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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

AN ENGLISH PAPER ON THE CoNK-
LING REsIGNATIoN.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette, commenting on the late deadlock
in the United States Senate and the res
ignation of Senators Conkling and Platt,
says that the incident is highly disa-
greeable symptom, as showing the i'm
portance which patronage and place
have attracted to themselves in the re-
public. There seems to be no longer
any craftsmanship in the American Sen
ate. The men in power in the republic
seek no longer great and lofty aims, but
give their talents to the ignoble work of
rewarding their friends and Furnishing
their enemies in order to prolong their
own official power. The Pail Mall Ga
zette draws from this the reflection that
healthy political life is impossible in the
United States, and that grave perils
await the country in the future.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The twenty, third annual report of the
New York Chamber of Commerce has
just been issued It presents a remarka-
bic exhibit Of the prosperity of the coun-
try, and demonstrates that we have fully
recovered from the effects of the panic of
1873, and, in a measure, far beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine. The
report indicates that the present business
activity and prosperity is not confined to
any one section, but pervades the whole
country. 1t draws its deductions from
the statistics of our import and export
trade. with which it alone deals. In
reviewing the imports of the year prece-
dence is given to the sugar trade, regard
ing, as it does, the course of that staple
commodity as a sure indication of the
general condition of the country. Dur
ing the year 1880 the total consumption
of sugar is estimated to have been &c.,
600 tons, as against 743, 900 tons in 1879.
All of this was drawn from foreign
sources, with the exception of $4,000
tons furnished by Louisiana If the do
nestle production of maple and beet
sugar be added the total consumption
for the past year will reach 900,
600 tons In regard to foreign
molasses, the consumption fell off
from "a, 100000 gallons in 1879, to 49,.
100, 900 in 1880; but Louisiana and Texas
produced 10, 900. 900 gallons in addition,
making the total consumption of this
article for the year 45,000,000 There
was falling off in the importation of
coffee from 1874, 900 ton in 1879, to 176, 900
tons in 1880. The importation of for
eign hides was very great, reaching g.
600. 900 pieces exclusive of Calcutta hides,
an excess of 9OO,O hides over the i'm
ports of 1879. The wine and liquor trade
is said to have been remarkable for its
prosperity.
In the matter of exports, the crop of
cotton for the year ended September 1
reached the enormous figure of :, 957, 1897
bales, of which 1866, 621 bales were ex-
ported and 1925, 8O5 were taken by
American spinners. The excess of the
yield of raw cotton in 1880 over that of
1879 was 700, 900 bales. The decrease in
the export of American cotton goods was
to be expected, for the exports of our
cotton fabrics between the years 1873 and
1879 were made under pressure and to
get rid of surplus stock, and returned lit
tie or no profit to the manufacturers.
The value of the gram exported in 1880
amounted to $50, 600, 900 in excess of 1879,
that of the latter year being $208, 900, 900,
while it rose last year to $288. 900, 900.
The total provision exports increased
from $5S, Oc0. 600 in 1879 to $61, 900, 900
in $780, The petroleum exports fell
off 2 900, 600 barrels in 1880, but there
was an increase of S., 0O0, 600 in the ex-
port of lard, and of fresh beef shipments
from New York from 1000, 900 pounds
in 1879 to nearly 1000, 600 pounds in
$780, The report concludes with some
timely remarks on the prosperous condi-
ton of the country, which "seems to be
but the harbinger of an advance yet
moreTapid and startling"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Fresh scandals are foreshadowed in the
resolution offered by Senator Beck
Democrat, Kentucky, calling for an in
quiry into the irregular fees exacted by
our consular officers. Invoices must ac-
company every importation of merchan-
disc, and for making the prescribed de-
claration before him, the statute says the
consul shall demand 50 so. But in Lon
don and Liverpool much more than 50 so
has been exacted and paid for these SER
vices to commerce. 1t is very far from
improbable that when these excessive
exactions are traced, share of them
will be found, as in The case of the star
route increase of compensation, to have
gone into the Republican campaign fund
of last year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

