New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

..n hardly no overestimated. The address OF
the Flower Mission is given IN our local COL
umns, and its appeal will no doubt meet WIN
the usual generous response.
A correspondent writing from scio gives an
account of the destruction there which SHOWS
that the telegraphic reports rather underesu-
mated than oyerestmated IL, and some DIS
tressing stories are told which the cable qua
not bring. One of the strangest episodes OF
the affair was the remarkable pfomputude'
for AN Oriental official, of Midhat Pacha In
starting a gunboat from Smyrna for Scio with
supplies three hours after receiving ms-
patch giving the news OF the earthquake,
coupled with the refusal of the Governor OF
the island TO allow a shipload of Greeks, VINO
had come to render efficient service to the
wounded, to land for three days. This Sahk
Pacha is evidently one Of the official harpies
that abound in the East, and his interest III
repeling the offers of cooperation fron LOT
eigners and seeking to keep the work OF REFER
in his own hands is plain enough without e&-
PLANTATION.
When n vearisome sister had exhausted the
patience of the meeting one night, Mr. Beecher
rose rs she concluded, and began his remarks
with these sympathetic words: "AereTtheteSS'
brethren, ] believe that women should nave
" the right to speak in meeting" business
began ia Washington yesterday, after the por-
tentous designations, with a decidedly indifier-
ent "neverthelcss." The Senate Committee on
Commerce voted to report Judge Robertson
name favorably; the Senate confirmed the
nomination of Frederick Douglass to he Re
corder of Deeds in the District of Columbia,
with various other nominations; Mr.. BAY ara
offered resolution looking toward adiour1-
nent in the usual form, which asks IN" Prosi-
dent whether he has any further business to
communicates; and altogether the world mani
tested disposition to roll on rs usual. The
resignation has already ceased tn he sensa-
ton and it was nothing but sensation at the
best.
A shrewd observer in Washington discloscs
new vista in the great resignation comedy
This is plan that Mr.. COnklng and Mr.. Platt
shall swap terms, "by and with the advice ana
consent of the Legislature. Mr.. Platt world
then take the short term ending in 1880, ana
Mr.. Conkling the long one ending IN 1851
Mr.. Platt's reelection, or the election OF Re
publican successor, would then depend upon
the complexion Of the Assembly to he chosen
in 1884, the Presidential year but Mr.. Conk-
hng's reelection would not. lie would he
sure of scat in the Senate from which he
could make war upon the present Admnlstr'i-
ton until it expired, and upon the new Adj
ministration until it was half way through its
term. In this event, if the Republican candi-
date for President iii 1851 should be "pcr-
son or man." and offensive to Senator
Conkling, it would have no immediate effect
upon MIR. Conklng's tenure if that person
should fail to be elcctcd-But is there no limit
to the amiability of Mr.. Plat
A little fact mentioned in Cur Washington
dispatchcs sheds "A flood of light upon the sin
certy and tIuthfuness of the joint Senatorial
letter The most touching part of the epistIo
was flat in which the two Senators dwclt
upon the enormiiy of removing General Aer-
rift in the middle of term tn make way for
a man without training for the place. Their
grief and horror were pitched in this key. for
example: THAT the Secretary of the Treas
"ury and the la,e Administration up to it's ex-
"pilati0n, less than ten wceks ago, approved
General Merritt as an officer j. well known,
" and il is nowhere suggested that any citizen
chad pctit0ned for his removal, or that official
delinquency on his part is the reason of it.
"In the place of an experienced officer in the
"midst of his term fixed 10y law it is pro
opposed to put man who has had 10 training
"for the position, and who cannot be said to
"have any special fitness for its official
"dutics" 1t is almost hey ond belief that Mr..
Conkline should have had the audacity to
write this after having himself cndeavored to
secure from the President the appointment in
~ IL. ,fA l.aV IL
fact is disclosed TO-DAY, we believe, for the
first time. Az to the relative Especial ttncss
of Johu +. Smyth and william Ii. Robertson,
2Looo 10 Lno,r +bo 4,vO rnor, ran decide