkling and Piatt had better lie re-elected by the New York Legislature now in ses­ sion, aud that will be claimod ae an indoreemuut of their opposition to Robertson at the hands of the Republican party of New York. Republicans all feel sure of Conkling's re-election, but some lew have doubts about Piatt. Tho Democratic Senators universal yexpresa grati­ fication at tlisi resignations. They ssy it widens the bieach in the Republican party of New York, and in­ creases the bitterness of tne stalwarts toward the ad- minist at ion. The Democrats now have a majority of the Senate, but. so far ss can be learned, no attempt wll be made toward reforming ths committees. Mr Pendleton, Chairman oi tee Democratic caucus, said no such action would be thought of, and that the committees will remain as now organized. Don Cameron and David Davis seem to be the only Senators who knew of the coming resignations. It is said tliat Conk.ing and Piatt will not only regard their re-election ss an approval of their fi^ht against Robertson, bat also as a rebuke to the administration. Tbe supporters of Conkling state that the resigna­ tions wore offered becauwe the New York benat rs feel that they have been badly treated by the admin­ istration | that iiobei'tson's nomination was uiado at the instigation of liianie to put Conkliug dowu ; that both the Senator sand the Vice President protested against this warfare agalust tbe regu'ar Republic>u organisation of New York, but all their efforts failed. Republican Senators refused to help thani-maintain the Republican party of the Empire State, and, rather thaa remain to be put dowu aud insulted, both Sen­ ator® resigned. Thit is tlie stroke of policy which, it has been rumored, Conkling bad ia view. Secretaries Blaine, Hunt, Windom, Kirk wood and Lincoln were among th« visitors at the v> hite House to-day. The last named came alone aud made but a brief call. The others arrived at the Executive Man- don about the same time, and remained tn confer­ ence with the President twenty minutes or more. The President rtated that he had received last even­ ing frwm ft trustworthy source an Intimation that the reslgnstlons ef the New York Senator# would be an­ nounced to-day. It had, therefore, canned him ue surprise. It is believed at the White House that nothing will aow prevent the early adjournment oi the ~ Matt Carpenter's Wit. The bright, mirthful soul of Carpenter was not overawed even by the shadow of death. The evening before he died, and after he had been told that he could not possibly survive much longer, he insisted upon getting up. Tlie attending phy­ sicians forbade the attempt, and wore endeavoring to make the Senator remaiu quiet, when JudgeMcArthur entered the death chamber. "Is that you Mae?" asked Carpenter. "Yes, Matt, it's I. But you must lie quiet now." Tlie old twinkle of tho eyes and toss of the head, as the dying Senator replied: "Well, Judge, I'm prepared to argue that point right now." Mr. Carpenter suffered excruciating pain, and in his agony wanted an expla­ nation of the cause. "The pain ia caused. Senator," replied a phyeicnui, "by a stoppage of the co­ lon." "Stoppage of the colon, eh ?" and again the sense of humor overcame the pain itself. "Well, then, of oourse it isn't a full stop."--Toledo Teltgraph. A NATURALIST has discovered that monkeys may be taught to dance. Taught to dance, indeed! We have seen them dance a hundred times at pawties iu the fawnoey dawuciea.--York Commercial Advertiser. PARAGRAPHIC POINTS. Ton can never persuade a man that a paper that haa his name in it isn't worth reading. THERE'S a hitch somewhere, RAIL it be- gius to look as though tho next Worid'a Fair wonld have to be held in the next world, if anywhere. PROF. GBIMMER is the chap who says that within the next ten years this coun­ try is to lose 15,000,000 inhabitants by epidemic. Will you take cholera in yours? IN LEADVILLK, when an actor fails to respond to an encore,, the audience give emphasis to the call by opening fire ou the scenery with revolvers. This gener­ ally brings the flushed, triumphant star smilingly to the footlights.--Arffo. DAMPENING: Old Twiggs--"Hello, Jones, got your feetsopping wet, haven't you? Why don't you wear rubbers, as I do? I haven't wet my feet in six months." Jones--"Well, I should think you'd be ashamed fcraay so."