Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1881, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Stnday, AT THE STAR BUILDIN: Northwest Corner Peansylvania Ave. and 11th St., by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. Tae Evestxo Stan is served to subscribers in th city by carriers, on their own sceount, at 10 cents per Week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at the count iy? ents each. By mail- Postage P Tepaid—50 cents a mont Post Office at Washington, D. C., a 2 One year, $6; six months, {Entered at the second-class maf} m: Tre Wrexty Sran—publiehed on Friday. $2.5 ear, Portare prepaid. Six months, §1, 10 copies for $15, Copies for $20. AS : ‘as S27" All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance; Re paper sent longer than is paid for. Rates of advertising made known «n application. EXTRA! 12:15 OCLOCK P. A NATION IN TEARS. THE DEAD PRESIDENT HIS LAST HOURS. Sees SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Ses THE FEELING IN WASHINGTON. The President died at 10:35 o'clock last night. The announcement of his death came with a shock, as the public, encouraged by the favor- able tenor of the dispatches received during the evening, were unprepared for such news. The excitement of the day had died out, and people were disposed to believe that the President would overcome the pending crisis, even if he s®¥tumbed to succeeding ones. Many who have hoped against hope through the darkest hours of the President's brave struggle for life were encouraged by the evening bulletin to believe that he had &@ new chance for life. Most of the people had retired tor the night. When the news came, sudden and terrible, it stirred the whole city as nothing ever stirred it before. The tolling bells summoned the sleeper from his bed, and the mournful, musical, solemn tones breaking the silence of midnight. penetrated to the cell of the assassin, like a summons to judzment. The news, so unexpected, though every one believed he was prepared for the worst, fave a shock as fearful as the report of the | assassin’s pistol on the fatai Saturday, nearly three months ago. death last night the Associated | sent the following dispatch from Long | “Previous to his death the only words | n by the President were that he had a | were pai i It is supposed by the | sioned by a clot of | Dr. Bliss was the | ied of the President's i and upon entering the room he at once | the end was near. The members of were immediat summoned to the I arrived and perfect quiet rs. Gartleld bore the trying reat fortitude.and exhibited unprecedent * way to no paroxysm: e evident she There sh pre- | ted | o ta heart- w. full of grief, but with too Tauch ( in courage to exhibit it to those | around She of course was laboring under 1. despite her nd her lips became drawn t to bear the burden with | effort to folle ample of hermother. | THE DEATH SCENE = } Was one never to be forgotten. Perfect quiet was not a murmur heard ident was sinking. After death tunced the bedy was properly ar- . A. Boynton. Telegrams were | © Presi mother in | t at Will Arthur and other are now President men. = also to Vice rominent public | THE INQUEST ‘on, of Long Branch, the coroner of Monmouth county, will hold an inquest over | resident. | the inquest, ed, he has not yet been at'sdeath. The body will topsy will take place Dr. Curtis, of Washington, asked to come here in company with sent when | | es of | +t been definitely upon, but it will | | during | W evenin: that the body will be taken te it will lie in state durin: ith the frequ the President in_ his lifetime. " on with the ith which she has borne her trials so = weil as could possibly be expected reumstanices . and is YMPATHY. received by At | | Branch: } intelligence fills press to Mrs. | - ARTHUR. | How THE A general dispateh President died at 10:35. From what can be ascertained his death | was from she Xhaustion. Mr. Warren Young, | assistant to I ecretary Brown. brouzht | the news from the cottage at 10:50 o'clock. The first indication that curred was th Eibercn pposed he had Cabinet, who left here Attorney Gen- a Vice President Arthur of t's demise. THE EXeTrEM A dispatch dated at 11:15 p.m. said: net has just arrived and gone in a body to the Francklyn cottage. All are here except See taries Blaine and Lincoln. Attorney MacVeagh has telegraphed the iatt are now en route to Long B dent's death. Great ex: heve, and particulars cannot be ob’ The guard around the cottage has been doubled, and ne one is allowed to 2pproac! The government } taken possession of the only telegraph wire which is connected with EI It will be almost impossible to get further detailst: ae we are shut off from all communication with the cottage and its Inmates. The Last Moments. WBE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATH AS Rei BY ATTORNEY GRNERAT. Mx A dispatch frem Elberen, dated at 11:20 p.m., \T AT ELBEROD the Elberon Hote) from the Francklyn cottuge, | dent of the United States without de | President down created no ¥, | table e | and quiet ~The Cabi- | and made the following statement: “I sent my dispatch to Minister Lowell at 10 p.m. Shortly before that Dr. Bliss had seen the President and found his pulse at 106 beats per minute, and all the conditions were then promising a quiet night. The doctor asked the President if he was feeling uncomfortable in any way. The President answered ‘Not at all, and shortly afterward fell asleep, and Dr. Bliss returned to his room across the hall from that occu- pied by the President. Cols. Swaim and Rock well remained with the President. About fif- teen minutes after ten the President awakened and remarked to Col. Swaim that he was suffer- ing great nain, and placed his hand over his heart. Dz. Bliss was summoned, and when he entered the room he found the President sub- stanfially without pulse, and the action of the heart was almost indistit He sald at once that the President was dying, and directed that Mrs. Garfield be called; also the doctors. The President remained in a condition bene 10:35, when he or, aes dead. He lied of some tropble heart, supposed to be neuralgia.” ‘THE FIRST DISPATOH. In answer to an inquiry, last night, the Attor- ney General said that the first dispatch after the death occurred was sent to the late President’s two sons at Williams college, and afterward dis- patches were sent to the other relatives. The Final Bulletin. HOW THE DOCTORS MADE THE MOURNFUL AN- NOUNCEMENT. The last ofthe famous “‘official bulletins” was issued at 1:15 o'clock this morning, and made the mournful announcement that the end had come, in the following words: ELBEnos, N. J. Sept. 19, 11:30 p.m.