Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1881, Page 10

SHICAGO TRIBU MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1881—TWELVEE PAGS. TAIN of wheat must fall Into the gromnd Run dle before it brought forth frult. “They: sere nll living In sonte way by the means of death, ‘The food whieh gaye them life had Deen obtained by tho death of somethings Thus the clement of sacrifice was shown in Nature. ‘The same whs exhiblted In tha #reat moral achievements in. tha history of nations. ‘Thy abolition of slavery wos not accomplished by the gulet study aid plans of nian, but by means of a bloody war which involved the sacrifice of thoisands of hn matt lives. ‘Chusagaln from doath came lito and Hberty to the Nation. The text was also Allustrated by the Kingdom of Cirtst on earth. Hero was tho worth of eternal life to the human soul, God's method wns not merely to send Christ here to teach or to live befors man, but thera wos an element of Bierifice in Ils coming, Ile wns aneriticed ‘or the redemption of the world, Now this Necion and the world folt a grent arerifice had which was shown In tho xreat- bess, purity, and nobleness of the man— the ‘President. iis Hite «was taken. Some of the fruita of this great sacrifice were already seen in the unanhnity and the oyalty of the country, the sympathy ex- pressed by other nations, aud the Jessong of ationce revented nt the Prestilent’s bedside, ‘here wasrenson to believe that this sacritice would work out for the Natlon a moro glo- tious future, because Bich had been God's nothod in the natural and the moral world. ‘ THIRD PRESUYTERIAN, The united menorlal-services of the West Bivie churches, held in the Third Presbyte- than edifice, on Ashland avenue, last even- Ang, wero of a decidedly Impressive charac- ter. Dr, Kittredge led. ‘Che intertor of the phurch ig embellished in trappings of mourn- ne ina manner which showed great taste, Pe tho Interior Is n gallery, the ven made, Yront of which has been decorated with white and black erape Jn al- ternate folds, held up by white crapo Josets. In front of tho pulpit there Is a hugo Horal cross of rich roses, and back of the nupit 13 a Lining of sombre black, the monot- ny of which is broken by three floral leces—a star, A cross and crown, and anchor, fhe whole is so perfectly blended as to give weftect In keeping with sorrow, yet most leasing to the eye. . Tho edifice was literally packed with peo- le, and thousands were turned away, & pore Ton of whom found thelr way into tie United Presbyterian Church, corner of Mon- roo and Paulina streets, where additional services were held, ‘The mupit was occupied by the Kittredge. tho Rt.-Rov. Bishop Fallows, the Rey, Mr. Lemont, the Rev. Mx. Machiughian, and the venerable Willfam Beecher, who: offered up on touching prayer, Dr. Lemont read. the- Scriptures, and pibhap Fallows made 1 brief and nest touching address. Io alluded at fectlonately and reverently to the ovension of that mourning, and pictured graphically the beautiful clutracter of the decensed VPresi- dent. Ie alse patd os glowing irihute to the Queen of Engtand tor fer kindly sympathy, and alluded to the grief of other nations over the loss which this country had sustained, Tle pictured President Garfield asa diamond o£ ptrest colors—the prince of precious stones. ‘The address way remarkable for its strong dud eloquent patrlotic utterances, ‘The nudienee then sang, standing, “Near- er, My Giod, to Thee” and its strains rang out most Impressively and with a singular effect fron this vast congregation, number- ing fully 3,000, Teontrd Swett then delivered an able ad- folluwedtby the Rey, Maclauichlan and tredge, the latter teenies anllitrl- io to the college itfe of the late Preuldent, THK TABERNACLE CITURCH. Thu Rev. C. M, Gilbert preached at the Tabernacle Congregational Chureh Jasteven- Ang, ils subject being the “ Life of the Dend President.” ‘The church was suitably -dee- ornated, the altar and organ being draped, aud. the congregation was large. ¥ The reverend gentleman classed President Garfield with Washington and Linecoly, and went on fo say that while it lad taken tho peuple sixteen yenrs © to begin to appreciate tho Intter’s greatness, it had only token a few weeks to establish . Mr. Gartiold in the pubic mind os the peer of the best men Atmericu ever produced, ‘Lhe speaker then referred to the deceased's loyal and magnificent ‘mauliness, and to the tact that he started life ina log hut and ended in w position any king would have given up his crown to ocenpy. Jia had been heroic in War, his lite was rounded Into four periods, his early sLruggles, porhaps, being tie most lin- vurtant one, ite had been Dorn. with great power of Intellect, and had developed it under the guidance and inluence of a God-fearing mother, lt was said of bln that ho never split ralls, but his mother had, and to that Foot woman the Nation owed a debt of gratitude, for his great Ife had marked the triuinph of Christhin principles, aud, though dead as President, as tre jumble, God-tearing statesman he sail dived, and youd continue to live to the end of thie, To sturted at college as a janttor. but he grew higher and higher, and lad at ast been taken fo God, which should serve, a8. nn Inspiration to the young mnen of tha land, and should impress thein with the fact that there Is xearetly a Nuit to possibilitles, Why God had called hin away neong knew, but there’ was some compensation fn This ‘useleriaus Providence, Iilg death had sealed all seetionnl strife, and had wntted the Nation as never before, and also united tho English-speaking people of the work, ‘Then again there was some com- pensation for his denth In tho fact that it had given the people an lasight into a home clr- cle worthy. of bemg solved us on example. Mls mother had been the foundation of his goodness and greatness, and he had died the noblest type of Anierienn manhood. TUR REY, F. A. NOBLE, Kev. F. A, Noble, D1, addressed large congregation yesterday worntng wt the Vniow Park Congregational Churel. UIs service wasn niamorial tribnia to the nar tyred Presidem, and very approprintely tho pulpit and gallery were draped with emblens of arlef and mournmyg. ‘The subjeet text of the Doctors discourse was "In the Sliaudew or the Vo) words now made deeply near and wigniticint tothe hinan heart trom the THe, beloved and chorbhed, one ohenes thranh tha. Valley of Jeath—tho tite whieh ts owe Natlun’s loss, Yes, her loss, though the boxy siege of Jifo stays hots Though there Is na dish tn the stenly, atlng ot wills; though the sblps atid tralus come and go, and thy valee of trad “sHllL myaves the Innad, 1118 our Nation's. loss, thongh markets, schools. machinery pursng thelr oven way, and though nelthar is there ought In Nature's pepect to show the Ute of @ grout nn gone, To morality and Its wisdom the. loss "is mere | keenly felt, and from the highor elements of statesmanshlp which alone servo to make awoation trily grent iy called the Hite and service of ane whose peor is not known nung the nations of the eurth, Onur dent President avas linpressively near to the leat, and, slitting thore an the throne of state, at proud le Ja tehampl pofutedl te bhi and sald, Phils bs the teal ni”? Looking beyond the sarruws and tha bleeding hearts of the present is fathomedt — the hand of ou kind: and wliy Proy- idence whieh dooth all things well, Kast and West, North and South, dn every heart gud at every hearthstone, the suferhigs and Christan fortitnde of a brave heart” have nuudesinetilled the hearts of