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the controversy between himself and
General Garfield The most afro
cious lies have been published con-
cerniag him, and he has refused 10
deny them. The most persistent
appeals have been made in the
Senass to the Senator to state his
rcase in open session, but he declin-
ed to do so for the reason that it
might embarrass his friends who
had sig iied their intention of vot-
ing to i, ct Robertson. The course
which J. ssrs. Conkling and Platt
have seen fit to adopt is warmly in
dorsed by their friends rs honora-
bic and just. The Senators from
New York feel keenly the false ac-
cusations that they are engaged in a
simple struggle for Patronage. Dur
ing the eight years that General
Grant was President, Mr.. Conkling
made one personal request for an
appointment, and only one.
now 1T WAS RECEIVED.
! WASHINGTON, May l6.-Ihe news
of the resignation OF Messrs. Conk-
ling and Platt was impaired to the
President before the Senate met.
As soon as the information was yeri-
fed from the Senate, Secretaries
| Window and Blaine were called
from their respective Departments
to the White House, and they re-
manned in consultation with General
Garfield for long time. At this
time the city was alive with the
widest roumors. 1t was reported
that Vice President Arthur, Post
master General James, Attorney
General McVeagh, and Secretary
Lincoln had resigned, and cores
pondents rushed from one ia the
other for verifcation, or denial OF
the reports. They were of course
all false. While the sympathy OF
the Vice President is entirely with
Mr.. Conkling, his resignation would
be supremely ridiculous.
The first official information that
the President received was a dis
patch from the Capitol received
about 1920, containing the letter OF
resignation Of Conkling. The Presi-
dent read and believed. Up to this
time he had been a doubling Thorn
as. He Immediately dispatched a
messenger for Blaine, and the latter
arrived in few minutes. He dis
played some excitement, for the
move was as much a surprise to
him as to Others. The President
room was closed, and the two en-
gagged in private consultation.
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A Cashier sentenced.

TuENTos, n. j., May 19.-James
A. Henderson, cashier Of the Iirst
National bank of Newark, who was
convicted Of misapplying the funds
of the bank, was to-day sentenced to
seven years in the state prison.
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A BILL has passed both branches
Of our State Legislature, granting
pensions to the surviving veterans
of the Mexican war and to the
widows of those deceased.
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cAnINEr CoCNcII..

The President also sent for other
members of the Cabinet, who soon
arrived, and there was a sort oi
impromptu Cabinet meeting in
winch the affair was talked of
The result OF these deliberations are
unknown, but it is not apparent
that the Cabinet Ministers are much
disturbed. After the Cabinet meet
ing Secretary Window refused to talk
for publication, or in fact to say any
thing on the subject. 1t is said that
he regards it as more serious than
the other members. Postmaster
General James said: "This is an
unfortunate complication, and / re-
gret it. The report that ! am to re
sign has not the slightest foundation
in fact. shall remain in my pres
ent position and attend to the pos
tai business and star route frauds
/ shall have as little as possible to dc
with the New York difficulty"
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TIE literary as well as the relig-
ious event of the day is the revised
New Testament.
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NR. ceNELING's POSITION.

is clearly defined in the statement
to the Governor. The Senator has
seduously refrained from making
any statements heretofore regarding
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Treasury. which was rejected.
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NOTICE

IN OI1OH' :, ". - :
/ hereby warn the puhl;e uat % "a; INA "a s'.s.
prumi sorry notes which gave 70 ,,.,.-abls -
dated May 4. iSSl, tor so ea11i '1s a. idN =
te1.ber I, 1l1i, the other A.r-i l. - ,ers 80.
receive any value FOR them, ard taS' rrssL y.
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are not legal or valid notes, and
them. rRL
May II, y
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WAsHIrGTos, D. c., May 10Th 1881.
SIR: Win you please announce TO the
Senate that my resignation as Senator of the
United states has been forwarded to the
Governor uf the State have the honor 10
be- with great respect, your obedient serv-
ant K osooE CoNKLIyG.
To Hon. c. \. Arthur, Vice President.
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y. =. ORANT-
"Hon. ]. p. JONES, United State:
Senator, Washington, d. c.
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3. VOCELER & On
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