WHAT IT MEANs.-The st. Louis
Globe Democrat Rad.) having declared
that ''it's just a little family row in the
Republican party, and that when the
next election is at hand Wen all kiss and
make up and shake the bloody shirt and
wallop the rebs again. the st. Louis
Republican Dem says.
(Which means that it makes no diff.
ference how corrupt and infamous our
leaders are we are with them and for
them when the spoils are to be won. 1t
is not high standard of political NOR.
atty, to be sure, but it leads to thrift.
Garfield may be the partner of De Col
yer in robbing the government, and
Blaine may be the accomplice of Multi.
gan in schemes of plumber, and we to.
day declare they were, but we will swear
in the face of the country, if it become
necessary in the next campaign. that
they are angels of light and spirits of
purity"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

1t seems that the Post Office Depart.
ment is not the only one that needed to
be Investigated. Secretary Window does
well to emulate Secretary James in prob
ing for crookedness under his own nose.
These two men, at least, are earning
their official salaries. How such abuses
as are revealed in the current exposures
made by Secretary WINDOWS sharp
sighted and keen scented committee
could have gone on so long without dis
covery is somewhat surprising. BY the
time the committee gets through with its
inquiries, at the rate of progress it is
now making, the country will be RECALLED
with very bad but interesting story.
The administration does well to unmask
these frauds and populations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27
tIarfield'S Tactics.

There is a difference of opinion in re-
gard to the policy of the President in re-
nominating the Conkling men whose
names he had Withdrawn pending the
contest over Robertson's confirmation.
But it is thought that by such re-nomi-
nations the President only strengthened
and emboldened Conkling's opposition.
The Richmond Dispatch regards the re-
nomination of those men as a very shrewd
maneuvre on the part of Mr.. Gar
field. Says the Dispatch: "He who sup
poses that that act was calculated to in
jure the President and strengthen Mr..
Conkling is sorry politician. Every
COnkling man thus nominated is source
Of weakness to Conkling. Look how
James, the Postmaster General, adheres
to the President. The Office holders will
all do likewise; or, if they don't, the
President will know the reason why.
If Mr.. Garfield had a thousand more
good offices to bestow upon Conklingites
he could have Conkling stranged upon a
barren shore. Not a friend would be
left to him "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

How fierce the controversy over the
Robertson matter has grown may be
conceived from the following extract
from Conkling Republican paper, the
st. Louis Globe Democrat:
''The attacks upon Mr.. Conkling
which such newspapers as the Cincinnati
Commercial are now making, would be
much stronger if something could be
truthfully said in them about the Credit
Mobilier and the De Golyer contracts, and
things of that sort. But, unfortunately
for the Commercial and its allies, Mr..
Conkling never stole anything, and his
intelligence always enabled him to dis
tinguish between bride and loan"
We may soon expect to see these
papers proving the De Golyer and Credit
Mobilier charges on Garfield. They may
even take up the Morey letter again, and
seek to show that it was written by the
President.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The stalwart view of the Conkling
situation is thus depicted by the Albany
correspondent of Gorhsm's paper:
''The stalwart leaders contend that the
'half-breeds' have reached the end of
their rope. Their iron-clad pledge not
to vote for Conkling or Plat, or any
other enemy of the administration, con-
tains some fifty names. To secure a
majority in the caucus they must have
fifty-four. Next week the stalwarts will
have their forces here. and they expect
to include Conkling, Platt and Arthur.
In fact, it was intimated by prominent
New York city official that Mr.. Conk-
ling is DESTROYS of meeting the Republi-
can members and personally explaining
his position. None are so enthusiastic
as to stake an opinion that two half-breed
Senators can be elected. Especially is
this the case since the stalwart nomina.
tons of Yesterday"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27