--Harvard Lampoon. PROFESSOR (to student who writes, not for tlie masses, but for the educated few)-- "You should write so that the most ignorant of your audience can un­ derstand all you can say." Student (puzzled)--"What part of my production is not clear to you, sir?" A GENTLEMAN has started a cafe just opposite a cemetery. He dedicates his house to "those coming from funerals," and announces on his sign: "Private rooms for all who desire to weep by themselves. Wines and liquors of tho very best."--Paris Letter. * , ALDEN, of the New York Time#, says that the man who wishes to break off the habit of smoking should postpone the lighting of his first cigar five min­ utes each day. In this way the hour for beginning to smoke will be gradu­ ally put off until after he has gone to bed and got to sleep. ^ LESSON in natural philosophy: "Whioh is the more delicate sense, feeling or sight?" asked a professor. "Feeling," responded a student. "Give a proof of it, with an example." "Well, my chum can feel his moustache, bnt nobody else can see it," responded the student.-- Columbia College Spectator. A FAMOUS Burgeon advises one of his patients to nndergo an operation. "Is it very severe?" atks the patient. " Not for the patient," snys the doctor; "we put him to sleep; but very hard on the oper­ ator." ""Howso?" "We Buffer terribly from anxiety. Just think, it only suc­ ceeds once in a hundred times." HAPPY is the uneducated man, for naught does he know of perhelions, planets, etc. He might hear that Jupi­ ter had bounced into Mars and knocked the stuffing out of him, and he would peacefully remark: "Them niggers is alius a fightin'," and never think anything more about the matter. "Where ignorance,etc."--Evansville Argus. A enr woman recently sent a letter to a friend in a farming town asking the number of eggs a hen would lay iu a day. She knew, she said, that they would lay a dozen or more, but she wished to learn the exact number, as eggs were very high, and she thought considerable money might be made by keeping a lieu. IT IS said that women in boarding- houses are proverbially troublesome and dissatisfied. The most opprobrious observation which his landlady is ever kuown to level at a paying male boarder is that lie, is as "fussy as a woman." The highest eulogy which she can pass upon a favorite female boarder is that "she makes as little trouble as a man." A HOUSE ^fainter who is at work on a scaffold three stories from the ground falls from it upon the sidewalk, where he lies limp and apparently lifeless. A crowd of benevolent folks surround him till his pulse returns aud his eyelids be­ gin, to flutter, when a good Samaritan places a glass of water to his lips. Tlie sufferer (feebly)--"How many stories has « fellow to fall in this ward before he gets brandy, dnru ye?" Letter from tien. Grant. The following letter from ox-President Ormnt to Senator Jouea, ot Nevada, haa been made public: OITT OF Mv*ico, April 34,1881. MY DKAR SENATOR : I see by the latest dispatches received here fioni the capital of our country that the deadlock in organizing the Ser.atc haa not been broken, and that nothing has been done by the President to allay the bitterness which must he en­ gendered by his niont rccent appointments. When the firrt batch of nominations for New York was Bent ia I was delighted. I believed then the Prepi- dent had determined lo recognize tho Republican partj^ and not a facUon ; but his nonifciations of the next day oonvincfd me that the flret act was but a part of a deep-laid scheme by Homebody to pnnish prominent leaders for being openly friendly to mo. I cannot believe that Gen. GbarUeld is the author of this policy. I give him credit for be-.nft too big a man lo dew-end to such means for the punishment of men who Rave him a hearty suppoit in his election, and who are <JIB- poscd to give him the same support now, for the offense of having had a former preference for some one else for the office which he now hold*. But Garfield is President, and is re­ sponsible for all the acts of the administration. Conkling and Piatt are the chosen Senators from the great State of Neiy York, and that too against all the oppori ion of an adminintrajUon crest d by the Rame pnrty that elected thejjf. Th s should give them ail ihe stronger CMBI,W> be consulted in the m.tler of appointment* in their State. When it comes to filling the most influential office in their 8t ite without consulting these Senators, it Is a great elight. When he selects the most offensive man to be found, it becomes an insult, and