Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-12-28

adjacent chamber. His right hand was lift
ed UP and laid over his breast-it fell help
lessly back uron the bed. The case was |
pain--his whole right side was paralyzed. |
He had not spoken since he asked 10 the
supper room for fresh air but as he noted |
the shocked expression with which those
about him saw the right hand fall, he lifted
up the other, opened and shut the fingers,
a. if t, say, 81 know what has happened
but this, you see, is all right"
Some threw up the windows, piled wet
towels on his forehead and tore open his
collar; others hurried out for doctors; still
others carefully piled blankets on the lower
part of his person.
Observing his wistful look, bent over
and asked him il the pillows were properly
adjusted, or if we could do anything more
for him till the doctors came. The response
was in a whisper but quite audible, "No, il
will do very we'll " Beyond simple "Yes"
or No, once or twice repeated in answer
to questions within the next hour, they we're
his last words. He lay, gasping sometimes
as if ia suffocaton then again for a few mo.
ments breathing almost easily.
Presently Colonel Bliss, an Army Sur
geon, the first medical man who could be
found, hurried iu. He asked scarcely q
question, lifted tho lifeless hand, felt the
pulse at wrist and temple, and we read his
; hopeless verdict in his face as he turned
away to order mustard plasters, and what.
ever other poor devices medical skill could
bring to bear against the inevitable. A few
| moments later DIR. Lincoln entered then
soon afterward Surgeon General Barnes. -
They agreed on what had been done, and or
| the utter uselessness Of all their we'll mean
}. efforts.
1 So the evening ended-one shocked fac'
2 after another bending in farewell grief owe
D the PROSTATE form and looking into thu
|, bright eyes that still took in the scene, ant
a read in every pitying look the love thes
Y foremost men of his State all bore him
t Postmaster General Dennisen, General Dur
s bin Ward and dozen other younger friend
e remained to watch; the physicians stoo'
l. together and hopeessly talked of lesiol
B. of the brain; " the dying Governor and Sen
n ator and Secretary and Minister, lay breath
5. ing painfully through half paralyzed lungs
,r two or three stood constantly watching hi
q faintest movement, and ready to aid hi
,r slightest exertion.
le Thus hour after hour wore away. Th
n. outer rooms had been filled till midnigt
with anxious guests, unwilling to leave, br
3 at las. they slowly scattered. About hal
OF past one carriage came dashing up to th
g. door. General Schenck, (who had left til
I'd party before supper to keep another Ell
a gagement,) had hurried back, as soon as ii
sad news reached him, to take the first plat
as watcher by the dying bed of his old teac
or and lifelong friend.
For some hours there was nausea m
vomiting-a common effort Of nature to r
lieve itself in cases of appoplexy But Il
dying man soon grew too weak for these 9
,w forts, and by three o'clock it was painful
he manifest that consciousness had entire
an ceased
." Throughout Saturday he lay without at
,st ring his position, save that now and TIL
,t' ,t' the left hand would be moved little. II
nd breathing grew more labored, and the who
cd chest heaved convulsively with each insp
vs alton. The eyes we're closed, and save tn
!. -" the complexion was little darker than
n. health, the features were entirely natur,
;sss 1t was manifest that he was already beyo
he he the reach of pain.
I'm 1t was graceful and fitting that one of {
as earliest to hasten to his bedside, when {
bs sad news spread throughout the city, W
nj. the Minister of the struggling Republic /
ho dying man had befriended. To catalog
,to the rest that came and waited to see t
H ,n. end, would be to name half the distngui,
he cd men gathered in the Capitol