A conflict between the Lords and
Commons on the Irish land bill is be-
coming more and more imminent Mr..
Gladstone's somewhat naughty notifca-
ton the other evening that the policy of
the government would be maintained.
even if it were necessary to create new
peers for that purpose, has elected what
NAV be considered 3 counter declaration
from Tord Salisbury, in which he plain
" ihsImates that the House of Com
mons. after all, does not represent the
views of their constituents as accurately
as the Premier and his supporters have
supposed. With these mutual recrimi-
nations, it viii not be difficult TO precipi-
tate a serious issue between the two
houses: and when it comes to that, in the
present temper of the public mind, it
viii probably result in pushing the
Lords to the wall.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The record of the persecution of the
Jews in the Russian frontier provinces
is a black stain upon an. already dark
and forbidding history. Whatever cause
there has been for unklnd feelings be-
tween the peasantry and these people,
there surely has been nothing to justify
the extent to which the bloody work has
gone. And why the Russian Govern
ment has not checked it is at once a
comment upon the vindictive aggres-
siveness of the natives and the miserable
weakness of the empire. The move.
ment which has been started in England
in behalf of the prosecuted race may yet
be productive of results beyond afford
ing merely temporary relief.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

For years story has been in circula-
ton to the effect that during the Ameri-
can civil war, when it was expected
France and England were about to recog-
nize the independence of the Southern
Confederacy, the Gar had resolved to
give material support to the United
States, and had notified England of his
intention. The story came out very
prominently about the time Of the Cars
death, and attracted considerable atten-
ton. Mr.. Gladstone has just gold of it,
and declares that England had no inten-
ton of interfering in the contest between
the States, and that Russia never said
anything about her intention 10 take
part in it. The entire affair is probably
a romance, although Mr.. Thurlow Weed
has vouched for its truth.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Grants letter, taken in connection
with Conkling's career in the Senate,
shows that the old Grant crowd, the i'm
mortal BOG, descended on Garfield as
soon as he was elected with the obvious
purpose of running" his administra-
ton They demanded rewards for their
friends, and made the demands as pay
ment for service rendered in the cam
paign. General Grant, in the closing
paragraph of his letter, says unblush-
ingly that he not only expected his per-
sonal friends to be kept in Office, but he
thought one of them ought to be sup
ported at the government expense until
he could finish a life of General Grant
upon which he was engaged The whole
tone of the letter is that General Grant
and his friends and supporters have a
mortgage on the government for sup
port and comfort so long as they live.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Mahone's convention 10 nominate a
State ticket meets at Richmond on Thurs
day of next week. 1t will be a signii-
cant gathering from the fact that,
whether formal fusion is made with
the Republicans or the latter tacitly &C.
cept and support its nominees, sub
stantial alliance will be effected with the
administration party. A year ago the
Readjusters claimed to be better Demo
Gratis than the Debt-payers. The claim
they will put forth now is likely to be
of different sort The movement is
not such as promises to win much favor
with the Virginia masses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Young men need not feel discouraged
over the finances. According to late
publication of the Anti Monopoly League
of New York, it does not take very
many years to accumulate a fortune, II
you only go about it in the right way.
Here are some of the great fortunes OF
this country and the time it required to
accumulate them: Jay Gould & Co.,
$75, 10000 in fifteen years; the Wander.
bits, $1OO,0OO,OOO in twenty years
Huntington, Hopkins & Co. (the Central
Pacific syndicate), 1886, 900, 900 in fifteen
years, on an investment of $12,5 II
was railroads that did it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The position of Governor Cornell, of
New York, is peculiar He is strongly
bound to Conkling by gratitude for past
favors, but notwithstanding his approval
of the Conkling- Arthur James Platt pro-
test against the Robertson nomination,
seems inclined to side with Robertson
and the "half breeds" This is interpre-
ted to possibly mean the substitution of
a Robertson Cornell machine" in place
of the Conkling machine" as the ruling
power in New York Republican politics.
1t would be strong combination, as it
would control both the Federal and State
patronage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27
Aetaeon and His Dogs.

