New-York tribune., 1881-08-30
THE PRESIDENT GAINING.

IIEyED BY AN OPERATION-THE APPREaENeioN
OF BLooD-POIsoNING GROWING LESS.
The improvement in the condition OF tle
President continues and confidence is fast be-
ing restored. The physicians and the Presl-
dents attendants have become relieved and
cheerful. All the symptoms of the case yes
terday were such as to afford encouragement.
The infamed gland was relieved by another
incision and by larger discharge of pus, and
it sensibly diminished. The stomach acted
naturally, the patient rested more comfortably,
and his mind was perfectly clear. DR.. Bliss
said the chances were in favor of recovery.
Dr. Agnew said there was nothing unfavor-
able about. the patients condition, and DR..
Hamilton spoke with much cheerful conf
dence Secretary Blaine telegraphed to Minis
ter Lowell last night that apprehensions OF
serious blood poisoning grow less every hour.
CONFIDENCE ALMOST REESTABLISHED.
a DAY OF PLEASANT MONOTONY AT THE CAPITAL
THE SYMPTOMS ALL OF THE MOST CHEERING
CHARACTERISTIC STOMACH ACTING NATURALLY
AND THE BLOOD BECOMING PURIFIED-A sue
CEssFUL OPERATI0N-A CLEAN OF HUMoR FROM
THE PATIENT.
lBY TELgGRAPH THE TRIBUSE.l
WASHINGTON Aug 29.-There is pleasant mon
otony in all the reports from the White House to-
day. Hope which blossomed into probability yes
terday has almost ripened into certainty to-day,
and dark forebodings have given place to the most
reassuring predictions. The crowd of journalists
and government officials who hastened to Washing
ton Friday and Saturday, filed with the melan-
choly convection that their services would be re-
quired in connection with the obsequies of unver-
sally beloved President and the installation of his
successor. returning to their work elsewhere
to finish out their interrupted vacations carrying
with them the assurance of the Presidents phys
icans that everything within the ken Of medical
science promises well for final recovery.
No now expects the President TO become
well man for many weeks months and there
people here, and people who greve to make the ad
mission, who express fear that robust health like
that enjoyed by the President before he
wounded never follow q shock and
the subsequent months of suffering and trial. These
gloomy forebodings purely speculative, and the
to whom they applied has habit of dis
appointing all prophets of evil. He may, and the
prospect that he will, before the coming winter
is passed. be robust and hearty again. The inn
provement of to-day over that of yesterday is
noticeable in every motion of the limbs and
every line of expression. The stomach
acts obediently and naturally. The wound is heal
ing while the septic condition of the blood is being
slowly but surely corrected. The PresiSnt's voice
is low, but firm and clear. his eye is brighter and his
grasp stronger. The brain, which in health always
had habit of clothing its imaginings in poetic
grab is quite itself again, and his words few though
they seem. are far removed from the common place
expressions to be expected from the lips of one who
had been so Tonga sufferer 81 WONDER he said this
mo ming, how many more stations must pass be-
fore my journey is ended 7"
But talking and even thinking must for some
time to be discouraged for the demands of the
fearfully overworked heart upon the supply
imperative and competitor. unless its claims
ba ita1 ha al
while the blood is being thickened and enriched
while the wasted limbs being clothed with fiesh
while the open wound is making its constant and
heavy drafts upon the organs for building material
and while the whole system laying up a store of
vital energy against possible relapse of like kind
with those which lately carried the sufferer so near
the gates of the other world. Eating and sleeping
nre now patriotic duties. and, thanks to returning
strength, they also pleasant ones.
There will be power of incident in any truthful
history of to day. The President slept better last
night than on any previous night for weeks. After
the morning dressing of the wound half-inch in
csion made in the swollen cheek to relieve il of
small quantity of matter which had accumulated
and which marked its presence by a whitish spot in
the skin, similar to the head of ripene," boil
The operation somewhat painful for sick
man to bear but not a serious matter in itself
aud the pain borne without a murmur The
cutting was entirely successful in its result and the
deposit taken from the incsion was healthy in char
actcr The heart which at other times during he
day podded along quite steadily at an average rate
of a little more than 100 pulsations in the minute
accelerated speed for to 1Os, but speed
lily relaxed again, showing most Enthusiastically that
the recuperative powers of the President are
considerably greater than for many days be-
fore. symptom of which the public was
not Informed at the time when it was an Indication
OF danger and increasing feeb.eness is now spoken
of as having disappeared. There was for days n
shutting of the teeth and tension of the limbs as
hthe strong will of the patient was being exerted
to force back the pain and danger which were over
whelming him, and more recently thus manifestation
was modified into kind of spasmodc twitchng of
the limbs and features. These symptoms have sub
sided and the patient now lies qnietly as n sick
man should when the turning point has been passed
and the enfeebied organs are obediently resurnnV
their functions Every wounded weakened organ is
improving slowly, but still improving The gran
ulations in the wound have resumed their healthy
appearance; the outlines of the parotid gland are
discernible in the subsiding swelling; the
stomach and other organs of nourishment, though
feeble, assert their claims to attention by a re-
vived appetite for food The pus cavity in the
lungs that in the knee and the absccss in the lilac
tossa never had All existence except in the imag-
native minds of sensational writer's.
The Secretary of State whose bulletins faithfully
voiced most unwelcome truths in the tiiues of
danger, expresses himself in quaint country phrase
as greatly heartened." The Attorney General
who from the beginning has almost refused to be
comforted, describes with satisfaction the
ground of his present hopes as compared with for
mer fears The Postmaster General smiles through
MS tears-hc has the hay fcver-as he remarks that
only once did he lose all hope. Others are rejoicing
similarly. Tho President is very feeble and in fact