—The Pre- sident died at 10:35. After the bulletin was issued at half-past five this evening the Presi- dent continued in much the same condition as | during the afternoon, the pulse varying from 102 to 106, with rather increased force and yol- ume. After taking nourishment he fell into a niet sleep about thirty-five miautes before his jeath, and while asleep his pulse rose to 120, and was somewhat more feeble. At ten min- | utes after ten o'clock he awoke, complaining of severe pain over the region of the heart, and almost immediately became unconscious, and ceased to breathe at 10:35. D. W. Buss, FRANK H. Hamira D. Hares AGN! The Vice President Informed AND ASKED TO REPAIR TO LONG BRANCH EARLY TO-DAY. A little after midnight the following dispatch was sent from Long Branch to Vice President | Arthur: “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 Presi- yy. Ifit concurs with your judgment, we will be very glad if you will come here on the earliest train to-morrow. (Signed by) William Windom, Sec- retary of the Treasury; William H. Hunt) Sec- retary of the Navy; Thomas L. James, Postmas- ie MacVeagh, Attomey Gene- Secretary of the Interior.” : President Arthur. SWORN IN BETWEEN TWO DAYS—A MIDNIGHT CEREMONY IN NEW YORK. The following was sent from New York after one o'clock this morning: “In accordance with | the dispatch received from the Cabinet in regard to taking the oath of office, messengers were sent to the different judges of the Supreme Court. The first to put in an appearance was judge John R. Brady, who was closely followed by Justice Donohue. ‘The party, comprising the Vice President and the judges named, besides | District Attorney Rollins and Elihu Root and the | eldest son of the new Presideat, assembled in | the front parlor of No. 423 Lexington ayenue | (Gen. Arthur's residence), where the oath of office was administered. The President has not signified his intention as to when he would visit the capital, and he declined to be interviewed | as to his future course. The Final Scenes. THE ASTONISHMENT Cal ‘D BY THE SUDDEN ANNOU: MENT OF THE DEATH. The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun tele= graphed Jast night: “The shot that struck the more astonishment | than the sudden announcement of the death of the President at 10:35 to-night. At 11:15 At- torney General MacVeazh furnished the follow- ust before 10 o'clock Dr. Bliss | E dent and found his pulse at 106, and the conditions promised a quiet night. | The President sald he was comfortable. Shortly after this the President fell asleep and Dr. Bliss retired to his room, while Gen. Swaim and | Col. Rockwell remained with the President. | | About 10:15 the President awakened and said to. neral Swaim that he was suffering from | pain in the neighborhood of his heart. Dr. Bliss | was called from across the hall, and when he en- tered the room he found the President unconsei- and substantially without pulse, and the ac- n of the heart indicated that the President ving. Mrs. Garfield was sent for, and Drs. Agnew aud Hamilten sumnoned. The Presi- dent remained in a dying condition until 10:15, when life was found to be extinct. He died with pme trouble of the heart, supposed to be neu- ralgia, although this remains to be determined. Am ¢ was immediately sent to Vice Presi- dent Arthur and one to Secretaries Blaine and Lincoln, who are en route for Elberon. The cab- inet didnot reach the Elveron until 11: 5, and went immediately across to the President’s cot- | tage, Where the dead President Jay. At 11:30 the Cabinet is in consultation.” ANNOUNCING THE NEWS AT ELBERON. Another correspondent telegraphed as fol- lows: Allusions had been made to the fact, as ed by all the physicians, that the afternoon and evening had been spent quietly by the Pres ident, and Dr. Boynton sai do ‘not, under the eire ‘ances, regard the quict and comfor- | ing as by any means a good indica- He is not at all relieved from the danger which may at any moment prove fatal.” He had | scarcely finished the sentence, which was a sum- that | ming up of the conversation, hen Mr. Rickard, one of the confidential doorkeepers at the | ttaze, put his head in at the east door of the Elberon — reception room but with an evident underlying and deep excitement, beckoned to the doctor, who, accompanied by the reporter, followed the mes- sens Once outside the hotel, Mr. Rickard he President seems to be sinking fast.” All three hastened towards the lines, and this, seven minutes after life had departed, was the first whisper of immediate danger, and it was sent out asa bulletin several minutes before it was Known from any other source. At the guard line the three gentleman met Capt. Ingalls, in charge of the troops, and asked, hastil “Isit as bad as reported?” 