The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-02

OF the Liberal CluO met anu pueeSu
resolutions appropriate to the occasion.
The arrangements for the funeral of
Horace Greeley are still under discus
sion, but it is said that DR.. Chaplin will
pronounce the final eulogy. 1t is also
said that President Grant, Senator
Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison and
other distinguished persons will be in
attendance. The pall-bearers will pro-
baby be selected from the editorial
rooms OF the metropolitan newspapers.
Both branches Of the Common Council
will assemble tomorrow to arrange to
attend the obsequies in body, and
also the Stock Exchange, Chamber OF
Commerce, Typographical Union and
other socities generally. Many OF our
institutions OF learning will send their
brightest representatives and the great
political and social clubs will attend in
large numbers.
The undertakers g measurement
showed Mr.. Greeley to be five feet ten
inches high. The cssket is OF walnut,
covered with black cloth, and is heavily
mounted, with silver handles at each
side and one at each end. The inside
is trimmed with satin and lace.
Reports from all parts OF the Union
show that the death OF Horace Greeley
has produced a most profound impress
SION and excited the most intense sym
pathy through the length and breadth
OF the country. From every place
comes a tribute OF respect to his mem.
ory, and all newspapers OF the United
States, North and South, vie with each
other in extolling the merits OF tle dead
journalist and in expressions OF sorrow
for the bereaved children.
Preparations are being made by many
to dress their houses in mourning In
all places of public resort where the
portrait of the deceased graced the
walls it was heavily draped in mourn
ing.
The Times says that Mr.. Greeleys
death will have the effect Of establish
ing a precedent which may be of some
interest at a future period. 1t is well
known that none Of the formailtles
connected with the election have yet
been concluded, but that on Wednes-
day next the Electors chosen by the
people meet at the several State Capt.
Ials to vote for President and Vice
President. BY usage, rather than law,
the Electors have always voted for the
Presidential nominees of the political
party in the interest Of which they were
candidates, but Mr.. Greeley being dead,
the Electors chosen in the States OF
Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Texas must exer-
Csc their individual judgment in voting
tor President. Under the circumstan>
ces of the present case the matter
is OF no importance, slnce
the result cannot be changed, but
the incident is likely to call public at
tention to the dangerously indirect
method by which the President Ia
chosen. II at any time the person IN
whose name ma jority OF the Electors
was chosen should die in the interval
between the voting dsv and the day
fixed for the meeting OF the electors, 1t
is easy to see that by the arts OF pro'es.
sional politicians acting upon a small
body OF men a notoriously unfit person
might be forced upon the nation as its
chief magistrate. The only certain way
TO avoid the risks which would attend
such a contingency would be to vote
directly tor President aud Vice>Presl-
dent, and thus put the succession, in
case OF the death of the former before
inauguration, beyond all question.
Mr. Greeley's death and funeral are
the sole topics Of conversation here to-
day. 1t is said to be the intention oi
the stockholders to offer the editorshhp
OF the Tribune to Schuyler Colfsx.
Should he refuse to accept, to some
other prominent Republican, and then
the paper will be put into the regular
Republican track. One Of the stock
holders inlimated that Mr.. Colfax was
not likely to decline. Mr.. Greeleys
death secures to the paper 500, 900 in-
surance upon his lie.