New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-08


this calamity has pu. everybody on the same level
of sympathetic loving kindness. AS | close these
notes The Economist comes in. It's leader page with
its article on the President is in mourning. 1t is
the chief financial and economical journal of Eng
land dealing with subjects where feeling has no
place but even there 1t has found place and
symbol. G. W. S'
FRANCE MOURNS FOR GARFIELD.
THE PRESIDENTS DEATH THE SOLE TOPIC OF coz
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ENTERPRISE OF
THE PRESS IN FURNISHING NEWS OF TIE EVENT
AN IMPRESSION OF OPINION FROM THE MIN
IsrER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
PROM THE LIAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIDuNE.l
PARIS Sept 23.-The death of President Garfield
is the sole topic of Conversations and the Journals
have treated of no other since the melancholy tld-
ings of how the great man had passed away reached
us from Long Branch. Americans me not more
deeply affected than Europeans English families
of distinction anticipated tie Queens order for
the Count to 90 into mourning for a week. When
her Majesty became widow greater sorrow couid
not have been manifested ut her bereavement than
has been shown for Mrs. Garfield by the English
ladyhood of Paris. And the venerable mother " ho
struggled so nobiy TO bring the late President up
according to the highest principles OF Christianity!
Tier name is oftou mentioned with the deepest sym
pathy.
The late General Garfield was a firm believer in
the overriding power for good Of the Divine Master
whom he followed. If discmbodied spii,s can take
cognizance of the effect his death has produced
throughout the whole civilized world, his surely
rciolces That sentiment Of universal brotherhood
on which Is founded a higher civilization than an"
mankind has YET witnessed has gIOwn percePthly
since the news reached Us that the President SOU
had teen released from the wearIed and attennated
body 4 short time since | hazardcd the opinion
that the nations of the earth were never lel0le 80
well disposed whatever their rulers might he. to
turn the sword into ploughshare. The COM
munity of sympathy Of the Old World and the Ne"
which the Presidents death has awakened
strengthens Inc in this view. 1t is also consong 10
note what store the world sets on virtuo in hph
places. General Garfield certainly man OF
superior intellect. But nobody here has thought
of his mental qualities since the day on which lac
was lad low by Guiteaus bullet. What interested
Europe was the moral elevation shown ly the
President and his wife. lie was 20 sweet 10 pa
tient, so convinced that everything would come
right IN the end. 50 courageous IN trying to pull
through his suAcrings while Mrs. Garfield gave
such noble example Of fortitude and superiority
10 the worst ills that destiny could heap lupon
loving wife and mother. She shared in the mar
tyrdom of the good President, and tho world pro-
nounccs her worthy 10 bear palm. ii IS difficult
to realize with what emotion her sorrows
spoken of by everyone here. The finest sensiOilites
of the French people excited by her condition.
1t is remembered here that had it not been for
Guiteau she would in October have received az the
White House the French delegates sent to the
United States to keep the centenary of American
Independence which frenchmcn helped to win
The journals are full of biographical sketches of
tl,a 1a+n President lCuU tplrgramS abOut his last
moments, aud the admirable demeanor of has
widow. | never recoliect journalistic enterprise so
great as 1t has been this week, owing to the uni
versal interest felt in tie Garfield family. The
CtdirDn has had whole column tclepraphed from
New-YoTk, a feat unheard Of In the annals OF Paris
journalism.
Wherever there is an American colony in Europe,
there there Is mourning Dinners are counter.
manded gay clothing is laid aside, and serious con-
YcISatiOn made the rule. United states ags are
fuTed in sign of grief on the balconies OF Iats III
halited Dy families from America.
Yesterday met Jefferson Davis. He said that IN
the presence of General Gariields coffin he
able to say bitter word or 10 feel anim9Aty against
any portion of the American Union. The cx-ITcsl-
dent OF the Southern ConiedeTacy lsan un9btruslye
elderly man, Of methOdlcai habits and simple
tastes He appears to AVOID angcfng topics, and Is
reticent in giving his opinion about the leading
men of the South who plunged WIN nm INTO the
terrible adventure IN which he was Worsied JeBer-
son Davis and General Mcclellan, who - also nov
here have found themseN es face 10 face IN hotel
parlor and exchanged words OF Courteous efGGtlng'
General Mcclellan ~ on very friendly terms. hear
witt the Princes of the Orleans family, and has
received fattering marks of attention
| was at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs when
NJ Barthoemy St. Haire rereycd the tidings of
the Presidents death He exclaimed: g. great
misfortune has overtaken the American people.
President Garfield is H6 more His virtues were
needed at the While House more than striking
mental abilities. Talent Is IN this period Of the
nineteenth century common enough But great
moral qualities are, alas rare, ana 1t Is they alone
which vital force to a Nation