BrGdstreets of New York publishes
the following: "The number of failures
throughout the United States and Canada
for the past week is very large-equal to
the record of the preceding week-but
the firms were of lesser importance The
recent stringency in the loan market in
New York is given as cause in the
West and South for several failures, but
it is easy to exaggerate this influence.
The bad weather in the Southwest has
made collections poor and local trade
dull, which probably accounts, in a
measure, for the increasing number of
failures in that region, the most marked
increase being in Michigan. In the
South there has been a falling off Of
about thirty per cent in the number of
failures, as compared with those of the
previous week; while in the Eastern
States. especially in Massachusetts. there
has been an increase of about sixty per
cent. The Middle States present about
the same number, New York leading the
list"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

A report has been compiled by the
Census Office showing the bonded In
debtedness of cities and towns contain
ing population of 1900 and upwards.
The total bonded debt of eight cities
in Maine, having a total population OF
1860 is $11, 635, $50 or 800 % per
capita; thirty-nine cities in Massachu-
sets, having total population of /, 1872,
084, have an aggregate debt of $40,
O19, or 500 So per capita; in Rhode
Island six cities, with a population of
1S1, 554, have bonded debt of 81, 424,
$50, or $62 SO per capita; in New York
twenty-eight cities, with population of
1850, 157, have bonded debt of 1857,
742. 881. or $81 46 per capita; in Virginia
seven cities, with population of 1885,
$50. have bonded debt of $40, 705, 1T,
or $6S GA per capita; in South Caro-
lima two cities, population 60,069, have
a bonded debt of 81, 775, 451, or
$40 "a per capita; in Georgia four
cities, population 100, 800, have bonded
debt of $780,, 900, or $50 10 per capita
in Louisiana two cities, population 227,-
157. have bonded debt of SIS, 96S, $40,
or $40 30 per capita.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

Bertha
''Georgei'
She fell into his outstretched arms,
and for an instant nothing was heard ex-
cept noise like horse drawing his
foot out of the mud.
George had kissed her.
In years agone Bertha Montravers and
George Benson had played together as
children. Now George always played it
alone if he had four trumps. Bertha
was the only child of proud father,
who lavished upon her everything that
credit could purchase. while George was
the son of poor but Republican parents,
and sent out to battle with the world ere
the roseate flush of boylsh health had
ceased to mantle his brow. At the time
our story begins, however, a roseate flush
was no better to him than one of any
other color. He played them all, from
bobtail to straight. Almost unconscious
ly he had dIifted further and further
away on the broad stream of life from
Bertha's refining influence, and, although
never, in any sense, wicked man. had
fallen in with 3 fast set, and, as he ex-
pressed it in his simple, manly way,
was trying to keep up with the process
sion." One day his old Sunday school
teacher had met George, and asked him
if he was a slave to the wine cup.
George said he was not that he thought
man who would drink wine from cup
ought to be looked after. Then the
teacher asked if his life was a happy
one, and George said he should relax his
features. The teacher afterwards learn
ed that this meant he should smile This
has nothing to do with the story, but
shows that George has been around
some.
A winters sunset was colby gliding
cluster of shantles in Hoboken. One
of these shanties, which seemed to shun
the light, was built in q small hollow,
with its back against a rock. Two or
three goats were playing in front of the
door, and some hens were nesting in the
dirt on the sunny side of the wall oppo-
site. In the middle Of the pathway q
dead rat threw all the surrounding har-
monies into minor key.
From the door of the shanty man
emerged, and walked rapidly toward a
low barn which stood in one corner of
the lot. In half an hour he came back.
Il have done it, Molly" he said to a
woman who came to the door. She
nodded her head and went inside again.
He had creased a harness.
Bertha and George were sitting in the
parlor of her late fathers residence.
The old gentleman had died two
months before and left his vast wealth to
Bertha. This was tough on George, but
he continued to come around and see
her just the same The young couple
were evidently of an economical turn of
mind, for notwithstanding that the room
was filed with costly furniture, they oc
cupied only one chair between them.
"Whose ducky are oof" said George.
'1'm DOR ducky; whose ducky are oo2"
This from Bertha.
"Tm DOR ducky."
Let US draw veil over the painful
scene, and then build partition behind
the veil. They were married two weeks
later
what has the chapter about the
shanty and the dead rat got to do with
this storyf" some may ask.
got Victor Hugo to write that for
me. 1t doesn't fit in very well, but when
it comes to descriptive work Vic is
cake-taker. = WIlkie Collins.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

