ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT.
[From the New-York Times, September 20, 1881.]
[Long Branch, N.J., September 19, 1881.]
Hon. Chester A. Arthur, No. 123 Lexington Avenue, New York:
It becomes our painful duty to inform you of the death of President Garfield and to advise you to take the oath of office as President of the United States without delay. If it concur with your judgment, we will be very glad if you will come here on the earliest train to-morrow morning.
WILLIAM WINDOM, Secretary of the Treasury. WILLIAM H. HUNT, Secretary of the Navy. THOMAS L. JAMES, Postmaster-General. WAYNE MacVEAGH, Attorney-General. S.J. KIRKWOOD, Secretary of the Interior.
[The Secretaries of State and of War were absent from Long Branch.]