The Albany Argus has been sketching
some of the leading features of Conk-
ling's career, and comes to the following
conclusions:
ANY theory that he Will abandon
leadership to become rover or q criti-
ciser reverses the habit and contradicts
the evidence of lifetime It will be
well to reserve decision on that subject
Reflection on Mr.. Conkling's ability to
mask or mitigate his partisanship would
mutually show that he never has done so
that would argue that he never could do
so. No; that idea is of the Imagination
not of the reason. Nor do we believe
Mr.. Conkling can carry out any idea he
has to retire from politics and loom into
law. His temperament is for politics
His habits are political. Men change
their skies, but not their minds. Events
will lure. and, if need be, will lash Mr.
Conkling into activity in politics
The present events mean more
than the disestablishment of the machine.
That is a great feat and fact, but the
events mean the tearing of the Republl-
can party by the malign forces it has
injected into politics. Act@ons dogs
have turned on him, and are rending
him. Sciolism and savagery and sec
tionalism have disintegrating properties
in them for those who use them. The
Republican party has been their user
1t is becoming their victim. The admin
istratlon embodies the better professions
and the meaner actions of Republican
ism. Stalwartism embodies the manlier
motives and the purely barbarian pur-
suits of that party. The Pecksniffian and
the piratical forces of the organization
are in deadly grapple. So should it be. +"
1t looks so; but, in the event of such
an active and aggressive faction leader
as Conkling being retired from the SEN
ate, it is very probable that he will have
his revenge in accelerating the retire
ment of the Republican party from pub
lie life, if stalwartism goes down with it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

DAMAGED CoRN.-The Chicago ITt
6une of Friday last says: 1T is true that
much of the corn arriving here is in bad
condition. The cause of this is that q
large amount of the corn cribbed in the
country has been insuficiently protected
against that unusually severe weather
that prevailed during the writer. The
snow was driven into the cribs, keeping
the corn wet and damp all the time.
This causes it to heat very easily, and
the utmost care has to be used in hand.
ling it to keep it from spelling while in
transit"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Jefferson Davis was in Chicago last
week for the first time since 1929. The
Tribune says: "He appeared as a courtly
old gentleman of the old Southern
school, with faded blue trousers, neat,
small shoes, a silk alpaca coat and vest,
with a rumpled silk stock, wearing a
short wrinkled and faded overcoat. He
walked about the streets without at
tracing much attention. His appear
ance is much the same as of yore, the
face and beard being the same, but he
has aged rapidly. and is visibly in his de-
clining years, so that but few of the peo-
pie he met on the streets recognized in
him the man whose name was once on
the lips of every one"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27
Gen. Buffers Finger in the Pie

OSAs G0OANA AA5CA IA INV u AO'
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: Among the items of gossip float
ing around in political circles today is
one, which is accepted with much pleasure
among the stalwart element, to the effect
that Gen. Butler has put Mr.. Conkling
in possession of facts tending to the
great damage of the administration, but
more particularly injurious to Mr..
Blaine. When Gen. Butler was here
last week he had an interview with Mr..
Blaine, during the course of which the
Secretary of State assured him seriously,
in the presence of others, that
he not only had nothing to do with
the nomination of Judge Robertson for
Collector of the port of New York, but
that he knew nothing of the Presidents
intention until after the nomination was
sent in. What Mr.. Blaine's object was in
making such an extraordinary statement
was not known, except that the conjec-
ture which is now thrown out may be
correct, that he knew Gen. Butler was
friendly to Mr.. Conkling, and that the
General knew some things about him
which it would not be particularly
agreeable to have made public. Gen. But
Ter did not make any reply to this asser-
ton of Mr. Blaine, but there was twinkle
in his one eye capable of such muscular
exertion which spoke of incredulity He
afterwards told Senator Conkling of this,
and the latter remarked that it was
enough to make a horse laugh. The
story is now that Gen Butler has found
out great deal about the star route
Irregularities, and that he has commu.
nicated all the facts to Mr. Conkling,
who will take good care that they be
fully known at Albany in good time to
have effect on the Senatorial election,
and that Mr. Blaine is in great tribulation
about it, as it is said it will not help the
administration cause.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Governor Colquitt has again appointed
Colonel Fl. Fl. Jones, of Macon, one of
the members of the visiting board of the
senior class of the University of GeOr-
gia. This will be eight years that Col
onel Jones has held the position under
three executive terms.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Grants remark in his letter to Jones
that Filling the most influential Office in
their State without consulting the Sena-
tors is great slight, an insult that ought
to be resented to the bitter end" he is
reminded that he made Simmons Collec-
tor of Boston against the remonstrance
of Sumner, Boutwell,, the whole Massa-
chusetts delegation and deputation of
Boston merchants who visited Grant in
the hopes of getting him to withdraw
the nomination. Conkling was one of
the leaders in favor of it, worked, spoke
and voted for it. Grant also removed
Mr.. Motley against Summers remon-
STRANGE, and was sustained in the act by
the Grant Senatorial Group"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The Vice President of the United
States has for several days been in New
York engaged in a consultation with the
machine bosses, devising measures to
cripple the power of the President and
grease the machinery for fresh whack
at the Treasury. This is novel kind Of
business for Vice President to be en-
gagged in. GA house divided against it
self" etc.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

