The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-20
CLOSING scenes Of the President,s Life.

We extract the following summary of the events
attending Gen. Tsylor's last illness from the N. Y.
Express
The Presidents serious illness was first felt at
the Capitol to-day, about o'clock. The demo-
Gratis Of the House then began to feel that they
were making a mistake in connecting his name
with the Galphin censlre, and they demanded
postponement of action for week, with the view
Of ascertaining the state Of his health.
O'ctoek.-The rumors Of the dangerous illness
Of the President were so great that in both Houses
an adjournment began 10 be thought Of
8 o'ctock.-lnqurers at the White House were
told that the President was better. The symptoms
were in small degree promising. Hopes of his
recovery began to be INDUCED.
o'etoek.-Symptoms began to be worse. The
summoning of his Cabinet thought Of. Clergy
men were sent for and physicians reassembled.
The strongest blisters had power over his skin,
which had lost its vitality.
8 ociock.-No improvement the White House
gates shut.
o'clock.-Symptoms again bad. Congestion
increasing. Groups of anxious inquirers in the
outer room of the White House, and on the steps.
Pronounced so dangerously i'll that but slight hopes
could be entertained of recovery.
7, s and 9 o'clock.-President no better No
hope. Crowds increasing about the White House.
Entrance hall full of members of Congress. Mem
bers of the Cabinet going in and out. The Vice
President is in. Every body is looking upon him
now the President.
10 octock.-Reports from the sick chamber CON
Trajectory, but such as to inspire a faint hope.
Mrs. Gen. Taylor has given up, nature having
become exhausted from constant attendance and
excitement Mrs. Bliss is overwhelmed with
grief. Col Bliss appears here and there, muen
detected. Among the persons in the sick cham
Der, and there too many, is Col. Jefferson Da-
Wis, Senator from Mississippi, son-in-law of Gen.
Taylor, and Rev. DR.. Pyne
| SeveTer practice has been begun, and it inspires
hope. The patient has been exhausted by me-
elected cholera morbus, for which, all day Friday,
| he would take medicine. Calomel and blisters
but reduced him Quinine is now given in
numerous doses. Over forty grains, it is said,
| have been given since O'clock some in injections.
The practice is said to be desperate but such only
as can be given with any hope. Pulse under it
| 104; a rally, and good sign Extremtes warm.
Face not as Of DEATH Patient conscious: drinks
when asked Mrs. John Bell from the sick cham
Der, reports hopefully So does Major Hunter, u.
/ s. A. So does Dr. Pyne All seem to believe
that he will live at least till morning. Indeed,
| they begin to hope he may survive. The new
and more desperate practice inspires hope
Crowds dispensing The Secretary of State yet
present Southern men about say, Follow South
ern practice, (which is far violent than North
| ern) than alone save him.
1910 o'cLock.-Gen. Taylor is no more Death
has closed the eyes Of the hero Of Palo Alto Resaca
| de la Palma Monterey and Buena Vista He who
/
Indian and Mexican, is cut down in his chamber
by the unseen scythe of Death. The survivor of
the swamps of Florida, and Of the hammocks Of
the Rio Grande, is the victim of the miasma Of the
| Potomac!
Gen TAYLOR died in the same chamber in which
Gen. Harrison died nine years ago last April.
Like officers of high rank in the ante cham
| bers of both. Like crowds were in the vestibules
and in the rooms below Like was the anxiety.
The Vice President, now the President, Fillmore,
was in the room near by. So was Mr.. Clayton
and so were others of the Cabinet Mr. Webster
had been there during the evening The disease
has been singular. It aattered at times, mad then
dispelled all hope. Quinine had rescued the victim
almost from the dead but only just to have him die
Stimulus made attendants hope, but it was the
expiring flicker of life
IL o'ciock-The bells of the city all toll sac
requiem for the dead. 1t is a solemn and mos
affecting midnight hour Colonel Bliss displays
deep but manly grief over the loss of his father il
marriage, and his father and friend in the BATH,
field. He bears up, though, like one accustome,
to calamity. | see Mr.. Fillmore vending his wal
thoughtfully down the stairs, through the vesti
bule, and along the to his hotel Wizards
What weight of thought there must be on hi
bosom What awful responsibility, in an in
slant and Unexpectedly, has fallen upon him
What change of life, of manner, of exstenc,
almost is to come him The editor of III,
Republic is in the group. The Mayor of the cit,
| is there.
The sad signs OF woman are heard in the dis
lance Is it Mrs. Bliss the loss of father, OF
Mrs. Wood, or the good, the pious, revered ole
lady, who has never appeared in public seldom O.
never seen but at church, and who considered i
the greatest Of calamihes that her husband shou
have been made the President? Her grief
indeed inconsoable. She mourns without consola
ton. Next to her God she dearly loved he
departed husband, but his corpse all that's befor
US. There depart the physicians, Doctors Hall an
Withersuoon They have struggled hard agains
the decree of the Almighty-but yield to Omnipo
tence. dreadful struggle they have had indee
with Death-and the whole arcana of medicine ha
been arrayed against him, but in vain
123 o'clOck.-The bells yet toll. The whole cit
is awake. The toll of the bell past midnight ha
aroused the city from its slumbers, and the street
are yet full of groups.