1 am afraid,” was the answer. sergeant on duty a for some mustard.” ‘This was the first knowledge given of the fact hat a new rigor.the third in twenty-four hours, isetin. Atthis moment a gentleman was sming down the cottaze steps who proved ir. Warren Young, one of Private Seere- tary Brown's assistants. Of him the report ‘ “T just going to the camp is the news worse?” " Wyas the reply, “worse, It is all over. | He is dea AT THE BEDSIDE. The same correspondent sent a dispatch later, saying whea Mrs, Garfield entered the bedroom i was told that the President was dying, she maintained her calin exterior and gaye no evi- dence She is now bearii tenible trial. She is now as well as possibly could be expected. ‘The President's remains have, for the present, been placed under the charge of Mr. . the village undertaker, and will remain ival from ‘ York to-morrow: Sew Y rtaker and em- et, who has beva telexraphed for. ANOTHER ACCOT er correspondent telegraphed as foliows iin- a When the report was re- from Francklyn cottage scarcely any one ved it, as nothing had led to the belief that h would be so sudden. Some hours ; bell | dont arming had the best {rc { | for this WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1881. information, however, it is believed that the President's ‘family had been fully warned. Every member who was in the cottage at the time was present fully ten minutes before death came, All sources of information were qcny cut off, and the few who knew the letails were not in a condition to give the information at the moment, and_ac- cess to them was afterwards quickly and peremptorily shut off. The first an- nouncement of the death was made by Mr. Warren Young, of the Elberon. This an- nouncement was followed in a very few mo- ments by a ramor that the President was sinking rapidly. Death had already taken pee when the rumor of the new trouble was rst heard. His condition had been such that the cottage had been cloaed and most of the Borererce men had gone back to the West End. Some of them were already in bed, with the ex- pectation of a bad day to-morrow, to begin early in the morning, and even Dr. Hamilton was of the opinion that death was not immi- nent. He was not within call, and not present when the death occurred. The newspaper men who were present started to get the “tetails, only to find that the line of guards had been extended to a consid le distance from the cottage; that the line could not be approached or that ‘in In- galls, who was in command, had received = orders that sul paenes issued up to that jour had been dec! void and of no force. The most trustworthy of the first information came from unusual sources. Mr. Jones, of the Elberon, was standing on the cottage steps when the news first got beyond the sick room and heard the conversation of the outer house- hold. He said the whole family had known of the crisis in time to see the President while yas still conscious, or apparently so, although it was not known that he had spoken or eyen reco; nized anyone. Mrs. eld, Miss Mollie Gat field, Col. Rockwell, Gen. Swaim and Drs. Bliss and Agnew were present during the entire time, but none of them left the house immediately af- terwards, and the only one to enter was Dr. | dread hour, when our noble, brave Pres’ Hamilton. It is und it has been Mrs. Gar finally came the family should have all possible Privacy, and the information to the public should not extend to details, but be considered as pri- vate and sacred. The Funeral. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS ANNOUNCED LAST NIGHT. e A telezram from Long Branch last night said: “The arrangements for the funeral have been made entirely to meet the wishes of Mrs. Gar- field, and of course changes in these arrange- ments may yet made. The arrangements offi- cially annotineed by Attorney General MacVeagh are as follows: On Wednesday morning a spe- cial train will leave for Washington and will carry the remains to the capital, and the body will lie in state under the dome of the Capitol on Thursday and Friday, and on Friday evening they will be taken by special train to Cleveland, | where they will lie in state on Sunday. The | faneral services will take place on Monday, and | the remains will be interred in Lake View cen etery, Cleveland, in_ accordance with the ofte expressed wishes of the President while alive.” The Calm Before Death, THE NEWS RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEATH WAS ANNOUNCED. After the regular edition of Tue Star went to press yesterday, the news from the President was, if auything, favorable. The evening dispateles | appearing in Tue Srar’s fourth extra were slightly encouraging in tenor, and indicated that if there was any chanze it was for the better. THE REGULAR EVENING BULI was as follows : ‘ON, 6 p.m.—Though the grat nt’s condition continues, th been vation of symptoms since the noon bul- letin was issued. He has slept most of the time, coughing but little and with ease. The Sputa remains unchanged. A sufficieut amount of nourishment has been taken and retained. Tem- perature, 98.4; pulse, 102; respiration, 18. Signed by Drs. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew.) THE DISPATCH TO MINISTER LOWELL. About ten o'clock last night the following was sent to Minister Lowell by Attorney-General MacVeagh: “The President had another chill of considerable severity this morning, whieh, fol- lowing so soon atter the chill of last evening, left him very weak indeed. His pulse became | more frequent and teeble than at any time since | he recovered from the immediate shock of the | wound, and his general condition was more alarming during the day. His system has reacted to some extent, and he passed the after- hoon and evening comfortably. At this hour he | is resting quietly, and no disturbance is ex- pected during the night. There has been no #ain whatever in strength, and thereis therefore no decrease of anxiety Up to the last moment, before the death was announced, the news received from the : Pr dent was of a nature to allay all fears of imme- diate dissolution, and was encouraging to re- ive the spirits of some of the extremely hope- ful. GEN. GRANT EXPRESSES SYMPATHY. The following was received at Elberon from New York early this morning: “ Wayne Mac Veagh, Long Branch: —Please convey to the bereaved family of the President my heartfelt sympathy and sorrow for them in their afliction. A nation will mourn with them for the loss of a Chief Magistrate so recenty | called to preside over its destiny. I will return to Long Branch in the morning to tender my Services if they can be made useful. U.S. Gras: A Nation's Sorrow. "8 WAB RECEIVED AND ANNOUNCED IN OTHER CITIES. At midnight last night throughout the coun- try the bells tolled a doleful dirge, announcing the death of the President, who had come by reason of his long