ought to I e re­ sented to tho bitter end. I sincerely hiop.i the Pietd- den^will see this and correct his mistake hiitmif, and restore harmony to the parly. He owes this to himself and to those without whom he could not have been elected. No­ body believes be could have carried the State of Mew York without the active Bupport of her pres­ ent Senator*. Their past-ive support would not have answered. Without the State of New York Gen. Garfield would not now be President. His reward­ ing ltobertaon is not only offensive to the New York ' Senators, but it is offensive to New York Republi­ cans. The change of Badeau and Cramer, the two appointments in which I felt a strong personal inter­ est, was very distasteful to me, the first because of our personal relations and my wish that he shoun be kept where hia office would support him until he finishes som* work he le engaged upon, and which he oould do without interfering with nla public duties; the second, because it was at the expense of removing the son of my old Secre­ tary of State, who probably never had his superior, certainly never for moral worth, in the department. It Is true Fish resigned, but he did this from a sense of honor, supposing it to be the duty of r<yre enta- ttves abroad to give a new administration the oppor­ tunity of saying whether they are wanted ot not. Very truly your*, U. 8. GRANT. Hon. J. If. jones, United State* Senator, Washing­ ton, D. a A Story of Lincoln. A pioneer who entertained Lincoln and Dick Yates at his humble home in Illinois, man/ years before the former became a great man, teiis the following story: "We were not very luxurious in our habits in those days, and at din­ ner had large, brown, earthen bowls of milk at each person's plate instead of tea or coffee. The house had a puncheon floor, and the table was liable to rock a good deal. We often put a chip under a leg or two to keep it steady, #uid had done so that day, but Lincoln, in trying to get his legs under the table, had knocked the chip out. He sat next to Yates, who was dressed with great care in a suit" that fitted him like wax. Di­ rectly Linco'.n went to reach for some­ thing, and withdrawing his arm knocked over his bowl of milk. When he tried to catch the bowl he tipped the table, and, the chip being goue. it went down on that side materially. Yates was at the lowest place, and in a second the milk from Lincoln's bowl went pouring into his lap. He jumped up and Liu- ooln jumped up, blushing to the roots of hia hair; bat it was no use; the damage waa" done, End poor Yatear" trousers wero'spoiled. My mother tried >to make ? j Lincoln easy by taking all the fanlt on herself, saying thai-she had no butine; f|, to set the table where it would bob-over ; in that manner. ' Much obliged to you, i- Aunt Lizzie,' said he, 'but it's nothing - V but my blamed awkwardness, and it's no use to apolojrize for me.' "Cade Tom's Cabin" fa» tho South. A recent attempt to render the play, Uncle Tom's Cabin at Atlanta, Georgia, is reported as follows: "Whilfe the Ju­ bilee Singers were gathered upon the stage in the first act of Uncle Tom'tr Cabin, they were saluted with a shower of unhealthy hen fruit, by bummers in the gallery. Despite the frantic efforts*. dodging the &ctor who personated "UncleTom" was smitten "lull in the^ face. The lion in his nature at once»- sprang to the surface and advancing to- the front of the stage he fiercely dared; the man who threw that egg to a fair- fight right there. The gallery rat did not squeal. Quite a number of! the dark performers were stricken, and the "Eliza" of the evening was so aston­ ished and dismantled by a plump blow in the neck that she left the stage with all possible speed. The police bagged the egg-throwers, the curtain dropped, the play ended and the disgusted but amused audience dispersed. The pro­ ceeding is strongly condemned by the -, community." The play, however, was differently re­ ceived at Borne, Georgia. The account says: "The reception the company playing Uncle Tom's Cabin received here at Rome convinced us that the people of the South have passed beyond repining for the dead past. The large audience of intelligent whites that sat through the performance, greeting the actors with applause when tliev deserved it, and their stillness while " Uncle Tom" received a thrashing, contrasted strongly with the jollity of the full gallery of col­ ored people and their guffaws while the< whip was laid