others—thronght Cho snpetiicaton of sorrow comes to alla recognition of ynity, ie etosing, the speaker Hkened the wisdom of Cod wito that shawn on Catvary’s quartysy—[sceno}—he wis thanght worthy te bo sierlived, that Ueongh hho the Nation might Hye wad be blessed tore evermore, DU, SHEPPARD, At Grace Methodist Church yesterday luortilig aurvlces wore held appropriate to the ovcasion, and a congregation larger than usual wag in attendance, ‘Lhe ohureh was tustlly draped, and presented a solomn and Mupressive appearance, ‘The granlt pillars atthe wialn entrances were wrapped in the Ansignty of mourning, and festoons hung &racetully from the top of the «door, The altup way alsa elegantly deco rated, gud a oueat deste in black almost hid from viuw tha orgun, the contre tu political position, and in death, and J of which was tuned with s ploture of the lamented President. ‘The cholr, too, partook ot ts spirit of thus day, anu Appeared dressed in block, ana the muse wus adapted to the general surroundings. - ‘tho Rev, D. Sheppard, the pastor, preached, taking “ay fils subject, "The atlon’s Sorraw.” “After veferrlig to the desth of Proaldont Garteld, lie. sald the wourning of the tuully of lsrael ot alt over the departure ot lielr father found ow parallel in. the Nation's sorraw over the demise of ity Chiet Exceutive, For weeks the people had stood expectant at bis bedalde and had wataliwd bls breathingy, aud Als measure of aulloring had only been equatiod by the thelr measur of heartlelt anxiety and deep solleitude. "Thts was the third President they had) been exiled npon @ mourn the toss ef, but the loss of Mr, Garfielt had, perhaps, been tho severed shack of ' nll, becatise he had ‘twen) cut off in the tlitst of the country’s unparaitele brogverity, and becaus¢ he was x0 closely enshriued fn the hearts ot the people. had taught ns tatove him, aud his nane would cublazon tho falrest pages of our History; but, after all, there were a fow facts ii conneefion with hls death whielt ought to tend to mitigate our sorrow, In the first place, his death was one of tho characterlatie mystertes of Diving Providence, which Til oages for. Ils operation, — atid, sinca tellgion — tanght tgs to resolve everything into good, it) was our obligation to took upon the bright sida of the pieture. We could not understand the w of Pravidence, but the dead Prealilent’s suf fering had tanglt us how dear he was to us, and {twas a sonreo of satisfaction that he had netnally fallen asleep in tho aris of tis people, ‘Then again his death had united the Natlon closer than ever before, and in the mourning purty Hnes had been lost sight of, and he believed that when they were drawit again the people would be chastened and purified by the afiletion.. [lis detth, too, was filled with valuable lessons, and should remind uy of our ditty to God, of our depettence upon Him, of the vanlty of the world and the uncertainty of life. Another lesson was found in hfs closed Nps, which were yet coquent, and whieh seemed to say, * Follow me, ns Lhaye followed Chirtst.” Tho exercises closed with tho siugingofthe hymn commenclig: . Qod bless our native land, Firm mag sho ever stund, ‘The Sunday-school of the church held tno- morlal services in the afternoon, the exe: efses consisting of singing and brief ad- dresses; and in the eventing Dr. Sheppard prac hed eloquently on “The President's fe nnd Character” to a largo audience. THM REV. i. W. JOHNSON. An mhueally Jarge congregation assem- bled in Westen Avenue Christian Church yesterday inorning to Isten to x discourse on “Tho Lesson of President Gartleld’s Life” by the Rey, 3B, W. Johnson, editor of the Evangelist, ‘Tho pulpit and organ were tnstefully but not elaborately draped with bluck festooning and white bows, At the rear of the desk was a droped portralt of President Garfield. In his opening prayer Mr. Johnson said: “A great cloud hins come over our Jand and a great sorrow into our hearts, Our stricken ruler) has fallen, He was one who loved Thee, nnd because he loved ‘Thee we loved him, White we prayed for him we have said: *'The Lord’s will be done.” We recognize tho fact thatthe Lord has given and the Lord has taken away, | Blessed be the mune of the Lord, e walk by fulth, and not by sight. ‘Lhe time will come when We will bless the Lora for our afiiictions: Wo erant that tho worthy example of our departed ruler will’ have its intluence In the homes throughott the land, vw nsk ‘Thy blessing this morniig upon our sister, the widowed wife, nnd pon our sister, the aged | mothor nnd upon the children of the depart- ed one, “Ihe preacher took as his text LT. Samuel, il, 18—“ Know ye not that there is a prince and a great ian fallen this day in Israel??? He first alluded to the career of Napoleon and of other great men of whom the world speaks with wonder. But perhaps there never was a enreer filled with greater vicissi- tudes and greater achievements than the one for whom we mourn today, Harty. yenrs ago. he was working in tho fleld with hls mother, who found it necessary at thines to engage in outdvor work to support her family. “Mhirty years ago he was sweeping the halls and Tinging the bells of an xeademy. Now he is sleeping in tho embrace ‘of — death, and the bells. nro ringing ils funeral dirge, and the fand is in mourning, Never has been another 3o mourned, The whole Anulo-sixon race is In tears today, all because this lowly one ts dent. Why is tt that the world so mourns? Within year another ruler ins been stricken down by the hand of an assasin, but the whole world did not weep. Within a year a great statesman hes fallen, and yot when Beaconsield died Mere was ne such mourning as now. tis not because Garteld was 1 ruler, or a states- iman, or oa emlnent scholars nor slnply because ons death wos tragle, With: all his transcendent ability Garteld was a Christian, This is what seenred for hil the admiration and sorrow of the world. Garfield had) pushing power and pulling powers ho lind pick and a iixed purpuso In Ife.” These ara some of his ule. Inonts Of success, His was a pure life. Not one awnong his tens of thousands of ncqualnt- Anees can rise and say Qariletd ever did hin [ettonst wrong. ‘This. pure personal [fe has attracted tho attention and aciuiration of the world. He was a ‘noble son, husband, and futher,” No breath of seandal ever inarred his private life. Ile was proud of his mother, qtalat and — nniet- tered thangh abe is, and alwava did hor honor, When she was at Washington, no matter int the company was, he placed her on his right at the table and had her served first. When d ses one who honors hts father and inother I see ane whom Lean trust. Garileld's was a pure Christian house, He wasn faithful, consetentions: Christian, and, his pastor at Washington tells me, 0 regitlar attendant at church with his wife and thetr five children, ‘The only eomptaine he made of them was that they were some Umesa little late, on account of having to get the chjldven ready. Garfield was also a en ier In the Stunda Mr, Johnson sitinmed up this portion of hts discourse: We mourn today because our rater has hullon; becatse he met with a tragle fates beenuse he was characterize with g Christinn falths because a geod man anda Prince in faruet has fatten.” Ho then asked, * Why did God let such a ruler dle 2? We ennnot vas Unclarat ail thy chustise- ments of God, Tho preagher offered one thought about its Christ's in part to “unite and make tween the Jews and Gentiles, that Garileld’s death was pence be- It seems ah was to brenk the