suffering so near to the peo- | ple, that to each one his demise seemed to bring of personal loss. ew York Trinity church bells began to toll at 11:17 p.m., when the news of the death of the President was confirmed. The bells in the upper part of the city were also tolled. At Albany the bells were tolled by order of Mayor Nolan on the announcement of the death, and the public buildings were draped in mourn. ing. The news was received at Cleveland at 11 o’clock and created great excitement, although it was expected. The cathedral beli_ was tolled and was followed by the other churches of the city. The news was received in Boston at 11:20 .m., and at 11:30 the fire alarm bells struck the rst peal. All the theaters announced no per- formances for to-night. The news was received in Titusville, Pa., with spontaneous and involuntary demonstrations of | sorrow. At midnight the bells of allthe churches | were tolled. ‘The news was received In Baltimore at 10:50, and not a neat hardly had elapsed before the big bell of the city began tolling in its sonorous ‘ones, whilst the thirteen belis of the various » houses accompanied it. Mayor Latrobe determined to call a meeting of the city council afternoon, to take appropriate action. The tolling of bells throughout the city aroused the people of Richmond, Va., from | their beds, The death was announced in Cincinnati at 10:30 p.m., creating a profound sensation. piece eee pues disinissed with oe an- cement of the death, and the tolling of bells carried the news to the people. The Hews was received at Oswego, N.¥., at porte lols Ge new moments the city ell commenced tolling, thus giving cl to the citizens, By ee ervine sate To Avenge the Deed. REPORTED TO NAVE BEEN PASSED A NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION. A dispateh from Newark, N. J., last night said: RESOLUTIO | peoph | and @. derers the guilty assassin has been made the martyr rather than the vietim. They aver that-ene victim of lynch daw in the west has been conducive ot greater safety to human life, a8. a preventative of murder, than a dozen hangings in the eastern states. They think that a course other than the usual one should be adopted in the punishment of Guiteau for his crime, in order to satisfy the feelings of an injured nation, and serve a8 an example in future to curb the baser passions of all who aspire to become notorious by assassinating theruler ofthe nation. Theayengers have just unanimously resolved that one of their number be chosen by ballot, whose duty it shall be to devote his whole time and energy to carrying into execution their proposed plan, and while the one chosen must act at the risk of his life, it must be with the consciousness that his life is not too dear to sacrifice in order to punish in a ta manner the dastardly coward who has imbrued his hands with the nation’s best blood. It is understood that they person selected to murder Guiteau will be unknown to his fellow members, except those of the executive com- mittee, who, it would seem, have absolute power. Law and Order, GEN. SHERMAN APPEALS TO TH GOOD PEOPLE OF THE UNION. The following card from Gen. W. T. Sherman, addressed to the editor of @ morning paper, was published to-day: “My Dear Sir: You and I have been com- rades in civil broils and strif¢ in California, when vigilance committees assumed rule, and we know, or think we know, how good, honest people have done some acts of violence nnder an honest conviction that they were doing the right thing, and we believe that time. the creat physician, will cure all things to the patient. I ‘have occasionally and recently heard the same arguments on the streets, the same scraps of wisdom enunciated, and even “a me ident is lying in the very agonies of death at L Branch, and the cowardly, miserable w Guiteau, is cowering in his cell at the public jail, it occurs to me that you and I should, in our respective spheres, make profitable use of our past experience. No man on earth holds in higher esteem the noble qualities of James Garfield than myself. I was on the point of starting for Chattanooga to-night to do honor to the heroes of Chickamauga, of whom he was one of the most prominent, but was stayed by the unfavorable report front his bedside at noon, and I shall remain here at my post of duty till the last moment of hope. At Chickamauga, eighteen years ago, Garfield was chief of staff to Gen. Rosecrans, whose right wing was broken back by the vehement charges of Bragg’s forces, and was carried along with the broken masses almost into Chattanooga, when he begged for the pri lege of returning to join Gen. Thomas, whose guns told him that that heroic man Il stood fast with his right wing. Gen. Rosecrans gave hi leave, and he did return, running the gaunt- let, joining Gen. Thomas and serving close to his person till night enabled them to fall back in good order to Chattanooga. That was Gen. Garfield's last fight, in whieh he felt especial pride, and I know that he intended to be Chattanooga next Wednesday to celebrate the event. But it is ordered otherwise, for he now lies by the seashore on hig death-bed, from a | inflicted by the miserable wretch Guiteau. | soldier, | wou For this man Guiteau_ 1 ask no no citizen to feel one particle of sympathy; on the contrary, could 1 make my will the law, shooting or ha: But I do ask every soidier and every citizen to remember that we profess to be the most loyal nation on e law. There is no merit in obeying an agree- | able law, but there is glory and heroism in sub- mitting gracefully to an pppressive one. Our constitution reads: ‘No person shall be held to. answer for capital or otherwise infamous crimes unless on a presentment; or indictment of a grand jury; and in all crinfinal prosecution accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wher the crime shall have been committed.’ his is the contract of nment, binding on tl sciences of all. Should our President di murderer is entitled to a speedy trial and I hope he will have justice done hi is not any office of yours, or of anybody except the regular courts ot thisWistrict, which are in undisputed power. Violence in any forin will bring reproach upon us all—on the country at large, and especially on us of the District of Columbia. “All the circumstances of the shooting, and of the long, heroie struggle for life, impress me so strongly that I would be ashamed of m countrymen if they mingled with their grief any thought of vengeance. ‘Ven: mine, saith the Lord.’ [trust the publie pr will exert its powerful influence to maintain the good order and decorum which haye prevailed solemn | Since the saddest of ull days in Washington, July 2, 1881.” The Fund for Mrs. Garfield. MR. FIELD MAKES AN EXPLANATION APPEAL. Mr. Cyrus W. Field last night had the follow ing telegraphed over the country: The deat of the President has led-to inquiries in regard to the fund raised for tne benefit of Mrs. Gar— field. The whole amount subscribed at present is $157,599.38, of which every dollar has been paid, except a single subscription of x which was made on condition that $245,000 ws first raised, and may be withdrawn should not that amount be secured. The money, as fast as received, was deposited-with the United States Trust Company, and as soon as a suflicient amount was paid in the Trast Company purchased $100,000 four per cent registered government bonds, to which has since been added $25,000 more. Owing to the high premium, th x in bonds cost $145,281.25. The bonds rein deposit with the Trust Company for Mrs. Gar- field, the interest of which, 35,009 a ye be paid to her quarterly, as long as she live: at her death the whole amount will be di equally amongst the surviving children of James A. Garfield. There is a balance in cash of 27,318.13, which, with whatever may be added hereafter, will be applied in thesame way. There would seem to be reason for expecting a con- siderable addition to the fand now that the Presi- dent is gone. Individuals have made liberal promises of what they would do in the eyent of his death. Some even felt there was an impro- priety in the attempt to raise subscriptions while he was stillliving with a hope of recovery; that the gift would create a feellne of personal obfi- gation that might prove embarrassing hereafter. me were restrained from giving lest there mo- tives should be misunderstood, That objection is now removed. No one need fear the imputa- tion of unworthy motives, for which there is no longer place. Our dead President has no favors to give, no honors to bestow. He cannot be touched by tokens of public sorrow, even by a whole nation following athis bier. But there is a practical way of showing respect for the dead by kindness to tne living. He is gone, but his wife and his childrea live to caity through all their lives the burden ot this great sorrow. Mrs. Garfield will soon leaye the capital, in which | her husband was lately the head of 50,000,000 of | to go back to her distant-home, widowed mate. Only once before has there been anything so pathetic in Ameriean history. That the country will deal gegorously with this stricken household no ee be Aeerte’ as eee bodies move slowly, and it </to wait. We haye preferred to do namebeaeee asking only the priviteze in this first S@sh.@ griet of show- ing our sympathy in a practical way, and so in some sli egree, if we cannot soothe the hid- den sorrow, of relieving anxieties that must press upon that widowed mother’s heart. Cyrvs W. Frenp. Pp. 8.—Any one desiring te unite in this fand will please remit direct’ to the United States Truet company, 40 Wall street, New York. Tolling the Bells, ‘THE NEWS ANNOUNCED BY AMOUR: KNSLI— SCENES ABOUT THE CITY—EXCITEMENT AND AND AN The “Nation's Avengers” are not a myth. They of | sin gaid: Attorney General MacVeagh just cave to | more positive notice thaa even that of this | usual si been expected. From are mewbers of a secret society in New Jersey, haying ramifications in Newark, the Oranges and Irvingsten. They met to-night and paseed a series of resolutions and took other action that will soon relieve the nation of thetrouble of sub- Jecting Guiteau to a trialbyjury. The “Nation's Avengers” have no doubt but that full jus- tice would be meted out to the assas- if the patie aoe ae to the process - Ad Ww, experience teaches them that’ at the execution of mur, WILD RUMORS—A NIGHT NEVER TO BK FOR- GOTTEN. ‘When the announcement was madethere were compexatively few people”on the avenue, bat the bulletin boards at the various places were svon supplied with the news that all looked for but dreaded to learn, and the crowds began to qjaietiy discuss the the iafurmation ng would be too good for him. | rth tothe sacred promises of the | the | began striking just before midnight by an order from District Commissioners Dent and Morgan. by telephone to the several fire stati The Metropolitan church and other church bells took up the echo and between 12 and 2 o’elk tolling became pretty gene hout the city, from Georgetown to th a. CROWDS OF ME were soon thronging the avenue and other streets; windows were hoisted and anxious in- quiries made from every house of the passers- by, all anxious for particulars of the sad termin- ation of the President's life. ‘Did he die in one of those terrible rigors?” den?” “Who was present at the tim the remains be sent here, or sent direct to Men- tor?” Such were the character of questions in everybody's mouth. The newspaper offices were besieged for news, and Tue Srak office corner was blocked up en- tirely, and thousands were running to and fro between the telegraph offices and news offices. WILD RUMORS were heard of an attempt to be made upon the jail to take the assassin, Guitean, out and hang him; that troops had been dispatched from the arsenal to gnard the jail, the guard doubled; thagthere was to be no resistance made jail officials; that there were pi blow up the train if he should from the District to New Jerse: rumors tended to keep up the excitement, and thousands in the city kept awake all night, ex- pecting some terrible event to occur, but hone could tell exactly what. THE POLICE. The fact was learned that all the police had been ordered