Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-04-10

Post Master General I
The Governor, Head of Departments, and Lcgis !
iaure evinccj proper sense Of the distressing oc
.currence
Is THE SENATE the following message from ,hes
,Governer was presented:
To lie Senate and House of Represesta,ires of
the Commonwealth Of fPennsylvaaia;
Observation-Disclosures has been received thai
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, President of
he United States has paid the debt of nature.
He departed this life at the Presidents House
lin tho city of Washington, on yesterday morning
The public services and private worth Of the
distinguished citizen who had jus. been elevated
70 the highest station in the Republic, call upon
the General Assembly Of the Commonwealth, onE
behalf of our common constituent for the nppro-i
pirate testimonials of public feeling which are in
'spired Ivy the melancholy event.
DAVID r. PORTER.
E1rcuTlvE CHAMBER, April 5, ls4l.
FUNERAL OF THE PRESIDENT.
The following neiice in reference to the Funeral
|of the President, was issued at Washington:
WAsuiSeroS, April 4, ls4l.
The circumstances in which we are placed by the
death of the PRESIDENT, render it indispensable for
|us in the recess of Congress- and in the absence of
the Vice President to make arrangements for ,hcI
Funeral So!emncs Having consulted with tteI
family and personal friends Of the deceased, we have
concluded that the funeral be solemnzed on Wed
,har nj, d, q I'll
services TO be performed according to the usage of
Ithe Episcopal Church, in which church the deceas-
led most usually worshpped The body to be lakenI
from the Presidents house 10 the Congress burying|
ground accompanied by military and civic pro-
'ccsson and deposited in the Receiving Tomb
The military arrangements to be under the d,cc-
tion Of Major General Macomb, the General Com
manding in Chief Of the Army ofthe United States !!
and Major General Walter Jones' of the Militia of
the District of Columbia.
Commodore Morris, the senior Captain in theI
Navy, in the city, to have the direction Of lbes
naval arrangements.
The Marshal of the District to have the drections
of the civic procession, assisted bv the Mayors of
Washington, Georgetown and Alexandra, thel
CLERK Of the Supreme Court OF the United States.
and such other citizens they may see fit TO call tos
their aiJ.
JouS QUIScY ADAMS, ex-President of the Unite
States, members of Congress now in the city or iisE
all the members of the Diplomaticy
body resident in Washington, and all the officers of
Governnent, and citizens generally, invited toE
attend.
Andn is respectfully recommended to the OiiceTsi
of Government, tina, they wear the usual badge off
mourning.
DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of State. {
THOMAS EWING, Scc'y oftho Treasury.
JOHN BELL, Secretary of War
.J.CMTTENDEN. Attorney General.
FRANCIS GRANGER, p. NJ. General.
Report OF the PnysicianE.
WAsuISGToS. April 4, lSil
DEAN SIR: In compliance with the request made {
10 us by yourself and the other gentlemen Of the I
Cabinet, The attending and consulting physicians I
have drawn up the abstract Of report on the Presi-
dents case. which herewith transmit 10 you Veryf
your obedient servant.
THO. MILLER,
Attending Physician, (
To the Hon. D. Webster, Sec'y of State.
On Saturday, March 81, lsll, President Harrison, !
nfter several days previous nsposition, was seized
with chill and other symptoms Of fever. The next
day Pneumonia, with congestion of the liver and z
arrangement of the stomach and bowels, was ascer-
aned to exist. The age and debility ofthe Patien'E
with the immediate prostration, forbade resort to
general blood-lettng. Topical depletion, bsteringA
md appropriate internal remedies, subdued in as