The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-17
THE CFFYy SORROW.
GENERAL EXHIBITION OF SADNESS.
SYMBOLS OF GRIEF ON Terry HOUSE.
Touching Services at the
Churches.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Appropriate Circular from Arch
bishop McCl0skey,
&c., &C., &c.

The dawn of Easter in this city another scene
of gloom for the untmey and dreadful death
Of the Chief Magistrate Of the nation The evidences Of
grief exhibited Saturday multiplied tenfod yes
tsraay The entire CITY, in truth, clothed in mourn
Nearly every house in every street showed by some
exterior mark the heartfelt Of its inmates and the
profound sense OF bereavement occasoned by the ma
tional calamity Flags frnged with Grape dropped sor-
rowfully from roofs and windows and other symbols OF
appeared the most prominent positions on the ex
of the habtaons of citizens Strips OF Grape
Noated from agpoles while long sheets Of sable cloth
hung in solemn folds from story story giving In
descriDaby melancholy and dcath-like aspect to
surrounding objects The work of some
of the stoops was completely hidden in al
mass Of black and white drapery, arranged in forms
remarkably suggestive Of sadness and mourning. The
front of the City Hall decorated with bands of Grape
running from window TO window in diamond shape, and
taking whether by design accident matters not the
connguraton Of coins. The decorations Of the Aston
House entirely black being singular in this respect
a. all the other buildings noticed by reporters were
clothed In drapery Of dark and white intermixed Broad
way Madison avenue, Fifth avenue Second avenuel
Fourteenth street. Twenty third street, and indeed all
the principal avenues east and west, presented
tnuous display Of mourning. Buss Of the lsmented
President displayed in the windows OF several
pffvoI0 houses, Wnlto nuuureub OF pOtrats
yrsd representative OF constitutional liberty hung
on the outside Of buildings In every part Of tho city
The grief Of the community also found ventn the
tomsry channel Of appropriate devices and notices
which were exhibited In every street, private
we'll - public buildings
The morning bright and pleasant and the rush
churches OF every persuasion greater perhaps
than occurred In this city before The streets
Aled with people vending their way prayerbooks in
hand TO their favons places Of worship 70 hear their
favorite pastors the melancholy subject Of the appa
hing assassination. The services at all the churches
without exception, appropriate 10 the occasion
Even In the Catholic Churches, where the rigid forms
prescribed mmutable the extraordinary character
OF the which has plunged the nation in sorrow
caused a slight variation from the usual programme
Easter day Of rejoicing in the Catholic and Episcopal
Churches which cannot be altered any account what
ever; and yet In many Of those chapes auson was
made to the calamity
CIRCULAR OF ARCHBISHOP MCL0sKEY.
The Most Reverend Archbishop McCloskey Saturday
issued the following order to all his clergy
Rev DRAR sTR-we hereby request that tomorrow
will announce TO your people In words expressive Of
your common sorrow, the melancholy tidngs which
have suddenly amid the first reiocings OF the
Faster festival TO shock the heart Of the nation and
plunge IL into deepest distress and mourning. life
precious all the life OF the honored President OF
these United States has been brought 70 a sad and
startling close by the violent hand Of assassin the
life Of the Secretary OF State and that Of his have
been assaled by similar of wckedness and both
are lying In O critical condition. While bowling
down In humble fear and In fearful submission to this
nscrutable dispensaton OF Divine Providence let
unite in pouring forth prayers and suppcations with
renewed earnesness for beloved country in this
mournfu and perlous crisis
Given at New York this 18th Of April, 1865
John, Archbishop of New York
The reports OF the services the various churches
yesterday will be found interesting