to be kept on reserve at the station- houses. In the fifth precinct the drinking saloons were closed up at once by order of Lieut. Arnold, and not a minute too soon, as quite a number of drunken men were s about the | corner During all the din and ement ex- 8 of sympathy for the wife a ‘d President could be heard on ail ides, and words of disgust and ha assassin and any who sympathized w THE HOTEL LOBBI were thronged with their guests, many of whom |had retired for the night, but rose from their | beds, utterly unable to rest. The pub TAR seemed to have revivs that the end was not so ne: | death was a surprise to many who could not be- | the correctness of tl orts from Elberon, and not until dispatch after dispateh had been ceived were they satisfied. As the night wore on the crowds on the streets bezan_to diminish and scatter to their homes, the bells giving mournful midnight peals. THE RICT MILITARY. Colonel William G. Moore, commander of the Washington Light Infantry, has made arrange- | ments for the military companies of the District to act promptly should there be any necessity by undue excitement or otherwise any call upen the companies of the District. A imoment's notice is all that is necessary to call them together at their respective ren 1 the hopes of many r, and the tidings of | lent’s death everybody was abed broke on the air that the President was dead | The news reached Washin not bulletined. ) the streets. and asleep when the noise people on 2 the note of the cars of the people of S in the evening there had crowds ot people on the streets. In y of The St the crowd was jthe greatest. After the nce of the |; | Svan extra the crowd 1 | 8 o'clock only a latest bulieti Up town. the dru | crowd rem jee and nity, the in that immediate ined the longer VERY LITLE NEWS was received there, and while it was of an anx-, ious tenor it was not of a kind to cause imme | diate alarm. The conviction which had take | strong hold upon the people that the President j | could not live y hours was unshaken, out | jHone thouxht that during the nis breathe his last. “HE WILL NOT DIE TO-NIGHT.”” At f-past nine the drugstore at the corner | of New York avenue and 15th street put a bul- | letin against the glass of its illuminwed window to the effect that Dr. Bli red the Presi- dent at that time than fr the preced- hing ght hours. “He wil not die to- j night.” said all, and homeware went most of j them. That bulletin cleared the crowd from the uptown places. Only about twenty men lingered in that y All was very quiet, when the word bean to zo round thaf the President was dead. A small buneh of men was in the West- ern Union office. The newspaper corresponder came in now and then, but beyond thes it was | fully 12 o'clock before anything like a @Mvd had | commenced to gather The people were very quiet; the night was still; the ery of the news- boy was the only nolse that for a while disturbed | the city. Then the people bean te moye about. | Lights appeared at windows, doors opened, and | | men who had made hasty toilets began to walk | or run to the Western Union Telegraph Office and to the offices the morning papers. THE TOLLING BELLS. At a quarter to one o'clock the bell in AIL Souis’ church s'eeple—the first to lift its voice— broke on the air and told its tale of sorrow. | | N sound and passed it on to tie few minutes bells and Epiphaay churches. Ip ‘were ringing out the nation’s loss in all parts of | the city. Ladies appeared on the streets, and | with escorts walked around in search of detailed | information. None was to be had. The people whe had come out began to go home at half- past one this morning. and by two there was no | one on the streets except a few late men and the driver of the night liner, whose horses’ hoofs seemed to beat the pavement as in tine with A FUNERAL DIRGE. In the public buildings the news became known slowly. Its on'y effect was the appear- of one or two additional iights and the gather- ing of the watchmen in knots to talk over the calamity. AT THE WHITE HOUSE only the watchmen and one or two of the ushers were th when the tidings of death came over the wire. Ina short time all of the employés who ar@in the city had gathered in the house, and lights in the public part of it were turned up. These wasalong wait there for instrac- tions from Long Branch. One or t were received from Mr. Brown, directing the sending of certain articles to Elberon. These vere packed up and sent to the express oftice without delay. The stir about the house died away by two o'clock and all was then as quiet as it had been before the word of death reached its portals. There were but few people in the city who did not know last night that the Presi- dent had passed away. As those who had been down town late went home people could be seen witha whiteback ground and heard calling from windows and making anxious inguiries. But though the fact of the death was generally known there was NO NOISE OR EXCITEMENT. The scrrow was deep and still. When a Star reporter went home at 2 o'clock this morning he noticed in the northwestern section of the city several houser which had put on the badge of mourning. This morning by 8 o'clock hundreds of residences had the dark drapery upon them. UNDER ARMS. The Washington Light Infantry, the National Rifles and Union Veteran Corps remained in their armories all night The Infantry have decorated the Globe building from the second story to the roof. The other mi tions have decorated their armories. The deal- ers in the Center Market have decorated thes stands in an manner, THE END HAS COME. Assistant Private Secretary Q. L. Praden re- ceived a dispatch from Private Secretary Brown atabout i family of | hes and last official bulletin in last night’s | t | have be proper. ne yould | | “I Snr the St. Matthew's chimes caught up the dreaded | 2 ‘ew York avenue | ¢ pening Star. TWO CENTs. SUMMONED TO THE AUTOPSY. A telegram was received here from Private Secretary Br t night asking that Surgeon General Barnes, Surgeon Woodward and Dr. be present and assist at the autopsy, which will be made