partl- don wall between the Solid South and the Soild A Sontherner said before vlec- tons "would rather seo Gartield President than any other Kopublican’’ When Gar. field was stric the: Selld South and the Solld North prayed for his recovery. ‘Today thoy mourn together his untimely end. ‘The wall of partition haa been broken down, While we mourn tet us. hope the allliction is Tor our country’s good, ‘The services closed with singing “ Asteep in Jesus? and the snerament. ELDER NWOLMES. A small but devout congregation wore shined. yesterday morning in the Second Christian Chureh on Orkley avenue, ‘The services wore condueted by Elder Holmes, Whose address consisted af aeutogy on the Ife and character of dames A, Garfield. He courtderod Gartletd a model man of the alice teenth contury~well ronndad out dn all ros speets, physical, sovial, tntelluctual, moral wad spiritual No nun tiat hadaver moved pen Tas been able to establish aught agalast fae he tito Wa ot todeatly draped, and Garteld's portralt In black lun hak of die pulpit, f 2 THE REY. It, Be POE, ‘Tho Rey. Masel 12. Popo, at the Trinity MH. Churel, preached a inomortal sermon Yesterday imornbug. “The columns of the nuullongo room’ werd drapal, and large United States flag dovply broidured with heavy -erapo hung aver the chole ralllng, ‘The speuker liad been recontly in Knglnul When the fags of tat country wera lowered to halGamst for ue death af the late Dean Stanley, but amjdst ‘the nntional mouwnlig for one of thelr own fost, the inquiry, “Wiat oof America's President?” seemed, ta be on avery. tongue. She sate hopes and fears that were throbbing fia ¢gvery breast at home, were throbbing in every breast nbrod, As the words of the toxs, " Know thot that this diy: a kreat many has dled in Taraet 2” were ute tered over the remalisot the murtyts as they: were Jald away fh thy catacombs, ts they had been pronatneea over tho burtles af Gustivus Adolphos, Luther, Washington, and Line coin, so were they today reiterated in honor of ono who took Ns place besidu all tha great. men of the past, ‘The power and worth of the signal nature God gave hin ind been fully and founaly developed, snd as Cod by Hs fntinte wisdom had” taken David irom the sheopfoldy, go he guided Garett’ from a drunble cubliy on the Western Reserve. Ha career as President hud only been lone Cnough to ft the hearts of nll at home ant abroad. Us ennstituonts loved and honored Din, and all men, irrespective of party, recognized jis greatiess, Mtr. Mund, a Mtupresentative to ‘Congress trom Qhie, was, once designated by the party caucus to de: vera closing specel In answer to a stiutlar one trom Garticld on Republican slide, Feeling his luabliity” to” coy with (ils Sane sulfering | thoroughly posted Gen Gartelil, Mr Tnrd told him bow he felt. Ge: hime © Prank, PLL tell have my speerh all bloc: out, and PI alye you’ Mr. Turd avvepted: tt ant from the nld thus generously extended was able to mply Tha nanner that won the admiration of his colleagues and gained hina repute: tot dinong the people. Amonir all the sweet an ophanent as went to Tim amd Garfield enid to wvhat IM de. 1 revelations of tomestic life notte was sweeter than that of James A. Quire field He was on obrave nan. io was brave’ ont Chiekamaugua, brave vofore his consti(urents, brave when he enine into the Presttency, brave during those elaty days of pik Tle was a martyr to the conviction of the principle of party and National ‘unity. Its death will sul mere closely unite North and South, Dylng he had dlaarmed rugged Mars and sinyed the conflagration of war. ‘The Ship of State, however, passes on without atrentor, though the commander Hes dead an the deel and ane other is perliously situated. ‘Tho Lord gave andthe Lord taketh away; blessed be tho name of the Lord. —_ THE REV. 0. A. BURGESS. ‘Tho First Christian Church, ebrner of In- diana avenue and ‘fwenty-fifth street, was draped, and on the rizht and left of the pile pits trinngle and harp formed of tuberoses rested on tables, while a larger floral tribute was placed directly in front of-the Bible rest, ‘ho pastor, the Roy. O, A. Burgess, instead of a funeral sermon gave a few re- ilectlons appropriate to the oceasion. 4 We ido almost everything, by falth, Bust- ness is carried on upon faith, and very little is dono in this world with- out falth, We know but Ittle, We know-we have telegraph wires ard ma chines, but we know but tlttle of the prin- ciples that move them; yet we trust impll- ely what pie say tous. If amon stands boldly out nzalnst’ Christianity, he becomes widely known, and why?) Shuply beenuse tt Is a tuarvel that aman will thrust aside all faith and all divine things. Ourdearbrothor whose death wo now mourn knew that when the carthly house in whielt he divelt was «lls- solved he had a building of Gad, a house not intde with hands, le lived and died in that faith. Ho stated to mo that he did not want the Presidency, at least not when St was thrust upon hin.” Uescemed to dread the fearful responsibilities that awaited: him, A life, only a true Iife, is the one en- during thing. Monuments and taid-marks will crumble, but 2 true life will remain for future generations. I would not call back our great and loved deal brother to be agi stricken with an assasin’s bullet antl suffer agony for another cighty days, tio sometimes in obedience to what he conceived to be his duty antago- nized his own party. Vractically on one oc- easion he voted alone against the whole Re- pablican party nnd stated ton frlend that he nad done so and expected to be read out of the party; would certainly bo severely erlti- elzcd, but that he belleved he was right, Subsequent events proved the correctness: of Ils position. Ie hud the sternest sense of right, and it was based on the conviction that God is omnipresent In the aifairs of men. He never forgot tho Jvssons he Jearned from 1113 teachings, “IIs tenderness of heart und consclons- ness of right always juipelled hin to combat Wrong and oppression of any Kind, Wo re- doles ‘that such aman has lived among uy nnd been one of us. He always was proud of his mempborshlp in the Church of Christ. Ife wag our brother and delighted to so ad- dress his brethren. Wo rejoice that such 0 life has been sbenbanione Ue and we hope and pray it will teach us to live lives of pur- ity atid prayer, that Hike him we may at last come to ottr house whose builder and maker is God, eternal in the heavens, © BISUOP FALLOWS, —_- Yesterday morning Bishop Fullows preached in St. Paul’s Reformed Episeopal Cathedral, corner of Washington and Car- penter streets, on “A Creat Man,” taking his text from Samy Wh, 33, “And the King sald unto his servant, Know thou not that there fy 3 prince and a great nian fullen’ this day In Israet?