to " Uncle Tom's " back." Electricity in the Mill. Electricity has been put to many uses Mid one of the most ingenious applied tions of it is to the middlings purifier, in. place of the air blast. Frictional eleo- tricity is employed, the middlings pass­ ing under hard rubber rollers electrified, by friction against a sheepskin cushion. The bran is attracted to the roller, and is swept off by brushes, the middlings passing through the bolts iu tho order of their fineness. The machine, which has been in practical use at a large mill for a year past, is said to be eco­ nomical of power, and works without the dust and waste involved in any pro- Cess of purification by air. It is quite within tlie range of probability that some day great flouring-mills will have their machinery run by electrical en­ gines, converting the power of water wheels at a distance, be lighted by elec- trio lumps, and have their middlings •purified by auother kind of electricity. --Philadelphia Ledger. Dangerous Liquids. Ammonia, especially tho stronger kind, is dangerous, a few drops being enough . to injure a person. When used for clean­ ing purposes it should be handled with great care, that the gas, which is given off freely in a warm room, be not breathed ii* large quantities and do in­ jury to the delicate lining of the nose and mouth. Benzine is a liquid in the handling of which muah caution should be exercised. It is very volatile, and its vapor, as well as the liquid itself, is in- flamable. When employed for removing grease or other stains from clothing, gloves, etc., it should never be used at night, nor any other time, near a fire. Ether is another dangerous liqnid, and in other than the physician's hands it m had best not be employed iu the house­ hold. Alcohol must also be used with great care, especially at night. How to Save Lamp Chimneys. A Leipsic journal, which makes a specialty of matters relating to glass, gives a method which it asserts will pre­ vent chimneys from cracking. The treatment will not only render lamp chimneys, tumblers, and like articles more durable, but may be applied with advantage to crockery, stoneware, porce­ lain, etc. The chimneys, tumblers, etc., are put into a pot filled with cold water, to which some common table salt has been added. The water is well boiled over a fire, aud then allowed to cool slowly. When the articles are taken out and washed, they will be found to resist afterward any suddeu changes oi temperature. The process is simply one of annealing, and the slower the cooling 1 part of it is conducted the more effective will be the work. A BANK jn Lyons uses paper colored with ultramarine green. The bills of exchange are lithographed and the fig­ ures are written with an acidulated ink, so as to appear white upon a green ground. This seems to fiiraish a per­ fect security against alterations. THE MARKETS. MEW YORK. Beith Iloos COTTOH FLOUH--Superfine WHEAT--No. 3 Spring... No. 3 Winter CORN--Ungraded OATS--Mixed Weataru PORK--Meaa • 89 CHICAGO. BKEVSS--Choice Graded Steer* Cows and Heifers......... S 49 Medium to Fair 6 80 Uoo* FLOUR--Fmncy White Winter Ex. % 9 t S 0 0 .. 4 78 <~4 7 75 ,. lOtfO 10* 4 0 0 A I M (S 1 20 3 1 86 68 ® «• »1« " 0 . 1 19 . I ?4 . 49 . 46 .IS 75 11 & « 35 « * «0 - <4 5 50 4 75 @ 6 25 5 75 ($ 6 00 Good to Choiett Spring Ex.. 5 00 (oi 5 25 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring.... No. 3 Spring COM--No. 3 OAT*--No. 2. RY*--No. 2 BAM,EY--NO. I BUTTER--Choice Creamerx £oiH)--Fret.il.... PORK--MOBS. ... 1 03 (4 1 03 96 @ 98 « <S *« 87 40 1 17 0 1 18 97 G 98 20 W 22 11,V® IS SO <AI6 76 J oh® MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--NO. 1 1 08 N(XL 1 OS CORN--NO. 2 «.... 42 OATS-I-NO. It...., Rv«--No. 1 « 1 £ <3 1 0» <nl 48 (sl 87 @ 1 18 KYK--No. 1 I 15 01" BAULKY--No. X. #6 0* 98 PORK--Maes 18 60 ($18 75 * -- 10*® 10* LABS SI. LOUIS. WHKAT--No, 2 Red. CORK--Mixed. OATS--No. BYK....£ PORK--Meaa. LAUD.. WNKAX.... CORK OATS BR PORE--Mei LAKD.M... ""orNciinifATL*"' VOUCDO. WBZAT--Nei 1 White. No. 3 Bed Coax--No. 3 OAK* DETROIT FLO on--Choioe WHKAT--No. 1 White Oonx--No. i OATH--Mixed BABLKT (peroantal) PORK--Meaa Sum--Clover INDIANAPOLIS. WHXAT--NO. 1 BED IM OBRK--NO, 1, 43 OATA IF PO&&--KEA* IS OO EAST LIBERTY, PA. OATTUC--BEET 595 488 COMMON »7S HOM. BIO 408 . 110 a 1 u 43 <4 44 . AS @ 33 1 11 <S 1 12 .18 60 (<$26 75 10* 1 W 0 111 - . 47 <A 48 . 39 @ 40 . I 29 <$ 1 31 .18 25 (5:16 50 . 10tf@ 10# (4 18 00