Minnesota, the home of our Secretary
of the Treasury, is the home of repudia-
ton. We have all heard of the States
Reputation of its railroad debt, which it
finally compromised, the other day, by
the payment of fifty cents on the dollar
but there are any number of cases of
municipal reputation in the State of
which scarcely any mention has been
made. 1t has just been discovered that
Duluth, ''the zenith city," as it once
fondly styled itself, has been initiating
Memphis. and that it escaped its indebt-
edness by surrendering its charter as soon
as it had secured sufficient funds to build
its water works and improve its streets.
And now the Radicals, by their compact
with little Malone, of Virginia, are Civ
ing aid and comfort to the Regulators
in that State.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
gstIe, who was down in New Orleans on
Mardi Gras, was very much pleased
with the professions, but had two seri-
GUS objections to find to the celebration.
First, he thought that the hOnOrs shown
Rex hardly accorded with notions of re-
publican simplicity and must tend to
create in the minds of the young and
the thoughtless feelings and opinions
which are foreign to the best interests of
the country. His second objection, how
ever, is much more ridiculous. The
love of masquery, which exhibits itself
in times of peace in the form of Mardi
Gras, breaks out, he thinks, when the
political waters are troubled, in the form
of night riders and Ku klux Klans. In
other words, the Ku.k lux are the fruit
of Mardi Gras And yet we dare say
this stalwart Republican patriot sees
nothing to reprehend in the man-wor-
Shipping ovations that are constantly
being given to Grant.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18
Stanley Matthews and the Supreme

II appears that some, at least. OF the
Radical organs are not altogether pleased
with the idea of Mr.. Garfield using his
official patronage topay OF Hayes debts.
Stanley Matthews is, we believe, the
only man who bore a conspicuous part
in the great fraud by which Hayes was
placed in the Presidential chair in def
ance of the expressed win of the people
who has not been rewarded by Office.
Hayes failed in his attempt to place
Matthews on the Supreme Bench, and 1t
it the denomination of Matthews to that
position by President Garfield that has
given dissatisfaction TO many of
his Radical supporters. The Philadelphia
Press, a leading Radical organ,
says: President Garfield has done his
first act which will encounter general
criticism. He has suffered himself to be
misled into renominating Stanley Mat
thews for the Supreme Court. Had it
been an original vacancy and selection
under his administration, it is very
doubtful whether he would have COM
mitted this error; but because his prede-
cessor made the nomination and because
it remained Enacted upon at the close of
his term, the President has been induced
to give it another trial. 1t is quite likely TO
be confirmed. However firmly per-
suaded Senators may be of the unwis
dom of the appointment, they may
naturally hesitate about appearing I'M
gracious toward new administration.
But the public voice should have been
conclusive. 1t has been made clearly
apparent that the country does not re-
gard Mr.. Matthews as possessed of the
proper qualifications Z for the bench.
With all his undoubted ability, it does
not find in him the sound judgment, the
clear vision, the just convictions which
are needed in the highest tribunal of the
land. 1t has seen too much in his career
that was cratic, quixotic and ill-consid-
cred. If he shall be confirmed it is to
be hoped that he will develop a new
character.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