* “ Some mien are born great, others achieve greatness, and some have greatiess thrust’ upon then.” Tn the Ife of President Gar- ficll, the = Bishop © sald, we “cone template -one who achieved greatness and yet in whom there must haye been wn Inherent greatness to nehleve it. Ie was arent ie the breadth of his imtud, great ly his subline courage and firmuess of heart, and possessud that Intrepld sulf-relinnea which enabled bin to ool danger In the face and an enemy inthe eye. His was tho old virtus of tho Romans, ‘that robust and) hearty quailty which stamps a man—niakes annus a courage that takes ap all the lower and tudor elements of the tha dature, and trans- figures them with the glory of the huitollect amu heart—a grand, cali, endur- ing ality, a oinagannhnons — spirit ready to do and to buar, Sincere «and wn- conquerayle when beurine unmeritod re. proach, his was the very essential spirit of ull heralsms—a coNthes uiderlylig phitau- throps, chivalry, nobtlity, and purpose of action, Snel aenurage fs not the Insensi- Dilly of steel, tels the very sensitiveness of aavonin’s feellng, It feuty the undeserved stings, Is wounded by aindeservad oblogiiy but with the sensitiveness ables Ute self possession whieh walts the coming vindsen- tion with patience that never tires. ‘ho flrinn like adamant, never gives way unt dissolving powers of nature themselves luosen Ht, ‘This courage was predminently Garield’s, You enn see lt all through his varied and advanelng career, It ty iuant- tested In his earllest struggles, {t flames out tn every ringing oration and address, It Js strikingly oxhibited on the fled of battle, 1t comes to the front when tho storm burst upon him after his nomination. It ts munl- fested in th Marly tryin thes of his htion. It gleams brightly through the long, weary diys of agonizhig’ sufer it unt death” kindly eumes to give him oan everlasting retense, ut this greatness of qtalltles ts exhtbited most fully in tho religions lifeot Presllent Cariiuld, ‘This ts the grand secret of his st: premacyover men, This is thouxplanuiion of the fuct that asnoother man lias he hus taken such hold upon the afestions and sympathtes af the elviilzed work, ‘Che manner of his death of courso touched the sympathetic chord in millions of breasts, but itis the character of the man who has thus best taken away that-muakes tha appeal ta the profoundest emotions, , his min, scholar, statesinin, soldier, and President, drew his courage from the skles, ly. loved his ible, and wns never ashamed Lo own tt. A minister of tha Christian Church, he never foreswore Ns suprent loyalty to tha Captain of his xalva- ton. ‘To demonstrate the devp religiousness of President, Garfield, tha Dishop mace on benutiful reference to thooulogy whieh ho sdetvered at the funeral of Senator Ferry, ‘The muste rendered during the service was appropriate ang well adapted to the occuston, ‘The principal Ceatures were the hitouation af the * Dead SMarely” fa “Sik by the organs Ist and the rondorinz by the eholrot "1 heard the voice of Jesus say come unto Me and rest,” get to Kelcetions.from Franz Abt ‘oday the St. Paula congremation will wnlte In sorvice at the Centanary Chureh, —-. | TUG NEV. I. We. ALLE Tho congregation of the South Side Chris- thin Church, whleh tho lite Presitont Gate field attended daring the Chleago Conven- tlon lust yunr, listuned yesterday marning to A memorial sermon from thelr paste: Rey, 1, W, Alten. Ile sally Death slways brfigs sorrow aud griet Whon It enters une heralded dhe sanctuary of a home, the gloom that follows eau only be known by those who suffer, When It prostates In mourning wv houschold, a elty, & State, our sorrow Is heavy enough, Gad knows, but how brosd the shadow Death hag cust’ at this thio, All tha selyiized warkd> stands with uncovered hend, How con owe ex- nin the — Intenglty -of this grief? tis not Decatse aur Preshdent meta violent death nt the bands ofan assist, Other soy. orelgus baye falls dn this manner, anid, ofthnes yrent joy. saluted thelr dewntul— but a short tie ago thy Caar of Russia, the Ubvyutor of 40,000,000 of serfs, but no such humentition ehsied among his people. Pre Ident Diicoly was stricken dawn, and, be cutiss ho had guided our Union through a erent War, there was ni agony of mottrn ng tn the dand. Yet Cartel hus done nothing of such horoism. = ‘The ship of stitte: Was moviity on, never mote prosperaualy, “Tihs mourning that we can sco atl through the Natlon seems to mea allent tribute to tne pian’s character, Ue Wity anctreurruptible statesinin, a brillant orator, & great General, bug this was not atl. Wo cannot but feel that our Chict Captatit wits a great sweet-souled man, With w Clitise Han nobleness of sprit whielt made htin bee Javed by Mo hus puiscd away uid the pwale saunut be comforted, One saying of fs that J remember was during the pylldyal eunpalgn in Ohfo, when he uttered. these words, Itseemed, asan index of his charaeters “Twould not puta straw upon the lead of any an te keep hin down.” His wnsellish- nos, his devotion to duty, bis slmplletty, ls absolute sincorlty, his courage, tis som greatness, beyond tho dreaming of evil, was wit Tina thrawn our hearts taward him, Truly, lotus say he was wonderfully gifted of Gow, Hs birthplace was a af cabin in & vast wiklerness, | with abou fi neres = of dusert it, tilted by” the hands of the widowed mother, who almost starved herselt to suppor through tho Jone winter months her ott spring, one of whom was to heeome the lant of hisage, Is it nny wonter that when he was crownod with the diaden of a Republic hu should turn first of all to his mother? Once he was miraculously saved from drown Ing In the canal, and that anme night he vowed upon his'knees, * Unto God who has saved my Iife for Ils own purposes will £ eousucrite Ib anew. will get an educa. tion and de honor to my mother?” Alt throngh lis Ife there were two things whom Garfield toved stpremely: his mother and his Bible, Jn the midnight blvouse on tho blenk hills of Northorn Tonnesses ho would deather his comrades around the eamp-tire, and thera would bo read the finperlshabla words of Christ, But no sketelt of Gare fekd’s Hifo world be vonplete without tho haine of Mtss Alinida Booth. » [lis most, elo- quent oration was a culogy ttven the death of this noble woman, who, standing back in the shadow, molded {n the classic groves of Hiram the character of him who hag held for a short tine, yeeso grandly, the helm. of State, ‘ MICHIGAN AVENUE CIURCII. Union memorial services word held Int evening In tho Michigan Avenus M. 1. Chureh, the Fifth Presbyterian uniting with the congregation of the Michignn Avenuc Church. ‘The church was very tastefully decornted, ‘Lho main: door was hung with Diack and white, and above it, draped with ecrape, was ‘a portrait of the dead President, surmounted by oa group of binck and white = flags. In the Interior the chancel rail was hung with Inourning, and infront of tho pulpit wags a draped engraving of President Gartleld. ‘The orgin and choir stands weredraped with Dinelc and white, und at elther side of the pulpit was a stand of fowers, A very Inge congregation was in attendance, ‘The services were opened with tho singing of the Inte President's favorit hyn, “Asleep in Jesus.” ‘Che Rev. G 1. Van iorne, pas- tor ofthe Michigan Avenue Chureh, then redd tho ninety-seventh palin which was the one. ‘quoted by President Garilela nt the “death of | President Lincoln, ‘An _approprinte. prayer was offered by bre ui Horne, and the cholr sing the anthem, Ll Heard a Voice from Heaven.” ‘Lhe hynin, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” was then sung by the congregation. ‘The Lev, S, 1. Wishard, pastor of the Fitth Presbyterlan Church, delivered the intdress, takin for his text the following: “Aud the King suk unto hls. servants, Know ye not: that there is a. Prince and a great man falien this duy in Israel?"