to-day. These gentlemen left as soon as possible for Long Branch. THE DEATH UNEXPRCTED. Col. H. C. Corbin received this m letter from Gen. Swaim, dated at 9 . stating that at that time immediate dissolution Was not apprehended. About 10 o'clock last night Col. C. received a telegram to come to Long Branch at once. As it was too late to Start last evening, te left this morning. “It is AM Over” THE NEWS ANNOUNCED TO THE CORRESPONDENTS. Special dispatches received from Long Branch at THE Stan office last night announced that the death occurred at 10:35 o'clock. A dispatch dated at 11 p.m. said: “It was too late. It was in vain. medicine came he had breathed his last. The correspondents engaged the whole force of car- riages and were driven pell mell to the Elberon. They got there just in time. In two minutes after their arrival on the stoop Warren Young came slowly walking over to the hotel from the cottaze. ‘What's the news?’ “It is all over,’ he sald. He was dead.” The President's Mines, WHEN PYEMIA WAS INDICATED —AN INTERVIEW WITH A PRYSICIAN WHO ATTENDED THE PRI iT. of Cleveland, prning a NEWSPAPER Ohio, Did you see the President after he was shot 7” “Ye I was with him most of the time | during Saturday—after 11 0° ‘kK and until late in the evening.” “What was his condition, and how would you | have treated him | “His strength was good for a few how | when it was | hemorrhage, and his strength declined ustil it | appeared that he could not survive the nigh j It is probable that his life was saved by the | blood clotting, thereby plugging up t!¢ mouths of the torn vessels, which arrested *e internal | eof the abdomen just below the Ii | The, presence of this clot was4etected late in the afternoon. is side?” | “By percussion, the sane means that are used to detect a solid lung.” Continuing the doctor said: “It was evident ly the sense of touch that there was a clot, and:t could be well defined. 5 jired: | ‘How can Lever lie to get rid of this mass of blood if the hemarhage has ceased.’ That in- | quiry was yerypertinent to the ease, and one | | that admits of jut one answer, viz | ably cannot mless the clot is rem of the opinpn that the coagula of blood should | | have beencemoved by the aspirator. Failing by this mear® an incision to it and removal would | | It is especially well known to su s who frequently remove ovarium tumos that if even the smallest amount of bloc is left in the cavity of the, abdomen the pvient is liable to die from septiewmia, and so creful is the most successful operators that | ven one or two hours are allowed to intervene before the wound is closed and the cavity of the abdomen is carefully inspected, and even the very least amount of blood is sponged out be- fore closing of the wound.” “Doctor, do you think the clot of blood was | 1 poison in the President's | respondent. j w winia is an acute dise tarting at a point where noxious or | putrid substances fy From this focus or | point the septic or putrid material is carried through the system by the circulation of the at'sease I presumea portion | the clot was disorganized and carried off ch the opening in his back, but a portion G 3 “It most probs blood. Inthe Presid ot Reyburn should proceed to Elberon at once, to | Almost before the full group and the | and a prominent physician, is in th He | was with the President the day he shot. He was asked by Tur ing: | mui | separated the jurisdi blood in the | | apis “How do you_know thereas a blood clot in | | county, to make an investi it putrified and poisoned his blood. Septic poison: mulate in the system i milar manner to trichina (hog poison). The putretica- tion develops or origi fe, and every point where the septi sin the be colontes of minute mona through the tissues, and each and every colony caused more serious morbid syzaptoms, Thus weeks and months at times intervene before | death ensues.” “When do you thi suffer from blood poison? *Less than ten days after he was injured. The symptoms at that time ence of pyzmia.” ~Is there no treatment to kill these little de- stroyers of human life?” «But few instances recover after the disease is fully developed. The only curative treat is what is known as anti-sep remedies that destroy the putrefication and animale The room shouid have been con- nily filled with a medicated atmosphere of if there had been a free opening in the opening in the abdomen from the first, a solution of the thymol should have been constantly injected st the point of infection.” The Organization of the Senate. THE DRIFT OF OPINION AMONG DEMOCRATIC SEN- ATORS. There has been a good deal of correspondence going on among democratic Senators of late in regard to the organization of the Segate. Sev- | eral letters have been received in the past few days from Senators who have been making a canvass of the democraticmember of the Senate to ascertain how they intend yoting when the Senate meets. The canvassing has developed the fact that there is not a bit of sentiment among the democrats as regards what action they shall pursue. They all give it as their opin- ion that the Senate shall proceed to organization | before the two new Senators from New York and the Senator to be appointed from Rhode | Island to succeed Senator Burnside—all of whom will be republicans—are admitted. Sen- ator Garland is the only democrat who is thought entertai any other view than this. He is ouly reported to in favor of allowing the new Senators to be sworn in before going into organization. Senator Beck says that there ymol, one of the best known anti-septies, and | yeted to convene the is not a singie democrat who entertains that view. The first step under these circumstances will be to elect a President of the Senate pro tem, who will also be Vice President. Upon this point there has been a good deal of can- Yassing among the democrats. The general drift of sentiment evoked is that Senator Bayard is the member of the Senate who is gen- erally favored for that office. Sergeant Mason. HE RECEIVES LETTERS OF SYMPATHY—HOW HE 18 LOCATED. No orders have yet been received at the bar- racks (Arsenal) in reference to the trial of Ser- geant Mason, of battery B, 2d U. 8. artillery, awaiting developments, ; and in in reading mostly, va rnin id Telegrams to ‘The Star. PRESIDENT ARTHUR. HOW HE WAS “SWORN IN. WHERE GUITEAU WILL BE TRIED. SCENES AT E = LBERON TO-DAY, THE FEELING IN ENGLAND. ARRANGING FORTHE FU ERAL Scenes at Elberon To-da: MORE DETAILS CONCERNING THE PRESIDENTS Last worps—THe BE WELD THIS AFTERNOON Special Dispatches to Tae Everise Star. LoxG Braxcu, N.J., Sept. 20.