Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-09-14
From the n. Y. Sun.
Gen. John A. RaWlins.


FOR HIS WIpow AND ORPIIAss-$l6,-
600 ScBscmBEp- GrAkr OWES 81 600
THE Hon. HopAcE GREELEY SUBscRIBEs
SPEECH.
New YORK, Sept. I.
A number of our wealthcst and most
influential citizens met yesterday afternoon
in the office Of General Daniel Butterfield,
in the Sub-Treasury, in Wall street, to
devise some substantial token of respect
to the memory of the late Gen, John A,
Rawlns, Secretary Of War, and lay the
foundation of fund of $50, 900 for the
benefit of his widow and orphans, who
were left, through his unAinching honesty,
in comparative poverty. .1 .a.
The meeting was called TO order at g.
80 O'Clock, Mr.. A. T. Stewart in the chair
The Hon. Horace Greeley then arose and
anhounccd the object of the meeting, as
follows. '" '...o --'.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN; The man
wins died yesterday at Washington, of disease
contracted by exposure in the war for the I'm
ion, was not generally known to his countrymeu
because Of the subordinate offices in which his
great services we're rendered Born in ebscuri-
ty. reared in poverty, he only quilted private
life at the call of imperillcd country, to which
his best efforts were thenceforth given to thu
close Of his life Duty required of him this de-
yotion, but did not require him to enrich him
self at the public cost, and he did not. Still ii
the early prime of life, he had a right to coun
on being saved to make provision for his fam
lily, which his untimcIy death has precluded-
Poor AZ he was BORN he dies still poorer, leay
ing widow and two children to the generosit.
Of those whom he has served so ,calously and .
pobly This is all that occurs to me as needing
to be said. I am sure your response will atom
for any impcrfection in the statement
Resolutions of coincidence with the wild
ow and orphans were passed.
Messrs. d. Butterfcld, ii. Greeley, }
= Seligman, o. d. Il. Grant, Geo. Opdyke
and VI. Ii. Grinnell were appointed as
, Committee to solicit subscriptions in fuI
thcrance of the object of this meeting.
6 Letters were received and read from
, large number of distinguished gentlemen
rcgretting their inability to be present
and expressing their desire and intentio
to cooperate in its object.
0 A telegraphie despatch was receive
from Gen. Grant ordering them to put HI
name down for 81 GOO.
e Each gentleman then stepped up an
n signed his name to a subscription list fc
2, the gum of 81 600, and in the followin
/ order; -.
e A. T. Stewart, II. b. Claain, Thoma
: Murphy, Moses Taylor, 0. NJ. Forbes, N
Grinnell, j. Selignan, Jay Cooke l. Go
: Richard Schell, ". K. Vermilyca, Her
j ry Clews, Paul w. Spofford, Fisk K Hatch
$4,000.
An additional subscription list went
> round among the business men yesterda,
The meeting then adjourned.
Gen, Butterfcld has issued the follow
= ing notice: ~
U. 8. TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
New \ ork, Sept. I, 1869.
j. Thursday next being the day set apart for Il
: funeral obscqhics Of tine late Major Genenal job
G A. Rawlins, Secretary of War, the Treasury wi
: be closed. The flags will be carried at haf-ma
until after the funeral. The, purchase of bono
advertised for Thursday, at y o'clock, will |
y, made on the day following. 3D..
u DANIEL, BUTTERFIEID