—27, Samucl, lib, 38 ‘The erie of assastnatton, sald tho rever- end gentleman, was not new, but was the Jexittiate fralt of sin) and sin wits tle asgas> Jantlon of We Divine Goverdinent. A crime against a subject of that government was ah assasiaation of the individual, King David find gone Into mouruting over the: stssisinn- tion of % great man, and so our country buwed betore the loss of a prince and a great qnan and put on the tnbillments of wo, The reverend speaker then referred to the elements of trae greatness us illustrated in President Garileld’s character, owas man With @ purpose and a right purpose, always having in view ‘some end which would benelit his people. Ile hat been all his Wfe oa man of, high purpose— 1 purpose that tfted Wim as he cleaved to It He never sought self, but the highest welfare of the people, and the spencer tastrated this statement by polnling out lustinees in the Nie of thy dead Executive where self had been sacrificed to the public weal, No had been aman of convletions, and his convie- ons were founda on truth; — there. fore, suchas | could be dived out. and were defensible. ‘They could bo built abont, hones the President was ao charitable man, not a partivan, Knowing the truth hunself, he was willis that othars should hive thelr opinions, Ue was a-aan of eournge, ag Ulustrated fu tls, early tte, when his lookout for the future was dark and hls path was obstructed by tril and tribulations. — it was shown, tov, In his will inguess to serve otliers. Ile had courage to ussert bly faith In Gad, und the speaker attoted tis tamuus words, “Cod Telgns, and the Goverment at Washington stilt lives.’ Iie had courage to sutfer tn his sickness, and courige te dig as aman of God, dn conclusion, tha speaker said that In truth a great nn hind Tallon, His life wae not is Jast, As he hat fulien upward. is short service would bo of service in our history, and he hoped sincoroly that it would Intli-e ences the shaving af the course of tho now Aduinistration, Is taking olf would show us the value of one human Ife, ‘tho Roy. Mr, Van Horne spoke a few ap- Hate and eloquent words, holding up sident Garteld’s. character before tho yOUL, aid Urging them to take pattern by it. The services ctosed with the choir shuing the grand and Smpressive anthony, “ Blessed Aro Thoy who kuew."* PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL, ‘Tho ministers and congregations of the most promlnant of tha South Side churches united Inst night ina memorial servies helt In Plymouth Congregational Church, corner of 'Twenty-stxth street. and Michigan nve- nue, As Would bo supposed, the oecaston enlled: forth. an immense gathoring. - ‘The Interior of tha sacred placa of wor: ship lad been draped in awa that was very beautlful and artlstle, though it was all of no sombre character, ‘The windows were ull curtained heavily In black; thy gas-Jets on every side glenmed forth from graceful folls of crape. ‘The organ aud organ-gallory were.completely hidden behind” thelr sable hanglugs, except that tha golu-coverut pipes were ailoweil to shine out unobstructed and in briltiant can- trast to the mournful triminings, ‘Tho pulpit was votirely shrouded 4 erape, and tho front of the platform was covered with the same material, A large portralt of Gen, Gariield, framed by binck, was suspended directly In front of the pulpit. Thy congrexadon—or congregations, for sOVvEN Word represonted—crowde the com- mnodlous atditorlun to its utmost capacity, avon to standing-room, Seated on the platform wera the Rev, Dish- 3. H, Cheney, Christ Reformed Eplscopal, i 1G, Trseh, of the Staal ureh; itn A. Gy dowish Congregation; the ituy, Brooke Her Tord, Chueh of the Mesatas the Roy. 2. 1, Pope, ‘Trinity Methodist Church; the Rey, QA. Burgess, First Christian Chureh; tao Rev, Wesloy Coddington, of Syracuse, temporarily at the Second Prosbyterian Church; and tho Ruy. Charles: Hall Myerest, Plymouth Congregational Chure! Shortly afters o'clusk the services opened with musie, Dr. Everest then commented on the fact that so vast a cougregution was (In attendances, and ily that such an outpour: Jng of people was aldno sutticlent evidence of tho presence of sda great common and heartfelt sympathy, ~ Utshop Cheney read a Scriptural lesson, the Forty-sixth Pealin, which was followed by shightg and by a fervent prayer from the vir. Pope. “In this prayer the Dive ald and blessing was asked for in behalt of the dead President's aged mother, hits family, an his people, and ulso for Presldott Artin, After’ the aluging of another hymn, the Roy. Dr. Burgess spoke for about half an hour upon Gon, Garilold's public and private career, Ur. Burgess wis a warm personal friend of the Jute Prosidont—hat been ins timate with him tor more than two years und .wak therefore prepared to tell much about him thas was new and Interesting, and yet pathetle, : % Jtubbi Hirsch pald a glowing tribute to the charncter of the martyred Prosidont, liken Ing bhi tnto Moses, “When Jor. Hirsch con elited there was a burst of applause, note withstanding Whe place and occasion, A prayor by the Roy, Brooke Hurford, ane other hymn, and then the benediction was pronounced by Dre Coddington, a : A Dead 3 On the ith of May, 1877, tho fotlawing states meut was tide to the Pyschologicul Boul in London (tho latg Borge, Cox being tho Freaident) by Bir, Gordons: do wished to narrate au ocourrence whiok had taken place among persons known to him. aud bu hud ne doubt auto the wutbenticlty uf thy nets, Bowe Yeure uyo two slaturs livitig ingcote und were (aurried, wid lived wituin a few nities ol bother; one hud been married to a gens tleman of considerable property who farined his own Innd, und the othor w minister of the Chureb of Beutlunu. Que woruing, iu barvest tne, Sirs, A-— appeared at brewkfust in 4 state of aienlal disturbance, and told her buaband that she wished be would lend bor one of ble borsys, us she desired ta: ya to suo boy slater, This betog juvouventent tau tha middie of bury vest time, bu replied that he cuutd not spare ou, Bad usked why che wisked to qe. Ebe (beu suid that she had dreamed she waa in tho chi Ms toning to her brother-in-Inw preaching, she Beard bin divide his sernion tate “firstly” and “secondly,” and at inet bo camo “thirdly; a that montent hor fathor—who wes dedd—sntered tho chureh, and beekanal to tho preacher ty fot- low hing ho thon followed the tury out of the ohureh, Upon this her husband tent hor 0 horse, snd whon shoe arrived at tho house of hor slater rhe fonad the bidnds all dows avid: "How coun you po awful news eo RvOn? bat ews?" ‘Pho servant replied: © Don't you know that master In lying cent upertaira? “He had boon found in his study stone dead? he had been writing 9 sere mon, and alter getting through two-thirds of It be stopped when bo reached thirdly." Tho fueta were woll known to nil tho relatives of tho deacased clergymun. THE DEAD PRESIDENT, Writton In tho Capitol, After Viewing tho Remains of Prosldent Garficld Lying in Stato In the Rotunda, , Bor The Chicago Tribune, Alas! poor clay!.Couldst thou not kacp tho soul Conflded to theo for a few more years, ‘Tilt Barth should penvofully resign control, And Heaven recelve him without angel tones? nnd the servieit ply have heard tho Didst thou not know his more than princoly worth— How from tho Nation's level he nroso. To rank among tho proudest of the Barth, {fo win the love of frionds, the heurte of focs? Foes? He had nono, snvo in that penceful strifo Where only tnlont prevedency cun elntins Where tho groat strongth of a worthy lifo Je thias who best aball bear an honerud name. Friends? From tho farthost lands a walling comes, Such ns thoy Weave who mourn thoir hotsc- hola dead; * In Afrie wastes, and even Asian homes, Thoy twine the wrenths of cypreas for bla head. Gone, in his manhood, when bis splendid powors Gave high assurance of a grand cureor; Gone in tho suntighet of his Summer hours, . Liko blighted frultuyo of n harvest year, Deaat