THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1440, 24 September 1881, Page 2

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Tub following brief sketch of General Arthur, is from the Atlanta Constitution (Georgia), and was written a few clays after the shooting of President Gartield :—: — As to tho birthplace of Chester Allan Arthur, there has been a dispute, which, during the last campaign, attained considerable importance. It is generally coni ceded, however, that he was born in FairI field, Franklin county, Vermont, October oth, 1830. His father, William Arthur, was a Protestant liibhman. In America Ihe became bomowhat famous in the ' ministry of the Baptist chuich. Young Arthur had good advantages in early life. At the age of eighteen he i graduated at Union college and began to teach school. He ceased teaching and ppont two years in the study of law at Ballston Springs. Again he taught bchool, until in 1851 he had £300 with which he went to New Yoik to practice law, entering the office of Erastus D. Culvor, and was soon admitted to a partnership, In 1857 he went west, but soon returned to New York, and resumed the practice of his profession. His most notable case was the celebrated Lemtnon suit, associated with Mr Evarts, in which the validity of tho fugitive slave law in Virginia was destroyed. His only 3ervice during the war, outside hi 3 profession, was for a brief period on the staff of General Hunt, in the army of tho Potomac, as inspector of New Yoik troops in the field. Mr Arthur's career in politics does not present any evidence of great ability in that department. He was a member of the Saratoga convention that founded the republican paity in New York. He has fiffured conspicuously as a local politicia in New York city, and in IS7I ho was nominated by Picsident Grant to be collector of the port of New Yoik. This valuable position he held until July 12th, 1878, when ho was removed by Pie^idcnt Hayes for alleged use of the office for political purposes. He returned to the practice of law as a member of tho firm of Arthur, Phelps, Knewal, & Ransom iv Now York city. At Chicago Conkling secured his nomination for tho vice-presidency as a rebuke to the Hayes adminibtratiou, and his caieer as the second official in the republic is considered as having- been entirely under tho supervision of his imperious friend. Recently has been at Albany more than at New York, and has seemed more anxious to secure the reelection of Coukling than to serve the people who chose him for the high office he fills.