DEMOCRATIC REORGANIZATION IN NEW
YORK.-The committee of one hundred
to organize the Democracy of New York
city have begun at the bottom, so as to
make the work successful. At primary
meetings in the election districts the
members of the Democratic party are to
elect members of Assembly district COM
mittees; delegates chosen by these COM
mittees are to compose a county commit
tee; at the primary meetings delegates
are also to be elected to the several con.
ventions for the denomination of officers
elected in districts of the city, and to the
conventions which are to appoint dele
gates to State and county conventions.
This is in form representative and pOpu-
lar. The power of the party is to be
exerted Immediately or mediately by all
the members of the party. OF course
its success is a matter of experiment
The theory is plain and easy. The prac-
tice may turn out to be difficult and dis
appointing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

A great sensation has been produced
by the new Spanish Government having
determined to check the gambling now
carried on in every town in the king
dom. The authorities have been in
structed to close any club or casino
where games prohibited by the penal
law are played, and Count Xiquena, the
Governor of Madrid, has not only ad-
monlshed the highest clubs and casino
itself, but on a recent occasion he sum-
marily dismissed every inspector who
had charge of the districts in which
these haunts of roulette and rouge ct
noir are found. In six hours twenty-six
houses were surprised and closed, and
all the persons found on the premises
were sent TO jail to be dealt with by the
tribunals Of police. The gambling in
clubs, which has been kept up to very
late hours, will also be controlled.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18
TAPPTNG THE WIRES.

The proclamation found At Roussakof's
house warns the Gar 10 beware Of his
fathers fate. A Berlin evening paper states
that the murder Of the Gar was insJigated
BY the international Society, which has for
is motto s'the murder OF monarchs and the
overthrow OF governments" Gen. Melikoh
has warned the Golos and StraUa on account
OF their recent articles on the Cars policy.
Explorations OF the Nihilist mine showed
3 gallery leading from the shop to the mid
die Of the street and telegraph wires along
it,as also the elements for an electric bate
". The mine viii be flooded and closed up.
The Emperor and Empress have removed 70
the Winter Palace. The Journal de 81. Is-
ters5urg says, in substance, that the policy
OF the late Gar will be maintained and de-
velOped By his successor. The Agenos RisSSe
SAYS his political programme will be Issued
today. The California Greeubackers are
reported as applauding the Cars murder.
London dispatches state that box contain :
ing fuse buried in gunpowder was found
a. midnight Wednesday near the rear wall
OF the Lord Mayors residence Lighted
paper connected with the fuse. The officers
extingulshed the fire and took the box to
the police station, where It was found TO
contain large quantity OF powder. The
Lord Mayor was absent at the time. The
cellars OF the houses Of Parliament haye
been searched for explosives, and the police
on duty there nave been reinforced.
The Senate adjourned yesterday after .
brief session without action on the reor-
ganizati0n resolution. The Democrats held
a caucus and completed the work Of select
ing minority representatives on the com
mittees.
A disturbance arose yesterday among the
the Irish soldiers az Aldershot, and large
number OF arrests were made.
The Detroit Central Socialist Labor Club
denouuce the assertions OF Justus Schwab
relative to the alleged proposed killing Of
Jay Gould, Vanderbilt and others.
g. PAIick's day was quietly observed
throughout the country, save In Charleston,
where the reception TO the Jasper Greens
was the event Of the day.
a. N. sullivan mas taken AEcuUl5uOp MI
Cabe 70 task for his remarks upon the rela-
lions OF the Irish women to the League, and
his views are endorsed by Archbishop CrOke,
OF Cashel.
Mr.. Gladstone stated in the House Of Com
mons yesterday that no arrangement had
yet been made with the Beers, but negotia-
lions are progressing. The Beers wish to be
more directly represented in the proposed
commission, and object to the troops re-
naming in the country.
The freight blockade at Cairo has been
raised, and the Illinois Central is again re-
eeiving freight for the South.
The Pope's encyclical has been Issued
prOclaiming jubilee from March 10Th to
November LIST, IN Europe, and till the close
OF the year in the rest Of the world.
Senator Elmunds has left Washington for
Florida to avoid threatened bronchial az
lection.
The stock market opened strong yester-
day, and after considerable fuctuation,
closed drm at about the highest figures OF
the day.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