cold and stark he Ites bonenth our gazo; Yot love beholds bin present oven now, Where, through -the mists of grief wo seo.tho rays ‘That form an auricla round his brow. Ho is not dead! for grout men nover die ; ‘They sink awhlle beneath the whelmiug waves, ‘Then riso to places In grand history, And live when even tove forgets thelr graves, Of dome nbova him, framed with magio'nrt, Ye falr creations of tho penell churins, . Wenve of yoitr hues some thought of Garileld’s hewrt, At angel semblance borno-¢n loving arms, ‘That wa, and all who after como tiny say, AWhilo gaztag upward at tho glorles there: Tins angols, rising o’or his atilly anys i ‘ook our loved murty'r to thelr tondee care! ‘The rest wo yield to Henvan—a worthy gift— for nought more precious could our lave bo- BROWS And fove shall think, and thought tho soul up- “He Was too noble for the life below!" Adtoul grand aptrit; yot ‘tls not farawell, For ayres, puusing near these wishes cold, Shall beur tho Prusent to the Future tell ‘His words und deeds, Ui Barth and all grow oll 63 M, STRWART. Wasurnaton, D, 0, Se he Re 3 Dealt . . For The Chicago Tethune. And he Is dend! Coluabin's murdored fetend. Oh fuulest gullt! ob fair, horote end; Dike the strong Ife, achieving conquest vast, In mortal atrite the oonquoror at Inst. Woll wo review tha royal path hu trod, O'or Fate's stern highway marching up toward Gina, Woll have wo marked the calm and hopeful away * ¢ 8o gently tending toward tho purer way Of that pure heart which bent so far AvovO All putty striving and tl sordid love, ‘Yhat Joy lwoked ont throtyh this fond propheoy In hope and purpose yet bis lind to sco. Jn teuth united. Ah tho diretul day ‘That first bohold the aons of Liborty 4 In grief tulltiing all that fervent prayer, First enger all one trembling hope to share, . Before high Merey bowed togathor low “In strong entreaty tint this dark'ning woo Hov'ring might pass, nor deluge with Its flood Hecauge Incarnate devils pane t his blood— United hushed before that Wis«dom’'s sent, Whose tendcrest love huth found tho answer meet y ‘To leave thnt patned and wearlost heart so still, fo take him bance deep purpose to full, Tfeavy the wo n Nation bands to bear, Ant World’s wile kludrud meot in union rare AA common sorrow at these gates of deuth, “Yet tho! for ayo hath passed tant noble breath From those cold lips so cloquent, 80 braye, Hear atiit the words that o'er ww muartyr's grave Whero haart-hroke Liborty before had bowed, Jnaplred her faith to look within the shrouds Where, watebful ati and sittivg np on bigh, Relgneth forever One who cannot dic, Who bowed tha heavens also tind came down With durknoss and thlok .clouds about fis rono— Ayenglug todoliverandtolead ” What puople to ills Justice giveth hood, Droop thee, proud banner, o’or the fallon Chiof! Peal forth, fond horalds, ull your bursting griofl Woop low, yo dirges, soft, yo walling winds! Muan coop, aud) waves—Lime's angel seldom ds, A rarer Jewol for the crown of Godt and yo who stand bofore the wuiting olod, Guurd well tho onsket of poor, mangled clay— hb wound o seal of fmmortulity— ure from bute, all sate from tnortal feara, nbuhned far ayo In Love's most holy tears, AIL pulnioss now fn that etill majesty dle waits before tho Majesty on bly! «8. Wy Bratrtt. WATHUMAN, ILL, Sept. 22, 1881, In Memoriam. For the Chieago Trthune Tho thousand bells now toll From Rast to Weatern sea Earth's kneil to. a doparted saul And heavenly Jubiteo, Ench prjncoly bomo und cabin low Ta wrapt in sorrow’s cloud: ‘Tho widow's tours, the mother's wo, ‘Tho orphan's sighs, and Nution’s throo + Proclaitn our grief atoud. ‘Traditton's oblet of valor great, Who felt upon the plain— “Tis anid bo led In spyal state Kefore the Judgo bis train; So Qartleld wo In fulth bohold, To mect hig Judge on high, Attended by Heaven's host untold, Its namo with murtyr-hands enrolled “Unto bis God draw nigh. Whoro'er on earth his feot have trod Te nis bud suattered light, Hfls bands huve stuid oppressor's rod, Ts heart foved truth and right, ‘The husband trae, the torn Bory ‘Tho father, Hrin and kinds Tho soudler with bis trophies won, ‘Tho atatesann with hls work woll done He honors all mankind, Our God who seca tho widow's toars, Ant hears the orphan’s sigh, Will awift dispel exon clad of fears Ells love will wipe enob eye, Tho Nation Hveat Each aiorliico Immortal niakes Its hfe; Buch martyr’s blood ts costly prizo— As Inocnse aweet to beaven whil riso— Ahut dans all bletor wtrifo. Mavison, Wis, a, d, ANDARSON, : Clano Hite Kyeas. + Fur The Chleaga Trit Carofully closo bia weary oye Yor ho now soca whovo tha aklea A viston naw, and O so bright, Jt banishes all the woary night, Carefully amooth bis dark-brawn hatrs onderty stralghton his Hobe with cara; Lay bts pale bund norosa bis breast, Thon put bin away to sweetly reat. Carotully covor the faco of clay , Votore you bear bins fur away— Away to bla choson place of roat, Where tumult no more cun wring bis broast. Lower him gently down In the ground, Let the green wrassea waye o'er the mound, While cuol zephyra fan the oiaht: Leave tlta to rent frowm wearlsutne cure, ‘Lot bim ascend tha ladder of Ufo, (9 Forever froud from mortul strife, + Leuve him with God who knowutn best, Who " ivoth to iis benvod Tost,” . Miss L, Fy Hacwer, ‘FEribute to Mis Memory, Fur The Chicago Tribune, Disturb vot bis stuinbors, Lot Garileld now sleep, , . + Wo loved him sincerely, For hit wo now weep, aah oth Disturb not bis slumbers, Jat sho Putrlot reat, % Mis days havo heer numbered, Js soul's with the Dhist., ‘His work ts now avpre Lot thy Presidgut rest, ‘Fao yrigh of u Nutlou, Tho proudest and best Have looked on thy valor, Thy precepts, thy trutit Hye proved thou'a vietor For immortal youth, ‘Thon rest, thou koro pilgrim, ‘Thy troubles are v'or, Thy beneon did light thao ‘Lo Hoavon's biost shore, In brightn nud glory hy wan has just risen ‘Thottgh set ipon oarth— ‘To shine ever tn fleaven, Ant tho notee of the battle \ | Forovor will conse, And thy voieu with (hy Mustor's Bo mingled in peace. Where thy loved ones niny greot thee, On Eenvon's bright shore, And tho Palm and tho Crown Jo thine everinorg. DiS MW, Wirsore Meckod tor the Grave, For the Chicaga Tribune, Wo deck our buro fur tho tum, And heap his bor with tlawers, Wohilo his grand spirit throngh tho gloom Finds ummeanthlue vowers. The favored State that gave him birth Receives her martyred sony Carve deop the atone that sneaks bls worth, And telts tho prize Denth wou, at forge-tiames dip! Lot iill-wheels pausol Lov irate stay hdr hand! Mako bure your brow! twine ¢nvle gauzol Pray yo through all the land! Pray for his stticken family! Tument our Nation's wol We have the whole world's sympnthy— ‘ A teue man leth low. Wo deck our Gurfeld for tho grave And hielo bis pull with towers; Ais: lifo—and love worked hnrd to savo— Lewves "inlluenee sweet” for ours, TY. G. Da Moir, t Our Fallon Chiof. For The Chteago Trbtnes Sloep, sweetly sleop! thou zreut and just) Earth to earth, and ust to dust! ’ Nutlona weep thy Joss to fect, Loved ones ‘rownd thy presence kneel, Allmidst grief tog groat to toll, Mourn thy loss—beloved go woll~ Farewell, O great Chlet, furawellt On corth no more with us thou'lt dwoll. Phou'rt gone forever Cron: our sieht; Whose will was over to do right: Jtavered vy all, our grief Is great; hy loss Is felt tn evory States Loving ones o'er thoo will weep, Who art not dead, bat Jrstastecp. We'll miss thee from thy earthly, Tomo, ‘Tho Anvola oluiiued thoe fer ihofr own, Dueruron, 1, CHARA O, USRSELb, ANoblo