New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-21
SORROW AT THE CAPITAL
WASHINGTON sHRoUDEp IN GLOOM.


IN BLACK-sAD PREPARAuoNs-GUIfEAU STILL
COOL AND COLLECTED.
lBY TELEGRAPH rue TRrBuNE.I
WAsIuNGTON. Sept. 20-A night OF norr' Nus
beer succeeded by a day Of gloom ANA dc 'poh'ehcy
After the first alar at IL o'clock last hight people
arose dressed aud went out on the streets To learn
s many OF the details of the end OF the tragedy as
possble. but there was little nothing to be found
ont except that the President was dead. This
sin gle fact was of such supreme Importance, how
ever that everyone seemed willing to wait indeh
nitcly for minor particulars. The tolng OF the
bells on the still midnight air had startling effect
aud many hearts were filled with a vague horror
The people on the streets all quiet and order
w. and by 2 a. H. they had mostly sought their
homes AGAIN. There evidence of any popu-
lar outbreak whatever. though two three small
parties of colored men, at different times, started
for the Jail where Gmteau is confined with the
avowcd purpose of lynching him. These part es
were unorganized, and were animated by no we'll
defined motive Some of them dsbanded before
reaching the Jail grounds but the most determined
of them overawcd by the soldiery which was
posted in double strength around the prison. Be-
sides the companies of regular soldiers duty, the
Washington Light Iafantry. the National Rifles and
the Union Veteran Corps under arms all night.
General Sherman, in q card to the editor Of one of
the morning papers, explains very fully his views of
the attitude which the Army should take toward
Guiteau. He says:
For thus man Guiteau ask no soldier. no cit
izcn to feel one particle of sympathy on the con-
trary, could make my will the law, shooting or
hanging would lie too good for him. But | do ask
every soldier and every citizen to remember that
we profess TO be the most loyal on earth to the
sacred promises of the law There is nomert in obey
ing agreeable law but there is glory aud horosm
IN submitting gracefully to an oppressive one.
Violence in any form will bring disgrace
upon all; on the country at large, and especially
on of the District of Columbia. All the circum-
stances of the shooting and of the long heroic
CTR LA I'm ia m
would be ashamed of my countrvmen if they
mingled with their feeling of grief any thought of
vengeance. vengeance rs mine, saith the Lord"
trusi the public press will exert its powerful in
hqenee to maintain the good order and decoTnm
Which have prevailed since the saddeS of all days
Ill Washington, July 2. 1881.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS DRApED.
The White House apparently the most de-
serted spot in the city last night. After the depart
ure of President Garfield and family, the house was
practically shut up. except few rooms for the use
of the servants who remained. Since then no one
has gone there, as it has entirely cased to be a
centre of interest. Mr.. Pruden, of the secre-
tanes, had been left in charge but last night he too
was absent, aud when Mr.. Browns telegram ar
rived announcing the Presidents death, Mr. Pruden
could not be found. 1t delivered INTO the
hands of drOwsy policeman, who spread the news
as best he might and by o'clock most of the en-
ployes had assembled, the lights turned on,
and the rest of tn, night passed in expectancy
people. The Departments all closed for the day.
and perhaps for the week. All night and all day.
30 far, the work of draping public and private build
ings has boon going The front of the White
House is ono mass of solemn black hangings, and the
Pension Office, which attracted SO much attention
on the 4th of March by the beauty and munhcence
of its decorations is to-day draped on two of its
seven story faces with hangings of woe. In front
hangs the same immense portrait of President Gar
field just hung the 4th of March, the day of his
grand triumph hut instead of its setting of flags it
is now shrOuded in its vesture of gloom. The great
State, War aud Navy building will probably
not be fully drapcd partly because of its immense
size, and partly because of its unfinished condition
The Treasury building, however win be appropri-
ately hung with black, as also will be the other
Department buildings and the Capitol
PUBLIC HoNoRs THE DEAD PRESIDENT.
Up TO the time of this writing it has not been def
niely decided whether the body of the late Presi.
dent will lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol
OF In the East Room of the White House, and pending
this uncertainty catafalque is being erected in
each place Opinion is divided as to which would
be the moro appropriate. The weight of precedent
is in favor of the East Room. however; and this
would undoubtedly be nearly iu consonance
with Mrs. Garhelds notions of propriety than to
have the body exposed mile away, in place al
most public of the public squares the
street The preparations in the East Room for the
chandelier in the centre of the room having been
moved for that purpose. One of the sad features in
the preparations now making at the White House il
the work of preparing the household effects of the
late President for removal to Men tor All day this
work has been going on and by tomorrow it will
be complete; and then the White House will know
new occupant, and the last will vanish out of il
forever
An order will no issued tomorrow by the War
Department directing appropriate funeral services
III honor of the late Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy To he held at every post and sta
tion fort and arsenal in the United States Among
the honors to be paid the Presidents memory by
the army will be the firing of thirteen guns at dawn
each day for thirty days. At the close of the day
National salute of thirty-eight guns VIII be fred
Officers of the Army will wear badges of mourning
for six months. For the escort of the dead Pres
dent to Cleveland. there will DO a guard of nine
"a gen ral officers and twenty-nine picked men, anC
an equal number of officers from the Navy An
other order viii direct that duo obedience bt
rendered to Chester A. Arthur as the Commander
in-Chef.
TIIE ASSASSIN STILL UNMovED,
1t is learned to-day that Guiteau was enabled, by
virtue of the isolated location of his CELL to slcer
through the night without becoming aware of the
death of the President. His cell is situate,
at the eastern side of the prison which il
some two miles east of the business centre o.
the city. He did not hear the tong of tn,
bells, nor the calls of the newsboys; and, a
his guards maintained profound silence he sep
In Inconsistencies of the fateful turn affairs hat
taken for him. 1t reported by IA morning pape
that Guiteau informed last night that the en-,
had come, and that he instantly fell on his knee
and prayed God to have mercy ON his soul; but thi