JAMES A. GARFIELD. James Abram Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States, was born in Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, November, 1831, and died in Elberon, New Jersey, September 19th, 1881.

Born amid a life of poverty and struggles, he acquired a good common school education; drove some months for a boat on the Ohio canal; obtained a seminary education, and further instruction at the Hiram Institute, O., and graduated at Williams College with the highest honors in 1856.

In 1857 he was elected President of the Hiram Institute. In 1859 he was elected to the Senate of Ohio.

He was appointed Colonel of the 42 Regi

ment of Ohio Volunteers in 1861. For his bravery and skill in defeating General Marshall at Middle Creek, January 10, 1862, he was commissioned Brigadier-General. He was made a Major-General for gallantry at Chicamauga September 19, 1863. He entered Congress as Representative in December, 1863. He was chosen United States Senator from Ohio, January 13, 1880.

He was nominated for President by the Republican National Convention in Chicago, June 8, 1880, on the thirty-sixth ballot, and

was elected President in the November following. He was shot by the infamous lunatic Guiteau, July 2, 1881, and died ten weeks after, exhibiting the greatest fortitude and bravery.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

Chester Alan Arthur, twenty-first President of the United States was born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont, October 5, 1830. He was the oldest of nine children of the Rev. Wm. Arthur D. D., a Baptist clergyman and an author on antiquarian subjects, who emigrated from Ireland at the age of eighteen. Chester Arthur was graduated at Union College in 1845. In 1853 he entered the law office of Erastus D. Culver, New York City, and soon thereafter was admitted to the bar. Mr. Arthur was a firm friend of the slave and took part in defending them in several suits brought to re-enslave them after being on free soil.

In 1861 he was a Brigadier-General and acting Quartermaster-General on the staff of Governor Morgan of New York. In 1862 he was appointed Inspector-General of New York troops in the field. In 1871 he was appointed by President Grant, Collector of the port of New York. In 1880, at Chicago, he was nominated by the Republican National Convention for Vice-President. On the death of

President Garfield, September 19, 1881, Gen

eral Arthur succeeded to the Presidency. The general verdict upon his administration was favorable.

Administration.

"The bill placing Ulysses S. Grant on the retired list of the army with full pay, May 3d, 1884.-Bureau of Annual Industry established, May 29, 1884.-Bureau of Labor Statistics established, June 28, 1884.-The bill on Chinese Immigration, July 5, 1884.—The bill on the American Merchant Marine, June 28, 1884.-The Bureau of Navigation established, October 5, 1884.-The bill on the French Spoliation Claims, January 20, 1885.-The bill on Forfeited Land Grants approved March 2, 1885.-The bill prohibiting Foreign Contract Labor, March 2, 1885.-The bill prohibiting the unlawful occupancy of Public Lands, February 25, 1885.-The bill on the Chinese Indemnity Fund, March 3, 1885.-The reduction of letter postage from three to two cents, March, 1883.-The making of the unit of weight one ounce instead of half an ounce, March, 1885.

or extravagant expenditure of the public money.

On September 22, 1882, he was nominated by the Democratic State Convention at Syracuse for Governor and was elected the November following by a large majority.

He was nominated for President by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, July 10, 1884, and was elected President in the following November. On the 8th of July, 1888, he was unanimously re-nominated for President, at St. Louis, by the Democratic National Convention.

Administration.

Removal from office of persons for "offensive partisanship," ," March 13, 1885.-Proclamation to remove froin the Oklahoma country, in the Indian Territory, all white intruders, August 10, 1885.-Bill regulating the Presidential succession, January, 19, 1886.