There is a strong protection "boom"
in England, and it is not improbable
that Great Britain, the home of free
trade, may take some retaliatory meas
ures against the various countries that
are passing tariff laws inimical to her
interests. The new French tariff laws
will deal the English manufactures a
severe blow, and, in fact. will really
prohibit the importation of them into
France. With the whole world, even
its own colony, Canada, against it. 1t is
not to be wondered at that the English
people should feel inclined to take meas
urs to protect their own interests.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

SHORTENING TINE. construction
of railroad from Pensacola, Fla, east
to Chattahoochee, connecting with the
Georgia and Florida system, has been
definitely decided upon, and work will
soon be commenced. This road will
shorten the time between Pensacola and
New Orleans at least twenty-four hours,
and between Pensacola and Eastern cit
les quite as much.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

John A Suffer, the man who discov-
cred gold in California, died some years
ago near St. Louis, almost in extreme
poverty. a bronze statue of him is to
be set up in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, and General Sherman has
presented a lot of brass cannon out of
which the statue is to be moulded.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27
The States Of the Union which have

The States of the Union which have
more women than men are Alabama,
Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, Mary
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North Carroll
ma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia The
greatest excess of females is in New
York, where it is II 900, and the least in
Louisiana, where it is 5000. The total
excess of women in these fifteen States
is 200 600.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

OF the President it is said Senator
Conkling quite recently spoke as fol-
lows: THAT man in the White House
is not all one man. For instance, he
gets his religion from Bob Ingersoll, his
patriotism from Malone, his honesty
from Dorsey, and his stupidity-well, it
may be natural, but it is more than like
ly that it is legacy left by his predeees-
sor in the Office Of President"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27
CJntifara gemedifs.
(gticura
Blood and Skin Remedies.

have suffered over thirteen years with skin
disease In my hands and limbs, causing con-
slant Irritation, depriving me of rest and atten.
ton TO BUSINESS. Last May physician called
my disease Eczema Rodent; spots appeared on
my hands, head and face eyes became much
infiamed and graduated causing at length,
impaired sight. Internal and external RENE
dies were prescribed by leading physician for
six months; was then introduced TO another,
and consultation of several leading physicians
was had, when a definite plan was decided
upon, but all to no purpose. After following
advice for four months without any permanent
cure bought the CUTIcURA REsoLvENT, Curl.
CURA and some CUTICURA SOAP, which speedily
and permanently cured me- so that have re-
manned well to this day, as my friends in De-
troit can testify. f. II. DRAKE.
CLIFFORD ST. and woodward GUe, Detroit,
Mich, april 8, 1880.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

The Cincinnati Gazette hits upon. an
ingenious device for cOndemning Grants
letter without sacrificing its loyalty to
Grant himself. 1t pronounces the let
ter bogus" and then proceeds to de
nouuce it in set terms. Perhaps Grant
will take the hint.