Mam For.The Cnicagu Tribune, feed by Nature with tho noblest tralts, And trained to closu observance of tho right, Tle grow, x man to mnald the form of States, And govern thom by cthle's purest Hight; Yet In bis primo of manhood justly strong, Chief of. tho Curemo$t Nution on the carth, itis lifo was stricken byw donadly wrong *, Dogo by wv creature of the meanest worth, aAr@@ all tho yeors of toil and cure wore vain, ‘The greatest wisilom und the great Intent Aone fell blow were leveled to tho plain, And by that stroku a million benrts wero rent. And still tho fond who did t] Heurvivers Jdves to Insielt by his exin foul, The acnso of Justice In Nation lives, , Tho law of yeogeanco roused in ev'ry soul, Cnioadn, Sept. Wy GUITEAU AIID MASON, AMtnistor of tho Gonpot Bxpreascn Win Viows Concerning tho Proposed Pune inhment of Sergt. Maxon, and Hoadsa FivoeCent Subscription for Him. T the Editor af The Chtcugo Tribune, * KanaAmazoo, Mich, Sept. #4—Lhero aro. times when the forms of Inw seem only to mock at justice, ‘Lho present appears to be such a time, when the vilialn who tlred ntand kilted the beloved President of the United tates Is treated with less rigor than the man who fired nt and missed a despleable ussasin, It is represented that Sergt. Mason's ‘treat- ment ti prison is much more severe than that of Guiteau. Moreover, the right mill- tary aw under which Sergt. Mason will be tried for insubordination is much clearer in allotting the death. penalty than aiy law un- dor which at tho present time Guiteau can be indicted, if the stnte of things hag been accurately set forth by the current accounts, As American citizens we ave law-abliding and shall continue to be so. Every goo eltizen will respect: the admirable spirit of Gen, Sherman's letter, Dut thore are times when it is tho people’s right, through tho presence of overwhelming sentiment, to bu como n law unto themselves. Lot there be no oulbrenking act, Int let there be such an jy meanrs expression of public senthnent as stall be heeded by oven the military authorities, which shall say unequivocally: “While wo do notapprove of Sergt Mason's method, Wo are nob willlng that tho net contmitied under sueh a powerful aud righteous sontl- ment should bo severely punished; and ese ally witl we nover submit to see an un- bp sitccesstul attempt upon nv despleable ns- sisin’s life more suvaraly punished than the i erie of the assasin hiuiself.”” Will you not, therofore, ad your paper wt five-cent sitbseription Sergt, Mason which shall give oppor. bun by for the expression of this sentiment? Tundertake to predict that ft will be the moat popular. movement in whieh you ever en- age, 1f there be not. speeillly a half-mill- fon subscriptions L shall be greatly mistaken, Sot the balt rolling, Laclosed. my subserlp tion, ‘Truly yours, - Ciranies O, Brown, Paator First Congrevu tonal Church, —————— CAUSE AND EFFECT. To the Editor of The Chicugo, ‘Tribune, Osweao, IIL, Sept, 23—In your issue of today js o letter entitled “The Reign of Law.” ‘Tho writer, after stating what tho ministers of the Gospel bad sald and what they probably would sny in regard to the denth of President Garfield, closesas follows: Very different is the aspect of this sad affair to ond who recognizes the fuct that God rules by iininutablo laws which are not devised, mexiitied, or suspended from hour to hour, but which ‘aro he old its timo and 18 permanent as tho universe, “Nothing cun by more wondorful than. tho wajostic, unbroken, sublime, and cternul pros hwaion of cutises and oifects,”" io / At Js self-evident that the writer 13 cog- wzant that a God rules the universe, Dut tt is Nkowlse as self-ovident that it ts not the Ged which Is represented Jn the book called, the Bible. From his clostug words: it may. positively be inferred that the God -ho be- Hoves In manages this world by enuse ‘and vffect, or, In other words, every effect must hive an adequate cause, and that the same ennae Will produco a Mike effect. Tn inaking this fusug inthis way he virtually says bo- etuge Culteau shot Mr, Gurtleld he would dle, Cuusc—efficet, Hla God has mide ‘it cortaln by immutable Inws that every person shot by i pistol-bultot must dlo—iike cuuse praduce Hky eltect. + ee Guitean wanted an office under Govern. incnt, and not obtaluing ous he shot and killed our Prestdunt, Cause—ertect, » Your Got, who controls the world, a3 you say, “by fins mutable laws,” makes syory one who wants n Goverunent olfee, and who doves nat ob- tuln one, an assasin who Is sure to kill: tho person who rotusds to give him the office de- sired. Con tt bo that the weiter can -call tho works of such a God majestic and sublime? Agiin, what nuule Gultenut want an oftica 2: To was poor, Againg Poor nnd wants iin otice, Cuuse—oifect, Does every poor man want a Government ofice, and If he dees not obtaln tt will he shoot and surely Kill the Presiilent? Causo—-olfect, Again, L might ask, What mado Guitent poor? Such Wlustrutions of the operation of cause and effaeb night be uel tlpiied Indetinitly, only to slow the fatlacy of the nssumpetin put forth by the writer, ‘The Gad of the ible nye A commandment tonal men thus: ©Thow shalt not kill”? Had this been obeyed our Prosidont would not have been inure algred, - I, We FAMENY, ——————— THE PRESIDENTS SURGEONS, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, 4 Mansuviriy, Warren Co., Ind., Sopt, 4.— Tho Indiunapolls Journal ot Thuraday suy: “Tho shuttered ‘rib deilected the bull that killed the President and caused Ip to Jocatg where no one suggested ft was,” ‘It you will rofor’ (bn communteation - £ wrote you dated Jitly 9, Just seven days attur tho fatal shot, you will find the following Innguage; ‘1fd¢ had not been sor the providentinl tenth rib, it would have passed obliquely through the abdominal cavity, perforating the “bowels as well as the Iyer, and pissed out, of bis. bedy below and two or three luches ty the lett of the umbilicus, Lu thag igo through enso he would not have lived ton hours, tint rib was there, and tho ball struck an fractured fH, was dell from its dendy course throngh the bowelsto.the lett and he wards, and very probably lor, In the di} phragm salt aver to the i of the doily, tarvelously missing any vital organ 4 Han Heiser oes thit ul i . eins Now, sir. how does thit sound tn the of the wtopsy?) As Lsaldan thot ot take the ball was delleeted to tho left: and Mr wards, and very probably lodged In the dite phragm well over to tha feft of the ody, Ant there is where the surgeons found fe two and uy half inches to the Jeftot thespinal prowclily eneyated: anil Tariilesa, * ns CAV ty Bix Etiches by four fn alte mensions wa fond tn the vicinity of the biulder, between the liver and tranye we colon, ‘hab abseess Killed the Presf- From tho 25th of Inst July he was auftering from pymmin, septleeinia, or blood-poisons Nf whichever sou choose to all i hat abseess at tho Ceti could not haya been more than fotr inches from tho ene trance of the wottnd—periiaps two and a hilt ould have reached tt fy Instead of tettin the matter frou that huge abscess btrrow he tween the faselasof the himbar tnusetes to tho extent of ano foot, the surgeons had contageously laid the entrance of {the wound open, Freely adjusted the fractured rip, taken away the splctiis of bone, and let that al. sees bad free outlet to tho surface, the President would have boen altve foiday, But, Mnstend of that, Me track of the bultot was healed tip, and that pestiferous matter allowed to burrow and talnt, his wholo $Ye ten, , ‘ Tho ball struck the rib at an angle of five to len degrees a8 it wns passing ‘slightly obllauely downwards. Lu tecordatics with a shingle law of nature It was deflected upwards at tis suns angle It was passing down wards, Itad It hoen at thoond of that pus cavity, sixteen tuches from. where It-ontered the body, it would inves been deflected at an auxle of seventy-five or cighty derrees, ane outer of the unexpected would have ‘lap pened anda simple lw of physles been vigw ited, Onis Anony, ets THE AUTOPSY. A. Tolk with Ny. Mamilton, of Now oric-Io ‘elle AM Abont tho Search Ball-Mnpossibifity of Remuve But | New York: Tribune, Sept. 2% Dr, Hamilton dictated the followmg, whieh Was shown to lilin In proof inorder that there Might be no doubt of its entlre nccurney: “'The ball entered the Lntet-vertebral apace on the right stde betweon the Inst dorsal and first lumbar vertebra ata point very near the transyerso and: obluus processes—that fg, obliquely from beluud. Lt passed a Uttls downward and forward, penetrating the body of the first Jumbar vertebra, escaped from tho vertebra very nenr its middly in front, and was found w little to the left of the body of this vartebra, lying wider the lower iurgin of the pancrens nnd “tiewrer its posterior, or dorsal, aspect than Els anterlor, bohind the porttonvum und-tharefore outside tho cavity of the bel ‘Lhe batt was encyst- ed, completely surrounded by a firm enpsule, wiilch invested It entirely ind closely, the capstila contalning nothing but the ball, a etuin or two of whitu tenncions substance at tachad to one point of the lnner surface, which was not ensily removed by the edge ut the knife, and whieh. may be found wider the microscopy to consist of adrop of deste ated pus, or itinay prove to be the leaden strain oceasioned iy, the oxidation of the surfacoot the ball. Tt atso contained a small Traginont of black material, perhaps three quarters of un duch in length and au elzhth of an inel in breadth, which under the micro scope nny prove to be x piece of cloth, but the oxict character of which has fot yet been determined, A most eritien! examination of the sae jnclosing the ball undera strong Helit and with a probe did not disclose any cone nection between It and the track of the ball, Not far remoyed froin the seat of the ball was the blood cavity, pettiups distant one or twolnches, aud in this neighborhood thera could bo felt distinctly andor the inger ine iiunerable sina] .substances lke grains of sand, of greater or-iess magnitude, whieh have not you been submitted to iniseroscop feat examination, but whieh were sapposed to be minute fragmunts of. bone torn away from the broken vertebra, aud thus widely disseminated in the adjucent tissues, ‘The blood: sac was behind the perltonenm, bub the autopsy revealed .that It had ruptured into the cavity of- the peritoneum, probably ust before the ocourronce of duath, and at east a pint of blood congulated savas found In the peritoneal cavity, “Hheabseessspoken of fn tho oficial report of tho autopsy was not in. this: region preclsely, but some: what more to tho ‘right, between the liv and transverso colon, No connection w discovered between -this and: dio external wound made by the bullet, und there are nas of knowing whether it coms muniented.: with ‘tho original track at some enriier period in the history of the ease or not, It may Inve done so, and be- come stbsequently closed, or It may have been:the result of the extension of inflamua- tlon from the original track to the sujacent tissues, ‘There was no lesion of tho liver, recent or ancient, indicated In the autopsy. it isavident from this necount Unt the [resehes of the bull in the situation in whieh § was found was not the imimediate cause of death, as'16 was couplctaly, oneystetl, snd must have long since conser to cause irriti tion, ‘Tha small fragments of bone and the arent lesion of tho luntbar vertabra are the pathological fneta which alone could endan- Hor the pationt’s fife. ‘This lesion of the vere tebra the surgeons had no meats of repalt- ing, nor could it have been repaired anve by the processes of unture.. ‘Che small fruxe ments of. bone (if thoy. showkt prove to such) «widely disseminated in the tuijacent tissues certainly could not have beun removed by any suraien! operation. 1b ‘wis dletertntned by the nutopsy Urat the ne cespity did not oxtst for removing the bull, or, In other words, tnt hud there been no other lesion it night haye been carrled for many years without causing death or oven inconvenience, Still it tony be prover to tn guird whether by a surgical operation the bullet could have. beon. safely. removed. it hind been arrested by the spine, or evel Jodgud in the substance of the spinal column possibly with a bold and very extensive die svetion IE might hinve been safely renched aud extracted, . It is questionable, however whother the history of surgery turnishes any oxmnple of success\uniler the elreumstalces now supposed. But the fact is that the bitl Ieb traversed the spine and lodged ats polut some distance removed from it, passin intracutously through various vital atructures which surrounded tho anterior and literal walla of the vertebra, "Pho front of the sping in the region trav: orsed and both of its sides presenting taward the interlor of the belly are Iterally covered by. Important —bload veasols—nrteries and voins—~tho most important norves of the body—tho symputhetle or gungiionic system of nerves, Algo nerves of coumon sensation and mation, and by lymphatles Including the #reat thoracic duct, through which nutrition from the allmontary ennalds conveyed to the heart. ‘The injury of almost any one of the foregolnyg, excdnting tho nerves of commott sensation: and motion, would Inevitably de: stroy Iifey and in tho tidat of this plexus of arterles, yeind, sierves, and lymphatics, We surgeon would have had toearry hia kulfe In search of a ball the situation of wilel has only been revealed by tho wutopsy, ‘There were no possible means of knowing the situ tlon of the ball during Hite, ns it give no tte dfentlons of its presence, hor could It possl- bly have been reached and recognized Dy nny form of surgleal probe, ‘That death woul Inve beon fuimediate and the {Inevitable rer sultof any such during adyonture is wliuost absolutely certain, q ale “However much wo Individually or ca’ lectively may have mada oursulves Hluble to Just orittclam fi tha mutter of dingngsls oF prognosis, and whatever doubts muy be ott tertulned ‘by medica! man us to the proprlety: of the treatinentincortaln respects, Teunnt wllave t one intelligent surge A horeafter..think that. at any period in u ia progress of the case the ball or the fragt 3 of bone which it sent before tt cout Ie buon successfully removed: nor, indeed, U Mi any serious otteinpt in that directions woul’ hot have resulted In speedy death, ‘Vieweint theensa In the Hhtet our present knows edee, Loom prepared te aftivay tht sure hn ip “resources by which the fatal 5 could have been avertud. | ‘Thily wa the sit consolation whieh I felt Justitted in giving \ the grlef-atriskun wifoand funily, uid Wh) ull ny nasociates belleye we enn give Wu afilicted poople.”? a THE MICHIGAN SUFFERERS. rectal Dispated ta The Chicug Tribune Munaon, Mich, Sept. H,—The eommitters from the yarigus dehool-distrlots brought lt een ty wheat anu aah tauty. Penge load of goods rain went forwal : Ratlot Cowmlttes at Pure Adurou touy, wb fig the third from hure. ‘ sa §500 wiil bo paid f snso that Hop Listers, will not cure o boli. “Doupraen w ‘ t