The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-10-12
THE LAST MOMENTS OF WM. H
SEWARD.
By yesterdays dispatches We get the

By yesterdays dispatches We get the
following:
AUBURN. n. Y, October Ex-Secreary Sew
ard had taken cold and been somewhat unwell
for day OF two, and was, on the evening OF Sat
urday the 5th, seized with = severe chill, When
. physician summoned to him. be had been
during the summer in ordinary good, health SUI
(, ring only from the Inconvenience of muscular
palsy He had been engaged in preparing for
the press An account of his journey around the
world The chill was that oi the ordinary ter
tian s.s,e accompanied by harrassing catarrhal
cough, but was followed by fever and deln1um
which lasted till late in the night. On sunday
he was up in the afternoon and took dinner, and
passed u comfortable night. On Moniay, with
the exception of his cough and catarrh ne was
comfortable and dictated ~ usual to his assist
ants ON the completion OF his book He played
whist on Monday evening, but III ~ p ~ ne hsd
q chill, followed by deliriam and fever, with as-
grayated catarrhal disturbances OF the chest,
which lasted nearly all night-his physician ss,e-
ing him this account after midnight on
Tuesday morning, After some sleep, he was Again
better and drove out in the AternOUn but Fever.
delirium and restlessness returned, with cough
on Tuesday night wednesday he drove out Tor
two hours, and dictated to his amanuensis as
usual though he was harrassed all day with a
cough and catarrhal e6usion in the chest wed
n.saay evening his cough abated for whlle, anu
there seemed promise of good night, but fever,
restlessness anu cough returned ut bed Time, ana
he was nearly sleepiess until CLOCK IN the
morning. At ~ to relieve tine teluili Vi y ING
sleepl,ss he had his son William read the New
York Times to him. He slept after o'clock
pretty we'll till IL A.. n. of today, though ms
fever kept up without any real intermission AT
haIf-past l O'Clock to-day he was seized with
grea, difficulty in breathing, caused by sudden
catsrrhal effusion into the lungs, commencing
with the right and soon involving the left, caus-
ing death in about two hours He entertained
No apprehension hut he should recover from the
attack of catarrhal ague. While at his age, and
with the condition Of palsy from which he has
suffered so long, and the fact that the fever was
increasing upon him. together with the catarrhal
disturbances led his physician to apprehend
q fatal result in the course OF week or more,
yet no iInmediste fear was felt. His dissolution
was sudden and unexpected. His intellectual
faculties clear and vigorous 70 the last save
when disturbed by paroxysms of fever. just af.
ter an etfusion of the lungs to-day, thinking 1t
would relieve his breathing he was, at his own
desire placed on lounge and bolstered up and
moved from the adjoining bedroom into his
study where in the midst of his books. and his
literary and other papers, and surrounded by his
relatives and few friends and I'll his devoted
dependents. he breathed his last. For the laIi
hour of his life, as the powers of nature were
giving away his condition became easy, and he
spent the time in leave-takings of relatives and
dependents, and finally he sunk quietly to his
last rest.