1881 United States Senate election in New York caucus of the Democratic State legislators met on January 17, State Senator Charles A. Fowler (14th D.) presided. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Francis Kernan by acclamation. Thomas C. Platt was the choice of both the State Senate and the Assembly, and was declared elected. Notes: Platt remained in office for only ten weeks, until May 16, 1881, when he resigned together with his boss Roscoe Conkling in protest against the distribution of federal patronage in New York by President James A. Garfield, a Half-Breed, without being consulted, what Conkling said was a breach of a pledge given by
HMS Canada (1881) HMS Canada (1881) HMS "Canada" was a screw corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1881 and sold for scrap in 1897. Her bow badge was removed prior to being sold for scrap and is currently displayed in the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. "Canada" was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1879, one of nine ships of the "Comus" class. She was launched on 26 August 1881 and completed later that year. Planning for six metal-hulled corvettes began in 1876; these became the "Comus"-class corvettes and were designed for long voyages away from coaling stations. Given a