—The scenes at Elberon to-day are sad. At the little hotel | crowds are gathered discussing the sad death, | The flags on all the cottages are all at bulf-mast. A magnificent photogragh of the late President, in the hotel parlor, is draped in mourning. The | President's death was painless and without incident. “It was sudden, a surprise —nen- ralgia of the heart,” is the cause attributed. HIS LAST WORDS. These were his lastwords, An hour or 80 be- | fore the collapse the President said: “I am tired.” At four this afternoon the autopsy is to be held by Prof. Curtis, of Washington, in the presence of all the doctors, including Dra. | Barnes, Woodward and Reybuarn. Arrangements for the removal of the body | have not been definitely fined. After the autopsy It will be embalmed by a New York undertaker, and GO TO WASHINGTON sometime to-morrow. It will lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol until Friday, and thence be taken to Cleveland and be buried in Lawn- field cemetery. Where Guiteau will be Tried. THE NEW JERSEY LAW—acTION OF THR COR. ONER OF MONMOUTH corny. ches to The EVENING San. BRANOM, Sept. 20, 1 a.m.—According to j the law of New Jersey, when a person has ree | ceived a wound in another state and is carried | into New Jersey and dies the villain who in- | flicted the wound can be apprehended on the | requisition of the governor of New Jersey, tried, j Sentenced and executed in the connty in which | his victim ¢ A law of this kind was made | necessary by the fact that men who were mor- | tilly wounded in New York came into Jersey City by ferry and there died. The legislature of the state of New Jersey, in onder to prevent any T from taking advantage of the fact that which could be crossed in five minutes ” ‘y from New York, passed a law that when any person received a wound in the jurisdiction of another y be s assail aid, in case of death, be ed, seized and arrested on requisition hor and tried for murder in the first DEATH —THL AUTOPSY TO iv state and was brought into New Je nt death of the go! degree. THE LAW IN THE DisTRICT. In the District of Columbia, where the assault on the President was committed, the common law prevails, and the resust is that as the Presi- dent died at Long Branch, New Jersey, in order to secure such punishment as the assassin des rves he must be tried in Monmouth county, y de It is stated that Guiteau will never reach Long Branch. It is said that there i ion in Washingtonwho have sworn assassin on sight, but if he should escape assassination he will pre be tried at Freehold, as that is the county seat of the county in which the President died. THE INQUEST. The coroner of Monmonth county, who was notified at midnight to-night that the President. of the United States had died. came here te- night prepared t« ¢ the inquest on the body, as the Pre States died within the jurisdiction of the coroner. Me was willing to aceept the post-mortem which was made by Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton, but he insisted as death had occurred within his Jurisdiction that it was his duty, as coroner of Monmouth zation as to the cause igation will be made om to-morrow morning, and will be based on the post-mortem made by Dr. Bliss. The result will be that he will report to the governor of New Jersey that General James A. Garfield died from the eflects of a wound indicted upon him by ONE CHARLES J. GUITEAU, whom, he is informed, is confved in prison ix Washington, D.C., and as he is 80 confined it Il be preper to make a requisition upon the authorities in charge of the District of Columbia for Guiteau, that he may be tried in Monmouth county, New Jersey. The county seat of Mon- mouth county is Freehold, and the fall term of court at which Gaiteau can be tried will be in October. From What your correspondent hears of death. This inve: | there is very little likelihood that Guiteau will K the President began to | over reach Freehold aliv: | Hancock, txt who are patriots, have, it isstated, indicated the pres- | sworn to kill this miserable assassin on sight. Men who votea for By Associtted Press. Secretary Blaine with Preddent Arthur, New York, Sept. 20.—Secretary Blaine are ment | river in this city this morning, and is now with ic, meaning those | President Arthur. The Stock Exchange Closed. New York, Sept. 20.—The Stock Exchange werning committee ian- mediately, and recommeded that the exghange be closed at 12 o'clock to-day and closed on the day of the President's funeral. Gen, Arthur Sworn In, DETAILS OF THE CEREMONY WHICH TOOK PLACE AT HIS OWN RESIDENCE. New York, Sept. 20.—The Sun extra says: Gen Arthur was sworn in at a quarter-past two o'clock this morning at his house. Two judges of the New York supreme court had been sent for—J. R. Brady and Charles Donohue. Judge Brady arrived with Messrs. Rollins and Root at ten minutes before 2, but the ceremony was out of courtesy deferred until Judge Donohue’s ar rival at a little after 2 o'clock with ex-Commis- sioner French. Judge Brady stood on the other side of the table facing Geaeral Arthur. Grouped around the two men were Judge Don- ohue, Eli Root, Commissioner French and Dan‘) G. Rollins, and Gen. Arthur's son. Jndge Brady slowly advanced a step and raised his right hand; Gen. Arthur did likewise. A mo- ment of impressive silence followed. Gen. Ar thur’s features were almost fixed. Then Judge Brady administered the oath, Gen. Arthur speaking in a clear, ringing voice— “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully ex- ecute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, pre- serve, protect and defend the Constitution of