The Washington Post thinks it isn't al
all advisable for potent, grave and rev
erend Senators to get excited about the
organization. An advantage obtained
by indirection is not worth having. If
the Democrats get rid of all RESPONSE
bility for legislation, they will have a
much more pleasant time than their op-
ponents during the next two years With
a majority depending on the casting vote
of the Vice President, the Senate will be
tied whenever that officer is absent, for
he cannot pair. The Republicans viii
have the responsibility for all legislation,
but they will be so situated. not only in
the Senate, but in the House, that they
can push through no partisan scheme.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18
MAD DOGS IN THE COUNTRY.
Hanging Through Sussex County,
New jersey and Up 10 PorS
JervIs.

The inhabitants in the towns of Mon
tague, Sandiston and Wallpack. in Sus-
sex county New Jersey, are in a state Of
mind over mad dogs. About two weeks
ago black and white spotted bird dog
passed through these towns from the
direction of Newton. Many dogs were
bitten, and also one man. John Emory,
who lived near Peters Valley, in Wall
pack. Emory has since been sent to
Philadelphia for treatment.
At Peters Valley, Joseph Warner and
Mrs. RosenkrantZ have killed the dogs
belonging to them that were bitten by
the strange dog, though no signs Of mad
ness were exhibited
The dog came on through Hainesville
and the Brick House, biting every dog or
other animal that came in its way. After
it had bitten the dogs of Jacob and Elias
Hornbeck, in the neighborhood of Mill
vile, the animal was lost track of. On
Wednesday the dog belonging TO Elias
went mad, and before 1t was killed it
created considerable excitement in the
neighborhood.
On Tuesday last a dog, which is
thought to have been the same one
which travelled through Sussex county.
rushed into the house of William Luckey
in Germantown, one of the suburbs of
Port Jervis, and attacked a dog. which
was lying near the stove. Mrs. Luckey
was working in the room, and, seeing
the strange dog commence to fight and
bite. she caught a kettle of boiling hot
water from the stove and dashed it over
the stray animal. 1t ran out upon the
street and started up the plank road to-
ward Sparrowbush Some boys who
had seen the occurrence followed the
dog with a gun, and, after an exciting
chase across lots and through fields,
killed it.
\ Another mad dog made its appearance
near Unionville, n T.. about the same
time as the other one. This one came
up through the northern part of Sussex
county. 1t passed through Coleville and
Mount Salem and started across the
mountain to Port Jervis. 1t ran into a
wagon house a mile this side of Mount
Salem, and while there the door was fas-
tened and the dog held captive. He was
afterward tied up in the same house,
and falling from loft on which he was
tied. he hanged himself, being dead
when found.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

A Discussed TRAGEDIAN.-A Wash
ington dispatch to the Philadelphia
Times says: "Mr Lawrence Barrett, the
tragedian, called upon President Gar
field Saturday to get the widow of Gen.
Bartlett, who died from wounds in bat
tie, the position of Postmistress at Pitts
field, Mass. Mr.. Garfield said he was
very sorry he could not personally serve
him, but would refer him to Senator
Dawes, who had the Office in his imme-
diate keeping. Dawes told Barrett he
would like to serve him, but his hands
were tied by other considerations. His
inclination was to give the soldiers
widow the place, but, but, ETC., where
upon the actor pungently observed that
he (Barrett was glad he belonged to a
profession where men could follow the
dictates of their consciences and live up
to their principles.