Litchfield enquirer., 1843-06-29
DEATH OF HON. H. S. LEGARE,

Legare, Attorney General of the United States and morning June 20 at half past five o'clock. He Srri- we'd in Boston early on Friday last, somewha: inds- posed very slightly 80, in consequence fLhe fatgues 1t a hurried journey from Wasnlgsoni Even m the tended the Mayors dinner. where he almost wholly aostained from food, he complained of little lnconVe- nlence and thought nights rest would qulte restore hlm. But about one o'clock, on Saturday morning. he was seized with symptoms of obstruction of the bowels,to some degree of which he had formerly been subject and ot which the three last attacks had been of increasing severity. Dr. Thomas, an eminent physician from Washington, who was with the Presi- dents party, and to most of whom he is when at home, the regular family physician was immediately called and instantly present; being lodged in the Fremont House, where MT. Legare then was Du- ring Saturday, no anxiety whatever was felt about the case. Gu Sunday morning early though still no apprehens!ons were entertained, Dr. Thomas desired that Dr. Bgelow might be called in. Dr. Bigelow a. greed with Dr. Thomas in his views of the case. He saw Mr. Legare several times during the day; and in the latter part of the afternoon accompanied him in carriage to the house of Mr. Legare friend, Mr. Tick noE, m Park street, as to situation quiet, com. iortable and airy. Dr. Thomas and Dr. Bgelow were both with their patient till late in that evening" (Sun- day} and again early the next morning; agreeing en-
 ,ely in the course to be pursued. Mr. Legare pass ed more comfortable night than the one preceding but m the forenoon of Monday, graver symptoms made their appearance Dr BgeIow, therefore de- as being absent at Lowell, with the presidential par ty These two eminent physicians, were with MT. Legare until late at night, and pr. Bigelow with him constantly, through the whole night, and until aE ter his death early on Tuesday morning. But at no time during the seventyeght hours of it's continuance did the disease seem in the slightest degree to yield though various and unremittng efor.s were made to arrest during it's whole progress.
 Mr. Legare suffered occasionally severe pain in the early stages oi complaint, but for the last thy.six ho4rs' though frequently incommoded, he could hard ly be sad to suter more than twice, and then only for few instants Through the last night and through even his last moments he easy and tran. qu and from first to last. his mind was clear firm, and perfectly composed. Knowing his constitutional tendencies, he apprehended the termination of his dis ease from a very early period and made every need tul disposition touching his affairs private and publc sired, on Monday, that the unopened despatches re- ceved by him, from England, the day before should be delivered to the Presidedt fthe United Satesh. gether with all papers under his control belonging to the Government, except such as are in those Depar. ments at Washington of which he was the head This was done soon after the President returned from Lowell The President himself i'll, and in bed, lecei- unable to reconcile himself to the idea, that he and the nation were about to sustain great loss of which this was to him the first distinct warning. In all other points, both amidst his sufferngs and during the exhaustion that followed them,-Mr. Legare was equally tranquil and collected showing at each mo- ment the affeco nate spirit and the vigorous powers which have, from youth upward, marked his manly and noble character He moro than thanked God, that, having left Washington with great reuct. ance, he was dying in the mere performance of his
 
 when speaking of a much loved sister, the only re- mainng member of his immediate family, to whom he had always been most tenderly attached. His last words,-a few moments before his death and af ter his external senses had partly ailed- off her But so tranquil was the closing scene that the friend in whose arms he rested, was not concous that his spirit had passed until the attendant physician made it known to him.-BostOn Daily AdU .June 2l
 CAUSE OF MIR. LEeAREs DEArH-We understand that post mortem examna tion in the of Mr. T .k Nh~e lnnsL ed by internal stranguaon, arising from the twis-
 ting of the intestine upon itse the sgmoid Aexure His disease. therefore, one. which preuded all hope of the successful application of remedies.
 FUNERAL OF MR. LEGARE.-The remains of Mr. Ie. gare yesterday inferred, without the pa rade of to unite in it, who from their personal fr.A.dshp their official station. were anxious so to do. They were conveyed to Trinity Church, attended by the members of the Cabinet by the Governor of the Com. monweah, the Mayor and Aldermen of the city, by various officers of the Government of the United the Bar of Suffolk and by his personal friends in the city. where the service If the Episcopal Church was performed by the Right Rev. Bishop Eastburn. The body was deposited in tomb under the church.
 Boston Daily Adv. June 22.
 Cosr oFREcE1vrNG THE PREsDENr.--W understand that Mir Towards bill for the entertainment of the Acting President and suite, for the two days during which he remained in the city, amounts to upwards of fwelue Hundred daars. The total expense of receiv. ing and entertaining that func onary wi not fall sho.t of three thousand dollars.-N. F. Cour. & Enq
 THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR-The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser publishes the following muncation. which. 1t says. came to them from gen tleman of character, who in private note declares that it's statements are true to his certain knowledge
 "In the latter part of the summer of 1889 the ct- of the thriving village of Peru, on the Illinois River were honored by the appearance among them of young man who appeared vibrating alternately above and below the water line of pride and poverty. His beaver was very sfedy, his white drill pants were frnged the bottom, his gentlemanly black coat had turned pale upon the shoders and elbows his black cravat was ofthe ventilation gossamer order. his once white silk stockings failed conceal all they intended to, and each pump revealed on each side through the broken leather the whity brownness of the overtasked and exhausted stockings. After swagger- ing about the village a week ten days much to the annoyance ot few most respectable young men who had some slight acquaintance with him. he left one evening with a better personal appearance than he had presented on his arrival, though no one had known of his having any baggage or money. From the writer of this he sto-oh no! must be civ-ap- saying by your leave, or thank you sir. and some of the young friends of the writer found their ward robes alter the departure of the aforesaid needy gen. teman. minus certain articles which they had never oafer, he arrived and departed and will It be credit ed that the same young man, MT. s. Humes Porter is now Acting Secretary of War? Yet such is the fact A fit part and parcel he of the most contemp- tibie Admlnstrasion that ever dsgraced a civilized community
 SUICIDE OF You've WIFE BY TAKING OpIuM-The Coroner held an inquest to-day at the house of Joseph Ann Eliza Wright, aged between IS and l9, native of Long Island, and wife of MT. Farce P. Wright, to whom she had been married about two years, and who with her boarded at the above place. Her hus- nd loan hnnoa in he nd